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Aimee Shalan

@AimeeShalan

4 months

Why is ⁦ @BBCNews ⁩ using a pristine file picture of Al Shifa Hospital to report Israeli army’s withdrawal and repeating Israel’s false claims of a ‘precision operation’? The horrific images of the actual scene reveal how shameful their ‘reporting’ is.

Gaza's al-Shifa hospital in ruins after two-week Israeli raid

Dozens of bodies are found and al-Shifa is "completely out of service", Hamas-run authorities say.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Short🧵on the appalling coverage by @BBCNews of Israel’s slaughter of Palestinian refugees sheltering in tents in a so-called ‘safe zone’ in Rafah. 1st they run a piece with the title ‘Deadly explosion reported in Rafah’ as if it happened out of nowhere.

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4 months

Images have been updated but @BBCNews continues to regurgitate the Israeli army’s framing and narrative, and the piece is punctuated throughout with their spokespeople’s claims. The media has a role to play in preventing acts of genocide. This is what complicity looks like.

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@AimeeShalan

2 months

The total absence of outrage amongst mainstream British media and their complicity in allowing the destruction of the Palestinian people to continue has been writ large for us to see. Such morally bereft coverage will stand as a testament to this very dark moment in history.

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9 months

“20 yrs from now, when it is far too late for journalism to make any difference, someone will win a Pulitzer for telling the truth about this moment.” Blistering article by Arwa Mahdawi that applies to the Guardian’s own coverage as much as US media

Is it too much to ask people to view Palestinians as humans? Apparently so | Arwa Mahdawi

As the last few weeks have made abundantly clear, Palestinian lives don’t count

www.theguardian.com

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@AimeeShalan

2 months

This little snapshot of @BBCNews gives an insight into how it provides cover for Israel’s genocidal assault on the Palestinian people & is playing a role in allowing it to continue. Over 100,000 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed or injured by Israel in the last 8 months.

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Next they provide a justifying framing for Israel’s horrific attack, referring to a ‘precise air strike’, with a full 15 paragraphs before any mention of the ICJ’s ruling that Israel must halt its offensive on Rafah.

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Then a piece titled ‘Deadly strike on Rafah a tragic mishap, says Netanyahu’, parroting his blatantly implausible response to growing international condemnation, with zero analysis & no mention that the International Criminal Court prosecutor is seeking a warrant for his arrest.

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8 months

A visual aid for broadcasters who still insist when they interview Palestinians that the Israeli Defence Minister’s Yoav Gallant’s pledge “Gaza won’t return to what it was before. We will eliminate everything” is about Hamas. This is a genocidal campaign.

Al Jazeera English

@AJEnglish

8 months

This exclusive footage obtained by Al Jazeera shows the massive scale of Israel's destruction in al-Zahra neighbourhood in the centre of Gaza ⤵️

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2 months

And this morning an article reporting as fact that ‘Israeli officials had spent much of Monday scrambling to find out what went wrong in Rafah’, while promoting trust in the promise of a ‘thorough investigation’ by Israel’s top military officials.

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@AimeeShalan

8 months

Yet another example of how media outlets like @guardian are feeding into the dehumanisation of Palestinians

Muhammad Shehada

@muhammadshehad2

8 months

Only Israeli minors are "children" Palestinian minors are "people aged 18 & younger" This is NOT a mistake; it's a premeditated carefully worded editorial decision! Dehumanization is the root of all cruelty, & Western media has been at the forefront of it since Oct 7!

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10 months

UK sending military support to Israel as UN told entire population in north Gaza should relocate to south within 24 hrs. @RishiSunak & @Keir_Starmer both support collective punishment of Palestinians, which is a war crime. Britain is an active partner in devastation unfolding now

British Palestinian Committee

@BritPalCommitt

10 months

"It's very clear that the UK Gov & other international actors are now active partners in crimes that Israel is committing & that they bear responsibility for getting us to this point." - Our Chair, Dr Aimee Shalan speaking on BBC Newscast on #Gaza (16:48)

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9 months

Everyone who’s refused to speak out against the atrocities Israel is enacting against the Palestinian people, everyone who’s refused to call for an immediate ceasefire, or has suggested the siege on Gaza is in any way justifiable, is responsible for what happens now

Rohan Talbot

@rohantalbot

9 months

🚨 Reports that there is a total communications shutdown in #Gaza right now. We can't reach our colleagues.

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1 year

Shocking to think children in Palestine are still being killed 20 years after Tom Hurndall was shot in the head while trying to rescue a child. Thinking of the Hurndall family today and of the families of all the children who have been killed by Israeli forces over the years.

LPHR

@LPHR_Lawyers

1 year

20 years ago today, Tom Hurndall was shot in the head while trying to rescue a small child in Gaza. He lay in a coma until his passing on 13 January 2004. Tom was a brave humanitarian and is an enduring inspiration for us, as is his mother @jocelynhurndall

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8 months

Palestinian legal scholar ⁦ @dianabuttu ⁩: “the ICC has effectively become a court that acts in the political interest of powerful Western states, rather than in accordance with strict legal principles.”

‘Alarming’: Palestinians accuse ICC prosecutor of bias after Israel visit

While the ICC offers an alternative to Israeli courts, no arrest warrants have been issued against Israeli officials.

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@AimeeShalan

4 months

This screenshot shows how the picture & headline were updated. @BBCNews no longer cites a ‘precision operation’ but still leads with Israeli army propaganda, legitimising the horrific destruction of Gaza’s main hospital. The updated article makes no mention of international law.

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@AimeeShalan

3 months

The ICJ didn’t just ‘say’ genocide is plausible ⁦ @BBCNews ⁩, it ordered measures with international implications. Those supporting Israel with financial, political or military support are responsible for the failure to prevent & complicity in genocide

House speaker Mike Johnson heckled by protesters in tense Columbia campus visit

While the Speaker visited Columbia, police confronted pro-Palestinian protesters at campuses in Texas and California.

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@AimeeShalan

2 years

‘if you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.’ - Archbishop Desmond Tutu. You’re right there. You know what’s happening. Complicity in Israel’s settler colonial and apartheid regime seeps through every ‘neutral’ statement.

UK in Jerusalem🇬🇧

@UKinJerusalem

2 years

This morning UK🇬🇧 joined @OCHAopt visit to the Salem family, Palestinian🇵🇸 refugees facing eviction from their home in Sheikh Jarrah. The UK urges all parties to refrain from provocative action and rhetoric. Read more ➡️

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5 months

An increasing number of artists are choosing to resist the censorship and repression taking place in our cultural institutions and the chilling effect of policies and practices geared towards closing down discussion of the genocide in Gaza and calls for a free Palestine.

Artists for Palestine UK 🍉

@Art4PalestineUK

5 months

Artists withdraw work from Barbican over Gaza talk cancellation “We cannot take seriously a public institution that does not hold a space for free thinking & debate, however challenging it might feel to some staff, board members, or anxious politicians

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9 months

These names should eternally haunt every politician and journalist around the world who has contributed to the dehumanization of Palestinians. They’ve played a crucial role in helping to spur on the genocide that’s now unfolding with the international community’s permission.

Aseel AlBajeh أسيل البجة

@AseelAlBajeh

9 months

The Ministry of Health just published the names of 7028 Palestinians, including 2913 children killed in #Gaza . Scrolling over this is so painful. The first 88 names are from the same family! The next 72 from one family! And the undescribable pain goes on. No words.

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1 year

‘Clashes’: the mainstream media’s language guide on Israel totally skews the news. How can anyone depict Israeli police brutally beating Muslim worshippers with batons this way? Such attacks will continue with impunity without responsible reporting.

Palestinians arrested and injured in Israeli raid on al-Aqsa mosque

Police raid triggers West Bank clashes, cross-border strikes in Gaza Strip and fears of escalation

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@AimeeShalan

9 months

The people of Gaza face #genocide while British MP’s show off their skills as contortionists, telling us why they didn’t vote for an immediate ceasefire and opining about the ‘most difficult day’ in their political lives.

Kim Leadbeater MBE MP

@kimleadbeater

9 months

My letter to constituents today following the votes in the House of Commons last night

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7 months

Jordan backs South Africa’s submission to the International Court of Justice accusing Israel of committing #genocide in Gaza.

Gov’t supports South Africa ICJ case against Israel — Safadi - Jordan News | Latest News from...

On Thursday, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ayman Safadi, affirmed that Jordan remains steadfast in its efforts to

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@AimeeShalan

3 months

“Released detainees say Palestinian doctors in Israeli jails are treated more harshly than other prisoners, who face widespread torture and abuse.”

Doctor tortured and killed in Israeli detention remembered

Adnan al-Bursh refused to flee, even when the hospital he worked in came under heavy bombardment. He was arrested by Israeli troops in December

www.middleeasteye.net

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@AimeeShalan

1 month

The strapline for this @BBCNews article, parroting the Israeli army’s depiction of the crime of torture as a violation of ‘protocol’, provides yet more proof of its complicity in Israel’s brutal oppression of Palestinians and the constant erosion of international law.

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@AimeeShalan

4 months

.⁦ @BBCNews ⁩ says ‘resettling Gaza’ not Israeli government policy but a conference calling for exactly that, just 2 days after ICJ ruling of plausible genocide, was attended by 11 Israeli cabinet ministers and 15 members of the coalition government

Jewish settlers set their sights on Gaza beachfront

They see an opportunity to push for a return of Jewish settlements to the Palestinian territory.

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@AimeeShalan

9 months

In absolute awe of the ambulance and emergency services in Gaza and how they managed to keep going throughout the communications blackout, under such brutal attack. Their humanity, dignity and bravery is a beacon for the world.

PRCS

@PalestineRCS

9 months

Mohammed Abu Msbeh, Director of the Ambulance and Emergency Department in #Gaza Strip , speaks about the period of communication disruption that lasted for about 36 hours and how the response operation was carried out during this unprecedented situation. #Gaza_under_attack

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@AimeeShalan

10 months

Britain’s untrammelled support for Israel’s colonial violence and apartheid regime as it bombs the people of Gaza, razing residential buildings and wipes out entire families, couldn’t shine more clear.

UK Prime Minister

@10DowningStreet

10 months

The Israeli flag shines on Downing Street tonight in solidarity with the people of Israel. We stand with 🇮🇱

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2 months

Whatever Israel does, including bombing refugees in tents, it can rely on ⁦⁦ @BBCNews ⁩ to provide a justifying framing for its genocidal acts. A full 15 paragraphs before any mention of the ICJ’s ruling that Israel must halt its offensive on Rafah.

Gaza war: Dozens reported killed in Israeli strike on Rafah

Israel's military says it is investigating the strike, which also killed two senior Hamas officials.

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@AimeeShalan

2 months

Boosting a party whose leader aided & abetted Israel’s genocidal assault on Palestinians by refusing to call for a permanent ceasefire & claiming Israel had a right to withhold power & water from Gaza’s population - which is collective punishment and a war crime - beggars belief.

Ghassan Abu Sitta

@GhassanAbuSitt1

2 months

You are either with the genocide (Starmer) or with its victims the Palestinians.

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6 months

.⁦ @guardian ⁩ leads with 2 Israeli hostages, ever ready to remind its readers how much more Israeli lives matter. Images on social media of Israel’s butchery in Rafah are horrific, including the blasted remains of a Palestinian girl hanging off a wall

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6 years

The situation in Gaza’s hospitals is very difficult, with medical teams overwhelmed by the number of injuries in the last few hours

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3 months

Urgent call by Palestinian academics in Britain on universities & international organisations to ensure they are not complicit in Israel’s campaign to eliminate future independent Palestinian educational life in Gaza.

Fobzu

@fobzu

3 months

📣Call from Palestinian academics in the UK to defend Gaza universities and public commitments from UK universities and international organisations to support their rebuilding. 🎓🇵🇸

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9 months

Speaking to Sky News on Saturday: The only thing that can prevent genocide from continuing in Gaza is for countries like the UK to stop providing weapons and other military support to Israel ... and to push for a full and immediate ceasefire.

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@AimeeShalan

9 months

Who knows, one of these days the BBC might even consider fact checking Israeli claims before they broadcast them and not after…

Rohan Talbot

@rohantalbot

9 months

BBC fact checking Israel's claims about Al Shifa 👇

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@AimeeShalan

9 months

“Israel talks of Hamas-run schools and Hamas-run hospitals to continue the dehumanisation of Palestinians & to set the stage for more crimes. It’s just an excuse to kill more civilians. This is targeting the very existence of the Palestinians.”

From my hometown in Gaza, the unthinkable news: 36 of my family members are dead | Ghada Ageel

The Khan Yunis refugee camp was supposed to be in the safe zone. But nowhere is safe – the very existence of Palestinians is under attack, says Ghada Ageel, a former translator in Gaza for the...

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@AimeeShalan

3 years

I won’t ever forget a young woman in Gaza telling me that the world holds Palestinians at a different level of humanity after her home had been destroyed by an Israeli airstrike. That was in 2014. Her words keep returning tonight.

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@AimeeShalan

4 months

Images have been updated but @BBCNews continues to regurgitate the Israeli army’s framing and narrative, and the piece is punctuated throughout with their spokespeople’s claims. The media has a role to play in preventing acts of genocide. This is what complicity looks like.

Aimee Shalan

@AimeeShalan

4 months

Why is ⁦ @BBCNews ⁩ using a pristine file picture of Al Shifa Hospital to report Israeli army’s withdrawal and repeating Israel’s false claims of a ‘precision operation’? The horrific images of the actual scene reveal how shameful their ‘reporting’ is.

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7 months

Meanwhile @BBCNews presenter insists use of the word ‘genocide’ in connection with #Gaza is ‘incredibly emotive’, whilst repeating Israel’s PR lines that its brutal and indiscriminate bombing campaign is ‘targeted’.

AJ+

@ajplus

7 months

An entire city in northern Gaza has been rendered effectively uninhabitable. This aerial footage reveals the full extent of the destruction in Beit Lahiya:

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4 years

Geneva Convention IV art 56: The Occupying Power has the duty of ensuring & maintaining public health & hygiene in the occupied territories with particular reference to prophylactic & preventive measures to combat spread of contagious diseases & epidemics.

Palestinians excluded from Israeli Covid vaccine rollout as jabs go to settlers

Human rights groups accuse Israel of dodging obligations to millions in occupied territories who may wait months for vaccination

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@AimeeShalan

8 months

Does this mean Britain is stopping its military support for Israel @David_Cameron ? Or will the UK gov still supply arms for Israel to continue its slaughter of Palestinians and massive destruction of civilian infrastructure in Gaza while you call for a ‘sustainable ceasefire’?

The Times and The Sunday Times

@thetimes

8 months

🔺 EXCLUSIVE: Lord Cameron has joined forces with his German counterpart to call for a “sustainable ceasefire” in the Middle East and warn that “too many civilians have been killed” in the Hamas-Israel conflict

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6 months

The Nicaraguan government has started proceedings to take Britain, Germany, the Netherlands, and Canada to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for their complicity in the genocide against the Palestinian people.

Nicaragua taking Germany, Canada, UK, Netherlands to ICJ for genocide

Nicaragua issued a memorandum urging Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Canada to stop backing the Israeli occupation and supplying it with arms.

english.almayadeen.net

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@AimeeShalan

9 months

Yes. The UN has “used and checked Gaza health ministry data for years.” Such attempts to undermine the figures in the mainstream media are aiding and abetting Israel to continue killing hundreds of Palestinians every day.

Can we trust casualty figures from the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry?

Israel and Joe Biden have shown scepticism about accuracy of rising death toll but others point to historical reliability of data

www.theguardian.com

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@AimeeShalan

3 years

Since I wrote this piece 5 years ago the UK government has stepped up its highly regressive approach towards platforms in which Palestinians might have a meaningful opportunity to convey their lives experience and assert their rights.

One Hundred Years and Counting: Britain, Balfour, and the Cultural Repression of Palestinians |...

The government and corporations of the United Kingdom have recently intensified efforts to censor Palestinian creative expression. Al-Shabaka Policy Member Aimee Shalan traces the roots of these...

al-shabaka.org

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@AimeeShalan

6 years

Ministry of Health in Gaza has reported 52 people killed, including 6 children, and 2,410 casualties, including 203 children. As many as 1,204 have been injured by live ammunition, 13 by Rubber-coated metal bullets, 133 by shrapnel. 837 of injured suffered tear gas inhalation

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@AimeeShalan

6 years

Al Awda hospital in north Gaza just told the MAP team that they have received 85 casualties, including 20 children. All 4 theatres are engaged, working on orthopaedic cases. Al Awda is a relatively small hospital, doing an amazing job handling so many casualties at once.

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@AimeeShalan

9 months

Israel has killed 10,000 Palestinians, including 4,000 children in just 4 weeks, ⁦held its 2.2m population under siege for over 16 yrs & a brutal colonial & apartheid regime for decades but @guardian ⁩ still leads with Israel’s ‘security’ narrative. Dehumanisation in action.

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@AimeeShalan

9 months

The UK government and the Opposition’s morally bankrupt support for Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza is in absolute discord with the humanity and principles of the British public.

PSC

@PSCupdates

9 months

London now 🇵🇸 #CeaseFireNOW

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4 months

A Gaza Family Scheme would enable Palestinians in the UK to bring their loved ones to safety until it is safe to return. The petition is nearing 76k signatures. Join the call to protect Palestinian lives and Palestinian families' right to unity 👇

Gaza Families Reunited

@GazaFamReunited

4 months

We’ve got 10 days to get the petition to 100k signatures to be considered for debate in Parliament: 👉 You can sign if you’re a UK resident or citizen. Remember to click on the link emailed to you after you sign. #ReuniteGazanFamilies

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3 years

Shortages of fuel for hospitals, attacks on healthcare facilities & essential infrastructure, airstrikes on homes, killing civilians including medics, displacing thousands of people - putting #Gaza at risk of a further wave of the COVID-19. And still no international outcry?

Medical Aid for Palestinians

@MedicalAidPal

3 years

"The lack of fuel is life threatening for patients in the hospitals and for those who need urgent surgical interventions." 🚨Read the latest update from Fikr Shalltoot, our Director of Programmes in #Gaza , on the violence and emergency medical response:

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3 years

⁦BBCWorld⁩ minces words again, fails to mention Israel’s unlawful annexation of East Jerusalem, which was internationally condemned, or its legal status as occupied territory under international law. is this editorial policy ⁦ @BBCWorld ⁩?

Over 100 injured in East Jerusalem clashes - BBC News

Tensions boil over into some of the worst violence in the Israeli-occupied sector for months.

www.bbc.co.uk

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@AimeeShalan

5 years

Yesterday we delivered a petition to Downing Street on protection for Palestinian health workers. We need your help to spread the word

Medical Aid for Palestinians

@MedicalAidPal

5 years

We need your help to make sure the UK Government sends a clear message that there can be no impunity for attacks on healthcare at the UN Human Rights Council this week. Take action: #HRC40 #NotATarget

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9 months

Last night, 294 British MPs voted against an SNP amendment calling for an end ‘to the collective punishment of the Palestinian people’ & an immediate #ceasefire . British politicians paved the way for the #Nakba of 1948 & are as guilty of giving license to the ongoing Nakba today.

Makan

@makanrights

9 months

🧵 An Ongoing Nakba Israel’s current ongoing assault on Gaza is an escalation in this ongoing Nakba with many experts stating that what we are witnessing may be a repeat of 1948 but on a larger scale.

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14 countries vote against and 45 abstain from a UN resolution calling for ‘protection of civilians and upholding legal and humanitarian obligations’. That’s 59 countries giving the nod to war crimes and crimes against humanity.

UN News

@UN_News_Centre

9 months

BREAKING: UN General Assembly ADOPTS resolution on “protection of civilians and upholding legal and humanitarian obligations” on the ongoing Gaza crisis FOR: 120 AGAINST: 14 ABSTAIN: 45 LIVE COVERAGE

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4 years

@MedicalAidPal could not respond swiftly to the Beirut emergency without the wonderful generosity of our supporters.

Medical Aid for Palestinians

@MedicalAidPal

4 years

Read how our team in Lebanon has been responding with local partners to the massive explosion which devastated much of #Beirut last week. More than 220 people are known to have died and 7,000 have been injured

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5 years

Reports that schools in Gaza sending children home in expectation of major escalation. Thinking of @MedicalAidPal team & everyone in Gaza.

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3 years

According to @MedicalAidPal ’s team in #Gaza local media are reporting 20 people killed, including 9 children, and more than 60 people injured. Air strikes are heard in all areas of Gaza

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6 years

Arrived in Gaza yesterday, where the situation is very tense. Hospitals are bracing for a huge influx of casualties. A trauma meeting was held yesterday to plan effective coordination and an emergency triage area has been set up outside Shifa hospital.

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10 months

The moral bankruptcy of the international community in its refusal for decades to hold Israel to account for its relentless violations of international law has brought us to this sickening point in history.

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Palestinian families file criminal case against German officials for aiding & abetting genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza by providing Israel with arms. Weapons imported from Germany (which increased tenfold after Oct 7) make up 28% Israel’s military imports.

European Legal Support Center (ELSC)

@elsclegal

5 months

🚨BREAKING Palestinian families seek justice as they file a criminal complaint against officials for complicity in Gaza genocide. #AccountabilityNow The case is supported by @ELSClegal @rabetbypipd @law4palestine under @Acc4Palestine . Read more here👇🏽 /1

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“Protest is not just directed at Israel, but at domestic governments and politicians who are seen as having a hand not just in the subjugation of stateless Palestinians, but in crafting an entire moral framework for it.”

Pro-Palestine rallies aren’t ‘hate marches’ – they’re an expression of solidarity, helplessness and...

Some will understandably be wary of these marches, but people feel so strongly about this issue for many reasons, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

www.theguardian.com

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3 years

Hearing from the @MedicalAidPal team in Gaza that a commercial building, the Al Shorouq Tower, has now been totally destroyed, with airstrikes and shelling still ongoing. The Ministry of Health in Gaza has reported 56 people killed, including 14 children.

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6 years

Bowled over by the amazing support of so many people doing challenge events to raise funds for @MedicalAidPal 's vital work in the West Bank, Gaza and the refugee camps of Lebanon.

Medical Aid for Palestinians

@MedicalAidPal

6 years

Congratulations and a big thank you to all the runners who completed the Royal Parks Half Marathon in London this morning in support of MAP. Inspired to take on your own challenge event, get tips and ideas here: #royalparkshalf #running #fundraising

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Israel’s assault on #Gaza dubbed one of the deadliest and most destructive in history. And still the UNSC can’t bring itself to call for an immediate ceasefire. What use do these UN resolutions serve except as an index of contempt for Palestinian lives?

Israel's military campaign in Gaza seen as among the most destructive in recent history, experts say

After 11 weeks of war in Gaza, the Israeli military campaign against Hamas now sits among the deadliest and most destructive in recent history. The Palestinian death toll has surpassed 20,000 and...

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3 years

I‘m very sad to be stepping down. But there’s now a unique opportunity for a collaborative new leader to work with a wonderful team. You can find out more about the role here:

London Office Jobs

www.map.org.uk

Medical Aid for Palestinians

@MedicalAidPal

3 years

Chief Executive Aimee Shalan is to step down after four years with MAP

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Palestinian refugees offer support: ‘Knowing what it is like to feel "scared" & "with no place to go," Kamal said many refugees living in & on the outskirts of Beirut have rushed to help the thousands of people displaced by and injured in the explosion.’

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Jesse Darling, winner of the 2023 Turner Prize, uses platform to speak out by pulling a Palestinian flag out of his pocket. When later asked why, he said: “Because there’s a #genocide going on and I wanted to say something about it on the BBC.”

Jesse Darling wins the 2023 Turner Prize

The Oxford-born artist won the £25,000 award for sculptures made of commonplace objects conveying ‘the messy reality of life’, and unsettling ‘notions of labour, class, Britishness and power’

www.theguardian.com

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@AimeeShalan

8 months

The international community has an immediate responsibility to stop this genocidal assault. There must be a permanent ceasefire, unfettered humanitarian access and real political action to ensure a future for Palestinians built on freedom and justice

Jason Hickel

@jasonhickel

8 months

BREAKING: Israeli officials have said that following the 4-day pause they will continue the bombardment of Gaza for "at least another two months". It is critical to ramp up pressure on public officials everywhere to achieve a ceasefire.

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UN human rights chief expresses horror at destruction of Gaza hospitals & further reports of mass graves, some bodies stripped naked with their hands tied. But ⁦for @BBCNews ⁩ still business as usual, framing their piece with Israel’s talking points.

UN rights chief 'horrified' by mass grave reports at Gaza hospitals

Palestinian officials say more than 300 bodies have been found at Nasser and al-Shifa hospitals.

www.bbc.co.uk

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3 years

@SayeedaWarsi Here’s a first hand account from Fikr Shalltoot, @MedicalAidPal ’s Director in Gaza, describing what it’s like for people experiencing Israel’s repeated targeting of residential buildings and medical facilities

“Many people can hardly believe that they have survived”

MAP News. The latest developments in the Middle East as well as eye witness accounts and expert analysis from MAP's staff.

www.map.org.uk

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6 years

A huge thanks to all 8 surgeons on the Limb Reconstruction mission, our wonderful colleagues in Gaza and MAP's amazing supporters, without whom we couldn't continue this vital work

Medical Aid for Palestinians

@MedicalAidPal

6 years

Thanks to the support we have received, this week MAP supported a mission of 8 surgeons from the UK to #Gaza . The UK team have been supporting their Palestinian colleagues at the Limb Reconstruction Unit #GreatReturnMarch

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‘Since Israel & Egypt blockaded Gaza in 2006-7, cutting it off from the world, Israel has seen reason to hope that the story of 1948 would remain hidden, too… But many Gazans today not only remember 1948, but feel as if they are back in it’

Netanyahu told 1.1 million Palestinians they had 24 hours to evacuate. What is that if not ethnic...

‘I will not move. I will be killed in my house with my family,’ one mother told me. Look to history and the omens are grim, says author and former Middle East correspondent Sarah Helm

www.theguardian.com

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3 years

This tactic “is yet another reflection of the extent to which Israel has been emboldened by decades of impunity, despite its extensive and well-documented violations of international law.” Letter from British Palestinians to UK Foreign Secretary @trussliz #StandWithThe6

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“After al-Ahli was hit, and no one was held to account, the domino pieces began to fall rapidly. Hospitals were targeted one after the other. It became obvious that the attacks were systemic.” ⁦ @GhassanAbuSitt1 ⁩ advocating for accountability & justice

I spent 43 days in Gaza’s now-destroyed hospitals. My mind is still there.

Now thousands of miles away, I think of my patients in Gaza and wonder: Are they still alive?

www.aljazeera.com

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5 years

“I did not know what to be angry about. Is it my sister’s death? The humiliation at Erez? Or my struggle after the mastectomy?”

Medical Aid for Palestinians

@MedicalAidPal

5 years

"The fear of not getting therapy amplified my suffering” Hear from Noha, a Palestinian woman from #Gaza , about the many difficulties she has faced as a #BreastCancer patient.

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A heart-wrenching reminder from Gaza of the effects of the global north’s moral bankruptcy, as Britain, the US & other governments freeze funding to the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees - a day after the ICJ ruled Israel is plausibly committing genocide.

Raed Sadi

@shaksrx16

6 months

I feel like a nobody. I'm a Palestinian refugee, currently living in a tent in the middle of nowhere in Rafah City. We don't have any kind of human services or rights here. We're dying slowly from cold, hunger, frustration and disappointment. Wish I'd been bombed and killed. Ugh!

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3 years

A “total violation of privacy of an entire people.” Chilling insight into Israel’s surveillance regime, with soldiers competing in photographing Palestinians, including children and the elderly, and prizes for the most pictures collected by each unit.

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@AimeeShalan

5 years

Jeremy Hardy, always ready to challenge injustice with a perfect combination of mischievous wit, will be hugely missed at @MedicalAidPal

Mark Steel

@mrmarksteel

5 years

Here's something I never wanted to write, an obituary for dear Jeremy Hardy

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7 months

“We are tormented by the silence of the world… your charity and your words of shock after the genocide won’t make a difference… I want you to look in the mirror and ask where was I when Gaza was going through a genocide?” Rev. Dr Munther Isaac

AJ+

@ajplus

7 months

A Christmas message from Bethlehem: “End the occupation.” Church leaders used their holiday sermons to call on the world’s Christians to stand in solidarity with the people of Gaza.

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Three rights groups file ICC lawsuit against Israel over Gaza ‘genocide’ | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera

ICC receives lawsuit over Israel’s ‘apartheid’, ‘genocide’ in Gaza

The lawsuit urges the ICC to include ‘genocide’ in Gaza war crimes probe and issue arrest warrants for Israel’s leaders.

www.aljazeera.com

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@AimeeShalan

6 years

The Ministry of Health has reported a paramedic rescuing the injured has been killed in the East by Israeli forces. Local news are reporting 25 people now killed.

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@AimeeShalan

10 months

The dehumanisation of Palestinians is relentless, but 150k people turned out in London yesterday because they understand the core injustice at the heart of this latest chapter of Israel’s unceasing campaign of dispossession and apartheid against the Palestinian people.

Zac Goldsmith

@ZacGoldsmith

10 months

London today, vast numbers of people in this crowd are there to celebrate murderous depravity & to incite the eradication of Jews from Israel. And people (pretend to) wonder why Jewish people want a home of their own.

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10 months

“The dehumanising language spilling out of Israel and from some of its supporters abroad is of a type heard at other times and places that helped create a climate in which terrible crimes take place.”

The language being used to describe Palestinians is genocidal | Chris McGreal

I covered the Rwandan genocide as a reporter. The language spilling out of Israel after the butchery of the Hamas attacks is eerily familiar, says Guardian US writer Chris McGreal

www.theguardian.com

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@AimeeShalan

6 years

Over £1 million in just a few days. The stupendous generosity of so many people really lifts the spirits at an otherwise heartbreaking time.

Rohan Talbot

@rohantalbot

6 years

@MedicalAidPal YOU DID IT! Thanks to 40,000 people, @MedicalAidPal has now raised £1 MILLION to support its #Gaza emergency response work. Thank you so much to all who have been so generous in helping us raise these vital funds.

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10 months

I was interviewed this morning on Sky about the current situation..

British Palestinian Committee

@BritPalCommitt

10 months

"International conventions must apply to everyone... What we have seen is a war against Palestinians by Israel for 75 yrs... the constant colonisation of Palestinian land, dispossession of Palestinians & closing down of their rights to freedom & dignity. That is the core point."

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6 years

The work of MAP’s community midwives in the Palestinian refugee camps of Lebanon is more essential today than ever

Medical Aid for Palestinians

@MedicalAidPal

6 years

For the past ten years, MAP’s community #midwives in Lebanon have helped to enhance the care offered to pregnant Palestinian women and their new-born babies. Learn more: #midwifery

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3 years

If you can, please make a donation. You will help save lives and let Palestinians know there are people in the world who believe in their right to live in health and dignity.

Medical Aid for Palestinians

@MedicalAidPal

3 years

An emergency update message from @MedicalAidPal CEO @aimshalan on the ongoing violence in #Gaza and the #WestBank and our response at this critical time. Please donate to support our essential medical response:

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The statement by a group of PEN America current and former staffers speaks volumes: “We would have liked to send this statement under our names in order to more clearly stand with these writers, but we fear retaliation & for some of us that would have very serious consequences.”

Palestine Festival of Literature

@PalFest

3 months

PEN America's silence on the genocide in Palestine caused so many authors to reject the organisation that its Literary Awards ceremony has been cancelled. The largest prize, the Jean Stein award, will be given to the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund at the instruction of her

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4 years

The UK government and the entire international community must be resolute in opposing the annexation agenda of the Israeli government and in supporting Palestinians’ right to health and well-being, as well as to the most basic principles of international law.

Medical Aid for Palestinians

@MedicalAidPal

4 years

MAP decries the Israeli government’s intended annexation of significant parts of the occupied West Bank, for the intensified widespread and severe violations of Palestinians’ right to health and well-being which it will cause. Read more:

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4 years

Very proud of all the @MedicalAidPal team for responding so swiftly in such difficult conditions. What wonderful colleagues to work with.

Medical Aid for Palestinians

@MedicalAidPal

4 years

Confirmation of 1st 2 cases of #coronavirus in #Gaza marks a terrifying moment we hoped would never come. We must do all we can now to prevent further spread of disease, & avoid the nightmare scenario of Gaza’s health system becoming totally overwhelmed

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V. basic gaps in @guardian ’s report. Over 170 Palestinians already killed this yr, including 26 children, due to Israel’s violent collective punishment, its military assault is on a densely populated refugee camp, & why such effort not to say ‘occupation’?

Israel attacks Jenin in biggest West Bank incursion in 20 years

At least eight Palestinians killed and dozens injured as major Israeli offensive targets city of Jenin

www.theguardian.com

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9 months

I am so sorry Ahmed. My thoughts are with you. No words are adequate amidst this horrific onslaught

Ahmed Alnaouq

@AlnaouqA

9 months

My beloved father, my brothers, my sisters, their entire children have just ascended to heaven. Israel targeted our home leaving around 30 of my family killed. No injuries.

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I was interviewed about #Gaza by @adamfleming on BBC Newscast yesterday evening

British Palestinian Committee

@BritPalCommitt

10 months

"It's very clear that the UK Gov & other international actors are now active partners in crimes that Israel is committing & that they bear responsibility for getting us to this point." - Our Chair, Dr Aimee Shalan speaking on BBC Newscast on #Gaza (16:48)

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The Ministry of Health in Gaza is urging Egypt to support Gaza's hospitals with drugs, emergency medical disposables and dispatch medical teams specialized in vascular surgery, orthopaedics, anaesthesia and intensive care.

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6 years

Thoughts with colleagues & friends in Gaza as massive Israeli air strikes reported on what is 4th anniversary of destruction of Shuja’iyya

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3 years

@PalestineRCS facing major challenges in occupied East Jerusalem: prevented by Israeli forces from accessing the injured. Ambulances stopped, delayed, targeted with gas, sewage water and rubber bullets. Attacks on Palestinian healthcare have become a regular feature in the oPt

PRCS

@PalestineRCS

3 years

Targeting PalestineRCS medical teams continues in #Jerusalem #Am_not_atarget .

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5 years

Thinking of our colleagues and so many families in Gaza, fearing what the night will bring

Medical Aid for Palestinians

@MedicalAidPal

5 years

As one of Gaza’s first responders, MAP is ready to support hospitals as the security situation continues to deteriorate this evening, with airstrikes across the Strip. According to the Ministry of Health, 7 Palestinians have been killed & at least 45 injured since this morning

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2 months

“We built these universities from tents. And from tents, with the support of our friends, we will rebuild them once again.”

Al Jazeera English

@AJEnglish

2 months

Open letter by Gaza academics and university administrators to the world— #AJOpinion by Gaza Academics and Administrators. 🔗:

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Seriously? The UK green lit Israel’s genocidal assault, providing strong diplomatic & military support and consistently refusing to call for a ceasefire. @RishiSunak even said Israel’s evacuation order to displace over a million people from the north was “absolutely right”.

UK at the UN 🇬🇧🇺🇳

@UKUN_NewYork

7 months

The scale of suffering and displacement of innocent Palestinian civilians in Gaza remains shocking. It is reported that 4 in 10 of those killed in Gaza so far have been children - close to 8,500 dead. Many more will die if we do not act to stop this humanitarian catastrophe.

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“The UK government must ‘take urgent steps’ to ensure it complies with its obligations under the Geneva conventions not to encourage, aid or assist violations of international humanitarian law by other states.”

British lawyers call on government to press for ceasefire in Gaza

Exclusive: Signatories to open letter also urge ministers to stop sales of arms that could be used in violation of international law

www.theguardian.com

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