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[DilinODose @MimiVonPeach]

She says 'Europe must act now'
Yet when given the chance to act, just last night, she and her whole party (FFG - THEY'RE ONE PARTY) refused to act.
Talking out of both sides of her mouth. Harris and Martin do the same.
Never believe them. Never vote for them. Never FFG.

[Ramita Navai @ramitanavai]

Here is my BAFTA speech in full, with the important bit that hasn't been shown.

Also, a heartfelt thank you to everyone who supported us, and to our colleagues who rallied around us. And thank you to @BAFTA and the judges for a great evening and a great honour.

[🫐 @elmxcccc]

Kevin bridges made a good point when he said instead of a referendum for Scottish independence, Scotland, Wales n NI should vote as to whether we should keep England or not

[Roger G @RogerGalligan]

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Warning: extremely long post in 2 parts.

Over the next week Ireland & RTÉ will come under attack for boycotting the Eurovision. Detractors will unfairly manufacture motives for this as if there were no grounds for Ireland to boycott Israel in the contest - as if the war crimes and other transgressions by Israel never happened. Gone from their memory. In the case of RTÉ I'm sure the fact that 274 journalists & media workers were killed by Israel in Gaza between Oct 2023 & eventual ceasefire in Sep 2025 weighs heavily on the staff there. I've updated my list of reasons that form the basis for Ireland's response. So when someone says:
- "Why are you so obsessed? There can be no other reason but antisemitism"
- "What about Hamas hiding in tunnels, booby traps"
- "There are always casualties in war"
- "Invokes Irish history and references Dev or the 1904 Limerick Pogrom"
- Ad hominem attack

Our response has a firm basis. These are the reasons:

THE DEATH TOLL

1. Over 72,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since Oct 2023 (as of Feb 2026) and 171,000+ have been injured. These are the deaths that have been counted, however thousands more remain under rubble, uncounted. In Jan 2026, a senior Israeli army official confirmed the 70,000 figure to journalists, now agreeing figures that Israel had spent 2 years disputing.

2. Over 21,000 of the dead are children. Approx. 40,000 people have sustained life-altering injuries, incl. ~4,000 who have lost limbs (often amputations performed without anaesthesia). Roughly 10,000 of the injured are children. Save the Children reported over 1,000 babies under 1yr old were killed; 450 of them were born & killed during the war.

3. Official count is an undercount according to 2 independent peer-reviewed studies. The Lancet (Feb 2026) published a household survey where researchers went door-to-door across 2k homes, documenting 9,729 individuals & estimated 75,200 violent deaths in first 15 months. The MoH undercounted by 35%. A separate capture-recapture analysis found an undercount of 41%. 2 diff methods by 2 diff teams producing nearly same result. The Max Planck Institute estimated 100k to 126k dead by Oct 2025. All 3 studies were peer-reviewed. Depressingly, the combined killed & injured, represents over 10% of Gaza's population. Staggering figures.

4. Israel claims it has killed 22k-23k Hamas fighters. But its own military intelligence database, leaked in Aug 2025 & reported by The Guardian & +972 Magazine, recorded only 8,900 fighters confirmed or "probably" dead out of 53,000+ total deaths. That means 83% of dead were civilians.

5. 83% is a floor rather than a ceiling. 53k doesn't include thousands who are unidentified under rubble. Those who aren't counted are overwhelmingly civilians since fighters are tracked by name in Israel's intelligence systems but a family buried under the rubble won't be recorded. 63% of all casualties were killed in airstrikes. Even if you doubled the fighter count it would still leave 67% civilian deaths.

6. Compared to the Russia-Ukraine war: OHCHR has verified 15,172 Ukrainian civilians killed over 4+ years (as of Jan 2026). Combined military deaths on both sides estimated at 375k-465k. Roughly 4% of all deaths in Ukraine are civilian & 96% are combatants. In Gaza those numbers are inverted: 83% civilian, 17% combatant. Daily civilian death rate in Gaza is 8 times higher than in Ukraine. Gaza has a pop. of 2.3m. Ukraine had a pre-war population of around 44m.

7. For comparison: Afghanistan 28% civilian, Syria 28%, Yemen 13% - Gaza at 83% exceeds all of these.

DESTRUCTION & ETHNIC CLEANSING

8. 81% of all structures in Gaza have been damaged or destroyed. In northern Gaza 84%. By Oct 2025 ... 92% of housing units were either fully destroyed or damaged. UN experts use the term "domicide": mass destruction of homes to expel a population & make an area uninhabitable.

9. Over 80% of water & sanitation infrastructure destroyed. 200 of 283 water wells destroyed or out of order. 85% of sewage pumping stations destroyed. 85 of 103 desalination plants damaged or destroyed. All 6 major wastewater treatment plants knocked out. Raw sewage flows through displacement camps. Polio has returned.

10. 95% of Gaza's farmland was damaged. 89% of annual crops & 98% of tree crops were destroyed. 71% of greenhouses damaged. 83% of agricultural wells were destroyed. Buffer zone alone consumed 35% of agricultural land. Capacity to grow food has been decimated.

11. 79% of mosques destroyed. 815 Islamic holy sites destroyed. 3 churches destroyed incl. Church of Saint Porphyrius ... one of oldest churches in world. 19 cemeteries destroyed. UNESCO confirmed that 164 cultural heritage sites had been damaged.

12. Can you return when 92% of homes are destroyed, 95% of schools are rubble, 80% of water infrastructure is gone & every university has been bombed? There is nothing to return to. Israeli minister Gila Gamliel confirmed it openly: "We have already completely annihilated 75% of the entire Strip. There remains 25% which we are now taking over. There will be nothing left there that would really have the potential to be habitable." The destruction causes the displacement.

EDUCATION

13. All of Gaza's 19 universities have been damaged. 80% of university buildings destroyed. 95% of higher education campuses severely damaged or destroyed (UNESCO). There are 90k students with a college. Over 150 academics & researchers have been killed. Israeli soldiers even filmed themselves setting Al-Aqsa University's library on fire. UN experts call this "scholasticide."

14. 778 of Gaza's 815 schools (95.5%) damaged. 137 reduced to rubble. 760 teachers & educational staff killed. 765,000 children completely out of school. You don't destroy 95% of schools if the population is staying.

15. UN warns that prolonged exposure to extreme violence, grief & deprivation is fundamentally altering brain development of an entire generation. In Jerusalem too, Palestinian education is being strangled: in Jan 2026 Israel barred over 230 Palestinian teachers (most from Bethlehem) from entering the city under the permit system, forcing 15 Christian schools serving 12k+ students to suspend classes in protest. 57 teachers were ultimately denied permits on unexplained "security" grounds. The principal of Jerusalem's Bishop's School called them "permits of humiliation."

STARVATION AS A WEAPON

16. By Aug 2024, 84% of Gaza was under evacuation orders with the population now crammed into just 12.6% of Gaza which was designated as a "humanitarian zone." Israel then attacked those "safe zones" ... bombing the places it had ordered people to move to. UN calls this "cartographic terror": forced displacement through contradictory maps, unclear communications & unreliable protocols into areas that were then targeted.

17. Before the war, around 500 trucks entered Gaza daily. Israel cut that to an average of 30. It blocked piped water, cut fuel to desalination plants, imposed a 130-day total fuel blockade & destroyed the food production system. By late 2025, 1.6m people (77% of Gaza's population) were in food crisis or worse. Over 500,000 in "Emergency" food insecurity ... one step below the worst classification.

18. When a US-funded food monitoring body (FEWS NET) issued a food crisis warning for northern Gaza in Dec 2024, the US government pressured them to retract it. Kenneth Roth, former HRW director, said it "sure looks like USAID is allowing political considerations to interfere." Meanwhile children were starving.

19. A peer-reviewed Lancet study screened 219,783 children using MUAC measurements. By Aug 2025: 54,600+ were acutely malnourished, 12,800 severely. In Gaza City malnutrition rose 6-fold in 5 months to 28.8%. Rates tracked directly with aid blockades: rose when aid blocked, fell during ceasefire, rose again when blockade resumed. 440 people had died from starvation by Sept 2025 (Gaza MoH); over 150 of them were children (UNICEF, Oct 2025). Babies died of hypothermia; shelter, fuel & blankets blocked.

20. In the "Flour Massacre" on Feb 29 2024: thousands of Palestinians were queueing for food from aid trucks. Israeli tanks & snipers opened fire, killing at least 118 & injuring 760+. Israel claimed a "stampede." Hospital doctors documented gunshot wounds to the head, neck & upper body.

21. May-Aug 2025: 1,760 killed while seeking food. 994 near sites run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a US/Israeli-backed body that international orgs refused to join. UN called it "not impartial, neutral or independent." Sites designed like compounds: barbed wire, single entrance, watch points. MSF called for it to be dismantled. Amnesty titled their report "Starvation or Gunfire." GHF closed after 5 months having "contributed to tragic loss of hundreds of Palestinian lives." People queued knowing they might be killed because the alternative was watching their children starve.

22. Israel demanded biodata on all aid workers from 37 international organisations incl. MSF & Oxfam. Those who refused were banned. $50+m in food, meds & shelter were blocked at border crossings at the very time children were starving in Gaza.

23. 320 essential medicines went out of stock. 710 medical consumables were completely unavailable (71% shortage). Israel blocked anaesthesia, antibiotics, IV solutions, surgical tools, insulin, dialysis supplies, oxygen cylinders & even gauze under a "dual use" justification. They did not provide a definitive list of banned items. This meant that doctors had to perform surgery without anaesthesia, without sutures, without painkillers. It is documented that these restrictions were the direct cause of deaths.

24. In Jan 2025, Israel said that Gaza's sea shore was a complete "no-go zone". They banned all fishing. Before the war, approx. 6,000 people worked in fishing. By Dec 2024, 200 fishermen had been killed by Israeli forces. UN documented 28 attacks on fishermen between Jan & May 2025 alone ... 11 killed, 34 injured. Fishing infrastructure destroyed. For a population being starved, the sea was the last potential food source & Israel closed it.

25. Over 18,500 critically ill patients need medical evacuation from Gaza incl. 4,000 children. At current pace it would take 5 to 10 years to evacuate them all. Israel destroyed Gaza's only cancer hospital (Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital) ... 11,000 cancer patients now stranded with no treatment. Around 400 kidney dialysis patients died by July 2025. 1,360 patients died waiting to travel after Israel seized Rafah crossing in May 2024. Between 6 & 10 patients die every day while waiting for evacuation.

26. Israel has deliberately destroyed rescue equipment needed to recover bodies from rubble. In one strike on a parking garage in Jabaliya, 9 bulldozers provided by Egypt & Qatar were destroyed. UN reported that destruction of "vital lifting gear halts search for thousands buried under rubble." Families search for the missing with bare hands ... forced to collect body parts in plastic bags. Over 10,000 people were trapped under rubble as of May 2024. Without excavators, they remain there.

ATTACKS ON HOSPITALS & MEDICS

27. By early 2026, no hospitals in Gaza were operating fully. Out of 36, only 17 were partially operating. WHO documented 735 attacks on healthcare in Gaza, killing 917 people & damaging 125 health facilities.

28. Between 1,580 & 1,722 healthcare workers were killed in Gaza between Oct 2023 & mid-2025. An average of two medical professionals killed every single day for nearly two years.

29. Dr. Adnan Al-Bursh, head of orthopaedics at Al-Shifa, stayed to treat the wounded. He was arrested, stripped & taken to Ofer Prison. Four months later he was dead. A fellow prisoner saw him dragged into the yard, naked from the waist down, bleeding & unable to stand. Israel has not returned his body to his family for more than a year.

30. Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, paediatric director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, was detained in Dec 2024. He refused to leave his very ill patients & premature infants. In 2026 it was confirmed that he'd been subjected to severe torture, starvation & massive weight loss. He remains held without charge.

31. Five-year-old Hind Rajab was trapped in a car surrounded by six dead family members, killed by tank fire. She stayed on the phone with the Red Crescent for hours. Two paramedics were sent to rescue her, after getting military clearance. Their ambulance was hit by a tank round. All three died. Forensic analysis found 335 bullets were fired at the car from 13-23 metres away. She was 5 years old.

32. In March 2025 in Rafah, Israeli forces targeted five ambulances & a fire truck "one by one." The bodies of 15 aid workers were later found in a mass grave. They had been shot at close range in the head & chest, some with hands or feet bound.

CHILDREN

33. Over 1,500 Palestinian children have been detained since Oct 2023. They are subjected to the same "torturous environment" as adults: starvation, beatings, sexual harassment & psychological abuse. Some returned to Gaza severely traumatised & completely alone, unable to find surviving family.

34. Israel systematically prosecutes Palestinian children in military courts, 500 to 700 every year. Children taken in night raids, blindfolded, bound with zip ties, beaten in transit & interrogated without a parent or lawyer present. Conviction rate near 100%, based almost entirely on coerced confessions.

TORTURE

35. UN reported that torture of Palestinian prisoners has become "state doctrine." Methods documented include rape with objects incl. rifle barrels, genital electric shocks, setting dogs on detainees, starvation & prolonged shackling until bone was exposed, requiring amputations.

36. More than 18,500 Palestinians have been detained since Oct 2023 and 9,245 are still in custody. There are 3,358 held under "administrative detention", indefinitely & without charge based on secret evidence that is not revealed to them or their lawyers. Over 4k are "enforced disappearances." Red Cross have been denied access. Those detained without charge should be considered Palestinian hostages. Over 50 UNRWA staff have been arrested, interrogated specifically about UNRWA's work & tortured ... a deliberate targeting of the agency itself.

37. Of 59 journalists released from Israeli custody, 58 reported being tortured. 2 reported that they were raped.

38. At Sde Teiman detention facility, soldiers raped a Palestinian detainee so violently he required emergency surgery for life-threatening rectal injuries. When military police came to investigate, right-wing mobs ... incl. sitting members of the Knesset ... stormed the base & physically attacked the investigators. Soldiers charged with "severe physical assault" only. No rape charges, despite medical evidence. Even those charges were later dropped.

39. Israeli soldiers have routinely filmed themselves breaking into Palestinian homes, rummaging through women's underwear, displaying it as war trophies & posting it online with sexualised, degrading commentary. No disciplinary action.

40. National Security Minister Ben-Gvir ordered on 14 Nov 2023 that Palestinian detainees be kept handcuffed in dark cells with iron beds & pit toilets, with Israeli national anthem blaring continuously. He described degradation of prisoner conditions as "one of his highest goals." He ordered caloric intake cuts & defended prisoner starvation before the Supreme Court. He reopened Rakefet prison at Ayalon ... a facility that had been closed since 1985 because of its inhumane underground conditions.

41. Palestinians held outdoors in cages referred to internally as "monkey cages." Detainees forced to wear diapers because toilet access routinely denied. Forced to take hallucinogenic drugs. During some interrogations detainees were held in "disco rooms" where deafening music was blasted continuously. To further torment captives held from Gaza, images of the destruction in Gaza were displayed in the prisons. Released detainees, incl children, were dumped at random locations at night, sometimes wearing only diapers or underwear. Some had lost limbs, sight or ability to speak while in prison.

42. 17yr old Walid Khalid Ahmad died in Megiddo Prison in Mar 2025. Autopsy documented starvation, dehydration, untreated infections & systemic neglect. A child had starved to death in an Israeli prison.

43. The witness who leaked the Sde Teiman sexual abuse footage ended up vilified & prosecuted while the perpetrators were celebrated & protected. Some senior ministers described torture as a "holy job." A rabbi offered blessings to the abusers. The Israeli public largely opposed any investigation. Over 1,300 torture complaints between 2001-2020 produced 2 investigations & zero indictments. Only 1 case has been prosecuted since Oct 2023: a reservist sentenced to 7 months for severely assaulting bound & blindfolded detainees.

IDF CONDUCT

44. Dr. Mark Perlmutter, a Jewish-American surgeon, volunteered in Gaza in 2024. He reported to CBS News that IDF snipers were deliberately shooting children: "No toddler gets shot twice by mistake by 'the world's best sniper.'" He said 70-75% of his surgical patients were elementary school age or younger. Over 20 American doctors corroborated this. Prof Nizam Mamode, a retired NHS transplant surgery lead, gave evidence to UK Parliament that after bombings, Israeli drones would descend & "pick off" injured children on the ground. He told MPs: "I was operating on children who would say: 'this quadcopter came down & hovered over me & shot me.'" Youngest child he operated on was three years old.

45. A Haaretz investigation found soldiers described a "kill zone" in the Netzarim corridor where anyone who crosses an unmarked line is shot. A commander ordered that "anyone crossing the line is a terrorist, no exceptions, no civilians." Of 200 reported "militants" killed, only 10 were confirmed Hamas members. At least 773 have been killed & 2,000+ wounded near the "Yellow Line" during the Gaza ceasefire (since Oct 2025), with many of them women & children.

46. Israel used AI systems called "Lavender" & "Where's Daddy?" to generate a kill list of 37,000 people. Human operators spent ~20 seconds per target as a "rubber stamp." "Where's Daddy?" tracked targets to their family homes at night, then bombed them with unguided "dumb bombs", killing entire families. NOTE:Pre-authorised civilian casualty threshold was 15-20 per low-ranking target, *over 100 per senior target* - as per 6 intelligence officer testimonies.

47. In Apr 2025, Breaking the Silence (Israeli veterans' organisation) published testimony from dozens of soldiers describing orders to "deliberately, methodically & systematically annihilate" everything within a buffer zone consuming 16% of Gaza. Kill order: "Adult, male, kill. Shoot to kill." Soldiers briefed there was "no civilian population" & all remaining Palestinians were "terrorists." Israeli soldiers have built roads & permanent military bases across over 26% of Gaza ... infrastructure for permanent presence, not a temporary operation.

48. IDF systematically used Palestinian civilians as human shields ... codenamed "the mosquito protocol." Detainees dressed in IDF uniforms, cameras strapped to them, sent into suspected booby-trapped buildings first. An officer said: "Almost every platoon keeps a 'shawish'... We operate a sub-army of slaves." It was confirmed the practice was systemic. Israeli Supreme Court had previously banned an identical practice under a different name.

49. In first six weeks alone, Israel dropped nearly 600 US-made 2,000-pound bombs on Gaza. A Harvard study found one-third landed within lethal range of hospitals. A single 2,000-pound bomb has lethal blast radius of over 350 metres. UN said use of such bombs on residential buildings, schools & refugee camps "raises serious concerns under the laws of war."

50. Human Rights Watch confirmed Israel used white phosphorus which burns at 800°C & cannot be extinguished with water. These were used over populated areas in both Gaza & Lebanon. A researcher mapped 248 white phosphorus strikes in Lebanon, where 39% hit civilian areas. HRW called this "unlawfully indiscriminate."

51. Washington Post verified over 120 videos of soldiers celebrating destruction of homes, mosques & civilian infrastructure. One soldier destroyed 21 homes "to commemorate 21 Israeli soldiers." Approx. 1,000 soldiers named in an ICC complaint based on footage they posted themselves. In April 2026, Haaretz reported open looting of Lebanese homes & businesses by IDF soldiers in southern Lebanon: motorcycles, TVs, paintings, sofas & rugs loaded into vehicles in plain sight. Further testimonies described theft of gold bars. Military police checkpoints meant to stop looting were removed or never set up. Battalion & brigade commanders were aware but did not act. As one soldier put it: "when there is no punishment, the message is clear."

SYSTEMATIC VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN

52. Israel deliberately destroyed Gaza's maternity hospitals, neonatal wards & territory's only IVF clinic. UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women said targeting of Palestinian women is deliberate & systematic. Women forced to undergo C-sections without anaesthesia, antibiotics or clean water. Maternal & neonatal death rates have skyrocketed.

53. Based on Gaza's birth rate & overall death toll, I estimate 1,000 to 1,500 pregnant women have been directly killed. That figure does not incl. deaths from there being no hospitals left to deliver babies, or from ambulances being bombed.

54. Hundreds of Palestinian women & girls arbitrarily detained since Oct 7. Denied menstruation pads, food & medicine. Severely beaten. On at least one occasion, Palestinian women detained in Gaza were kept in a cage in the rain & cold without food. Women stripped naked & searched by male soldiers. At least 2 female detainees raped, others threatened. Photos of female detainees in degrading circumstances taken by soldiers & uploaded online. Women & children reported as "gone missing after contact with the Israeli army." There's a report of at least one female infant being forcibly transferred to Israel.

55. Over 90% of Gaza's population forcibly displaced into overcrowded camps averaging 1.5 square metres per person. Women & girls stripped of all privacy & bodily autonomy. Collapse of societal structures has driven a rise in child marriage as a survival mechanism.

STATE SUPPORTED SETTLER VIOLENCE

56. Settler violence in West Bank hit highest daily average since records began in 2006. Settlers are armed, equipped & trained by Israeli military. Government also provides them with security equipment (drones, off-road vehicles) which are then used to attack & harass Palestinians. Effectively this is policy. Netanyahu has dismissed the violence as the work of "a handful of kids." In May 2026, IDF Central Command chief Maj. Gen. Avi Bluth admitted he prefers troops use nonlethal means against settler stone-throwers ... while in 2025 alone the IDF killed 42 Palestinian stone-throwers on West Bank roads.

57. In Apr 2024, settlers attacked 11 villages over several days, resulting in 4 dead, 100 cars burned & thousands of animals killed. Israeli military blocked ambulances from reaching the wounded.

58. Near Bethlehem in Aug 2024, settlers handcuffed two 15-year-old Palestinian boys, broke their legs & urinated on them.

59. Over 1,000 Palestinians have been killed in West Bank incl East Jerusalem since Oct 7 2023. This is 10 times the previous 20-year average. 167 of the dead are children ... approx. 1/5 of all West Bank children Israel has killed since UN records began in 2000, in just 2 years. Settler attacks increased from ~1,860 in 2021-2023 to at 3,088+ in 2023-2025. More than 40k were displaced by military attacks, destroying 3 refugee camps. Bluth boasted in May 2026 the IDF was "killing like we haven't killed since 1967" & spoke of "turning villages into conflict zones." Defence Minister Katz instructed the military to "prepare for an extended stay for the coming year and to not allow the return of residents." Settler groups put up billboards with the slogan "No future in Palestine" beside images of Gaza's destruction.

60. Between Feb 28 & April 27 2026, OCHA recorded 13 Palestinians killed by settlers, 100's injured & 622 driven from their homes ... an avg of ~7 attacks a day. For all of 2025 toll was up to 15 settler killings: 2 months of 2026 nearly matched a full year. During Eid al-Fitr in Mar 2026, 15-30 West Bank communities were attacked over multiple nights, burning homes, vehicles & fields. Israeli forces were present but largely did not intervene; in some cases soldiers took part in the attacks. Amir Odeh (28) was shot dead in Qusra; Odeh Awawdeh (25) was shot dead trying to stop settlers stealing his sheep.

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[Roger G @RogerGalligan]

Pro-Israel social media influencer, @rachelmoiselle, puts up hurdles to expressing an opinion; if you haven't said something about x then you're a hypocrite to be saying things about y. She suggests to her followers that Irish people are "obsessively" anti-Israel. Yet she rarely comments specifically on the problematic actions of Israel.

To use her own standard; one shouldn't comment on Irish people's views on Israel unless you has offered an opinion on the list I've put together below. Matters that Rachel has been mostly silent on. Matters that don't get discussed in Tel Aviv, sipping cocktails. Matters that you won't hear on a curated Hasbara tour of Israel. Yet they are matters that cannot be avoided if you are to offer an opinion that Irish people's criticism of Israel is "obsessive" or "extreme".

So before one says about Ireland that "a profound evil has gripped this country" or that they are "profoundly ashamed to be Irish" perhaps they could deal with the issues that disturb many Irish people, namely:

THE DEATH TOLL

1. Over 72,000 Palestinians killed in Gaza since Oct 2023, with 171,000+ injured. These are the numbers that have been counted. Thousands more remain under rubble, uncounted.

2. Over 21,000 of the dead are children. That's more children killed than in any other conflict tracked by the UN in the same period. Tens of thousands more have life-changing injuries incl. amputations performed without anaesthesia.

3. 81% of all structures in Gaza have been destroyed. Neighbourhoods, away from combat zones, bulldozed. This isn't collateral damage. It's uninhabitability by design.

STARVATION AS A WEAPON

4. Before the war, around 500 trucks entered Gaza daily. Israel cut that to an average of 30. It blocked piped water, cut fuel to desalination plants, imposed a 130-day total fuel blockade & destroyed the local food production system. By late 2025, 1.6 million people (77% of Gaza's population) were in food crisis or worse. Over 500,000 were in "Emergency" food insecurity, one step below famine. A peer-reviewed Lancet study of nearly 220,000 children found 54,600 acutely malnourished, with rates reaching 30% in Gaza City.

5. When a US-funded food monitoring body (FEWS NET) issued a famine warning for northern Gaza in Dec 2024, the US government pressured them to retract it. Kenneth Roth, former HRW director, said it "sure looks like USAID is allowing political considerations to interfere." Netanyahu's office called a later famine finding a "modern blood libel." Meanwhile within the data there were children starving.

6. Over 101,000 children under five suffered acute malnutrition. 31,000 of them severe cases with high mortality risk. Babies have died of hypothermia in winter because shelter, fuel & blankets were blocked. Polio has re-emerged. At least 151 children have died directly from malnutrition; 80% of all starvation deaths were children.

7. The "Flour Massacre" of Feb 29, 2024: thousands of starving Palestinians queued for aid trucks. Israeli tanks & snipers opened fire, killing at least 118 & injuring 760+. Israel claimed a "stampede." Hospital doctors documented gunshot wounds to the head, neck & upper body.

8. Between May & August 2025 alone, 1,857 Palestinians were killed while trying to get food. People will risk being shot trying to reach an aid truck if the alternative is watching their children starve.

9. Israel demanded biodata on all aid workers from 37 international organisations including MSF & Oxfam. Those who refused were banned. Over $50 million in food, medicine & shelter sat blocked at crossings while children starved on the other side.

ATTACKS ON HOSPITALS & MEDICS

10. By early 2026, zero hospitals in Gaza were fully functional. Out of 36, only 17 were partially operating. The WHO documented 735 attacks on healthcare in Gaza, killing 917 people & damaging 125 health facilities.

11. Between 1,580 & 1,722 healthcare workers were killed in Gaza between Oct 2023 & mid-2025. That's an average of two medical professionals killed every single day for nearly two years.

12. Dr. Adnan Al-Bursh, head of orthopaedics at Al-Shifa, stayed to treat the wounded. He was arrested, stripped & taken to Ofer Prison. Four months later he was dead. A fellow prisoner saw him dragged into the yard, naked from the waist down, bleeding & unable to stand. Israel has withheld his body for over a year.

13. Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, paediatric director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, was detained in Dec 2024. He refused to abandon critically ill patients & premature infants. By early 2026, UN experts confirmed he'd been subjected to severe torture, starvation & massive weight loss. He remains held without charge.

14. Five-year-old Hind Rajab was trapped in a car surrounded by six dead family members, killed by tank fire. She stayed on the phone with the Red Crescent for hours. Two paramedics were sent to rescue her, after getting military clearance. Their ambulance was hit by a tank round. All three died. Forensic analysis found 335 bullets were fired at the car from 13-23 metres away. She was 5 years old.

15. In March 2025 in Rafah, Israeli forces targeted five ambulances & a fire truck "one by one." The bodies of 15 aid workers were later found in a mass grave. Shot at close range in the head & chest, some with hands or feet bound.

WHAT THEY'RE DOING TO CHILDREN

16. Over 1,500 Palestinian children have been detained since Oct 2023. They are subjected to the same "torturous environment" as adults: starvation, beatings, sexual harassment & psychological abuse. Some returned to Gaza severely traumatised & completely alone, unable to find surviving family.

17. Israel systematically prosecutes Palestinian children in military courts, 500 to 700 every year. Children are taken in night raids, blindfolded, bound with zip ties, beaten in transit & interrogated without a parent or lawyer present. The conviction rate is near 100%, based almost entirely on coerced confessions.

18. 765,000 children in Gaza are completely out of school. The UN warns that prolonged exposure to extreme violence, grief & deprivation is fundamentally altering the brain development of an entire generation.

TORTURE AS STATE POLICY

19. A UN Special Rapporteur reported that torture of Palestinian prisoners has become "state doctrine." Methods documented include rape with objects including rifle barrels, genital electric shocks, setting dogs on detainees, starvation & prolonged shackling until bone was exposed, requiring amputations.

20. Over 18,500 Palestinians have been detained since Oct 2023, with 9,245 still in custody. 3,358 are held under "administrative detention": indefinitely, without charge, based on secret evidence neither they nor their lawyers can see. Over 4,000 are "enforced disappearances." The Red Cross has been denied access. Those detained without charge should be considered as Palestinian hostages.

21. Of 59 journalists released from Israeli custody, 58 reported being tortured. Two reported being raped.

22. At Sde Teiman detention facility, soldiers raped a Palestinian detainee so violently he required emergency surgery for life-threatening rectal injuries. When military police came to investigate, right-wing mobs, including sitting members of the Knesset, stormed the base & physically attacked the investigators. Soldiers were charged with "severe physical assault" only. No rape charges, despite medical evidence. Even those charges were later dropped.

23. Israeli soldiers have routinely filmed themselves breaking into Palestinian homes, rummaging through women's underwear, displaying it as war trophies & posting it online with sexualised, degrading commentary. No disciplinary action.

HOW THE IDF CONDUCTS THIS WAR

24. Dr. Mark Perlmutter, a Jewish-American surgeon, volunteered in Gaza in 2024. He told CBS News that IDF snipers were deliberately shooting children: "No toddler gets shot twice by mistake by 'the world's best sniper.'" He said 70-75% of his surgical patients were elementary school age or younger. Over 20 American doctors corroborated this. Prof Nizam Mamode, a retired NHS transplant surgery lead, gave evidence to the UK Parliament that after bombings, Israeli drones would descend & "pick off" injured children on the ground. He told MPs: "I was operating on children who would say: 'this quadcopter came down & hovered over me & shot me.'" The youngest child he operated on was three years old.

25. A Haaretz investigation found soldiers described a "kill zone" in the Netzarim corridor where anyone who crosses an unmarked line is shot. A battalion commander ordered: "Anyone crossing the line is a terrorist, no exceptions, no civilians." Of 200 reported "militants" killed, only 10 were confirmed Hamas members. At least 224 were killed near the "Yellow Line" during the ceasefire, many of them women & children.

26. Israel used AI systems called "Lavender" & "Where's Daddy?" to generate a kill list of 37,000 people. Human operators spent ~20 seconds per target as a "rubber stamp." "Where's Daddy?" tracked targets to their family homes at night, then bombed them with unguided "dumb bombs," killing entire families. The pre-authorised civilian casualty threshold was 15-20 per low-ranking target, over 100 per senior target. Reported by +972 Magazine from six intelligence officer testimonies.

27. In April 2025, Breaking the Silence (an Israeli veterans' organisation) published testimony from dozens of soldiers describing orders to "deliberately, methodically & systematically annihilate" everything within a buffer zone consuming 16% of Gaza. The kill order: "Adult, male, kill. Shoot to kill." Soldiers were briefed there was "no civilian population" & all remaining Palestinians were "terrorists."

28. The IDF systematically used Palestinian civilians as human shields, codenamed "the mosquito protocol." Detainees were dressed in IDF uniforms, had cameras strapped to them & were sent into suspected booby-trapped buildings first. An officer said: "Almost every platoon keeps a 'shawish'... We operate a sub-army of slaves." The AP confirmed the practice was systemic. The Israeli Supreme Court had previously banned the identical practice under a different name.

29. In the first six weeks alone, Israel dropped nearly 600 US-made 2,000-pound bombs on Gaza. A Harvard study found one-third landed within lethal range of hospitals. A single 2,000-pound bomb has a lethal blast radius of over 350 metres. The UN said the use of such bombs on residential buildings, schools & refugee camps "raises serious concerns under the laws of war."

30. Human Rights Watch confirmed Israel used white phosphorus, which burns at 800°C & cannot be extinguished with water, over populated areas in both Gaza & Lebanon. A researcher mapped 248 white phosphorus strikes in Lebanon, 39% hitting civilian areas. As recently as March 2026, it was fired over homes in Yohmor. HRW called this "unlawfully indiscriminate."

31. The Washington Post verified over 120 videos of soldiers celebrating the destruction of homes, mosques & civilian infrastructure. One soldier destroyed 21 homes "to commemorate 21 Israeli soldiers." Approximately 1,000 soldiers were named in an ICC complaint based on footage they posted themselves.

SYSTEMATIC VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN

32. Israel deliberately destroyed Gaza's maternity hospitals, neonatal wards & the territory's only IVF clinic. The UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women said the targeting of Palestinian women is deliberate & systematic. Women have been forced to undergo C-sections without anaesthesia, antibiotics or clean water. Maternal & neonatal death rates have skyrocketed.

33. Based on Gaza's birth rate & the overall death toll, an estimated 1,000 to 1,500 pregnant women have been directly killed. This doesn't count those who died because there were no hospitals left to deliver their babies or because the ambulance that could have reached them had already been bombed.

34. Over 90% of Gaza's population has been forcibly displaced into overcrowded camps averaging 1.5 square metres per person. Women & girls have been stripped of all privacy & bodily autonomy. The collapse of societal structures has driven a rise in child marriage as a survival mechanism.

SETTLER VIOLENCE, WITH STATE BACKING

35. Settler violence in the West Bank hit its highest daily average since records began in 2006. Settlers are armed, equipped & trained by the Israeli military. This isn't rogue actors. It's policy.

36. In April 2024, settlers rampaged through 11 villages over several days: 4 dead, 100 cars burned, thousands of animals killed. The military blocked ambulances from reaching the wounded.

37. Near Bethlehem in Aug 2024, settlers handcuffed two 15-year-old Palestinian boys, broke their legs & urinated on them.

38. During Eid al-Fitr in March 2026, settlers attacked 15-30 West Bank communities over multiple nights, burning homes, vehicles & fields. Israeli forces were present but largely did not intervene. 46 attacks documented in one week.

ANNEXATION OF THE WEST BANK

39. 2024 was officially dubbed the "Year of Annexation & Expulsion" by Peace Now (an Israeli organisation). A record 24,258 dunams seized as "State Land." 68 new settlements approved in three years. Over 36,000 Palestinians forcibly displaced in 12 months.

40. In Feb 2026, Israel's Security Cabinet approved measures critics say amount to full annexation: legalising settler land purchases in Palestinian cities, opening land registries for settler organisations to claim properties & establishing 19 new settlements.

41. Israel created a "West Bank Heritage Authority" to use archaeology as a tool of land seizure, expropriating Palestinian land around ancient sites & designating 63 Palestinian archaeological sites as "Israeli heritage sites."

42. In East Jerusalem, 150 families in Silwan face eviction so Israel can build a biblical theme park called "King's Garden." Families who lived there for decades are being removed based on Ottoman-era land claims by settler organisations.

APARTHEID IN THE WEST BANK

43. Human Rights Watch (2021), Amnesty International (2022) & the UN Human Rights Office (2026) have all independently concluded that Israel's treatment of Palestinians meets the legal definition of apartheid under the Rome Statute.

44. In the same territory, two different legal systems apply based on ethnicity. Israeli settlers live under civil law with full rights. Palestinians live under military law, with military courts, military judges & near-zero due process.

45. Palestinians in Area C are systematically denied building permits. Between 2009 & 2018, just 98 permits were approved out of 4,422 applications. Structures built without permits are demolished. 1,773 Palestinian structures were demolished or ordered demolished in the latest reporting period.

46. Segregated road networks link settlements to each other & to Israel, many accessible exclusively to settlers. Palestinian communities are cut off from one another, from work, schools & hospitals. Palestinians need military-issued permits just to move through their own land.

ETHNIC CLEANSING OF SOUTHERN LEBANON

47. Israel's Defence Minister publicly stated that ALL homes in Lebanese border villages will be demolished "in accordance with the model used in Rafah & Beit Hanoun in Gaza." This is ethnic cleansing as a stated policy.

48. Over 1.2 million Lebanese people, 20% of the population, displaced. Over 600,000 residents explicitly told they will NOT be allowed to return. The condition for return is "guaranteed security" with no criteria & no timeline. That's indefinite ethnic cleansing by definition.

49. Israeli forces killed 3 Indonesian UN peacekeepers, hit a hospital near Tyre for the 5th time & killed 3 journalists covering the war. HRW called it potential war crimes. The term "Gaza model" is being used by Israeli officials themselves.

THE WAR ON IRAN

50. On April 1, 2024, an Israeli airstrike destroyed Iran's consular annex in Damascus, killing 16 people. Legal experts widely condemned this as a violation of the inviolability of diplomatic & consular premises under the Vienna Conventions.

51. The US-Israeli campaign on Iran in 2026: Reuters reported more than 1,900 dead & at least 20,000 injured, with up to 3.2 million displaced. Strikes hit desalination plants, oil refineries & universities, and a single strike killed 180 girls in a school. UN experts condemned it as "flagrant violations of international law."

WHAT ISRAELI LEADERS SAY

52. Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, announcing the total siege of Gaza in Oct 2023: "We are fighting human animals & we are acting accordingly."

53. President Isaac Herzog, Oct 2023: "It is an entire nation out there that is responsible. It is not true this rhetoric about civilians not aware, not involved." The ICJ later cited this when ordering Israel to prevent & punish incitement.

54. Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich called for the village of Huwara to be "wiped out" & said "the State of Israel should do it." He also declared: "There is no such thing as a Palestinian people."

55. Heritage Minister Eliyahu, asked if dropping a nuclear bomb on Gaza was an option: "That's one way." MK Kallner posted: "Right now, one goal: Nakba! A Nakba that will overshadow the Nakba of 1948." MK Kroizer declared from the Knesset podium: "In Jenin, there are no innocent civilians. In Jenin, there are no innocent children... Even if the collateral damage is children or women, it does not matter to me." Smotrich & Ben-Gvir both called for "voluntary emigration" of Gazans & resettlement by Israeli settlers.

WHAT ISRAELI SOCIETY ACTUALLY THINKS

56. In Jan 2024, 88% of Jewish Israelis said Palestinian casualties were justified. 43% said the IDF was using *too little* firepower. 75% opposed a US request to reduce heavy bombing in densely populated areas.

57. By March 2025, Tel Aviv University found 61.8% of Jewish Israelis supported forcibly evacuating Palestinians from Gaza, even by military means. 71% supported "incentivising" Palestinians to leave. 70% said if they left, they should never be allowed back.

58. A JPPI survey found over 80% of Jewish Israelis supported Trump's Gaza relocation plan in theory or practice. Only 3% called it immoral.

59. 64% of Israelis agreed there are "no innocents in Gaza." 79% of Jewish Israelis said they were "not troubled" by reports of famine & suffering among Palestinians.

60. In one academic survey, 47% of Jewish Israeli respondents agreed that when conquering an enemy city, the IDF should "kill all its inhabitants," framed as acting like Joshua at Jericho.

61. Even in Pew's 2016 survey, before Oct 7th, before this war, 48% of Israeli Jews already agreed that Arabs should be "expelled or transferred" from Israel. 72% on the political right.

INTERNATIONAL LAW: A CATALOGUE OF VIOLATIONS

62. The ICC issued arrest warrants for Netanyahu & Gallant for crimes against humanity & the war crime of starvation. Some countries still refuse to execute them.

63. The ICJ issued provisional measures ordering Israel to prevent acts causing irreparable harm to Palestinians, ensure humanitarian access & prevent incitement. The court cited statements by Israeli leaders as evidence. Israel responded by intensifying operations. A hearing on the merits won't happen until 2027.

64. In July 2024, the ICJ ruled that Israel's occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem & Gaza is unlawful & must end. It found Israel's settlement policy violates Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, prohibiting transfer of the occupier's population into occupied territory. Israel has built over 200 settlements in defiance of this.

65. The Fourth Geneva Convention prohibits collective punishment (Article 33). The total siege of Gaza, cutting food, water, fuel & electricity to 2.3 million people, is collective punishment by definition. So is the militarised "buffer zone" that has placed over 50% of Gaza off limits to its own population.

66. Deliberately using starvation as a method of warfare is a war crime under the Rome Statute (Article 8). Blocking humanitarian aid, destroying food production & restricting crossings to a trickle while a population starves is not a grey area.

67. Attacks on hospitals & medical personnel are prohibited under the Geneva Conventions. The WHO has documented 735 such attacks in Gaza alone. Detaining doctors from within hospitals & rendering an entire healthcare system non-functional goes far beyond any claim of military necessity.

68. The forcible transfer of civilians is a crime against humanity under the Rome Statute. Over 90% of Gaza's population has been displaced, many multiple times. In Lebanon, over 600,000 told they cannot return indefinitely. In the West Bank, 36,000 forcibly displaced in a single year.

69. Detention without charge violates the International Covenant on Civil & Political Rights, which Israel has ratified. Subjecting detainees to systematic torture violates the Convention Against Torture, which Israel has also ratified.

70. Targeting journalists is a war crime. Five were killed in a "double-tap" strike on Nasser Hospital in Aug 2025 (22 killed in total). Israel claimed it was targeting a Hamas camera; Reuters proved the camera was theirs. The Committee to Protect Journalists has documented this as the deadliest conflict for journalists in modern history.

71. The transfer of settlement powers to a civilian minister, the Heritage Authority & the Security Cabinet's Feb 2026 measures are all designed to make the occupation permanent. The ICJ has ruled this occupation itself is illegal. Israel is instead deepening it.

72. Joint US-Israeli airstrikes assassinated Iran's Supreme Leader, a sitting head of state, in Tehran on Feb 28, 2026. The campaign struck civilian infrastructure including schools, universities & desalination plants across Iran. UN experts called these "flagrant violations of international law" that set a precedent of "total impunity."

We are not "obsessive." We are recognising exactly what we're looking at. The seizure of land & replacement with settlers. The weaponisation of food. The demolition of homes to make way for the coloniser. The military courts with predetermined outcomes. The criminalisation of children. The torture ... amongst other things. The impunity. If you call this an "obsession," what you're really saying is: "I find your moral clarity inconvenient."

Every day multiple abhorrent transgressions are carried out by Israel from the above various categories. Each with their own daily victims. When we call out Israel's actions in the strongest of terms, as is warranted, we should not be accused of obsession, hysteria or indeed antisemitism and, importantly, we should not be accused of contributing to antisemitism. Calling out Israel's actions is not only right but it is our moral responsibility.

[Rayhaan @RaysTweetsss]

We will free women n children in Afg - Kills 3.2 million

We will free women n children in Iraq - Kills 1.9 million

We will free women n children in Libya - Kills 2.6 million

We will free women n children in Iran - Kills 100 girls in 30 minutes

Saviours of women

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

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[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

24 girls murdered in Operation Epstein Protection

The media will never show you this

You won't see this in CNN or FOX News

[Dr Tom Clonan @TomClonan]

ON IRELAND’S TRIPLE LOCK -PLEASE TAKE THE TIME TO LISTEN TO THIS -There Is A Concerted Campaign -Contrary To Will Of Irish People -To Abolish Our Triple Lock & To Erode Our Military #Neutrality -Here I Highlight The Misinformation Being Peddled By Govt -PLEASE PLEASE SHARE WIDELY

[una dunphy @unadunphy]

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[The Resonance @Partisan_12]

I've seen more people punished professionally for advocating for a Free Palestine than for being connected to Epstein.

[patrick bresnihan @PBresnihan]

Regardless of what you think of the Triple Lock, the Government's efforts to remove it without putting it to a referendum is anti-democratic and flies in the face of any claims about 'reclaiming sovereignty' over foreign policy.

[Sangita Myska @SangitaMyska]

📣 I’ve been investigating Tommy Robinson and the foreign billionaires that fund him.

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[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

When people march in this freezing cold, it’s not a protest.

It’s a revolution.

Minnesota said, “ICE out.”

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

If we allow this to happen, justice is dead.

If we allow this to happen, law is dead.

If we allow this to happen, hope is dead.

If we allow this to happen, evil wins.

Fight this with all you have. We must not let this happen.

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

I can't believe I'm having to write this.

The only people who should run Gaza, are the people of Gaza.

Not some line up of rich, white war criminals. Not Blair, not Putin, not Trump, nor any other villain who wants in.

Palestine is for the Palestinians.

Free Palestine 🇵🇸

[Tehran Tadhg @TadhgHickey]

Nobody does hypocrisy like the Brit establishment

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

BREAKING!!
Israel's unlawful occupation is bombing Gaza again! Dozens of civilians killed, including children.
With most journalists killed/humanitarians blocked, Israel advances its genocidal violence UNNOTICED, aimed solely at forcing Palestinians out.
The shame of the century.