Lawyer Ben Marmarelli posted this update on his X/Twitter account:

April 12, 2026, I visited Marwan Barghouti in my capacity as his lawyer.

What I confirmed through this visit is deeply alarming. In recent weeks, Marwan Barghouti has been subjected to three violent assaults. On April 8 in Ganot Prison, he was severely beaten and left bleeding for more than two hours. He requested medical care and was denied treatment. On March 25, he was assaulted during his transfer from Megiddo to Ganot. On March 24, in Megiddo Prison, guards entered his cell with a dog, forced him to the ground, and the dog repeatedly attacked him.

These are not isolated incidents. They form a clear pattern of escalating abuse: violence, medical neglect, and treatment that places him at immediate risk.

He had a great deal to say. Above all, he wanted to know more about his family and the Palestinian people, What is happening in Palestinian and Israeli scene I tried to tell him everything I know.

But even that conversation took place under absurd conditions: the phones did not work, so we had to shout through the glass just to hear each other.

For five hours, I sat there without food or water, trying to make sure this visit meant something.

This is what a legal visit looks like today: basic conditions denied, communication obstructed, and even the most elementary human and professional standards ignored.

And still, despite all of that, his mind was sharp, focused, and deeply engaged with everything happening outside those prison walls.

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BBC:

In its latest World Economic Outlook, the IMF cut its estimate for UK growth this year to 0.8%, from the 1.3% prediction made in January before hostilities began.

The Fund said the downgrade was due to the war, fewer interest rate cuts, and the expectation that the impact of higher energy prices would linger into next year.

The UK's downgrade of half a percentage point is the largest of the world's advanced economies, with the UK now earmarked to have middling growth this year compared to its peers.

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At the UN Security Council, Pakistan called Israel an occupier and proceeded to talk at length about Israel's multiple violations of the UN Charter.

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The death toll has risen to 5

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Footage from the Okura hotel in Amsterdam, from a protest against Airbus war industry.

Airbus Group is a multinational aerospace company spanning Europe and is listed among the top 15 largest arms manufacturers globally.

In 2018, Airbus collaborated with Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) to provide Heron TP combat drones, also referred to as Eitan. These drones have allegedly been deployed in military campaigns against Palestinians and for monitoring borders to deter refugees from arriving in mainland Europe.

In 2022, the Israeli military confirmed employing Eitan drones, contracted from Airbus, in numerous attacks throughout Gaza, the occupied West Bank, and in missions in Lebanon, Egypt, Syria, and Sudan. In that same year, activities related to arms constituted roughly 20% of Airbus's income.

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The founder of the Hind Rajab Foundation on his X/Twitter account:

Daniel Ella, commander of the 52nd Battalion of the 401st Brigade, was severely injured in combat in Lebanon today. He leads the battalion responsible for the killing of Hind Rajab.

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Italian journalists have resurfaced a photograph of a protest against US missile installation in the early 80s.

On the right, a young American priest who would then become Pope Leo XIV.

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⚡️Hezbollah:

Footage from the targeting of an Israeli army Humvee in the town of Al-Taybeh, southern Lebanon, using an attack drone.

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ABC7 reports that a warehouse is burning in Compton, California.

It's the seventh warehouse fire in the past week.

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Polish conservative MP Konrad Berkowicz displayed an Israeli flag marked with a swastika on the floor of parliament, accusing Israel of committing genocide with particular cruelty, triggering intense political backlash and international controversy.

When the Embassy of Israel in Poland chastised him, he doubled down.

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Haaretz:

Stern's Nazi gamble: newly declassified files expose Lehi leader Avraham "Yair" Stern's strategy to enlist Germany against Britain and the intelligence tracking that followed

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Hezbollah:

Status and summary of operations as of April 14, 2026

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