#BREAKING Two US officials told CBS News that a major Iranian attack against Israel was expected as soon as Friday, possibly to include more than 100 drones and dozens of missiles aimed at military targets inside the country.

'A promised surge in aid into Gaza that Benjamin Netanyahu promised Joe Biden a week ago has so far failed to materialize, aid workers say, as the US aid chief confirmed that famine is beginning to take hold in parts of the besieged coastal strip.' theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

.World Health Organization (WHO) and partners went to Khan Younis yesterday to assess the health facilities there. The team described the destruction as 'disproportionate to anything one can imagine'. No building or road is intact, there is only rubble and dirt.

Hostilities in the vicinity of a WHO…

#CRSV against men and boys has a long history and a high number of incidents, yet recognition of this phenomenon is fairly recent.

It was in 2013 that for the first time, UNSCR 2106 explicitly mentioned men and boys as victims of sexual violence in conflict.

🚨From 11 April this week, the government is bringing cruel new visa plans into force which will price many more partners and families out of love.

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Brilliant piece on the deep unfairness of spouse visa- income thresholds, which govt is raising from £18600 to £38,700 a year.

The changes mean that 75% of the UK population will essentially be priced out of cross-border love. standard.co.uk/comment/visa-r…

Great result in the face of absolutely eye-popping decision-making by the Home Office, fantastic work by all concerned

When Israel bombed the first hospital in Gaza the world would not believe it.

Israel said it was a misfired Hamas rocket and the mainstream media went into protection mode.

Israel has now destroyed all 36 hospitals in Gaza… and not a single word of condemnation from the…

In 2017 women artists hung wedding dresses along Beirut seafront in protest at a law allowing rapists to escape punishment if they married their victim. The law was eventually repealed after such pressure from Arab women's groups #WomensArt
Every month is #WomensHistoryMonth

What a heroine. Trhas Teklehaimanot Tesfay is struggling to keep up with her elite cycling while living in an asylum hotel, dealing with the trauma of fleeing Ethiopia & going hungry.
All power to her & West London Welcome who support her. theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/a…

I commend the states in United Nations Human Rights Council | #HRC55 who voted to pass a resolution calling to halt arms transfers to Israel at this critical moment. Next step for all states is to enforce this as well as recent UN resolutions to stop the ongoing genocide in Gaza. This is in line with states'…

Within hours of Biden threatening to suspend U.S. military aid to Israel, Netanyahu agrees to open a major crossing for humanitarian aid into northern Gaza, where starvation is widespread. Biden always had that leverage but wouldn't use it. theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

#BREAKING A group of Iranians have gathered outside a private medical center in Germany's Hannover where top neurosurgeon Majid Samii is reportedly treating notorious cleric Hossein-Ali Nayyeri, a member of the 'death committee' responsible for Iran's 1988 mass executions.

It is time .BBC News (World) took the threats to BBC NEWS فارسی more seriously & stop agreeing to self censorship to get reporting visas - #Iran bans use on bbc Persian output when it occasionally allows someone in. This is an apartheid system within one bbc with the same editorial values.

Pouria Zeraati: TV station Iran International faced 'heavy threats' before stabbing bbc.in/3vFqCPB

'The British government has received advice from its own lawyers...that Israel has breached international humanitarian law in Gaza but has failed to make it public' because 'any such legal advice would mean the UK had to cease all arms sales to Israel.' theguardian.com/world/2024/mar…

“In practice, a terrorist is anyone the IDF has killed in the areas in which its forces operate,' says a reserve officer who has served in Gaza.

Daniel Kahneman helped pioneer a branch of economics that exposed hard-wired mental biases in people’s economic behavior. The work led to a Nobel. He has died at 90. nyti.ms/3TVKQOw