🇵🇸 WF COUNCIL HAVE AGREED TO DIVEST FOR GAZA 🇵🇸 After 6 months of door knocking and stalls, 3000+ signatures from local residents, 6 protests and countless emails to local councillors, we brought the council to the table and successfully debated for pension divestment 💥 1/

This Labour Conference, join us in-person in Liverpool in solidarity with the Palestinian people & discuss how we continue building our movement and putting our demands on the new UK Government. eventbrite.co.uk/e/palestine-wh…

Our beloved Refaat Alareer (Refaat in Gaza 🇵🇸) wrote these words in October, but they had not been published until now. Electronic Intifada is grateful to have the honor to share them with the world. When I read them, I can hear his voice. electronicintifada.net/content/unpubl…

🚨BREAKING: 179 health workers gathered outside St Thomas’ Hospital to demand the release of the 179 Palestinian health workers held in secret detention by Israeli forces. These brave health workers were taken by Israeli forces while risking their lives to provide medical care.

179 Palestinian health workers are being held in secret detention by Israeli forces. We are witnessing the systematic destruction of the Palestinian health care system. We stand with them. Will the UK government and medical institutions? #FreeGazaMedics #StopArmingIsrael

Coalition Statement: We urge the Metropolitan police to avoid causing disruption at the 7 September Palestine March. Read the full statement: palestinecampaign.org/coalition-stat…

We must continue to call for an immediate and total arms embargo to Israel. A statement from the Independent Alliance.

🚨 Coalition Statement: We urge Metropolitan Police to lift the unnaceptable conditions on the march for Palestine on 7 September.

The Israeli military’s campaign to significantly expand a “buffer zone” along the eastern perimeter of #Gaza should be investigated as the war crimes of wanton destruction and collective punishment. Read @Amnesty’s new investigation here: amn.st/6019m4i6l

Today we've been outside the London CIV conference. They manage £billions of public sector pension funds in London. We demand they divest fully from Israel's genocidal attacks on Palestinians, in line with their "moral imperative" on "responsible investment".

More murder in the West Bank by the occupation forces of this rogue state.

See you on the streets of London tomorrow!

1/4 Yesterday American activist, Aysenur Ezgi Eygi & Palestinian child, Bana Laboum were shot/killed by the Israeli Occupying Forces with live ammunition in the West Bank, hours apart. Aysenur was shot in the head in Beita, Bana in the chest while looking out her window in Qaryut

Just checked the BBC homepage. There’s an article about “tens of thousands of people protesting” but it’s about France. Apparently 120,000+ marching in London to protest 11 months of Palestinian slaughter is not newsworthy enough.

Please see the updated post about yesterday's killing of #Aysenur on our website rachelcorriefoundation.org/blog/2024/09/0…

Fantastic displays of solidarity over a prolonged period.

The BBC is once again blocking an appeal by 15 aid agencies known as the Disaster Emergencies Committee (DEC) – as it did several years ago – and once again it's because the aid is intended for Gaza. The pretext given by BBC execs is that they're concerned the aid can't be

Exactly - come on BBC - we see right through you.

"The Palestinian people will never give up their struggle for liberation. Our task remains to stand shoulder to shoulder with them." PSC Director Ben Jamal at the March for Palestine last Saturday 🇵🇸

Well done the Green Party. Here's hoping that BASW will be the first professional association in the UK to do the same (they were mandated almost 15 months ago by members to produce a position paper on reports of Israeli apartheid, and have yet to do so).