Melissa G

Open source + Video :)

[Louisa Loveluck @leloveluck]

Photographs and drone footage showed dozens of men and boys near the Indonesian hospital, divided into groups, in a stretch of land so decimated that tarmac was now dirt. They held their hands in the air and stood in line. https://t.co/MXRGhJVHUK

[Emily Tripp @Emily_4319]

This might be one of our most important stories yet.

In a truly team effort, our journalists worked with our casualty recorders to identify where and how 3,000 civilians were killed in three weeks in Gaza.

https://t.co/80TbxjQVcx

[Melissa G @angie_grsh]

@AbidaRafiqueAni @Mumtazzb @NWS @GovtofPakistan @AJEnglish @anwaar_kakar @appcsocialmedia Hi @AbidaRafiqueAni I'm with Storyful news agency. Did you film this video? May we distribute it to our news partners with credit to you? If so, I can send you on the T&Cs or you can find them on our website. Thanks!

[Patrick Wintour @patrickwintour]

Chatham House is one of the most prestigious international relations think tanks so when its director @bronwenmaddox gives her annual lecture, it is an occasion.
Last night she said “Israel has always had objectives that are difficult to reconcile - one is getting hostages back and the other is the pursuit of Hamas. I am unconvinced, as are a lot of other people, that the technique they have chosen which is bombarding Gaza and flattening it, is going to achieve either of those things”.
She said “The US and Europe should make clear to Israel that while its wish to eradicate Hamas is justifiable, it is pursuing a military course unlikely to achieve that goal and the level of civilian casualties is intolerable. What is more it has fallen into a trap that Hamas has set by reacting in a way that loses the world’s support”.
She called for the West to do more to pursue Israel to accept a two state solution.

She added it was also legitimate to claim “western countries, above all the US, allowed the Israeli Palestinian conflict to fester and for Israel to abuse its power to expand its settlements on the West Bank in land earmarked for a future Palestinian state”.

She framed her criticism of the West’s stance towards Israel in a broader context of its mounting impact on the claims in the Global South that the West exhibits double standards.

She said “The consent of many countries for supporting the old order is unravelling and that is partly because of the accusation from many countries that those that wrote the rules 70 years ago wrote them in their own favour and respect them only when it suits them”.

Although she said this accusation is not novel, “it needs to be answered if support for international law and institutions is to continue”.

She said “There are not many countries that initially denied Israel a right to respond to the deliberate slaughter by Hamas on October 7, but Israel's bombardment and constraint on humanitarian aid has lost it much of the world support, and there is cause for that.

“It is entirely possible to condemn Hamas and now to criticise Israel for its response and for the casualties that it has caused. Even in the US and the UK some of Israel’s warmest supporters have begun to say so”.

She said the "white hot" criticism of the West for months has been that “it cares about Ukrainian suffering and not Palestinian, that it defends international law in Ukraine, but not the West Bank and Gaza or Iraq. If countries that support Ukraine and are working for peace in the middle east do not realise how powerful this charge has become, or answer it, they will fail to help solve either conflict or other such as in Sudan”.

She added "they will also fail to understand how this charge is a challenge to the waning respect for the old principles of world order and the contest that is going on about new ones".

Kudos to her for addressing head-on the difficult accusations of western double standards. Right to say western countries have national interests so degree of inconsistency inevitable, but West has left its principles open to being weaponised by luminous hypocrites such as Russia. She said unsure either UK front bench prepared to voice the concerns of Britain's younger generation about UK foreign policy

[Melissa G @angie_grsh]

@philipbrenn I’ve got some news for you https://t.co/GKkhQKN2Ks

[Arwa Ibrahim @arwaib]

Less than 24 hrs after #Israeli strikes killed his wife, son Mahmoud (16), daughter Sham (7) & grandchild Adam (18m), the voice of #Gaza, @WaelDahdouh is back in front of the camera to report the ongoing Israeli offensive on the besieged enclave.

This is his response to them.

[Victoria Kravchuk @vashaperemoha]

🇺🇦 UKRAINIAN JOURNALISTS WIN #PULITZER PRIZE!
For their coverage of the war, including in #Mariupol. I can’t describe feelings, because I’m so proud of, I’m incredibly proud of!
Congratulations! Proud of you!

This is how it should work!
And I’m so lucky to know you!

[Christiane Amanpour @amanpour]

Today marks World Press Freedom Day, and nearly a year since journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was killed.

“This wasn’t errant gunfire – this was deliberate targeting” by Israeli forces, reporter @sharifkouddous tells me, and forms “part of a pattern of impunity.”

[Melissa G @angie_grsh]

@StolenRide Black and blue Cannondale CAAD 4 Optimo Claris stolen from bike racks in front of Rich Mix Arts Centre (35 Bethnal Grn Rd, London E1 6LA) near Brick Lane between 19:30 -21:05 Sunday 6th November. May have a bottle cage, d-lock holder + small red tag attached to frame

[Melissa G @angie_grsh]

@StolenRide Black and blue Cannondale CAAD 4 Optimo Claris stolen from bike racks in front of Rich Mix Arts Centre (35 Bethnal Grn Rd, London E1 6LA) near Brick Lane between 19:30 -21:05 Sunday 6th November. May have a bottle cage, d-lock holder + small red tag attached to frame

[Sri Lanka Cricket 🇱🇰 @OfficialSLC]

It's finally ours! 👊👊🇱🇰

An epic performance from our sensational Lions! Men's #AsiaCup champions! 🏆

#RoaringForGlory #SLvPAK

[Melissa G @angie_grsh]

That makes full time with the tough tie remaining unbroken. The Beavers raised hopes eagerly driving forward at the end there but to no avail!

🦫1-1🛁

[Melissa G @angie_grsh]

⚽️MATCH DAY⚽️

After a slow start to the campaign, Hampton & Richmond look to tonight’s fixture against Bath City to secure their first win of the season at Beveree Stadium

Follow below👇👇👇

[Melissa G @angie_grsh]

Thank you to the 532 in attendance at Rocket Hospitality’s Beveree Stadium tonight 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

4 minutes added time.

[Melissa G @angie_grsh]

Bath Corner from Chris Lines, then Ade Shokunbi then Babalola before the Beavers are driving forward towards the Bath box and it’s a wide!

[Melissa G @angie_grsh]

Hampton’s Tommy Block is heading off pitch struggling with a bad hamstring injury 1️⃣2️⃣ Jay Hines switching in