BREAKING
1AM UK time. Israeli speedboat reached Madleen. "At the time the boat was intercepted no one is wounded" the captain asked me to record. I heard the soldiers speaking while the captain was on the phone with me. I lost connection with the captain as he was telling me that "another boat is approaching".
12.40am UK time - The drones are pouring white paint on the boat.
12.51 UK time - The flotilla people remain in good spirit but they stay under cover because of the two quadcopters flying over them. These machines are made to kill, not just to surveil.
BREAKING!!! - 11:18PM UK time; I am with the flotilla online. They have just been reached by the Israel speedboats - 5 vessels circling the flotilla. The captain is instructing the team to stay calm and seated, with their passports and life jackets on. I hear them speaking with Israeli soldiers as I type... telling they are carrying humanitarian aid and go in peace. For the time being they are just circled. I am with them, recording everything.
Constantly being told that policy & finance people need simple metrics of biodiversity
As if we need to apologise for nature being complex
Reductive approaches are dangerous
To US audiences: in 5 months Israel has killed as many children as 675 Sandy Hook massacres combined. That is more than 4 Sandy Hook a day for Palestinian children. For 150 days. With US-manifactured weapons. Can you imagine the level of grief of the Palestinian people?
A full-scale military attack on #Rafah will be catastrophic for the 1.5 million Palestinians sheltering there after four months of war.
Rafah is the end of the line.
There is nowhere else to flee. #CeasefireNOW
Half of Gaza’s population is now crammed into Rafah with nowhere to go.
Reports that the Israeli military intends to focus next on Rafah are alarming.
Such an action would exponentially increase what is already a humanitarian nightmare with untold regional consequences.
Salute to Namibia and South Africa.
Two African nations that suffered intensely under European genocide and brutal apartheid are the leading charges demanding that “Never Again” be applied to Palestinians.
My 2024 resolutions:
1. Find sanitary pads, if possible daily ones.
2. Find a suitable day to take a shower since we have to take turns and find wood to heat water.
3. Wash my clothes two days before the shower so I have dry clothes by the time I do take the shower
It's shocking and heart-wrenching to know that Gazans are starving because of a human-made famine created by international complicity. Famine in Gaza is not a 'humanitarian' crisis. It is a political crisis initiated and sustained by Israel and its allies.
How many more families? How many more homes, neighborhoods, schools, hospitals, markets, mosques, churches? How many more children?
Stop arming Israel.
Ceasefire now.
136 of our colleagues in Gaza have been killed in 75 days – something we have never seen in @UN history.
Most of our staff have been forced from their homes.
I pay tribute to them & the thousands of aid workers risking their lives as they support civilians in Gaza.