Shameless slaughter of innocents continues – even BBC has to take notice
Israel again murdered well over a hundred people in a single day on Wednesday, including repeatedly bombing two hospitals and slaughtering more than sixty in a single night-time attack on refugees close to a third, the Kamal Adwan hospital:
Journalist Liz Loh-Taylor, who posted this video, wrote:
Before Dawn, They Were Dead
More than 60 people killed before the world even woke.
Before the call to prayer, before sunrise, before children in Jabalia could reach for their mothers. Six residential blocks levelled—flattened as if lives meant nothing. Women, children, civilians. Again. Always again.
Israel struck the Jabalia refugee camp with calculated brutality. Not a military base. Not a resistance stronghold. Just homes. Rooms filled with the ordinary—plastic dishes, family photos, folded laundry—now caked in blood and ash. What do we call this? Because it sure as hell isn’t war.
This is not about security. This is punishment. This is revenge on civilian populations because Netanyahu wasn’t consulted about Trump’s so-called ceasefire proposal. It’s Gaza that pays the price for political theatre—for backroom deals brokered without dignity, without Palestinians, without humanity
And still, the world turns its face away How many mornings like this will it take before someone calls this what it is? Before the death toll stops being just a number on a screen? I feel like a broken record screaming into the void. Day after day. Death after death. Fifty, sixty lives at a time.
This is not normal. This is not justifiable. It never was. And yet here we are—again—burying children beneath rubble, beneath indifference, beneath a world that no longer blinks.
Gaza’s European Hospital in Khan Younis was repeatedly bombed:
As so often, Israel’s victims were civilians, mostly women and children:
Red Cross head surgeon Dr Tom Potokar, who was in the hospital as it and its courtyard were repeatedly bombed, described the terror and devastation from inside the facility and concluded that “There is nowhere safe in Gaza”:
Israel claimed the hospital was – as usual – a ‘Hamas control centre’, but the propaganda animation the occupation regime put out claiming to show the hospital was not even the hospital, but instead a nearby school.
Potokar is a British doctor. The West Yorkshire Healthcare Workers for Palestine Group demanded of Keir Starmer:
He is one of ours. One of your tax paying citizen and an important part of our NHS. Is his life not worth anything to you?
Does no one and nothing count in front of Israel? Is the British government going to abandon its tax paying citizens in favour of a foreign state?
Two of the European Hospital’s intensive care Alaa al-Ghoul and Ahmed Aqel, were defiant and said they would only leave the hospital with all their colleagues and staff:
The Al Nasser hospital in southern Gaza, which was bombed yesterday as Israel targeted and murdered wounded journalist Hassan Eslaih, was also hit again.
The mass slaughter and attacks on medical facilities and workers were so shameless that even the BBC felt forced to give the day far more honest coverage this evening than it usually does:
Israel is a terror state and those who aid and abet its genocide in Gaza, whatever their nationality, are terrorists.
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A harrowing read
https://pchrgaza.org/pchr-releases-report-on-torture-and-genocide-against-palestinians-from-gaza/
You would be better serving the people of Gaza by calling out Starmer and his fascist Government. Indeed, why don’t you send it to Starmer instead and ask for his comments. Your crocodile tears aren’t needed or wanted here.
https://giphy.com/gifs/moodman-you-got-this-W5ZUxqXT1lmiysXsDE
Oh dear, did either of you bother to read the report that I linked to above before you took it into your heads to demonstrate to everyone how clever you think you are? 😞
Billy – Given that Starmer is (at least the nominal PM) why is advice to hold to account the man you give every indication of treating as an object of worship in line with the recommendations of that Report (page 121) treated with such disdain?:
https://pchrgaza.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Torture-and-Genocide-The-Shattered-Futures-of-Former-Palestinian-Detainees-in-Gaza.pdf
Just for your benefit, Billy, I will repost those Recommendations for you below:
“Recommendations
To States:
– Fulfil their obligation to prevent the ongoing genocide against Palestinians in
the Gaza Strip, including acts of torture against Palestinian detainees in Israel
prisons and military camps, in particular by imposing an arms embargo on
Israel;
– Take immediate steps to pressure Israel to comply with the three binding
provisional measures issued by the International Court of Justice in Application
of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
in the Gaza Strip (South Africa v. Israel) ;
– Demand the Israeli occupation authorities to comply with international law,
including ending their indefinite incommunicado detention of Palestinians from
the Gaza Strip, without charge or trial under the Unlawful Combatants Law, to
release all those arbitrarily detained without delay, and end the ill-treatment
and torture of Palestinian detainees.
– Demand the Israeli occupation authorities to allow immediate and unhindered
access to prisons, military detention camps, and medical facilities for relevant
investigative and monitoring bodies as well as the International Committee of
the Red Cross, lawyers, and family members of the detainees.
-“Investigate” allegations of genocide and torture under the principle of
universal jurisdiction, where applicable.
– Support and respect the independence and decisions of the International
Criminal Court and its officials in light of the recent sanctions imposed by U.S
administration. In particular, PCHR calls on State Parties to the Rome Statute to
enforce the arrest warrants issued against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu and Former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant.”
Particularly given that the UK is among a number of Western States (who, despite being a minority of the states and populations on the planet, refer to themselves as “The International Community” as though they own the place and everybody in it) are not only providing legal, political, and diplomatic cover for these crimes (as well as those in Syria with their tame head choppers) but are actively aiding and abetting those crimes by providing arms, equipment, spare parts, intelligence data, and finance.
Not forgetting the lawfare by which Herr Starmer and his obnoxious little junta is using to stop UK citizens from raising the issue.
Julia is correct. It would be far more appropriate to forward this to your pathetic little demigod and ask what concrete steps he and his sorry excuse for a “Government” have done to meet the Report Recommendations listed above, which are taken from that Report.
You did read the actual Report properly, Billy? Didn’t you? Rather than the short article on the report which you linked to at 4:08 a.m. GMT this morning (either 23:08 or 00:08 in the two (alleged) Caribbean time zones)?
Dave – I don’t recall ever saying that I supported either Netanyahu or the UK’s policy on Gaza. 🤔
In which case, Billy, you should have no problem following Julia’s original advice rather than all this virtue signalling.
Dave – 🥱
The only virtue signaling that I can see here is yours
Then you need to visit Specsavers, Billy.
Dave – I’m quite happy to leave it for others to judge for themselves, are you?
Given the other responses to your original post, Billy, I’m more than content.
Let us know when it’s your birthday, though. It looks like you could do with a fresh spade.
I remember a time, not that long ago, when ordinary folk were berated for not doing something – anything – about the holocaust, at a time when many folk from the free world at the time were struggling in the greatest armed conflict ever, and at risk from starvation themselves. It seemed so easy at the time to berate the world for not doing something to put a genocide before EVERYTHING else. Now the same people who were saying that, say “Don’t get involved whilst WE commit the genocide!”
More evidence of the active complicity of this Government and the British establishment in the War Crimes and Genocide of Zionist Israel;
https://skwawkbox.org/2025/05/16/video-eagles-speech-to-israel-lobby-is-betrayal-of-liverpool-and-admission-of-collusion-in-genocide/
Perhaps the report alluded to at the start of this thread should also be sent to the entire Cabinet?
Dave – I’m quite happy to leave it for others to judge for themselves, are you?
Fair enough. My judgement is that you’re a horridable little shitehawk.without any redeeming feature.