20 years ago today, Tom Hurndall was shot in the head while trying to rescue a small child in Gaza. He lay in a coma until his passing on 13 January 2004. Tom was a brave humanitarian and is an enduring inspiration for us, as is his mother @jocelynhurndall lphr.org.uk/latest-news/a-br…

There was a deeper reason why the film NAZA left the entire audience speechless. This film isn’t about the tangible, visible horror of Gaza. It was about something more hidden, something far closer to home. This was about the horror lurking within each of us. What the German-Jewish philosopher Hannah Arendt called “the banality of evil”. We were stunned, I think, by the realisation that the 24 Israelis up on the screen – each of whom admitted, often dispassionately, sometimes a little proudly, carrying out the most monstrous of crimes – could have been our son or daughter, our brother or sister. The only reason to applaud, as happened at the Venice Film Festival, it seemed to me, was to drown out the still, small voice of one’s conscience asking, “Might I have done as they did? Might my children?” NAZA is a gut punch not because it tells us anything we did not already know or suspect about Israel and Gaza. The enclave’s Palestinian journalists showed us daily the evidence of the genocide, before each was picked off by Israel’s AI machinery – in the largest slaughter of media personnel ever recorded. No, the film tells us something far more shaming. It tells us who we are. It tells us exactly what the pillars of our western “civilisation” stand on. Today’s western privileges were built on a long history of naked, racist colonialism – of greed, of pillage, of slavery, of genocide – that we have never truly renounced or forsaken. Israel continues that tradition for us, both in sharpening colonialism’s technical efficiency with endless, murderous experimentation on a captive Palestinian population and in obscuring our own complicity in this barbarity. That is the reason why it was so effortless for our leaders to collude in Israel’s genocide: to supply the bombs, to pass on the intelligence, to provide the diplomatic cover, to excuse the “excesses”, to crush the protests. NAZA silences us not because of the monstrosity of what Israel did but because it serves as irrefutable proof of our own monstrosity. Our societies watched it all and did nothing. We are all guilty. This is an extract from my latest article NAZA is not just about Israel and Gaza. It’s about the evil lurking in us all. Find a link to the rest in the reply post below ⬇️

Israel’s far-right politicians are protesting to block food from entering Gaza. These are the same politicians who insisted in May 2025 that “there is no starvation in Gaza.”

We are demanding that flour, vegetables, and food supplies enter Gaza, yet cleaning products, charcoal, and tents are coming in while families go hungry and the threat of famine grows. Can hand soap feed a hungry child? Can charcoal feed a family with nothing to eat? Enough of ignoring our suffering! Gaza needs food, not promises. Our children cannot wait any longer. Write, share, and speak out about what is happening in Gaza. Every day of delay makes this crisis worse. Do not stay silent about our hunger!

Israeli settlers attack Palestinian farmers while picking olives in their own land near the town of Sinjil in the central occupied West Bank.

Benjamin Netanyahu, declared today that he is planning to carry out the ethnic cleansing of entire neighborhoods in Hebron. His declaration represents an alarming escalation in Israel’s policies of forced displacement and a flagrant violation of international law and the fundamental rights of the Palestinian people. It must be unequivocally condemned, and the international community must act immediately to prevent the forcible displacement of Palestinian residents and hold those responsible accountable.

The ICJ dismissing the case had to do with the UAE officially opting out of Article IX of the 1948 Geneva convention which means other states can't sue it at the ICJ under the convention unless the UAE consents. The dismissal had nothing to do with the UAE NOT funding genocide.

The US correctly labeled Myanmar’s actions against the Rohingya a genocide in 2022. Today, it’s preemptively fighting a similar ICJ finding - afraid that exact legal analysis will conclude Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.

"Conflict is feeding conflict. From the Middle East to Ukraine to Sudan, we're seeing civilians and civilian infrastructure deliberately thrust into the line of fire. Attacks directed against civilians & civilian objects are prohibited under international law. They must stop."

“Gaza’s children are trying to recover their childhoods, to find some routine and stability in their young lives, which for too many have again been cut short. A ceasefire that does not protect children has failed them.” - @UNICEFmena's Edouard Beigbeder Full statement: unicef.link/4iajOOi

“I bought tarps and tents for 20,000 shekels so I can get married.” After three years of genocide, he was doing what Palestinians in Gaza do again and again: building a life out of whatever is left. He spent a small fortune on plastic sheeting and canvas, because a tent is the closest thing to a home a young man in Gaza can offer his bride. He planned to hold the wedding party and he invited everyone to come. Then an Israeli occupation drone fired a missile in Nuseirat camp, in central Gaza. Palestinians keep rebuilding, marrying and planning for tomorrow, and the Israeli occupation keeps taking it from them. The wedding he was preparing for will never happen. A year into the ceasefire, more than 1,520 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza. @ahmedjarwan1

It looks like @netanyahu will lose the election in Israel and the Republicans will lose the midterms because of Trump. Very dangerous for Iran. Both men are desperate. Kudos to Iran for not being intimidated and not giving up against bullies and liars. Our hearts are with you.

Casting the worse Collective punishment on Palestinians for election campaigns! Yulia Malinovsky a Knesset member+a candidate for the Yisrael Beiteinu party, led by opposition A.Liberman doing her election campaign by blocking the path of food aid trucks going to Gaza today

The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs of the Free Republic of Verdis had the opportunity to speak at the United Nations Youth General Assembly yesterday about the importance of youth importance, particularly in areas effected by conflicts and more. He also spoke about Verdis’ state-run aid organisation

“I have a profound contempt for the bourgeoisie—a sentiment that makes our future appear very bleak to me. Our bourgeois classes are, at any given moment, capable of producing a ‘teratological’ museum—a museum of monstrosities—like the one Hitler created; for they-

यही वो बांग्लादेशी कपल हैं 😱 उसका गुनाह सिर्फ इतना था कि वो माँ बनने वाली थी ये खबर उसने अपने पति को बताई “आप पिता बनने वाले हो” ये सुनते ही पति की आँखों में आँसू आ गए जिसने खुशी में पत्नी का माथा चूम लिया सऊदी अरब ने दो नहीं तीन लोगों को मौTत की सजा दी हैं

Netanyahu is a war criminal and, Israel is a fake Country. #̢̛ͥ̀̽̽ͨ̌̓͆̇̀̽ͦͨͫͯ̏̎̇̈̚͜҉̕͢͏͡҉̸̶̛͢͡҉̵̨̭̳̘̹̫͔͖̜̠͖̫̲̖̱̤̻̖͉͢͞͡ͅͅ͏̸̷̢͑̊̀̐ͣͭͭ̉͂ͨ̽͒̊̎͛ͪ̊̎ͩͧ̀͝͠͠͏̸̵̵̷̵