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This is a must read from my colleague @RESCUEorg . Starvation in Gaza is the phrase “man made catastrophe” brought to life. There needs to be a united call and united action to end the blockade on aid and commercial traffic NOW. nytimes.com/2025/07/24/opi…
A moral failure of unspeakable proportions, the Gaza war is also the result of a tactical, strategic and military failure. 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…
And still. We help.
An Israeli minister boasts that “Gaza is being erased, we are wiping out the population.”
Trump has more pictures with Jeffrey Epstein than most people have with their grandparents.
New Trump-Epstein photo just dropped, this one featuring James Brown. (via NYT)
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
“Israel's forced starvation of Gaza and the weaponization of aid has, after months of warning, reduced Gaza to a state of famine. The Tel Aviv newspaper, Haaretz. Kemi cannot express empathy for Garza or criticism of Netanyahu. Her position was fixed before evidence.
The US has withdrawn its negotiating team from Qatar after Hamas yet again refused to cooperate during ceasefire talks. There are still 50 hostages remaining in Gaza, brutally taken from their homes on October 7th. The French Government’s decision to unilaterally recognise a…
This is a terrible war crime by an Israeli extremist government. theguardian.com/world/2025/jul…
The way @Keir_Starmer it’s going to be left behind with his nothingy equivocations. What will we say he fought for? What will we say he was brave about? What will we say he thought differently about? It’s hard to imagine a future leader thinking: role model.
BREAKING – Australian PM says, "Israel is committing war crimes by kiIIing children and denying aid to Gaza"
“I’m unequivocal but”
BREAKING British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who has been under growing pressure to recognize Palestine as a state (221 Members of Parliament have signed a letter urging him to do so), says in a new video: “….Recognition of a Palestinian state has to be one of those steps.…
I #Literally Just Told You with Jimmy Carr set for fifth series on Channel 4. More details: tvzoneuk.com/post/iliterall…
If you say on social you’re worried the Israeli govt is starving people to death. Because you’ve seen images of mothers holding skin & bone babies with bin liners as nappies. You’ll be told by at least one person, that that means you dislike all Jewish people in the whole world
Control of Gaza is now exercised by the IDF , it is their responsibility per international law, to provide to the needs of the civilians. And you know this.
I assume this is addressed to Hamas?
The world is watching this happen and doing nothing to stop it. WHY?
Reduced to skin and bones in Gaza: Horrifying story behind photo of starving child with a plastic bag as a nappy trib.al/0hUFCq0
The pressure is working. Don’t stop. Let the aid in. Let the experts do their job. Open the gates. Open them now.
I don’t understand @Keir_Starmer and @DavidLammy’s relationship to what Netenyahu and Ben Guvir are doing. I know they make statements. But we remain an ally to atrocities. We don’t try to break the blockades. According to reports we fly spy planes. We say words. Then help.
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Emmanuel Macron has said France will recognise Palestine as a state later this year. Read more 🔗 trib.al/yDi72y3
Is this true @DavidLammy ?
Just hours before Keir Starmer made this statement, he sent a UK spy plane over Gaza to collect intel on its starving population for Israel It was literally in the sky over Gaza when he posted it Starmer has sent one over Gaza for Israel pretty much every day since he became PM
The entire media establishment in both London and NYC faces two simple tests right now: a) Can it expose a Presidential cover-up (Epstein) and b) Will it finally call out the Israelis for allowing Gaza to starve or turn the other way and play Culture War games instead? I hope…
I'm assuming that as I'm Jewish I'll soon be in a position to bid for land in Gaza.