The Illegally-Occupied West Bank Has Become A Refuge For Pedophiles Fleeing Justice In Other Countries

The UK Government Used The Media To Spread A Spurious Claim That The Palestine Action Group Was Linked To Iran.
The Home Office briefed the Times newspaper that Palestine Action could be funded by Iran, and then UK media kicked into action spreading the story.
On the same day, June 23, 2025, that home secretary Yvette Cooper formally announced to parliament she would proscribe the group, the Times published a report saying “Iran could be funding Palestine Action, Home Office officials claimed”.
The Times provided no quotes from Home Office officials or any evidence of Iranian funding to Palestine Action.
GB News, the Mail, the BBC, and the Spectator joined in spreading the speculative claims.

The day after the Times’ initial report, Lord Eric Pickles, a former chair of Conservative Friends of Israel and prominent pro-Israel figure in British politics, congratulated the government for its intention to ban Palestine Action, and claimed to parliament that Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) were “the people who are paying for Palestine Action”.

The Guardian’s legal affairs correspondent, Haroon Siddique, noted that the anonymous Home Office briefing about Iran came two days after the pro-Israel lobby group ‘We Believe In Israel’ tweeted: “Behind Palestine Action’s theatre of resistance stands a darker puppeteer: the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Palestine Action is the mask. The IRGC is the face.”

‘We Believe In Israel’ had launched a campaign to ban Palestine Action earlier in June 2025 and the Guardian noted that “language from a report it published was similar to that used by Yvette Cooper in her statement” announcing the group’s proscription.
‘We Believe In Israel”, like several other groups in Britain’s Israel lobby, does not declare on its website who funds the group.
The group grew out of a 2011 conference supported by the Israeli embassy in London which was organised by the Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre, described by the Guardian as “Britain’s most active pro-Israeli lobbying organisation”.
( Mark Curtis, 09.07.2025 )  ..  declassifieduk.org

Witnesses Say There Are Organised Networks Trafficking And Abusing Children Across Israel.
Multiple Israeli women have testified to a joint Knesset committee, accusing senior figures of involvement in ritual abuse.
One survivor said that her harrowing experience is only “a drop in the ocean” compared to the thousands of victims.
Police have acknowledged the allegations and say a ‘national intelligence unit’ is reviewing the evidence.

The women testified to a joint session of the Knesset’s ‘Committee on the Status of Women and Gender Equality’ and the ‘Special Committee on Young Israelis’, after a report by Israeli newspaper Israel Hayom exposed allegations of systemic and systematic abuse under the guise of religious ceremonies.

Witnesses told of organised networks trafficking and abusing children across Israel, including drugging and torture and forcing children to harm each other.
Some described being coerced into harming other minors as part of rituals, along with threats of reprisal if they ever revealed what had happened.
As well as Israel parliamentarians, doctors, teachers, senior police officers and other officials were accused of either taking part or enabling and hiding the abuse.
Where victims had dared to lodge complaints, many cases were closed without further action.
( SKWAWKBOX, 08.07.2025 )  ..  skwawkbox.org

Humans Consume At Least 50,000 Microplastic Particles A Year.
Microplastics have been found in the placentas of unborn babies, the depths of the Mariana Trench, the summit of Everest and the organs of Antarctic penguins.
But how do they travel through the world, and what do they do to the creatures that carry them?
A single thread of polyester, dislodged from the weave of a cheap, pink acrylic jumper as it spins around a washing machine. This load of washing will shed hundreds of thousands of tiny plastic fragments and threads, up to 700,000 in this one washing machine cycle.

Along with billions of other microscopic, synthetic fibres, our thread travels through household wastewater pipes.
Often, it ends up as sewage sludge, being spread on a farmer’s field to help crops grow.
Sludge is used as organic fertiliser across the U.S. and Europe, inadvertently turning the soil into a huge global reservoir of microplastics.
One wastewater treatment plant in Wales, UK, found 1% of the weight of sewage sludge was plastic.

From here, it works its way up the food chain through insects, birds, mammals and even humans.
Perhaps our jumper’s life as a garment will end soon, lasting only a few outings before it emerges from the wash shrunken and bobbling, to be discarded.
But our thread’s life will be long.
It might have only been part of a jumper for a few weeks, but it could voyage around the natural world for centuries.

Since the 1950s, humans have produced in excess of 8.3bn tonnes of plastic, equivalent to the weight of one billion elephants.
It finds its way into packaging, textiles, agricultural materials and consumer goods.
Opting to live without it is almost impossible.
Humans consume at least 50,000 microplastic particles a year.
They are in our food, water, and the air we breathe.
Fragments of plastic have been found in blood, semen, lungs, breast milk, bone marrow, placenta, testicles and the brain.
( The Guardian, 28.07.2025 )  ..  Full report:  theguardian.com

The UK Have Been Training Israeli Army Officers Throughout The Gaza Genocide.
Israeli army officers have been allowed to study at a British military academy in central London throughout the Gaza genocide.
At least two Israeli colonels have attended the prestigious Royal College of Defence Studies since 2023.
Yeftah Norkin completed the course in July 2024 and almost immediately led the army’s “Bang” division in Israel’s invasion of Lebanon.
Norkin, who comes from an influential military family, commanded a patrol company in Operation Cast Lead, Israel’s 2008-9 attack on Gaza which killed hundreds of children.

John Deverell, a retired brigadier who was director of defence diplomacy at the MoD, is writing to the prime minister urging him to “cut all military collaboration with Israel”, including training.
Deverell told Declassified: “Any relationship between the two militaries is useful to the IDF because an onlooker can infer that the British Army agrees with how the IDF conducts operations. In effect, it gives a sort of fig leaf to the IDF.”

Charlie Herbert, a retired British army general, told Declassified: “It is extraordinary that IDF personnel are still receiving training in the UK. All training should have been suspended and individuals returned to Israel when the International Criminal Court issued warrants against prime minister Netanyahu and former defence minister Yoav Gallant in November 2024. It discredits our Armed Forces to be working alongside IDF officers at the Royal College of Defence Studies”.
( Declassified UK, 29.07.2025 )  ..  declassifieduk.org

The Illegally-Occupied West Bank Has Become A Refuge For Pedophiles Fleeing Justice In Other Countries.
Shoshana Strook, the daughter of far-right Israeli settlements minister Orit Strook who has accused both of her parents and one of her brothers of raping her as a child, has published a video alleging that they filmed her rape for use as child pornography and that criminals have threatened her with the publication of the video for accusing them.
Ms Strook travelled to Italy to disclose her allegations but has now returned to Israel, where she asks Israeli police to protect her from her parents and from the blackmailers.

“Many sex offenders find refuge in ultra-Orthodox settlements in the West Bank”.
( The Jewish Independent, 2024 )
“Over 700,000 Israeli settlers reside in these areas, occupying Palestinian land in 150 government-supported settlements, which are deemed illegal under international law. Government funding also extends to unauthorised outposts, allowing convicted offenders to live with minimal interference”.
( Al Jazeera, 2023 )
“As a result, West Bank settlements have faced prolonged scrutiny over severe allegations of child sex abuse, including rape and child pornography. These cases, marked by extensive online exploitation and in-person assaults, underscore a troubling trend, as the settlements have been known to harbour individuals accused of sexual offenses for an extended period”.
( The Times of Israel, 2023 )

Israeli psychotherapist and trauma expert Dr Anat Gur, head of the Bar-Ilan University trauma therapy program, has said that she believes organised child rape in Israel is widespread.
A report in 2024 by child protection group Humanium pointed out that illegal Israeli settlements in the illegally-occupied West Bank have become a ‘refuge’ for pedophiles fleeing justice in other countries, particularly the U.S.
( SKWAWKBOX, 12.04.2025 )  ..  skwawkbox.org

Will Any Of Us Survive This Famine?
I write these lines as my strength is fading.
Not just from the demands of journalism, but from the emptiness in my stomach that now clings to my fragile body.
At times, I sleep having shared a single piece of bread with what remains of my family, surviving hunger together.
Every night feels like the one before: the same bedding, the same groans, the same worry: will we find something to eat tomorrow?
Will any of us survive this famine?

In Gaza, hunger is no longer just a humanitarian plea, it has become a harsh reality lived by journalists in every detail.
We, who once reported on the suffering of others, have become part of that suffering ourselves.
We write while suppressing our own pain and hunger, struggling to keep the words from collapsing before they reach the world, to show just how deep our oppression runs.

The journalistic work that once provided me with a stable income has come to a halt, institutions were destroyed, offices were evacuated, and infrastructure was targeted.
All that remains is freelance work: chasing a story, a photo, a quote, a report, and sending it to the few outlets that still pay us just enough to stay alive.
The cameras and equipment we once saw as extensions of our very souls have now become burdens we sell to secure food for our parents and children.
( Shaimaa Marwan in Gaza, 26.07.2025 )  .. Full article:  declassifieduk.org

Several Major Multinational Firms Are Involved In Profiting From The Genocide.
On June 16, 2025, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories Occupied Since 1967, Francesca Albanese, published a new report titled ‘From Economy of Occupation to Economy of Genocide’.
Spanning over thirty-nine pages, the report indicts several major multinational corporations of profiting from the  occupation and genocide of Palestinians.
Among the implicated are familiar names: Amazon, Blackrock, Google, Lockheed Martin, and Volvo.
Each of these firms, and many universities (particularly the Massachusetts Institute for Technology), have differential investments in the displacement of Palestinians and their replacement by Israeli settlers.
Ms Albanese ends her report with reasonable requests: stop profiting from the genocide and cut ties with Israel.

On July 9, 2025, the U.S. State Department sanctioned Albanese for her work, which prevents her from any access to her own property in the United States.
The U.S. State Department claimed that “Albanese has spewed unabashed antisemitism, expressed support for terrorism, and open contempt for the United States, Israel, and the West”.
Albanese is not the first person to be sanctioned in this way.
In June 2025, the U.S. sanctioned International Criminal Court judges based on the same U.S. Executive Order.

Albanese’s report indicates that several major multinational firms are involved in profiting from the genocide.
Israeli military intelligence uses Amazon Web Services servers to store masses of intelligence information on almost everyone in Gaza.
Microsoft, Alphabet and Amazon grant Israel virtually government-wide access to their cloud and artificial intelligence technologies, enhancing data processing, decision making and surveillance and analysis capacities.
It is clear that these tech companies not only provide information for the Israeli occupation and genocide, but they also provide a “shield from accountability” since they protect key information that would be actionable in an international war crimes tribunal.
( Peoples Dispatch, 01.08.2025 )  ..  peoplesdispatch.org

Tony Blair Was Prepared To Allow Israel To Take Over Part Of The West Bank.
Tony Blair considered establishing a “privileged Israeli partnership” with Nato and the European Union, newly released British government documents show.
A confidential Downing Street paper, drawn up in October 2004, also considered the idea of allowing Israel to take over “five main settlement blocs in the West Bank” which would “become part of Israel”.
In addition, the paper suggested ending the Palestinian right of return to their home areas in Israel from where they were expelled in 1948.
“They will either return to Palestine or stay where they are”, the document stated.

The document was drawn up in the same month that the Israeli military killed 165 Palestinians, mainly in Gaza, in October 2004.
This was described by an official in the Foreign Office peace process team as “the deadliest month for Palestinians” since Operation Defensive Shield, which was Israel’s large-scale military intervention in the West Bank in April 2002.
In 2005, Israel withdrew from over 20 settlements in Gaza and four in the West Bank, but the process was short-lived and Israeli settlements continued to grow over subsequent decades.
There are now over 800,000 Jewish settlers in the illegally-occupied West Bank.
( Mark Curtis, 05.08.2025 )  ..  declassifieduk.org