It took me a couple of days to read the latest @UN Commission of Inquiry's report on how Israel is deliberately targeting Palestinian children. I had to stop, again and again, just to breathe. The level of devastation, the detail, the evidence, it is overwhelming.
The findings are devastating and unequivocal: Israeli authorities and security forces have deliberately targeted Palestinian children, resulting in genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in #Gaza, and war crimes in the occupied West Bank.
At @Amnesty, we documented the genocide in Gaza in our report published in December 2024, and more recently detailed evidence of ethnic cleansing in the West Bank. We know the patterns. We have exposed the atrocities. Yet reading this report still shakes you to the core. It goes deeper into the intent, into the systematic nature of the violence, into the unbearable reality that children themselves are being targeted.
This is not collateral damage. This is not incidental. This is deliberate. Children, killed, maimed, traumatized, deprived not only of safety, but of any possibility of a future. Entire generations being erased in plain sight.
How much more evidence does the world need? How many more reports must confirm what is already undeniable?
Governments cannot continue to look away. Silence and inaction, in this moment, are complicity.
This must end. Israel must be held fully accountable.
🔗https://t.co/n6K8HpK3nh
Woman posts Israeli murders of Palestinian children and is... branded a terrorist by the UK
Sarah Wilkinson is a 61-year-old British pro-Palestine activist and independent journalist who has spent years campaigning for Palestinian rights. She has written for MENA Uncensored, sought to join humanitarian missions such as the Freedom Flotilla, and has become one of the most prolific online chroniclers of life and death in Gaza.
By her own account and that of supporters, she dedicated much of her life to documenting a conflict that much of the Western media either ignored or covered only intermittently.
Then, in August 2024, British counter-terrorism police raided her home, seized her electronic devices and arrested her over material she had posted online. Whether one agrees with every opinion Sarah Wilkinson has ever expressed is not the central issue.
The undeniable fact is that countless posts on her accounts documented Palestinian civilians, including children, killed in Israeli military operations. The children remain dead. The destroyed neighbourhoods remain destroyed.
Yet the woman sharing those images found herself investigated under terrorism legislation. It is a remarkable inversion of moral focus. When documenting civilian suffering attracts the attention of counter-terrorism police, while the suffering itself risks becoming background noise, a disturbing question presents itself:
what exactly is being protected, the public from dangerous ideas, or governments with blood on their hands from uncomfortable realities?
ICC Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan blew the lid off Trump and Netanyahu 🔥👏
Khan: "They threatened ICC judges, UN staff, and my family over Israel cases.
🇺🇸 12 U.S. senators sent a letter saying 'Go after 🇮🇱 Israel and we go after you and your family.
Then came sanctions, frozen accounts, travel bans. It is deeply dangerous for states to bully international justice."
Finally someone said this. What a COURAGE this man has 💪 🫡
🚨BREAKING: The Lebanese Army Is Attacking Its Own People In Beirut
This was ordered by the government that is being protested because it recognised Israel.
For 3 months that army has been running away from Israel & refused to fire 1 bullet in defence of the country.
"McSweeney quietly inflamed the 'antisemitism crisis' that would dog Corbyn’s leadership from at least 2018.
"He did so by seeding and placing stories into the press that helped to build the narrative that Corbyn’s Labour had become riddled with antisemitism".
https://t.co/YChCpCVXcR
3 judges with the International Criminal Court filed a lawsuit in a US federal court against Trump and his administration, challenging the sanctions against them and calling it a "financial death penalty."
The judges bringing the lawsuit are:
- Kimberly Prost (Canada)
- Solomy Balungi Bossa (Uganda)
- Reine Adelaide Sophie Alapini-Gansou (Benin)
Trump placed sanctions on the judges over their judicial decisions regarding investigations into war crimes by Israel and the US.
The judges argue that the sanctions are extrajudicial measures meant to punish and coerce them. They say the restrictions cut them off from banking, online platforms, travel booking, and sometimes health insurance.
This should be much bigger news.
Over 6,000 people have joined our call for a halt to new hyperscale data centres in Scotland. Have you?
The 24 applications in so far would require 1.5 times as much energy as all of Scotland uses at peak demand. We can't let this free-for-all continue.
https://t.co/emkdUUYoi6
UK church leaders and NGOs call to suspend UK arms sales to Israel, ban trade with illegal Israeli settlements, suspend the UK-Israel Trade Agreement, impose wide-ranging sanctions and call for accountability for war crimes. https://t.co/U0JEbeWTED
@GBC_Press@SSalyers2 So what the fuck are the UN going to do about it? There should be be comprehensive sanctions ASAP and be shunned from every society on the planet, including sporting endeavours
In the whole world only Norway has a murder rate just lower than Scotland after 19 years of evidence-based and joined up policy initiatives back by funding from a government that listens to professional and academic opinion https://t.co/DL1fmTQkLT
From the outset of his leadership of Labour in 2020, Starmer had worked assiduously to purge the party of its left wing over criticisms of Israel – under the guise of addressing a supposed “antisemitism crisis”.
It hardly came as a surprise, then, that he alienated swaths of the British public with his first foreign-policy test – in Gaza.
In late 2023, as opposition leader, when he had a chance to distance himself from the Tory government’s illegal collusion with Israel, Starmer shocked even sections of his party’s right wing by declaring that Israel’s denial of water, food and power to millions of Palestinians was an act of “self-defence”.
A former human rights lawyer, Starmer was excusing an unquestionable war crime.
The International Criminal Court would later issue an arrest warrant for Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, accusing him of crimes against humanity over the starvation blockade of Gaza endorsed by Starmer.
Once in office, Starmer proved no better. He repeatedly denied that the situation in Gaza was a genocide, even though he himself had argued before the International Court of Justice in 2014 that a Serbian attack on the Croatian city of Vukovar 23 years earlier was a genocide. That attack was many orders of magnitude less destructive than Israel’s erasure of Gaza.
Starmer refused even to admit that Israel was committing war crimes in the enclave – not least, because to do so would have required him to stop colluding in those atrocities.
His government continued to sell arms to Israel, and allowed Israeli arms manufacturers such as Elbit Systems to operate factories in the UK to build killer drones for use in Gaza.
British planes transported large shipments of weapons to Israel that helped level the tiny territory, while also carrying out endless surveillance flights over Gaza to supply Israel with intelligence used to obliterate the enclave.
At the same time, Britain provided diplomatic cover for Israeli crimes, including at the UN Security Council, and welcomed Israeli generals and politicians suspected of war crimes.
But most significantly of all, the Starmer government went further than the Conservatives in cracking down on basic and long-cherished rights to speech and assembly to stifle protests against what a consensus of experts concluded early on was a genocide by Israel.
In this regard, Starmer appeared to be extending to the wider public the dirty-tricks, antisemitism smears he had used against Corbyn and his supporters.
In the previous Conservative government, home secretary Suella Braverman had branded anti-genocide demonstrations in London that attracted hundreds of thousands of Britons as "hate marches".
Starmer’s first home secretary, Yvette Cooper, not only continued the theme but recruited Britain’s draconian terrorism laws to further chill the protests.
Journalists and political activists who criticised the government’s complicity in genocide had their homes raided by police at dawn, and faced the threat of up to 14 years in jail for “supporting terrorism”.
Next, Cooper proscribed as a terrorist organisation the direct action group Palestine Action, which targeted Israeli factories hosted on British soil that make killer drones to be used in Gaza.
It was not just the first time in British history that a direct action group had been proscribed. In a related legal first, the judge in the trial of four Palestine Action activists sentenced them this month as terrorists, even though none had been convicted of a terrorism offence or of causing intentional violence.
A popular backlash was inevitable. Thousands of elderly Britons – from vicars and lawyers to doctors and army veterans – took to the streets in protest at an unprecedented assault on civil liberties.
In a clear indication of the deeply authoritarian instincts of Starmer and his government, the police were sent in to arrest the protesters en masse. They now face charges of “supporting terrorism”.
Meanwhile, the government announced it was preparing to scrap the right of many defendants to trial by jury – one of the most important safeguards against the dangers of state overreach.
It was hard not to conclude that the government’s urge to dispense with juries followed from the fact that juries had shown themselves far less ready than judges to convict those caught up in Starmer’s wholesale assault on rights of speech and protest.
This is an extract from my latest article Burnham must break with Starmer's dishonest politics. Find a link to the rest of the article in the reply post ⬇️
The World Central Kitchen announced yesterday the complete suspension of its services in the city of Khan Younis and terminated the contracts of more than 150 cooks.
Every short period, it seems to announce a new suspension or the end of part of its operations, as if stability in providing aid no longer exists at all. The meals they provided were the only semi stable source of food for hundreds of thousands of families. Now, services have been halted by nearly 90% across Gaza City.
Today, while distributing water, we passed by one of the food kitchens that used to distribute meals. There was nothing left except a large pot of plain white rice, with no additions no sauce, no vegetables, not even a pinch of salt. I saw hundreds of people men, women, children, and elderly literally fighting over this small amount of rice. They pushed each other, stretched out their hands in desperation, their eyes hollow, and their faces pale.
I saw the anguish in their eyes. I saw the sadness weighing down every step. The world does not fully understand the scale of the tragedy here. Every time an aid organization stops or reduces its services, another part of life in Gaza dies.
My family and I used to benefit from these meals that were being provided, but for many months now we have not received a single meal. I say this not only as an individual case, but as a reflection of a reality that now includes thousands of families who have lost this essential source of food.
I swear to you that what we are living through cannot be described in words. People are not just hungry they are broken. They need more aid, not less. What they have endured is enough; the death that follows them every day is enough.
@DropSiteNews Yes but the Scottish crown is very different to the English crown which is why the treaty of the union is void. The Scottish crown belongs to the people who can dispose as they see fit. The English crown is very different. This is why the treaty of the union is a fallacy
Do you need a tray mate?
Nah, I'll be OK.
A Dutch supporter ordered 26 pints of Tennants 🍻 in a bar in Scotland on Saturday whilst watching the Netherlands 🇳🇱 take on Sweden 🇸🇪
Unbelievable effort carrying them all back to his mates!
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
😂😂😂
#Netherlands#Dutch #FIFAWorldCup2026