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A heartbreaking scene in Gaza City: A child cries out for help after becoming trapped beneath the rubble of a building that collapsed on its occupants, as rescue teams search through the debris.
At least 16 civilians have been confirmed dead, including five children, and many more injured or missing.
The building had sustained serious damage during the ongoing Israeli genocide, causing it to collapse this morning.
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Israeli occupation forces are bulldozing Palestinian land planted with olive trees near the village of Aba, east of Jenin in the occupied West Bank.
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Breaking | A six-year-old Palestinian child was shot in the head by Israeli forces in the Al-Atatra area, northwest of Beit Lahia in northern Gaza.
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Israeli occupation bulldozers demolish a Palestinian home in Khallet Al-Homs, Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron, in the occupied West Bank.
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Palestinian fisherman Wissam Barham Al-Aqraa was killed this morning after Israeli occupation naval boats opened fire on fishermen in the waters off Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.
"A weapon was used for the first time over a city of 30,000 people, and the commercial consequence was a contract to build four times as many. That sequence is a matter of public record, and it is precisely the case the Guiding Principles were written to reach."
Distinguished Members of UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights
(@WGBizHRs),
I request that the Working Group transmit an allegation letter to @LockheedMartin Corporation, and to the Government of the United States, concerning a matter within your mandate that has to date drawn no response from any United Nations mechanism.
On 28 February 2026, the opening day of the American and Israeli war on Iran, United States forces fired four Lockheed Martin Precision Strike Missiles into Lamerd, a city of thirty thousand in Fars province. They detonated in the air above a girls' sports hall, a school and residential streets, dispersing tens of thousands of tungsten fragments. Twenty-one civilians were killed, the youngest aged two. More than one hundred and seventy were wounded, a number permanently disabled by spinal injuries, amputations and blindness. Airwars, The New York Times and BBC Verify, with weapons analysis by Janes and McKenzie Intelligence, attributed the munitions to the PrSM. No military objective in Lamerd has ever been identified by Central Command, which first denied any strike in the vicinity and then attributed the footage to an Iranian munition, an attribution each independent analysis rejected.
I visited Lamerd, examined the fragmentation damage, and met the families of those killed and injured.
The strike itself engages the responsibility of a State. What engages your mandate is what follows.
Within a month, Lockheed Martin concluded an agreement with the Department of War to quadruple PrSM production, reported at some $8.4 billion. It was signed after the forensic record was public, after the official account had been publicly contradicted twice, and after the Commander of Central Command had himself identified Lamerd as the weapon's combat debut and praised its performance. The PrSM had never been used in combat before. Its first operational employment was over a densely populated civilian area, and the commercial expansion of the programme followed directly upon it.
Guiding Principle 23(c) requires enterprises to treat the risk of contributing to gross human rights abuses as a legal compliance issue wherever they operate, and the Working Group's own reporting on conflict-affected contexts establishes that heightened due diligence is required in such settings, including the use of leverage, and disengagement where leverage fails.
The question you are uniquely placed to put is narrow and answerable: what did Lockheed Martin know about the effects of the 28 February employment when it agreed to expand production fourfold, and what due diligence did it conduct before signing?
I respectfully ask that the Working Group:
1- Transmit an allegation letter to Lockheed Martin Corporation, addressed to its Chairman and Chief Executive Officer and to its Board of Directors, and publish the letter and any response in the communications database.
2- Invite the company to state (a) what operational performance, telemetry or assessment data relating to the Lamerd employment it received or could access; (b) on what date; (c) what human rights due diligence, if any, preceded the production-expansion agreement; and (d) what leverage it has exercised with its customer over the use of this munition.
3- Call upon the company to suspend performance of the production-expansion agreement, and all further transfer of the PrSM, pending an independent investigation.
4- Call on the company to preserve all material relating to the 28 February employment, which is evidence in any future proceedings.
5- Transmit parallel communications to the United States, and consider co-signature by the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions.
A weapon was used for the first time over a city of 30,000 people, and the commercial consequence was a contract to build four times as many. That sequence is a matter of public record, and it is precisely the case the Guiding Principles were written to reach.
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Israeli occupation authorities are demolished Palestinian structures in the town of Deir Ballut, in the central occupied West Bank.
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The Trump administration is preparing a $2.8 billion sale of 40,000 heavy 2,000-pound bombs to Israel, funded by U.S. taxpayer dollars through Foreign Military Financing. The package includes 20,000 MK-84 bombs, 20,000 BLU-117s, and 20,000 I-2000 Penetrator warheads.
It is the largest single sale of these high-destruction munitions in recent years, surpassing previous Biden and Trump administration packages. President Trump reversed President Biden's 2024 suspension of 2,000-pound bomb transfers upon taking office in January 2025.
Israel's prior use of 2,000-pound bombs in Gaza and Lebanon has led to the killing of thousands of civilians, mostly women and children. The pending deal faces informal congressional review, setting up political resistance among House Democrats and some conservative figures despite general Republican backing.
Source: The Washington Post
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During her speech at the Trades Union Congress, First Secretary of State Louise Haigh affirmed that the UK will no longer tolerate Israel's killing of Palestinians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.
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Extremist Israeli settlers set Palestinian land on fire in the village of Burqa, east of Ramallah, occupied West Bank.
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Israeli settlers, under the protection of Israeli occupation forces, loot a Palestinian farmer's grape crops east of Hebron, occupied West Bank.
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Right after US-Israeli strikes on Iran began, Trump's accounts bought into eight oil firms, boosting an Exxon stake worth up to $12.5M.
Ordering military escalation and watching your personal fossil fuel assets soar is intolerable. A president must never profit from war.
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Footage shows an armed Israeli settler intimidating and holding several Palestinian children at the entrance to the town of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron, last night.
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Breaking | Israeli artillery is shelling the eastern areas of Khan Younis in southern Gaza.
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Colonial Israeli settlers have cut down electricity poles in the Burin Al-Jadida suburb, south of Nablus, in the occupied West Bank.
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Palestine Red Crescent confirms that two Palestinians were killed and 13 others injured after an Israeli strike targeted a vehicle in the Tal al-Hawa neighborhood of Gaza City.
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Israeli occupation forces have imposed a curfew on the Jaber neighborhood of Hebron, south of the occupied West Bank, preventing students from reaching their schools for the second consecutive day under the pretext of securing settlers during the Jewish holiday season.
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Hundreds of Thais rallied outside Israel's embassy in Bangkok, demanding foreigners respect Thai laws and culture, under the banner "Thailand is not for sale."
The protest was driven by anger over the behavior of Israeli tourists, the alleged buying up of Thai land, especially in the northern town of Pai, and Israel's genocide in Gaza.
Thailand's foreign minister said the country "cannot stand idly by" while visitors act detrimentally toward it, and the Israeli embassy scrambled to respond, proposing a "do's and don'ts" guide for Israeli travelers.
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According to Middle East Eye, the UK’s Charity Commission has criticized trustees of the Edgware United Synagogue in London for hosting a real estate event that promoted properties in illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, while denying that the settlements are built on “stolen Palestinian land.”
The charity regulator has also launched an internal review of its previous decision to close a compliance case against the synagogue, citing failures in governance and oversight that allowed the event to go ahead despite an internal decision not to host it.
The event, held in June, drew widespread criticism, with more than 100 British MPs and London Mayor Sadiq Khan condemning the promotion of property in Israeli settlements.