Criticism of Israel for banning UNRWA & fuelling a humanitarian crisis in Gaza ring hollow while the government continues to grant licenses for offensive weapons like components for F-35 fighter jets that drop 2000lb bombs & decimate whole neighbourhoods.
End ALL arms sales now.
🆘🆘 from our @UNRWA staff in northern #Gaza.
Nearly three weeks of non-stop bombardments from the Israeli Forces as the death toll increases.
Our staff report they cannot find food, water or medical care.
The smell of death is everywhere as bodies are left lying on the roads or under the rubble. Missions to clear the bodies or provide humanitarian assistance are denied.
In northern Gaza, people are just waiting to die.
They feel deserted, hopeless and alone. They live from one hour to the next, fearing death at every second.
Throughout the war over the past year, some UNRWA staff stayed in the north & did the impossible to provide aid to internally displaced people.
We kept some of our shelters open despite heavy bombardments & attacks on our buildings.
On behalf of our staff in northern Gaza, I am calling for an immediate truce, even if for few hours, to enable safe humanitarian passage for families who wish to leave the area & reach safer places.
This is the bare minimum to save the lives of civilians who have nothing to do with this conflict.
#CeaseFireNow
Wes Streeting’s ‘jabs for jobs’ plan to provide weight loss injections to unemployed obese people is another attempt to “whip up hatred and anger against a group of people that are already stigmatised,” explains @daliagebrial.
Anyone else watched Outlast on Netflix and start to feel uncomfortable at how desperately some of the contestants need the money? And we're watching them suffer for entertainment.
Cutting winter fuel allowance is not a tough choice. It's the wrong choice - and we will not be fooled by ministers’ attempts to feign regret over cruel decisions they don’t have to take.
My piece for @tribunemagazine.
https://t.co/VSDMypoAiL
"Look to your conscience... you know in your heart that these measures are wrong"
Mel Stride, shadow work and pensions secretary makes an appeal to Labour MPs as the Commons debates the cut to winter fuel payments
Follow live https://t.co/A42vPF8fJO
Starmer's decision is appalling. To play politics with Israel's security on a day they bury their dead is as saddening as it is disgraceful.
This decision is purely for the purposes of internal Labour politics and is a total capitulation to his hard-left Labour MPs.
It’s clear that the Prime Minister doesn’t have the courage to stand up to our enemies, whether that’s Putin or Hamas. Just like on the deportation of foreign offenders, Sir Keir is more afraid by the militant left wingers in his own party than those who pose a direct threat to our national security.
This shocking betrayal of a key UK ally is a terrible indication of the UK’s approach to national security under this weak Prime Minister.
In the next decades, we are going to have 1 billion refugees, millions dying from heat shocks and the biggest flooding and droughts for 100,000 years.
https://t.co/fVxqASRQfz.
The genocide being carried out in Gaza will be remembered as the singular defining horror of our time. People will look back in disgust at the politicians, arms companies, and institutions which enabled it. And they will despise those who deny it.
The Government can stop this madness.
Sign this petition for them to free the #WholeTruthFive.
After all, you can't lock up the truth.
https://t.co/26bdBAhtoA