England on track to suffer highest-ever heat deaths this summer, official data shows - Almost 3000 people died in May and June heatwaves that were supercharged by the fossil-fuel-driven climate crisis #climatecrisis Data from @ukhsa.bsky.social Story by me www.theguardian.com/environment/...

UK on track for record heat-related deaths this summer, official data shows

UKHSA estimates 2,877 fatalities during heatwaves in May and June, almost twice same period for 2025

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David Lammy's letter from the 1st of September versus the findings of the Human Right Council's independent commission published today. Are we going to continue clinging to that conclusion or actually fulfil our obligations under the Genocide Convention?

The threshold for a #famine according to the IPC is very high. To get there the human suffering must be immense. Only months of lies about humanitarian access to #Gaza & extreme cowardice in Western capitals made this possible.

Tom Fletcher@tomfletcherun.bsky.social · 12mo ago

My full statement on the Gaza Famine :

Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all: “If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.” Israel just killed him.

Michael Milshtein, the head of the Palestinian Studies Forum at Tel Aviv University tells Isaac Chotiner that the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has been “a total failure”. No, it is working just as intended—as a technology of genocide and humanitarian camouflage.

The New Yorker@newyorker.com · last yr.

As Palestinians continue to die of hunger, a former Israeli official speaks out about the government’s “total failure” to deliver aid in Gaza.

Wow—the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (named after Raphael Lemkin, a Holocaust survivor who coined the term genocide) says plainly: "No more discussions, meetings, reports, sessions, summits…IF YOU HAVE THE POWER, YOU MUST USE IT." "HISTORY WILL DETERMINE THE RECTITUDE OF YOUR ACTIONS."

Who among us has not mistaken The Atlantic for an active agent of US war making?

As suspected, but now documented: Israel changed its targeting rules, so "that the military could target rank-and-file militants as they were at home surrounded by relatives and neighbors . . . ." But those new rules violate international law. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/26/w...

Israel Loosened Its Rules to Bomb Hamas Fighters, Killing Many More Civilians

Surprised by Oct. 7 and fearful of another attack, Israel weakened safeguards meant to protect noncombatants, allowing officers to endanger up to 20 people in each airstrike. One of the deadliest bomb...

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Finally www.icc-cpi.int/news/situati...

Situation in the State of Palestine: ICC Pre-Trial Chamber I rejects the State of Israel’s challenges to jurisdiction and issues warrants of arrest for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant

Today, on 21 November 2024, Pre-Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court (‘Court’), in its composition for the Situation in the State of Palestine, unanimously issued two decisions rejectin...

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