The very idea that Israel, a state on trial for genocide, one that has a record of war crimes and not properly investigating them, can carry out an independent investigation is a disgrace and an insult to the victims. Israel treats international law with open contempt.
To be clear: No Palestinian evacuation from Gaza will be voluntary. It will have been brought about by the terror of Israeli bombardment and siege, leading to spread of disease. It would be ethnic cleansing.
Told
@bbcnews
that the decision to suspend funding to
@unrwa
was disgraceful. It is collectively punishing Palestinian refugees in Gaza and across the region, including the most vulnerable who are being bombed and starved to death in Gaza. Serious allegations were made against 12
Cameron says Israel has not shown intent to commit genocide. False. Israeli leaders have made genocidal comments ever since 7 October. The UK has not called them out. They are terrifying, even more so given what Israel has and is doing to Palestinians in Gaza. A small selection
"I think the South African action is wrong, I think it is unhelpful and I think it shouldn't be happening."
Foreign Secretary
@David_Cameron
adds that "to say that (Israel) have the intent to commit genocide is nonsense".
#TrevorPhillips
📺 Sky 501
Simons is no expert as he states - but does not take an expert to know the term Palestine was not introduced by the Romans. Palestine was even mentioned in writing by Herodotus in the 5th century BC ( Before Christ). The non-existence historically and actually of Palestine and
If there was a march with chants of "Death to Jews" and "A good Jew is a dead Jew, who thinks the BBC would ignore. Yet in this article there is not one mention of the Death to Arab chants. This is not journalism it is propaganda.
Incredible. US SoS Blinken admits US has not investigated the allegations against 12 UNRWA staff but has decided nonetheless that they are 'highly credible'. “We haven’t had the ability to investigate [the allegations] ourselves. But they are highly, highly credible,” says
UNRWA have 13,000 staff working at 350 installations in Gaza serving 1.7 million Palestinian refugees. Currently it is sheltering 1 million IDPs. It sacked 12 staff members based on allegations. How can such a large agency operating in a war zone, in an area under
Isrseli
Deputy PM Oliver Dowden asked by
@SkyNews
if Suella Braverman's comments that Britain is being taken over by an "islamist mob” were acceptable.
"I don't believe the language used by Suella Braverman has crossed the line, where she should apologise for it, no I don't."
after the war crimes committed by putin, how could anyone suggest ukraine should negotiate away any of its territory?
how could any ukrainians live in russian occupied land?
Those who backed Johnson have serious Qs to answer - a stunning lack of judgement. They backed a known liar, a lawbreaker, a serial adulterer, a man with a record of racist and Islamophobic statements, and someone who may well have misled Parliament. This should not be forgotten
Of all the politicians I have met in 25 years, this man is one of the lowest. I am reminded of the little things like the way he treated his staff .... with undisguised contempt.
Mind-boggling: Bassil told BBC News: "the question is not why it was there, but how it was ignited". Having 2,750 freaking tons of ammonium nitrate in a civilian port for seven years is completely normal.
"We've never been allowed to speak about politics in sports,but all of a sudden now it's allowed. So now that we're allowed...Palestinians have been going through that for the past 74 years"
- Egypt World No.1 Squash Player
@AliFarag
Salute from your African brothers & sisters
For over 35 years, I have witnessed UNRWA operations in all 5 areas of operations – Gaza, West Bank, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon. I have met with every single UNRWA CG since the early 1990s. My first boss was head of UNRWA operations in Gaza when the first Intifada broke out
When you see this, when you see this all across Gaza, you realise how nauseous the lie of Israel as a moral army is, how disgraceful that the US and UK reaction is just to drop aid but not force Israel to stop. Decent people, who see both Arabs and Jews as human, know how massive
But
@RachelRileyRR
did not apologise for the tweet. She claimed it was a misunderstanding. It was not. She attributed without evidence the hideous Sydney attack to an Islamist.
Spain has sent another 10 million euros to UNRWA in Gaza today, and it has tripled its funding to Palestine in recent months to around 50 million euros.
Disgraceful colonial mindset parroting zionist propaganda about making the desert bloom. Palestinians were making it bloom well before Israel existed & the Nabateans were doing it 1000s of years ago. To call Israel a vibrant democracy as it maintains a system of aparthied....
Today we celebrate 75 years of Israel's independence and friendship with Europe.
A special message from President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen:
For over 3 months, we have heard international leaders including British call on Israel not to invade Rafah, that it would be unacceptable. Biden said it was a "red line" in March. Hamas accepted a deal - Netanyahu's response was to invade. 1/
Israeli ambassador to the UK Tzipi Hotovely says every school, mosque and second house is a target for Israel.
Asked if that’s effectively a call for the destruction of all of Gaza, she asks “do you have another solution?”
A clear call for genocide.
this is simply OUTRAGEOUS:
Reporter:
"Should the Palestinians have a state of their own?"
Israeli Ambassador:
"The answer is absolutely no"
Just who on earth do these people think they are?
Fascinating that the Israeli air force thinks showing decimated urban rubble of entire neighbourhoods having been reduced to rubble is something to be proud of.
Dozens of fighter jets and helicopters attacked a series of terrorist targets of the Hamas terrorist organization throughout the Gaza Strip.
So far, the IAF has dropped about 6,000 bombs against Hamas targets.
BREAKING: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on Palestinian civilians in Gaza to “leave now” because the Israeli military is going to “turn all Hamas hiding places into rubble”
Excellent journalism from
@scribblercat
Video has emerged of the moment a 16-year-old unarmed Palestinian boy was shot dead outside a hospital by a sniper during the
#Jenin
military operation exploding Israel’s claims that only combatants were killed.
Today I made clear to Foreign Minister Amir-Abdollahian that Iran must not draw the Middle East into a wider conflict.
I am deeply concerned about the potential for miscalculation leading to further violence.
Iran should instead work to de-escalate and prevent further attacks.
Statement from
@SirAlanDuncan
: "Although I have heard nothing myself I have been told by many in the media that the Conservative Party has issued a statement to say that I am to be investigated by them with a view to expulsion.
They did not lay out any substantive grounds for
Feeling of failure is total, failure to help the 2.3 million Palestinian civilians in Gaza, trying to find humanity amongst Britain's leaders, to locate an ounce of moral responsibility and leadership. Half of those in Gaza are children, many feted to die alone in the dark.
So not the state, Israel, that made 70% of the Palestinian population refugees, that has annexed East Jerusalem, that has occupied the West Bank and Gaza Strip for 56 years, put Gaza under a 16 year blockade, taken their land and water, that is now carpet bombing Gaza
Hamas is the greatest threat to the Palestinian people.
They hide in hospitals and schools, using woman and children as human shields.
The death of any civilian is a tragedy.
Palestinian or Israeli - Hamas is the cause of this loss.
Netanyahu has arrived in London and will meet Rishi Sunak. Time for the UK gov to make clear Israel must end its war crimes, inc end of settlements, collective punishment, home demolitions. Sunak must also condemn the appalling anti-Arab racism of the Israeli coalition incl ...
The anti-Palestinian racism is extraordinary. Only Jews have the right to settle in Palestine. This should never be published anywhere. Complete denial of Palestinian rights as a people. This is the language &ideology that is used to justify ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.
"The world decided that the Jews alone had the right to resettle their land"
Melanie Phillips discusses her view that Jews are the only "extant indigenous" group in Israel in this week's JC podcast.
Israel says it has struck over 22,000 targets in Gaza. The
@IntlCrimCourt
will look forward to a legal justification as to how Israel could identify 22,000 legitimate targets in Gaza. Let's have a list of these 22,000+ targets.
Since Hamas launched this war, the Israeli Air Force has struck 22,000+ targets in the Gaza Strip. Even based on Hamas numbers passing off terrorists as civilians, that's less than 0.8 civilian deaths per airstrike.
That's what world-leading precision looks like.
Israel still not vaccinating Palestinians. It has an absolute legal responsibility to do so as the occupying power. Saddening to see people fall for the lie that Olso Accords means Israel has divested itself of this responsibility. International law is crystal clear
This atrocious from a man who is in the Lords, as with too many there, not based on merit. He incites violence. It is Islamophobic. He should be kicked out of the Lords for this. This sort of vile extremism should have no place in this country.
Dear
@BBCBreaking
, the West Bank is under Israeli military occupation, yet this word does not appear in this article. Settlers are not legally present in the occupied West Bank as settlements are a violation of international law and the Rome Statute. Failure to state this
It is misleading to describe the
@WCKitchen
killing as an airstrike (singular). In actual fact 3 vehicles were targeted, with the first & last being over 2.4km apart. The IDF decided to make 3 targeted strikes, not one. Geolocation from
@m_osint
and
@ChrisOsieck
#Gaza
If Palestinian officials were to reject a two state solution, fury of UK Ministers. When Israeli PM and officials reject it, business as usual. The double standards are acute.
BREAKING: Israeli ambassador
@TzipiHotovely
rejects the idea of a two-state solution
"The answer is absolutely no", she says.
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Israel makes allegations against UNRWA but provides zero evidence. What happens? UK supends funding pending investigation
Israel carries out three strikes against known aid worker vehicles. What happens? UK says - Israel please investigate yourself, and we'll still sell you arms
Israel is stealing more Palestinian land in occupied territory. It has just announced the theft of 8000 dunums of land in the Jordan Valley, in addition to the 2,640 dunums stolen in February. We are not even a quarter of the way through 2024 but this year has seen more land
This morning the IDF demolished a Palestinian school in the village of Al-Sfai, Masafer Yatta (Firing Zone 918). Look at the children retrieving their textbooks which were scattered on the ground.
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Completely false. Israel occupies & controls 5.5 million Palestinians. They cannot enter or exit occupied territory without Israel's permission. In the West Bank they cannot move from one city to another without Israeli permission. Israel determines how much water they get.
It's always easy to repeat talking points. In reality, Israel governs 600k of 4 million Palestinians. There are 3.4 million Palestinians governed by PA and Hamas. Chris is confusing absence of Palestinian sovereignty with human rights issues.
"Therefore, if the children of Gaza are forced to starve, to live in sewage pipes, and to eat moldy bread, I don't care, let this happen."
An Israeli journalist says it is okay for Israel to starve Gaza's children to death so long as there are Israeli prisoners in the enclave.
I cannot reach anyone in Gaza right now - nothing is getting going through, I understand network is out across the strip. Reports of very heavy bombardment particularly in the north. Comes amid continued talk of a possible ground incursion.
This is utter nonsense. If you cannot distinguish between a military and a civilian target, then international law is clear you must not bomb. Israel uses huge numbers of drones, at much lower altitudes.
Sky News military analyst tells us that Israel killing several aid workers "looks like a dreadful mistake", before going on to explain how hard it would have been for the Israeli jet to identify the aid workers vehicles from 10,000 feet up.
The UN says as many as 120 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank since Hamas' attack in Israel.
@mattfrei
speaks to Palestinian families choosing to ignore the threats and intimidation of Israeli settlers, and those being forced from their homes.
And if the US was under foreign military occupation, blockade, was having its land and water stolen, homes demolished and had 70% of its population forced into exile as refugees, what would US citizens be doing? Asking for 14 million friends.
Israel is defending itself the same way America would defend ourselves if someone was shooting missiles at us.
We will always have the backs of our friends.🇺🇸🇮🇱
Having already demonstrated his hatred of Muslims + Arabs today (again), the Editor of Jewish Chronicle dangerously and recklessly condemns pro-Palestinian demonstrators as a mob supporting Hamas. Reckless and irresponsible language has to be called out - no matter who.
UNRWA lifesaving assistance is about to end following countries decisions to cut their funding to the Agency.
Our humanitarian operation, on which 2 million people depend as a lifeline in Gaza, is collapsing. I am shocked such decisions are taken based on alleged behavior of a
So much respect for
@GaryLineker
for speaking out. He gives a very human honest reaction to the horrors in Gaza and the killings of children. It is those who stay silent who are an issue.
Reminder Israel systematically discriminates against non-Jews. These are Israeli ctiizens inside Israel, just they happen to be Arab so they have fewer rights. It is why the human rights community calls it apartheid.
A Palestinian could make almost exactly the same speech as Zelensky is making right now at the Arab League summit in Jeddah - Instead of Russia, substitute Israel. Occupation. Illegal annexation. Bombs. Aggression. Prisons.
The United Nations will not tolerate attempts at illegal annexation. We will never recognize it.
The United Nations will not tolerate seizing a neighbor's land by force. We will stand up to it.
The United Nations will not tolerate attacks on the UN Charter. We will defend it.
A grotesque lie. When interviewed on the Israeli decision to impose a siege cutting off water, food and power to Gaza, you endorsed the decision. To claim only now civilians lives must come first after relentless Israeli bombing of civilian targets for ten days is a disgrace 1/
The destruction of Al Ahli hospital is a devastating loss of human life.
The UK has been clear.
The protection of civilian life must come first.
The UK will work with our allies to find out what has happened and protect innocent civilians in Gaza.
In interviewing
@grantshapps
today on
@BBCr4today
@MishalHusain
became the first ever interviewer I have heard to confront a serving British Minister, Grant Shapps, about genocidal quotes from Israeli Ministers. "I had not heard those sort of comments from Ministers." Husain
Cameron says Israel has not shown intent to commit genocide. False. Israeli leaders have made genocidal comments ever since 7 October. The UK has not called them out. They are terrifying, even more so given what Israel has and is doing to Palestinians in Gaza. A small selection
Karim Khan is a British citizen. What has the UK government said in response to this appalling political interference in the workings of the International Criminal Court and intimidation of the prosecutor?
Read the letter from 12 Republican senators threatening ICC chief prosecutor
@KarimKhanQC
with "severe" consequences for him, his family & staff if he goes ahead with an arrest warrant for Netanyahu. "You have been warned."
Oh and subscribe to Zeteo too:
#BREAKING
United States vetoes Security Council draft resolution that would have demanded an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza, and immediate and unconditional release of all hostages
VOTE
In Favour: 13
Against: 1 (US)
Abstain: 1 (UK)
The naked, brazen Islamophobia on display here is a direct result here of the country's leadership not to tackle this extremism. Having Ramadan lights is perfectly fine and yes Menorahs, have been lit up on our streets. Diwali celebrations too.
If Israel has suddenly found this great commitment to international law, it has to implement in full the ICJ provisional measures -now. It also has to dismantle all settlements in the West Bank and Golan Heights. It has to stop torture. It has to stop imprisoning Palestinians
Israel's commitment to international law is unwavering. Equally unwavering is our sacred commitment to continue to defend our country and defend our people.
Like every country, Israel has an inherent right to defend itself.
The vile attempt to deny Israel this fundamental right
BBC says "Israeli army has "no intention" of occupying the Jenin refugee camp" - actually it is, it has been and intends to. It has occupied the entirety of the West Bank for 56 years.
Most of the Oslo Accords has been effectively cancelled by Israel over 20 years ago (no port or air port in Gaza, no safe passage between West Bank and Gaza, clearance revenues not handed to PA, no Temporary International Presence, no completion of final status talks....)
Israel’s Finance Minister says:
"Israel will act unilaterally to cancel the Oslo Accords, to completely and immediately stop all funds transferred to the Palestinian Authority and to dissolve the PA."
Not sanctioning Israel is weakness
@David_Cameron
@tariqahmadbt
. Weakness.
A disgraceful argument. In fact there has been very little footage out of Gaza because the Israeli army won't allow journalists in. This is a clear desire to intimidate the media from showing what is possibly, acc to the ICJ, a genocide
Howard Jacobson on Newsnight complaining that the BBC is showing too many images of death and destruction in Gaza.
'What you do when you do that is you take a side...it is agonising to see what is happening but there are reasons for it.'
If Israeli soldiers can shoot their own hostages when they were holding white cloth on stick, what does that tell us about how they differentiate, if at all, between Palestinian civilians and Hamas fighters?
Dear
@RishiSunak
Is this man still your Trade Envoy to Israel? You think this foul Islamophobic inciteful language is appropriate? Will
@Keir_Starmer
call for him to be sacked?
This barely qualifies as journalism. No coverage of the Israeli violence against mourners. No mention of the eye witness testimony that indicated Israeli soldiers killed Shireen Abu Akleh ....
Ashamed of the UK
@David_Cameron
.... abstaining at the UN Security Council on Palestinian recognition. A total disgrace. Nobody can take the UK seriously when it claims to support a two-state solution. Shambles.
WATCH📺: While instances of Islamophobia rise, Ministers sit on their hands, refusing to accept the cross-party definition of Islamophobia.
British Muslims in Luton and across the UK shouldn't have to continue to endure Islamophobia. Govt must act.
#Luton
The moral inversion is spectacular. Russia occupies parts of Ukraine. Israel occupies Palestinian territory. Russia uses starvation as a weapon of war as does Israel. Russia bombs hospitals and civilian infrastructure - as does Israel. Russia tortures so does Israel. Both Russia
“If we don’t give them food, they will leave.” Genocide is agnostic on the end goal. Destroying part of a national group to make them leave is genocide
The PM is asked if an Israeli soldier shooting dead a Palestinian civilian holding a white flag is a war crime
Sunak refuses to say & explains his priority is to get a pause [in Israeli soldiers shooting dead Palestinians holding white flags]. Notice he doesnt want a stop to it
How deeply concerned are we? Concerned enough to ... let me see, stop selling weapons to the state of Israel at a time when the ICJ has determined plausible grounds Israel is in the process of committing genocide?
Deeply concerned about the prospect of a military offensive in Rafah – over half of Gaza’s population are sheltering in the area.
The priority must be an immediate pause in the fighting to get aid in and hostages out, then progress towards a sustainable, permanent ceasefire.
Told
@skynews
@skynewssam
that the decision of the US and others to cut funding to
@unrwa
on the basis of unproven allegations was a disgrace. The US thinks in this situation, that it should penalise Palestinians who are literally starving to death, on the basis of allegations,
“Language matters. Language is what started in Bosnia. Language is what started in Rwanda”
Journalist Yasmin Alibhai-Brown quotes the poet WH Auden while discussing the power of language and defending Gary Lineker’s recent tweet
#bbcqt
The
#WestBank
elementary school of Ein Samiya was demolished today by the Israeli authorities.
Listen to this press briefing by
@UN_Spokesperson
.
More information:
It also marked 150 days of Palestinian civilians collectively been starved, incl 16 starved to death, 1.7 million forcibly displaced, over 30,000 killed but your twitter feed this year seems to ignore. So, yes release the hostages now, hold Hamas accountable for its crimes, but
I am at Charles De Gaule airport. They are preventing me from entering France. I am supposed to speak at the French Senate today. They say the Germans put a 1 year ban on my entry to Europe.
Utterly atrocious and racist comments from the Israeli Ambassador. She should be hauled into the FCDO for this. The dehumanisation of Palestinians by Israeli officials has to be called out. Mass atrocities are being carried out incl the mass starvation of 2.3 million Palestinians
Kay Burley: "Whats the view on the humanitarian crisis in Gaza this morning?"
The Israeli ambassador to the UK: "There is no humanitarian crisis..."
"There isn't?"
"There isn't"
Typical BBC article on Palestine - On settlements, "Palestinians say these are illegal under international law and are obstacles to peace, but Israel denies this." It is no Palestinians who say this. The U.N Security Council says this, nearly every major power, the ICJ says this
Israeli settlers raid village of Qusra near Nablus & go on a shooting rampage, killing 3 Palestinians. As they retreat, Israeli soldiers move in and shot some more, killing a fourth resident of the village. 12 people are in hospital, one of them is reported in critical condition.
The political echelons of the European and American leaderships are mired in deep-rooted anti-Arab, anti-Palestinian and anti-Muslim attitudes, which the Israeli pummeling of Palestinians in Gaza in response to the Oct. 7 atrocities has highlighted.
@AlanVRK
Yes I agree. So the investigation must take place which it is. Proper process. Those found responsible must be held to account. You do not penalise the innocent particularly those starving to death
Today No 10 briefed foreign press that the UK had no plans to move its embassy to Israel in Tel Aviv. Thus is very welcome and retains a sensible position of the British government in conformity with international law and consensus. It was rash to even consider the move.
This from the Israeli PM spokesman sums up the Israeli gov attitude to Palestinians ... all are targets because all will be terrorists. It highlights the complete & utter dehumanisation of Palestinians too often seen in Israel