Elizabeth O'Shaughnessy 🇵🇸

[Richard Boyd Barrett @RBoydBarrett]

Just left prison visit in Ulm Germany with Daniel Tatlow Devalley.. Shocked at the inhumane conditions. Locked-up 23 hours a day alone for 10 months, treated as a dangerous criminal for protesting against the export of weapons to Israel's genocide in Gaza. Brutal and inhumane.

[Irish Sport for Palestine @Sport4Palestine]

Today is the 10 year anniversary of Israel's murder of the 4 Bakr boys, cousins Ahed (9), Zakaria (10), Mohammed (11) & Ismail Bakr (9) as they played football on a beach in Gaza City. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a n-anamacha. #stopthegame @FAIreland

[Tamer Nahed @Tamer_Alnoaizy]

I don’t know if the world still cares about what I have to say, but I want to speak about one of the harshest realities we in Gaza are living through today: the struggle to leave.

Thousands of patients, wounded people, students, and others with urgent humanitarian needs are waiting for a chance to leave, while only about 20 people are allowed to leave through the Rafah crossing in each group. Imagine the humiliation of waiting while your life depends on being allowed to travel.

Thousands urgently need medical treatment, including cancer patients, kidney patients, and people with severe injuries, yet they remain trapped because the care they need is unavailable in Gaza.

With every passing day, more patients’ conditions worsen, and some lose their lives before they ever get the chance to receive treatment. One of my friends has been seriously injured for nearly three months and is still waiting for permission to leave for medical care. Every day that passes increases the risk that he will lose his leg or even his life.

Patients are not the only ones paying the price. Students who earned scholarships abroad have been prevented from continuing their education because they cannot leave Gaza. Years of hard work have come to a halt at a closed crossing.

We are living inside a prison. Even when your only chance of survival is outside Gaza, you cannot reach it. You cannot save yourself or your family. How much humiliation must a person endure just to be given the chance to try to survive?

[Hanan Ashrawi @DrHananAshrawi]

If you render your victim invisible you don’t have to face the reality or consequences of your crimes.
That’s how it has been since 1948.

[Cllr. John Burtchaell- Solidarity @BurtchaellJohn]

The Irish state doesn't regulate big capital. Its role is to facilitate & enable capital's profiteering. From the banks to the vulture funds, from the datacenters to the social media giants, well connected & renumerated officials can be found greasing the wheels of exploitation.

[Omar Hamad | عُـمَـرْ 𓂆 @OmarHamadD]

Instead of carrying bags of fruit and chocolates back to our children after a long day of work, we carried the remains of this father and returned with them to his home so his children could say goodbye.

I want you to imagine that you didn't find your father's body, but instead found some scattered flesh, gathered it, placed it in a plastic bag, and buried it. Can you imagine the magnitude of the pain we are going through?!

Fuck Israel, as many times as the breaths of all humanity.

[Tamer Nahed @Tamer_Alnoaizy]

I am writing these words to you from inside Gaza City, and I say this with complete honesty: the situation has become extremely dangerous, perhaps worse than ever before.

Temperatures continue to rise, and the tents have turned into real ovens. More than 170,000 tents across Gaza City are sheltering thousands of families in conditions that are impossible to describe. Inside these tents, temperatures exceed 50°C (122°F). There is no electricity, no fans, no air conditioning, and none of the basic necessities needed to survive.

The tents are packed tightly together, with almost no space between them. Many families are forced to leave their tents and sit in the streets because remaining inside has become unbearable.

Water is desperately scarce, and the extreme heat is making thirst even more severe. And this is only the beginning of summer. Every day, I see the effects of the intense heat on children’s bodies heat rashes, exhaustion, and suffering while insects emerging from the ground make life even harder.

The coming days could be even more devastating if these conditions continue. The tents are no longer places of shelter; they have become another source of danger.

Please don’t let these families be forgotten. Speak about them. Write about them. Share their stories with others. Keep their voices alive and let the world know what is happening. Behind every tent is a family struggling to survive.

They need to be seen, they need to be heard, and they need your solidarity.

[Tamer Nahed @Tamer_Alnoaizy]

There is something heartbreaking that I notice every day while distributing water to different camps across Gaza. Each time, I expect to see men gathering to fill water containers, but the reality is completely different. Most of the people standing in line are children, women, and the elderly.

Young children, some no older than ten years old, struggle to carry heavy water jugs that seem far too large for their small bodies. Women walk long distances under the scorching sun, carrying burdens that are difficult even for many adults. And the elderly stand alone, exhausted and worn out, waiting patiently for their turn.

Today, I asked one of the camp leaders about the reason behind what I keep seeing every day. His answer was enough to break my heart. He told me, “Many of these children have lost their fathers in the war, and there is no one left to carry these burdens for them. These women are widows whose husbands were killed, so they are now forced to take on every responsibility alone. As for the elderly, many have lost their sons or been separated from their families, leaving them with no choice but to rely on themselves.”

Since that conversation, I have looked at these faces differently. I no longer see people simply collecting water I see stories of loss, grief, and resilience. I see a child whose childhood was stolen far too soon, a woman carrying the weight of an entire family on her shoulders, and an elderly person struggling against both age and sorrow.

Sometimes it feels as though what we are enduring here is beyond what any human being should have to bear. Years of loss, deprivation, and fear, yet people continue to fight for survival day after day. But one question never leaves my mind: How much longer will our children be forced to carry burdens heavier than their own childhoods? And how much longer will this harsh reality be the only life people here know?

[Andrey X @the_andrey_x]

Project Crimson Thread is about to seal the fate of the Jordan Valley, cutting it off from the rest of the West Bank.

This may be the most important development happening in the region right now, and it is flying completely under the radar.

[Tamer Nahed @Tamer_Alnoaizy]

Honestly, I don’t know how to describe what I lived through today. Even though I have been living in Gaza and documenting what is happening since the beginning of the war, what I witnessed today was one of the most shocking and painful scenes of my entire life.

A group of families living in a very remote camp, almost directly beside the Israeli sand berms, contacted us. They told us they had not received water for a long time. At first, we hesitated because reaching the area with a water truck meant entering an extremely dangerous zone. In the end, we decided to try.

Throughout the journey, I saw destruction and rubble everywhere, but the scene that awaited us near the camp was unlike anything else. Directly in front of us were the sand berms and Israeli cranes, surrounded by a landscape of devastation where little remained except tents and ruins.

When the water truck was still about a kilometer away, people began shouting and running toward it. Women, children, and elderly people carried empty water containers and ran with all the strength they had, terrified that the water would run out before their turn came.

The moment the truck stopped, large numbers of people emerged from among the rubble and damaged tents. They were not looking for food, shelter, or anything else. They were looking for water. Just water.

This time we distributed 6,000 liters of clean water, more than we had distributed before, but even that was not enough. Many people remained waiting, and some left without receiving enough water for their families.

As we distributed the water and documented what was happening, fear never left us for a single moment. Yet what I felt in the face of such immense suffering was greater than fear itself.

Today I witnessed a level of thirst I never imagined I would see. I saw mothers running after a water truck, and children clutching empty containers as if they were holding on to their last hope.

I thought I had already seen everything during this war, but what I witnessed today made me realize that the humanitarian catastrophe is far greater than what the world sees on television screens. This is not simply a shortage of services or difficult living conditions. It is a daily struggle for the most basic necessities of survival.

We are facing a real humanitarian disaster that grows worse with each passing day, while thousands of families wake up every morning searching for one thing only: water.

[Philip Proudfoot @PhilipProudfoot]

Starmer calling Corbyn's Labour morally bankrupt in his resignation speech — from a man who defended collective punishment in Gaza, fed intelligence to Israeli génocidaires, and had activists trying to stop it arrested as terrorists. Not a decent man. An indecent sociopath.

[Zoe Gardner @ZoeJardiniere]

Setting fire to houses with families inside them: legitimate concerns

Criminal damage to an arms company supplying a genocide: terrorism

[Des Topia @LeftistDad]

On the Six One News Minister McEntee spoke about being horrified at the treatment of Irish citizens and called for sanctions on Israel.
Two hours later she voted against sanctions on Israel.
Enough said.

[Niall Sargent 🕵️ @Niall_Sargent]

REVEALED: It took 18 months, and multiple FOI battles, but we can now reveal Ireland approved €20 million in military-capable dual-use exports to the IDF and Israeli Ministry of Defense during the height of its military assault on Gaza in 2024.

https://t.co/2AuwzQsKKX

[Réada Cronin TD 🇮🇪🇵🇸 @ReadaCronin]

END TRADE WITH ISRAEL

The European Left Alliance have launched an EU Citizens Initiative calling for suspension of the EU Israel Association Agreement.
https://t.co/rmP4Ii6Fzp . Sign it and share it! https://t.co/k65LrxnyyC

[Janine di Giovanni @janinedigi]

So much has been erased in #Gaza—lives, schools, libraries, and years of careful, intellectual work.

These are the biographies of 82 Gazan scholars whose lives, and whose contributions to knowledge, were brutally cut short when they were killed by the IDF, simply for existing.

https://t.co/tMN7oGSHmS

[Israel Exposed @xIsraelExposedx]

On the evening of October 29, 1956, the IDF executed nineteen men, six women, and twenty-three children who were returning from their work in the nearby fields for violating a curfew they were never notified of. The IDF then forced other villagers to dig graves for their relatives under the cover of night, and placed a seven week gag order on any press who might have reported on it.

The southern Triangle villages had been under a 10 pm daily curfew until the morning of the 29th, when Colonel Yisskhar Shadmi requested a last-minute change to a 5 pm curfew. When giving the instructions for this change, he instructed border patrol commanders to “shoot to kill” anyone found outside after 5 pm. The new curfew was only communicated to Kafr Qasim’s mukhtar at 4:30 pm. Thirty minutes proved not enough time to notify all of the village’s workers, who were yet in the groves, fields, and quarries beyond the village. It was not long before the shooting began.
As the villagers returned home after their day’s work, they were met by the border police stationed on the road. A survivor from the first encounter, Abd Allah Samir Bdeir, reports that the guards ordered the workers to stand on the road before giving the execution order. The guards reportedly then checked over the wounded men, women, and children to ensure all were dead.

By 7 pm, the border police had killed nineteen men, six women, and twenty-three children. Later that night, the army forced several residents of a nearby village to begin digging. They would not know until later that they were digging the graves of their neighbors.

It was called the Kafr Qasim massacre

[Greta Berlin @Truegreta]

Copied from a friend’s page:

A serious and deeply shocking UN report, jointly prepared by five prominent international organizations (intergovernmental organizations) in cooperation with three Israeli NGOs, is facing pressure, particularly from the US and the West, to prevent its release. Among the most prominent points in this "prisoner report" are:

1. 112 cases of rape were documented within Israeli prisons against female prisoners from Gaza. Three of these cases involved virgins, and the rapes were gang-raped. One of these women was transferred under international supervision to a secret location and is now pregnant.

2. Israeli forces executed 87 Gazan detainees inside their prisons by shooting them directly in the head with pistols and dumped their bodies in various areas of Gaza's streets.

3. Torture in the prisons is barbaric and insane, and what is happening is more horrific than what occurred in Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, and the secret prisons.

4. (Israel) deliberately bombed, as part of a chain of command, families and children belonging to Palestinian organizations. The occupation army approved, from the second day, a plan to exterminate the families of activists, and the target bank includes 150,000 civilians.

5. (Israel) made excessive use of mercenaries and contracted with 22 military service companies. There is an American ship that is essentially a floating morgue containing 1,327 bodies of mercenaries whose families have not yet been notified of their deaths.

6. The amount of gold and money stolen, according to secret army estimates, is approximately $370 million.

7. (70%) of the bombs dropped on Gaza were filled with depleted uranium. The soil in the Gaza Strip is heavily contaminated with uranium elements, containing 60% of the radioactivity of natural uranium. Uranium consists of three isotopes: uranium-234, uranium-235, and uranium-238. The depleted uranium dropped on Gaza contains the same types of radiation as natural uranium, but in lower quantities. The radiation emitted by depleted uranium is 40% of that emitted by natural uranium. Uranium-238, which constitutes 99.8% of the depleted uranium, emits alpha particles. Its half-life in Gaza is approximately 450 years. The smoke from the depleted uranium explosions caused cancer in the lungs of everyone who inhaled it.

8. (90%) of women and children in Gaza suffer from severe psychological trauma, and medical centers in the Strip have recorded more than 5,000 cases of complete mental breakdown, mostly among women who lost their children.

9. Approximately 213 (Israeli) pilots refused to carry out airstrikes on targets containing dozens of people. One pilot testified before an Israeli organization that he refused to bomb a residential tower in Tel al-Hawa where 48 children were located, as detected by thermal imaging aircraft. However, another pilot carried out the bombing 17 minutes later, killing everyone in the building. The result was the deaths of 128 civilians.

10. The purpose of establishing a temporary port is to facilitate the mass transfer of Palestinians and their passage to Europe. Three European countries are fully complicit in an agreed-upon plan to depopulate the Gaza Strip.

11. The Zionist war cabinet approved the use of starvation as a weapon in late November.

12. Israeli intelligence agencies made over 3 million phone calls to Gaza residents, threatening to bomb homes and kill families if they did not obtain field information.

13. Two Arab countries offered South Africa very tempting financial incentives in exchange for withdrawing the case from the Supreme Court.

14. The airdropping of aid to Gaza by Western aircraft was carried out based on advice from legal advisors to avoid accusations of complicity in genocide, especially since the weapons supplied were delivered without restrictions on their use against civilians.

[John Brady TD @johnbradysf]

I’ve written to the Minister urging immediate action to ensure the State purchases a major landholding in the Wicklow Mountains, including the summit of Lugnaquilla, ahead of its auction on May 1st.

At €2 million, down from €7 million, this is a rare opportunity we cannot afford to miss.

There is already strong international interest in the land. It would be unacceptable for such a treasured and iconic landscape to fall into private ownership.

This land should be protected for the public, not sold to the highest bidder.

Time is short, and action is needed now. The right decision is clear, this belongs in public ownership.

I’ve also launched a petition so people can show their support.

https://t.co/P6QXwwtH9e

[Salam animal care @RescueCare]

We refuse to die, tell them we will stay here 🇵🇸🫂❤️‍🩹