Charlotte Borger

Comms consultant tweeting about #socialjustice #sustainability #healthyfood #fairtrade. Right now #Palestine (at @zaytoun_cic). Views my own.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Israel destroyed the statue of Jesus Christ in the Christian village of Debel, South Lebanon.

Now they’re bulldozing the solar panels that provide electricity and water.

Not military targets.

Critical infrastructure.

This is the deliberate targeting of civilian life.

[OCHA OPT (Palestine) @ochaopt]

Just out: A new fact sheet and an updated map on access restrictions affecting 3.4 million Palestinians in the #WestBank – 925 obstacles as of December 2025, the highest number on a 20-year record.

Learn more: https://t.co/FDHrwzIh5q

[GBX @GBX_Press]

UN Rapporteur Francesca Albanese:

​"The only legal thing Israel can do in the Palestinian territories is to get the hell out of there."

[FRANCE 24 English @France24_en]

Israeli bulldozers uprooted dozens of olive trees in the plains of al-Lubban al-Sharqiya village, in the Occupied West Bank. “I've cared for these olive trees for 40 years, just as I cared for my own children,” says Fuad Daraghmeh, owner of some of the uprooted trees.
#Palestine #Israel #OccupiedWestBank

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

They use “settler attack” like it’s a normal thing, except it’s only used in the case of Israel.

They shot at children in a school. This is terrorism.

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

Ethnic cleansing used to be Israel's surreptitious policy. Today, it is Israel's in-our-face pride and joy. Time to ban Israel from every international organisation, like we banned Apartheid South Africa. Enough is enough! https://t.co/vJrwgx3XPU

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

A day of ordinary terror in the West Bank (where there is no Hamas or Hezbollah): Israeli settlers killed 3 people including a child after shooting at a school full of children. Israeli army came to protect the settlers. #StopTradeWithIsrael
https://t.co/0ahfkLZM7b

[Mohamad Bazzi @BazziNYU]

This is what Israel has done to Bint Jbeil, my hometown in southern Lebanon

[The Saviour @TheSaviour]

🚨🇮🇱🇵🇸Israeli settler groups have cut off water pipelines belonging to Palestinian farmers near the Ein al-Auja spring in Jericho.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

I appeal to European leaders: it is never too late to do the right thing. Stopping trade with and arms transfers to Israel, in light of the illegal occupation and associated crimes, is your obligation. What else must Israel do for you to suspend this agreement?

[Andrew Feinstein @andrewfeinstein]

Terrifying!

[Haaretz.com @haaretzcom]

After expelling 120 families, Israeli settlers turn stream into holiday attraction
https://t.co/9T9R4rjSTw

[John Simpson @JohnSimpsonNews]

President Trump has posted this picture on social media of himself as Christ healing the sick. I’ve long given up saying how hard it is to think of any previous US president who behaved like Donald Trump, but comparing himself to Jesus puts him on another level altogether.

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

When 12 people were killed in Charlie Hebdo attacks, World Leaders thronged to Paris for a Solidarity March

But no world leader has organised a march to protest killing 2000 civilians, ~200 children, ~300 women, 7 journalists, 178 health workers, and 3 UN peacekeepers in Lebanon

[Ihab Hassan @IhabHassane]

Last month, Israeli settlers ethnically cleansed Palestinians from Ras Ein al-Auja in the West Bank. Now, thousands of them have gathered at the same site to hike and picnic — celebrating the ethnic cleansing and announcing their takeover of the land.

[Ihab Hassan @IhabHassane]

BREAKING: Israeli settler terrorists are carrying out a pogrom in the village of Tayasir in the West Bank right now, setting homes on fire in an attempt to burn families alive.

Four people have been injured and hospitalized.

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

JUST IN: Three thousand ships are anchored in and around the Strait of Hormuz. Twenty thousand seafarers are aboard them. Fresh food ran out two weeks ago. Perishables are rotting in refrigerated holds whose generators are burning through the last reserves of diesel. Water is rationed. Mental health is deteriorating. No mass evacuation plan exists. No humanitarian corridor has been negotiated. No international body has the authority or the means to move twenty thousand people off three thousand ships through a five-nautical-mile channel controlled by the IRGC.

These are the people who move the global economy. Every barrel of oil that reaches a refinery was carried by a seafarer. Every container of goods that stocks a shelf was loaded by one. Every tonne of fertiliser that feeds a field was shipped by one. The war has trapped the invisible workforce that makes globalisation function, and the world has not noticed because the world never notices seafarers until the shelves are empty.

The ships themselves are worth tens of billions. The cargo aboard them is worth more. Crude oil, liquefied natural gas, urea, ammonia, consumer electronics, automotive parts, and 200 cryogenic containers of helium that are boiling off at a rate that no engineer can reverse. The stranded fleet is a floating warehouse of every molecule the global economy needs, and the molecules are degrading while the crews ration drinking water. The cargo is valued higher than the people guarding it, and neither can move.

The IRGC’s Larak corridor clearance system does not only control entry. It controls exit. A vessel that wants to leave the anchorage zone must obtain the same clearance code, submit the same documentation, and receive the same pilot escort as a vessel seeking to transit. The customs border works in both directions. These crews are not stranded by geography alone. They are stranded by bureaucracy, the same bureaucracy Iran wrapped in the language of sovereign maritime governance when the parliamentary committee approved the Hormuz Management Plan. The toll booth charges for passage through. It also charges for passage out.

No centralised evacuation exists because evacuation at this scale would require IRGC approval, and requesting approval would legitimise the system the United States refuses to recognise. So the crews wait. The International Transport Workers Federation issues statements. P&I clubs cover individual medical evacuations by helicopter. Flag states, predominantly Panama, Liberia, and the Marshall Islands, register ships but do not operate navies. The system that made global shipping cheap by divorcing flag from nationality has left twenty thousand people without a government willing to retrieve them.

The seafarers are from the Philippines, India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Indonesia. Countries whose workers crew the world’s merchant fleet because the monthly pay of $1,500 to $3,000 exceeds anything available at home. They signed contracts to deliver cargo across oceans. They did not sign contracts to become indefinite residents of a war zone, rationing water on a ship whose cargo of ammonia could feed a million people if it could reach a port that is 40 nautical miles and one IRGC clearance code away.

The helium boils off. The fertiliser waits. The crude oil sits. And the people who carry it all drink less water today than yesterday.

The supply chain has a human body at the very bottom of it. The body is thirsty.

https://t.co/dAOBBMsgDS

[Muhammad Shehada @muhammadshehad2]

Israel's conviction rate of Palestinians (in military courts) is 99.74%

Israel's conviction rate of reported settler attacks on Palestinians is 1.8%

Israel's death sentence will only apply against Palestinians not Israeli Jews

It's not complicated. It's Apartheid!

[Laura Webster @LauraEWebsterr]

NEW: Former human rights lawyer Keir Starmer has nothing to say about Israel imposing 'one of the world's most extreme death penalty laws' on Palestinians.

We asked No 10 and were told he had nothing to add to Yvette Cooper's weak statement.

Unbelievable.

[Charlotte Borger @basista]

Israel has just passed a law to introduce the death penalty against Palestinians. Demand the British government takes action by calling for sanctions now! https://t.co/OcENewuyoz