One of my all-time favourite GAA pictures from @sportsfile
Dublin captain Ciarán Kilkenny carries the O’Byrne Cup through the tunnel at Dr. Cullen Park, Carlow in Jan ‘22.
Away days, winter football - great memories 🩵💙
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The BBC finally gains access to Gaza. The result is this truly appalling bit of reporting.
Up top Lucy Williamson observes "The Gaza of maps and memories is gone, replaced by a monochrome landscape of rubble stretching flat and still for 180 degreesm from Beit Hanoun on one side to Gaza City on the other."
Apparently this is the result of a disembodied entity called "the war."
She says the Israelis have returned continuously to this part of Gaza "as Hamas regrouped around its strongholds in the area." To most observers it has been blindingly obvious for more than a year that Israeli is engaged in a systematic campaign to render Gaza unliveable. In Beit Hanoun there is scarcely a stone standing on top of another stone. She really thinks this is all a by-product of fighting against Hamas?
No less than 10 of the paragraphs in the piece are "Israel says" paragraphs - almost none of them challenged.
"The ceasefire has faltered twice already", she says, which is an interesting way of describing the fact the Israelis are allowing in only a fraction of the aid they agreed to and have killed 240 Palestinians.
"Military censorship laws in Israel mean that military personnel were shown our material before publication. The BBC maintained editorial control of this report at all times," she says. If that's true, it just makes it all the worse.
https://t.co/36IHWSkh7s
The percentage of child dead in the Ukrainian conflict is 0.3%.
Zero point three per cent.
The percentage of child dead in the Gaza conflict is 37.7%.
Thirty seven point seven per cent.
In a single statistic, there you have the difference between a war and a genocide.