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Fran Rourke 🌻 retweeted
They bombed a hospital again this morning Kevin.
Thank you, Minister. It was a privilege for the Conservative delegation to meet with you in Jerusalem and hear directly about the challenges Israel continues to face from Iran and its proxies.
The special relationship between Britain and Israel remains deeply important to both countries.
Conservatives stand firmly with Israel and look forward to restoring and strengthening the partnership that has been damaged in recent years.
Grateful for the warm welcome and the frank discussion. 🇮🇱🇬🇧 @CFoI
Fran Rourke 🌻 retweeted
The Israeli judiciary rejects the release of 14 doctors from Gaza, Physicians for Human Rights reports.
The organization stated that the 14 doctors remain imprisoned in Israeli detention without trial, some for more than two years, at a time when Gaza’s health sector is facing a severe shortage of medical personnel.
Fran Rourke 🌻 retweeted
The UK Govt has been given suggestions on how NOT to just stand by… with several ways to ensure suffering in Gaza is eased. @Caabu urged @Ed_Miliband and the UK Govt to ensure that ‘Israel permits free and proper humanitarian access into Gaza. This includes using powers to sanction those who block life-saving humanitarian aid’.
Fran Rourke 🌻 retweeted
We launched this petition 2 weeks ago.
Now, we are just 2,000 signatures away from forcing a debate in Parliament.
Will you be one of 100,000 who helped exposed the truth of Britain’s complicity in genocide?
petition.parliament.uk/petit…
Fran Rourke 🌻 retweeted
I hope you are all sleeping safely in your homes, surrounded by your families. I hope every child has warm clothes and every parent can provide the care their children need.
I hope your children have umbrellas, raincoats, and rain boots for school. I hope your cities are prepared to respond to winter emergencies.
Of course, sharing this news will change nothing for our families in Gaza, just as the warnings issued days ago changed nothing.
Tonight, at 8:30 p.m., as families slept on the ground inside their tents, a massive landslide of soil and rocks buried at least two families in Deir al-Balah.
The victims have been identified as:
Habiba Hossam al-Zain, 4 years old
Reem Hossam al-Zain
Ibrahim Hossam al-Zain
Salah Nabhan, 7 years old
Mariam Nabhan
The mothers of these five children remain in critical condition.
The father of the first three children had already been killed by Israel.
I hope everyone has heat in their homes.
Fran Rourke 🌻 retweeted
Ms. Rachel: “Can we take a second to think about how if we were freezing cold in tents and they were flooded and our babies were going to freeze and there’s a government, the Israeli government, that won’t let the warm supplies through so more kids are gonna die and we’re just like, all the nations, all the people, all the leaders, just like yeah that’s gonna happen again. You and I should not be ashamed that we are loud and we are constantly saying stop”
Fran Rourke 🌻 retweeted
Heavy rain has flooded tens of thousands of tents housing displaced Palestinians across Gaza.
It was a sleepless night for many, as the rain washed away makeshift shelters and soaked blankets and mattresses.
More than a year after the ceasefire began in Gaza, little has changed for its more than 2,000,000 residents – most of whom now live in tent camps.
Fran Rourke 🌻 retweeted
Israel does control entry of all materials into Gaza, however, and is the reason why more than a million people are living in tents on the lowest-lying fraction of Gaza's land, with zero homes rebuilt, a year into the "ceasefire".
Fran Rourke 🌻 retweeted
A year into a "ceasefire" nobody should be living in makeshift tents. This isn't a humanitarian crisis, it is an impunity crisis.
🚨HORRIBLE: Around 70,000 displacement tents across Gaza have been flooded, leaving thousands of families exposed to the harsh elements.
Floodwaters have also damaged shops, cafés, streets, and already-damaged buildings sheltering displaced families, compounding the suffering caused by Israel’s genocidal war.
Fran Rourke 🌻 retweeted
🚨HORRIBLE: An entire population in Gaza is being left to face freezing rain, flooded tents, and endless misery, all because the Israeli army destroyed their homes, prevented their reconstruction, and blocked the entry of essential equipment and materials needed to rebuild them.
Fran Rourke 🌻 retweeted
Disturbing headline in Israeli newspaper Haaretz: ‘Top IDF commander coordinated with settlers on takeover of Palestinian homes as storm batters Israel and Gaza’.
Fran Rourke 🌻 retweeted
BREAKING - ARRESTS
Former government barrister Tim Crosland is among those arrested at the Supreme Court while holding signs mirroring the words of Sarah Helm, wife of the National Security Adviser to Andy Burnham.
The court is hearing an appeal over the Palestine Action ban.
Fran Rourke 🌻 retweeted
“Bu babamla ilgili son çağrım: Onu kurtarın!”
📣 Gazzeli kahraman Doktor Hussam Abu Safiya’nın oğlundan babası için SON çağrı!
▪️Babam artık nefes almakta zorlanıyor.
Konuşamıyor
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▪️Yüzü, gördüğü işkence yüzünden tanınmaz halde.
▪️Ne acı ki, büyük bir yalnızlığa terk edildik.
İki milyardan fazla Müslümana, yirmi ikiden fazla Arap ve İslam ülkesine seslendik. Ama siz duymazdan geldiniz.
▪️Size bir kez daha yalvarıyor, çağrıda bulunuyor, yardım istiyoruz. Çok geç olmadan babamın hayatını kurtarın.
▪️Belki de bu, son yardım çığlığımız olacak. Belki bir daha babamdan haber alamayacağız.
Fran Rourke 🌻 retweeted
The rubble of Gaza is now a tomb.
Since the Hamas-led attacks in Israel on October 7, tens of thousands of Palestinians have been killed in the Gaza Strip, many of them women and children.
And more than 1,400 Gazans have been killed since the ceasefire last October.
The bodies of many of the victims have still not yet been recovered with the remains covered under thousands of tons of rubble.
Israel still doesn't allow journalists in, so working with a Gazan filmmaker Channel 4 News has followed efforts to retrieve the of bodies trapped there.
Warning: this report contains distressing images including human remains.
Fran Rourke 🌻 retweeted
Today, the bodies of Raghad and Rahaf, granddaughters of my late uncle, Dr. Omar Firwana, were finally recovered.
They were the last of 15 family members killed in an Israeli massacre on October 15, 2023.
After three years of painful waiting, their remains have finally been recovered.
Fran Rourke 🌻 retweeted
Yesterday, I was barred from entering the West Bank by Israeli officials, as part of a @ProgIntl delegation.
What's happening here in Palestine is unjust. We've just witnessed what Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and many others have called a genocide unfold in Gaza.
We came here to show the world, and to show solidarity with the Palestinian people. The Israeli government didn't allow that.
Fran Rourke 🌻 retweeted
I have raised the imprisonment of Dr Mazen Al Rantisi in Parliament and on every platform I could and so I am
pleased he has been released but his physical condition evidences his mistreatment at the hands of the IDF. We now need to secure the release of Dr Hussam Abu Safiya who has been imprisoned also by the Israelis and whose life is under threat. share.google/fkDLgawMSUZXMiq…
Join me in taking action to demand the UK to act to end the ethnic cleansing of Palestinian map.org.uk/how-to-help/campa…
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Fran Rourke 🌻 retweeted
On 24 October 2023, we held a vigil for the then-2,360 children killed in Gaza, damanding a ceasefire and accountability. Three years later, inaction and impunity means 20,000 more have died and continue to be killed to this day.
We won't stop protesting until there is justice.
Fran Rourke 🌻 retweeted
A BBC journalist handed his hole, by this gentleman.
More of this please!
Articulate ✔️Eloquent ✔️Truth✔️
Turn it up!
Fuck israel & #FreePalestine
#israel