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Congratulations to Catherine Connolly, the next President of Ireland.
Catherine will be a voice for peace, social justice and a united Ireland.
This is a landslide victory for humanity and for hope!
This is Hossamās team, and we are sharing his final message :
āIf youāre reading this, it means I have been killedāmost likely targetedāby the Israeli occupation forces. When this all began, I was only 21 years oldāa college student with dreams like anyone else. For past 18 months, I have dedicated every moment of my life to my people. I documented the horrors in northern Gaza minute by minute, determined to show the world the truth they tried to bury. I slept on pavements, in schools, in tentsāanywhere I could. Each day was a battle for survival. I endured hunger for months, yet I never left my peopleās side.
By God, I fulfilled my duty as a journalist. I risked everything to report the truth, and now, I am finally at restāsomething I havenāt known in the past 18 months . I did all this because I believe in the Palestinian cause. I believe this land is ours, and it has been the highest honor of my life to die defending it and serving its people.
I ask you now: do not stop speaking about Gaza. Do not let the world look away. Keep fighting, keep telling our storiesāuntil Palestine is free.ā
ā For the last time, Hossam Shabat, from northern Gaza.
There is video evidence that this isn't true.
I had just left the stage with Jeremy and John with them slightly ahead when we arrived at Trafalgar Square.
Solidarity with @jeremycorbyn, @johnmcdonnellMP and everyone being smeared with lies.
https://t.co/Do4HVuYPB2
This is not an accurate description of events at all.
I was part of a delegation of speakers, who wished to peacefully carry and lay flowers in memory of children in Gaza who had been killed.
This was facilitated by the police. We did not force our way through.
When we reached Trafalgar Square, we informed police that we would go no further, lay down flowers and disperse.
At that point, the Chief Steward, Chris Nineham was arrested. We then turned back and dispersed.
I urge the police to release all bodycam footage and retract its misleading account of events.
"Forced through."
I was in this group of people carrying flowers - and the police had stepped aside to let us through.
For the police to say that a group had "forced it's way through" is simply inaccurate & seeks to stoke division from a peaceful protest.
Israel has killed over 60,000 people, destroyed or damaged 66% of all buildings in Gaza, and created the largest number of amputee children in modern history.
David Lammy said he's unable to determine whether Israel is acting disproportionately in Gaza.
Complicity in genocideš
The last photo of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, detained after refusing to abandon his colleagues and patients.
In just one image, we see both the power of Palestinian humanity and the moral weakness of all those complicit in genocide.
End all arms sales to Israel, now.
Remember the outrage when Israel first targeted hospitals in Gaza?
Now, the last hospital in northern Gaza is destroyed, babies are freezing to death & the WHO Director-General narrowly survived an attack in Yemen.
This genocide is fuelled by UK arms sales & Western support.
Israel has destroyed the last remaining hospital in northern Gaza.
We have witnessed the total decimation of Palestinian healthcare, met with silence from political leaders who refuse to acknowledge the horrors they have enabled.
This is the dehumanising reality of genocide.
As families gather for Christmas, families in Gaza have no refuge from Israelās genocide.
Over the past few weeks, HRW, Amnesty & ECCHR have documented war crimes, ethnic cleansing & genocide ā yet the UK government continues to sell arms, enabling this horror.
We wonāt forget.
The images of Palestinians being burned alive, children carrying dead children & the unimaginable human suffering in Gaza are unbearable. Our country is funding this genocide. It's disgusting. The inaction of @POTUS & his administration will be remembered in the world.