Safiyyah Abbas
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Paediatric rehabilitation physician. “Medicine is a social science and politics is nothing else but medicine on a large scale.” - Rudolf Virchow. 🍉
Sydney, New South Wales
Joined August 2018
Lucy Mitchell and I wrote in @TheLancet in March on Aus medical leadership’s silence on Gaza. The Hippocratic principle of first, do no harm, precludes our silence. https://t.co/2aV4f69tSz
thelancet.com
“I am personally shocked by the systematic undermining of principles and standards we used to take for granted.”1 These words from António Guterres, UN Secretary-General, mirror the feelings of...
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NEW | Gaza Death Toll Likely Exceeds 100,000, Max-Planck Study finds at least 100,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza during the more than two-year-long Israeli genocide. Between October 7, 2023 - October 6, 2025, around 112,000 Palestinians were killed, including 27%
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A third of Australian families are food insecure. The NDIS is being pared back to the bone. Welfare recipients face punitive new laws. Meanwhile, the government has committed up to $368 billion to buy nuclear submarines. #auspol @KleinRevd
https://t.co/8Jgq3TvOLF
theaimn.net
A third of Australian families are food insecure. The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) is being pared back to the bone. Welfare recipients face punitive new laws. Meanwhile, the government...
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In a sane world, the government guilty of committing genocide would be dismantled, and forced to pay reparations. Instead they are allowed to corral their victims into a concentration camp and steal their land. We live in the most obscene of all possible timelines.
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Wow. David Marr's interview with Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Chris Hedges is extraordinary. And not in a good way. https://t.co/U9kDEJmDAj
abc.net.au
Australia’s National Press Club was due to host Pulitzer prize winning journalist, the former Middle East Bureau Chief for the New York Times, Chris Hedges on Monday October 20, 2025. But after...
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"MSF labelled Abu Sitta as too biased, despite his extensive experience in the area, and his Palestinian witness of Israeli violence was not welcomed by the organization. Abu Sitta’s experience is excluded from reports or media communications" https://t.co/bnu7wiHeKE
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Director of Al-Shifa Medical Complex: •The health situation in the Gaza Strip is completely collapsed, especially after the occupation destroyed the hospitals in Gaza City. •We have contacted international organizations and informed them of our needs, but we have not received
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IF THIS IS NOT HOSTAGE TAKING, WHAT IS? Israel refuses to release Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya who insisted on staying with his patients in his bombed hospital even after his own son was murdered. Since then he has been held in one of Israel's torture facilities.
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The Israelian having another even handed moment in its coverage
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A doctor in Gaza expresses their scepticism about Israel’s commitment to peace.
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Israeli occupation forces have just killed my third son, Ibraheem.. RIP my dear son.
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Air strikes reported in al-Shati refugee camp and al-Nasser neighborhood in Gaza City.
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An old video of a child from Gaza, recorded 15 years ago, speaking about a childhood lost to war: We don’t have kids’ activities , only funerals, tanks, and invasions. Years have passed, yet Gaza’s children are still living the same reality.
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Australians overwhelmingly back sanctions on Israel, new poll finds https://t.co/5IRh8G4esZ Time to read the room yet @AlboMP ?
deepcutnews.com
'Sizeable majority' of voters across political lines want Israel to end genocide in Gaza
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Breaking: Dr. Abdelhamid Qaradaya succumbed to his injuries today after being wounded in the head last Thursday by an Israeli airstrike near him and his colleagues while waiting for a bus in Deir al-Balah to go to work at Médecins Sans Frontières, where he was employed.
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Professor Peter Macdonald remains excluded from work saving lives - 2 more pieces since initial one - #Zionist links: https://t.co/t2bLYdyjsN & #Zionist operator Dr Samuell https://t.co/qTfrbeRWoU
@yanisvaroufakis @yaakov_aharon
michaelwest.com.au
Civilisation is under attack from Australian doctors, warns pro-Israel psychiatrist Doron Samuell. Royal Children's Hospital agrees.
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🚨BREAKING:Israel continues to target medical teams: The army killed Dr. Ahmad Faiz Al-Dalou, a laboratory specialist at Kamal Adwan Hospital, who remained at his post serving patients throughout the war until the bombing claimed his life.
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