Samir Eskanda

سمير إسكندر Palestinian-Irish artist, organiser and human rights activist

[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

[Pop Base @PopBase]

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

He leaves behind his wife of 5 months who is expecting their first child.

[Samir Eskanda @Samir_Eskanda]

Eurovision loses 35 million viewers this year after boycott over Israel’s participation
https://t.co/UxtPPW8Fkb

[BDS movement @BDSmovement]

Good riddance!

One of the last acts by genocide enabling ex-foreign minister of Germany, Annalena Baerbock, as UN General Assembly president was to announce that Germany for the first time in decades lost its bid for a seat in the UN Security Council.

True to its genocidal history, Germany provides massive material and diplomatic support to enable Israel's genocide, apartheid and illegal occupation against Palestinians.

Now Germany's global reputation and business seem to be sinking along with its preferred partner in crime--Israel.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

Drop Site News was scheduled to host a panel discussion at SXSW London on June 3. We have informed the organizers we will not be moving forward with the event following SXSW’s refusal to condemn the British Home Office’s state censorship of our colleagues Hasan Piker and Cenk Uygur, who were also scheduled to speak at SXSW. The banning of our colleagues is part of an intensifying campaign by the UK government to stifle criticism of Israel and criminalize pro-Palestine activism at a time when the genocide in Gaza is continuing.

[Joey La Neve DeFrancesco @JoeyQuits]

@hasanthehun There is an active BDS call for SXSW to end their complicity https://t.co/qSm2d5k7qP

[Ash Sarkar @AyoCaesar]

I pulled out of SXSW London, and I hope other speakers and chairs do too.

[PACBI - BDS movement @PACBI]

Even before its ongoing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, Israel spent hundreds of millions of dollars fighting the global, grassroots BDS movement as a "strategic threat" to its decades-old regime of oppression. 🧵

https://t.co/6CblOQ2lgx

[Samir Eskanda @Samir_Eskanda]

https://t.co/Xw8hNaHKHb

[PACBI - BDS movement @PACBI]

From Eurovision to Hollywood & the Venice Biennale, artists and cultural workers increasingly reject links of complicity with genocidal Israel, which resorts to interference, intimidation & bribery as it continues its genocide against Palestinians in Gaza
https://t.co/6CblOQ2lgx

[Variety @Variety]

Javier Bardem says in #Cannes that genocide being committed in Gaza "is a fact."

"You can fight against, you can try to justify it... it is a fact. If you justify it with your silence or your support, you are pro-genocide. Those are facts for me."

https://t.co/8PctbmMzM3

[PACBI - BDS movement @PACBI]

The NYT report on @Eurovision also said that “in some countries, it would have only taken a few hundred people to tip the popular vote,” including in countries where Israel is “deeply unpopular,” and that overall this “campaign could have easily changed the contest outcome.”

[PACBI - BDS movement @PACBI]

Even the New York Times–an outlet whose shameless bias has helped enable Israel’s genocide and decades of oppression against Palestinians–has found that “Israel’s efforts to influence Eurovision’s vote were broader and started years earlier than previously known."

[Samir Eskanda @Samir_Eskanda]

I spoke to @owenjonesjourno about the five broadcasters, thousands of artists and millions of fans boycotting @Eurovision
https://t.co/bF0jlBOzG8

[BDS movement @BDSmovement]

Boycott Eurovision

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez has defended Spain’s boycott of the Eurovision Song Contest over Israel’s participation, saying 'silence is not an option' while citing the genocide in Gaza and the 'illegal war' on Lebanon.

[Lamine Yamal FC 🇪🇸 @Lamineeyamal__]

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[IPSC @ipsc48]

Palestinian-Irish artist and BDS activist Samir Eskanda speaking at the sold out Intal United for Palestine event in Brussels on how apartheid Israel uses Eurovision to artwash its genocide of Palestinians and how it must be expelled from the contest. #BoycottEurovision

[Yousef Munayyer @YousefMunayyer]

Genocide includes "creating conditions of life calculated to destroy the group".

[Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec]

Everyone should read what the Israeli military did to journalist Amal Khalil today in this minute-by-minute account as the international community watched in horror. First the text messages threatening her then trapping her and a photographer in a house then bombing them then firing on international rescue crews, all with the world watching in real time. There are no words left for the horrors that U.S. political leaders are enabling.