Mike Philpott
@mikephilpott
Writer & broadcaster. Ex-BBC News. Media consultant. Hennessy Award winner. Vegan. Novel Purblind available at http://www.wordforward.co.uk.
Denying Gaza's starvation is no less vile than denying the Holocaust haaretz.com/opinion/2025-0….
A moral failure of unspeakable proportions, the Gaza war is also the result of a tactical, strategic and military failure. Now, Israel is starving Palestinians in Gaza because it has proved unable to defeat Hamas by force of arms | Opinion | Joshua Leifer haaretz.com/opinion/2025-0…
Gaza air drops 'a grotesque distraction', aid agencies warn bbc.in/455kYnx
An Israeli study disputing Gaza genocide allegations employs a "merchants of doubt" strategy to blur facts and delay public reckoning with mass suffering @nirhasson haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
Israel is a deeply sick society.
🧵 As in earlier wars, Israelis are being offered the mass killings in Gaza as a spectacle. They come to a mound in Sderot to enjoy the show and take selfies, using the genocide as a backdrop as you and I would a waterfall or a rainbow. @BowenBBC visited the place.
Air drops provide a fraction of the amount trucks do. If Israel allowed the UN to do its job, there would be no starvation. Trucks of food are there waiting to be delivered if Israel permitted.
BREAKING: Israel to allow foreign countries to drop aid into Gaza from today, a senior IDF official tells Sky News 🔗 Read more trib.al/meMidLt
This is entirely for show. Gaza needs 15,000 tonnes of aid a day. The maximum parachuted in one day into Gaza so far has been 85 tonnes.
BREAKING: Israel to allow foreign countries to drop aid into Gaza from today, a senior IDF official tells Sky News 🔗 Read more trib.al/meMidLt
It was never complex.
Israel: We are banning UNRWA, expelling UN officials, restricting UN staff travel, killing more than 200 UN staff, ordering the evacuation of UN HQ in Deir-al-Bala, firing at UN trucks Also Israel: Why is the UN starving Gaza? NYT: This shows how complex a dilemma it is
Why are Western politicians slowly waking up to a fact that the rest of us have known for a long time?
I call again for Keir Starmer to stop standing to one side & to use the naval resources UK has in the Middle East to send aid ships directly to Gaza. Let’s see if Israel will fire on us. “State of child famine' - Gaza's deepening hunger crisis channel4.com/news/a-state-o… via @jrug
This portrays the entire issue as merely a challenging one to do with process - nothing to do with any principles or values. It’s the kind of shallow take which bedeviled media coverage of Brexit.
Starmer has consistently said that the road to UK recognition of a Palestinian state would come after a ceasefire. The US and Israel have tonight broken off ceasefire talks, only hours after Macron preempted the breakdown by committing to recognise Palestine statehood. So…
I have never felt so shaken. Children are dying of hunger. Falling one after another, like petals of a dying flower. Under our watch. How do you sleep, Presidents, Foreign Ministers, political leaders, diplomats, civil servants - doing nothing to stop Israel’s starvation…
The sheer intellectual collapse you have to experience to be faced with 122 international aid organisations telling you the same thing... ISRAEL IS STARVING GAZANS... only to decide they are ALL lying & that actually Benjamin Netanyahu, on trial for fraud, is telling the truth.
Powerful thread. I’m sure many of us have heard/ read comments like this. So much needs to change in our society, no more excuses. #EndVAWG
A nice fella. He just can’t handle a drink. An absolute gentleman. What I seen of him. Yes yes the rumours…I heard that but sure you know yourself.
The trucks in this photo are carrying GHF supplies, not UN. You are lying. Again. H/t sharp-eyed @AbujomaaGaza, who spotted this.
Nearly 950 aid trucks are waiting at the border, ready to support the people of Gaza. So who’s holding them back? The UN. While Israel facilitates the entry of humanitarian aid and the @GHFUpdates delivers it directly to civilians in Gaza, the UN is obstructing the efficient…
A terminally ill 73-year-old Israeli woman has been charged with plotting to assassinate Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with a rocket launcher, prosecutors have said rte.ie/news/middle-ea…
All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.
“Walking Corpses”: Israel’s blockade of aid starves Palestinians “People in Gaza are neither dead nor alive, they are walking corpses.” The world is shamed. motherjones.com/politics/2025/…