Lubna Habib

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

Why are so many self-proclaimed feminists silent over Gaza?

Why the silence over everything from the killing of mostly women and children, to the horrors faced by pregnant and breastfeeding women?

This is an angry, brilliant piece by @maryam_dh 👇

https://t.co/MX1SK6mV28

[Lubna Habib @Lubna__Habib]

Disguising journalism.

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

Textbook case of the extreme prejudice Palestinians face in so much of the Western media. Horrible to watch this combination of bigotry, Islamophobia and ignorance being played out in real time-and wonderful to watch the patience and good humour of the interviewee.

[Rachael Moses @NHSRachaelM]

Another dear friend and Physiotherapist killed

His name was Ouda

He was one of our best MSK Physios at Al Shifa and also a Sports Physio at Jaballia Refugee camp club. He loved football his favourite club was @realmadriden

He was only 35. We will never forget #CeasefireNOW 💔

[Lubna Habib @Lubna__Habib]

@BBCNews @BBCWorld shame on you for not reporting enough on the human suffering in Palestine and deliberately ignoring their personal stories of grief and loss.Because of your journalists they will just be just numbers.

[World Health Organization (WHO) @WHO]

WHO leads very high-risk joint humanitarian mission to Al-Shifa Hospital in #Gaza

Earlier today, a joint UN humanitarian assessment team, led by WHO, accessed Al-Shifa Hospital in northern Gaza to assess the situation on the ground, conduct a rapid situational analysis, assess medical priorities, and establish logistics options for further missions. The team included public health experts, logistics officers, and security staff from @UNOCHA, @UNDSS, @UNMAS /@UNOPS, @UNRWA and WHO.

The mission was deconflicted with the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) to ensure safe passage along the agreed route. However, this was a high-risk operation in an active conflict zone, with heavy fighting ongoing in close proximity to the hospital.

Earlier in the day, the IDF had issued evacuation orders to the remaining 2,500 internally displaced people who had been seeking refuge on the hospital grounds. They, along with a number of mobile patients and hospital staff, had already vacated the facility by the time of the team's arrival.

Due to time limits associated with the security situation, the team was able to spend only one hour inside the hospital, which they described as a “death zone" and the situation as “desperate.” Signs of shelling and gunfire were evident. The team saw a mass grave at the entrance of the hospital and was told more than 80 people were buried there.

Lack of clean water, fuel, medicines, food and other essential aid over the last six weeks have caused Al-Shifa Hospital—once the largest, most advanced, and best equipped referral hospital in Gaza—to essentially stop functioning as a medical facility. The team observed that, due to the security situation, it has been impossible for the staff to carry out effective waste management in the hospital.

Corridors and the hospital grounds were filled with medical and solid waste, increasing the risk of infection. Patients and health staff with whom they spoke were terrified for their safety and health and pleaded for evacuation. Al-Shifa Hospital can no longer admit patients, with the injured and sick now being directed to the seriously overwhelmed and barely functioning Indonesian Hospital.

There are 25 health workers and 291 patients remaining in Al-Shifa, with several patient deaths having occurred over the previous 2 to 3 days due to the shutting down of medical services. Patients include 32 babies in extremely critical condition, two people in intensive care without ventilation, and 22 dialysis patients whose access to life-saving treatment has been severely compromised.

The vast majority of patients are victims of war trauma, including many with complex fractures and amputations, head injuries, burns, chest and abdominal trauma, and 29 patients with serious spinal injuries who are unable to move without medical assistance. Many trauma patients have severely infected wounds due to lack of infection control measures in the hospital and unavailability of antibiotics.

Given the current state of the hospital, which is no longer operational or admitting new patients, the team was requested to evacuate health workers and patients to other facilities. WHO and partners are urgently developing plans for the immediate evacuation of the remaining patients, staff and their families.

Over the next 24–72 hours, pending guarantees of safe passage by parties to the conflict, additional missions are being arranged to urgently transport patients from Al-Shifa to Nasser Medical Complex and European Gaza Hospital in the south of Gaza. However, these hospitals are already working beyond capacity, and new referrals from Al-Shifa Hospital will further strain overburdened health staff and resources.

WHO is deeply concerned about the safety and health needs of patients, health workers and internally displaced people sheltering at the few remaining partially functional hospitals in the north, which are facing the risk of closure due to a lack of fuel, water, medical supplies, food, and the intense hostilities. Immediate efforts must be made to restore the functionality of Al-Shifa and all other hospitals to provide urgently needed health care services in Gaza.

WHO reiterates its plea for collective efforts to bring an end to the hostilities and humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza. We call for an immediate ceasefire, the sustained flow of humanitarian assistance at scale, unhindered humanitarian access to all of those in need, the unconditional release of all hostages, and the cessation of attacks on health care and other vital infrastructure.

The extreme suffering of the people of Gaza demands that we respond immediately and concretely with humanity and compassion.

[Lubna Habib @Lubna__Habib]

Hi @ASollowayUK, I'm your constituent, horrified by the killing of thousands of civilians in Gaza. As the death toll continues to rise, we urgently need a ceasefire. Will you back the amendment? #CeasefireNow

[Lubna Habib @Lubna__Habib]

@allontheboard @ABAonline @AntiBullyingPro @bullyinguk @STOMPOutBullyng @YoungMindsUK @andyoddsock @DianaAward @BOO2BULLYING @AntiBullyingCen One cannot champion anti bullying when they are watching the bigger bullies intimidating other nations.

[The BMA @TheBMA]

The BMA is devastated by the further killing of civilians including health workers and profoundly concerned about reports of doctors and health workers not being able to treat the sick and wounded at Al Shifa hospital in Gaza. (1/4) https://t.co/k6FeV64TiU

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

"Israelis marked a month since Hamas killed 1,400 people and kidnapped 240, starting a war in which 10,300 Palestinians are said to have died."

Nothing at all biased about this description in today's London @thetimes: complete neutral like the rest of their coverage. That's the trouble with Palestinians, isn't it, they just die? No one has to kill them. You just advert your gaze, lose all your journalistic integrity, humanity and compassion... and what do you know? Suddenly over ten thousand Palestinians are dead for no reason at all.

[Oliver Cookson @olivercookson]

I don’t think it’s brave to speak your truth. I think your a coward if not.

[Oliver Cookson @olivercookson]

If you aren't staying true to yourself, you aren't living.

[António Guterres @antonioguterres]

I repeat my call for a humanitarian ceasefire in the Middle East, the unconditional release of all hostages, and the delivery of life-saving supplies at the scale needed.

Everyone must assume their responsibilities.

This is a moment of truth.

History will judge us all.

[ICJP @ICJPalestine]

🚨BREAKING🚨ICJP Co-Director Crispin Blunt MP spoke to @SkyNews Breakfast this morning to discuss ICJP's written notice to @RishiSunak informing him of intention to prosecute UK government officials for complicity in Israeli war crimes.

[Lubna Habib @Lubna__Habib]

What are the roots of the Israel-Palestine conflict? https://t.co/D07q0apjDI

[Art school gal @Artschoolgal1]

@implausibleblog I can't believe these words are said - in public. In all other walks of life we are trying our hardest to ensure diversity equity and inclusion. It's such a dizzying disconnect and we ignore it at our peril

[Mike Henley 🤨 @trentconsultant]

A glimpse of the future

[The BMA @TheBMA]

"Are you prepared to sit down with the BMA?”
“Of course we are, we’ve tried multiple times”
@RishiSunak falsely claiming to have tried to negotiate with us when in reality we've now asked in 10 separate letters to meet with Govt to discuss pay and every request has been rebuffed.

[NHS Million @NHSMillion]

The strikes this week have not been caused by doctors

They’ve been caused by a Government that has taken healthcare professionals for granted for far too long

Please RT if you can see through the Government spin and back the doctors

All they want is fair pay

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

Junior doctors and Consultants are fighting for pay restoration.

In 2008 waiting lists were just over 2 mil. They got to 7.2 mil BEFORE the BMA took its first strike day.

The Tories inherited the no.1 ranked healthcare system in the world. They have destroyed it.

Solidarity ✊

[Canary @TheCanaryUK]

New: BMA issues the Tories an ultimatum over doctors' strikes as Sunak digs his heels in https://t.co/3wexii5S3M