Yesterday, we received these text messages from one of our doctors in Rafah, Gaza.
Around 5am on 12 February, she and her family endured harrowing airstrikes and bombing.
"I survived, but in my mind I didn't😭"
Gaza is a 'textbook genocide'.
This is according to Raz Segal - an Israeli associate professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Stockton University in the US.
Listen carefully to what he says.
It's based on facts, law and precedent - and it should terrify you.
Messages from Gaza are ones no one should ever have to receive from colleagues. No one. Ever. The situation is utterly catastrophic. Utterly.
Our risk assessments didn’t have “collapse of international legal system and licensed genocide” as something we needed to plan for.
Doctors inside Al Shifa hospital in #Gaza have been sending desperate texts to fellow doctors in UK saying they fear they’ll be ‘dead in the morning’ along with patients and families inside. They’re pleading for help from British Parliamentarians
This is a spokesman for the Israeli government. He knows the video he's tweeted isn't really of Palestinians. It's from a Lebanese short film. But he still hasn't taken it down.
A great Irish poet and singer left us today.
She was beautiful, courageous and wore her heart on her sleeve. She was before her time.
Nothing will ever compare to Sinéad O’Connor.
Rest easy Sinéad.
Obed Bapela, a senior figure in the party that has navigated SA down a path of ineptitude and corruption to the brink of being a failed state, seems to miss the irony of saying Nelson Mandela would be disappointed with the ICC.
The courage of Iranian women is staggering. This is well known activist #SepidehQolian 4 years & 7 months in prison, released literally moments ago and the FIRST thing she does (by the gates) is:
“Evil Khamenei, we’re going to bury you!” #IranRevoIution https://t.co/b8tTtRYeJV
“I’d rather have my son than a hero.” Raisa’s son was killed in the Soviet war in Afghanistan. We filmed her in 2019. But I've been thinking about her a lot this year. Camera/edit @mattgodtv Producer @BBCWillVernon
@TimothyDSnyder@HelsinkiComm I feel this diminishes the term 'genocide'. Russia's wanton disregard for the value of Ukranian lives and the war crimes it has committed are the worst in generations but there is no evidence that they tried to wipe out the Ukranian people.