Leeds Sisters Uncut

We are the Leeds branch of direct action group @sistersuncut. We stand united with all self-defining women, non binary, agender and gender variant people.

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Students and activists have occupied The Parkinson Building to demand that Leeds University:

🇵🇸 Acknowledge Israeli Apartheid & Genocide
🇵🇸End partnership with BAE Systems
🇵🇸 End partnerships with Israeli Universities
🇵🇸 No war criminals on campus
🇵🇸 Stand with Palestine

[UnisResistBorders #WearAMask #BordersKillKnowledge @UnisNotBorders]

We are so close to reaching Muhammad's fundraising goal.

All we need is £161 to complete the winter funding drive. Can you help?

Muhammad has received no financial support from @StirUni after being detained at Dungavel. Your funds help him survive.

#WeAreAllMuhammad

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3/ dialysis machines instead of killing machines.

We say to workers and potential workers alike - be more like the Lucas crew - Use your skills for saving lives, not for war and genocide!!

https://t.co/0O59gnysmf

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Don't work for BAE- a thread 1/ Use your skills for saving lives, not for war and genocide!!

BAE, who are arming Israel right now and supporting the murder of Palestinians, are hosting open events for students like this one right now in Brough. The deadly F35 fighter jets...

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2/ that are being used to kill children and young people around the world are tested in Brough.

In the 1970s the workers at the Lucas Aerospace arms company put together the Lucas plan. This plan showcased that their skills and engineering could be used to make life saving...

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1/ Leeds train station
Monday Jan 15th 2024, 4-5pm 🇵🇸

Monday marks 100 days of ongoing siege, war and genocide on Gaza. A stain on our collective humanity.

Please join us to remember the lives, culture and land that we will continue to fight for

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On Xmas eve, join us in remembering the lives lost in Palestine and sending a message of solidarity to those for whom Christmas means homelessness, displacement and starvation.

We can’t let the holidays distract us from our commitment to an end to this genocide.

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On Saturday (Dec 16th), one of the busiest shopping days of the year, activists disrupted business as usual by staging a sit-in in support of Palestine at Leeds Trinity Shopping Centre. There was lots of positivity from passersby, with people joining the group and voicing support

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1/3 Happening now! Join us at Trinity Shopping Centre to say there can be no business as usual while there is genocide.

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[Workers for a Free Palestine @Workers4Pal]

📍 LANCASHIRE, ENGLAND

Over 200 trade unionists have blockaded two entrances at the Samlesbury Aerodrome in Lancashire.

The rear fuselage of every F-35 fighter jet - currently being used in the bombardment of Gaza - is made by BAE Systems at this site.

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Yesterday activists staged a die-in at Barclays in Leeds to highlight the bank’s role in the ongoing genocide.

Barclays owns shares worth over £1.3 billion in companies supplying weapons and military technology used in violence against Palestinians.

#StopBankingOnApartheid

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Photos taken by https://t.co/zBJxgfiXij

[Leeds Sisters Uncut @UncutLeeds]

Yesterday activists staged a die-in at Barclays in Leeds to highlight the bank’s role in the ongoing genocide.

Barclays owns shares worth over £1.3 billion in companies supplying weapons and military technology used in violence against Palestinians.

#StopBankingOnApartheid

[WHO in occupied Palestinian territory @WHOoPt]

WHO leads very high-risk joint humanitarian mission to Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza

18 November 2023 - Earlier today, a joint UN humanitarian assessment team, led by WHO accessed Al-Shifa Hospital in northern Gaza to assess the situation on the ground and conduct a rapid situational analysis, assess medical priorities, and establish logistics options for further missions. The team included public health experts, logistics officers, and security staff from OCHA, UNDSS, UNMAS/UNOPS, UNRWA and WHO.

The mission was deconflicted with the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) to ensure safe passage along the agreed route. However, this was a high-risk operation in an active conflict zone, with heavy fighting ongoing in close proximity to the hospital.

Earlier in the day, the IDF had issued evacuation orders to the remaining 2,500 internally displaced people who had been seeking refuge on the hospital grounds. They, along with a number of mobile patients and hospital staff, had already vacated the facility by the time of the team's arrival.

Due to time limits associated with the security situation, the team was able to spend only one hour inside the hospital, which they described as a “death zone,” and the situation as “desperate.” Signs of shelling and gunfire were evident. The team saw a mass grave at the entrance of the hospital and were told more than 80 people were buried there.

Lack of clean water, fuel, medicines, food and other essential aid over the last six weeks have caused Al-Shifa Hospital—once the largest, most advanced, and best equipped referral hospital in Gaza—to essentially stop functioning as a medical facility. The team observed that due to the security situation, it has been impossible for the staff to carry out effective of waste management in the hospital. Corridors and the hospital grounds were filled with medical and solid waste, increasing the risk of infection. Patients and health staff with whom they spoke were terrified for their safety and health, and pleaded for evacuation. Al-Shifa Hospital can no longer admit patients, with the injured and sick now being directed to the seriously overwhelmed and barely functioning Indonesian Hospital.

There are 25 health workers and 291 patients remaining in Al-Shifa, with several patient deaths having occurred over the previous 2 to 3 days due to the shutting down of medical services. Patients include 32 babies in extremely critical condition, two people in intensive care without ventilation, and 22 dialysis patients whose access to life-saving treatment has been severely compromised. The vast majority of patients are victims of war trauma, including many with complex fractures and amputations, head injuries, burns, chest and abdominal trauma, and 29 patients with serious spinal injuries who are unable to move without medical assistance. Many trauma patients have severely infected wounds due to lack of infection control measures in the hospital and unavailability of antibiotics.

Given the current state of the hospital, which is no longer operational or admitting new patients, the team was requested to evacuate health workers and patients to other facilities. WHO and partners are urgently developing plans for the immediate evacuation of the remaining patients, staff and their families. Over the next 24–72 hours, pending guarantees of safe passage by parties to the conflict, additional missions are being arranged to urgently transport patients from Al-Shifa to Nasser Medical Complex and European Gaza Hospital in the south of Gaza. However, these hospitals are already working beyond capacity, and new referrals from Al-Shifa Hospital will further strain overburdened health staff and resources.

WHO is deeply concerned about the safety and health needs of patients, health workers and internally displaced people sheltering at the few remaining partially functional hospitals in the north, which are facing risk of closure due lack of fuel, water, medical supplies, food, and the intense hostilities. Immediate efforts must be made to restore the functionality of Al-Shifa and all other hospitals to provide urgently needed health services in Gaza.

WHO reiterates its plea for collective efforts to bring an end to the hostilities and humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza. We call for an immediate ceasefire, the sustained flow of humanitarian assistance at scale, unhindered humanitarian access to all of those in need, the unconditional release of all hostages, and the cessation of attacks on health care and other vital infrastructure. The extreme suffering of the people of Gaza demands that we respond immediately and concretely with humanity and compassion.

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📢✊🏽🇵🇸 *SIT-IN AT LEEDS TRAIN STATION* 📢✊🏽🇵🇸

In protest against the Parliament's rejection of a ceasefire and joining local actions in solidarity with Palestine across the country, we are holding a sit-in at Leeds train station to demand an #ENDTOGENOCIDE #CEASEFIRENOW!

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Happening now at Leeds Train Station. Come join us! Free Palestine! #FreePalaestine #CeasefireNOW

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🇵🇸CEASEFIRE NOW! 🇵🇸

Today we protested outside @RachelReevesMP's surgery to demand @UKLabour call for an end to the UK government's arming of Israel, an end to Israeli occupation, and a CEASEFIRE NOW!

#CeasefireNOW #FreePalestine