Victoria Owens

Story & Script Editor

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Gary Lineker on Gaza, "It's the worst thing I have seen in my lifetime. Constant images day in, day out of children losing their lives."

"But the minute you raise your voice against it you get accused of being a supporter of Hamas."

[Martin Shaw @martinshawx]

Essential text by famine expert Alex de Waal on Israel’s starvation of Gazans.

[caitie delaney @caitiedelaney]

Imagine, knowing everything we know and seeing everything we’ve seen for the last year and a half, how bad this must be. Unfathomable

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

I'm embarrassed for the New York Times that they published this piece on Ms. Rachel, in which they cite a ridiculous anonymous righwing website Stopantisemitism while indulging the mad, mad claim she may be funded by Hamas (!).

This isn't journalism:
https://t.co/JBCT90UAgr

[Variety @Variety]

Joaquin Phoenix, Juliette Binoche, Riz Ahmed and Guillermo del Toro Among Additional Names to Sign Open Letter Condemning Industry Silence Over Gaza (EXCLUSIVE)
https://t.co/1t5dyKyErU

[AJ+ @ajplus]

“Fatma should have been with us tonight.”

Juliette Binoche used the Cannes stage to honor Fatma Hassona, a photojournalist in Gaza killed by Israel

[Axel Folio, PhD, White Tears Distiller 🪁 @ISASaxonists]

This important 🧵really drives home the point abt why fascist govts endorse AI. It's not abt making things easier or having things "at your finger tips." It's abt dumbing down populations & convincing ppl they don't need to think for themselves. Control & controlling narratives.

[Daniel Lambert @dlLambo]

Every single person should listen to this statement at the UN.

"I can tell you from having visited...death on this scale has a sound and a smell that does not leave you."

"Future generations will hold us to account, we should fear that judgement."

[Tom Fletcher @UNReliefChief]

So, for those killed and those whose voices are silenced: what more evidence do you need?

Will you act now – decisively – to prevent genocide in Gaza and to ensure respect for international humanitarian law?

This Council must prevail. Demand this ends.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

“Doubles down support for children”

[Ali Abunimah @AliAbunimah]

World’s worst kept secret makes it to front page of @nytimes

[Rami Ayari @Raminho]

There are some #UNSC briefings you can tell are going to be powerful as soon as they start. This was one of them. Consider this opening by @UNReliefChief: "Before starting, I ask you to reflect – for a moment – on what action we will tell future generations we each took to stop the 21st century atrocity to which we bear daily witness in #Gaza. It is a question we will hear, sometimes incredulous, sometimes furious – but always there – for the rest of our lives. We will surely all claim to have been against it? Maybe we will say we issued a statement? Or that we trusted that private pressure might work, despite so much evidence to the contrary Or pretend that we thought a more brutal military offensive had more chance of bringing hostages home than the negotiations which brought so many home? Maybe we will recall that in a transactional world we had other priorities. Or maybe we will use those empty words: 'We did all we could.' Mr. President, Let me start with what we see and are mandated by you to report. #Israel is deliberately and unashamedly imposing inhumane conditions on civilians in the Occupied Palestinian Territory."

[Screen International @Screendaily]

Exclusive: Harry Lighton’s Un Certain Regard title ‘Pillion’ starring Harry Melling and Alexander Skarsgård rides to France, major territories for Cornerstone https://t.co/TsCwsykxJW

[Bren Murphy @brenindublin]

I cut this promo, was in tears at some of the very happy and very sad cases this incredible place deals with... hence the "you may need tissues" tag.

[Charlene Lydon @charlenelydon]

Applications now open for Storyhouse Lab! We had so much fun doing this last year. Can't wait to meet this year's talented gang.

[Mark Kersten || @markkersten.bsky.social @MarkKersten]

New Lancet study finds the official Palestinian tally of direct deaths in the war in #Gaza has likely undercounted the number of casualties by 41%, with 59.1% of those killed being women, children and people over the age of 65. https://t.co/QrMz1VYyzW

[Rutger Bregman @rcbregman]

How Americans responded in 1955 when the invention of the polio vaccine was announced.

[Amnesty UK @AmnestyUK]

🕊️ 76 years ago the United Nations adopted the Genocide Convention - a treaty adopted in the aftermath of the horrors of the Holocaust to ensure such mass atrocities never happened again. Tragically, this has not been the reality, as we have seen around the world & now in Gaza.

[MSF International @MSF]

The announcement that women will be barred from studying in medical institutes in Afghanistan will have far-reaching consequences on women’s health in the country ⬇️

https://t.co/NmiZnXKJq5

[The author, Séamas O'Reilly @shockproofbeats]

Each year my wonderful pal Rachel arranges Christmas gifts for Ireland's unhoused children.

As of last week, there are 3,448 children in emergency accommodation in Ireland.

It's a tiny thing to bring joy to them. If you can at all, please donate.

https://t.co/kXGB1cMiiJ