Oscar Rickett
@oscarrickettnow
Journalist slash other. Mostly for Middle East Eye.
People in Gaza are starving. Journalists in Gaza are starving. Israel and the US are not letting food in. @MahaGaza, who has been reporting from Gaza throughout the war, asks: What is your last thought when you're starving to death? middleeasteye.net/opinion/gaza-e…
I feel like this should have been a way bigger story. archive.ph/6YPQD#selectio…
I feel like this should have been a way bigger story. archive.ph/6YPQD#selectio…
If, as the Foreign Secretary, David Lammy, said today - very clearly - the RAF does not share information from its surveillance flights with Israel, what precisely are the surveillance flights for?
📢 MARIA EAGLE, UK Minister for Defence Procurement and Industry, gave a keynote speech celebrating the RAF's surveillance flights over Gaza which has provided key intelligence to Israel to enact their genocide in Gaza.
The RSF has committed one of the worst massacres of the war in Sudan, killing hundreds of people as it razed villages across North Kordofan. Fighting has intensified across Kordofan as both sides look to secure routes to Darfur and Khartoum middleeasteye.net/news/sudan-war…
Hundreds die in Rapid Support Forces massacre described as one of the deadliest since war began pulse.ly/lww7funfnc
There was a hospital bed waiting in London for Haitim His parents were killed in May when a bomb hit their home in Gaza. Their 3-yr-old survived with major burns Doctors wanted to bring him to the UK for treatment he couldn't get in Gaza He ended up in Italy. Why? A 🧵
This is the insanity of capitalism. We have the technology to give workers far more free time to live enriching lives. Instead, we expect them to work until they are seventy.
Sudan war intensifies in Kordofan as RSF razes villages pulse.ly/wwrlsx1yi9
UNRWA has enough food for the entire population of #Gaza for over three months stockpiled in warehouses–including this one in Al Arish, Egypt–awaiting entry. The supplies are available. The systems are in place. Open the gates, lift the siege, allow UNRWA to do its work and…
In Ilford North, Leanne Mohamad and the British left set their sights on Labour. My feature for @MiddleEastEye middleeasteye.net/big-story/ilfo…
UK armed police threat to pro-Palestine protester branded 'dystopian' middleeasteye.net/news/uk-police…
“The importance of this meeting convened by The Hague Group lies in moving from words to action and halting the genocide," Mauricio Jaramillo Jassir (@CancilleriaCol) 🇨🇴 tells @MiddleEastEye in Bogatá. buff.ly/UxfzNEp
"In Ilford North, Leanne Mohamad and the British left set their sights on Labour" ✍️Big Story by Oscar Rickett pulse.ly/lntglzzlka
Breaking: Israel strikes the Syrian General Staff headquarters and central Damascus.
Israeli weapons firm Rafael uses Gaza killing in marketing campaign pulse.ly/jxk89eqvy0
Israeli weapons firm Rafael has posted a promotional video in which one of its drones tracks and targets somebody - who is alone and appears to be unarmed - in Gaza. This would be a war crime. New for @MiddleEastEye middleeasteye.net/news/israel-we…
So after your parents paid for your full Harvard tuition, they gave you a $130k job at the family business in 1988, right after you graduated, inflation adjusted at $350k today, and then gifted you $100k four years later? Behold the self made man.
@TuckerCarlson went on a rant yesterday @TPUSA and suggested that I was in Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘constellation of people’ who have been getting away with scams. His evidence is that ‘the most useless people have no actual skills become billionaires.” He referred to me as an example…