Ministers keep claiming they want a 'grown up' conversation about disability benefits while at the same time repeatedly and deliberately conflating PIP with not working when they know it's paid regardless of employment status.

So grateful to Deacon Blue and the other fantastic Scottish acts involved in the Gig for #Gaza this week to raise money for Medical Aid for Palestinians 🙏
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These are some of the food parcels we’re delivering to families in the north of Gaza.

This is the first time we’ve managed to get food parcels to the north since October, due to the Israeli military preventing access.

Help us to continue delivering aid: map.org.uk/?form=FUNFXHDC…

One of our Medical Aid for Palestinians doctors currently in #Gaza messaged yesterday about a 16 year old girl with severe injuries from an Israeli strike.
Our team operated on her.
We were trying to sort out a medical evacuation for her.
He just texted to say that she died.
#CeasefireNOW

Over the past few days, #Gaza has been undergoing an unusual heatwave. This made the already inhumane living conditions even worse for 1.5 million people, mostly living under plastic sheets in #Rafah .

We received reports that at least two children died due to the heat.
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Aid groups working in Gaza were hit by Israeli strikes even after coordinating with the Israeli army, an investigation by the New York Times (NYT) revealed on Thursday.

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We have just delivered medical disposables to our team in northern #Gaza , which are now ready for distribution to the few hospitals still partially functioning in the north, including Kamal Adwan and Al Awda.

🔴 Donate to support our emergency response: bit.ly/4aWf621

You will not find better people than Mahmoud, Motaz, Ali, Amal, Nawraz, Tarneem, Afnan, Mohammed, Ahmed, Wasim, Haitham & Moe - dear Medical Aid for Palestinians #Gaza colleagues.
It was hugely emotional being with them in #Rafah - and then to leave.
Israel’s invasion of #Rafah must be stopped

Government minister Chris Philip demonstrating a flabbergasting ignorance that DR Congo and Rwanda are different countries, let alone that they are in conflict, let alone that some Congolese people are forced to seek safety from that conflict in the UK...

Middle East Eye Here’s Emory University economics professor Caroline Fohlin knocked to the ground with her head on the concrete. Her glasses are thrown off. She shouts “I’m a professor”
#Gaza #Protesters

British surgeon Khaled Dawas recounts the stark changes in Gaza between his two visits with Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP)
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Report from the West Bank at our morning meeting:
“Yesterday there were two #Palestinians killed in the West Bank - one woman and one teenager.”
Every morning there is similar news of killings and injuries at the hands of Israeli soldiers and settlers.

“You ask yourself, ‘did we just kill someone who was just trapped in this situation?’'

This Israeli soldier was horrified by what he witnessed of the war in Gaza. He tells Secunder Kermani about one particularly troubling incident.

The IDF says it only targets Hamas fighters.

With Israel not having proven its allegations against UNRWA, even German will resume funding for this essential agency for feeding starving Palestinians in Gaza. The U.S. stands alone as a major funder that still endorses Netanyahu's anti-UNRWA vendetta. theguardian.com/world/live/202…

Hugely powerful diary from Khaled Dawas - one of our amazing Medical Aid for Palestinians doctors - during his most recent time working in a #Gaza hospital 👇

“We just want to give him a dignified burial”.

Overwhelming grief as a mass grave containing over 300 bodies has been uncovered at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza.

Nada Bashir reports

Incredibly powerful accounts of Gaza from Melanie Ward and Khaled Dawas in Parliament this evening. Was shocking to hear of the conditions they’ve seen first-hand.

They were also clear on the dire need for unfettered humanitarian access and accountability for breaches of intl law.

200 days of Israel’s war on #Gaza and aid is still not getting in freely - as I saw for myself in Gaza recently.
Meanwhile, a humanitarian crisis rages as thousands of Palestinians are killed.
It is intolerable.

For 200 days the Israeli military’s bombardment of #Gaza has killed and injured over 110,000 people, and forced more than 1.7 million people to flee their homes.

Now, the Israeli army are planning a ground invasion of Rafah.

Take action to #ProtectRafah : map.org.uk/campaigns/prev…