"The first genocide in history where its victims are broadcasting their own destruction in real time in the desperate, so far vain hope that the world might do something."
Blinne Ni Ghralaigh at the ICJ in the Hague
Branson owns an island in the Caribbean. I've never been to the Caribbean. He uses his island as a tax haven so his companies avoid paying tax. I pay my taxes. He sues the NHS. I rely on the NHS. Hes worth £4bn. I'm overdrawn. He wants me to help bail him out🤔
#VirginAtlantic
Well done to Mick Lynch for his handling of this line of questioning. He could see what
#KayBurley
was trying to do. I could see what Kay Burley was trying to do. And he wasn't having any of it.
Oh, and solidarity to all
@RMTunion
members on strike today!✊🏽
A woman leaving a church shelter to go to the toilet was shot dead by an Israeli sniper & her daughter who went to help her was killed as well
Kay Burley: "The IDF says it didnt happen, wasn't them... you don't believe the IDF?"
Archbishop of Westminster: "No I don't"
"The Israelis have released 117 Palestinians in the last 3 days & in that same time they've detained 116 new Palestinian prisoners.. across the occupied West Bank"
Eddie Dempsey from the
@RMTunion
: "Its a bit of a cheek asking are trade unions being greedy asking for a pay rise. The FTSE 350 top companies profits have gone up 73% since 2019 - when are we going to ask are they being greedy?". Well said!👏🏽👏🏽
"Do you know if Hamas were there [in Al Shifa hospital]?"
@Tanyaalih
: "I am just shocked that we're still having this conversation. [The Israelis] executed tens of people point blank, including one of our colleagues, Dr Ahmed Almaqadma, & his mother, who's also a physician"
Antony Blinken: "We can never let the crimes Russia's committing become our new normal... bombing schools and hospitals and apartment buildings to rubble is not normal"
"What about those Palestinians who are in hospital on life support & babies in incubators that will have to be turned off because Israelis have cut the power to Gaza?"
Ex Israeli PM Naftali Bennett: ""Are you seriously asking me about Palestinian civilians? Whats wrong wth you?"
"There would have been a resolution today if it was not for the US ambassador putting up her hand up in veto. She stopped an immediate ceasefire being ordered in Gaza. This is the 3rd time..."
Remember this every time the US administration says how concerned it is
"They entered the hospital and executed people in hospital beds... they just executed them"
@MustafaBarghou1
calls it out for what it is, terrorism, & he asks what the 11 countries who suspended funding UNRWA, what will they do to Israel now after this?
A few moments before the UK Foreign Secretary had said Israel should turn the water back on. Brendan O'Hara points out this is an admission that Israel has committed a war crime.
Cameron says he's not a lawyer. Then watch the response of the Permanent Under-Secretary.
In the past hour an Israeli drone fired a missile into a group of children in a playground. 11 children have been killed with more injured.
Hani Mahmoud reporting.
Krishnan Guru-Murthy: "There are grieving families tonight"
Israeli govt spokesperson: "There are grieving families and we grieve with them..."
Krishnan Guru-Murthy: "Well you killed them"
#C4News
Sky News resident 'military analyst' says the IDF dressing up as medics & going into a hospital to kill Palestinians was an assassination & it strengthens the sense that the Israelis are behaving as terrorists.
"It has taken 6 months, over 100,000 Palestinians killed and maimed, 2 million displaced, and famine, for this council to finally demand an immediate ceasefire"
The Palestinian representative at the UN.
Nelson Mandela recounts how the Palestinians helped the fight against apartheid in South Africa when the United States and the west refused to give any assistance.
At the International Court of Justice China points out that armed resistance against occupation is enshrined in international law and is not terrorism.
A point that is rarely if ever heard in our mainstream media.
An 8yr old British Palestinian boy has been out of school because staff wont let him wear a Palestine flag patch on his coat. His dad explains what happened.
The school says its apolitical, but when Russia invaded Ukraine they flew the Ukrainian flag & held fund raisers
South African minister of justice Ronald Lamola: "Our founding father has been very clear that South Africa is not free until the people of Palestine are free"
"Hundreds of multi generational [Palestinian] families have been wiped out... this killing is nothing short of destruction of Palestinian life. It is inflicted deliberately, no-one is spared, not even new born babies"
Adila Hassim speaking at the ICJ in the Hague
"Israel keeps giving examples from the Second World War to justify its crimes, ignoring that it is the very horrors that occurred then that led humanity to enact the fundamental rules Israel is breaching now"
Palestinian representative at the United Nations this afternoon.
"I am 12yrs old &the only survivor in my family.. I hoped my brother Tarazan would still be alive. I was calling out to him. I found him in an unimaginable state, his head severed.. I wished for a death after seeing my brother like that. He was only 18mths old. What has he done?"
The defence secretary says what the Houthis are doing in the Red Sea is separate from the situation in Israel/Gaza, and his reasoning? Its 2,600km away.
By that logic the Red Sea is 4,000km away from the UK, so whats it got to do with us?
António Guterres: "it is important to also recognise the attack by Hamas did not happen in a vacuum. The Palestinian people have been subjected to 56 years of occupation.. their people displaced & their homes demolished. Their hopes for a political solution.. have been vanishing"
An 8 year old shot in the head and a 15 year old shot in the chest.
The Israeli army has killed two Palestinian children in Jenin in the occupied West Bank
This morning the United Nations Human Rights Council voted on a resolution calling for a ban on arms sales to Israel.
The resolution passed: 28 in favour & 6 against, with 13 abstentions
Hala Al Zamili: "Our house was bombed at dawn. My brother, his wife and three children were killed. We don't know why they bombed us, that's it. They bombed the children who were 3, 4, and 5 years old"
At the ICJ Brazil reminds the court that in 1967 the UN Security Council directed Israel to withdraw from the Palestinian territory it had recently occupied.
56 Years later Israel is still occupying the land.
"We have pleaded for those with any influence to ensure that this does not happen again & yet here we are. It would seem to UNICEF that inaction from those with influence, at its core, is to approve again the killing of children"
In June 2017 every Tory MP except 1 voted to oppose giving NHS nurses a proper pay rise. When the result of the vote was announced & the Tories found they had succeeded in blocking the nurses pay rise, they cheered.
James Elder from UNICEF says that Israels so called 'safe zones' are actually death zones, and he says the people [Israel] telling Palestinians to go there are aware of this.
.
@jeremycorbyn
: "Everything is incremental. Every time you step out in the street and wave a Palestinian flag & say stop the killing if Palestinian people... thats an incremental difference... if we ignore whats happening to the Palestinian people then we become complicit"
A journalist interviewed a group of Palestinian teenagers. The Israeli officer in charge of their village then contacted each of them individually and said if the interview was shown they would all be imprisoned.
What a democracy, eh?
"Israeli snipers opening fire, firing into the crowd, which was filled with men, but also women & children, families"
Alex Crawford on Israeli soldiers shooting Palestinians who were making their way back to the north of Gaza to look for family members
"When these groups claim Britain is, & has been on the wrong side of history, we should reject it & reject it again"
4 million dead in the Bengal famine, systematically torturing & murdering thousands in Kenya, a million dead in Iraq, Libya. What can you say?
The Norwegian Foreign Affairs minister urges countries to continue funding UNRWA and says that suspending UNRWA funding amounts to collective punishment.
"We can never let the crimes Russia's committing become our new normal... bombing schools and hospitals and apartment buildings to rubble is not normal"
Human rights belong to everyone.
They are universal, indivisible, and interrelated. Today, as we recognize 75 years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the U.S. reaffirms our deep commitment to protect human rights and hold human rights abusers accountable.
Israeli Ambassador to the UK: "Just imagine how things would have looked... this huge missile, think about it falling in the middle of a city like Jerusalem.. look how populated it is. Just think about it hitting neighbourhoods & people & children"
Just imagine.
Simon Thompson, the CEO of Royal Mail, is deducting annual leave from postal workers who go on strike, punishing them because they're fighting to protect their jobs, terms and conditions.
Simon earns £62,750 a month.
"It is clear that this is the aim of the Israelis, to muzzle journalists, to prevent us from carrying the message"
Wael Al Dahdouh & his colleagues gather to pay tribute to journalist Samer Abu Daqqa & all the other Palestinian journalists who have been killed by the Israelis
BBC Presenter: "The Israelis would say, well look, we are defending ourselves, we are targeting Hamas targets in Gaza..."
Daniel Levy: "Do you really keep a straight face when you say that? ... these kind of lies can be allowed to pass"
"I think people need to be on the streets. We need to protest about everything thats going on. The country is being run on behalf of the wealthy, its not being run on behalf of the people"
Mick Lynch of the
@RMTunion
on Channel 4 today. Well said!
A reporter asks one woman on the march if the chant 'From the river to sea, Palestine will be free' is genocidal and antisemitic.
In less than 20 seconds the woman brilliantly explains why this is nonsense.
"When I think about last Eid, it was the best one of my life, because my son was beside me, in my arms... now he has gone. Everything good about my life has gone"
Brendan O'Hara from the SNP: "The people of Gaza are not starving. The people of Gaza are being starved... starving a population to death is a war crime"
"we are a people who were the victims of apartheid. We know what apartheid looks like... we will not be passive bystanders & watch the crimes that were visited on us being perpetrated on other people elsewhere"
Cyril Ramaphosa, president of South Africa
At the United Nations this afternoon South Africa condemned Israels actions and said they contravene international law and the Geneva convention. South Africa have referred the Israeli govt to the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court.
Meet Simon Thompson, the CEO of Royal Mail. He earns £62,750 a month.
Because its a struggle getting by on just £1,500 a day after tax, he also got a £140,000 bonus this year.
Simon has cut posties pay in real terms.
This is how 'concerned' the USA is about Palestinians being killed in Gaza. They just vetoed a UN security council resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire.
"Its killing fields. Its carnage. Its genocide in every sense, to push people all the way to the very south of Gaza.. this is the plan from day one. The plan was depopulating Gaza. Its ethnic cleansing.. what is happening is very clear"
@hzomlot
on the situation in Rafah
The Israeli representative at the United Nations says Palestine can't be a full member because full membership of the UN is only open to peace loving states.
Time to suspend Israel then. Just like apartheid South Africa was suspended in 1975.
Iain Dale "You're a national disgrace"
Mick Lynch of the
@RMTunion
"I'm not a national disgrace Iain. I head up a democratic union that carries through the wishes of our members.. & members decided they wanted to take a stand to defend their terms & conditions, jobs & pensions"
Gideon Levy: "I'm not sure an investigation is needed. What do you think you will find out... the name of the commander who gave the order? Who cares. Its the policy..."
Presenter: "I suppose the investigation would establish whether it was a mistake"
"How can it be a mistake?"
"a 10 year old girl.. the bullet passed through the spine at level C6... it cut off all the signals to the arms and legs. Thats it. Shes quadriplegic for life. Whats her fault? This is a 10 year old girl. Whats her fault?
Dr Ahmed Sayed, who was recently working in Gaza.
SNP MP Anum Qaisar: "The F-35 bomber.. is being used [to bomb Gaza]. Parts for this fighter jet, the laser targeting system & the weapons release system are made in British factories... it is morally corrupt & sickens me to my core that the UK continues to sell arms to Israel"
BBC presenter: "You keep saying you're making maximum effort to avoid civilian casualties. Just saying it doesn't make it true, does it?"
Mark Regev: "But it is true"
Over 16,000 Palestinians slaughtered so far.
"It was lunchtime. We were sitting down. They raided our house. They shot our mum and dad. Then they started shooting at us"
Part of a detailed Sky News report on how Israeli soldiers murdered a mother and father in front of their 3 children (1/2)
"All those outraged by the slogan 'From the river to the sea', this is the map that the Israeli PM raised here in the United Nations. This is the map... erasing the nation of Palestine and the Palestinian people.. what outrage did it spark? None"
Palestinian ambassador at the UN
Meet Simon Thompson, the CEO of Royal Mail. He earns £62,750 a month.
Because its hard to get by on that, he also awarded himself a £140,000 bonus this year.
Simon is threatening workers with job cuts because they've taken strike action over him cutting their pay in real terms.
BBC reporter: "The Israeli military.. have said they are investigating, but its hard to see what else this could be, really, given the size of the explosion, other than an Israeli air strike, or several air strikes"
The IDF spokesperson blames a "mob" for looting trucks in northern Gaza
The presenter: "When you say a mob, do you mean starving people who have been deprived of food because you havn't let the aid in?"
#C4News
"I wanted to ask you.. .the average train drivers salary is £48,500/yr. What do you say to people who say the salaries are already high enough and pay shouldn't be an issue at this time when everybody is struggling?"
Mick Lynch of the
@RMTunion
replies by explaining reality.
"One of the lessons we learnt was that you cant place any reliance on Israeli accounts of events..."
Thomas Hurndall, a British photo journalist, was trying to help some children when he was shot in the head & killed by an IDF sniper in 2003. His dad was on Sky News this morning
"Gaza is a cage, is the biggest prison in the world. Nobody spoke about lifting the siege. People who live 70 years in a cage want to resist, and if they have the possibility they'll do it..."
Israeli journalist Gideon Levy speaking on BBC News.
Nicaragua at the ICJ "The Palestinian people have the right to self determination. That means they have the right to take up arms against alien occupation"
In our MSM we rarely (if ever) hear about the rights of Palestinians to resist their occupation, including armed resistance
.
@AyoCaesar
to a Tory MP: "you said in order to get the best talent we've got to lift the cap on bankers bonuses, pays got to be competitive. But when it comes to the NHS or education, you’re effectively saying to all these public sector workers, get poorer & be happy about it"
Palestinian father: "The entire world is watching our children without lifting a finger... these children are dying. If they don't die of hunger, they will die of disease"
Anas al-Sharif reports from Kamal Adwan hospital
"29,000 bombs have been dropped on Gaza.. by comparison the US only dropped 4,000 bombs on Iraq during 5 years of that particular conflict. What we're seeing is the total destruction of society, life and hope in Gaza"
Labour party member Jeremy Corbyn
Mick Lynch from the
@RMTunion
explaining that if the railways were publicly owned & operated, they could be run for the benefit of the economy and passengers, not private shareholders.
#GMB
In June 2017 309 MPs voted to give nurses a proper pay rise. 323 MPs voted against it, including every Tory MP except one.
When the result of the vote was announced & the Tories found they had succeeded in blocking the nurses pay rise, they cheered.
Israel shot and killed a child in the occupied West Bank, and when his dad went out to try and help his boy they shot him too. The Israeli army then prevented an ambulance from reaching the boy for over an hour.
"By making repeated claims which have been systematically discredited, that Hamas used hospitals as operation centres, Israel appears to be operating on the premise that if you tell a lie long enough, people will believe it"
@FranceskAlbs
last week
People are marching to Scotland Yard to demand justice for
#ChrisKaba
, who was murdered last week by the Met police.
Sky News tells viewers they are well wishers on the way to Buckingham Palace to pay tribute to the Queen.
BBCNews say Andy McDonald was suspended for an alleged antisemitic remark"
What Andy was suspended for saying "We wont rest until we have justice, until all people, Israelis & Palestinians, between the river & the sea can live in peaceful liberty"
Wheres the antisemitic remark?