as a Palestinian artist, I am begging you to boycott Eurovision this year until genocidal Israel is kicked out. You can't be dancing and singing along in the finale which includes Israeli government backed singer while children are being killed in Gaza every day

UN General Assembly to vote on resolution backing recognition of Palestine as full member state

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#Horrifying : Strapped down, blindfolded, held in diapers: Israeli whistleblowers detail abuse of Palestinians in shadowy detention center
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Zoe’s absolutely correct here. Border security is driving fatalities, scrambles on beaches, more dangerous embarkation, fewer boats with more people.

‘Take away the smuggler there’s still a refugee and a closed border’

US pausing arms shipments 'extraordinarily unprecedented' says former PM Ehud Olmert

'No aid has come into Gaza now since Sunday. No aid, no fuel, no supplies, nothing... the situation is really really desperate'

Sam Rose from UNRWA

1. More evidence of the life-long impact of school absence. The recommendations? Support for families; address long-term health issues. Both fine. And third? tackle truancy. Nothing about education reform. Nothing about SEN. Nothing about inclusion. tinyurl.com/mr3ve2nf🧵1/2

I was told not to post about Palestine because I risk getting suspended, and I can have a bigger impact by providing medical care on the ground (e.g. @msf) after completing my training.

But I dream of a Palestine that doesn't need international aid and foreign physicians.

Gaza Genocide happening neither in a vacuum nor behind closed drawing rooms. It’s systemically promoted, ideologically validated & socially celebrated. Rabbi Eliyahu Mali: ‘Today he is a baby, tomorrow he is a fighter, we will shoot them.’ #GazaGenocide
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As horrors continue to unfold & calls for a ceasefire remain unanswered, the UK Government must at least urgently introduce a Gaza Family Scheme to protect & reunite Palestinian families until return is safe

✍️ Write to your MP ahead of the 13 May debate

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Was glad to sign this. Sangita Myska is an excellent journalist and broadcaster

Civilians in #Gaza are being starved and killed, and we are prevented from helping them.
 
This is Gaza today, even after 7 months of horrors.

Safety valve agreements are about balancing budgets not meeting children and young people's needs. If anyone was in any doubt about this, the evidence is clear.

UNRWA has been forced temporarily to closed its headquarters in Israeli-occupied East Jerusalem because “'Israeli residents set fire twice to the perimeter' on Thursday evening. UNRWA personnel and staff from other UN agencies were inside the compound.'
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As international governments show just how weak their Rafah ‘red lines’ really are, a doctor in Gaza describes what the current Israeli onslaught feels like to those on the receiving end.

Interesting conversation with a consultant paediatrician today. She was wondering why allowing children with #ADHD to listen to music or chew gum in lessons, to aid concentration, is not generally accepted, but giving them methylphenidate instead is fine. Difficult to answer.

🚨 Urgent action: On 13 May, MPs will debate the petition that 103,800+ of us signed calling for a Gaza Family Scheme that would reunite Palestinian families until it is safe to return

✍️ Write to your MP and ask them to attend
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🔴 The UK is required by law to stop arms licenses when there is a clear risk they may be used to break international humanitarian law — no matter how many we sell.

The Foreign Secretary has stated he does not support the #Rafah offensive, but he is still allowing UK arms to be…

Bisan Owda has just won one of broadcast journalism’s highest honors – the Peabody Award – for her work with AJ+.

Bisan is currently facing intense Israeli bombardment in Rafah in the occupied Gaza Strip. This is her message to the world:

Palestinians would have preferred if the US and UK stopped sending Israel weapons to drop on them.