Catherine Philp
@scribblercat
World Affairs Editor, Times of London. Baghdad, Jerusalem, Beirut, Delhi, Washington, Jakarta, Phnom Penh. @scribblercat.bsky.social
So what action are you prepared to take?
The IDF has killed starving Palestinian civilians trying to get aid. Settler terrorism and talk of imposing the illegal E1 settlement plan are flagrant attempts to prevent a Palestinian state. There is no justification for this. A two-state solution is the only path to peace.
The IDF has killed starving Palestinian civilians trying to get aid. Settler terrorism and talk of imposing the illegal E1 settlement plan are flagrant attempts to prevent a Palestinian state. There is no justification for this. A two-state solution is the only path to peace.
For a whole year I shared a riverbank with a male mute swan Everyday on my walk we conversed without a word being said Every day I hoped he found the partner he craved This year he brought his new family to see me
I just don’t understand how @realDonaldTrump and @Keir_Starmer can allow this to continue…
NEW: 🇮🇱 Israel confiscates baby formula from foreign doctors at Gaza checkpoints — British surgeon Nick Maynard 'No formula allowed in. Every carton seized'
USAID: No evidence for Hamas mass aid looting that was the justification for turning the system into privatised, militarised death traps archive.ph/MmqTY
Better late than never
The IDF has killed starving Palestinian civilians trying to get aid. Settler terrorism and talk of imposing the illegal E1 settlement plan are flagrant attempts to prevent a Palestinian state. There is no justification for this. A two-state solution is the only path to peace.
Cometh the hour, cometh Saint Bob.
“They are deliberately killing children by purposely starving them.” LIve Aid campaigner and musician Bob Geldof condemns the Israeli government’s role in the Gaza crisis as he speaks to Miriam O’Callaghan amid mounting deaths from hunger. #RTEPT
Cometh the hour, cometh the man. Saint Bob comes out.
“Their government is out of control. It is a despicable disgrace.” Live Aid campaigner and musician Bob Geldof condemns the Israeli government’s role in the Gaza crisis as he speaks to @MiriamOCal amid mounting deaths from hunger. WATCH: @rtenews | #rtept
There’s a new trend of pro-Israeli Govt commentators announcing on here why they refuse to appear on @PiersUncensored … with lengthy disingenuous monologues that can be edited down to: ‘We can no longer defend the indefensible without sounding ridiculous.’ I see you. 👁️
Israel says it has bigger jobs to do than look after foreign journalists in Gaza. I'm not asking them to look after me. I'm just asking them to let me in. I'll look after myself as I do in every war zone I visit. We have freer access to Sudan, Congo & Yemen than we have to Gaza.
It's not a journalist's job to say this person says it's raining and this person says it isn't. It's our job to go outside and see if we get wet. The evidence of starvation coming out of Gaza is overwhelming. If Israel wishes to dispute this, the solution is simple: let us in.
A joint statement on Gaza from AFP, AP, BBC News and Reuters
When there is “a famine of the truth” you allow in those who bear witness to do so. Israel is not allowing it. Let in foreign independent journalist and investigators, if you don’t believe the doctors, the aid workers, the civilians, your own soldiers and civilian contractors.
Sky's @markaustintv challenges Israeli government spokesman David Mencer, who says: "There is no famine in Gaza - there is a famine of the truth." More than 100 aid and rights groups have warned of mass starvation in Gaza. trib.al/Y8RmnYd 📺 Sky 501 / YouTube
Are Private Eye jokes now... criminal? PALESTINE Solidarity campaigner Jon Farley was arrested, bundled into a van and taken to the cells during a silent march in Leeds last weekend. What egregious act had prompted the police to act? He was, er, carrying a Private Eye joke piece…
The daughter of Israel’s most famous writer, Amos Oz, calling on all soldiers to refuse to serve in Gaza. This may seem like nothing to some, or too late, or whatever, but it’s a tectonic shift there. And she’s right, of course.
חיילים, סדיר ומילואים, הורים של חיילים, סבים של חיילים, כבר אין דרך אחרת: סרבו לשרת בעזה. סרבו, סרבו, סרבו. החטופים ומשפחותיהם האומללות נבגדו בידי ממשלת ישראל. הרעב ההמוני בעזה הוא עובדה מחרידה ונחרצת. ההרג היומי במרכזי חלוקת המזון איננו הגנה עצמית אלא פשע מלחמה מזעזע. החוק…
A remarkably rare public intervention over Gaza by an Arab leader as authoritarian and cynical as the rest.
⚡️WATCH: Tunisian President Kais Saied shows photos of Gaza children to the US President's Advisor for Arab, Middle East and African Affairs.
#Tunisia: "International legitimacy crumbles daily & its meaning lost amid #Gaza's horrors," President Kais Saied told #US President's Senior Advisor Massad Boulos, as he showed him images of #Palestinian infants & children in Gaza starving to death from thirst & hunger. #TAP_En