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Human Rights Hooligan in Training

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First come the bombs. A boom, then 2,000lb worth of destructive force flattening everything in its way. Severing limbs, vaporizing bodies, leaving craters full of blood and rubble where children used to play.

Then come the drones. As the dust settles, the drones start to swarm, picking off any survivors. Armed quadcopters; ingeniously engineered killing machines hunting for human prey. The drones, many of which seem to be autonomous, shoot everything that moves. Even if it’s a helpless child, the drone will sometimes shoot: firing lethal bullets into a soft skull. A scene straight out of a dystopian sci-fi movie set on some desolate dust-covered planet. Except it’s not sci-fi; it’s reality. It’s happening right now in Gaza.

First come the bombs. A boom, then 2,000lb worth of destructive force flattening everything in its way. Severing limbs, vaporizing bodies, leaving craters full of blood and rubble where children used to play. Then come the drones. As the dust settles, the drones start to swarm, picking off any survivors. Armed quadcopters; ingeniously engineered killing machines hunting for human prey. The drones, many of which seem to be autonomous, shoot everything that moves. Even if it’s a helpless child, the drone will sometimes shoot: firing lethal bullets into a soft skull. A scene straight out of a dystopian sci-fi movie set on some desolate dust-covered planet. Except it’s not sci-fi; it’s reality. It’s happening right now in Gaza.

The Guardian October 2024 👇

30.04.2025 07:13 — 👍 75    🔁 27    💬 2    📌 0
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Transgender people turning to DIY-healthcare due to lack of trust in National Gender Service The Journal Investigates heard from transgender people pushed into accessing healthcare outside the official channels

Many transgender people told our team they are being forced to pursue gender-affirming healthcare outside of the official channels due to serious issues with the National Gender Service

Self-medicating like this is known in the trans community as DIY HRT

jrnl.ie/6691757

01.05.2025 07:01 — 👍 9    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 0
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UNRWA is distributing food parcels to #Palestine Refugees in #Lebanon. Each family will also receive cash assistance to help meet their basic needs.

This support is vital as 70-80% of Palestine Refugees in Lebanon live in poverty, and the country continues to face an economic crisis.

#UNRWAworks

19.04.2025 08:00 — 👍 18    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 0
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An image that should haunt and shame us all. A Palestinian mother trying, against all odds, to protect her children as hell rains down on them from Western-backed Israeli terrorism.

18.04.2025 08:42 — 👍 163    🔁 85    💬 6    📌 6
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🚨 1.5 years of war in #Gaza

🚨 At least 51,000 Palestinians reportedly killed

🚨 1.9 million people forcibly displaced

🚨 Nearly 7 weeks of siege

We call for a renewal of the #CeasefireNow, ⁠a dignified release of all the hostages, and ⁠an unimpeded flow of humanitarian aid and commercial supplies.

19.04.2025 12:01 — 👍 14    🔁 14    💬 2    📌 1

Our humanity is lost, and we don't seem to have any interest in getting it back.

18.04.2025 21:25 — 👍 20    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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‘Point-Blank Range’: How Israel Executed 15 Medics and Rescue Workers in Gaza I had a difficult time writing this essay because I could not stop thinking about the level of evil needed to carry this out.

"‘Point-Blank Range’: How Israel Executed 15 Medics and Rescue Workers in Gaza"

Writing for Zeteo, Diana Buttu says she had a difficult time writing this essay because she could not stop thinking about the level of evil needed to carry this out.

04.04.2025 21:31 — 👍 2369    🔁 1092    💬 107    📌 67
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Amnesty Ireland on X: ""The Genocide in Gaza is deepening, escalating, out of control - yet the silence is deafening. Why won’t our leaders stand up, speak up, demand an end to the starvation and slaughter? STOP ISRAEL’S GENOCIDE NOW." Stephen Bowen, Executive Director, AI Ireland https://t.co/YE5iZzlPFq" / X "The Genocide in Gaza is deepening, escalating, out of control - yet the silence is deafening. Why won’t our leaders stand up, speak up, demand an end to the starvation and slaughter? STOP ISRAEL’S GENOCIDE NOW." Stephen Bowen, Executive Director, AI Ireland https://t.co/YE5iZzlPFq

x.com/AmnestyIrela...

18.04.2025 20:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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🚨BREAKING: Today's Supreme Court judgment is disappointing.

Make no mistake, legal gender recognition is a human right.

We all have the right to live free from discrimination and fear. Trans rights are human rights.

16.04.2025 15:35 — 👍 138    🔁 69    💬 4    📌 3

🚨 VERY concerning

@GreenpeaceUK head arrested on conspiracy for peaceful protest

We know US-supplied weapons to Israel are fuelling the genocide in Gaza

Use of conspiracy charges is increasing, restricting our human right to peaceful protest

www.reuters.com/world/uk/bri...

10.04.2025 16:22 — 👍 78    🔁 56    💬 2    📌 1
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No matter our postcode, we all want our communities to live safely and thrive.

In Amnesty International UK's NEW REPORT we exposed how ~75% of police forces across the UK are using technology to target racialised and working class communities.

Act now: www.amnesty.org.uk/actions/ban-...

26.02.2025 10:02 — 👍 97    🔁 69    💬 9    📌 4
A tweet from the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) (@pchrgaza) with the following text: 'Breaking: PCHR staff member, Ihab Fisal, was killed along with his wife and two children by an Israeli airstrike on a house in Gaza city in the early hours of the morning. More details to follow in our press release.' Below the text is a photo of Ihab Fisal. He is wearing a bright green polo shirt, standing outdoors with greenery and palm trees in the background, looking directly at the camera with a neutral expression.

A tweet from the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) (@pchrgaza) with the following text: 'Breaking: PCHR staff member, Ihab Fisal, was killed along with his wife and two children by an Israeli airstrike on a house in Gaza city in the early hours of the morning. More details to follow in our press release.' Below the text is a photo of Ihab Fisal. He is wearing a bright green polo shirt, standing outdoors with greenery and palm trees in the background, looking directly at the camera with a neutral expression.

What a waste of the life and work of #HRD Ihab Faisal, killed today after ceasefire announcement. I condemn his killing. The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights is such a reputable organisation.

16.01.2025 16:17 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Statement on the killing of Ihab Marwan Kamal Faisal and his family in Gaza We at DIGNITY are shocked and saddened by the tragic killing of Ihab Marwan Kamal Faisal, his wife Hanin Jamal Al-Dahdouh, and their two children, Reem (6) and Najma (5), who were killed by an Israeli...

While we await the ceasefire in Gaza, we are saddened by the killing of Ihab Marwan K. Faisal and his family in an Israeli airstrike. DIGNITY stands in solidarity with Palestinian Centre for Human Rights and extends our condolences to Ihab's family.

Read: dignity.dk/en/news/stat...

16.01.2025 18:16 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Isreal/EU cooperation agreement, article 1 is being ignored by the EU, why??? asks Raji Sourani, Palestinian Centre for Human Rights

09.02.2025 15:04 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Burned, Tortured, and Blindfolded: My Testimony of Survival in Detention Mohammed Nawaf Ahmed Abu Tawila, 36 years old, married, resident of Al-Shuja’iya neighborhood, Gaza. Testimony Date: February 27, 2025 On October 10, 2024, three days after the Israeli military launch...

Burned, Tortured, and Blindfolded: My Testimony of Survival in Detention | Palestinian Centre for Human Rights
pchrgaza.org/burned-tortu...

04.03.2025 10:11 — 👍 0    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights warns Israel’s total blockade of Gaza — now in its second month — has once again created famine conditions for some 2 million Palestinians relying on food aid.

05.04.2025 03:13 — 👍 10    🔁 11    💬 1    📌 0
Palestinian human rights lawyer says British government failed to prevent war crimes in Gaza
YouTube video by Middle East Eye Palestinian human rights lawyer says British government failed to prevent war crimes in Gaza

'Speaking to Middle East Eye, Raji Sourani, the director of the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, stated that the British government failed to prevent war crimes in Gaza and provided Israel with a “licence” to continue its war on the besieged enclave.'

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbtH...

09.04.2025 13:27 — 👍 4    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
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🗨️"The #Palestinian people don't exist for #Israel."

👉Raji Sourani, Palestinian lawyer, Director of the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights ⤵️

@en.france24.com #Palestine #GazaHolocaust

19.03.2025 21:07 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Ten Britons accused of committing war crimes while fighting for Israel in Gaza Exclusive: Met to be handed dossier of evidence alleging crimes including killings of civilians and aid workers

Important move by Public Interest Law Centre & the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, submitting evidence to the Met’s War Crimes unit against 10 British nationals over alleged war crimes in Gaza — from killing civilians & aid workers to attacks on hospitals.

We must prosecute war criminals.

07.04.2025 21:47 — 👍 288    🔁 83    💬 10    📌 1
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Desperation Grows in Gaza as U.N. Shutters Bakeries Anxious residents rushed to obtain bags of flour as the United Nations warned that Israeli restrictions on aid deliveries were deepening the humanitarian crisis.

Anxious residents in Gaza rushed to obtain bags of flour as the UN warned that Israeli restrictions on aid deliveries were deepening the humanitarian crisis.

02.04.2025 21:05 — 👍 98    🔁 37    💬 10    📌 3
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Children in Gaza have again been plunged into a cycle of deadly violence and deprivation.

The world must not stand by and allow the killing and suffering of children to continue.

www.unicef.org/press-releas...

31.03.2025 19:57 — 👍 53    🔁 39    💬 1    📌 4
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Israeli Forces airstrikes hit an UNRWA building in Jabalia, northern #Gaza, today.

Initial reports indicate the facility was sheltering over 700 people when it was hit. Among those killed are reportedly nine children, including a two-week-old baby.

Full statement: www.unrwa.org/newsroom/off...

02.04.2025 19:23 — 👍 7    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0
Graphic featuring an image of Prime Minister Netanyahu with text saying 'WARNING: State Parties Are Legally Obliged To Enforce ICC Arrest Warrants'

Graphic featuring an image of Prime Minister Netanyahu with text saying 'WARNING: State Parties Are Legally Obliged To Enforce ICC Arrest Warrants'

Prime Minister Netanyahu’s visit to Hungary should be seen as a cynical effort to undermine the ICC and its work.

Leaders like Netanyahu, accused by the ICC of war crimes and crimes against humanity, must no longer enjoy the prospect of perpetual impunity: http://amn.st/63320FkFde

02.04.2025 12:26 — 👍 118    🔁 55    💬 8    📌 4
Over 400 Palestinians killed, as Israel resumes mass attacks on Gaza.

The world cannot stand by.

Over 400 Palestinians killed, as Israel resumes mass attacks on Gaza. The world cannot stand by.

The world cannot stand by and allow Israel to continue inflicting staggering levels of death and human suffering on Palestinians in Gaza.

18.03.2025 19:22 — 👍 216    🔁 117    💬 9    📌 6
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Release Mahmoud Khalil! Urge US authorities to free arbitrarily detained Mahmoud Khalil and respect freedom of speech!

As a lawful permanent US resident, Mahmoud protested the genocide in Gaza.

As he was walking home from an Iftar celebration with his 8-months pregnant wife, he was unlawfully arrested & detained. He has not been charged with a crime.

Demand his release!

20.03.2025 15:32 — 👍 181    🔁 89    💬 1    📌 5
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Three experts on racial justice explain why reparations matter Melissa Hendrickse Melissa is Amnesty International's researcher and advisor on racial justice and international criminal law. I was born in Cape Town in the early Nineties - in the midst of the negotiations to end apartheid. It was a turbulent time in South Africa's history. After Chris Hani, an important figure in South Africa's freedom [...]

European colonialism and slavery built the world that we inhabit today. Today on International Day for Elimination of Racial Discrimination, 3 experts on racial justice explain why reparations matter ⬇️

21.03.2025 16:00 — 👍 53    🔁 21    💬 4    📌 1
within 24 hours Israel forcibly disappeared a Palestinian filmmaker in the West Bank
and killed two Palestinian journalists in Gaza

within 24 hours Israel forcibly disappeared a Palestinian filmmaker in the West Bank and killed two Palestinian journalists in Gaza

Hamdan Ballal was forcibly disappeared by Israeli soldiers after having been assaulted by Israeli settlers attacking Palestinians in Susyia, a village in the occupied West Bank. He has now been released, but those who carried out the attacks must be held accountable.

25.03.2025 15:35 — 👍 131    🔁 51    💬 4    📌 1
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What do the Trump administration’s sanctions on the ICC mean for justice and human rights? On 6 February 2025, United States President Donald Trump issued an Executive Order authorizing sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC) and its Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan. This Executive Order is intended to stop the ICC from undertaking its independent mandate. It also poses a significant threat to the ICC and its staff.  UN experts […]

Last month, President Trump issued an Executive Order authorizing sanctions on the ICC and its Chief Prosecutor. The US sanctions pose a dire threat to the ICC, as well as to the broader international rule of law and its multilateral system.

Here's what you need to know 👇

26.03.2025 13:00 — 👍 43    🔁 18    💬 4    📌 2
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South Korea/Israel/OPT: HD Hyundai machinery used in West Bank demolitions HD Hyundai machinery has been widely used in demolitions of Palestinian-owned structures in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), according to new visual and testimonial evidence documented by Amnesty International Korea and local human rights groups. While the company denies their involvement, images and videos verified by the groups identified 59 Palestinian-owned homes, businesses and other […]

HD Hyundai machinery has been widely used in demolitions of Palestinian-owned structures in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, according to new visual and testimonial evidence documented by Amnesty International Korea and local human rights groups ⬇️

27.03.2025 11:30 — 👍 35    🔁 16    💬 1    📌 2

Peaceful protest is a human right.
Peaceful protest is a human right.
Peaceful protest is a human right.
Peaceful protest is a human right.

31.03.2025 15:25 — 👍 210    🔁 74    💬 3    📌 3

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