💔 "It's true that I refused to see my two martyred children, Ayoush and Aboud, after their bodies were recovered 29 days later, to preserve their image that I know... But, Mom, I can't forget what I heard one of them when he said, 'We collected the bodies of the 8 children in one grave.' O Allah, I ask You for my right of revenge for my children, a revenge that burns the unjust treacherous Zionists in this world before the hereafter."
Listen to this Victoria Derbyshire interview with an asylum seeker…
…it absolutely blows the Rwanda narrative out of the water. THIS is what has been entirely missing from the national conversation - the viewpoints and motivations of asylum seekers.
A British surgeon who has just returned from Gaza has spoken to ITV News' @ITVMartha about the horrors he saw, the injured children he tried to save and moments 'he cannot take out his head’
https://t.co/EPgIlroUVt
There’s nothing to say any more. We live in a racist world where 40,000 brown people can be slaughtered and no one stops it. But one raging bullying nation can bomb multiple countries then cry at retaliation and the white supremacy of the West kicks into action overnight.
You are witnessing one of the great crimes of our age, like the ones you've read in history books.
Those responsible for this crime are not even trying to hide it.
If you are silent, you cannot later claim ignorance.
You knew what was happening, and you chose to ignore it.
The flour massacre. The flour bag massacre. People massacred for flour. Hungry people massacred by the entity starving them. Slaughtered for flour. For bread. This is what those in power have decided will be normal.
"I don't need guns, I need fire extinguishers!" an EMT screams at police pointing their guns at a man who self-immolated in protest of a US-supported genocide. What an encapsulation of America, 2024.
RIP, Aaron Bushnell, braver than any of us. May your sacrifice not be in vain.
“I’ll expect you to feed me, bathe me, brush my hair, hold my hand, recognise me when I have ceased to recognise myself and be the last human touch I may feel before I die.
But I do not think, at the same time, that you deserve a family life.”
This is 7 year old Sidra, the cousin of my wife. The impact of the Israeli missile was so powerful it flung her out, leaving her mutilated body dangling from the ruins of the destroyed building in Rafah 48 hours ago. My wife’s aunt Suzan, her husband Fouzy Hassouna, two of their sons, Muhammad and Karam, Karam's wife Amouna and her three children (7-year-old twins Sidra and Suzan, and 15-month-old Malik) were all killed. The family had been displaced from the north of Gaza and took shelter in Rafah. We will be relentless until those responsible brought to justice.
Rafah is being decimated, there is nowhere else left to go. Israel is now bombing more than 1.7 million civilians trapped in Rafah, Gaza's last place of refuge. A massacre is happening in Rafah right now and the world is silent.
Hind Rajab.
She was alive in a car after five of her family had been murdered. She phoned for help and an ambulance was sent to the scene.
Her car was surrounded by Israeli tanks. She went missing.
Today her body has been found.
Murdered in cold blood. Aged 6.
Whatever your position is, just take a moment to reflect on just how dark this is.
Just hours after the ICJ concluded that Israel was plausibly committing genocide and ordered it to dramatically step up humanitarian efforts, 7 Western countries sanctioned... not Israel but the Palestinians and the UN (!!!).
They cut funding for UNRWA, which is THE UN agency tasked with humanitarian assistance to Palestinians (and therefore their main lifeline).
Even if you were the world's worst cynic, you'd still have a hard time expecting such sheer level of cruelty and depravation. This is absolutely unfathomable.
They did so with the cheapest possible excuse, effectively using Israel's narrative that "UNWRA is Hamas" and allegations by Israel that some UNWRA staff were involved in the 7th Oct attack but 1) Israel has been making these accusations for months (so the timing of cutting funding right after the ICJ ruling is obviously not a coincidence) and 2) UNWRA has announced it's terminated the contracts of the staff members accused (12 people out of its 30,000 strong workforce) and launched an investigation, so it obviously doesn't condone this. Even if the allegations were to be proven correct, how can an organization of 30,000 staff be held collectively accountable for the individual actions of 0.04% of its workforce? Especially in the current context when its work is a life or death matter for millions of people.
To add to the cynicism here, UNWRA staff are actually a major victim of the war with at least 152 UNRWA staffers killed by Israel in Gaza to date. In a normal world, it is Israel that should be punished for killing so many members of a humanitarian organization. But nope, it's the humanitarian organization that's getting punished, alongside with the very vulnerable population it's committed to helping.