Kathryn Simpson

Lecturer in Digital Humanities at the DHI University of Sheffield. Specialist in 19th C digital creation and curation.

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

That tiny blue dot is a whale navigating busy ship traffic in Chile’s Gulf of Ancud, tracked for a week.

[UNICEF @UNICEF]

After two years of fear and devastation, children in Gaza are in urgent need of safety and support.

While UNICEF and partners have been scaling up our response since the ceasefire, its fragility is threatening children's safety and access to life-saving aid.

As we continue to ramp up assistance to children and families on the ground, @unicefmena’s @E_Beigbeder emphasizes the need for the ceasefire to hold and for all crossings to open, to allow for a surge of aid.

[UN Human Rights @UNHumanRights]

#WorldStatisticsDay: What isn’t counted disappears. When violations go unmeasured, they go unpunished. Counting is the beginning of accountability. The start of change. https://t.co/TOTbZmifx9

[Adrian Zahir⚡ @ForwardsMarch]

DR HUSSAM ABU SAFIYA trying to negotiate with Israel Occupying Forces outside Kamal Adwan Hospital to allow him to keep operations at the hospital on as he was attending to patients who were in critical circumstances and could not be safely moved in Gaza's war conditions. This was the last video of him. Israel Occupying Forces abducted 240 patients, and staff of Kamal Adwan Hospital and are still holding onto them and calling them prisoners. THEY ARE HOSTAGES❗❗❗

#FreeHussamAbuSafiya
#FreePalestineHostages

[MSF International @MSF]

We are deeply disappointed that Dr Mohammed Obeid, a respected surgeon, and long-time colleague, remains detained in Israel and was not released as part of the recent Gaza ceasefire agreement.

We call for his immediate and unconditional release.

https://t.co/EUKRwGJxji

[UNRWA @UNRWA]

“The past 24 hours were devastating. We lost four people who were sheltering in an UNRWA school. A staff member lost her father, her mother, her brother and other family members. After two years of this,” UNRWA Sam Rose tells @BeckyCNN on @CNNConnect @CNN.

The suffering of the people in #Gaza must stop.

It is time to let humanitarian aid in at scale including through UNRWA.

There must be accountability.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Israeli forces shut down the Islamic Charitable Society in Hebron, occupied West Bank, detaining staff and seizing equipment while providing no explanation or timeline for the closure of the charity supporting over 6,000 orphans.

🔴 LIVE updates: https://t.co/mSvn1Zelw0

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

REPORT | The Guardian reports that at least 135 mutilated Palestinian bodies returned to Gaza were traced to Israel’s Sde Teiman base — a military prison notorious for torture and deaths in custody. Doctors in Khan Younis said autopsies “clearly indicate that Israel carried out acts of murder, summary executions and systematic torture.” Human rights workers warn the site’s dual role — both prison camp and storage facility for Gaza’s dead — may conceal how many were killed in captivity. Israeli media reports and guard testimony suggest nearly 1,500 Palestinian bodies are still being held there.

Most victims were blindfolded, bound, or crushed under tank tracks, according to Gaza doctors. Whistleblowers told The Guardian of detainees kept naked, blindfolded, and shackled in nappies. Patients captured from Gaza hospitals were chained to beds, left with infected wounds, and moaning in pain. One guard said a prisoner’s hand was amputated after it turned gangrenous from tight cuffs.

Released journalist Shadi Abu Seido described 100 days inside Sde Teiman: “Many died in detention, others lost their minds. They brought dogs that urinated on us. When I asked why I’d been arrested, they said: ‘We’ve killed all the journalists. They died once. You’ll die hundreds of times.’” His account echoes repeated testimonies of torture emerging from Sde Teiman.

A UN forensic expert urged an independent investigation to identify the dead and determine accountability. The Israeli army referred questions to the Prison Service, which offered no comment.

At least 78 Palestinians have died in Israeli custody since October 2023.

➡️ Full Report: The Guardian (link in reply)
⬇️ Thread below: Palestinian Ministry of Health photos of the recently released captives.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

BREAKING!!!!
Israel is bombing Gaza again!
Will anyone stop these maniacs?
Where are the ministers and heads of state who were celebrating “peace” just last week?

[Nimer Sultany @NimerSultany]

The number of Palestinians killed in the occupied West Bank since 7 October 2023:

1001, with 1 in 5 of the victims being a child.

[WearThePeace @WearThePeaceCo]

Palestinian families with missing family members attend a meeting to try and identify disfigured and visibly tortured bodies returned by the occupation.

‘The face was disfigured by torture, but I recognized him from a mole near his nose and the shape of his teeth,’ said Akram al-Manasrah, identifying one of his two missing sons.

[Women for Refugee Women 🧡 @4refugeewomen]

📣 Immigration detention must END.

Today is the National Day of Solidarity to End Immigration Detention.

We're joining organisations and campaigners from across the UK with one unified message: detention must end, now.

https://t.co/oi6bTLYM9I

#SetHerFree

1/🧵

[Al Jazeera Breaking News @AJENews]

BREAKING: Israel kills 11 Palestinian family members in Gaza's deadliest single ceasefire breach in eight days.

Read more: https://t.co/56Xulpjf6O

[Gaza Notifications @gazanotice]

🚨 BREAKING: Israel continues to violate the ceasefire in Gaza today, it committed yet another horrifying massacre.
An Israeli strike targeted a bus carrying two displaced families searching for shelter, killing them all.
The Abu Shaaban family:
•Father: Ehab Mohammed Nasser Abu Shaaban (age 38)
•Mother: Randa Majed Mohammed Abu Shaaban (age 36)
•Child: Nasser (age 13)
•Child: Jumana (age 10)
•Child: Ibrahim (age 6)
•Child: Mohammed (age 5)

The Shaban family:
•Father: Sufyan Shaban
•Mother: Samar Mohammed Nasser Shaban (Abu Shaaban before marriage)
•Child: Nesma (age 12)
•Child: Karam (age 10)
•Child: Anas (age 8)

Entire families wiped out during what Israel still calls a “ceasefire.”

[Mariam Barghouti مريم البرغوثي @MariamBarghouti]

This afternoon, Israeli army targeted a bus in the Zaytoun neighborhood in Gaza killing all of the following:

The children:
- Mohammad Abu Shaaban, 5-years-old
- Ibrahim Ihab Abu Shaaban, 6-years-old
- Anas Sufian Shaaban, 8-years-old
- Karam Sufian Shaaban, 10-years-old
- Jumana Ihab Shabaan, 10-years-old
- Nasma Sufian Shabaan, 12-years-old
- Nasser Ihab Abu Shabaan, 13-years-old

The parents:
- Ihab Abu Shaaban, 38-years-old
- Randa Abu Shabaan, 36-years-old

- Samar Shabaan
- Sufiaan Shabaan

All killed.

[UNRWA @UNRWA]

UNRWA has enough food in warehouses in Jordan and Egypt to supply the entire population of #Gaza for three months.

And enough shelter supplies to reach up to 1.3 million people.

We must be allowed to get all this aid into Gaza without delay.

This is what people need.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Huge explosions were seen in southern and eastern Lebanon as Israeli war planes targeted the area, killing at least one person.

Israel said it attacked Hezbollah infrastructure, despite a ceasefire deal in place since November last year.

[Kenneth Roth @KenRoth]

South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa rightly says the ceasefire in Gaza will have no bearing on his country’s genocide case against Israel before the International Court of Justice. Just because a genocide has stopped doesn't mean it never happened. https://t.co/KpxWU1ozXn

[Seyed Mohammad Marandi @s_m_marandi]

Israeli regime naval vessels fire on Palestinians gathered on Al-Rashid Street who were attempting to return to Gaza City after the ceasefire.

Zionism is the great evil of our time.
#GazaHolocaust