Return Of The Waq

Fence-Sitter, Pragmatist, SWFC, Hip Hop!

[Sky News @SkyNews]

A piece of sewer pipe found in the street has been acting as a prosthetic leg for 10-year-old Rateb since he lost the limb in an Israeli strike.

Rateb, a 10-year-old from Gaza, lost his leg, his mother and his brother during Israeli bombardment.

[Save the Children UK @savechildrenuk]

There must be full accountability for crimes against children. #StopTheWarOnChildren

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

A UN commission has found that Israel is committing genocide through a "deliberate strategy to destroy the future of the Palestinians in Gaza by targeting their children".

The truth always comes out in the end — and we must never, ever let it be forgotten.

[Alex Crawford @AlexCrawfordSky]

The UN inquiry’s findings that genocide is being carried out by Israeli authorities and security forces in Gaza - as well as crimes against humanity and war crimes - and additionally war crimes in the occupied West Bank - is due to what the inquiry found was the deliberate targeting of children - and it is horrifying reading. The details of the targeting are chilling. Children. Killed. Wounded. Tortured. Starved. Raped. On a mass scale

[Alex Crawford @AlexCrawfordSky]

One of the killings involved a ten day old baby being shot by an Israeli sniper in broad daylight whilst the baby was being breastfed : an independent UN Commission says Israeli authorities and security forces deliberately targeted Palestinian children resulting in genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Gaza, and war crimes in the occupied West Bank

[United Nations Geneva @UNGeneva]

The Independent Int'l Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory presents new report to the UN Human Rights Council.

"The evidence shows that Palestinian children have been deliberately targeted & killed by the Israeli security forces."

https://t.co/vMARqOLxpC

[Rob Staton @robstaton]

376 days since their last league win at home, Sheffield Wednesday beat West Brom at Hillsborough. It also means #SWFC avoid becoming the first club to finish a season on minus points. A day of celebration and joy for Owls fans after a year from hell. Now, a fresh start.

[Sky News @SkyNews]

The solar panels destroyed by Israel's army are used to provide the Lebanese town of Debl with electricity, as well as supply power to its water station.

The IDF says the actions seen in the video do not align with their values.

🔗 https://t.co/TM46KKADMe

[Harriet Williamson @harriepw]

The BBC was also found to label Gaza’s health ministry “Hamas-affiliated” in 60% of death toll citations, compared to in 36% of cases for Sky News. The BBC also failed to note that the UN finds Gaza’s health ministry’s figures credible – adding this context in just 0.6% of cases.

[Harriet Williamson @harriepw]

NEW: The BBC failed to name Israel as the perpetrator in Israeli attacks where civilians were killed in Gaza in 50% of all analysed cases, a new data report from @newscord_org shows.

[Richard Sanders @PulaRJS]

- @AlexCrawfordSky is doing something fascinating and it is drawing a lot of heat.

She is reporting on Arabs as if they were white people.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

One of Orwell's nightmares materialised would be this: potential war criminals and arm manufacturers implicated in a genocide allowed to roam and operate freely, while citizens get arrested for opposing a genocide.

[Daniel Lambert @dlLambo]

Everyone should take 2 mins to watch this.

A father, helped by neighbours, digging for the body of his daughter.

Their home destroyed by Israel.

This is proper reporting and the reason Israel allows nobody into Gaza and targets journalists every day.

[Jemima Goldsmith @Jemima_Khan]

Please watch the trailer for The Voice of Hind Rajab, which was nominated today for a Golden Globe and which opens in U.K. & Irish cinemas from Jan 16th 2026. It is powerful, important & heartbreaking. Congrats to the team, inc director Kaouther Ben Hania, producer @iamodessarae @AltitudeFilms @alphonsedoisnel @aliboombayoo & everyone who supported this film.

[Peter Oborne @OborneTweets]

It ought to be an international scandal that the United States has sanctioned the UN special rapporteur, stripped her of bank accounts. Same with ICC. In order to defend Israeli atrocities in Gaza the US (aided by Britain) is trashing all legal and moral international norms.

[Humza Yousaf @HumzaYousaf]

Keep talking about Palestine.

Israel continues to commit war crimes in the West Bank and Gaza, with impunity.

A blueprint for ethnic cleansing is playing out in broad daylight, just with fewer cameras broadcasting it.

We must continue to demand accountability and justice.

[Middle East Eye @MiddleEastEye]

British surgeons Dr Victoria Rose and Dr Graeme Groom, who volunteered in Gaza during Israel’s genocide, called for western governments to act to end Israel’s “monstrous evil” and “repeated and murderous attacks on hospitals, healthcare facilities and people” in Gaza.

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

Imagine an Israeli family, including several kids, had just been killed by Hamas.

It’d dominate every news bulletin.

Anyone saying this was still a ceasefire would be labelled sick.

It’d be offered as evidence of Hamas’ evil depravity.

Palestinians murdered by Israel? Nothing

[Rivkah Brown @rivkahbrown]

Because police know that the Palestine marches have a lower arrest rate than Glastonbury, while Maccabi Tel Aviv fans are a violent menace who chant "death to Arabs" and rape threats. This is extremely straightforward, but it's convenient for Jon to feign ignorance.

[Basil the Great @BasilTheGreat]

Mark Ruffalo isn't in the next Avengers movie as the Hulk because he fell out with everybody over Palestine