Prof Esther McIntosh

Feminist Theology & Ethics #TransInclusion, Centre of Religion in Society @YSJReligion #CRISYSJ #Ebor, Branch Chair @UCU_YSJ, Trustee SKUK #FreePalestine

[Prof Esther McIntosh @ProfEMcIntosh]

A snapshot of a week in the West Bank: a thread #ExistenceIsResistance despite recent raids, arrests and imprisonment the @Edu_Bookshop remains open 1/10

[Prof Esther McIntosh @ProfEMcIntosh]

‘In a tribute on X, Turkey’s minister of sports Osman Aşkın Bak compared the 567 Palestinians murdered by Israel to the 572 footballers playing in the World Cup’ - FIFA suspended Russia, why not Israel?

[Novara Media @novaramedia]

The killing of a Palestinian footballer by Israeli forces on Monday has reignited calls for Fifa to ban Israel amid its ongoing genocide in Gaza.

Saleem al-Ashqar, 32, was cycling in search of a gas cylinder when Israeli soldiers shot him in the town of al-Qarara, just outside Khan Younis.

The Khadamat Khan Younis goalkeeper was taken to hospital but died of severe internal hemorrhaging and organ damage, a spokesperson for the Palestinian Football Association (PFA) said.

“Despite medical efforts, the hospital's severely limited capabilities – exacerbated by the collapse of Gaza's health sector due to the ongoing war of extermination – made it impossible to control the internal bleeding,” Dima Youssef told the New Arab. “Given the severity of his injuries, Al-Ashqar passed away about two hours after arriving at the hospital.”

The goalkeeper’s death brings the number of Palestinian athletes killed by Israel since October 2023 to 1,009, including at least 567 footballers.

In a tribute on X, Turkey’s minister of sports Osman Aşkın Bak compared the 567 Palestinians murdered by Israel to the 572 footballers playing in the World Cup.

Spanish-Moroccan sports journalist Leyla Hamed wrote that Fifa suspends football federations “almost every week” but repeatedly refused to issue a decision on Israel. “How much investigation does the most documented genocide in history need?” she asked.

In 2024, the PFA asked Fifa to expel the Israel Football Association amid its genocide in Gaza.

This March, Fifa finally announced it would not kick out Israel but fined its football authority $190,000 on charges relating to “discriminatory and racist abuse”.

Meanwhile, it suspended Russia from the World Cup days after its invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

The body has been silent on the systematic targeting of Palestinian athletes since the start of the genocide in October 2023, drawing condemnation from advocacy groups including the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🇵🇸 Israeli settlers set fire to a home in the Ka’abneh Bedouin community east of Taybeh in the occupied West Bank in an early morning raid Friday, local sources told Tasnim.

The community is largely made up of families already displaced by settlers from communities like Wadi al-Siq in the slopes east of Taybeh, where a settler campaign emptied some 20 Bedouin communities after October 2023.

Taybeh itself, the last entirely Christian town in the West Bank, has faced sustained settler attacks over the past year, including fires set at the fifth-century Church of St. George, torched cars and fields, and near-daily incursions from outposts ringing its eastern lands, which church leaders told Wafa threatens “our very existence on this land.”

[Mosab Abu Toha @MosabAbuToha]

For your information, this video was taken just an hour ago. It shows Israel blowing up buildings east of Khan Younis.

Again and again, shame on Western media that continues to call this a “ceasefire.”

By the Western media’s definition, an Israeli “ceasefire” apparently includes the continued killing of families, especially those with very young children, blowing up residential buildings, burning tents sheltering displaced people, banning international journalists, blocking life-saving medical supplies, and restricting, and on many days completely preventing, patients from leaving Gaza for urgently needed medical treatment abroad.

[Good Law Project @GoodLawProject]

Palantir cleared 183,000 patients from one hospital’s waiting list. Or did it?

If you’ve heard ministers repeating that figure, you must read this exposé from @_TheLondoner:
https://t.co/kcGSkgpsP1

[Sarah Wilkinson @swilkinsonbc]

Under Starmer, any journalist who works with a source [from Gaza] or even approaches them for information, could face 14 years in prison https://t.co/Rb8lLMq1X7

[Canary @TheCanaryUK]

Palestinian goalkeeper Salim Al-Ashqar has just been been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza.

His wife is 5 months pregnant with their first child.

Where is the international outrage?

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

BREAKING: Israeli attacks on Lebanon since March 2 have killed at least 4,301 people and injured 12,199 others, according to new figures from Lebanon’s Ministry of Public Health.

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

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

📊 GAZA BY THE NUMBERS | 1,000 Days of Genocidal War

Gaza’s Health Ministry released an updated 1,000-day toll, documenting mass killing, starvation, the collapse of healthcare, and the systematic denial of medical evacuation.

▪️ Killed, wounded, disabled
◽️ 73,066 Palestinians killed
◽️ 173,514 wounded
◽️ 5,400 amputations and permanent disabilities
◽️ 8,922 massacres against families
◽️ 13 families exposed to massacres daily

▪️ Breakdown of those killed
◽️ 21,730 children killed
◽️ 11,189 women killed
◽️ 5,180 elderly Palestinians killed
◽️ 34,967 men killed

▪️ Breakdown of those wounded
◽️ 45,113 children wounded
◽️ 24,293 women wounded
◽️ 12,146 elderly Palestinians wounded
◽️ 91,962 men wounded

▪️ Children
◽️ One child killed every 52 minutes
◽️ 1,078 children under 1 year old killed
◽️ 565 children born and killed during the war
◽️ 5,310 children under age 5 killed
◽️ 45,113 children wounded
◽️ 59,054 children orphaned
◽️ 1,134 children amputated
◽️ 1,204,102 children deprived of food
◽️ 914,102 children deprived of education
◽️ 5,600 children waiting for medical evacuation

▪️ Maternal and infant health
◽️ Maternal mortality rose to 33.4 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2025, up from 13.6 in 2022
◽️ Births fell from 6,076 in Nov. 2025 to 2,038 in May 2026
◽️ Abortions rose from 260 in Nov. 2025 to 719 in May 2026

▪️ Famine and food insecurity
◽️ 1.97 million people facing acute food insecurity
◽️ 198,000 in “crisis” level hunger
◽️ 1.14 million in “emergency” level hunger
◽️ 641,000 in famine/catastrophe conditions
◽️ 466 malnutrition-related deaths recorded
◽️ 408 malnutrition deaths in 2025 alone

▪️ Malnutrition
◽️ 17,800 children under 5 suffered malnutrition in 2025
◽️ 68,996 severe malnutrition cases recorded among children under 5 from Jan. 2025 to May 2026
◽️ 25,000 infants included among those cases
◽️ 51.8% of pregnant and breastfeeding women recorded as malnourished
◽️ Anemia among pregnant women reached 67% in 2025

▪️ Healthcare destroyed
◽️ 40 of 40 hospitals targeted
◽️ 11 hospitals out of service
◽️ 29 hospitals only partially operational
◽️ 158 of 158 primary health centers targeted
◽️ 64 primary health centers out of service
◽️ Hospital beds fell from 15.5 per 10,000 people in 2022 to 9.6 in 2026

▪️ Health workers and infrastructure
◽️ 1,723 health personnel killed
◽️ 362 health personnel detained
◽️ 216 ambulances targeted
◽️ 825 health facility violations recorded
◽️ 61 of 110 power generators destroyed
◽️ 25 of 35 oxygen stations destroyed
◽️ 13 of 17 CT scanners destroyed
◽️ 7 of 7 MRI machines destroyed

▪️ Patients denied evacuation
◽️ 20,738 patients had completed travel procedures for medical evacuation
◽️ Totals include
🔹 5,588 pediatric referrals (children)
🔹4,800 oncology referrals (cancer patients)

▪️1,570 patients died due to Israeli restrictions blocking medical evacuations
◽️ 264 children died awaiting evacuation
◽️ 505 oncology patients died awaiting evacuation

◽️ Only 1,655 patients evacuated from February 2026 to date
◽️ 25% of evacuees were children

[Mosab Abu Toha @MosabAbuToha]

Very, very important archive.

[Ihab Hassan @IhabHassane]

Foreign solidarity activists are in a state of shock after Israeli settlers attacked them and Palestinian residents in the village of Abu Falah, northeast of Ramallah, beating them with clubs and spraying them with pepper spray.

[Gaza Notifications @gazanotice]

⚠️Sensitive Content ⚠️

🚨 BREAKING: Palestinian child sustained a severe leg injury after an Israeli strike targeted them while they were collecting water for their family in Gaza. His brother was killed in the same attack.

[Palestine Solidarity Campaign @PSCupdates]

🚨Breaking - At a protest outside the General Medical Council this afternoon we demand the GMC stops its political attacks on health workers standing up for Palestine, such as Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah.

[Defend Our Juries @DefendOurJuries]

NOT GUILTY

Another seven Just Stop Oil supporters acquitted after slow march.

When juries hear the motivations for peaceful protests, that motivation being to save lives, they find defendants not-guilty.

This is why juries matter. It’s common sense!

https://t.co/CScyD1HHqI

[Craig Mokhiber @CraigMokhiber]

I have written before that, viewed through the lens of international law, the so-called “Board of Peace” is an extension of a unlawful occupation and of an ongoing genocide and, as such, is a criminal enterprise, headed by one of the principal perpetrators of the unlawful occupation and genocide (US) with the collaboration of the other (Israel). Neither the UN Security Council nor any other body has the power or authority to legalize this criminal enterprise. Now the criminal “Board” is seeking to crush one of the last essential obstacles to the genocide (UNRWA) and to redirect (steal) its resources for its own nefarious purposes. I say again: any state, organization, or individual that collaborates with this criminal enterprise should face accountability, no matter how long it takes.

[Gaza Notifications @gazanotice]

🚨BREAKING: At least one Palestinian was killed and several civilians were injured, including infants and children, in an Israeli airstrike on Gaza City.

[Palestine Solidarity Campaign @PSCupdates]

Today hundreds of people joined our lobby of Parliament to demand MPs and the government take urgent action on Palestine.

We demanded an end Starmer’s policy on Israel and pressure it to end its ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people through sanctions and an arms embargo.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Palestinian goalkeeper Saleem Al-Ashqar was shot dead by Israeli forces in Gaza. Married just five months ago, he leaves behind a wife expecting their first child. The Palestinian Football Association says more than 1,000 Palestinian athletes have been killed since October 2023.

[UCU @ucu]

Exeter University wants to axe over 200 jobs and calls it “financial pressure”.

Reserves up £188m. Six-figure salaries more than doubled.

The money is the there just not for the people who teach.

Academic vandalism at its finest.

https://t.co/bIFh9hvAaK

[UCU @ucu]

“I won't roll out the red carpet for any employer who mistreats their staff. Drop the deductions, get back round the table."

Thanks to Lewisham Mayor @LiamShrivastava for coming down to the pickets at @GoldsmithsUCU today.

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

In a discussion on #politicslondon about Starmers record well done to @faizashaheen for mentioning Palestine & for pointing out that when it comes to scrapping the 2 child benefit cap he had to be forced to do it after suspending Labour MPs from the PLP who voted to scrap it!