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zero @egrettt.bsky.social · Aug 23

Help people in Gaza and the West Bank
Donate at link here 👇
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UN Crisis Relief

United Nations Crisis Relief connects people who care to people in crisis, providing support where it matters most.

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 1h

Kudos to ⁦‪@mehdirhasan‬⁩.

Not only did he invite me on his show in 2018 to talk about my investigation into Farage’s funders (no UK channel ever did).

But he also asked a former colleague of Nathan Gill’s in the EU parliament whether UKIP had ever taken Russian bribes 🔥

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zero @egrettt.bsky.social · 1h

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Children Shot By Quadcopters’: UNICEF Spokesperson in Gaza

YouTube video by Zeteo

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GylesNaMopaleen @gylesnamopaleen.bsky.social · 1h

Meloni just realised she left on the immersion.

GylesNaMopaleen @gylesnamopaleen.bsky.social · 1h

photo of meloni. looking frightened & scared standing behind trump and the PM of Pakistan.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 1h

While Israelis celebrated the return of captives from Gaza, Israel warned Palestinian families against holding celebrations over the return of prisoners – some who had been held for decades. Al Jazeera’s Nour Odeh explains.

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Shibley Telhami @stelhami.bsky.social · 1h

"Trump’s plan amounts to a hostage release deal, a ceasefire of an uncertain term - and a prayer." My thoughts in @time.com:
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The Challenges of Trump's Gaza Peace Plan

"The 20-point Trump peace plan is thin on details and principles," writes Shibley Telhami.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 18h

Hi everyone. Please consider also following my company account @toderianuw.bsky.social. I appreciate it. Thanks. #UrbanistShoutOut

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UNICEF USA @unicefusa.org · 23h

UNICEF is delivering aid to families in #Gaza ― nutrition supplies, medical care, education and more. With the news of a #ceasefire, it's crucial that children receive the emergency aid they need to survive.

Here's how you can help support this lifesaving work: https://bit.ly/3WvUEiD

"Help Gaza's Children Now" + a photo of a child eating from a therapeutic food packet

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World BEYOND War @world-beyond-war.bsky.social · 1h

FACT: Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya—a pediatrician abducted by Israeli forces during a hospital raid—is still detained without charge.

In Israel, healing children in Gaza apparently makes you a national security threat.

As Prisoners and Hostages Released, Advocates Decry Continued Detention of Palestinian Doctor Abu Safiya | Common Dreams

Advocates demand the release of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, held captive by Israel for a year. As families celebrate prisoner exchange, will justice prevail for Palestinian hostages like him? Demand for…

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 1h

BBC News's John Simpson hitting the nail on the head:

"What this doesn't do in any way is sort out the Palestinian question"

"What it does is stop the agony that people in Gaza have been suffering for two years"

"But it doesn't create a future path for them"

"Maybe that can come"

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Tom Fletcher @tomfletcherun.bsky.social · 7h

The release of the Israeli hostages and ongoing transfer of Palestinian prisoners are a critical step in the implementation of the peace deal.

Momentum is growing.

Humanitarians will deliver.

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Tom Fletcher @tomfletcherun.bsky.social · 3h

Millions of Palestinians counting on lifesaving aid getting through at scale. We must make it happen.

With President Mahmoud Abbas in Sharm El Sheikh.

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Philippe K - Amish 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇱 🇸🇩 🍉 🇵🇸 !!SAVE GAZA!! @thunderbirds3.bsky.social · 1h

"Freed photojournalist Shadi Abu Sido, who was kidnapped on March 18, 2024, during the Israeli occupation’s raid on Al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City, expressed shock at the world’s silence after finally regaining his freedom nearly 20 months later" #TranslatingFalasteen #Gaza

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 1h

President Trump, "They always say WWIII would start in the Middle East"

"That's not going to happen"

"We don't want it to start anywhere actually"

Something I can agree with Trump on 👏

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UNICEF USA @unicefusa.org · 1h

"This packet holds hope."

Learn why Ready-to-Use-Therapeutic Food (RUTF) is a lifeline for severely malnourished children in #Gaza and around the world:

UNICEF Is Reaching Children in Gaza With Lifesaving Therapeutic Food

Since 2000, the lives of millions of severely malnourished children have been saved with support from UNICEF.

www.unicefusa.org

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zero @egrettt.bsky.social · 1h

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The Blogs: Gaza: The Urgent and Necessary

From the blog of Gershon Baskin at The Times of Israel

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zero @egrettt.bsky.social · 1h

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TRT World - Lasting Gaza peace can only be achieved with a two-state solution, Erdogan tells Starmer

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan meets with world leaders during his visit to Egypt for the international summit on the Gaza peace plan.

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zero @egrettt.bsky.social · 1h

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TRT World - Israel refuses to release iconic Palestinian doctor Hussam Abu Safiya in ceasefire deal

Despite international calls and his critical role in Gaza’s healthcare, Israel continues to detain Dr Hussam Abu Safiya under harsh conditions without charge.

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 2h

Reuters confirms all 1,966 Palestinian captives and forcibly disappeared from Gaza set for release have boarded buses at Israeli prisons.

Al Jazeera:
➤ The Red Cross has entered Ofer Prison to evacuate one prisoner in need of urgent medical care.
➤ 12 West Bank detainees will be exiled; their...

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 2h

Reporting from Gaza city a few minutes ago Hani Mahmoud explains that families are returning to nothing.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2h

‘Locked up for 24 years’: joy and sorrow as Palestinian prisoners and detainees return home

Nearly 2,000 prisoners and detainees – including about 1,700 people seized from Gaza and held without charge – set free from Israeli jails

www.theguardian.com

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zero @egrettt.bsky.social · 2h

www.indcatholicnews.com/news/53458

Holy See at UN: Build peace through development, not military spending | ICN

Archbishop Caccia, Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations, summarized the paradox of our times when he told UN on Friday: "for every dollar spent on peace, two are spent on war; reso...

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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 3h

"My children are dead!"

A Palestinian prisoner released today was expecting to embrace his family, only to find out they had been killed weeks ago in Israel's genocidal war on Gaza.

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 2h

The Palestinian resistance allowed several Israeli captives to contact their families from inside Gaza before their release.

📸 Photo: Nimrod Cohen, described by The Washington Post as having been “kidnapped from a tank” in southern Israel.

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Nimrod Cohen was kidnapped from a tank where he was stationed as a soldier in southern Israel. Cohen is
obsessed with Rubik's cubes, his family said, and a burned Rubik's cube was found in the tank he was abducted from. This year, his mother, Viki Cohen, illustrated a Passover haggadah, the text laying out the rituals and story recited during the Passover holiday, in honor of hostages, partly because her family has stopped celebrating holidays since the attack. "We don't gather as a family, because it reminds us how much he is missing," Cohen said. The only time the extended family gathers is at
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protests, she said.

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 2h

Video: Translating Falasteen (Palestine) via X (@translatingpal)

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 2h

Civil Defense - Gaza Strip | Press Release:

“Today, 3 children were injured with varying degrees of wounds due to the explosion of a suspicious object from the remnants of the Israeli occupation near Al-Shifa Hospital, west of Gaza City.”

Monday, October 13, 2025

🚨BREAKING | A suspicious object exploded in the hands of children playing near Al-Shifa Hospital, injuring five, two of them in very critical condition. Recent news from locals speak of several booby-trapped toys left behind by the Israeli occupation army following its withdrawal from Gaza City, a tactic that has been used by decades by the IOF in Palestine and Lebanon. ehab_nuor (IG)

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