Its taken 18 months & it should have happened long ago, but finally BBC News (UK) has plucked up the courage to write clearly about Israeli War Crimes. RT now before they bow to pressure & retract it. Israel is accused of the gravest war crimes in Gaza bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

As the Madleen was reportedly intercepted and seized by Israeli forces in int'l waters, the UK gov must urgently seek full clarification and secure the immediate release of the vessel & its crew. The Madleen must be allowed to continue its lawful humanitarian mission to Gaza.

There is no internet. No signal. No sound. No world beyond this cage. I walked thirty minutes through ruins and dust. Not in search of escape, but for a fragment of signal, just enough to whisper, “We are still alive.” Not because anyone is listening, but because to die unheard

“You and I will come to an end somewhere. The most beautiful poem in the world falls quiet,” 23-year-old Parnia Abbasi wrote, who was among 224 Iranians killed by Israeli strikes so far. Nick Paton Walsh takes a closer look at the toll on civilians across Iran.

This morning, on my way to the clinic, though even calling it that feels absurd now, it is more graveyard than refuge; I saw a girl. She was sixteen, no older. She was thin, with the kind of tiredness around her eyes that children should never know. In her hands, she carried a

We need to stop Israel now or will be too late to save seven million Palestinians from genocide and ethnic cleansing.

The result: starvation deaths that had previously been one-off cases are now emerging in growing clusters. 43 starvation deaths (at least) in the last three days, compared to 68 recorded over the course of the war. Both figures are likely undercounts, but the trend here is key.

“There’s no case of such minutely engineered, closely monitored, precisely designed mass starvation of a population as is happening in Gaza today.”

On one of the most unbelievable satellite images I've ever seen, showing hundreds of Palestinians surrounding aid trucks north of Rafah. nytimes.com/2025/07/29/wor…

Israel ignored months of expert warnings, causing what famine expert Alex de Waal calls the most "carefully planned and controlled" famine since WWII, devastating Gaza's children | نير حسون Nir Hasson ניר חסון haaretz.com/middle-east-ne…

5 years on. Everything I have written in that book is still relevant. No one bas been held accountable and justice is yet to come. Our collective pain is still heavy. JUSTICE IS OUR RIGHT.

I entered my tent tonight, called Muhammad on his phone to see why he's late, and while it was ringing, I remembered he wasn't alive anymore. My best friend, my journalistic colleague, my tent partner. He wanted to be a Youtuber, not a martyr in a genocide he had to cover.

“Western politicians like to describe violence that they have no intention of doing anything to stop “senseless.” There was nothing senseless about what Israel did.” By Kareem Shaheen for New Lines Magazine. newlinesmag.com/spotlight/the-…

Mariam, killed by Israeli strike today, had the chance to leave Gaza to be with her son but she chose to stay to report and to look after her parents, her friends told us. She gave a kidney to her father. Her mother, unable to get proper treatment, died from cancer 4 months ago

❗️🇪🇺 Amid a genocide, Europeans must know: Israel is the second largest per-capita recipient of EU start-up funding via European Innovation Council EU institutions will have to answer for the ‘innovations’ that have aided Israel’s assault on Gaza. But right now, this program must be stopped.

السلطان هيثم بن طارق للشيخ تميم بن حمد: نرفض أي اعتداء يهدد أمن وسلامة دولة قطر، ونؤكد وقوفنا إلى جانبها فيما تتخذه من إجراءات لحماية أمنها والحفاظ على سيادتها. 🇶🇦🇴🇲

At the BBC Proms in London a couple of nights ago, Israeli conductor Ilan Volkov spoke out at the end of the concert. Every word. Yes.

Delighted to work with New Lines Institute to publish this report on how #diasporas are finding innovative, digitally-enabled ways to organise, fundraise, advocate and fight in homeland conflicts from Ukraine to Yemen.

"Underneath the Gulf rivalry, the treason charges, the airstrikes, the delegations that can’t be reached, there are people. Millions of them. Yemenis in the South who had nothing to do with any of this will live with all of it," Fatima Alasrar writes ideologymachine.com/p/yemens-south…

Poignant essay on challenges at both homes facing Iranian Americans at this moment by Shervin Malekzadeh شروین ملک زاده fpif.org/what-iran-teac…