John Simister

I teach economics at Manchester Metropolitan University (UK). My research includes household spending, domestic violence, economic recessions. All views my own

[Eye on Palestine @EyeonPalestine]

A young Palestinian man was injured in the head during an attack carried out by settler militias and Israeli occupation forces on the town of Huwara, south of Nablus.

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

@BenBrownBBC Nick Maynard explained how Israeli soldiers play a game when they shoot Palestinian kids at food distribution points - one day they'll shoot the kids in the head, the next day in the chest, the following day the legs, the day after the testicles

July 2025

[TRT World @trtworld]

Months after the ceasefire, Gaza still faces violence and displacement. Palestinians say their hopes for peace are fading under near constant Israeli attacks

[Gaza Notifications @gazanotice]

🚨BREAKING: A large number of displaced families are fleeing their tents in the Orphans Camp area of Al-Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza after Israeli evacuation warnings ahead of expected bombardment.

Families spent the night out in the open, gripped by fear, with nowhere safe to go as yet another forced displacement unfolds in Gaza.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

ISRAELI FORCES SHOT AND KILLED A BABY IN THE OCCUPIED WEST BANK.

A baby.

Is there going to be wall-to-wall coverage and condemnations or will it be largely overlooked because the baby is Palestinian?

[Ryan Rozbiani @RyanRozbiani]

Israeli Forces Open Fire on Stopped Car, Killing 7-Month-Old BABY

The family was driving from Bethlehem to visit relatives when soldiers fired on their vehicle in Tel Rumeida. A bullet struck infant Sam Fahd Abu Haikal in the jaw, exited the other side of his body, and went on to wound his mother. His father was hit too.

The grandmother says the car was at a COMPLETE STOP, roughly ten meters from the soldier, when the shooting started. She insists the family did nothing, and cannot say why fire was opened on them.

The Palestinian health ministry confirmed the baby died. There is NO JUSTIFICATION for this

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

@BenBrownBBC Stephen Nolan "You sound angry"

Rose "I am.. I don't understand why we are still actively supporting it. This is the needless killing of thousands of children"

"But we are not actively supporting it"

"We are by financing weaponry to Israel"

June 2025

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

13-year-old Saif suffered a life-changing injury almost one year ago, when he and his uncle were shelled by an Israeli tank in Gaza.

All he wants is to receive treatment so that he can go swimming in the sea once again.

Saif is one of a million children living in Gaza. He tells us his story.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Israel executed baby Sam today with a bullet to the face in the occupied West Bank.

They killed his mother too.

Sam was only 7 months old.

They murdered a mother. And her infant.

[Canary @TheCanaryUK]

“Whistleblower Exposes Metropolitan Police” with Issy Vine. Full episode out June 14th 2026.

Ibrahim Abul-Essad sat and spoke with former police staff worker Issy Vine, who revealed how abuse and violence ranging from verbal to sexual are housed within the Metropolitan police.

Reclaim The Narrative, by Ibrahim Abul-Essad, platforms individuals who are not voiceless but intentionally silenced by the mainstream media.

Reclaim The Narrative launches on June 7th 2026. This show is supported by The Canary.

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

Así es la esclavitud en las minas en el este del Congo, de donde sale más del 70% del cobalto del mundo, miles de esclavos diariamente extraen el mineral por apenas 2$ al dia para llenar los bolsillos a las multinacionales capitalistas.

El capitalismo que no te enseñan, así es como se sostiene el nivel de vida y de consumo en Occidente, en estas minas al menos hay 40.000 niños esclavizados que pican piedra para que Apple saque 4 modelos de Iphone cada año.

[Middle East Eye @MiddleEastEye]

Soumaya Ghannoushi, writer and expert in Middle East politics, says that the ceasefire in Gaza is a deception designed to lower public scrutiny while the conflict continues. She notes that around 1,000 Palestinians have been killed since the ceasefire was announced, with air strikes and the destruction of civilian shelters persisting during Eid.

The absence of meaningful accountability, she says, has bred arrogance and escalation.

[AJ+ @ajplus]

“The first thing anyone noticed in Theodosia was her smile. We’d always see her laughing.”

This Lebanese student was killed by Israel just after finishing her final exams. Theodosia Karam is one of over 3,500 people killed by Israel’s attacks on Lebanon since March.

[Gaza Notifications @gazanotice]

“I can’t save lives if you keep sending weapons” a statement that couldn’t be more accurate.

🚨Shocking testimonies from medical workers sharing their firsthand experiences in Gaza, describing overwhelmed hospitals, collapsing medical systems, and what they witnessed on the ground amid the ongoing Israeli genocide.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

Australian activist Gemma O’Toole has strongly condemned her government’s handling of her treatment after Israel intercepted the Global Sumud Flotilla aid mission.

O’Toole, who along with fellow activists has staged sit-in demonstrations inside Australia’s Parliament House to force a reckoning over the nation’s foreign policy, says she was subjected to physical abuse, torture, and sexual assault in Israeli custody.

(More details in linked post.)
Video via @GFFAusGroup

[Gaza Notifications @gazanotice]

🚨HORRIBLE: An Israeli attack on four residential apartments in Gaza City killed nine Palestinians, including an entire family, and injured dozens.

Al Jazeera’s Hind Khoudary reports from the scene, where residents say one child survived

[Canary @TheCanaryUK]

The real scandal of the Mandelson files is the way he profited from and promoted Palantir and imposed a US UK tech and Pharma deal says Nick Dearden of Global Justice Now who are taking the government to court over the UK US Pharma deal

📽️ @financialeyes Ranjan Balakumaran

[Gaza Notifications @gazanotice]

🚨How Gaza’s Sea Became a Wall Under Israel’s Ongoing War‼️

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Palestinian journalist and mother Aya Shamaa wrote about how an Israeli attack killed her children, newborn Ryan and seven-year-old Yaman. Like countless mothers in Gaza, she saw her children as gleams of hope amid a fragile ceasefire. Narrated by Al Jazeera’s Al Anoud Al Aqeedi.

[Electronic Intifada @intifada]

Gaza journalist reacts to Israeli ambassador, Danny Danon, complaining at the UN about Hizballah drones.

"Every night... we are under fighter jets that have already literally slaughtered our own people, our own family members... So that is enough to wipe out your sanity," said @Ahmed_A1Najjar from Khan Younis

"But you try your best to survive, try your best to keep going."