I just heard the @BBC radio say that the Israeli army was attacking Hezbollah targets yesterday & they also platformed someone bloviating about how Iran is ‘occupying’ Lebanon.
As a frontline journalist on the ground for the last 18 months, I would like to reiterate that I have not see any Iranian occupation bases in Lebanon. I have not seen any children killed here by Iranian bombs. I haven’t seen the IRGC massacring entire families on a daily basis. The IRGC has not shot at me or killed dozens of my colleagues in targeted attacks. Iran has not been systematically murdering healthcare workers (over 130) in Lebanon.
Israel has violently invaded and occupied Lebanon. The flag flying over the base in Al Khiam is an Israeli flag, not an Iranian flag. (Photo below)
The Lebanese Ministry of Health yesterday reported that 3,613 civilians have been killed and 11,072 have been wounded in Israeli attacks since March 2nd.
BREAKING:
ISRAEL imposes measures of COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENT on Palestinian in GAZA.
ISRAEL has CLOSED all crossings into Gaza and HALTED humanitarian aid after Iran’s retaliatory strikes on Israel.
Nearly 2 MILLION Palestinians are now being cut off from food, medicine, fuel, and basic supplies.
Israel says the closure includes BOTH Kerem Shalom and Rafah crossings “until further notice.”
COGAT claims Gaza has enough food because aid delivered during the ceasefire “significantly exceeds” the population’s nutritional needs, which is false.
Israel has repeatedly imposed blanket closures on Gaza during regional escalations, collectively punishing the civilian population.
Crazy that this is getting barely any coverage. This year’s European Press Prize was just awarded to an investigative report by the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant. It is entitled “What the Wounds Tell” and in it the journalists Maud Effting and Willem Feenstra document the cases of 114 children in Gaza under the age of 15 who were struck by a single bullet to the head or chest. Almost all of them died or were left severely disabled. They chose to document only the cases of boys and girls under the age of 15 (though often much younger: aged 3, 4 or 7) because these are children who can be immediately identified as such. “A single bullet in these parts of the body is a clear indication that these children were deliberately targeted“, the two journalists write.
This is the article: https://t.co/YkZrpqBWBQ
If a newspaper cannot explain that PIP is a disability benefit rather than an unemployment benefit, it is failing at the most basic level of reporting. The public deserves accurate information, not misleading framing.
L🚨Shocking footage of Israeli troops firing on Palestinians seeking aid in northern Gaza after aid drops. Israeli soldiers deliberately kill a civilian carrying aid and prevent medical help until his death.
Politicians talk about welfare costs. They rarely talk about poverty costs.
A disabled person losing £50 doesn't remove £50 of cost from society. It often shifts far greater costs onto the NHS, councils, carers, charities and other public services.
That's not efficiency.
WELL DONE @superdrug 👏👏👏
Superdrug have removed ALL Ahava products due to their link with illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank.
Thank you for having a moral compass!
Let’s hope more companies follow suit….
Noahm avait 19 ans. Il est mort à Metz, frappé à mort après des insultes homophobes.
À Marseille, Ewan a été roué de coups parce qu’il est gay.
🏳️🌈 Le mois des Fiertés existe aussi pour cela : parce qu’être LGBT, en France, c’est encore pouvoir être insulté, frappé, tué.
Andy Burnham says he "can't judge" if the Israeli military's crimes in Gaza are a genocide.
The experts already have.
A UN commission, the International Association of Genocide Scholars, and leading rights orgs all agree: it's genocide.
Andy, why won't you call it what it is?
Israel dropped a bomb on Mona’s home in Mansouri, South Lebanon, today.
Mona is not a fighter.
She is an environmental activist who dedicated her life to protecting endangered sea turtles.
Because of Israel, Mona is now fighting for her life in a hospital bed.
Pro-Palestine activists interrupted an army recruitment event during German Armed Forces Day.
They climbed onto a tank and unfurled a banner reading 'Genocide with German weapons' and named Rheinmetall, a key arms supplier to Israel's military.
Disabled activists have come together to share ideas for how they can overcome the growing problem of “burnout” experienced by members of the disabled people’s movement who have spent years fighting oppression and hostility.
https://t.co/k9D3wj2Yoa
Just so we're clear on how absolutely stupid the British Government is.
When a petition is signed with over 2 million people saying No to Digital ID, it gets ignored.
When 9000 people answer an online, unadvertised survey, suddenly it's "overwhelming support".
The Israeli army shot dead a 7-month-old Palestinian baby in the West Bank.
It was in broad daylight.
The father says:
"I stopped as I was instructed to, and then they simply shot at the car."
Israel routinely kills babies - and the West is silent.
reform has banned the pride flag at shibden hall, aka anne lister’s house. i am so fucking angry. how fucking miserable and pathetic do you have to be to ban pride flags at a place that means so much to so many people.
Ruling removes ‘vital’ UK safeguards for severely disabled people, charities warn https://t.co/XxpSeaAVtB
The supreme court judgment on deprivation of liberty safeguards introduces ‘regressive legal standard’
It looks dangerous in today's eugenicist, anti-disability environment.