Hostages' families slam new Gaza plan for 'prioritizing territory over hostages' ***

The Israeli hostages would now have been free, along with hundreds of innocent Palestinians languishing in Israeli prisons, had indicted war criminal Netanyahu not chosen to violate the ceasefire deal he had signed. Lest we forget...
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Pope Francis has died at 88.

His final message: a call for a Gaza ceasefire.

“This is cruelty. This is not war,” he said after Israel killed 7 children in Jabalia.

He called Gaza’s suffering “deplorable” — and made nightly calls to Christians trapped there.

Horrific scenes unfolded following the massacre committed by Israel, when an airstrike targeted a journalists’ tent at Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza.
#Gaza

An ode to Rafah, as Israel orders the city to evacuate once again Last week Israel ordered the evacuation of Rafah, the very place that has been a refuge for millions of Palestinians, including myself. As I read the news, the memories of my displacement to Rafah came...

Last week Israel ordered the evacuation of Rafah, the very place that has been a refuge for millions of Palestinians, including myself. As I read the news, the memories of my displacement to Rafah came flooding back.

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#Palestine #Israel

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Israel is assassinating journalists in Gaza — and Western media’s silence enables it.

On March 24, Israel killed two more reporters: Hossam Shabat and Mohammad Mansour.

This isn’t “crossfire.” This is a kill list. 🧵

In under 24 hours, Israel has massacred over 400 people in Gaza — including 174 children.

Words of condemnation ring hollow.

The UK government must end ALL arms sales, trade & diplomatic ties with a state facing genocide charges at the ICJ & leaders under ICC arrest warrants.

The Rafah crossing, where sick and wounded Gazans congregated to be evacuated, was bombed relentlessly. The intention to kill the already wounded is clear. The criminality is palpable. The complicity of the US-European rulers is mindnumbing.

Ahead of Germany’s election, with anti-immigrant sentiment rising, they released viral videos showing life without immigrants.

History proves that when a country starts erasing certain people, it doesn’t end well.
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Leading Broadcasters Demand Reinstatement of Special Award Recognising Gaza Journalists Broadcasters Jonathan Dimbleby, Lindsey Hilsum, Sangita Myska, Matt Frei, Krishnan Guru-Murthy, Alex Crawford, Fergal Keane and Orla Guerin are among more than 400 TV and journalism professionals w…

Over 370 leading broadcasters including Jonathan Dimbleby, Sangita Myska, Krishnan Guru-Murthy and Alex Crawford have condemned @RTS_media for its last-minute decision to cancel a Special Award for journalists in Gaza, demanding its reinstatement (1/5)

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YouTube video by Macklemore MACKLEMORE - fucked up (official video)

The new Macklemore video everyone’s talking about. You might think it’s about Palestine, but it’s bigger than that. It’s about social media controlling what we see, hear, and think. It’s a call to action.

Whew… “fucked up.”
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🚨Now: hundreds of thousands marching for Palestine in London 🇵🇸

Excerpt from a public letter Roald Dahl wrote encouraging people to vaccinate their children. Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything. “Are you feeling all right?” I asked her. “I feel all sleepy,” she said. In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead. The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her. On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

Stop Trump’s Palestinian land grab url:https://www.map.org.uk/campaigns/stop-trumps-palestinian-land-grab

US health department condemns private equity firms for role in declining healthcare access Government report says private equity investment in nursing homes led to 11% increase in patient deaths

Death Merchants:

Private equity investment firms slammed for declining US healthcare quality and access.

11% increase in patient deaths.

Aggressive staffing cuts, hiring inadequately credentialed staff, low investment, profiteering.

Why is the UK NHS being handed to private equity?

Bradford clean air zone saves NHS over £30,000 a month in first year After one year of the zone, which is the second largest in England, GP visits for respiratory illnesses were down by a quarter

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“After one year of the zone, nitrogen dioxide from traffic was lower, GP visits for respiratory illnesses were down by 25% and those for heart problems decreased by 24%”

🚨 Breaking: Ali Abunimah, executive director of The Electronic Intifada, has been arrested in #Zurich #Sweden simply for advocating for Palestinian rights. This chilling crackdown on #freespeech and #journalism cannot go unchallenged.

We stand with Ali! #FreePalestine ✊🏽🕊️

Living in Northern Ireland, I've seen what PR can do. We've gone from a totally unfair, dysfunctional political system, which created a deeply-divided society, to one where everyone feels represented & included. It's certainly not perfect, but it's much better than FPTP.

YouTube video by Caitlin Johnstone Another Journalist Arrested In Another Western Nation For Wrongthink About Israel

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Israeli "hostages"

Palestinian "prisoners"

(Palestinian captives mostly women and children FYI)

The BBC does not value Palestinian lives equally.

God protect every man woman and child in Gaza.

#Gaza #Palestine #Genocide

No mention of UK arms sales that have enabled the genocide in Gaza.

How are the "Gaza isn't a thing people care about, we don't need your votes" people doing today

Israel celebrates ceasefire by bombing Gaza.

The ceasefire in Gaza will not take effect until Sunday, and Israel is still attacking Gaza.

Kemi Badenoch's Spokesman Ties Himself in Knots Over Her 'Peasants' Grooming Gang Comments The Conservative party leader and her Shadow Justice Secretary have made a series of inflammatory comments over the past week

Kemi Badenoch will be giving a speech and media Q+A later

As with all her previous speeches, Byline Times has not been granted an invite. However, you can see the questions we would have put to her, and how her spokesman responded to them yesterday here:

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Wowzer, JC going full antisemitic - trying to throw the entirety of global Jewry under the bus to stop anyone having a breath of sympathy for any Palestinians.

This is not even helpful to Israel. It’s pure desperation to assist a murderous Netanyahu.

Israeli soldiers storm Gaza's last working hospital, force out semi-naked medics and patients Kamal Adwan Hospital has been under siege for more than two months, receiving little to no aid, medicine, food or fuel

Israeli soldiers storm Gaza's Kamal Adwan hospital, force out semi-naked medics and patients - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/war-gaza-israel-soldiers-kamal-adwan-hospital-force-out-medics-and-patients