Damien Flynn

Belfast

[The National @ScotNational]

EXCLUSIVE: Labour have been condemned for giving the biggest ever Ministry of Defence contract to IDF-linked tech giant Palantir

[Lowkey @Lowkey0nline]

The Vice-President of the International Court of Justice, Julia Sebutinde, is a key member of the Watoto Church, which directly funds the Fellowship of Israel Related Ministries (FIRM) as it provides equipment to the Israeli military during the Gaza genocide.

She must resign.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🚨An international volunteer doctor at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis confirmed to Drop Site News that she and her foreign colleagues were made to leave the hospital on Monday morning to attend a mandatory World Health Organization training on sexual assault in Deir al-Balah shortly before Israel bombed the hospital, killing at least 21 people, including five journalists in a “double tap” strike.

The group of foreign volunteer medics, who sleep in the hospital, was informed by the WHO on Sunday afternoon that they would have to attend the training in person on Monday morning. “I was slightly surprised by this request, because any training now can happen online, particularly this kind of training, and we did question whether we needed to attend in person, as it would disrupt our clinical work, which is very important, but we were told that we needed to be there,” the doctor told Drop Site.

The group left Nasser hospital at 9am on Monday morning and drove to the WHO headquarters in Deir al-Balah approximately 30 minutes away. For security purposes, the UN coordinates all movements in Gaza with the Israeli military. The first strike on Nasser hospital was at 10am. The initial strike targeted the fourth floor where the intensive care and the operating theater are located and where some of the international volunteers work. A second strike at 10:17am targeted the stairwell outside the fourth floor where journalists, rescue teams and medics had come resulting in the majority of the casualties. 

“This looks like a deliberate targeting of a healthcare facility, which is a war crime by all definitions and all imagination,” the doctor told Drop Site. “It is an unacceptable, unthinkable, unspeakable atrocity.”

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🚨 At least five Palestinian journalists were among 20 people killed in a “double tap” Israeli strike on Nasser Medical Complex — the largest and only functioning hospital in southern Gaza.

Those killed include:
▪️Hussam al-Masri (Reuters)
▪️Mohammad Salama (Al Jazeera)
▪️Mariam Abu Daqqa (freelance/AP), ▪️Ahmed Abu Aziz (Quds Network)
▪️Moaz Abu Taha (NBC)

Journalists, doctors, and civil defense crews who rushed to treat the wounded and document the bombing were then murdered in the follow-up strike. Horrific footage shows bodies torn apart in the hospital’s corridors.

We’re putting together a thread with more footage and details. Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham shared the moment the second strike hit the hospital, posted below. 🧵

[Joe Dwyer @JoeEDwyer]

Stephen Kapos wouldn’t have got near a tv studio 22 months ago. Remember he was questioned by the cops for opposing this genocide.
Is horrific that it’s taken such slaughter for a voice of reason to be heard. Remember the peacemakers who opposed the warmongers from the beginning.

[The Ditch @wereontheditch]

Jo Jo Dullard’s family pleaded with a Fine Gael justice minister more than 25 years ago to help sanction a search of a farm gardaí sealed off yesterday after the arrest of its owner – a deceased ex-Fine Gael politician’s son – on suspicion of her murder.

https://t.co/JxmubkhqWt

[Ó Rinn @eolanryng]

Very proud to hear an Irish voice talking sense. Just watch the presenters body language.

Not alone does he not like the truth on Gaza🇵🇸 and Lebanon🇱🇧...

He doesnt like it from a "Paddy". 🇮🇪

Maith thú John Durnin.

[Charles Lister @Charles_Lister]

NEW -- the @UN's World Food Programme is pausing all aid movement within #Gaza, after one of its convoys was fired upon by @IDF forces near a checkpoint yesterday.

[B.O.B @Baldyorange1]

@wolfetones
My daughter on the ferris wheel at electric picnic 2024 filmed this. Wow!

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

Israel-Gaza: 400,000 residents ordered to leave Khan Younis

[Ahmed Alnaouq @AlnaouqA]

Kids and families playing football. Israel hated that. So they bombed them. Simple as that.

[Kieran Maguire @KieranMaguire]

Celtic were the only club to make a profit pre player sales and one-off transactions.

[Squinter @squinteratn]

I mean, are the Irish and UK media just going to ignore the plain fact that Alexei Navalny was a deeply, deeply unpleasant hard-right racist with a particular hatred of Muslims? Is being anti-Putin sufficient for beatification? If so I’m a saint too, lads.

[Damien Flynn @dphlynn]

Cold outside today 🥶

[Jamie Bryson @JamieBrysonLLB]

Nationalists aren’t so cock-a-hoop today. They didn’t really think it was all over, did they? Did they really think unionists & loyalists were meekly going into their economic United Ireland. Hell will freeze over first.

[Damien Flynn @dphlynn]

It’s hard not to enjoy every minute of it.

[Jamie Bryson @JamieBrysonLLB]

Pan nationalism was cock-a-hoop when they believed a border was going down the Irish Sea, in breach of the cross community consent mechanism in the Belfast Agreement. Now the tables have turned & they are furious. It’s hard not to enjoy every minute of it.

[Damien Flynn @dphlynn]

I rarely take a drink, but I most certainly will that night.

[Jamie Bryson @JamieBrysonLLB]

Flights booked to London on 31st October. It’s going to be one hell of a party, Brexiteers all together celebrating our independence in defiance of the liberal elite establishment. I rarely take a drink, but I most certainly will that night!

[Artists for Palestine UK @Art4PalestineUK]

Cultural icon Laurie Anderson Loses German Professorship Over Pro-Palestine Letter

The artist and the Folkwang University jointly announced her resignation in light of Anderson’s endorsement of a “Letter Against Apartheid” over two years ago.

https://t.co/i2OuH7nviR

[Lowkey @Lowkey0nline]

ITV interviews a man in a group waving a white flag at Israeli forces in Gaza.

Once the interview is finished, an Israeli sniper shoots him dead.

[Jayne McCormack @BBCJayneMcC]

From a former head of the civil service….