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[dominic dyer @domdyer70]

Let’s not forget that historical punch was against a fox 🦊 hunt supporter who 🥚 egged John for supporting an end to this cruel barbaric activity @LeagueACS @HuntSabs @ProtectTheWild_ RIP #JohnPrescott

[sarah @sahouraxo]

This is Céline Haidar, a Lebanese national team footballer.

Céline now lies in intensive care, critically injured after being struck in the head by Israeli shrapnel in Beirut.

If she were Ukrainian, her story would be everywhere. But because she’s Lebanese, the world is silent.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Likely raped to death.
A doctor. A stellar surgeon. The embodiment of Palestinian ethics.
Likely raped to death.

The racism of Western media who are not covering this, and Western politicians who are not denouncing this, together with the thousand other testimonies and allegations of rape and other forms of mistreatment and torture that Palestinians have suffered in Israeli jails, is absolutely sickening.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Lebanese paramedics sit amidst the rubble, grieving their murdered colleagues.

Israel bombed a Civil Defense Center in Baalbek, Lebanon, wiping out 15 paramedics in an instant.

These were first responders, not combatants.

This is sheer barbarity.

[Protect the Wild @ProtectTheWild_]

TV presenter @PhilSpencerTV blocked us before for sharing this image, so we’re here to remind everyone that he takes pleasure in killing animals. He’d probably hate it if you shared this again.

[Sarah E Seaton 🏳️‍🌈 @SarahESeaton]

I started my career as a cleaner in the NHS. I learnt a lot about the world in that role. Some people treated me with respect, but many treated me badly. Cleaners hold hospitals together. I will absolutely judge you on how you treat the cleaners & porters.

[Protect the Wild @ProtectTheWild_]

Meet Jonathan Seed—a huntmaster for over a decade and a lifelong participant in fox hunting.

He’d hate it if this post led more people to support the campaign for a true fox hunting ban. You know what to do… 🦊

👉 https://t.co/DsoK2CexGc

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Just today ALONE, Israel has killed 10 paramedics in Lebanon.

And in just 40 days, Israel has murdered over 200 Lebanese paramedics.

This should be front-page news everywhere.

But where is mainstream media? Still crying about violent Israeli football hooligans in Amsterdam.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

This statue just appeared at a park in Philadelphia

[tern @1goodtern]

"a lack of compassion and clinical curiosity"

Not my words - they're the coroner's.

"Man, 34, dies in London hospital waiting room 2 hours after staff ignore accurate self-diagnosis"

😥

https://t.co/U8BtmregFF

[Lily Craven @TheAttagirls]

Woman of the Day WW1 nurse, midwife and ambulance driver Elsie Knocker (1884-1978) of Exeter, whose courage in tending to injured soldiers a mere 100 yards from the frontline at Ypres made her one of the most decorated women of WW1. It is impossible to talk of her without mentioning her friend, nurse Mairi Chisholm of Buckinghamshire. They were known as The Madonnas of Pervyse and treated British, Belgian and German soldiers alike.

Elsie was orphaned at six, adopted by an affluent couple and after an education that included a spell abroad at a prestigious Swiss school, she qualified as a nurse and midwife. By her mid-20s, she was a divorcée with a son. Divorced women were stigmatised (just women, men not at all) so she pretended to be a widow. That face-saving ploy cost her later.

Elsie was mad about motorbikes. She competed in motorcycle trials dressed in a dashing dark green leather skirt and long leather coat with a belt "to keep it all together" and when she encountered 18 year old motorcycling enthusiast and self-taught mechanic Mairi, they became firm friends and competed as a team.

When war was declared in 1914, Elsie felt the call of duty and persuaded Mairi to go with her to London to become despatch riders for Dr Hector Munro’s Women's Emergency Corps, set up to help the Belgians after Germany invaded Belgium. It meant cancelling a "ladies stiff reliability trial" with "plenty of hairpin bends” but she wrote in her diary: “This time tomorrow night I shall be in Belgium…in the midst of all the terrors of war.”

In September 1914, Elsie and Mairi sailed to Belgium and one of the first things they saw was the aftermath of the horrific massacre of over 20 Belgian policemen in a little town east of Ypres. It was a baptism of fire.

Based in Ghent, it was their job to collect the wounded close to the frontline and get them to hospital but they soon realised that many men were dying of shock on the way to the hospital because they were not receiving critical first aid within the first hour of trauma: the Golden Hour.

It was not considered fitting for women to be exposed to the dangers of the frontline but there was nothing for it. In November 1914, they left the Corps and set up a first aid post in a cellar in a badly damaged house in the abandoned town of Pervyse north of Ypres, 100 yards from the trenches.

The cellar was tiny with a 6’ ceiling. It was dirty, dusty and damp. Even so, the Poste de Secours Anglais (British First Aid Post) became their home for the next three and a half years. The local water was contaminated so they had to import barrels of water from England and ate only tinned food. They cut their hair short, slept on straw and washed in the nearby canal. They worked long hours under bombardment - retiring at 3.30am and starting all over again at 5.30am - and were shot at by snipers for months at a time.

The onslaught was so great that on one occasion, Elsie had to have her vest cut away from her body because there had been no time to change her clothes for three weeks. She and Mairi could be shelled, sniped at, or gassed at any time. Still they persisted. They got on with rescuing men in the most terrible conditions, including wounded Germans, often carrying them over their shoulders to the First Aid post. Between 1915 and 1917, Mairi transported 1,500 casualties from the frontline to the hospital at Pervyse and during quieter periods, they both took the troops hot cocoa and soup, and treated their ailments.

They weren’t officially recognised by British or Belgian Forces or even by the Red Cross so they had to raise their own funds. They began photographing the Front, securing them space in British newspapers, and as their fame grew, so did the funds for their first aid post. They returned to London on fundraising tours riding a motorbike and sidecar, and collecting money, socks and hats for the soldiers as well as tobacco and cigarettes. Elsie gave barnstorming speeches. The press loved them. ‘Sandbags Instead of Handbags!’ was the headline in one newspaper.

Proximity to a local Belgian garrison eventually earned them an official attachment to the Belgian military. They were awarded the British Military Medal, made Officers of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem and the Order of Leopold II, Knights Cross. More awards followed including the Croix de Guerre.

In January 1916, Elsie married a Belgian Baron attached to the Belgian Flying Corps. “So much of me went into my work that I suppose I was easily swept along on a tide of glamour and welcome frivolity.  Perhaps I had a desire just to drift for once, not to struggle…and after 15 months risking my life at the Front, marriage seemed a comparatively small risk to take.”

They saw very little of each other because of the war but in any case, in March 1918, Pervyse was bombarded by the Germans using shells and arsenic gas. The women’s dog woke them in time for them to put on their gas masks, but he died and they were wounded and had to be invalided home.

When she returned to Britain, Elsie saw out the rest of the war with Mairi as members of the newly formed Women’s Royal Air Force and even rose through the ranks.

After the war, Elsie’s Belgian Baron found out that she was divorced, not a widow. The Catholic Church forced an annulment. It also meant the end of her friendship with Mairi. She lived the rest of her life in Surrey, and was notorious for being “flamboyantly dressed with large earrings and a voluminous dark coat!”

Elsie died in 1978, aged 93.

She and Mairi treated and saved hundreds of wounded men. The next time someone tries to tells you that women do not know what it is to be on the frontline or have ever endured the horrors of war, just say two names: Elsie Knocker and Mairi Chisholm.

[Rania @umyaznemo]

Hastings, East Sussex, #England

[Abby Martin @AbbyMartin]

“The ages most represented among the dead were five to nine-year-olds.”

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Israel wipes out the village of Meis al-Jabal in South Lebanon.

A village that has stood for centuries.

A war crime and a crime against humanity.

While the “international community” just watches in silence.

[Paul Powlesland @paulpowlesland]

Tens of thousands of people came from rivers & seas across the country to march through London in the biggest water demonstration in UK history. It was so large that people were still leaving the Albert Embankment as the procession entered Parliament Square.

All those marching on the @MarchforWater had a simple message: we need real action for clean water & we need it now.

[SunderlandLollipops 💙 @SunderlandLolly]

Let's drop the "NHS is not fit for purpose" bullsh*t peddled by the right! This month I've had 3xGP appts, an xray, blood test & 2 lots of meds - all for £0. Got xray appt within 4 days. NHS needs INVESTMENT. It needs to build on the fab NHS staff doing a great job ❤️ #Labour

[Masih Alinejad 🏳️ @AlinejadMasih]

In Iran, a student harassed by her university’s morality police over her “improper” hijab didn’t back down. She turned her body into a protest, stripping to her underwear and marching through campus—defying a regime that constantly controls women’s bodies. Her act is a powerful reminder of Iranian women’s fight for freedom. Yes we use our bodies like weapons to fight back a regime that kills women for showing their hair.

This happened at Tehran’s Science and Research University She has since been arrested by the authorities.
Be her voice.
#WomanLifeFreedom

[Alex Cole @acnewsitics]

Okay, who made this?

[sarah @sahouraxo]

BREAKING:

Israel is threatening to obliterate Baalbek in Lebanon—a city with 9,000 years of history, architectural marvels, and UNESCO World Heritage status.

Baalbek is older than most nations.

This is an assault on civilizational heritage that belongs to all humanity.