🚨Breaking - At a protest outside the General Medical Council this afternoon we demand the GMC stops its political attacks on health workers standing up for Palestine, such as Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah.
How @BBC tactics have been “belittling and downplaying” the israeli genocide, using subtle tricks to blame Palestinians for israeli crimes https://t.co/ro59BFqyji
This bunch of Labour mediocrities are the most mendacious & stupid in recent memory - & the bar is very low. They believe people will buy their bullshit: participate actively in a genocide & then claim to be friends of the Palestinians for a photo op
The killing of a Palestinian footballer by Israeli forces on Monday has reignited calls for Fifa to ban Israel amid its ongoing genocide in Gaza.
Saleem al-Ashqar, 32, was cycling in search of a gas cylinder when Israeli soldiers shot him in the town of al-Qarara, just outside Khan Younis.
The Khadamat Khan Younis goalkeeper was taken to hospital but died of severe internal hemorrhaging and organ damage, a spokesperson for the Palestinian Football Association (PFA) said.
“Despite medical efforts, the hospital's severely limited capabilities – exacerbated by the collapse of Gaza's health sector due to the ongoing war of extermination – made it impossible to control the internal bleeding,” Dima Youssef told the New Arab. “Given the severity of his injuries, Al-Ashqar passed away about two hours after arriving at the hospital.”
The goalkeeper’s death brings the number of Palestinian athletes killed by Israel since October 2023 to 1,009, including at least 567 footballers.
In a tribute on X, Turkey’s minister of sports Osman Aşkın Bak compared the 567 Palestinians murdered by Israel to the 572 footballers playing in the World Cup.
Spanish-Moroccan sports journalist Leyla Hamed wrote that Fifa suspends football federations “almost every week” but repeatedly refused to issue a decision on Israel. “How much investigation does the most documented genocide in history need?” she asked.
In 2024, the PFA asked Fifa to expel the Israel Football Association amid its genocide in Gaza.
This March, Fifa finally announced it would not kick out Israel but fined its football authority $190,000 on charges relating to “discriminatory and racist abuse”.
Meanwhile, it suspended Russia from the World Cup days after its invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
The body has been silent on the systematic targeting of Palestinian athletes since the start of the genocide in October 2023, drawing condemnation from advocacy groups including the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel.
📊 GAZA BY THE NUMBERS | 1,000 Days of Genocidal War
Gaza’s Health Ministry released an updated 1,000-day toll, documenting mass killing, starvation, the collapse of healthcare, and the systematic denial of medical evacuation.
▪️ Killed, wounded, disabled
◽️ 73,066 Palestinians killed
◽️ 173,514 wounded
◽️ 5,400 amputations and permanent disabilities
◽️ 8,922 massacres against families
◽️ 13 families exposed to massacres daily
▪️ Breakdown of those killed
◽️ 21,730 children killed
◽️ 11,189 women killed
◽️ 5,180 elderly Palestinians killed
◽️ 34,967 men killed
▪️ Breakdown of those wounded
◽️ 45,113 children wounded
◽️ 24,293 women wounded
◽️ 12,146 elderly Palestinians wounded
◽️ 91,962 men wounded
▪️ Children
◽️ One child killed every 52 minutes
◽️ 1,078 children under 1 year old killed
◽️ 565 children born and killed during the war
◽️ 5,310 children under age 5 killed
◽️ 45,113 children wounded
◽️ 59,054 children orphaned
◽️ 1,134 children amputated
◽️ 1,204,102 children deprived of food
◽️ 914,102 children deprived of education
◽️ 5,600 children waiting for medical evacuation
▪️ Maternal and infant health
◽️ Maternal mortality rose to 33.4 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2025, up from 13.6 in 2022
◽️ Births fell from 6,076 in Nov. 2025 to 2,038 in May 2026
◽️ Abortions rose from 260 in Nov. 2025 to 719 in May 2026
▪️ Famine and food insecurity
◽️ 1.97 million people facing acute food insecurity
◽️ 198,000 in “crisis” level hunger
◽️ 1.14 million in “emergency” level hunger
◽️ 641,000 in famine/catastrophe conditions
◽️ 466 malnutrition-related deaths recorded
◽️ 408 malnutrition deaths in 2025 alone
▪️ Malnutrition
◽️ 17,800 children under 5 suffered malnutrition in 2025
◽️ 68,996 severe malnutrition cases recorded among children under 5 from Jan. 2025 to May 2026
◽️ 25,000 infants included among those cases
◽️ 51.8% of pregnant and breastfeeding women recorded as malnourished
◽️ Anemia among pregnant women reached 67% in 2025
▪️ Healthcare destroyed
◽️ 40 of 40 hospitals targeted
◽️ 11 hospitals out of service
◽️ 29 hospitals only partially operational
◽️ 158 of 158 primary health centers targeted
◽️ 64 primary health centers out of service
◽️ Hospital beds fell from 15.5 per 10,000 people in 2022 to 9.6 in 2026
▪️ Health workers and infrastructure
◽️ 1,723 health personnel killed
◽️ 362 health personnel detained
◽️ 216 ambulances targeted
◽️ 825 health facility violations recorded
◽️ 61 of 110 power generators destroyed
◽️ 25 of 35 oxygen stations destroyed
◽️ 13 of 17 CT scanners destroyed
◽️ 7 of 7 MRI machines destroyed
▪️ Patients denied evacuation
◽️ 20,738 patients had completed travel procedures for medical evacuation
◽️ Totals include
🔹 5,588 pediatric referrals (children)
🔹4,800 oncology referrals (cancer patients)
▪️1,570 patients died due to Israeli restrictions blocking medical evacuations
◽️ 264 children died awaiting evacuation
◽️ 505 oncology patients died awaiting evacuation
◽️ Only 1,655 patients evacuated from February 2026 to date
◽️ 25% of evacuees were children
Palestinian goalkeeper Salim Al-Ashqar has been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza.
He leaves behind his wife of 5 months who is expecting their first child.
There are two issues Burnham seems reluctant to face up to —.the ongoing genocide in Gaza and Brexit — but they will define him. My thoughts on the profile link above ⬆️
Gioggia Meloni visita un poverissimo paese della Basilicata e chiede al sindaco quali siano le tre priorità per rilanciare la zona.
«La prima è l’ospedale: c’è, ma mancano i medici».
Lei tira fuori il telefonino, parla per un paio di minuti e poi annuncia:
«Fatto. Entro una settimana arrivano i medici».
«La seconda è l’acqua: c’è, ma una miniera a monte ha inquinato le falde».
Lei riprende il telefonino, altre due parole, e dice:
«Fatto. Entro un mese le falde saranno bonificate e la proprietà risarcirà gli abitanti».
«E la terza?» chiede lei.
«La terza sono i telefonini» risponde il sindaco.
«Qui non prende niente».
Parliament will debate banning trade with illegal Israeli settlements next week. Join me demanding MPs speak up for Palestine using @PSCupdates action https://t.co/UBFtuyaXnJ
Watch @johnmcdonnellMP stand with patients in Parliament on the US-UK medicines deal ⬇️
This deal harms vulnerable people to boost already obscene pharma profits, that's why we're taking the government to court with @GlobalJusticeUK.
The next Prime Minister should steer clear of Starmer’s shameful legacy.
That starts with ending arms sales to Israel, imposing real sanctions, and establishing a public inquiry into Britain's complicity in genocide.
My article for @AJEnglish.
https://t.co/fhL0KbjJm1