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I hope if not publicly, you apologise to Sangita personally. @mrjamesob.bsky.social

🚨 A statement:

Over the past year James O’Brien & others have made claims about my departure from LBC. I’m restricted in what I can share with you but hope the statement below will draw a line under the matter. My focus is on moving forward. I am grateful for your continued support, Sangita

Krishnan Guru-Murthy, "What's happening in Gaza and Israel's aim to take over"

Kaja Kallas, "Humanitarian aid much reach the people immediately"

KGM, "Is Gaza at risk of genocide"

KK, "The loss of life is untenable"

Spain to provide money to support UN investigations into Israeli human rights abuses <article data-history-node-id="422130" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/spain-provide-money-support-un-investigations-israeli-human-rights" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/spain-provide-money-support-un-investigations-israeli-human-rights" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Spain to provide money to support UN investigations into Israeli human rights abuses</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p style="margin-bottom:11px">Spain will provide more than $560,000 to support UN investigations into human rights violations and possible war crimes committed in Gaza, Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares said, according to media reports on Monday.</p> <p>"With the aim of ending these violations of international law and with the desire to ensure accountability, I announce that we will support the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in increasing its investigative efforts into human rights violations and war crimes that may have been committed in Gaza,” Albares told Spain’s Committee on Foreign Affairs.</p> <p>He said the humanitarian crisis in Gaza caused by Israel’s aid blockade &nbsp;was "totally and absolutely unacceptable" and held Israel responsible for "causing an unprecedented famine".</p> <p>"The urgent entry of food is necessary to save the lives of innocent Palestinians," he said. "The civilian population of Gaza deserves dignity and peace, and Spain demands it and will continue to demand it."</p> <p>Last week, Spain participated in the International Court of Justice hearings concerning Israel’s obligations as an occupying power towards the Gaza Strip and West Bank.</p> </div> </div> </article>

Spain to provide money to support UN investigations into Israeli human rights abuses - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/spain-provide-money-support-un-investigations-israeli-human-rights

Trump boasts about bombing Yemeni 'villagers' <article data-history-node-id="420846" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/trump-boasts-about-bombing-yemeni-villagers" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/trump-boasts-about-bombing-yemeni-villagers" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Trump boasts about bombing Yemeni 'villagers'</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Donald Trump has taken to Truth Social to brag about a US air strike in Yemen, claiming it wiped out Houthi fighters. The US president, posted a video of an air strike that left a gaping crater at the scene.</p> <p>“These Houthis gathered for instructions on an attack. Oops, there will be no attack by these Houthis! They will never sink our ships again!” Trump proclaimed.</p> <p>Abdulrahman al-Ahnomi, a senior Houthi media official, dismissed Trump’s claim outright, insisting the victims were Yemeni villagers, not fighters.</p> <p>“The US president is showing off his terrorism before the world,” he wrote on X. “Targeting a tribal gathering is not a victory, but a reflection of the US’s failure to identify any real targets.”</p> <p>Washington continues its campaign against the Houthis, who have been disrupting Red Sea shipping in solidarity with Gaza.</p> </div> </div> </article>

Trump boasts about bombing Yemeni 'villagers' - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/trump-boasts-about-bombing-yemeni-villagers

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How do you transform lies into truth?

By erasing the VERY REAL past.

14 bodies of missing Gaza health workers, attacked by Israeli troops, found The Red Crescent says dead include eight of its personnel, five from the Palestinian Civil Defence and one UN employee.

Medical sources tell Al Jazeera that 64 Palestinians have been killed since dawn on Sunday in Israeli raids across the Gaza Strip.

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The word “terrorist” is a meaningless tool of imperial narrative control.
Want to bomb some people? Designate them as terrorists.
Want to silence protesters and dissidents? Say they’re supporting terrorists.
Want sweeping surveillance powers? Say you need them to fight terrorism.

Zarah Sultana, "Does the Prime Minister still maintain that Israel is not committing genocide?"

Keir Starmer, "Blocking goods, supplies and power into Gaza risks breaching international humanitarian law and it shouldn't be happening"

"We are doing everything we can to alleviate that situation"

They're seriously trying to send a legal US resident to Syria because he criticized US foreign policy toward Israel. I'll write it again: they're trying to send a legal US resident to Syria because he criticized US foreign policy toward Israel.

Israel denied entry to members of EU parliament on official mission <span class="field field-title">Israel denied entry to members of EU parliament on official mission</span> <span class="field field-uid"><a title="View user profile." href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/users/pauline-ertel" lang about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/users/pauline-ertel" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype>Pauline Ertel</a></span> <span class="field field-created"><time datetime="2025-03-12T11:04:31+00:00" title="12 March 2025 11:04 GMT">Wed, 03/12/2025 - 11:04</time> </span> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>On 24 February, MEPs Lynn Boylan and Rima Hassan were refused entry to Israel during an official mission from the European Parliament.</p> <p>During an Irish parliamentary session earlier this week, Ireland's Boylan spoke out against the incident and described how the group of MEPs, including herself, were “detained and subsequently&nbsp;deported" when attempting to enter Israel.&nbsp;</p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-media-max-width="560"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en">Today I raised the fact that Israel prevented the EU Parliaments official mission to Palestine from taking place and confiscated the phones of 2 MEPs and 2 officials for 90 mins. <a href="https://t.co/il3z2DBoLS">pic.twitter.com/il3z2DBoLS</a></p> — Lynn Boylan 🍷📖🐾 (@LNBDublin) <a href="https://twitter.com/LNBDublin/status/1899194821559869897?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 10, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <p>“While detained by the Israeli authorities, our electronic devices were confiscated for over ninety minutes. Our passports, including an Irish diplomatic passport were confiscated and not returned to us until we arrived back in Brussels,” Boylan explained.&nbsp;</p> <p>The group of MEPs that was&nbsp;travelling to Israel form part of the European Parliament’s delegation for relations with Palestine, of which Boylan is the chair. The delegation&nbsp;holds regular meetings with Palestinian and international groups on EU-Palestinian relations and on political, economic and social and human rights developments in Palestine.</p> </div>

Israel denied entry to members of EU parliament on official mission - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-denied-entry-members-eu-parliament-official-mission

Any decent human being should be heartbroken over the fate of the Bibas children. What's utterly depraved is pro-genocide propagandists superimposing a manufactured & inflammatory narrative on this tragedy in order to justify the mass murder of more children.

Iraq was what permanently radicalized me. It should have permanently radicalized everyone. I always had a healthy distrust of the Americans and of my own government, but that was when it really hit that "Okay, this power structure is my enemy, and it needs to be brought down."

Welcome to the 40 beheaded babies bullshit all over again.

The forcible removal of the people of Gaza would clearly be ethnic cleansing.

Long beyond time for Keir Starmer to call it out for what it is. The ongoing silence on this is complicity and a betrayal of the Palestinian people.

The President of the United States welcome a leader wanted by the ICC and officially endorsed ethnic cleansing.

Now would be a good time for our government to defend international law.

If they won’t say it, we will: Palestinians aren’t going anywhere.

Trump’s Gaza plan tests Starmer’s business-as-usual pretence Prime minister and colleagues use political code to push back at proposal without directly criticising US president

Judging by Starmer's shameful refusal to condemn Trump's Gaza ethnic cleansing announcement in the Commons today, he still aspires to be Trump's junior business partner, unable to realise he is petitioning a vindictive mob boss who demands acquiescence www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Trump's threats of ethnic cleansing in Gaza are abhorrent and the UK government must stand firmly against them

Top reasons 2024 Labour voters are abandoning the party:

1) Cuts to winter fuel payment
2) Not reduced cost of living
3) Not improved public services
4) Broken too many promises
5) Not stood up to the rich and powerful

(YouGov polling)

The Palestinian Prisoners Club says “every time prisoners are released, we find the prisoners’ bodies reflecting the level of crimes committed against them, including torture that is unprecedented in its level after October 7”.

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After 21 years of separation due to captivity..

The moment the freed Hassan Bahr al-Dam met his family in the old Askar camp in Nablus, where the resistance freed him in today's exchange deal.
#Gaza

How about less billionaires?

And instead more schools, hospitals and council houses?

@greenparty.org.uk will always stand with the 99%.

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Funny to watch Piers Morgan and Tucker Carlson arguing about whether Putin or Zelenskyy is the bigger "dictator" while they're both sitting in *checks notes* Saudi Arabia.

Israeli PM Netanyahu will depart on Sunday for the US to meet President Donald Trump and discuss the situation in Gaza, captives held in the enclave and dealings with Iran and its regional allies, his office says.

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Only 861 aid trucks out of 1,200 have entered northern Gaza since the ceasefire began due to Israel’s blockade.

The Beit Hanoun crossing remains closed after being destroyed by Israeli bombardment, as the return of displaced Palestinians nears, increasing the demand for aid in northern areas.

Israel’s security cabinet has accepted the ceasefire deal with Hamas that is expected to come into force on Sunday, according to the Israeli PM’s office.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/lmgoxr