Tom Beak

Property lawyer. Tweeting mainly about things that grind my gears. All views my own.

[Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @MayorofLondon]

I condemn any attempt to sell property in the settlements in the West Bank, be that in London or anywhere else in the world.

https://t.co/mYmCNCn0KA

[Tom Beak @TomBeak]

@RobertJenrick Watford is a town actually.

[Christiane Amanpour @amanpour]

Palestinian journalist Ali al-Samoudi was recently released from Israeli prison, where he was held for a year without charge and without a trial. He lost around half his body weight behind bars. “It was a real hell,” he tells @JDiamond1, in this heart-wrenching report.

[Haaretz.com @haaretzcom]

Israeli strikes kill average of 47 women and girls daily during Gaza war, UN says
https://t.co/cuU5a4ca82

[Humza Yousaf @HumzaYousaf]

Israeli strike kills infant girl in Lebanon while she is at her father's funeral

Read it again

And ask yourself, when is it enough?

How much more depravity must we witness until there is accountability?

When does Israeli impunity end?

We must speak up against this insanity

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

BBC News leading with a cancelled concert. Second on news list: US president threatens civilisational erasure

[Save the Children UK @savechildrenuk]

It's been reported that an Israeli court ruled Walid Ahmad, a Palestinian child who died while detained in an Israeli prison, was 'likely starved'. He was held for six months without charge.

Sadly, such ill-treatment is not unusual. It is unconscionable that any child should be treated this way.

❗ Content warning: child sexual violence and abuse

Palestinian children are the only children in the world to experience systematic prosecution in military courts. It’s an abusive, inhumane prosecution system, where children are being physically, emotionally and sexually abused, humiliated and starved in Israeli military detention.

The UK Government should publicly call for the release of all Palestinian children arbitrarily detained and call for an end to Israeli military authorities arresting, detaining and prosecuting children.

[Sky News @SkyNews]

Gaza toddler released from Israeli custody with suspected torture wounds

https://t.co/cROc1imkkr

[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

BREAKING: IDF drops charges of Israeli soldiers caught on video raping Palestinian

Victim suffered ruptured intestine, severe injury to anus & lungs & broken ribs.

Israelis then rioted for right to rape & government ministers defended soldiers & one rapist became a TV celebrity

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Lebanese die, Israelis are killed

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

If you paused, if you hesitated, 160 schoolgirls might still be alive.

[Peter Oborne @OborneTweets]

This makes such grim reading. But it tells you so much.

[Nina Turner @ninaturner]

“The highest toll since the October ceasefire”

Then it wasn’t a ceasefire.

[Ben Cohen @YoBenCohen]

Unilever / Magnum stopped Ben & Jerry’s from creating a flavor for Palestine — so I’m doing it
myself.
I’ve got a watermelon, an empty pint, and I need your help:
Name the flavor or suggest ingredients
Or design the pint packaging
Tag @yobencohen, @MagnumGlobal use #JusticeforPalestine to submit
Use your voice when Ben & Jerry’s can’t — to secure peace, justice, and dignity in Palestine
#FreeBenandJerrys

[Zeteo @zeteo_news]

“I have a really, really significant anger at our government and what they have failed to do.”

Dr. Nick Maynard, a British doctor who visited Gaza, explains his frustration with the UK government on their inaction for Palestine.

[Lewis Goodall @lewis_goodall]

Still in a state of shock how little attention this story has received.

[Tom Beak @TomBeak]

@Channel4News 💔

[Ben Jennings @BJennings90]

Latest @guardian cartoon

https://t.co/1Jo38L1Idm

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

“The drones would come down and pick off civilians – children.”
A former NHS surgeon, Nizam Mamode, who spent a month working in Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza, broke down while testifying about children in Gaza being shot by drones.

[Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @MayorofLondon]

An important reminder today for Londoners: our city is—and will always be—for everyone.

We will always be pro-women, pro-diversity, pro-climate and pro-human rights.

These are some of the values that will continue to bind us together as Londoners.