1/6 First responders should never be a target. Yet today @UNOCHA supported @PalestineRCS and Civil Defense to retrieve colleagues from a mass grave in #Rafah #Gaza that was marked with the emergency light from one of their crushed ambulances.

More than 460 patients and their companions have been killed at Saudi Maternity Hospital in the city of El Fasher, #Sudan. Civilians and hospitals are #NotATarget!

[6/6] Being called a witch symbolizes the survival of suppressed knowledge, autonomy, and resistance. For the accuser - the settler colony - it’s an expression of fear at the power of the truth. Resorting to such language signals the desperation that precedes an end to impunity.

[5/6] What Danon clearly doesn’t understand is that in the 21st century, the meaning of such an accusation within social justice movements like those that Albanese has met in #SouthAfrica over the past week - and of which Israel is the antithesis - is being reclaimed.

[4/6] These same structures that enabled mass murder at home later fueled settler colonialism abroad. Accusations of ‘witchcraft’ were carried into colonized territories to suppress indigenous knowledge and practices.

[3/6] To call someone a witch was a mechanism of patriarchal and religious control used to silence dissent. For Danon to choose such a term shows that irony is not dead.

[2/6] Between the 15th and 18th centuries, witch trials resulted in the execution of tens of thousands of women. The accused were those who were outspoken, independent, or non-conforming.

[1/6] Yesterday, Israel’s ambassador to the UN referred to @FranceskAlbs as a ‘witch’ in response to her latest report on #Gaza #Palestine. It is an accusation that says more about the accuser than the accused. A 🧵…

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I welcome the unambiguous ruling by the International Court of Justice today stating that:    - Israel is under an obligation to agree to & facilitate relief schemes provided by the United Nations & its entities, in particular @UNRWA.    - ⁠Israel’s claim that UNRWA is

Children make up 21% of the 1001 Palestinians killed in the West Bank since 7October 2023. At least 355 of the Palestinians killed were shot in the head or upper body. 258 killed in airstrikes.

Entering Gaza earlier today. Amid practical work to save lives, we also bear witness.

Due to high public demand, the 23rd Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture will now be at the Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg. Date & Time: Saturday, 25 October 2025, 15h00 Speaker: Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories Theme:

We cannot deliver the scale necessary in Gaza without international NGO presence and engagement. They need to be allowed to bring in aid. My interview with Reuters 👇 https://t.co/3YS109yEUK

PRESS RELEASE: On 22 October 2025 at 3 p.m. (The Hague), the #ICJ will deliver its Advisory Opinion on the Obligations of Israel in relation to the Presence and Activities of the United Nations, Other International Organizations (1/2).

10 years ago today

It has been 18 months since the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled that Israel must take all measures within its power to prevent the commission of genocide, including acting in full co-operation with the United Nations, to ensure the unhindered provision of urgently

“It is clear there is an intent to destroy the Palestinians in Gaza through acts that meet the criteria set forth in the Genocide Convention.” UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry's report shows #Israel has committed #genocide in #Gaza. https://t.co/UGjepPwmwo

I took these photos in northern #Gaza in Jan 2024, >1.5 years ago. Already in complete ruins. #GazaCity is now being destroyed in a total onslaught by Israeli forces. Nowhere is safe. Famine, death, forced displacement, destruction. On repeat. One atrocity piled upon another,

Israel, as the occupying Power, has clear obligations. It must ensure the provision of food, water, medicine, and other essentials. It must agree to and facilitate far greater humanitarian access. It must protect civilians and civilian infrastructure. And it must end the

Mariam was one of the journalists killed today in Nasser Hospital in #Gaza