YouTube video by ITV News Aerial footage filmed by ITV News shows the scale of Gaza's destruction | ITV News

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Israeli plan for forced transfer of Gaza’s population ‘a blueprint for crimes against humanity’ Military ordered to turn ruins of Rafah into ‘humanitarian city’ but experts call the plan an internment camp for all Palestinians in Gaza

Just checking I've got this right. The Israeli government is planning to construct a camp on the ruins of Rafah into which it will concentrate the entire population of Gaza so they can be deported? And everybody is fine with that?
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A far-right Israeli slogan: Without a [new] Nakba, there will not be victory. I often teach how far-right groups frequently recognize crimes committed by the state. It is where recognition and denial merge into one front.

76 days of Israeli blockade on the Gaza Strip
Starving 2.1m people, almost half of them are children
Hundreds of civilians slain in Israeli bombings of the last 3 days

‘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.

This is what the Israelis and their apologists call a targeted, anti-terror campaign.

This is Rafah today.

... And Poland started it

Shiri, Ariel, and Kfir Bibas.

Hamas confirms that Shiri, Kfir, and Ariel Bibas will be among the dead hostages whose bodies will be returned Thursday. Haaretz.

Start delayed because we all had to be body searched! Are you three on someone's hit list?

I & Yasmine Ahmed, @hrw.org's London director, met today with Laila Soueif; a brave mother going through an open hunger strike while she's 68 to get her son, Alaa Abd el-Fattah, freed from prison in #Egypt. Standing by the UK government's Downing Street office. Here are some brief thoughts:

The Educational Bookshop in East Jerusalem was raided today, and its owners, Mahmoud and Ahmed Mona, were arrested.
The bookstore is one of the premier Palestinian cultural institutions of East Jerusalem; Mahmoud Mona is among the most inspiring figures in the city.
via @nirhasson.bsky.social

Opinion | The Political Future of Palestinians, According to Palestinians (Gift Article) Times Opinion spoke to five Palestinian scholars and analysts about what they believe the future holds for their people.

I was interviewed alongside Palestinian scholars in the west bank, Gaza, and the US about where Palestinians go from here

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/o...

I tried to save your young life in a Gaza hospital. Now your face haunts me | Seema Jilani The first time you came into my hospital, shards of glass shredding your tiny body, I saved you. The second time I failed As news of the ceasefire ripples my way, my memory mocks me. Your face glides into focus from my mind’s abyss, where I had buried…

I tried to save your young life in a Gaza hospital. Now your face haunts me | Seema Jilani

The peace paradox The political calculations that allowed the Gaza ceasefire could yet be its undoing.

My piece for the New Statesman, on the ceasefire, how we got here, and why the dangers of further ethnic cleansing have not gone away.
www.newstatesman.com/internationa...

He accidentally did a Nazi salute... TWICE. While talking about the future of Western civilization.

He is who we think he is.

Hannah Arendt?

‘Tiny broken bodies, rotting babies, flattened corpses, mass graves, levelled neighbourhoods.
It is a spectacle of slaughter. All unfolding in plain sight, livestreamed and posted by Palestinian citizens and journalists, witnessed by outsiders, and described by Israelis themselves.’

Women, toddlers and babies.

YouTube video by dougie097 Funniest Football Accident Ever!

He's still feeling this:
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What a chart.
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