Yamina Boukari

Migrant health researcher @ University of Oxford | Views my own

[Husam Zomlot @hzomlot]

To world politicians who still claim to have “shared values” with Israel: @pchrgaza published the testimony of a Palestinian woman raped for days by Israeli soldiers who mocked her pain.

Now, Israelis cheer soldiers filmed raping a detainee — while Israel jails the whistleblower, not the rapist.

Silence is complicity.

#Palestine #HumanRights #Gaza

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

No comment needed.

All eyes on Gaza, on Palestine.

The human family cannot abandon the Palestinian people to the criminal enterprise that controls their lives and destiny.

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

Israeli president Isaac Herzog incited genocide against Palestinians.

His public imposition of collective guilt on the Palestinian people was repeated by Israeli soldiers as they rampaged in Gaza.

His visit to London is a disgrace. He should be arrested

https://t.co/SelO5tFBtV

[PACBI - BDS movement @PACBI]

"A boycott is in place until further notice."

Utrecht University becomes first Western academic institution to announce an academic *boycott* of Israel, shattering a taboo.

This is the result of strategic, principled work by students & university staff.

https://t.co/CHTO1q8iP8

[Yamina Boukari @BoukariYamina]

@GlobalSocMERH : You cannot claim to care about health equity while having a Vice President of your board of trustees who was involved with a genocidal army and an illegal occupation.

Take a moral stand, or stain your legacy forever!

@HCWforPalestine @docstopgenocide

[Yamina Boukari @BoukariYamina]

BREAKING: Prof Nadav Davidovitch, with previous ties to Israeli military and government committees will not attend the 2nd #gsmerh2025 Congress on Migration, Ethnicity, Race and Health in Lisbon - thanks to student mobilisation at @NOVAunl and ISCTE.

But this is not the end.

[Yamina Boukari @BoukariYamina]

Silence is complicity.

The World Congress of Migration, Ethnicity, Race & Health must act to remove Prof Davidovitch from the Board & Congress for his IDF ties & refusal to acknowledge occupation & genocide. Sign the Open Letter here: https://t.co/QoqzO3c1Mt

@docstopgenocide

[Yamina Boukari @BoukariYamina]

The upcoming World Congress on Migration, Ethnicity, Race & Health has a host with IDF ties. Despite concerns raised, the programme remains unchanged & organisers have not distanced from the occupation/genocide. Sign the open letter here: https://t.co/Y7f00w10m6

#gsmerh2025

[Amnesty International @amnesty]

Amnesty strongly condemns Israel’s deliberate killing of journalists in an air strike on a media tent in occupied Gaza City.

Anas al-Sharif and his colleagues have been the eyes and voices of Gaza. Starved and exhausted, they continued to bravely report from the frontlines, despite death threats and immense grief.

No conflict in modern history has seen a higher number of journalists killed than Israel’s genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

There must be an independent and impartial investigation into the killings of Palestinian journalists, with justice and full reparation for their families. States must urgently act to bring an end to Israel’s genocide now.

[B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم @btselem]

Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.

Israel is acting systematically and deliberately to destroy Palestinian society in the Gaza Strip.

The “Our Genocide” report is based on documentation and research by Palestinians and Jewish-Israelis working together out of a shared moral commitment to human rights.

Genocide is the violent and deliberate destruction of a distinct group in whole or in part, or an attempt to destroy it, whether physically, socially or economically. It does not require the mass killing of all members of the group, but rather refers to any act committed as part of an intention to destroy the society and render its continued existence impossible.

Israel is inflicting a system of total destruction in Gaza:

– Mass killing of civilians
– Forced displacement of millions
– Destruction of homes and infrastructure
– Starvation as a weapon
– Bombing of hospitals and clinics
– Erasure of schools, universities, and cultural institutions
– Collapse of every civil system that sustains life

This is not “collateral damage.” It is the deliberate dismantling of a society.

Genocide is not only about what is done – it is about why it is done.
In Gaza, destruction is not limited to military targets, it is directed at Palestinian life itself. Civilians are killed because they are Palestinians. Children are starved because they are Palestinian. Homes are flattened not to win a battle, but to ensure that there is no life to return to.

The genocide in Gaza cannot be understood in isolation. It builds on decades of occupation, apartheid, and the systematic dehumanization of Palestinians. Israel’s regime of Jewish supremacy laid the ideological and political groundwork for this moment, shifting from domination to erasure.

The horrific Hamas-led attack on October 7, 2023, accelerated a process already in motion and served as a catalytic moment in which the Israeli regime shifted from a system of violent control to overt genocide. The trauma suffered by Israeli society and fear it generated were instrumentalized by Israel’s extremist, far-right government to advance policies that key actors had long sought to implement. It provided the justification for every action undertaken by Israel in Gaza since. The language of vengeance and elimination became common in Israeli discourse, as explicitly declared by senior political and military officials.

The actions of the Israeli military in Gaza were not a deviation, but the direct and almost verbatim execution of those threats.

The same regime, commanders and army are also intensifying violence in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and within Israel. Across all of these areas, Palestinians face mounting violence, forced displacement and collective punishment. While the genocide is committed in Gaza, the appropriate trigger could cause it to spread rapidly to other areas controlled by Israel.

There is no mechanism in place to prevent Israel from harming Palestinians, who have been left with no protection.

This is genocide and it is happening now, in real time and in full view of the entire world. Genocide must be named, and everything must be done in order to stop it. There can be no justification or explanation for genocide.

Read the full report, “Our Genocide” >>
https://t.co/s6yp30kgmr

[Amnesty International @amnesty]

Dr. Abu Safiya has been arbitrarily detained for over 6 months by Israeli authorities. He has been subjected to abuse and other ill-treatment. Act now and call for his immediate and unconditional release.

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

For every politician and journalist who supported Israel's onslaught, or stayed silent:

This photograph should haunt you for the rest of your life.

You will never scrub the shame away. No future achievement, however great, will ever erase what you helped inflict on Gaza.

[Dr Fadel Naim @fnaim65]

More than 150 days of detention of Dr Husam Abusafia

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

I’ve seen the silhouettes of so many people—so many children—burning alive, that I can’t look at fire anymore without feeling sick to my stomach.

WE
MUST
STOP
THIS
MASSACRE.

May the Palestinians forgive us.

[Husam Zomlot @hzomlot]

A million Palestinians returning to their destroyed homes and towns in the north of #Gaza this morning is the crystal clear response to those who still plot to uproot us from our homeland. There is only one direction of travel ahead of the Palestinian people after a 100 years of forced displacement and oppression: liberation and return!

[Middle East Eye @MiddleEastEye]

"Every prisoner inside with you is your brother. They are all like you, imprisoned for their love of the homeland "

A father is seen lecturing his son before he enters prison after Israeli forces gave the child a one year sentence at the age of 14 for throwing stones.

The child Ayham was under house arrest in the 14 months prior before the new decision was made.

Hours before surrendering his son to prison, the father took Ayham on a final tour of Jerusalem, and to his favourite restaurant, to cherish their last moments together.

[MSF International @MSF]

On 10 November, Israeli authorities blocked, without explanation, the medical evacuation of eight children and their caretakers from Gaza who are in need of medical care, including a two-year-old with leg amputations, to the MSF hospital in Jordan. We strongly denounce this decision.

“It's utterly shocking and outrageous that children who need essential treatment are being blocked by Israel from leaving Gaza. Israel’s denial of urgent medical evacuations defies reason and humanity,” says Moeen Mahmood, MSF country director in Jordan.

In recent months, MSF applied for 32 children and caretakers to be medically evacuated from Gaza to Jordan. Only 6 were allowed to leave. Lengthy procedures and unexplained denials block the provision of medical treatment for children who have been severely injured in Gaza.

The healthcare system in Gaza has been dismantled, meaning those in need of specialised medical care have nowhere to go. According to WHO, there are at least 14,000 people in need of medical evacuation. Over 43,000 people have been killed in Gaza and 100,000 injured since 7 October 2023.

MSF calls on the Israeli authorities to ensure medical evacuations for Palestinians in need of medical care, including their caregivers, while ensuring that all patients and their caregivers are guaranteed a safe, voluntary and dignified return to Gaza.

[Yamina Boukari @BoukariYamina]

I've just started a 3-year fellowship at the Bennett Institute to explore migrants' health using GP data in OpenSAFELY. I'm looking to speak to GPs with an interest in migrant health including GPs in the RCGP health equity group.

Please get in contact if you're interested!

[Yamina Boukari @BoukariYamina]

Amidst the unacceptable and avoidable suffering of people in Gaza and Lebanon, please consider signing this open letter to the UK's PM calling for him to end arms sales to Israel and impose sanctions until a permanent ceasefire is in place.
https://t.co/gD17fC1WxF