@ZiaYusufUK The UK has around 28.6 million households. The 341K being talked about is barely over 1% of that , not even close to something that defines the system.
Even taking the claim at face value, a third of 341K is about 113K households, that’s well under 0.5% of all UK households.
Hind Rajabs words on a mobile phone as Israel was murdering her.
‘“I’m not talking because every time I talk blood comes out of my mouth & makes my clothes dirty and I don’t want my mom to have to clean it.”
“When I entered Gaza the Israeli military had a rule: I was only allowed to bring in three kilos of food. As I was weighing out protein bars, trying to get under the limit, I said to my husband: ‘How sinister is this?’ I’m a humanitarian aid worker. Why would there even be a limit on food? I’ve worked in many places with extreme hunger, but what’s so jarring in this context is how cruel it is, how deliberate. I was in Gaza for two months; there’s no way to describe the horror of what’s happening. And I say this as a pediatric ICU doctor who sees children die as part of my work. Among our own staff we have doctors and nurses who are trying to treat patients while hungry, exhausted. They’re living in tents. Some of them have lost fifteen, twenty members of their families. In the hospital there are kids maimed by airstrikes: missing arms, missing legs, third degree burns. Often there’s not enough pain medication. But the children are not screaming about the pain, they’re screaming: ‘I’m hungry! I’m hungry!” I hate to only focus on the kids, because nobody should be starving. But the kids, it just haunts you in a different way. When my two months were finished, I didn’t want to leave. It’s a feeling I haven’t experienced in nearly twenty years of humanitarian assignments. But I felt ashamed. Ashamed to leave my Palestinian colleagues, who were some of the most beautiful and compassionate people that I’ve ever met. I was ashamed as an American, as a human being, that we’ve been unable to stop something that is so clearly a genocide. I remember when our bus pulled out of the buffer zone. Out the window on one side I could see Rafah, which was nothing but rubble. On the other side was lush, green Israel. When we exited the gate, the first thing I saw was a group of Israeli soldiers, sitting at a table, eating lunch. I’ve never felt so nauseous seeing a table full of food.”
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Aqsa Durrani is a pediatric doctor and board member of Doctors Without Borders USA, with nearly twenty years of experience in humanitarian projects. During our interview Aqsa repeatedly expressed a desire to center the voices of her Palestinian colleagues. To this end I’ve spent the past week collecting stories from the Palestinian staff of Doctors Without Borders in Gaza. I will be sharing these stories over the next several days. I’m so grateful for the time that these people gave me; they were sleepless, hungry, traumatized, and often working 24-hour shifts. Because of the unreliable internet connection their images are sometimes grainy. Their words, however, will be crystal clear.
When Western officials come to us, they lecture us on the importance of children's rights, yet this is how their "only civilized" ally in the Middle East treats children in Gaza.
Humanitarian Appeal
Ameen Attallah, 10 years old, suffers from partial paralysis on his left side.
His family is appealing for help to enable him to travel for treatment.
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Mother of Ameen
4-year-old Mira Ahmed has suffered a critical head injury after being hit by shrapnel. She sustained a skull fracture, partial paralysis, loss of speech, and went into severe shock. Gaza.
Stay safe, my friends. I am painfully aware of the risks you are taking on behalf of all of us—of Humanity.
Diplomats & politicians around the world: The Flotilla Giants are taking the heavy lift. PLEASE make sure they are protected, will you? This is the least you can do.
Ms Rachel will not be stopped.
“Be so ashamed of your anti-Palestinian racism… We need everyone to say something. It’s never been wrong to say not to starve children and not to bomb children, and not to kill 15,000 children. What’s wrong is to be silent.”
Palestinian Ambassador to the United Nations, Riyad Mansour, broke down in tears during his address to the UN Security Council on Wednesday, May 28, as he recounted the tragic case of Dr Alaa al-Najjar, the Palestinian doctor who lost nine of her 10 children after they arrived at the hospital where she worked
If an 11-year-old Israeli influencer—a girl who delivered food and toys to displaced children—had been killed, the Empire State Building would be lit up for her. Her face would be on the homepage of every US news outlet. Her name would be on the tongue of every US politician.
NEW: Gaza’s "youngest influencer" killed in an Israeli airstrike, according to The Guardian.
The home of 11-year-old Yaqeen Hammad was reportedly hit by heavy airstrikes in central Gaza (Guardian).
Hammad's body was reportedly found under rubble.
Hammad was known for sharing survival tips on her Instagram page as well as distributing supplies to other children.
RIP.
Never forget: Israel deliberately murdered the Gaza farmer Yousef Abu Rabie in an airstrike as part of its program of imposing famine on Gaza
It targeted everyone who attempted to protect aid convoys, distribute aid or feed the population outside its genocidal control
Starvation, pollution, rubble, unsanitary tents, mosquitoes, germs, bacteria and continuous Israeli bombing!
Lack of food, medicine and medical treatment!