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[Bassem Youssef @Byoussef]

I am posting this video again. All the lies Israel had spread . The world believed the lies about decapitated babies but turning a blind eye away from the actual footage of decapitated babies from Rafah . Share this video again and again . Remind them with the lies that allowed this to happen

[António Guterres @antonioguterres]

In speed & scale, the war in Gaza is the deadliest conflict in my time as Secretary-General – for civilians, aid workers, journalists & @UN colleagues.

Yet the toll on civilians continues to escalate.

Any assault on Rafah is unacceptable. It would inflict another surge of misery when we need a surge in life-saving aid.

[Husam Zomlot @hzomlot]

A lifeline to refugees in Gaza, West Bank and the wider region was cut because of Israel’s politically motivated allegations. Countries that suspended aid to @UNRWA must learn the lessons and resume funding immediately.

UNRWA has robust neutrality steps, Israel yet to back up claims, review says https://t.co/LbiyyiSOeA

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

The aid workers “lost their lives” did they?

How did they manage that, sounds really careless?

Leave them lying around with their keys or something? Easily done!

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

There is no overstating just how absolutely insane this is. There is no precedent - NONE - of a state deliberately bombing an embassy. It didn't even happen during WW1, WW2 or even the 19th century. Heck even during the medieval era and Roman empire, the protection of envoys and messengers - even from enemy states - was a recognized norm.

The only other historical instance was NATO bombing the Chinese embassy in Belgrade in 1999, killing 3 Chinese journalists, but the U.S. profusely apologized, Bill Clinton publicly said it was a mistake (something China still doesn't believe to this day), compensated the families and paid to rebuild the embassy. All this highlighting how profound a taboo this is in international relations.

Israel now doing this - and it obviously isn't a mistake - shows just how rogue and unhinged it has become as a state. It's literally become beyond the pale on a scale that goes back centuries, even millennia.

If the world doesn't forcefully respond to this, it undermines the very core of international relations: the sanctity of diplomacy. And if that's the case, we're literally entering a world we've never known.

[Gary Lineker @GaryLineker]

Awful.

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

Gaza starved & a convoy of international aid workers killed, incl 3 British citizens.

Al-Shifa hospital destroyed & doctors executed.

32,000+ people slaughtered & a "plausible" case of genocide at the ICJ.

What will it take for our government to act & ban arms sales to Israel?

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Scotland's Hate Crime Act comes into effect today. Women gain no additional protections, of course, but well-known trans activist Beth Douglas, darling of prominent Scottish politicians, falls within a protected category. Phew! 1/11

[Democracy Now! @democracynow]

In Gaza, "every person, the first thing they want to tell me in English or Arabic is 'We need food,’" says @UNICEF spokesperson @1james_elder. "They are saying that because their assumption is the world doesn’t know, because how would this be allowed to happen if the world knew?"

[Brianna Keilar @brikeilarcnn]

It’s hard to comprehend the deaths of 12,800 children. We put up figures of children on our studio walls - one for each child killed in Gaza during the war.

They’re dying from airstrikes and now malnutrition and dehydration.

These are some of their stories.

[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

BREAKING: Rishi Sunak attacks democracy to protect genocide.

“What protesters are doing over Gaza is part of the rich British democratic heritage.

The real mob rule and attack on democracy does not come from pro-Palestine protesters.

It comes from Rishi Sunak’s Government"

[Yuval Abraham יובל אברהם @yuval_abraham]

A right-wing Israeli mob came to my family’s home yesterday to search for me, threatening close family members who fled to another town in the middle of the night. I am still getting death threats and had to cancel my flight home. This happened after Israeli media and German politicians absurdly labeled my Berlinale award speech - where I called for equality between Israelis and Palestinians, a ceasefire and an end to apartheid - as ‘antisemitic’. The appalling misuse of this word by Germans, not only to silence Palestinian critics of Israel, but also to silence Israelis like me who support a ceasefire that will end the killing in Gaza and allow the release of the Israeli hostages - empties the word antisemitism of meaning and thus endangers Jews all over the world. As my grandmother was born in a concentration camp in Libya and most of my grandfather’s family was murdered by Germans in the holocaust, I find it particularly outraging that German politicians in 2024 have the audacity to weaponize this term against me in a way that endangered my family. But above all else, this behavior puts Palestinian co-director Basel Adra’s life in danger, who lives under a military occupation surrounded by violent settlements in Masafer Yatta. He is in far greater danger than I am. I’m happy our award winning film, No Other Land, is sparking an important international debate on this issue - and I hope that millions of people watch it when it comes out this year. Sparking a conversation is why we made it. You can have harsh criticism of what me and Basel said on stage without demonizing us. If this is what you’re doing with your guilt for the holocaust - I don’t want your guilt.

[Yuval Abraham יובל אברהם @yuval_abraham]

Our film “No Other Land” on occupied Masafer Yatta’s brutal expulsion won best documentary in Berlinale. Israel’s channel 11 aired this 30 second segment from my speech, insanely called it “anti semitic” - and I’ve been receiving death threats since. I stand behind every word.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Andy Burnham, "If the they - they have got control - if that was related to Jewish people that would straight away be called out as anti-semitism. But there's a double standard here, the Conservative party don't call it out (when it refers to British Muslims)"

"There are people in the Conservative party who are itching for that existential debate about it's future.. That's why Liz Truss was out at that really appalling gathering"

"You've got a former Prime Minister Liz Truss making dangerous statements. You've got extreme statements coming from the former Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party Lee Anderson"

"You cannot have a government with senior figures behaving in this way, with the impact that can have on our streets" @AndyBurnhamGM

[Censored Men @CensoredMen]

🇵🇸🇮🇱 People really need to understand the evil, apartheid nature of Israel.

Some roads are literally for Israelis only!

Israeli soldiers make this old woman take a long detour purely due to her genetics.

Israel is a racist, apartheid terrorist state.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

“How Joe Biden Became America’s Top Israel Hawk”

This investigation from ⁦@MotherJones⁩ is your damning, depressing, and #mustread piece of the day. Filled with important revelations, facts, and testimony: https://t.co/jP1LW7u77T

[Izzy @IrrumAli]

The BBC are disgusting. The manner in which they dehumanise Palestinians and are so dismissive of their guests.

Well done @DrHananAshrawi for schooling them.

[António Guterres @antonioguterres]

136 of our colleagues in Gaza have been killed in 75 days – something we have never seen in @UN history.

Most of our staff have been forced from their homes.

I pay tribute to them & the thousands of aid workers risking their lives as they support civilians in Gaza.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

👏🏽👏🏽

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

The genocidal language of Israeli leaders has been brutally exposed by courageous Israeli peace activists.

Don't look away.