Doing bedtime with my 7 year old listening to @malorytowerstv on @BBCSounds. The telescope episode for probably the 20th time… We love it dearly it but would be totally ripping if more episodes could be adapted for bedtime relaxation and long car journeys! Wishes for 2025 ❤️
This is 7 year old Sidra, the cousin of my wife. The impact of the Israeli missile was so powerful it flung her out, leaving her mutilated body dangling from the ruins of the destroyed building in Rafah 48 hours ago. My wife’s aunt Suzan, her husband Fouzy Hassouna, two of their sons, Muhammad and Karam, Karam's wife Amouna and her three children (7-year-old twins Sidra and Suzan, and 15-month-old Malik) were all killed. The family had been displaced from the north of Gaza and took shelter in Rafah. We will be relentless until those responsible brought to justice.
“Folks, we need to stop using the chant from the River to Sea. Palestine will be free. You are asking to wipe out the whole of Israel. And that is anti Semitic. Instead what you should say is: from the east bank of the Jordan River, including Jenin and the Jenin refugee camp, Tulkarm and Nablus, Nablus until the first checkpoint, and if they let you pass, skip Israeli cities, Qalqilya, Fasa until the next checkpoint advance through Palestinian cities, until the end of the Wes Bank. Ramalah, East Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Efrat, and Hebron, refugee camps like Aida and Dheyste, skipping all of Israel, then you go all the way to Gaza, bordering cities that you won't pass through, Sedrot, Ashkelon, Netviot and Ashdod, progressing through Gaza City, and Khan Younis until the Mediterranean Sea, Palestine will be free” ✨🕊️
@SaulStaniforth@georgegalloway I saw this live and was very taken back by the coldness and ruthlessness of the interviewer and trying to ‘trap’ the interviewee to say something she clearly wasn’t trying to say. Sad day for journalism 😢 and @BBCNews
Very strong statement by the Belgian and Spanish Prime Ministers, saving Europe from a complete moral and strategic collapse (this statement was given AFTER they met with Netanyahu):
- International law MUST be respected
- Killing of civilians MUST stop
- The destruction of Gaza is UNACCEPTABLE
- There is NO military solution to this conflict
- There is only a political solution.
- We need to stop settler violence in the West Bank
John Ossoff, the 36 yr-old Jewish senator from Georgia, articulated a clear-eyed case for why 🇺🇸 should insist 🇮🇱 protect civilians in Gaza.
An unmitigated humanitarian disaster in Gaza, he said, is a moral failure & undermines American national security.
'we want to live as the other children live'
It is utterly heartbreaking to see children holding a press conference and speaking in a non native tongue to convey what they are going through as even with all the footage & the media we have, it's *still* not enough 💔😥
'You bring us here whenever there are Israelis who are killed. Did you bring me here when many Palestinians in the West Bank, more than 200, over the last 2 months (were killed)? Do you invite me when there are such Israeli provocations in Jerusalem and elsewhere?' 🎯