" ‘I am not ashamed to stand in front of the camera and say I am hungry due to the famine,’ the journalist Ismail al-Ghoul said last month. ‘Many children in #Gaza ask me for something to eat, not knowing that I, like them, can’t sleep at night because of hunger.’ He and his colleague Rami al-Rifi were killed in an #Israel|i airstrike on their car on 31 July." - #SelmaDabbagh

https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/august/all-we-are-left-with-is-rubble
#Palestine #WarOnGaza #Palestinians @palestine

Selma Dabbagh | ‘All we are left with is rubble’

If, in 1948, firing had not been coming in the direction from masnaa al-bira (the beer factory) my family would have...

LRB Blog

"The ruling by the #InternationalCourtOfJustice is said by public international lawyers to be a game changer. For starters, the vocabulary has been reset. Out with the references to ‘self-defence’, bandied around as an excuse for the inexcusable; in with the cogently argued case that the US and UK’s greatest ally in the #MiddleEast is committing #genocide." - #SelmaDabbagh

https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/january/the-case-against-israel
#Palestine #Israel #Gaza #GazaGenocide #Palestinians #ICJ #InternationalLaw #GenocideConvention

Selma Dabbagh | The Case against Israel

Finally, something shifts. The ruling by the International Court of Justice is said by public international lawyers to...

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UK politicians lack humanity, says son of doctor trapped in Gaza

People with families in Gaza call on British government to help get them out and to join calls for ceasefire

The Guardian