Eleri Connick

Trying to care about the right things | PhD candidate @UvA_Amsterdam | she/her | Amman | free Palestine 🍉

[Translating Falasteen (Palestine) @translatingpal]

Physicians for Human Rights Israel has warned that Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, is now in immediate danger of being killed in Israeli occupation custody. His lawyer, Nasser Odeh, who visited him on 2 July at the underground Rakefet interrogation facility inside Nitzan Prison, said he barely recognized him. Dr. Abu Safiya was brought in shackled hand and foot, flanked by masked guards, his head, eyes, ears and neck covered in fresh injuries. He struggled to breathe and speak, could not sit upright without nearly collapsing, and seemed close to losing consciousness, too frightened to speak freely.

He told his lawyer that after his Supreme Court appeal was heard in June, guards entered his solitary cell and beat him with a hammer and batons, and that since his transfer to Rakefet on 24 June he has been beaten daily to the point of repeatedly losing consciousness, with no medical care. He said plainly: this is the last time you will see me, they brought me here to kill me. Held since December 2024 under the occupation's "Unlawful Combatants" law, without charge or trial, Dr. Abu Safiya saw his beatings escalate sharply only after he legally challenged his detention, and both his lawyer and PHRI are demanding his immediate transfer, an independent medical examination and his release, warning that any delay could cost him his life.

[The Cradle @TheCradleMedia]

VIDEO | "If no one tells us what happened to him, I'll go to the south myself and search for my father."

A Lebanese child, Yasmine Hassan, appeals for information on her father, Mohammad Hassan, who disappeared after heading to south Lebanon three weeks ago. Local reports indicate he was likely abducted by Israeli occupation forces.

[The Cradle @TheCradleMedia]

Lebanese MP and international law professor Halima el Kaakour to Lebanese President Joseph Aoun and Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam:

"How can you approve the clause stating that the parties must ‘refrain from taking any hostile or adversarial measures in international political or legal forums?’ Does that mean giving up the right to pursue legal action over war crimes and crimes against humanity? You are denying justice to the thousands of victims of war crimes, while in the very same text speaking of ‘peace?’! Don't you realize that there can be no peace without justice?"

[MintPress News @MintPressNews]

🚨The Lebanese Government Has Handed Over The Following Villages To Israel Under Its Normalisation Agreement

Lebanese citizens can no longer return to their homes & are experiencing a Nakba like event if they are from:

•Al-Bayyada
•Shemaa
•Majdal Zoun
•Al-Mansouri
•Naqoura
•Alma Al-Shaab
•Teir Harfa
•Al-Jibbeen
•Shehin
•Al-Zahira
•Yarin
•Marwahin
•Al-Bustan
•Umm Al-Tout
•Al-Zalloutiya
•Al-Sulhani
•Aita Al-Shaab
•Ramya
•Al-Qawzah
•Debel (inhabited)
•Ain Ebel (inhabited)
•Rmeish (inhabited)
•Sarbin
•Al-Tayri
•Hanin
•Rshaf
•Yaron
•Maroun Al-Ras
•Bint Jbeil
•Ainata
•Aitaroun
•Kounin
•Beit Yahoun
•Hadatha
•Al-Ghandourieh
•Zoter Al-Sharqiya
•Zoter Al-Gharbiya
•Kfartabnit
•Yohmor Al-Shaqif
•Meifadoun (outskirts)
•Arnoun
•Doha Kfarreman
•Blida
•Mohaybib
•Meiss Al-Jabal
•Houla
•Markaba
•Adaisseh
•Kfarkila
•Al-Khiam
•Al-Taybeh
•Deir Siryan
•Talousa
•Al-Qantara
•Rab Thalathin
•Al-Qusayr
•Aadchit Al-Qusayr
•Debbin
•Al-Abbasiya Al-Hududiya
•Al-Majidiya
•Ain Arab
•Kfar Shouba
•Shebaa

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

The most emotion Keir Starmer has shown is over losing his job, not enabling the genocide of the Palestinian people.

Good riddance.

His next stop should be The Hague.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Keir Starmer could have ended child poverty, homelessness and the grotesque levels of inequality in this country.

Instead, he abandoned those in need, destroyed our civil liberties and facilitated genocide in Gaza.

That is how this Prime Minister will be remembered - and that is the legacy of moral and political bankruptcy he leaves behind.

The crises in our society are not going away. Neither are we - and we will keep fighting for a more equal, peaceful and dignified society for all.

[Philip Proudfoot @PhilipProudfoot]

Starmer calling Corbyn's Labour morally bankrupt in his resignation speech — from a man who defended collective punishment in Gaza, fed intelligence to Israeli génocidaires, and had activists trying to stop it arrested as terrorists. Not a decent man. An indecent sociopath.

[Craig Murray @CraigMurrayOrg]

I really don't care which genocidal member of Labour Friends of Israel is Prime Minister.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

After spending 25 years in Israeli prisons, Abdul Karim al-Rimawi embraced his son Majd for the first time. Majd was born in 2013 through sperm smuggled from prison and used in IVF treatment. He grew up without ever meeting his father, until now.

[roqayah chamseddine @roqchams]

The highway from Beirut to Jabal Amel (south Lebanon) has once again transformed into a massive wave of return, as southerners head back to reclaim their land, piece by piece.

Passing through devastated towns in Tyre and Nabatieh, this journey home proves that for the people of south Lebanon, the physical act of return is an explicit declaration that ownership of south Lebanon remains absolute, non-negotiable, and entirely unbending to Israeli aggression.

My latest report from south Lebanon.

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

This is absolutely insane.

The suffragettes used far more extreme tactics than Palestine Action.

They planted bombs, burned down private homes and smashed up art galleries.

They killed five people!

Her outrageous judgement is based on absurd historical ignorance.

[John McDonnell @johnmcdonnellMP]

Scale of sentences on the 4 young people who took direct action against the arms supplier to Israel is truly shocking. To impose years of imprisonment for protesting to save lives in Gaza is unjust, especially sentencing on terrorist grounds they were never convicted of by a jury

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

That people trying to stop genocide are sentenced as terrorists is a hideous injustice.

But remember these words, too.

This country is headed to naked right-wing authoritarian rule.

This precedent will be used to lock up dissidents.

You've been warned.

Remember it.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

Gut wrenching to see four young people jailed for direct action against an arms supplier to Israel.

Years in prison for protesting to save lives in Gaza, with 'terrorism' used despite no jury convicting them of it.

A truly dangerous attack on the right to protest.

[Richard Sanders @PulaRJS]

This is barbaric. They were not permitted to explain to the jury why they carried out the attack on the Elbit factory - which makes the weapons that kill Palestinian children. And the jury was never told they would be sentenced as terrorists. /1

[Quds News Network @QudsNen]

A new collection of “Hind Rajab World Cup Jerseys” is officially launched, created with the approval and blessing of the mother of the child Hind Rajab, who was killed by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip.

The release was intentionally timed with the opening day of the FIFA World Cup, with organizers saying the aim is to draw global attention to the situation in Gaza,

100% of profits from the collection will be donated to support Hind Rajab’s immediate family and fund on-the-ground humanitarian organizations in Gaza.

[Amnesty UK @AmnestyUK]

🚨BREAKING: Filton 4 sentenced as terrorists

Amnesty opposes the use of terrorism powers in this case.

It is completely disproportionate to punish protesters for criminal damage as if they were terrorists, a sentence which stays with you for life.

The defendants in today’s case were sentenced as terrorists because prosecutors want to make an example of them.

Today's decision shows how direct action protesters could be treated in the future.

The use of terrorism laws against direct action protesters must end.

Together we must continue calling out the abuse of power and fighting for our right to protest.

Read our position:

Criminal Damage, Direct Action, Terrorism: Misuse of counter-terrorism powers in the UK: https://t.co/TqQ4cHnoeb

[Declassified UK @declassifiedUK]

🚨BREAKING -- The Palestine Action defendants have been sentenced for a combined total of more than 25 years.

Charlotte Head - 6 years
Leona Kamio - 6 years
Fatema Zainab - 5 years and 8 months
Samuel Corner - 8 years and 8 months

[Declassified UK @declassifiedUK]

🚨BREAKING -- A judge has ruled that four Palestine Action activists will be sentenced with a "terrorism connection".

Samuel Corner, Leona Kamio, Fatema Rajwani, and Charlotte Head appeared in Woolwich Crown Court today after being convicted of criminal damage at an Elbit Systems factory in 2024.

Judge Johnson ruled: "I am sure each of the defendant's offence involved serious damage to property, was designed to influence the UK government, to intimidate a section of the public, and was for the purpose of advancing a political or ideological cause".

The section of the public referred to by Johnson was employees of and companies linked to Elbit Systems, which he said constitutes a "section of the public".

Johnson added: "It follows I am bound by this legislation to find that the offence in each case had a terrorist connection and apply that as an aggravating factor in increasing the seriousness of the offence".

This is the first time in British history that terrorism provisions have been used against direct action activists.

[المينا - Almena @mena_gaza]

ما نراه ليس مجرد تغيّر في الشكل، بل شهادة حيّة على ما يمكن أن تفعله الزنازين بجسد الإنسان وروحه.
ملامح متعبة، وجه منهك، ونظرة تحمل ما عجزت الكلمات عن وصفه