🇵🇸 🇫🇷 “The time has come. True to the historic commitment of my country to the Middle East, to peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians, I declare that today France recognizes the State of Palestine.”

Our statement regarding the United Kingdom’s historic recognition of the State of Palestine:

The question is not why the UK is now recognising but why it took so long. #bbclaurak

H.E. Ambassador @hzomlot with @DavidLammy MP ahead of a historic day.

Statement: The Palestinian Mission to the UK welcomes the UK 🇬🇧 recognition of the State of #Palestine🇵🇸

We welcome the British Government’s historic decision to formally recognise the State of Palestine. Today is not just about Palestine, but about Britain’s fulfilment of a solemn responsibility. This long-overdue recognition marks an end to Britain’s denial of the Palestinian

Poetic injustice: Writer stuck in Gaza as his first book, My Voice Cannot Be Bombed, is released abroad

Poetic injustice: Palestinian endures Gaza bombardment as book, My Voice Cannot Be Bombed, releases abroad

A father of three girls, he is just fighting to get back to life. The humanitarian situation here is no longer tolerable, an open wound with no end #GazaStarving #Gaza #FreePalestine

After more than 22 months of daily killing in Gaza, today I face another nightmare. My cousin Mustafa is injured in his head and hand, running around the hospital with little or no medical care

not knowing whether we will survive or lose our loved ones, as I lost many of my family and relatives. This is Gaza today: constant pain that knows no end

The smell of bombing and threats fills the air. More than two million people are trapped by starvation and slow death. We live every minute in endless fear,

PUBLICATION DAY! Today, we are honored to publish the third installment in our Red Poetry Series: My Voice Cannot Be Bombed by Yahya Al Hamarna—a Palestinian poet whose brilliant words bear witness to survival, hope, and the enduring power of memory. ➡️ https://t.co/G98do42IvZ

Yahya AlHamarna, a refugee And a writer from Gaza and a former student and child in UNRWA refugee schools, tells the world: Save the Palestinian child so you can save your humanity before it dies

Despite the enormity of the tragedy, the international community is content with making statements without taking deterrent measures, which perpetuates a policy of impunity

These crimes constitute a flagrant violation of international humanitarian law, particularly the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Geneva Conventions, which prohibit the targeting of civilians, especially children

The Israeli occupation kills the equivalent of a school class of children every day in Gaza

The Israeli machine of destruction is reaping the lives of more than 35 to 42 children every day, which is equivalent to an entire school term

3 And now, after I have grown up and started looking at the past and seeing the present, where all UNRWA schools have been turned into shelters, and in addition to that, the Israeli occupation is bombing these schools and killing

2_ We want to make our lives more successful and challenge the life of asylum, camps, pain, siege, difficulty of travel, health and educational services, and freedom like any human being