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Opinion | What Happened in Gaza Might Be Even Worse Than We Think

"A 2,000-household survey in Gaza... suggested that the official figures were likely to be undercounting the number of people killed in the war by roughly 39 percent... The majority of those killed — some 56 percent — were women, children and the elderly." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/o...

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it is as if we are back in the days of the East India Company - impossible to tell state and business apart, and they’re consistently collaborating to plunder and oppress

There’s room for joy in our politics @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

🚨 BREAKING - FIVE Lift The Ban key spokespeople arrested in dawn raids.

Arrested for addressing Open Calls during which legal information on the risks of opposing Labour’s absurd ban on Palestine Action have been shared.

Video: Paddy Friend, a law student, arrested at home.

"It also intends to incinerate nearly $10 million worth of contraceptives, despite offers from the United Nations to buy the items, and has wasted hundreds of thousands of mpox-vaccine doses that are now so near expiration that they can’t be shipped to the African countries experiencing an outbreak"

'we were trying to bomb a camera'

If you’re doing a ‘double tap’ strike on a hospital, you’re a war criminal and a terrorist.

Sally Rooney: “I would happily publish this statement in a UK newspaper–but that would now be illegal. The present UK Gov has willingly stripped its own citizens of basic rights & freedoms, including the right to express & read dissenting opinions, in order to protect its relationship with Israel.”

‘If these words reach you … Israel has succeeded in killing me’: the last words of a journalist killed in Gaza Anas al-Sharif, an Al Jazeera reporter, was killed by an Israeli airstrike on Sunday night. This is the message he had prepared for his family, and his call for the world not to forget Gaza

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

My goodness this is so disturbing, a regime with a mania for violence - a people that have chosen to destroy their own humanity through the dehumanisation of others

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

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The most evil crime of our lives, the most barbaric

‘It’s all about trusting yourself, pushing your limits’: Malawi’s first climbers take their sport to new heights From a wall in a back garden to their first international contest, a dedicated community of young climbers is attracting new recruits in the south African country

I was lucky enough to hang out with the Climb Malawi team, a group of enthusiastic young climbers who want to see the sport grow in the country.

"I like the community feeling...You’re like one of the gears trying to move something and then, if you’re not part of it, it’s not going to move."

Palestinian statehood is not a bargaining chip.

It is not a threat.

It is an inalienable right of the Palestinian people.

Our demands on this shameful government remain the same: end all arms sales to Israel, impose widespread sanctions, and stop the genocide, now.

I’m witnessing the deliberate starvation of Gaza’s children – why is the world letting it happen? | Nick Maynard A permanent ceasefire, the free and safe flow of aid, and the lifting of the blockade are needed now – all could be achieved with political will, says UK surgeon Nick Maynard

I’m witnessing the deliberate starvation of Gaza’s children – why is the world letting it happen? | Nick Maynard

The @LemkinInstitute is calling on every leader in the world to step in immediately with measures that ensure food and water gets into Gaza right now. No more discussions, meetings, reports, sessions, summits. GET FOOD AND WATER INTO GAZA NOW. IF YOU HAVE THE POWER, YOU MUST USE IT.

Wow—the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (named after Raphael Lemkin, a Holocaust survivor who coined the term genocide) says plainly:

"No more discussions, meetings, reports, sessions, summits…IF YOU HAVE THE POWER, YOU MUST USE IT."

"HISTORY WILL DETERMINE THE RECTITUDE OF YOUR ACTIONS."

Racist, colonial barbarity

Good morning! I'm in Uganda to visit family and friends.

But depending on your perspective, don't worry or I'm sorry: I'll be back by the end of the month.

See you soon, NYC.

BREAKING: At least 116 Palestinians, including 38 people near Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid sites, have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza today, according to medical sources in the enclave.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/f6uvdq

Watch as an activist is arrested in Glasgow for displaying a sign reading 'genocide in Palestine, time to take action'

'We're not terrorists', he said as he was taken away by police

Earlier this month, the government blocked an inquiry into its complicity in the Gaza genocide.

We don’t need their permission to uncover the truth.

That’s why, today, we are announcing The Gaza Tribunal.

Sign up at thegazatribunal.uk.

Risking everything for survival in the Gaza Strip With aid being prevented from entering Gaza at scale, even accessing the meagerest supplies is fraught with danger

“I rushed there to get a food basket. My father was killed, and I have no one to help my family.” Fadi, 13.

Children and families in Gaza are risking everything for their survival.

We are appalled by the reported killing of 15 Palestinians, including nine children and four women, who were waiting in line for nutritional supplies for children in Deir al Balah, the Gaza Strip, this morning. An additional 30 people were reportedly injured, including 19 children. - Catherine Russell, UNICEF Executive Director

“This is the cruel reality confronting many in Gaza today after months of insufficient aid being allowed into the territory, and parties to the conflict failing to uphold basic responsibilities to protect civilians.” - UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell

Full statement: unicef.link/40Kib1K

Israeli strike kills at least 10 children queueing for medical treatment in Gaza Children among at least 15 killed in attack that NGO says was ‘blatant violation of international humanitarian law’

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Lots to unpack about the Rio #BRICS Summit, but noteworthy how much more this Leaders' Declaration had to say regarding the importance of combating climate change and upholding multilateralism to do so than the #g7 (which literally didn't even utter the word climate)
brics.br/en/documents...

These are the #BDS consumer boycott targets named in the ground breaking report "From economy of occupation to economy of genocide" by the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967.

Read more: bdsmovement.net/news/naming-...

‘Horrific scenes’ in Gaza as Israel kills dozens of aid seekers At least 73 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since dawn, including 33 aid seekers, according to medical sources.

At least 73 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since dawn, including 33 aid seekers, according to medical sources.

🧵Solidarity with Francesca Albanese.

She is facing a barrage of lies and smears + the Trump Admin is calling on the UN to fire her.

Why? Because there is simply no arguing with her devastating new report on the companies profiting from genocide.

Stay tuned for our interview on @zeteo.com.