Trump inauguration was a starter pistol for an annexation push on the northern West Bank. As one colleague there put it: "Now that there is a suspension in Israel's war on Palestinians in Gaza, it feels like the Israeli military is starting a war on us in the West Bank."

Our statement on the ceasefire deal: "While we hope this temporary pause will alleviate some of the suffering the Israeli military has inflicted on Gaza, it marks the beginning, not the end, of efforts to restore health, dignity and freedom to the Palestinian people." www.map.org.uk/news/archive...

Ceasefire comes into effect on Sunday. Colleagues in Gaza are very worried about what comes next, experience shows Israel always escalates its destruction in terrifying ways before a ceasefire deadline.

Today @medicalaidpal.bsky.social called for the immediate release of all arbitrarily detained Gaza medical staff, as the illegal detention of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya continued into its second week with no news of his whereabouts. www.map.org.uk/news/archive...

It's no accident that this disgusting and dangerous opinion is being given space in the WSJ at the same time as Trump is talking about taking over Greenland. Annexation is having another moment. We are being encouraged to accept Might is Right for this new era.

I've never looked ahead to a new year with such dread. The media is barely paying attention to what is going on in Gaza, politicians have almost given up pretending to even care. We're going to have to dig really deep to end this.

Our leaders must demand the immediate and safe release of Dr Hussam Abu Safiya and all detained Gaza health workers. Health workers are not a target, and impunity for Israel's destruction of Palestinian healthcare must end. Please share.

Free Dr Hussam Abu Safiya!

Has any Western government yet said anything about Israel's manifestly illegal destruction of Kamal Adwan Hospital?

The grim predictability of Israel waiting for the holidays to escalate its attacks on Kamal Adwan Hospital. When Western media and governments are distracted. We all knew this would happen, but nobody with power did anything to stop it. There must be consequences.

BREAKING: 5 staff killed during Israeli targeting of Kamal Adwan Hospital. Those killed: • Dr. Ahmed Samour (pediatrician) • Israa Abu Zaida (laboratory specialist) • Abdul Majeed Abu Al-Aish (paramedic) • Maher Al-Ajrami (paramedic). • Fares Al-Hudali (maintenance specialist).

Literally already happening among some in the UK's ruling party

"As areas are emptied of Palestinians, Israeli forces have demolished entire neighborhoods, established military fortifications and built new roads, according to a Washington Post analysis of high-resolution satellite images." www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/1...

Israel's relentless brutality against Kamal Adwan Hospital continues unabated. Take action: www.map.org.uk/campaigns/em...

"It’s very clear to me that the children I witnessed yesterday are not members of any militant organisation, these are young children who are trying to escape war by sheltering in a UN school. Yet they were massacred, I’ve got no other way to describe it." www.map.org.uk/news/archive...

For all those who’ve said since 8 October that we’re being “sensationalist”.

North Gaza Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Hit With Evacuation Order time.com/7202257/gaza...

Israel’s latest forced displacement order threatens to end advanced neo-natal care in northern Gaza www.map.org.uk/news/archive...

Amnesty International’s new landmark report concludes that Israeli authorities have committed – and still are committing - genocide against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip. Full report, out now. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

Deserving of more coverage: “I think that has been grossly exaggerated, but we need to be able to demonstrate very clearly what the level of military presence was, if at all, in these hospitals because I think we’ve been misled about that in the press.” www.theguardian.com/law/2024/dec...

Israeli forces have issued new 'evacuation' orders vs areas of Al Remal and Sabra neighborhoods in Gaza City, encompassing the Patients' Friends Benevolent Society and Public Aid hospitals. Israel continues to chase Palestinians around its Gaza death map like a sick boardgame.

My reply to the BBC's unsatisfactory reply back to the complaint about it's erasure & deliberate omission of Jasleen Kaur's personal conviction in solidarity with Palestinians, & very public statements against ongoing genocide in Gaza. & why ignore questions on Melanie Phillips?

A political split-screen that will come to define an era of hypocrisy and moral cowardice.

“Be outspoken, leave your mark and stand up for your people. Stand up for Palestine, and stand up for oppressed people around the world.”

A colleague in Gaza, this morning: "Israel makes us wish we could die the way it killed us yesterday because it was faster and less painful."

A Model of Apartheid: Residents of This Palestinian Village Pay Taxes in Jerusalem, but Are Forbidden to Enter It archive.ph/kEcgp

“There are no journalists in Gaza.” Palestinian journalists deserve our respect, solidarity & love, not erasure (even if unintentional) from Foreign Secretary DavidLammy. Killed, maimed, denied their trade, working with execution targets on their backs to show the horrors of Israeli genocide.

Israel killed the Head of Kamal Adwan's ICU in North Gaza. What Israel is doing to this hospital is a horror beyond imagination.

Western leaders are convinced they're playing 4D chess with ceasefire deals, normalisation, ICC warrants and pre-Trump positioning. All they are in fact doing is making themselves look weak, inconsistent and spineless. Depots everywhere rub their hands with glee.

About 130,000 children aged under 10 have been trapped for 50 days in areas in northern #Gaza that are almost entirely inaccessible to aid workers and not receiving food or medical supplies despite warnings of famine, via @savethechildren.bsky.social www.savethechildren.net/news/norther...

Like inviting Valery Gerasimov to the UK. Astonishing stuff, really.

"Israel, as a democratic country that is committed to human rights" Imagine writing that in 2024 while Israel is credibly accused of genocide, apartheid, extermination, forcible transfer, murder, starvation as a weapon of war, torture, rape, pillage...

Apocalyptic scenes of horror from the crowded neighbourhood of Basta in the centre of Beirut, after Israeli attacks. Further attacks across Lebanon & Gaza as Israeli destruction continues with impunity, enabled by the international community www.instagram.com/reel/DCs0mBf...

This argument promoted by Keir Starmer's spox in response to ICC warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant that there is "no moral equivalence" between Israel and Hamas is - at best - a racist dog whistle. It essentially says Palestinian lives are worth less than Israelis.

Yet again the UK government is concerned with "expansion" of Israeli settlements not the existence of settlements. They also do not address them as war crimes as stipulated in the Rome Statute www.gov.uk/government/s...

Perhaps the cosy photo op with a genocidaire was a bad idea.

Incredible number of statements by politicians and certain 'liberal' groups that begrudgingly and indirectly accept the ICC arrest warrants but completely refuse to recognise Palestinian suffering, the atrocities perpetrated against them, and their right to justice.

"When the ICC issued an arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin, UK ministers immediately welcomed the step. Failing to do so in this instance looks like a clear case of double standards that damages the administration of justice" Prof Gerhard Kemp for Amnesty UK www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releas...

Netanyahu won't turn himself in to the Hague, so he is a fugitive from the law. He's on the lam. A coward unwilling to defend acts he says are righteous.

Our (MAP) reaction to ICC arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant.

Finally!! ICC Pre-Trial Chamber I rejects the State of Israel’s challenges to jurisdiction and issues warrants of arrest for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant www.icc-cpi.int/news/situati...

Really helpful resource

Good to see @andymcdonaldmp.bsky.social now on here too. See his contribution on Gaza in Parliament earlier on, urging the UK government to take concrete measures to prevent Israel’s genocide and protect Palestinians.

The Biden administration continues to be the sole government besides Netanyahu's currently actively preventing a ceasefire in Gaza. Ppl can be in denial all they want, this is a fact. The US is ruled by moral monsters and Trump isn't even in office yet. news.un.org/en/story/202...

The US worked hard to remove Chapter VII language from the latest UN Security Council resolution on Gaza, that would have demanded an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire and the release of hostages, and then vetoed it anyway. 14 for, 1 against. Utterly depraved.

Andy McDonald asks the UK government to acknowledge the mass forced displacement in Gaza, as documented brutally in @hrw.org report, and take concrete measures on arms, trade, and Israeli officials in order to comply with its duty to prevent genocide and protect Palestinian lives. #PMQs

Yesterday, Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel Fattah turned 43 years old, marking his 11th birthday behind bars, away from his family and friends. May it be the last one apart from his loved ones. Thinking of him as he is held illegally in custody beyond the completion of his sentence. #FreeAlaa

Bluesky just got promoted to the first home screen on my phone so there's that. It might just stick.

This is all that remains of Al Najjar hospital in Rafah. The extent of the devastation only now coming to light because it is in the Israeli military controlled area. There must be accountability for the depraved, illegal destruction of this hospital.