The Lebanese Advocates

✨ Creative Time Out ✨

Life moves fast. We rush from one task to the next, rarely giving ourselves permission to pause.

This summer, I invite you to do something different.

Slow down.
Create.
Reconnect.

Join me in Gozo for a gentle mixed-media journaling experience where there are no rules, no perfect art, and no pressure. Just time and space to explore your creativity, reflect, play with colour, and reconnect with yourself.

Whether you choose the Mini Retreat in August or the Weekend Retreat in September, you'll leave with more than a journal—you'll leave with memories, inspiration, and a renewed sense of creative wellbeing.

💛 No artistic experience needed
🎨 All materials provided
🌿 Small intimate groups
📍 Gozo

Sometimes the most productive thing we can do is simply stop and create.

If this speaks to you, I'd love to welcome you.

Rosanna Gioielli Art

On the occasion of the Nakba, activists and members of various Palestinian solidarity groups and organizations gathered yesterday to march from Gżira to Sliema in a united call for justice, freedom, and human rights for the Palestinian people. 🇵🇸

The demonstration called for an immediate end to the ongoing suffering in Palestine and urged the international community, including Malta and the EU, to take concrete action by sanctioning the Israeli government for its violations of international law and human rights.

From Malta, we continue to say loudly and clearly: solidarity is not a crime, and silence is not neutrality.

Today, 15 May 2026, we commemorate the 78th year since the Nakba began. The closest English translation of “Nakba” is “catastrophe.” It marks the expulsion of over 700,000 Palestinians from their land, the establishment of the State of Israel on stolen Palestinian land, and the ever-growing Zionist colonisation.

🇵🇸 Today, our hearts are with Palestine and with all victims of Zionist aggression.

For Israel and Zionism, 1948 was just the beginning of the Greater Israel project. These past couple of years have been a cruel reminder to ethnic cleansing and imperialism left unchecked. The Zionist state of Israel continues to act with impunity, continuing its genocide in Gaza, and expanding its aggression into Lebanon, Syria and Iran.

This is a catastrophe for humanity.

Our work is cut out for us - we must continue putting pressure on our representatives and the Maltese government to stand with humanity and push for divestment and sanctions on Israel.

We must continue to demand that Palestinians forced out of their homeland are allowed the right to return and to live with dignity in a free, unoccupied Palestine.

🍉 Join us tomorrow, Saturday 16 May at 4:30pm, at the Council of Europe Garden in Gżira, for the annual commemoration of the Nakba, joining millions across the globe who demand the freeing of Palestine and the end to the Zionist imperial project: NAKBA 78 - March for the return of stolen lands

FREE PALESTINE

Għalkemm qed nisimgħu inqas bih, il-ġenoċidju f'Gaża għadu għaddej. L-Iżrael bħalissa qed jokkupa direttament iktar minn 64% ta' din l-istrixxa żgħira, ftit ikbar minn Malta. Fil-bqija tagħha, il-Palestinjani għadhom qed jgħixu fost tifrik totali, bi ftit li xejn għajnuna umanitarja.

🩸 L-Iżrael immassakra madwar 75,000 Palestinjan matul il-ġenoċidju tiegħu f'Gaża. Mijiet minnhom qatilhom wara l-hekk imsejjaħ waqfien mill-ġlied f'Ottubru li għadda.

Eluf ta' Palestinjani oħra jinsabu ostaġġi fil-ħabsijiet Iżraeljani, soġġetti għat-tortura u għall-istupru.

Fl-istess ħin, l-Iżrael qed ikompli jisraq l-art u joqtol lill-Palestinjani fix-Xatt tal-Punent, u espanda wkoll l-okkupazzjoni tiegħu fil-Libanu u fis-Sirja.

Dan kollu huwa t-tkomplija tan-Nakba, il-katastrofi, li bdiet fl-1948, meta milizzji Żionisti qatlu u keċċew mijiet t'eluf ta' Palestinjani minn djarhom sabiex jeħdulhom arthom u joħolqu stat Iżraeljan.

📍 Nhar is-Sibt, 16 ta' Mejju, fl-4.30pm, se niltaqgħu ġewwa Ġnien il-Kunsill tal-Ewropa, il-Gżira, sabiex niftakru f'din il-katastrofi u nkomplu l-ġlieda favur Palestina ħielsa: NAKBA 78 - March for the return of stolen lands

Nemmnu bis-sħiħ li fejn hemm is-solidarjetà, hemm it-tama.

Narawkom 🍉

Read in English in the comments below.

Urgent Press Rrelease 13.05.25

Uphold Human Rights! Return the Stolen Lands
March in Gżira to commemorate the 78th Palestinian Nakba on 16th May 16:30.

On May 15, Palestinians worldwide mark the Nakba (“catastrophe”) - the forced displacement and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in 1948. Seventy-eight years later, the dispossession continues.
Uniting in solidarity for Palestinian and Lebanese basic human rights, including the right to return to their homes in equality and peace, 17 local NGOs call on Malta’s Government:

▶️ for No Complicity with Israel’s genocide in Gaza and illegal occupation of Palestinian and Lebanese land,
▶️ No Assistance to Death ships and arms vessels carrying military supplies to Israel to destroy more civilian lives.
We call on Members of the European Parliament, European Institutions and Companies:
▶️ To suspend the EU-Israeli Association Agreement until Israel complies with ICJ ruling.

We invite the public to join a solidarity march to commemorate the 78th anniversary of the Nakba, condemn the ongoing genocide in Gaza, and raise our voices for a free Palestine. We shall gather on Saturday, 16th May, at 4:30 pm at the Council of Europe Garden, Gżira and walk to St. Anne’s Square, Sliema. Speakers will include Former President Marie Louise Coleiro Preca, representatives of the Embassy of the State of Palestine in Malta, Joanna Jebaili of the Lebanese Advocates, Sammy Meilaq from Group Neutrality and Peace, and the Europe Coordinator of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanction Movement.

On 15th May 1948, the State of Israel was established following the UN “Partition Resolution” in 1947, with the direct support of Britain and Western Powers, and was accompanied by a series of premeditated Zionist military assaults launched between 1947 and 1949.
At least 750,000 Palestinians from were made refugees. Zionist forces seized more than 78 percent of historic Palestine, ethnically cleansed and destroyed about 530 villages and cities, and killed about 15,000 Palestinians in a series of mass atrocities.
Despite UN resolution 194 calling for the right of return for Palestinian refugees, Palestinian refugees were never allowed to return but were instead stuck in limbo struggling with their 78-year status of statelessness while holding onto the keys of their stolen homes.
The Nakba has been ongoing ever since that date through the annexation of large areas of Palestinian land “West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem”, military occupation, expansion of illegal Israeli settlements, mass imprisonment and torture of Palestinians, apartheid policies, and decades of illegal Israeli blockades on the Gaza Strip.
For the past 19 months, we witnessed Israel committing genocide in Gaza with live-streamed horrifying images of Palestinian children being burnt alive in their tents. Despite the ceasefire brokered last October, Israel is still attacking and killing Palestinians in Gaza whilst blocking humanitarian aid in an engineered starvation and deliberate destruction of the healthcare system.
Israel has been expanding its borders by violently seizing more lands from Lebanon, Syria, Gaza, Jerusalem and the West Bank. In Gaza, more than half of the Strip's territory" is under Israeli control. The yellow line introduced by Israel in the south of Lebanon has placed around 16 percent of Lebanon's total area under its control.
In addition, Israeli military forces are illegally abducting more and more Palestinian people holding them under terrible conditions. Over 20,000 Palestinians have been held in these terrifying conditions since October 2023. In this period, at least 110 Palestinians have died in Israeli custody. Currently, the Israel Prison Service (IPS) is holding 9,900 Palestinians – approximately 3,532 detainees held without charge and about 350 children.
On 30th March 2026, the Israeli Knesset passed an Apartheid Death Penalty Law. No unanimity is required as the judge can impose this decision by a simple majority. Executions will be fast tracked to within 90 days of a final decision.

We call on all people, including healthcare workers, maritime workers, educational workers, journalists, business leaders and politicians, to be steadfast in our resistance to war crimes and crimes against humanity. Use your boycott against unethical and illegal activities. Ensure all our policies, our contracts, trade and procurements are ethical.
Uphold Human Rights!
Return the Stolen Lands

Endorsed by:

Ġustizzja għall-Palestina
Moviment Graffitti
The Lebanese Advocates
The General Workers Union
Watermelon Warriors
Youth for Palestine
The Embassy of the State of Palestine in Malta
Dance Beyond Borders
Żminijietna
African Media Association Malta
reLeaf
Alleanza għall-Ġustizzja, Ugwaljanza u Paċi
Grupp Newtralita u Paċi
Front Maltin Inqumu
Inizjamed
Blue Door Education
Mediterranean Children’s Movement

Activists Call On Government To Respond To New Israeli ‘Apartheid’ Law Activists are calling on the Maltese government to take action over a new Israeli law that they describe as “apartheid”. A group of organisations, including Ġustizzja għall-Palestina, Moviment Graffitti, Youth for Palestine, Lebanese Advocates, SpeakUp Malta and Grupp Newtralità u Paċi, made...

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗜𝘀𝗿𝗮𝗲𝗹𝗶 𝗞𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘁 𝗽𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗻 𝗔𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗱 𝗗𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗵 𝗣𝗲𝗻𝗮𝗹𝘁𝘆 𝗟𝗮𝘄 𝗼𝗻 𝟯𝟬𝘁𝗵 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲.
Palestinians found guilty in Israeli military courts of committing fatal attacks will be served a mandatory death sentence. No unanimity is required as the judge can impose this decision by a simple majority. Executions will be fast tracked to within 90 days of a final decision. Palestinians would have no right to clemency.

This is the first time since N**i Germany that a state has legalised ex*****on for a single ethnic group. One of its main promoters, National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, long seen sporting a noose on his lapel, now boasts of constructing a Palestinian Death Row Facility.

This new law is a watermark in Israel’s descent into intensified crimes against humanity, war crimes, illegal invasions and occupations, genocide and conspiracy to commit more of these crimes. Israel’s systematic annexation of Palestinian homeland and systematic persecution of the Palestinian people have resulted in a hardened apartheid state where no Palestinian feels safe and secure.

Indeed, under the governance of PM Netanyahu and Minister Ben-Gvir, Israel’s carceral facilities holding Palestinians have effectively been transformed into sites of torture and abuse. Inhumane and degrading conditions are the rule with overcrowding, systematic physical and mental violence, starvation, long periods of isolation in painful holding positions, medical neglect, widespread patterns of sexual violence, r**e, and murder.

Over 20,000 Palestinians have been held in these terrifying conditions since October 2023. In this period, at least 110 Palestinians have died in Israeli custody. In many cases, family members are not notified and access to postmortems are denied. In addition, there has been a significant increase in the number of administrative detainees. Now 3, 500 Palestinian detainees, are being held on "secret evidence" for renewable periods without charge or trial. They include at least 25 women and 180 children

Since the passing of the Apartheid Death Penalty Law, forty incarcerated Palestinians have started an open-ended hunger strike against Israel’s heinous prison system. Israel’s Apartheid Death Penalty is the world’s acid test for the universality of rights and for humanity. This law is the tip of a deathly iceberg. It must be repealed.

The Malta Government’s silence and inaction in regard to Israel’s escalating violations of human rights indicate a grave lack of moral standards and a shameful disregard for human rights.

𝗝𝗢𝗜𝗡 𝗨𝗦, 𝗦𝗛𝗢𝗪 𝗨𝗣 & 𝗦𝗣𝗘𝗔𝗞 𝗢𝗨𝗧. 𝗦𝗜𝗟𝗘𝗡𝗖𝗘 𝗜𝗦 𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗣𝗟𝗜𝗖𝗜𝗧𝗬!!!
🚨 𝗪𝗘𝗗𝗡𝗘𝗦𝗗𝗔𝗬 𝟮𝟮𝗻𝗱 𝗔𝗣𝗥𝗜𝗟 | 𝟲:𝟬𝟬–𝟲:𝟰𝟱𝗣𝗠
📍 𝗣𝗷𝗮𝘇𝘇𝗮 𝗞𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗷𝗮, 𝗜𝗹-𝗕𝗲𝗹𝘁 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗮

Join the Lebanese community in Malta for a vibrant Lebanese night of music, dance and fun

28 Nov at 18:30
Mezcla Cafe Sliema