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[Sameh Ahmed 𓂆 🇵🇸 @PalPress24]

Enjoy what remains of this life. Sleep peacefully and comfortably. Go to work, take your trips, and live your days as you wish.

But remember, somewhere else, there are people who do not even have the privilege of living an ordinary day.

Everything you see, hear, and silently tolerate will remain a witness against you. And tomorrow, there will be no excuses, and no one will be able to say, “I didn’t see. I didn’t know.”
#Gaza

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

“It is not Auschwitz, but it is genocide” (A Goldberg)

10,000 missing beneath the rubble.

Imagine the cries of babies, the calls of parents searching for them, fading into silence. No machinery to recover them.

A monstrosity we've been watching, rationalising, for 1,075 days

[Muhammad Shehada @muhammadshehad2]

Come on world leaders! 50 children are under the rubble

We're not asking for thousands of rescue workers or a global coalition like the Oceangate Titan sub or the Tham Luang cave rescue

Just pressure Israel to allow excavation equipment, machines & fuel into Gaza immediately!

[Tamer Nahed @Tamer_Alnoaizy]

Do not wait for the disaster to happen before you decide to care. I have just returned from Gaza’s shoreline, and I am furious. What I saw there was beyond heartbreaking.

Tens of thousands of exhausted, torn and barely standing tents are spread along the beach. Families and children are living only meters away from the sea, inside pieces of fabric that can barely protect them from the sun, let alone the coming winter. These are not proper shelters. They are what people have been forced to call home.

In just a few days, summer will end and winter will arrive. We already know what happened last year. Rain flooded the tents, families slept in soaked conditions, and children were left exposed to cold, mud and water. Yet here we are again, with tents that are even more damaged and worn out, and with nowhere else for people to go.

How much more suffering do people have to endure before the world decides that enough is enough? How is it acceptable that hundreds of thousands of people are being left to face another winter without proper shelter? This is not a surprise. The warning signs are right in front of us.

A tent is not a home. A torn piece of fabric cannot protect a family from a storm. No parent should have to wonder whether rain will flood the place where their children sleep, or whether they will have anything dry left in the morning.

Do something before the rain comes. Speak about Gaza. Share what is happening. Demand action. Do not wait for the images of children shivering in flooded tents to appear on your screens before you finally react.

The catastrophe is coming, it is visible, and the world has no excuse for saying it did not know.

[Husam Zomlot @hzomlot]

Artists have a duty to speak out for the oppressed, and that voice shouldn’t be for sale — wealth and power should never determine whose pain gets heard or whose suffering gets acknowledged. Respect @macklemore ✊🏽

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Apartheid

[Maram From Gaza🍉🇵🇸🇵🇸 @Maram_Gaza1992]

This child, who was not yet 15, was driven by his innocent instinct to rush and save an injured person lying on the ground. A child went to save another child, but that technology hanging in the sky, controlled by hands that know nothing but killing, showed him no mercy.

The moment he arrived, he was targeted, with no mercy for his innocent childhood.

Mohammad Al-Zeinati joined thousands of other children in Gaza who have been killed. And still, humanity has yet to find its way to us.

[Macklemore @macklemore]

we don’t own the earth
don’t own the earth
we killing each other
over some lines in the dirt
we bleed the same blood
feel the same hurt
Palestinian life
does it have the same worth?

[Macklemore @macklemore]

Wanting all humans to be treated equal should never be controversial.

[Hamza Yusuf @Hamza_a96]

This. This. This.

Macklemore speaks with a moral conviction that mainstream journalists and politicians will never understand

[The Labour Party @UKLabour]

The situation in Palestine is a moral emergency. This Labour Government will not stand by.

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

"Is it difficult coming back?"

Surgeon professor Nizam Mamode, who was working in Gaza a few weeks ago: "Yes"

"How do you feel when you return?"

"I feel quite angry that this country.. is letting this genocide go by and doing nothing about it"

[Alex Crawford @AlexCrawfordSky]

Simply don’t understand those willing to deny the evidence of multiple doctors from a variety of different countries; independent investigators all with long and established careers, journalists, survivors and witnesses, a pile of visual evidence as well as their own eyes - and still attempt to discredit those who report this. - whether they’re survivors, medics, academics or journalists…

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

Find time to read this quite astonishingly good piece by
@ArwaM Mahdawi. Brilliant on our government's appalling moral confusion over Gaza

"Why is Hasan Piker ‘not conducive to the public good’? Because on Gaza, we punish the witness, not the crime"

https://t.co/lxF64weMUN

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

We're all going to ask ourselves - what did we do to stop a genocide?

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

This is a hard article to read, but I hope you'll do so. I've spent some time reporting on widespread rape and other sexual violence of Palestinian male and female prisoners by Israeli authorities, and the article is now published. The assault victims were warned not to give speak of what they endured -- they were sometimes told they would be killed or raped if they gave interviews -- but they found the courage to do so. One man described being raped three times in a single day in Israeli prison, the third time after he tried to protest. A young woman said the guards would come in at the beginning of each shift and strip her naked and abuse her. Another reported that she was shown photos of herself being raped and warned they would be released unless she cooperated with Israeli intelligence. Even three children who had been detained told me they had been sexually abused. Look, whatever our position on the Middle East, we should be able to agree on being anti-rape. Sexual assaults were horrific when Israeli women were targeted on Oct. 7, and they're equally horrific when Israeli authorities use them against Palestinians day after day after day. We should be able to find common ground in opposing rape. Here's a gift link to the article: https://t.co/aMMHId49OO

[New York Times Opinion @nytopinion]

“In wrenching interviews, Palestinians have recounted to me a pattern of widespread Israeli sexual violence against men, women and even children,” our columnist Nicholas Kristof writes.
https://t.co/Q1DYudXMfc

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Channel 4 News win the BAFTA award for News Coverage 👏

After praising the importance of well funded public service news,

"Tonight the award belongs especially to every single journalist in Gaza, Iran, in Lebanon, and all those who risk their lives every day just to do their job"

"Journalism is not optional it is a necessity"

"Journalism is not a crime"

[Dr Rachel Clarke @doctor_oxford]

This is Trevor Fisher, an inpatient in @ArthurRankHouse in Cambridgeshire, speaking to @Channel4News this week.

I am a palliative care specialist and Trevor’s interview has devastated me.

His hospice has just found out that in 6 months, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Trust will withdraw its £800k funding.

This means that 9 of the hospice’s 16 beds will close, denying patients like Trevor the precious end-of-life care they need.

In total, 200 people a year in Cambridgeshire will now be forced to die in an overcrowded hospital instead of the hospice environment they so longed for. Some will doubtless end up dying on trolleys in corridors - we witness this far too often, these days & I can tell you, it is barbaric.

@CUH_NHS says it has made this “very difficult decision” following a “value for money assessment” - confirming what I have long known as a doctor, that too often, patients with terminal illnesses are treated as second class citizens whose lives simply don’t matter as much as other people's.

Yet the real responsibility here lies not with the NHS trust but with the current government, who is forcing the NHS nationwide to cut clinical services in order to meet impossible “efficiency savings” (what weasel words those are).

These cuts were necessary, say @CUH_NHS, “in order to maintain core services within a reduced budget” - that is to say, the reduced budget they are now receiving from this government.

So this is on you, @wesstreeting, and on you @UKLabour. You've chosen to do this & now patients like Trevor must live - and die - with your choices.

I believe that the measure of a civilised country is how well it cares for its most vulnerable members. The difference between politicians and me is that I look the palliative care patients they are failing in the eye.

So I will put it to you directly, Mr Streeting.

We are still a rich country capable of affording decent, humane palliative care for all. Do you really care so little for dying people that you are happy to fail them on your watch?

Thank you @channel4news for covering this story.

#palliativecare
#hospicecare
#NHS

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

War criminal wanted by the ICC, who has bombed and murdered innocent children in six different countries in one year, accuses accuses Europe of moral failings because it isn't racist and Islamophobic enough for his tastes...