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Israeli 'double-tap' strike kills three rescue workers in Lebanon, officials say bbc.in/4w0zfPb

Foreign minister @SDoughtyMP went all the way to New York for a speech on the nuclear non-proliferation treaty to berate Iran for its "non-compliance" while not mentioning Israel which refuses to even sign the NPT and has actual nuclear arms the UK refuses to acknowledge. 🤣

Conservatives want to police how we talk about Donald Trump—while excusing how the president talks about everyone else, @jonathanchait argues: theatlantic.com/politics/2026/…

But if Dr Rahmeh had flown to Israel, joined the army and murdered Palestinian children in Gaza, there’d be no problem, no arrests and no court case.

This afternoon, Keir Starmer sent a UK military A400M plane from RAF Akrotiri on Cyprus to Tel Aviv It can carry 116 troops - and a 81,600 lbs payload Israel’s PM Benjamin Netanyahu is indicted by the ICC for war crimes and crimes against humanity You are paying for all this

Looting Lebanon is not surprising. The spirit of the IDF is the spirit of Israel haaretz.com/opinion/2026-0…

READ: While the world is focused on Iran, Israel is continuing the genocide in Gaza. mondoweiss.net/2026/04/israel…

The King did what he had to do in his speech in Congress. But even though the next US president will no doubt work hard to rebuild relationships with NATO, no British, Canadian or European government will forget what Donald Trump has done and said. It can always happen again.

The UK is so 'appalled' at events in West Bank that it: ❌refuses to ban trade with illegal settlements ❌keeps military accord w/ Israel ❌keeps 'trade & partnership' accord ❌continues arms exports ❌refuses to mention Israeli nukes ❌refuses to respond to ICJ ruling on OPTs

@SweeneySteve @MichaelRosenYes Hi @YvetteCooperMP, could you explain the policy on when it’s right to call out the killing of civilians and aid workers and when we ignore it? When some people do it you say it’s bad. When others do it you don’t say anything at all. Can you clarify when it’s right to please?

🚨 Another day, another massacre of health workers At least five have been killed including three paramedics in an I$raeli strike in Majdal Zoun in southern Lebanon according to the Lebanese Health Ministry. More than 100 health workers have now been killed since March 2. Each one a war crime, each one carried out with impunity.

@richard_morland @MichaelRosenYes @per_incuriam2 @sra_solicitors I didn’t say the regulation was effective.

@HighfieldAshton @MichaelRosenYes @per_incuriam2 @sra_solicitors Stephen, the evidence suggests that SRA is not doing its job

On 27 March 2026, I published a Substack piece that contained evidence that Mark Lewis, Beth Grossman and Daniel Berke knowingly misled the High Court. I sent the SRA and BSB the piece. A month later, neither have been in touch to ask me for the evidence. I despair of their incompetence. @sra_solicitors @barstandards @LSB_EngandWal perincuriam2.substack.com/p/episode-15-d…

@MichaelRosenYes @per_incuriam2 @sra_solicitors Solicitors have to do annual CPD and pay a annual fee for the honour of being regulated by the SRA.

@HighfieldAshton @per_incuriam2 @sra_solicitors @per_incuriam2

@TimesofIsrael Two UK rabbis can say this but the Foreign Secretary @YvetteCooperMP or @Keir_Starmer (who feels confident enough to make negative comments about @ZackPolanski) don’t have the courage.

UK’s top 2 Progressive rabbis: Israel’s direction risks it becoming ‘incompatible with Jewish values’ timesofisrael.com/uks-top-2-prog…

@FranceskAlbs I’m sure @YvetteCooperMP would be horrified at the thought of a respected Palestinian doctor being held in arbitrary detention indefinitely and without charge and will be calling for his immediate release.

Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya is being held unlawfully. His arbitrary detention must immediately be brought to an end. Each additional day compounds the responsibility of those detaining him. May all Palestinian hostages be released soon. May the perpetrators face justice soon.

Israel is creating “impossible conditions of life” to push Palestinians out and trigger the collapse of Palestinian Authority, Palestinian FM Varsen Aghabekian tells UN Security Council trtworld.com/article/6fa876…

The Foreign Office has quietly shut down its in-house unit logging Israeli war crimes in Gaza and Lebanon. The Guardian revealed last week that the International Humanitarian Law (IHL) cell, which helped government staff assess the scope of Israel’s breaches of international law, has closed amid budget cuts. The cuts will also mean the shuttering of the open-source monitoring project at the Centre for Information Resilience (CIR), an independent non-profit. As a result, the Foreign Office will lose access to a database of 26,000 verified incidents, thought to be the largest database of its kind. John Purcell, head of public affairs at the International Centre of Justice for Palestinians, said: “How can the general public have any faith that our government is avoiding complicity in war crimes when it is scrapping the unit that monitors them?” @JeremyCorbyn added on X: “The government has spent the past two years turning a blind eye to war crimes in Gaza. Now, the Foreign Office unit that tracks Israeli breaches of international law has closed altogether. “This is the last stage of British complicity: pretend it never happened at all.” The decision to cut funding was the result of a restructuring spearheaded by Olly Robbins, the Foreign Office chief sacked last week for his decision not to tell Downing Street that Peter Mandelson had failed security vetting for the UN ambassador role. The Guardian reported that the head of the war crimes team in the government’s counter-terrorism unit urged the government to protect funding for the CIR, whose work is instrumental in helping the Met weigh up Israeli war crimes. The Guardian contacted the Foreign Office for comment.

@NicoleGohlke Your thoughts on your friends in Israel damaging 90% of the water and wastewater infrastructure in Gaza @YvetteCooperMP?

Israel hat fast 90% der Wasser- & Abwasserinfrastruktur im Gazastreifen systematisch zerstört oder beschädigt, wie Ärzte ohne Grenzen nachweist. Das ist kein Kollateralschaden - das ist Kollektivbestrafung der Zivilbevölkerung: der Entzug von Wasser als Kriegsmittel.

We all support Palestine, we all love Palestine. #FreePalestine

“The Israeli Foreign Minister sat around this table a couple of months ago to defend illegal Israeli settlements and claiming that Palestinians building in their own land was illegal. He negated the very existence of Palestine, claiming it was a pure invention, when our existence is undeniable. He added, since there is no Palestine, how could its land be occupied. He should ask his occupation forces, his military courts, his bulldozers and his armed settlers whose land they are stealing, whose lives they are shattering, if not Palestinian land and Palestinian lives."

No Chinese baby was ever born speaking Chinese. No German baby was ever born speaking German. No English baby was ever born speaking English. They had to listen to their parents to learn the language. No one is born racist, they're taught racism, stop teaching it. WE ARE ALL ONE.