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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 4h

Dr Zeena Salman from Heal Palestine on the Palestinian children who are 'lucky' enough to be medically evacuated from Gaza.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 7h

Has Israel stopped starving & murdering Palestinians? Have all the Palestinian hostages been released? Are the settlements being dismantled? Is the occupation over? Do Palestinians have the right to return to their homes? Do we have accountability &justice for Israels war crimes?

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 7h

Palestinian photo journalist Shadi Abu Sido was seized by the IDF at a hospital & subsequently detained. He was beaten & tortured & they told him his family had been killed.

A civilian detained indefinitely without evidence, charge or trial. But not a hostage eh Lucy Williamson?

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 8h

News organisations are boycotting the Pentagon building after the US dept of war said journalists are banned from doing their jobs while on the premises e.g. asking people questions and finding out information

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 9h

A reminder that Israel has used the dead bodies of Palestinians as bargaining chips for decades.

Last year Mustafa Barghouti explained that Israel is holding over 500 bodies.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 10h

Israel is using the failure to return the bodies of hostages as a pretext to violate the ceasefire themselves, but as Nour Odeh points out, the ceasefire agreement did not contain a timeline for the handing over of the bodies & Israel already knew it might take weeks or months.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 10h

Hani Mahmoud reports on the struggle people in Gaza have just to get water.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 10h

One from the archives.

The number of vet practices owned by large corporations rose from 10% in 2013 to 60% in 2024, & over a similar period the prices they charge have increased by 70%- 80%. Entirely coincidence, I'm sure.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 10h

#GMB: "Ceasefire on the brink. President Trump threatens to disarm Hamas violently as it fails to hand over all the bodies of dead Israeli hostages & carries out public executions in the streets"

Notice no mention of Israel continuing to murder Palestinians in Gaza.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 10h

"Israel is still limiting the number of aid trucks allowed to enter Gaza. Its only permitting 300, half the agreed number under the Trump plan"

So Israel continues to starve people in Gaza because they claim Hamas hasn't done something. The definition of collective punishment

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 1d

Clear the front pages! Hamas mentally tortured one of the hostages they were holding by telling him his wife & two children had been killed. Despicable.

Oh no, wait, it was Israel who did that. Move on, nothing to see here.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 1d

How Sky news reports the IDF shooting at Palestinians in Gaza (its been reported elsewhere that they killed 3 people):

"The Israeli defence forces says... the IDF says... they say... they've called on Gaza residents..."

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 1d

Today Israel is allowing fuel for cooking to enter Gaza.

Olga Cherevko from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs explains that for 7 months Israel has prevented any cooking fuel from entering Gaza.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 1d

Gaza:

170,000 people need long term rehabilitation
38 hospitals destroyed or forced to close
1 in 4 children suffer from acute malnutrition
96% of households without enough water to meet basic needs
300,000 housing units reduced to rubble
835 schools/colleges have been destroyed

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 1d

Hind Khoudary is asked, how are people in Gaza feeling today.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 1d

Steve Reed: "We've seen on our screens for 2 years the most unimaginable scenes of horror in Gaza"

Yes, and in govt you supported & armed Israel, provided them with military assistance & refused to take any actions to exert meaningful pressure on them. Thats your record.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 1d

Hind Khoudary reporting this morning that more aid is now entering Gaza but considering the huge needs in the territory its a drop in the ocean & much more is needed.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 1d

Two freed Palestinian hostages describe the conditions Israel held them in - the lack of bedding, shortage of food, regular beatings.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 1d

"two incidents.. have horrified the Sikh community.. an attack on two taxi drivers near a train station & the rape of a young woman.. both incidents are being investigated as racially motivated"

A report by Lisa Holland on a Sikh community facing increased racist abuse.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 1d

Israeli MP for Hadash Ofer Cassif: "[Trump] is not the saviour. He is part and parcel, totally complicit in the genocide that Israel carried out for almost 2 years"

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 1d

Tess Ingram from UNICEF explains what people in Gaza need - everything. Water, food, shelter, clothes, shoes,

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 1d

Blair took us to war on a lie, a war that killed a million Iraqis & destabilised the entire region. And the reason he's now being touted for a role governing Gaza (and allowed to swan around the world making millions from dictators) is because there's been no accountability #GMB

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 1d

Kevin Maguire calls the Palestinians released yesterday "prisoners, detainees, hostages" & then clarifies, "they consider them hostages"

Locked up without charge or trial, no evidence produced, imprisoned indefinitely. You were right the first time Kevin. They were/are hostages

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 1d

Secunder Kermani: "For Palestinians these were hostages too"

In the next breath Kermani reports they were held in prison without charge or trial. Held indefinitely without charge, trial or evidence against them. So stop hiding behind 'For Palestinains..." & call them hostages.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 1d

The Israeli deputy foreign minister sits in front of a photograph of the man who oversaw the bombing of a hotel that killed 91 people and condemns Hamas as terrorists.

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