Jane Dobson

I have called on my local councillors to make the @PSCupdates Pledge for Palestine! Ask yours to do the same: palestinecampaign.eaction.org.uk/CouncillorPled…

Onward.

The government is handing lucrative contracts to Palantir, a notorious US corporation providing AI and surveillance technology used as an essential part of Israel’s genocide in Gaza. TAKE ACTION: Write to Starmer to demand all contracts with Palantir are cancelled: palestinecampaign.eaction.org.uk/cancelpalantir…

The son of imprisoned Palestinian doctor Hussam Abu Safiya, the director of Gaza's Kamal Adwan Hospital, urges the free of the world to press for an end to the suffering of Palestinian hostages in the infamous Israeli detention camps.

Israel has killed at least 477 Palestinians and injured over 1,300 since the ceasefire took effect on October 10, carrying out nearly daily attacks since then.

Much love to Alex Pretti and Renee Good—but remember—ICE has killed 9 people in 2026. You know the names of the 2 white people they've killed. ICE has also killed a Black man named Keith Porter, a Cambodian named Parady La, and five Latinos named Heber Sanchaz Domínguez, Victor Manuel Diaz, Luis Beltran Yanez-Cruz, Luis Gustavo Nunez Caceres, and Geraldo Lunas Campos. ICE is on pace to kill more than 100 people this year. Abolish ICE. Impeach Noem. Prosecute those who committed these crimes.

🚨 National March for Palestine - Hands off Gaza ⏰ Saturday 31 Jan, 12PM 📍 Russell Square - Whitehall Israel’s genocide against the Palestinian people has not ended. Join us for the next march for Palestine to demand our government end its complicity in Israel’s violence.

Israel has begun bulldozing the UNRWA headquarters in occupied Jerusalem. When is the British government going to impose sanctions on Israel for its endless violations of international law?

It has been one year since Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, a Palestinian pediatrician and hospital director, was arbitrarily detained by Israeli forces. We must continue to fight for the unconditional and immediate release of Dr. Abu Safiyah and all other arbitrarily detained Palestinians. Read the full blog and take action now: bit.ly/45vdXhd

Nearly 10,000 truckloads of aid are sitting in Jordanian warehouses while Gaza suffers in the cold and rain. The UN and JHCO are ready to move food, shelter, and medicine—but Israel is blocking large-scale delivery. Families in Gaza can’t wait.

🚨Tell your MP: Support the hunger strikers Imprisoned Palestine activists are on hunger strike to demand their human rights. The govt refuses to meet with their families to hear their demands. They are in grave danger as their health declines Write here palestinecampaign.eaction.org.uk/urgentactionhu…

BREAKING!! Israel's unlawful occupation is bombing Gaza again! Dozens of civilians killed, including children. With most journalists killed/humanitarians blocked, Israel advances its genocidal violence UNNOTICED, aimed solely at forcing Palestinians out. The shame of the century.

Horrifying: As a result of Israeli bombardment, 35,000 children and adults in Gaza have lost their hearing, according to a field survey conducted by the Atfaluna Society for Deaf Children over the past two years.

Juliet Stevenson: "Child mortality has gone up by 75%.. children who get ill, children that could survive injury or disease are not surviving because they're so malnourished" Israel doesn't just murder Palestinians with bullets and bombs.

Health of Palestine Action hunger strikers deteriorating, supporters say theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/j…

I learned the word valley before I learned thirst. In school they told us a valley is a place where water gathers, where land bends to receive life. I believed this because children believe words when they are spoken calmly. They took us there once, to Wadi Gaza. The land did not argue with the word. It simply failed it. It lay open and dry, hollowed out, as if something vital had been removed with intention. There was no water, no trace of it, only weeds hardened by survival and thorns that grow where hope has already been disciplined into silence. Even the wind carried dust instead of moisture. We asked the teacher where the water was. It was not defiance. It was confusion, the quiet shock of realizing that reality did not match what we had memorized. She said dams had been built. That the water no longer came. I accepted this. One accepts what is presented as inevitable, especially when one is young and has no other framework for understanding the world. Years later, I heard farmers speak of the valley. I come from people who know land, and I recognized their tone immediately. It was not anger. Anger still hopes. This was resignation. They said the dryness ruined their crops. They said the soil no longer answered their labor. They said what once sustained life now exhausted it. No one raised their voice. Facts, repeated long enough, stop sounding like accusations. From then on, the valley existed only as a name. Yesterday, the weather turned. Wind tore at the tents where people live now, because there are no houses left to resist it. Fabric strained. Ropes tightened. Rain followed, heavy and cold. Inside the tents, blankets were pulled closer around children. Shoes were placed carefully, as if order still mattered. People stayed awake, listening, not for help, but for morning. Then the water came. Not gradually, not as rain returns to land, but all at once. The sound arrived first, low and spreading, then undeniable. The dams were opened. The water moved with force and direction. It did not go to fields. It went to what lay lowest, tents, paths, sleeping bodies. It entered fabric, then bedding, then skin. Blankets grew heavy. Clothes clung. Children were lifted first. Possessions were gathered, then abandoned. The ground softened and gave way. There was nowhere higher to stand. The valley, denied water until it ceased to be land, received it only when water had become harm. This must be stated precisely: the same water that was withheld for years was released in a single moment. Those who survived hunger now stood soaked. Those who endured bombardment now waded through flood. Those who fled destruction found the ground itself unreliable. First, the water was stopped. Then, the water was released. The timing was exact. We have learned many forms of suffering. Hunger. Displacement. Cold. Fear. And now drowning, on land that once begged for water. #WoundedGaza

UNICEF is deeply saddened by the preventable, tragic death of Ata Mai, 7, who drowned on 27 December during severe flooding in an improvised camp for internally displaced people in Sudaniyeh, northwest of Gaza City. He is the most recent child in Gaza to die due to the extreme winter conditions and lack of safe shelters. At least five other children have lost their lives in December after being exposed to such harsh conditions. Full statement by @UNICEFmena's Edouard Beigbeder: unicef.link/4slIcAH

And now aid agencies are being banned because they won’t release lists of staff member for Israel to target. The suffering of children in Gaza is a stain on all our consciences. How can we stand by? theguardian.com/global-develop…

A year has passed since Dr. Hossam Abu-Safeia was detained after his hospital was besieged, forcing him to leave his patients. Dr. Hossam suffers from rib fractures caused by attacks from the Israeli army and is held in inhumane conditions. Raise your voice for Dr. Hossam before it is too late.