I must say, one of the most shocking things that I have witnessed amongst so many people in the last year is how comfortable they are quantifying misery. As if Palestinian children are just numbers in some electoral calculus. This is morally unhinged behaviour.

Something deeply terrifying is happening to Arab communities and society - in the region and diaspora. There is a level of trauma rippling through everyone that is incredibly hard to explain, tangibly grasp and make non-Arabs understand fully. This is a mere attempt. 1/8 🧵

The region has seen everything. Decades of violence, decades of war, decades of dehumanisation. But the level of brutality, relentless nature of violence & destruction, the desecration of bodies we see today in Gaza, Sudan, Lebanon, is just beyond… I don’t know what ‘after’ is.

Kamal Adwan is a children's hospital Simon Harris TD Micheál Martin Roderic O’Gorman TD Sanctions NOW #sanctionisraelnow

A senior US diplomat warned of ‘consequences’ if the Occupied Territories Bill passed, offering to ‘connect’ the attorney general with DC for 'the best outcome’ Less than 90 minutes later Micheál Martin announced the bill would merely undergo a ‘review’ ontheditch.com/us-ambassador-…

“Evil is evil, Stregobor," said the witcher seriously as he got up. "Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same." And when the lesser evil is genocide? I'd sooner flip the table than play that game.

REPORT: The IDF, which multiple doctors and Gaza’s Health Ministry report has been “violently bombing and destroying Kamal Adwan Hospital” for at least the past two days, is now claiming that six children in the hospital’s nursery and maternity wards, as well as the hospital’s

I was putting the baby to bed when I read this. The snort I snrumpt. He's wide awake now.

US ambassador Claire Cronin’s email in which she warns government of "consequences" if the Occupied Territories Bill passed Claire’s having a US election party in the Guinness Storehouse this evening – spoiling us

The Ditch She knows, and the govt parties know, that there's no way to amend it to make it comply with US requirements and still have any meaning. Micheál Martin Simon Harris TD enact the OTB as it is, or be honest that you never had any intention to enact it at all.

Why does this feel like a break up? 💔😭 Dr Farquhar will be missed by more than me I'm sure. Look forward to our paths crossing IRL again soon.

The trolley problem on my mind ahead of the 29th. #GE2024

“Paths are made by walking.” -Kafka

MP Zarah Sultana calls for a full British arms embargo on Israel following The Ditch’s reporting with Declassified UK on the shipments of F-35 fighter jet parts from Britain to Israel

What a great paper. Apart from highlighting the association of DBP with ROSC. It shows that only 50% of cardiac arrests are due to MI. And around 28% and other causes. For targetted resuscitation there is a lot of work that needs to be done to understand OOHCA

Letter delivered to Simon Harris TD from Irish Healthcare Workers for Palestine today. Our Governments inaction does not represent us. Actions not words are needed. Sanctions now, Enact the Occupied Territories Bill, Stop the use of Irish airspace for military transportation.

After one month of siege and systematic attacks, displaced people, including 10 MSF staff and their families have fled Jabalia camp to Gaza City. Some of our colleagues have been injured, while one was killed on 10 October. Two of our staff have still not managed to escape. 1/5

1. I'm a social worker, a frontline worker & have a family member with a disability. I care about my fellow citizens who are homeless, have scoliosis, have no quality of life on a waiting list, are dying on trolleys or who are desperately waiting for therapy for their child..

“The ages most represented among the dead were five to nine-year-olds.”