Lauren Chaplin

🪐 • solicitor @leighdayintl • organising with @NaamodUK and @LawyersAreResp • @SocialistLawyer exec • 🪐

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

South Africa’s case at the ICJ is an act of solidarity from a people who know what it’s like to endure — and dismantle — apartheid.

My piece for @tribunemagazine.

https://t.co/Gx9MlTBH50

[Yara Eid 🇵🇸 يارا عيد @yaraeid_]

Today I talked to Hala (my cousin’s daughter) who’s the only survivor of her family. Hala is 8 years old, she doesn’t talk about what happened and she doesn’t speak with anyone since. I haven’t been able to speak with her since they were killed over a month ago. Hala lost both her parents, her 3 sisters, her grandparents, her two aunts, three uncles and all of her cousins that were in that house. I have thought many times about what I would tell her when I call her for the first time. I haven’t spoken to my remaining family who are still alive for over two weeks until today. Because of the “fake truce” I managed to video call them today as they had internet connection for the first time. Hala was next to my uncle and saw my picture on the phone. I kept asking for her multiple times. She then took the phone and went into a dark room to talk with me alone. I froze. I just kept saying Habibti Hala I miss you so much I love you so much. I couldn’t mention her family, and I genuinely didn’t know what to say to an 8 year old who just lost her whole family. I just talked to her about how I want to visit her soon and how much I miss her and all the toys I bought for her and I asked her if she wants anything in particular and she told me “I just want to see you and come live with you far away.” It broke me so much. I held my tears inside my chest and wondered what on earth did this little girl do to deserve all of this pain. I kept trying to think of things that will excite her but she was very quiet, not the Hala I once knew. Not the happy Hala who gets excited at the most simple things. Not the Hala that laughs with her whole heart, but a new Hala who’s barely able to smile. I told her I’ll take you to the best amusement park and she was shocked and said “oh you have that there?” Her little brain cannot comprehend that life is normal outside her home. All she can picture is destruction, bombs and dead parents and sisters. I wish I can hide this little girl in my heart from this cruel world forever. Hala is one story only, there’s more than 1 million children in Gaza who’ll grow up with so much trauma and unimaginable losses. Our hearts cannot bear all of this pain.

[Na'amod @NaamodUK]

HAPPENING NOW: Hundreds gathering in Victoria Embankment Park for our ceasefire rally. In solidarity with all Palestinians and Israelis affected by devastating violence, we are coming together to demand an immediate ceasefire, hostage exchange, and an end to the siege of Gaza.

[Daisy Schofield @daisy_schofield]

The Palestinian journalist Mohammed Alaloul, who I spoke to for this @novaramedia article, lost four of his children in an Israeli airstrike on Sunday. Beyond devastating news.
https://t.co/LAeGYnXtsu

[Rania Zabaneh @RZabaneh]

We can’t take it anymore, we’re exhausted… We’re gonna get killed, it’s just a matter of when. There’s no protection, no impunity. These PPEs don’t protect us. Nothing protects journalists. We lose lives, one by one… Mohammed Abu Hatab was here, half an hour ago.

[IfNotNow🔥✡️ @IfNotNowOrg]

The grief and trauma of our people are being weaponized to justify mass murder and war crimes.

This is a desecration.

[John McDonnell @johnmcdonnellMP]

Was a privilege to join members of @NaamodUK in their peaceful demonstration for a ceasefire, the release of the hostages & end of the siege of Gaza. These brave Jewish young people sang & chanted for peace. So proud to have been invited to join them. They are the future we need.

[Tom London @TomLondon6]

.@Simon_schama

I am a Jew

These huge marches are not anti-Jewish. They are not pro-Hamas

They are a call for an end to the genocide underway by the Israeli state against Palestinians in Gaza

They want peace & equal rights for Jews & Palestinians “from the river to the sea”

[ICJP @ICJPalestine]

You seem unable to do what is needed right now. Telling a State that they have a right to self defence when they have gone far beyond what is reasonable is tantamount to complicity their acts of collective punishment. We will do your job for you https://t.co/6XjN3uDArN

[Palestine Solidarity Campaign @PSCupdates]

Thank you London! Half a million people on the streets today for Palestine demanding a #CeaseFireNOW 🇵🇸

[LPHR @LPHR_Lawyers]

More than 250 British lawyers, including eminent KCs and professors of law, have called on the UK government to press for a ceasefire in Gaza, saying serious breaches of international law are being committed https://t.co/hEdqv5N8m9

[eyal weizman @weizman_eyal]

Today the @LRB is publishing my piece about the history of the Israeli settlements around the Gaza Strip. It is an effort to think through the historical context of current events. https://t.co/6aIFZsfPlx

[Mohammed El-Kurd @m7mdkurd]

I’m constantly in awe of more and more Palestinians refusing misleading framings from mainstream media. This @Yaraeid_ interview on Sky News is an absolute must-see.

[Amr Waked @amrwaked]

How many more Palestinian children have to be massacred to satisfy this criminal colonial euphoria? What is happening to the world? Are you all insane? These are children being killed systematically every day for two weeks now. Do you understand what this means? Is this our life?

[LawyersAreResponsible @LawyersAreResp]

.⁦@LawyersAreResp⁩ at Oxford Uni today at Law Fair

Loads of great conversations with students very concerned about #climatecrisis & not wanting to work for enablers like ⁦@slaughterandmay⁩ ⁦@AllenOvery⁩ @linklaters ⁦@Clifford_Chance⁩ ⁦@Freshfields⁩

[Palestine Solidarity Campaign @PSCupdates]

🚨National March for Palestine - Stop the War on Gaza! 🇵🇸

When: Saturday 21 October, 12PM
Where: Marble Arch, London

150,000 of you joined us when we marched for Palestine in London last Saturday. We can't stop now. Join us again on Saturday to demand an end to the war on Gaza.

[Sunk Cost Pharisee @Liamjsm]

Every year, Hamas gives thousands of American college students free vacations to Gaza; these students are fed pro-palestinian talking points in a hedonistic yet wholesome, summer-camp like atmosphere

[Forensic Architecture @ForensicArchi]

Preliminary analysis by FA, @alhaq_org & @earshot_ngo into the #AlAhli hospital blast in Gaza casts significant doubt on IOF claims that the source of the deadly explosion was a Palestinian-fired rocket travelling west to east.

[Novara Media @novaramedia]

Emboldened by the crisis in Gaza, Israeli settlers in the West Bank are putting on uniforms, shooting unarmed Palestinians and driving them off their land.

Read @daisy_schofield's report here 👇
https://t.co/wFkbeDk6Ti