Colm

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

OK but Norman Tebbit only just died.

Funny how those most invested in the state shrinking are also likely to accuse it of wasting vast sums of money.

Regrettably: yes. 👏

I can imagine the wretchedness of watching my child in the grips of hunger, but I really can't imagine the horror of being targeted for sport while I try to get food so that my child can stay alive.

Next step is devolved government but there are two paths to take:

Spend 40 years grumbling about it, OR
Spend 40 years in the grip of civil war.

Added opportunity to let the UK Labour Party design a unique & not-quite-proportional electoral system for you.

The Israeli massacres of Palestinians seeking aid are literally daily. They are simply opening fires on civilians on a daily basis.

Psychotic to think that victims of the nakba, displacement, occupation, concentration, decades of Israeli state terror and discrimination, and now genocide by famine, should or would listen to their killers' allies on the question of just how little democracy they can have. Are Likud to be banned?

Israeli public figures call for ‘crippling sanctions’ on Israel over Gaza starvation Thirty-one high-profile Israelis accuse Tel Aviv of ‘brutal campaign’ and demand permanent ceasefire in letter

Re Ireland's OTB & UK's appeal for a 'ceasefire' / recognition of SoP in September: the situation has moved well beyond the measures / solution sought.

The international community should be using its muscle to prevent this genocide by man-maintained famine.

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Despite the UK's ultimatum re recognition of Palestine, a Royal Air Force Shadow R1 intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition, and reconnaissance (ISTAR) plane was off the Israeli coast just now

The RAF has been running intel flights for the IDF through much of the war on Gaza

I think you have me confused for a public broadcaster.

And then... a ceasefire? Israel is now occupying most of Gaza, policing it through murderous terror. What would a ceasefire be worth? No pretence is even being made that aid seekers are part of a war against the IDF. There is no such thing as a ceasefire between murderers and their victims.

Starmer gone a bit mad I think. As the world watches a million people enter the last states of famine, he thinks the genocidiares deserve a full month to carry it to its final conclusion.

Just invite Obama to collect his freedom of the city at a big city fundraiser for victims of the genocide in Gaza. He won't collect, we don't have to start pretending that we haven't already awarded it to him. There's a small chance he might be shamed into making a noise.

Democracies can pass unjust laws just as well as anyone else. That's been fairly well accepted since Plato and Aristotle wrote about it.

1. Some people align their morality with the law, and consider breaking it to be immoral, even when the law is oppressive.
I point them to my Dutch in-laws, who broke the law by sheltering a Jewish boy, and the Nazi soldiers and Dutch police, whose raids seeking criminals like them upheld the law.🧵

Credit to the BBC’s Jeremy Bowen.

Defying the Israeli ban on filming Gaza from above, Bowen instead describes the carnage & genocide he can see:

“I can tell you that communities in the north of Gaza that I knew well…with tens of thousands of people…are flat. There’s nothing left of them.”

I look fwd to the online discourse on the UK left of centre for many years. Who is handing the election to Farage? Who is wrecking the electoral system? Who is preventing unBrexit? Who is to blame for poor fiscal sitch? You! That's Who! You should be ashamed of yourselves!*

*actual target may vary.

Help Ruba Welcome I am Roba from Gaza, 22 years old.I will write to you my story that began on October 7 until these days We spent these days suffering a lot, and this suffering still continues.In these days, I...

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What sort of exposition did you include to demonstrate that the badger's illness was terminal?

If those 20 EU govts who joined Monday's strong statement by Western countries to immediately allow aid & supplies move unencumbered into Gaza are ready to put their words into action, there's already a qualified majority to act. QMV can immediately suspend the trade chapter 1/4

Thank you to @monachalabi.bsky.social for this powerful graphic, which starkly pictures the severity of the Israeli government’s policy of mass death through forced starvation.

🇵🇸 VIDEO: AFP journalist covers war as Gaza faces extreme shortages

AFP video journalist Youssef Hassouna has been covering the Gaza war for 21 months. Now, extreme scarcity of food, clean water and medical care in Gaza are further complicating his efforts to cover the devastating conflict.

Loved Citizen Sleeper. Played it for 90 minutes at a time while a newborn slept on my arm.

Armed police threatened to arrest Kent protester for holding Palestinian flag Officers accused Laura Murton who also had a sign saying ‘Free Gaza’ of supporting a proscribed organisation

Allowing ordinary police officers and home secretaries to enforce anti-terror legislation as they see fit has had a terrible impact on human rights in the UK.
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Francesca Albanese—

"Israel's economy is one of erasure, of elimination."

Israel's economy has become an economy of genocide. There is not a good Israel and a bad Israel. There's just Israel and it is Israel that must face sanctions, divestment and boycotts. #GazaGenocide

BBC now admitting to the existence of a Gaza health ministry. Who knew.

Sans intervention immédiate, les derniers reporters de Gaza vont mourir 21 juillet 2025 L'AFP travaille avec une pigiste texte, trois photographes et six pigistes vidéo dans la Bande de Gaza depuis le départ de ses journalistes staff courant 2024. Avec quelques autres, ils sont aujourd'hui les seuls à rapporter ce qu'il se passe dans la Bande de Gaza. La presse internationale est interdite d'entrer dans ce territoire depuis près de deux ans. Nous refusons de les voir mourir. L'un deux, Bashar, collabore pour l'AFP depuis 2010, d'abord comme fixeur, ensuite comme photographe pigiste, et depuis 2024 comme principal photographe. Samedi 19 juillet, il est parvenu à poster un message sur Facebook: « Je n'ai plus la force de travailler pour les médias. Mon corps est maigre et je ne peux plus travailler ». Bashar, 30 ans, travaille et vit dans des conditions égales à celles de tous les Gazaouis, allant d'un camp de réfugiés à un autre camp au gré des bombardements israéliens. Depuis plus d'un an il vit dans le dénuement le plus total et travaille en prenant d'énormes risques pour sa vie. L'hygiène est pour lui un problème majeur, avec des périodes de maladies intestinales sévères. Bashar vit depuis février dans les ruines de sa maison de Gaza City avec sa mère, ses quatre frères et sœurs et la famille d'un de ses frères. Leur maison est vide de tout aménagement et confort, à part quelques coussins. Dimanche matin, il a rapporté que son frère aîné était « tombé, à cause de la faim ». Même si ces journalistes reçoivent un salaire mensuel de l'AFP, il n'y a rien à acheter ou alors à des prix totalement exorbitants. Le système bancaire a disparu, et ceux qui pratiquent le change entre les comptes bancaires en ligne et l'argent liquide prennent une commission de près de 40%. L'AFP n'a plus la possibilité d'avoir un véhicule et encore moins de l'essence pour permettre à ses journalistes de se déplacer pour leurs reportages. Circuler en voiture équivaut de toutes les façons à pre…

🚨BREAKING: The last journalists working for AFP in Gaza have said they can no longer work for the news agency.

They are out of energy and they are starving to death.

I have never seen a statement from a news organisation like it.

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The city of Beit Hanoun in the north east edge of Gaza is seen from above. It is completely destroyed, not a single building is standing. It is all rubble, as though the aftermath of a nuclear explosion. The city had a population of 52,000

Gaza is now single deadliest conflict for journalists in history.

This is not only an attempt to extinguish a whole people, it is also an attempt to extinguish the story of their genocide.

“One day, everyone will have always been against this.” - Egyptian-Canadian writer, Omar El Akkad.

#Gaza

UNRWA has enough food to feed the entire population of Gaza for more than 3 months. It is stockpiled just outside Gaza.

The US, EU and British could insist that it enters under threat of sanction but prefer to watch Palestinians being lured toward food and medicine and then slaughtered for sport.