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Nina Simone in Central Park, NY

Parents in Lebanon, just like parents all over the world, let their kids play with their phones from time to time. How many Lebanese kids did Israel blow up today with their gimmicks?

🇱🇧🇮🇱 Israel murdered this 10-year-old girl in their pager attack on Lebanon.

Putting bombs in pagers, not knowing who might be holding them, in a civillian area. Is an indiscriminate attack. An explicit war crime in the geneva conventions. "apparent terror attack" is the correct framing for this

🇮🇱AIRLINES TO ISRAEL: YOU BLOW UP PAGERS... WE CANCEL FLIGHTS Following reports of Israel’s alleged mass attack on Hezbollah using exploding pagers in Lebanon to kill several and injure thousands, Air France, Lufthansa, and British Airways have canceled all flights to Israel

But blowing up children in tents is ok. Powerful statement.

"I thought it was un-Conservative, un-British, un-Christian, and unconscionable." Former Prime Minister Sir John Major criticises the previous government's Rwanda asylum plan. He was speaking to @AmolRajan in his first interview since the Conservative election defeat.

A huge thank you to Wightman Road Mosque for hosting us last night. It was amazing to have 100+ people hear from עומדים ביחד نقف معًا Standing Together🟣 about their work mobilising Israeli society in support of a just peace, an end to occupation and siege, and justice and security for all in the land.

Standing ovation at the European Parliament for a delegation of Afghan women. Let's hope this translates into some concrete action to isolate the Taliban.

I’m not sure that’s how it works..

Al-Rassoul al-Azzam Hospital in south Beirut has announced that one of its employees, pictured below, has died from his wounds after his pager exploded in yesterday's attack. Pagers are in widespread use by healthcare workers in many countries, including Lebanon.

What would’ve been the reaction of a pager had gone off on a plane?

This Palestinian child in besieged Gaza carries buckets of water every day to her building instead of studying. She hopes the “war ends so she can go to school and become smart.”

What’s to stop other actors doing this now? ⬇️

Imagine for a moment, that any other country causes nationwide explosions in hospitals, supermarkets. Would the Financial Times still choose to call it "audacious, sophisticated"? Yet again, Israel is singled out as a country to whom the rules do not apply, exempted from scrutiny.

He’s been saying this for about 9 months.

Silence from the UK.

These are unequivocal acts of terror. Their intent is to induce terror in the Lebanese population, to destroy the social fabric.

This abstention compounds the UK’s isolation on the world stage when it comes to advancing justice in Palestine. There are clear legal obligations the UK must fulfil - including from recent ICJ & ICC findings. Failure to do so, like this, maintains UK complicity in genocide.