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This photo is to commemorate my time working at home on an animated series in 2020.
In the early stages of production, it is essential to be on-set or in the Motion Capture Studio to capture the performance of the actors. After these initial stages of an animated series or film, it is easy to work from home for the remainder of a project.
All of this is made possible by working with a core team of competent responsible people with the same vision, and a good Producer to keep the communication flowing. There are some challenges, but I don't miss rush hour traffic. All the extra hours that you gain, actually leads to increased productivity.
By sharing project recourses in the cloud, and being able to log in to the render farms and servers when needed, finally allows one to work remotely.
A compilation featuring snippets of the projects done remotely:
vimeo.com/mheigan/mocap-reel-2020
The dogs also approve when I spend more time at home!
Martin
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Built in 1928 as a apartment/hotel this Hollywood landmark has had quite a sordid history throughout the years and also some notoriety for being the location for the back album cover of the Eagles "Hotel California"
Read all about the Lido and it's history here: www.lamag.com/longform/welcome-to-the-hotel-california/
FEATURED in SIDEWALK : Issue 227 ...
sidewalkmag.com/longform/witness-227-part-2#4HsoZO6ysSjrF...
- Canon 7D Mark2
- Canon 50mm f1.4
- Yongnuo YN 568ex Flash
- Yongnuo 622c Triggers ( 2 of those )
Editing / RAW Process:
- Adobe Lightroom CC
- NIK Collection - Analog EFX Pro 2
Strobist / Flash info:
- Yongnuo568ex on Tripod to Right at equal hight to skater...
interior, bald hills congregational chapel, inman valley, fleurieu peninsula, south australia
(drooping sheoak Allocasuarina verticillata)
A macro photograph of one of the 40 infrared Motion Analysis Raptor 4 Cameras that I use in the Motion Capture Studio.
Cameras and Photography are a part of my everyday life, and I use a wide range of interesting and unusual camera equipment at work and for my other interests. This includes everything from capturing the motion of Actors for 3D CGI and Animation, to extreme close-up Photomicrography with a CFI Microscope Objective Lens. and imaging the Universe in very specific (Narrowband) wavelengths of the Electromagnetic Spectrum of Light with a Scientific Camera (with the sensor cooled down to -30℃ / -22°F) on my Telescope.
Mocap TD & 3D VFX Showreel:
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Ink and Wash on Paper, 2013
~27.5 x 10.75"
Here's a close up of a piece I did for Eyra's current exhibition, "Long Form." It's an online exhibition that features illustrations unusually long or unusually tall. Featuring the work of Ana Benaroya, Andrea Rossi, Jessi Noonan, John Chae, Rand Renfrow, Seo Kim, Wai Wai Pang, and myself. It's on display through June 27th.
The original drawing can be viewed on Eyra's website, and is available for purchase. Prints available for purchase as well!
To check out "Long Form," visit:
Website: www.pelletfactory.com
Shop: shop.pelletfactory.com
Twitter: www.twitter.com/pelletfactory
Pinterest: www.pinterest.com/pelletfactory
Tumblr: pelletfactory.tumblr.com
Tracklist:
1. The Dodos – “Longform”
2. The School of Seven Bells – “For Kalaja Mari”
3. Derek Webb – “What Matters More”
4. Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse – “Just War” (feat. Gruff Rhys)
5. YACHT – “The Afterlife”
Been thinking…
Family and Friends have been encouraging me to start telling my long-form adventures ideas and multi-panel gags, video, and original musical creations on a paid platform.
Life has been so crazy, and one interruption after another in RL and SL work, have kept me from fully flushing out a predictable method to the madness for “deadlines” and such. Most of the images I post here, are shot very quickly and use very little touch-up in post. I just don’t have the patience on ideas that just sort of happen.
I’m always long-form sketching ideas in my head. Not just visual things. That’s where I’m willing to put crazy-effort and care in to the images, 3D builds, stories and music.
Over the years, I used to subscribe to various artists, writers, musicians, and actors’ paid sites all the time. I believe in supporting creators where ever and whenever I can.
I often write complete songs in my sleep, but have been very timid about returning to that, because it takes up even more time and effort than visual work for me. Back in the day, I used to rush to my notebook and/or multi-track recorder to get my sleep-songs down as fast as possible. Home-recording used to be a VERY loud process that I don’t wish upon anyone. But these days, I have all the appropriate hardware and software on, or attached to my Mac, for RL video-assignments I do.
The reasoning in my head ( and from others ) is that I should attempt to make a little income from all the silliness ( and sometimes sick ) I cough up all the time. Some ideas would be much easier for a ( hopeful ) audience to keep up with elsewhere. On occasion, some ideas may be too risqué for Flickr, without putting them behind a censored tag/blocker. I have nothing against erotica or porn obviously. But it’s never been the emphasis of my own Flickr. But some ideas may need those elements more seamlessly integrated into a story or gag, than single a image document on Flickr typically does.
Some story and thematic ideas would require specific 3D mesh builds, backdrops, avatars, and NPCs I can’t find anywhere in SL or the SL Marketplace. There are thousands of extremely superb designers and builders in SL. But some ideas I have would have me going broke ( hunting for even more props than I already have ) in attempting a cohesive look for certain types of stories. And I definitely cannot afford a sim, or the time to maintain it, to create ( possibly ) an ever-changing world in. Since I don’t have specific genres, locations or eras I prefer over another.
Like many people, growing up on 6-minute cartoon-shorts on local TV, may be a factor? Where the characters’ locations change from episode to episode, or sometimes minute to minute. My brain seems to do the same thing, all the time. Stream of consciousness stuff. Hahaha…
Anyway, I’m gearing up to finally create better stuff for the long neglected store. Not just clothing. But fully realized props that may end up previewed here and very much on a paid story-oriented platform.
All ten fingers and eleven toes crossed.
Mimi <3
At about 2.40 pm on Saturday 25 June, hundreds of activists staged a flash sit-down protest to close down London's Oxford Circus in protest at the UK continuing to provide diplomatic, military and logistical support to Israel during its ongoing genocidal assault on Gaza. [1]
Many of the activists had met up earlier at around noon at a Youth Demand (see YouthDemand.org) event at Victoria Embankment Gardens where they listened to some speeches before they dispersed in small groups, some followed by the police, but despite the challenging circumstances they seem to have been able to travel across central London presumably in different directions and regroup around Oxford Circus in a well planned and well coordinated protest.
Activists explained to onlookers that they had to carry out the action to try to prevent genocide. At one point a Palestinian shopper who came across the action by accident, spoke to the protesters, urging them not to give up.
Many refused to leave the road when threatened with arrest by the police.
According to the Morning Star, citing Youth Demand, 21 activists were arrested, but I don't know how many, if any, were subsequently charged.
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/21-arrested-after-blockin...
I took some video of the event which can be seen here -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-7xpmzEvRQ
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cdyKstOsFE&t
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOs_hQUo-z8
www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3YLFcmEBbQ
As of 24 June 2024, at least 37,626 Palestinians have been killed since 7 October, including more than 15,000 children. An estimated 10,000 are missing, of whom most are probably dead.
There is also an unknown number of additional deaths due to excess mortality from food shortages, disease and difficulties in obtaining essential medical care and medicines, while more than 86,000 Palestinians have been injured, many of them with life-changing injuries including many amputations. According to the United Nations, as of 23 June, more than half of all residential buildings have been destroyed or damaged but with some key infrastructure the destruction is even more devastating - including 130 ambulances, 267 places of worship, 80% of commercial facilities and 88% of school buildings damaged or destroyed.
www.aljazeera.com/news/longform/2023/10/9/israel-hamas-wa...
Additionally, as of February, the UN reported that some 83% of groundwater wells are no longer operational, adding that "all wastewater treatment systems are not working, and there is no access to clean water in the northern governorates."
news.un.org/en/story/2024/02/1146947
Also, according to the Committee to Protect journalists as of 25 June 2024, 108 journalists and media workers have been killed, 103 Palestinian, 2 Israeli and 3 Lebanese.
cpj.org/2024/06/journalist-casualties-in-the-israel-gaza-...
And as of 27 May, 8875 Palestinians have been arrested in the West Bank since 7 October 2023, many of them held in indefinite detention with no right to trial, while the Israeli military and settlers have escalated their attacks on Palestinians across the West Bank killing 518 Palestinians.
www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240527-8875-palestinians-arre...
Footnote
1. Re use of the term genocide. In March the UN special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese, referring to Israel's "unrelenting assault on occupied Gaza," stated that "there are reasonable grounds to believe that the threshold indicating the commission of the crime of genocide…has been met.”
news.un.org/en/story/2024/02/1146947
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At about 2.40 pm on Saturday 25 June, hundreds of activists staged a flash sit-down protest to close down London's Oxford Circus in protest at the UK continuing to provide diplomatic, military and logistical support to Israel during its ongoing genocidal assault on Gaza. [1]
Many of the activists had met up earlier at around noon at a Youth Demand (see YouthDemand.org) event at Victoria Embankment Gardens where they listened to some speeches before they dispersed in small groups, some followed by the police, but despite the challenging circumstances they seem to have been able to travel across central London presumably in different directions and regroup around Oxford Circus in a well planned and well coordinated protest.
Activists explained to onlookers that they had to carry out the action to try to prevent genocide. At one point a Palestinian shopper who came across the action by accident, spoke to the protesters, urging them not to give up.
Many refused to leave the road when threatened with arrest by the police.
According to the Morning Star, citing Youth Demand, 21 activists were arrested, but I don't know how many, if any, were subsequently charged.
ttps://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/21-arrested-after-blocking-oxford-circus-to-demand-an-arms-embargo-on-israel
I took some video of the event which can be seen here -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-7xpmzEvRQ
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cdyKstOsFE&t
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOs_hQUo-z8
www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3YLFcmEBbQ
As of 24 June 2024, at least 37,626 Palestinians have been killed since 7 October, including more than 15,000 children. An estimated 10,000 are missing, of whom most are probably dead.
There is also an unknown number of additional deaths due to excess mortality from food shortages, disease and difficulties in obtaining essential medical care and medicines, while more than 86,000 Palestinians have been injured, many of them with life-changing injuries including many amputations. According to the United Nations, as of 23 June, more than half of all residential buildings have been destroyed or damaged but with some key infrastructure the destruction is even more devastating - including 130 ambulances, 267 places of worship, 80% of commercial facilities and 88% of school buildings damaged or destroyed.
www.aljazeera.com/news/longform/2023/10/9/israel-hamas-wa...
Additionally, as of February, the UN reported that some 83% of groundwater wells are no longer operational, adding that "all wastewater treatment systems are not working, and there is no access to clean water in the northern governorates."
news.un.org/en/story/2024/02/1146947
Also, according to the Committee to Protect journalists as of 25 June 2024, 108 journalists and media workers have been killed, 103 Palestinian, 2 Israeli and 3 Lebanese.
cpj.org/2024/06/journalist-casualties-in-the-israel-gaza-...
And as of 27 May, 8875 Palestinians have been arrested in the West Bank since 7 October 2023, many of them held in indefinite detention with no right to trial, while the Israeli military and settlers have escalated their attacks on Palestinians across the West Bank killing 518 Palestinians.
www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240527-8875-palestinians-arre...
Footnote
1. Re use of the term genocide. In March the UN special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese, referring to Israel's "unrelenting assault on occupied Gaza," stated that "there are reasonable grounds to believe that the threshold indicating the commission of the crime of genocide…has been met.”
news.un.org/en/story/2024/02/1146947
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So honoured to have been taken for a ride along with The Peoples' Picnic yesterday evening, incredible to see all the hard work they do, wonderful to meet so many people with such powerful stories also.
We are going to try to make it a regular, that I ride along, to help build up media that in turn can be used to highlight both the tireless work that the Peoples' Picnic do, but also the endless wave of people that need both feeding and to appreciate, just once or twice a week, being talked to and treated like a fellow human being.
Challenging light (Always keeps you on your toes!) and roughly three minutes to photograph within before all the food was gone, people scattered and I happily entered into some illuminating conversations.
For me, if I come away from three minutes with anything, that's cool, but in the long term, for #longform, it's all about gaining & earning trust and that part is always my pleasure.
You can learn more about the Peoples' Picnic here : smalltowninertia.co.uk/market-town-the-peoples-picnic-cit...
On Saturday 25 May, University College London (UCL) students called on the support of other students and supporters across London to rally outside their Gaza pro-ceasefire encampment after the announcement that a pro-Israel rally would take place outside their main gate that afternoon.
One of the most frequently heard chants by students on this and other days was
"Disclose, Divest,
We will not stop,
We will not rest."
Among the crowd there were many students from the neighbouring School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) where an encampment had already been established about two weeks earlier.
SOAS students published a list of demands including, according to two metre high placard at their encampment -
1. Disclose - Full details of all university investments
2. Divest - from companies complicit in Israel's denial of Palestinian rights - [a list of specific companies followed which included Barclays Bank, Alphabet (Google/Alphabet) and Microsoft.]
3. Terminate - the university's banking and lending arrangement with Barclays
4. Boycott - Israeli academic institutions which are complicit in the violation of Palestinian human rights, including the University of Haifa
5. Commit - to supporting Palestinian education and the rebuilding of Gaza's Schools and Hospitals. Establish partnerships and exchanges with Palestinian institutions and academics. Increase scholarships for Palestinian students. Advocate for removal of restrictions for pro-Palestinian expression.
6. Guarantee - the right of students and staff to express solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for liberation including in research, speech and actions.
7. Advocate - for the UK government to implement an arms embargo on Israel, to call for an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire.
As of the date of posting (4 June 2024) at least 36,932 Palestinians have been killed since 7 October, including more than 15,000 children. An estimated 10,000 are missing, of whom most are probably dead. An unknown number of additional deaths due to excess mortality from food shortages, disease and difficulties in obtaining essential medical care and medicines. More than 82,000 Palestinians have been injured, many of them with life-changing injuries including many amputations. According to the United Nations, as of 2 June, more than half of all residential buildings have been destroyed or damaged but with some key infrastructure the destruction is even more devastating - including 80% of commercial facilities and 86% of school buildings damaged or destroyed. Additionally some 83% of groundwater wells are no longer operational.
ttps://www.aljazeera.com/news/longform/2023/10/9/israel-hamas-war-in-maps-and-charts-live-tracker
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Although this image is being posted on an attribution noncommercial share alike basis CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 DEED, the following organisations and publications listed on the link below are also welcome to reproduce it even if it is for commercial purposes. However please publish the image on the same attribution noncommercial share alike basis. For more info or if any other organisation, person or publication wishes to publish this photo on a commercial basis please email me at alisdare@gmail.com.
EMULSIVE: By way of a quick preface, regular readers and followers of EMULSIVE-related ramblings on Twitter will be familiar with our Interview and Photographer’s Daypack series should be familiar with Jonas Lundström. In fact, Jonas was also the man behind our very first #filmswap and one ...
Read on at: emulsive.org/reviews/film-reviews/kodak-film-reviews/film...
Filed under: #FilmReviews, #KodakFilms, #Reviews, #BlackAndWhiteNegativeFilm, #EastmanKodak, #EMULSIVE, #Filmswap, #ISO200, #JonasLundstrom, #Kodak, #KodakEASTMANDOUBLEX5222, #KodakPlusX5231, #KodakTriX400, #LongForm, #M42, #Minolta, #MinoltaXD, #MotionPictureFilmBlackAndWhite, #Pentax, #PentaxTakumar5518, #Rodinal
#shootfilmbenice #filmphotography # believeinfilm
In this article, I will go over the steps you need to take and the decisions you need to make to enter the wonderful world of film 35mm photography.
I recommend starting with the 35mm format as the cameras are cheap and plentiful and can deliver great results. They are small thus making it easy...
Read on at: emulsive.org/articles/how-to-take-the-leap-into-35mm-film...
Filed under: #Articles, #Darkroom, #DevelopingFilm, #How-to, #DanielNovak, #HowTo, #LongForm
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لو يذكر الزيتون غارسهُ، لصار الزيت دمعاً
محمود درويش
"If the olive trees know the hands that planted them, their oil would become tears." Mahmoud Darwish.
On Saturday 25 May, University College London (UCL) students called on the support of other students and supporters across London to rally outside their Gaza pro-ceasefire encampment after the announcement that a pro-Israel rally would take place outside their main gate that afternoon.
One of the most frequently heard chants by students on this and other days was
"Disclose, Divest,
We will not stop,
We will not rest."
Among the crowd there were many students from the neighbouring School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) where an encampment had already been established about two weeks earlier.
SOAS students earlier published a list of demands including, according to two metre high placard at their encampment -
1. Disclose - Full details of all university investments
2. Divest - from companies complicit in Israel's denial of Palestinian rights - [a list of specific companies followed which included Barclays Bank, Alphabet (Google/Alphabet) and Microsoft.]
3. Terminate - the university's banking and lending arrangement with Barclays
4. Boycott - Israeli academic institutions which are complicit in the violation of Palestinian human rights, including the University of Haifa
5. Commit - to supporting Palestinian education and the rebuilding of Gaza's Schools and Hospitals. Establish partnerships and exchanges with Palestinian institutions and academics. Increase scholarships for Palestinian students. Advocate for removal of restrictions for pro-Palestinian expression.
6. Guarantee - the right of students and staff to express solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for liberation including in research, speech and actions.
7. Advocate - for the UK government to implement an arms embargo on Israel, to call for an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire.
As of the date of posting (4 June 2024) at least 36,932 Palestinians have been killed since 7 October, including more than 15,000 children. An estimated 10,000 are missing, of whom most are probably dead. An unknown number of additional deaths due to excess mortality from food shortages, disease and difficulties in obtaining essential medical care and medicines. More than 82,000 Palestinians have been injured, many of them with life-changing injuries including many amputations. According to the United Nations, as of 2 June, more than half of all residential buildings have been destroyed or damaged but with some key infrastructure the destruction is even more devastating - including 80% of commercial facilities and 86% of school buildings damaged or destroyed. Additionally some 83% of groundwater wells are no longer operational.
ttps://www.aljazeera.com/news/longform/2023/10/9/israel-hamas-war-in-maps-and-charts-live-tracker
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Although this image is being posted on an attribution noncommercial share alike basis CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 DEED, the following organisations and publications listed on the link below are also welcome to reproduce it even if it is for commercial purposes. However please publish the image on the same attribution noncommercial share alike basis. For more info or if any other organisation, person or publication wishes to publish this photo on a commercial basis please email me at alisdare@gmail.com.
At about 2.40 pm on Saturday 25 June, hundreds of activists staged a flash sit-down protest to close down London's Oxford Circus in protest at the UK continuing to provide diplomatic, military and logistical support to Israel during its ongoing genocidal assault on Gaza. [1]
Many of the activists had met up earlier at around noon at a Youth Demand (see YouthDemand.org) event at Victoria Embankment Gardens where they listened to some speeches before they dispersed in small groups, some followed by the police, but despite the challenging circumstances they seem to have been able to travel across central London presumably in different directions and regroup around Oxford Circus in a well planned and well coordinated protest.
Activists explained to onlookers that they had to carry out the action to try to prevent genocide. At one point a Palestinian shopper who came across the action by accident, spoke to the protesters, urging them not to give up.
Many refused to leave the road when threatened with arrest by the police.
According to the Morning Star, citing Youth Demand, 21 activists were arrested, but I don't know how many, if any, were subsequently charged.
ttps://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/21-arrested-after-blocking-oxford-circus-to-demand-an-arms-embargo-on-israel
I took some video of the event which can be seen here -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-7xpmzEvRQ
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cdyKstOsFE&t
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOs_hQUo-z8
www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3YLFcmEBbQ
As of 24 June 2024, at least 37,626 Palestinians have been killed since 7 October, including more than 15,000 children. An estimated 10,000 are missing, of whom most are probably dead.
There is also an unknown number of additional deaths due to excess mortality from food shortages, disease and difficulties in obtaining essential medical care and medicines, while more than 86,000 Palestinians have been injured, many of them with life-changing injuries including many amputations. According to the United Nations, as of 23 June, more than half of all residential buildings have been destroyed or damaged but with some key infrastructure the destruction is even more devastating - including 130 ambulances, 267 places of worship, 80% of commercial facilities and 88% of school buildings damaged or destroyed.
www.aljazeera.com/news/longform/2023/10/9/israel-hamas-wa...
Additionally, as of February, the UN reported that some 83% of groundwater wells are no longer operational, adding that "all wastewater treatment systems are not working, and there is no access to clean water in the northern governorates."
news.un.org/en/story/2024/02/1146947
Also, according to the Committee to Protect journalists as of 25 June 2024, 108 journalists and media workers have been killed, 103 Palestinian, 2 Israeli and 3 Lebanese.
cpj.org/2024/06/journalist-casualties-in-the-israel-gaza-...
And as of 27 May, 8875 Palestinians have been arrested in the West Bank since 7 October 2023, many of them held in indefinite detention with no right to trial, while the Israeli military and settlers have escalated their attacks on Palestinians across the West Bank killing 518 Palestinians.
www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240527-8875-palestinians-arre...
Footnote
1. Re use of the term genocide. In March the UN special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese, referring to Israel's "unrelenting assault on occupied Gaza," stated that "there are reasonable grounds to believe that the threshold indicating the commission of the crime of genocide…has been met.”
news.un.org/en/story/2024/02/1146947
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On July 15, 1969, the day before the Apollo 11 blasted into space, photographer David Burnett turned his lens on the crowds gathered to watch the historic moment in Titusville, Florida.
David Burnett —Contact Press Images for TIME
On US 1 Highway, near Titusville, Florida
Throwback: last year in November I Travelled to #croatia to volunteer in a refugee camp And write a piece on it. Finally the longform will be published in print alongside with some photos. #reportage #photo #ride #fogg #christopherratter #instamood #winter #2015 #throwback
On Saturday 25 May, University College London (UCL) students called on the support of other students and supporters across London to rally outside their Gaza pro-ceasefire encampment after the announcement that a pro-Israel rally would take place outside their main gate that afternoon.
One of the most frequently heard chants by students on this and other days was
"Disclose, Divest,
We will not stop,
We will not rest."
Among the crowd there were many students from the neighbouring School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) where an encampment had already been established about two weeks earlier.
SOAS students earlier published a list of demands including, according to two metre high placard at their encampment -
1. Disclose - Full details of all university investments
2. Divest - from companies complicit in Israel's denial of Palestinian rights - [a list of specific companies followed which included Barclays Bank, Alphabet (Google/Alphabet) and Microsoft.]
3. Terminate - the university's banking and lending arrangement with Barclays
4. Boycott - Israeli academic institutions which are complicit in the violation of Palestinian human rights, including the University of Haifa
5. Commit - to supporting Palestinian education and the rebuilding of Gaza's Schools and Hospitals. Establish partnerships and exchanges with Palestinian institutions and academics. Increase scholarships for Palestinian students. Advocate for removal of restrictions for pro-Palestinian expression.
6. Guarantee - the right of students and staff to express solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for liberation including in research, speech and actions.
7. Advocate - for the UK government to implement an arms embargo on Israel, to call for an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire.
As of the date of posting (4 June 2024) at least 36,932 Palestinians have been killed since 7 October, including more than 15,000 children. An estimated 10,000 are missing, of whom most are probably dead. An unknown number of additional deaths due to excess mortality from food shortages, disease and difficulties in obtaining essential medical care and medicines. More than 82,000 Palestinians have been injured, many of them with life-changing injuries including many amputations. According to the United Nations, as of 2 June, more than half of all residential buildings have been destroyed or damaged but with some key infrastructure the destruction is even more devastating - including 80% of commercial facilities and 86% of school buildings damaged or destroyed. Additionally some 83% of groundwater wells are no longer operational.
ttps://www.aljazeera.com/news/longform/2023/10/9/israel-hamas-war-in-maps-and-charts-live-tracker
6,962 Palestinians
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On July 15, 1969, the day before the Apollo 11 blasted into space, photographer David Burnett turned his lens on the crowds gathered to watch the historic moment in Titusville, Florida.
David Burnett —Contact Press Images for TIME
A camper tries to get a better view of the Apollo 11 launch site.
On Saturday 8 June, the 15th national rally since October 2023 was organised by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign and other groups, and possibly as many as 175,000 protesters marched across central London from Russell Square to Whitehall and Parliament Square.
It is difficult to estimate the total number of demonstrators but I stopped on Horse Guards Avenue to photograph individuals and groups, and it took at least an hour for the majority of the marchers to pass.
At exactly the same time as the front of the march was arriving in Whitehall, Israel's armed forces conducted an assault on the Nuseirat Refugee camp in Gaza which resulted in the rescue of 4 hostages, but in which 274 Palestinians and one Israeli soldier were killed. One man who was in the market buying vegetables at the time the assault occurred, described to the BBC how "people's bodies were in pieces, scattered in the streets, and blood stained the walls."
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cw44ve90dppo
The attack lasted some 75 minutes and caused horrific devastation to the area. Karin Huster who worked with Doctors Without Borders at the nearby Al Aqsa hospital commented
"There is nothing, nothing at all that justifies what I saw today... Nothing. These children — the 3-month-old, the 7-year-old, the 12-year-old who died — the 25-year-old man, the 78-year-old woman, who all have horrendous injuries. Why did they deserve this? And why is the world looking on in silence? To what level of horror do we need to go before we finally do something, before we finally tell Israel that this is not acceptable?”
theintercept.com/2024/06/10/nuseirat-massacre-israel-host...
Despite the staggering death toll it was hailed as a "stunning triumph" by Britain's "Sunday Telegraph" while Senator Tom Cotton described it as as "wonderful day," praising the "truly heroic, well-executed mission" and declared he was "very dismayed" by the New York Times and Washington Post which had been critical of Israel regarding the number of civilians killed. [1]
Would we have seen such jubilant commentary if 274 British or American citizens had been slaughtered during an operation to rescue hostages?
Rather more soberly some Arab media described the operation as a "massacre."
www.al-akhbar.com/Palestine/382962/مذبحة-في-الم...
As of the date of posting (11 June 2024) at least 37,702 Palestinians have been killed since 7 October, including more than 15,000 children. An estimated 10,000 are missing, of whom most are probably dead.
There is also an unknown number of additional deaths due to excess mortality from food shortages, disease and difficulties in obtaining essential medical care and medicines, while more than 84,000 Palestinians have been injured, many of them with life-changing injuries including many amputations.
According to the United Nations, as of 9 June, more than half of all residential buildings have been destroyed or damaged but with some key infrastructure the destruction is even more devastating - including 130 ambulances, 267 places of worship, 80% of commercial facilities and 88% of school buildings damaged or destroyed. Additionally some 83% of groundwater wells are no longer operational.
www.aljazeera.com/news/longform/2023/10/9/israel-hamas-wa...
FOOTNOTE
1. Sources- re: the Daily Telegraph editorial and commentary by Senator Tom Cotton.
vinnews.com/2024/06/09/sunday-telegraph-praises-israels-s...
www.dailywire.com/news/tom-cotton-rips-pro-hamas-voices-c...
www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2024/06/08/we-must-back-israe...
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trichocereus bridgesii monstrose, clone A. for some reason they call it the "penis plant."
after monday's heavy rain i found these new cuttings with half an inch of standing water in their planter. yanked them from the soil and after a day in front of a fan they seem to be safely dry. i decided to try rooting them in perlite instead and was out of terra cotta, so... ball jars. appropriately.
At about 2.40 pm on Saturday 25 June, hundreds of activists staged a flash sit-down protest to close down London's Oxford Circus in protest at the UK continuing to provide diplomatic, military and logistical support to Israel during its ongoing genocidal assault on Gaza. [1]
Many of the activists had met up earlier at around noon at a Youth Demand (see YouthDemand.org) event at Victoria Embankment Gardens where they listened to some speeches before they dispersed in small groups, some followed by the police, but despite the challenging circumstances they seem to have been able to travel across central London presumably in different directions and regroup around Oxford Circus in a well planned and well coordinated protest.
Activists explained to onlookers that they had to carry out the action to try to prevent genocide. At one point a Palestinian shopper who came across the action by accident, spoke to the protesters, urging them not to give up.
Many refused to leave the road when threatened with arrest by the police.
According to the Morning Star, citing Youth Demand, 21 activists were arrested, but I don't know how many, if any, were subsequently charged.
ttps://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/21-arrested-after-blocking-oxford-circus-to-demand-an-arms-embargo-on-israel
I took some video of the event which can be seen here -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-7xpmzEvRQ
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cdyKstOsFE&t
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOs_hQUo-z8
www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3YLFcmEBbQ
As of 24 June 2024, at least 37,626 Palestinians have been killed since 7 October, including more than 15,000 children. An estimated 10,000 are missing, of whom most are probably dead.
There is also an unknown number of additional deaths due to excess mortality from food shortages, disease and difficulties in obtaining essential medical care and medicines, while more than 86,000 Palestinians have been injured, many of them with life-changing injuries including many amputations. According to the United Nations, as of 23 June, more than half of all residential buildings have been destroyed or damaged but with some key infrastructure the destruction is even more devastating - including 130 ambulances, 267 places of worship, 80% of commercial facilities and 88% of school buildings damaged or destroyed.
www.aljazeera.com/news/longform/2023/10/9/israel-hamas-wa...
Additionally, as of February, the UN reported that some 83% of groundwater wells are no longer operational, adding that "all wastewater treatment systems are not working, and there is no access to clean water in the northern governorates."
news.un.org/en/story/2024/02/1146947
Also, according to the Committee to Protect journalists as of 25 June 2024, 108 journalists and media workers have been killed, 103 Palestinian, 2 Israeli and 3 Lebanese.
cpj.org/2024/06/journalist-casualties-in-the-israel-gaza-...
And as of 27 May, 8875 Palestinians have been arrested in the West Bank since 7 October 2023, many of them held in indefinite detention with no right to trial, while the Israeli military and settlers have escalated their attacks on Palestinians across the West Bank killing 518 Palestinians.
www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240527-8875-palestinians-arre...
Footnote
1. Re use of the term genocide. In March the UN special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese, referring to Israel's "unrelenting assault on occupied Gaza," stated that "there are reasonable grounds to believe that the threshold indicating the commission of the crime of genocide…has been met.”
news.un.org/en/story/2024/02/1146947
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On Saturday 8 June, the 15th national rally since October 2023 was organised by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign and other groups, and possibly as many as 175,000 protesters marched across central London from Russell Square to Whitehall and Parliament Square.
It is difficult to estimate the total number of demonstrators but I stopped on Horse Guards Avenue to photograph individuals and groups, and it took at least an hour for the majority of the marchers to pass.
At exactly the same time as the front of the march was arriving in Whitehall, Israel's armed forces conducted an assault on the Nuseirat Refugee camp in Gaza which resulted in the rescue of 4 hostages, but in which 274 Palestinians and one Israeli soldier were killed. One man who was in the market buying vegetables at the time the assault occurred, described to the BBC how "people's bodies were in pieces, scattered in the streets, and blood stained the walls."
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cw44ve90dppo
The attack lasted some 75 minutes and caused horrific devastation to the area. Karin Huster who worked with Doctors Without Borders at the nearby Al Aqsa hospital commented
"There is nothing, nothing at all that justifies what I saw today... Nothing. These children — the 3-month-old, the 7-year-old, the 12-year-old who died — the 25-year-old man, the 78-year-old woman, who all have horrendous injuries. Why did they deserve this? And why is the world looking on in silence? To what level of horror do we need to go before we finally do something, before we finally tell Israel that this is not acceptable?”
theintercept.com/2024/06/10/nuseirat-massacre-israel-host...
Despite the staggering death toll it was hailed as a "stunning triumph" by Britain's "Sunday Telegraph" while Senator Tom Cotton described it as as "wonderful day," praising the "truly heroic, well-executed mission" and declared he was "very dismayed" by the New York Times and Washington Post which had been critical of Israel regarding the number of civilians killed. [1]
Would we have seen such jubilant commentary if 274 British or American citizens had been slaughtered during an operation to rescue hostages?
Rather more soberly some Arab media described the operation as a "massacre."
www.al-akhbar.com/Palestine/382962/مذبحة-في-الم...
As of the date of posting (11 June 2024) at least 37,702 Palestinians have been killed since 7 October, including more than 15,000 children. An estimated 10,000 are missing, of whom most are probably dead.
There is also an unknown number of additional deaths due to excess mortality from food shortages, disease and difficulties in obtaining essential medical care and medicines, while more than 84,000 Palestinians have been injured, many of them with life-changing injuries including many amputations.
According to the United Nations, as of 9 June, more than half of all residential buildings have been destroyed or damaged but with some key infrastructure the destruction is even more devastating - including 130 ambulances, 267 places of worship, 80% of commercial facilities and 88% of school buildings damaged or destroyed. Additionally some 83% of groundwater wells are no longer operational.
www.aljazeera.com/news/longform/2023/10/9/israel-hamas-wa...
FOOTNOTE
1. Sources- re: the Daily Telegraph editorial and commentary by Senator Tom Cotton.
vinnews.com/2024/06/09/sunday-telegraph-praises-israels-s...
www.dailywire.com/news/tom-cotton-rips-pro-hamas-voices-c...
www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2024/06/08/we-must-back-israe...
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On Saturday 25 May, University College London (UCL) students called on the support of other students and supporters across London to rally outside their Gaza pro-ceasefire encampment after the announcement that a pro-Israel rally would take place outside their main gate that afternoon.
One of the most frequently heard chants by students on this and other days was
"Disclose, Divest,
We will not stop,
We will not rest."
Among the crowd there were many students from the neighbouring School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) where an encampment had already been established about two weeks earlier.
SOAS students earlier published a list of demands including, according to two metre high placard at their encampment -
1. Disclose - Full details of all university investments
2. Divest - from companies complicit in Israel's denial of Palestinian rights - [a list of specific companies followed which included Barclays Bank, Alphabet (Google/Alphabet) and Microsoft.]
3. Terminate - the university's banking and lending arrangement with Barclays
4. Boycott - Israeli academic institutions which are complicit in the violation of Palestinian human rights, including the University of Haifa
5. Commit - to supporting Palestinian education and the rebuilding of Gaza's Schools and Hospitals. Establish partnerships and exchanges with Palestinian institutions and academics. Increase scholarships for Palestinian students. Advocate for removal of restrictions for pro-Palestinian expression.
6. Guarantee - the right of students and staff to express solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for liberation including in research, speech and actions.
7. Advocate - for the UK government to implement an arms embargo on Israel, to call for an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire.
As of the date of posting (4 June 2024) at least 36,932 Palestinians have been killed since 7 October, including more than 15,000 children. An estimated 10,000 are missing, of whom most are probably dead. An unknown number of additional deaths due to excess mortality from food shortages, disease and difficulties in obtaining essential medical care and medicines. More than 82,000 Palestinians have been injured, many of them with life-changing injuries including many amputations. According to the United Nations, as of 2 June, more than half of all residential buildings have been destroyed or damaged but with some key infrastructure the destruction is even more devastating - including 80% of commercial facilities and 86% of school buildings damaged or destroyed. Additionally some 83% of groundwater wells are no longer operational.
ttps://www.aljazeera.com/news/longform/2023/10/9/israel-hamas-war-in-maps-and-charts-live-tracker
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On Saturday 8 June, the 15th national rally since October 2023 was organised by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign and other groups, and possibly as many as 175,000 protesters marched across central London from Russell Square to Whitehall and Parliament Square.
It is difficult to estimate the total number of demonstrators but I stopped on Horse Guards Avenue to photograph individuals and groups, and it took at least an hour for the majority of the marchers to pass.
At exactly the same time as the front of the march was arriving in Whitehall, Israel's armed forces conducted an assault on the Nuseirat Refugee camp in Gaza which resulted in the rescue of 4 hostages, but in which 274 Palestinians and one Israeli soldier were killed. One man who was in the market buying vegetables at the time the assault occurred, described to the BBC how "people's bodies were in pieces, scattered in the streets, and blood stained the walls."
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cw44ve90dppo
The attack lasted some 75 minutes and caused horrific devastation to the area. Karin Huster who worked with Doctors Without Borders at the nearby Al Aqsa hospital commented
"There is nothing, nothing at all that justifies what I saw today... Nothing. These children — the 3-month-old, the 7-year-old, the 12-year-old who died — the 25-year-old man, the 78-year-old woman, who all have horrendous injuries. Why did they deserve this? And why is the world looking on in silence? To what level of horror do we need to go before we finally do something, before we finally tell Israel that this is not acceptable?”
theintercept.com/2024/06/10/nuseirat-massacre-israel-host...
Despite the staggering death toll it was hailed as a "stunning triumph" by Britain's "Sunday Telegraph" while Senator Tom Cotton described it as as "wonderful day," praising the "truly heroic, well-executed mission" and declared he was "very dismayed" by the New York Times and Washington Post which had been critical of Israel regarding the number of civilians killed. [1]
Would we have seen such jubilant commentary if 274 British or American citizens had been slaughtered during an operation to rescue hostages?
Rather more soberly some Arab media described the operation as a "massacre."
www.al-akhbar.com/Palestine/382962/مذبحة-في-الم...
As of the date of posting (11 June 2024) at least 37,702 Palestinians have been killed since 7 October, including more than 15,000 children. An estimated 10,000 are missing, of whom most are probably dead.
There is also an unknown number of additional deaths due to excess mortality from food shortages, disease and difficulties in obtaining essential medical care and medicines, while more than 84,000 Palestinians have been injured, many of them with life-changing injuries including many amputations.
According to the United Nations, as of 9 June, more than half of all residential buildings have been destroyed or damaged but with some key infrastructure the destruction is even more devastating - including 130 ambulances, 267 places of worship, 80% of commercial facilities and 88% of school buildings damaged or destroyed. Additionally some 83% of groundwater wells are no longer operational.
www.aljazeera.com/news/longform/2023/10/9/israel-hamas-wa...
FOOTNOTE
1. Sources- re: the Daily Telegraph editorial and commentary by Senator Tom Cotton.
vinnews.com/2024/06/09/sunday-telegraph-praises-israels-s...
www.dailywire.com/news/tom-cotton-rips-pro-hamas-voices-c...
www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2024/06/08/we-must-back-israe...
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On Saturday 8 June, the 15th national rally since October 2023 was organised by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign and other groups, and possibly as many as 175,000 protesters marched across central London from Russell Square to Whitehall and Parliament Square.
It is difficult to estimate the total number of demonstrators but I stopped on Horse Guards Avenue to photograph individuals and groups, and it took at least an hour for the majority of the marchers to pass.
At exactly the same time as the front of the march was arriving in Whitehall, Israel's armed forces conducted an assault on the Nuseirat Refugee camp in Gaza which resulted in the rescue of 4 hostages, but in which 274 Palestinians and one Israeli soldier were killed. One man who was in the market buying vegetables at the time the assault occurred, described to the BBC how "people's bodies were in pieces, scattered in the streets, and blood stained the walls."
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cw44ve90dppo
The attack lasted some 75 minutes and caused horrific devastation to the area. Karin Huster who worked with Doctors Without Borders at the nearby Al Aqsa hospital commented
"There is nothing, nothing at all that justifies what I saw today... Nothing. These children — the 3-month-old, the 7-year-old, the 12-year-old who died — the 25-year-old man, the 78-year-old woman, who all have horrendous injuries. Why did they deserve this? And why is the world looking on in silence? To what level of horror do we need to go before we finally do something, before we finally tell Israel that this is not acceptable?”
theintercept.com/2024/06/10/nuseirat-massacre-israel-host...
Despite the staggering death toll it was hailed as a "stunning triumph" by Britain's "Sunday Telegraph" while Senator Tom Cotton described it as as "wonderful day," praising the "truly heroic, well-executed mission" and declared he was "very dismayed" by the New York Times and Washington Post which had been critical of Israel regarding the number of civilians killed. [1]
Would we have seen such jubilant commentary if 274 British or American citizens had been slaughtered during an operation to rescue hostages?
Rather more soberly some Arab media described the operation as a "massacre."
www.al-akhbar.com/Palestine/382962/مذبحة-في-الم...
As of the date of posting (11 June 2024) at least 37,702 Palestinians have been killed since 7 October, including more than 15,000 children. An estimated 10,000 are missing, of whom most are probably dead.
There is also an unknown number of additional deaths due to excess mortality from food shortages, disease and difficulties in obtaining essential medical care and medicines, while more than 84,000 Palestinians have been injured, many of them with life-changing injuries including many amputations.
According to the United Nations, as of 9 June, more than half of all residential buildings have been destroyed or damaged but with some key infrastructure the destruction is even more devastating - including 130 ambulances, 267 places of worship, 80% of commercial facilities and 88% of school buildings damaged or destroyed. Additionally some 83% of groundwater wells are no longer operational.
www.aljazeera.com/news/longform/2023/10/9/israel-hamas-wa...
FOOTNOTE
1. Sources- re: the Daily Telegraph editorial and commentary by Senator Tom Cotton.
vinnews.com/2024/06/09/sunday-telegraph-praises-israels-s...
www.dailywire.com/news/tom-cotton-rips-pro-hamas-voices-c...
www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2024/06/08/we-must-back-israe...
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At about 2.40 pm on Saturday 25 June, hundreds of activists staged a flash sit-down protest to close down London's Oxford Circus in protest at the UK continuing to provide diplomatic, military and logistical support to Israel during its ongoing genocidal assault on Gaza. [1]
Many of the activists had met up earlier at around noon at a Youth Demand (see YouthDemand.org) event at Victoria Embankment Gardens where they listened to some speeches before they dispersed in small groups, some followed by the police, but despite the challenging circumstances they seem to have been able to travel across central London presumably in different directions and regroup around Oxford Circus in a well planned and well coordinated protest.
Activists explained to onlookers that they had to carry out the action to try to prevent genocide. At one point a Palestinian shopper who came across the action by accident, spoke to the protesters, urging them not to give up.
Many refused to leave the road when threatened with arrest by the police.
According to the Morning Star, citing Youth Demand, 21 activists were arrested, but I don't know how many, if any, were subsequently charged.
ttps://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/21-arrested-after-blocking-oxford-circus-to-demand-an-arms-embargo-on-israel
I took some video of the event which can be seen here -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-7xpmzEvRQ
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cdyKstOsFE&t
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOs_hQUo-z8
www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3YLFcmEBbQ
As of 24 June 2024, at least 37,626 Palestinians have been killed since 7 October, including more than 15,000 children. An estimated 10,000 are missing, of whom most are probably dead.
There is also an unknown number of additional deaths due to excess mortality from food shortages, disease and difficulties in obtaining essential medical care and medicines, while more than 86,000 Palestinians have been injured, many of them with life-changing injuries including many amputations. According to the United Nations, as of 23 June, more than half of all residential buildings have been destroyed or damaged but with some key infrastructure the destruction is even more devastating - including 130 ambulances, 267 places of worship, 80% of commercial facilities and 88% of school buildings damaged or destroyed.
www.aljazeera.com/news/longform/2023/10/9/israel-hamas-wa...
Additionally, as of February, the UN reported that some 83% of groundwater wells are no longer operational, adding that "all wastewater treatment systems are not working, and there is no access to clean water in the northern governorates."
news.un.org/en/story/2024/02/1146947
Also, according to the Committee to Protect journalists as of 25 June 2024, 108 journalists and media workers have been killed, 103 Palestinian, 2 Israeli and 3 Lebanese.
cpj.org/2024/06/journalist-casualties-in-the-israel-gaza-...
And as of 27 May, 8875 Palestinians have been arrested in the West Bank since 7 October 2023, many of them held in indefinite detention with no right to trial, while the Israeli military and settlers have escalated their attacks on Palestinians across the West Bank killing 518 Palestinians.
www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240527-8875-palestinians-arre...
Footnote
1. Re use of the term genocide. In March the UN special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese, referring to Israel's "unrelenting assault on occupied Gaza," stated that "there are reasonable grounds to believe that the threshold indicating the commission of the crime of genocide…has been met.”
news.un.org/en/story/2024/02/1146947
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An activist at Camden Town hold up a "Stop Arming Israel" placard just prior to a march to join up with other activists outside University College London (UCL)
On Saturday 25 May 2024, UCL students called on the support of other students and supporters across London to rally outside their Gaza pro-ceasefire encampment after the announcement that a pro-Israel rally would take place outside their main gate that afternoon.
One of the most frequently heard chants by students on this and other days was
"Disclose, Divest,
We will not stop,
We will not rest."
Among the crowd there were many students from the neighbouring School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) where an encampment had already been established about two weeks earlier.
SOAS students earlier published a list of demands including, according to two metre high placard at their encampment -
1. Disclose - Full details of all university investments
2. Divest - from companies complicit in Israel's denial of Palestinian rights - [a list of specific companies followed which included Barclays Bank, Alphabet (Google/Alphabet) and Microsoft.]
3. Terminate - the university's banking and lending arrangement with Barclays
4. Boycott - Israeli academic institutions which are complicit in the violation of Palestinian human rights, including the University of Haifa
5. Commit - to supporting Palestinian education and the rebuilding of Gaza's Schools and Hospitals. Establish partnerships and exchanges with Palestinian institutions and academics. Increase scholarships for Palestinian students. Advocate for removal of restrictions for pro-Palestinian expression.
6. Guarantee - the right of students and staff to express solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for liberation including in research, speech and actions.
7. Advocate - for the UK government to implement an arms embargo on Israel, to call for an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire.
As of the date of posting (4 June 2024) at least 36,932 Palestinians have been killed since 7 October, including more than 15,000 children. An estimated 10,000 are missing, of whom most are probably dead. An unknown number of additional deaths due to excess mortality from food shortages, disease and difficulties in obtaining essential medical care and medicines. More than 82,000 Palestinians have been injured, many of them with life-changing injuries including many amputations. According to the United Nations, as of 2 June, more than half of all residential buildings have been destroyed or damaged but with some key infrastructure the destruction is even more devastating - including 80% of commercial facilities and 86% of school buildings damaged or destroyed. Additionally some 83% of groundwater wells are no longer operational.
ttps://www.aljazeera.com/news/longform/2023/10/9/israel-hamas-war-in-maps-and-charts-live-tracker
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On Saturday 25 May, University College London (UCL) students called on the support of other students and supporters across London to rally outside their Gaza pro-ceasefire encampment after the announcement that a pro-Israel rally would take place outside their main gate that afternoon.
One of the most frequently heard chants by students on this and other days was
"Disclose, Divest,
We will not stop,
We will not rest."
Among the crowd there were many students from the neighbouring School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) where an encampment had already been established about two weeks earlier.
SOAS students earlier published a list of demands including, according to two metre high placard at their encampment -
1. Disclose - Full details of all university investments
2. Divest - from companies complicit in Israel's denial of Palestinian rights - [a list of specific companies followed which included Barclays Bank, Alphabet (Google/Alphabet) and Microsoft.]
3. Terminate - the university's banking and lending arrangement with Barclays
4. Boycott - Israeli academic institutions which are complicit in the violation of Palestinian human rights, including the University of Haifa
5. Commit - to supporting Palestinian education and the rebuilding of Gaza's Schools and Hospitals. Establish partnerships and exchanges with Palestinian institutions and academics. Increase scholarships for Palestinian students. Advocate for removal of restrictions for pro-Palestinian expression.
6. Guarantee - the right of students and staff to express solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for liberation including in research, speech and actions.
7. Advocate - for the UK government to implement an arms embargo on Israel, to call for an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire.
As of the date of posting (4 June 2024) at least 36,932 Palestinians have been killed since 7 October, including more than 15,000 children. An estimated 10,000 are missing, of whom most are probably dead. An unknown number of additional deaths due to excess mortality from food shortages, disease and difficulties in obtaining essential medical care and medicines. More than 82,000 Palestinians have been injured, many of them with life-changing injuries including many amputations. According to the United Nations, as of 2 June, more than half of all residential buildings have been destroyed or damaged but with some key infrastructure the destruction is even more devastating - including 80% of commercial facilities and 86% of school buildings damaged or destroyed. Additionally some 83% of groundwater wells are no longer operational.
ttps://www.aljazeera.com/news/longform/2023/10/9/israel-hamas-war-in-maps-and-charts-live-tracker
REGARDING THE "FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA" PLACARD
The placard near the bottom of the photo declares "From the River to the Sea Palestine will be Free." There has been a recent and I think dangerously misleading comment by the UK's Home Secretary, Suella Braverman, that this "should be understood as an expression of a violent desire to see Israel erased from the world."
www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/oct/10/people-supportin...
However my own understanding, which is shared by all the activists I have ever spoken with, is that this refers to one of the two alternative future states following any successful internationally backed and recognised peace negotiation, either a two-state solution along the 1967 green line along with possible minor modifications, or a single democratic state (from the River Jordan to the Mediterranean Sea) incorporating Israel, Gaza and the West Bank, where each and every adult would have an equal say in forming the government.
There is of course a third alternative, which is the one which Netenyahu and the current Israeli regime appear to be embarked on, which is the creation of a greater Israel stretching from the Mediterranean to the River Jordan. I referred above to Netenyahu's map showing such a greater Israel at the UN General Assembly.
According to the United Nations, there are already 250 subsidised Israeli settlements, occupied by 633,000 Israeli settlers, established in contravention of international law across much of the best land in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. There are also 650 Israeli military checkpoints restricting the right of travel for Palestinians between the main towns in the West Bank, and currently all travel through any of these checkpoints for Palestinians is being denied.
www.ochaopt.org/sites/default/files/westbank_a0_25_06_202...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMIZTiN-TrE
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On Saturday 8 June, the 15th national rally since October 2023 was organised by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign and other groups, and possibly as many as 175,000 protesters marched across central London from Russell Square to Whitehall and Parliament Square.
It is difficult to estimate the total number of demonstrators but I stopped on Horse Guards Avenue to photograph individuals and groups, and it took at least an hour for the majority of the marchers to pass.
At exactly the same time as the front of the march was arriving in Whitehall, Israel's armed forces conducted an assault on the Nuseirat Refugee camp in Gaza which resulted in the rescue of 4 hostages, but in which 274 Palestinians and one Israeli soldier were killed. One man who was in the market buying vegetables at the time the assault occurred, described to the BBC how "people's bodies were in pieces, scattered in the streets, and blood stained the walls."
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cw44ve90dppo
The attack lasted some 75 minutes and caused horrific devastation to the area. Karin Huster who worked with Doctors Without Borders at the nearby Al Aqsa hospital commented
"There is nothing, nothing at all that justifies what I saw today... Nothing. These children — the 3-month-old, the 7-year-old, the 12-year-old who died — the 25-year-old man, the 78-year-old woman, who all have horrendous injuries. Why did they deserve this? And why is the world looking on in silence? To what level of horror do we need to go before we finally do something, before we finally tell Israel that this is not acceptable?”
theintercept.com/2024/06/10/nuseirat-massacre-israel-host...
Despite the staggering death toll it was hailed as a "stunning triumph" by Britain's "Sunday Telegraph" while Senator Tom Cotton described it as as "wonderful day," praising the "truly heroic, well-executed mission" and declared he was "very dismayed" by the New York Times and Washington Post which had been critical of Israel regarding the number of civilians killed. [1]
Would we have seen such jubilant commentary if 274 British or American citizens had been slaughtered during an operation to rescue hostages?
Rather more soberly some Arab media described the operation as a "massacre."
www.al-akhbar.com/Palestine/382962/مذبحة-في-الم...
As of the date of posting (11 June 2024) at least 37,702 Palestinians have been killed since 7 October, including more than 15,000 children. An estimated 10,000 are missing, of whom most are probably dead.
There is also an unknown number of additional deaths due to excess mortality from food shortages, disease and difficulties in obtaining essential medical care and medicines, while more than 84,000 Palestinians have been injured, many of them with life-changing injuries including many amputations.
According to the United Nations, as of 9 June, more than half of all residential buildings have been destroyed or damaged but with some key infrastructure the destruction is even more devastating - including 130 ambulances, 267 places of worship, 80% of commercial facilities and 88% of school buildings damaged or destroyed. Additionally some 83% of groundwater wells are no longer operational.
www.aljazeera.com/news/longform/2023/10/9/israel-hamas-wa...
FOOTNOTE
1. Sources- re: the Daily Telegraph editorial and commentary by Senator Tom Cotton.
vinnews.com/2024/06/09/sunday-telegraph-praises-israels-s...
www.dailywire.com/news/tom-cotton-rips-pro-hamas-voices-c...
www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2024/06/08/we-must-back-israe...
On Saturday 8 June, the 15th national rally since October 2023 was organised by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign and other groups, and possibly as many as 175,000 protesters marched across central London from Russell Square to Whitehall and Parliament Square.
It is difficult to estimate the total number of demonstrators but I stopped on Horse Guards Avenue to photograph individuals and groups, and it took at least an hour for the majority of the marchers to pass.
At exactly the same time as the front of the march was arriving in Whitehall, Israel's armed forces conducted an assault on the Nuseirat Refugee camp in Gaza which resulted in the rescue of 4 hostages, but in which 274 Palestinians and one Israeli soldier were killed. One man who was in the market buying vegetables at the time the assault occurred, described to the BBC how "people's bodies were in pieces, scattered in the streets, and blood stained the walls."
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cw44ve90dppo
The attack lasted some 75 minutes and caused horrific devastation to the area. Karin Huster who worked with Doctors Without Borders at the nearby Al Aqsa hospital commented
"There is nothing, nothing at all that justifies what I saw today... Nothing. These children — the 3-month-old, the 7-year-old, the 12-year-old who died — the 25-year-old man, the 78-year-old woman, who all have horrendous injuries. Why did they deserve this? And why is the world looking on in silence? To what level of horror do we need to go before we finally do something, before we finally tell Israel that this is not acceptable?”
theintercept.com/2024/06/10/nuseirat-massacre-israel-host...
Despite the staggering death toll it was hailed as a "stunning triumph" by Britain's "Sunday Telegraph" while Senator Tom Cotton described it as as "wonderful day," praising the "truly heroic, well-executed mission" and declared he was "very dismayed" by the New York Times and Washington Post which had been critical of Israel regarding the number of civilians killed. [1]
Would we have seen such jubilant commentary if 274 British or American citizens had been slaughtered during an operation to rescue hostages?
Rather more soberly some Arab media described the operation as a "massacre."
www.al-akhbar.com/Palestine/382962/مذبحة-في-الم...
As of the date of posting (11 June 2024) at least 37,702 Palestinians have been killed since 7 October, including more than 15,000 children. An estimated 10,000 are missing, of whom most are probably dead.
There is also an unknown number of additional deaths due to excess mortality from food shortages, disease and difficulties in obtaining essential medical care and medicines, while more than 84,000 Palestinians have been injured, many of them with life-changing injuries including many amputations.
According to the United Nations, as of 9 June, more than half of all residential buildings have been destroyed or damaged but with some key infrastructure the destruction is even more devastating - including 130 ambulances, 267 places of worship, 80% of commercial facilities and 88% of school buildings damaged or destroyed. Additionally some 83% of groundwater wells are no longer operational.
www.aljazeera.com/news/longform/2023/10/9/israel-hamas-wa...
FOOTNOTE
1. Sources- re: the Daily Telegraph editorial and commentary by Senator Tom Cotton.
vinnews.com/2024/06/09/sunday-telegraph-praises-israels-s...
www.dailywire.com/news/tom-cotton-rips-pro-hamas-voices-c...
www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2024/06/08/we-must-back-israe...
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On Saturday 8 June, the 15th national rally since October 2023 was organised by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign and other groups, and possibly as many as 175,000 protesters marched across central London from Russell Square to Whitehall and Parliament Square.
It is difficult to estimate the total number of demonstrators but I stopped on Horse Guards Avenue to photograph individuals and groups, and it took at least an hour for the majority of the marchers to pass.
At exactly the same time as the front of the march was arriving in Whitehall, Israel's armed forces conducted an assault on the Nuseirat Refugee camp in Gaza which resulted in the rescue of 4 hostages, but in which 274 Palestinians and one Israeli soldier were killed. One man who was in the market buying vegetables at the time the assault occurred, described to the BBC how "people's bodies were in pieces, scattered in the streets, and blood stained the walls."
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cw44ve90dppo
The attack lasted some 75 minutes and caused horrific devastation to the area. Karin Huster who worked with Doctors Without Borders at the nearby Al Aqsa hospital commented
"There is nothing, nothing at all that justifies what I saw today... Nothing. These children — the 3-month-old, the 7-year-old, the 12-year-old who died — the 25-year-old man, the 78-year-old woman, who all have horrendous injuries. Why did they deserve this? And why is the world looking on in silence? To what level of horror do we need to go before we finally do something, before we finally tell Israel that this is not acceptable?”
theintercept.com/2024/06/10/nuseirat-massacre-israel-host...
Despite the staggering death toll it was hailed as a "stunning triumph" by Britain's "Sunday Telegraph" while Senator Tom Cotton described it as as "wonderful day," praising the "truly heroic, well-executed mission" and declared he was "very dismayed" by the New York Times and Washington Post which had been critical of Israel regarding the number of civilians killed. [1]
Would we have seen such jubilant commentary if 274 British or American citizens had been slaughtered during an operation to rescue hostages?
Rather more soberly some Arab media described the operation as a "massacre."
www.al-akhbar.com/Palestine/382962/مذبحة-في-الم...
As of the date of posting (11 June 2024) at least 37,702 Palestinians have been killed since 7 October, including more than 15,000 children. An estimated 10,000 are missing, of whom most are probably dead.
There is also an unknown number of additional deaths due to excess mortality from food shortages, disease and difficulties in obtaining essential medical care and medicines, while more than 84,000 Palestinians have been injured, many of them with life-changing injuries including many amputations.
According to the United Nations, as of 9 June, more than half of all residential buildings have been destroyed or damaged but with some key infrastructure the destruction is even more devastating - including 130 ambulances, 267 places of worship, 80% of commercial facilities and 88% of school buildings damaged or destroyed. Additionally some 83% of groundwater wells are no longer operational.
www.aljazeera.com/news/longform/2023/10/9/israel-hamas-wa...
FOOTNOTE
1. Sources- re: the Daily Telegraph editorial and commentary by Senator Tom Cotton.
vinnews.com/2024/06/09/sunday-telegraph-praises-israels-s...
www.dailywire.com/news/tom-cotton-rips-pro-hamas-voices-c...
www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2024/06/08/we-must-back-israe...
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On Saturday 25 May, University College London (UCL) students called on the support of other students and supporters across London to rally outside their Gaza pro-ceasefire encampment after the announcement that a pro-Israel rally would take place outside their main gate that afternoon.
One of the most frequently heard chants by students on this and other days was
"Disclose, Divest,
We will not stop,
We will not rest."
Among the crowd there were many students from the neighbouring School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) where an encampment had already been established about two weeks earlier.
SOAS students earlier published a list of demands including, according to two metre high placard at their encampment -
1. Disclose - Full details of all university investments
2. Divest - from companies complicit in Israel's denial of Palestinian rights - [a list of specific companies followed which included Barclays Bank, Alphabet (Google/Alphabet) and Microsoft.]
3. Terminate - the university's banking and lending arrangement with Barclays
4. Boycott - Israeli academic institutions which are complicit in the violation of Palestinian human rights, including the University of Haifa
5. Commit - to supporting Palestinian education and the rebuilding of Gaza's Schools and Hospitals. Establish partnerships and exchanges with Palestinian institutions and academics. Increase scholarships for Palestinian students. Advocate for removal of restrictions for pro-Palestinian expression.
6. Guarantee - the right of students and staff to express solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for liberation including in research, speech and actions.
7. Advocate - for the UK government to implement an arms embargo on Israel, to call for an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire.
As of the date of posting (4 June 2024) at least 36,932 Palestinians have been killed since 7 October, including more than 15,000 children. An estimated 10,000 are missing, of whom most are probably dead. An unknown number of additional deaths due to excess mortality from food shortages, disease and difficulties in obtaining essential medical care and medicines. More than 82,000 Palestinians have been injured, many of them with life-changing injuries including many amputations. According to the United Nations, as of 2 June, more than half of all residential buildings have been destroyed or damaged but with some key infrastructure the destruction is even more devastating - including 80% of commercial facilities and 86% of school buildings damaged or destroyed. Additionally some 83% of groundwater wells are no longer operational.
ttps://www.aljazeera.com/news/longform/2023/10/9/israel-hamas-war-in-maps-and-charts-live-tracker
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On Saturday 25 May, University College London (UCL) students called on the support of other students and supporters across London to rally outside their Gaza pro-ceasefire encampment after the announcement that a pro-Israel rally would take place outside their main gate that afternoon.
One of the most frequently heard chants by students on this and other days was
"Disclose, Divest,
We will not stop,
We will not rest."
Among the crowd there were many students from the neighbouring School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) where an encampment had already been established about two weeks earlier.
SOAS students earlier published a list of demands including, according to two metre high placard at their encampment -
1. Disclose - Full details of all university investments
2. Divest - from companies complicit in Israel's denial of Palestinian rights - [a list of specific companies followed which included Barclays Bank, Alphabet (Google/Alphabet) and Microsoft.]
3. Terminate - the university's banking and lending arrangement with Barclays
4. Boycott - Israeli academic institutions which are complicit in the violation of Palestinian human rights, including the University of Haifa
5. Commit - to supporting Palestinian education and the rebuilding of Gaza's Schools and Hospitals. Establish partnerships and exchanges with Palestinian institutions and academics. Increase scholarships for Palestinian students. Advocate for removal of restrictions for pro-Palestinian expression.
6. Guarantee - the right of students and staff to express solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for liberation including in research, speech and actions.
7. Advocate - for the UK government to implement an arms embargo on Israel, to call for an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire.
As of the date of posting (4 June 2024) at least 36,932 Palestinians have been killed since 7 October, including more than 15,000 children. An estimated 10,000 are missing, of whom most are probably dead. An unknown number of additional deaths due to excess mortality from food shortages, disease and difficulties in obtaining essential medical care and medicines. More than 82,000 Palestinians have been injured, many of them with life-changing injuries including many amputations. According to the United Nations, as of 2 June, more than half of all residential buildings have been destroyed or damaged but with some key infrastructure the destruction is even more devastating - including 80% of commercial facilities and 86% of school buildings damaged or destroyed. Additionally some 83% of groundwater wells are no longer operational.
ttps://www.aljazeera.com/news/longform/2023/10/9/israel-hamas-war-in-maps-and-charts-live-tracker
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On Saturday 8 June, the 15th national rally since October 2023 was organised by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign and other groups, and possibly as many as 175,000 protesters marched across central London from Russell Square to Whitehall and Parliament Square.
It is difficult to estimate the total number of demonstrators but I stopped on Horse Guards Avenue to photograph individuals and groups, and it took at least an hour for the majority of the marchers to pass.
At exactly the same time as the front of the march was arriving in Whitehall, Israel's armed forces conducted an assault on the Nuseirat Refugee camp in Gaza which resulted in the rescue of 4 hostages, but in which 274 Palestinians and one Israeli soldier were killed. One man who was in the market buying vegetables at the time the assault occurred, described to the BBC how "people's bodies were in pieces, scattered in the streets, and blood stained the walls."
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cw44ve90dppo
The attack lasted some 75 minutes and caused horrific devastation to the area. Karin Huster who worked with Doctors Without Borders at the nearby Al Aqsa hospital commented
"There is nothing, nothing at all that justifies what I saw today... Nothing. These children — the 3-month-old, the 7-year-old, the 12-year-old who died — the 25-year-old man, the 78-year-old woman, who all have horrendous injuries. Why did they deserve this? And why is the world looking on in silence? To what level of horror do we need to go before we finally do something, before we finally tell Israel that this is not acceptable?”
theintercept.com/2024/06/10/nuseirat-massacre-israel-host...
Despite the staggering death toll it was hailed as a "stunning triumph" by Britain's "Sunday Telegraph" while Senator Tom Cotton described it as as "wonderful day," praising the "truly heroic, well-executed mission" and declared he was "very dismayed" by the New York Times and Washington Post which had been critical of Israel regarding the number of civilians killed. [1]
Would we have seen such jubilant commentary if 274 British or American citizens had been slaughtered during an operation to rescue hostages?
Rather more soberly some Arab media described the operation as a "massacre."
www.al-akhbar.com/Palestine/382962/مذبحة-في-الم...
As of the date of posting (11 June 2024) at least 37,702 Palestinians have been killed since 7 October, including more than 15,000 children. An estimated 10,000 are missing, of whom most are probably dead.
There is also an unknown number of additional deaths due to excess mortality from food shortages, disease and difficulties in obtaining essential medical care and medicines, while more than 84,000 Palestinians have been injured, many of them with life-changing injuries including many amputations.
According to the United Nations, as of 9 June, more than half of all residential buildings have been destroyed or damaged but with some key infrastructure the destruction is even more devastating - including 130 ambulances, 267 places of worship, 80% of commercial facilities and 88% of school buildings damaged or destroyed. Additionally some 83% of groundwater wells are no longer operational.
www.aljazeera.com/news/longform/2023/10/9/israel-hamas-wa...
FOOTNOTE
1. Sources- re: the Daily Telegraph editorial and commentary by Senator Tom Cotton.
vinnews.com/2024/06/09/sunday-telegraph-praises-israels-s...
www.dailywire.com/news/tom-cotton-rips-pro-hamas-voices-c...
www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2024/06/08/we-must-back-israe...
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On July 15, 1969, the day before the Apollo 11 blasted into space, photographer David Burnett turned his lens on the crowds gathered to watch the historic moment in Titusville, Florida.
David Burnett —Contact Press Images for TIME
Families camping in Titusville, Florida keep a close watch on the Apollo 11 launch site.
At about 2.40 pm on Saturday 25 June, hundreds of activists staged a flash sit-down protest to close down London's Oxford Circus in protest at the UK continuing to provide diplomatic, military and logistical support to Israel during its ongoing genocidal assault on Gaza. [1]
Many of the activists had met up earlier at around noon at a Youth Demand (see YouthDemand.org) event at Victoria Embankment Gardens where they listened to some speeches before they dispersed in small groups, some followed by the police, but despite the challenging circumstances they seem to have been able to travel across central London presumably in different directions and regroup around Oxford Circus in a well planned and well coordinated protest.
Activists explained to onlookers that they had to carry out the action to try to prevent genocide. At one point a Palestinian shopper who came across the action by accident, spoke to the protesters, urging them not to give up.
Many refused to leave the road when threatened with arrest by the police.
According to the Morning Star, citing Youth Demand, 21 activists were arrested, but I don't know how many, if any, were subsequently charged.
ttps://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/21-arrested-after-blocking-oxford-circus-to-demand-an-arms-embargo-on-israel
I took some video of the event which can be seen here -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-7xpmzEvRQ
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cdyKstOsFE&t
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOs_hQUo-z8
www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3YLFcmEBbQ
As of 24 June 2024, at least 37,626 Palestinians have been killed since 7 October, including more than 15,000 children. An estimated 10,000 are missing, of whom most are probably dead.
There is also an unknown number of additional deaths due to excess mortality from food shortages, disease and difficulties in obtaining essential medical care and medicines, while more than 86,000 Palestinians have been injured, many of them with life-changing injuries including many amputations. According to the United Nations, as of 23 June, more than half of all residential buildings have been destroyed or damaged but with some key infrastructure the destruction is even more devastating - including 130 ambulances, 267 places of worship, 80% of commercial facilities and 88% of school buildings damaged or destroyed.
www.aljazeera.com/news/longform/2023/10/9/israel-hamas-wa...
Additionally, as of February, the UN reported that some 83% of groundwater wells are no longer operational, adding that "all wastewater treatment systems are not working, and there is no access to clean water in the northern governorates."
news.un.org/en/story/2024/02/1146947
Also, according to the Committee to Protect journalists as of 25 June 2024, 108 journalists and media workers have been killed, 103 Palestinian, 2 Israeli and 3 Lebanese.
cpj.org/2024/06/journalist-casualties-in-the-israel-gaza-...
And as of 27 May, 8875 Palestinians have been arrested in the West Bank since 7 October 2023, many of them held in indefinite detention with no right to trial, while the Israeli military and settlers have escalated their attacks on Palestinians across the West Bank killing 518 Palestinians.
www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240527-8875-palestinians-arre...
Footnote
1. Re use of the term genocide. In March the UN special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese, referring to Israel's "unrelenting assault on occupied Gaza," stated that "there are reasonable grounds to believe that the threshold indicating the commission of the crime of genocide…has been met.”
news.un.org/en/story/2024/02/1146947
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At about 2.40 pm on Saturday 25 June, hundreds of activists staged a flash sit-down protest to close down London's Oxford Circus in protest at the UK continuing to provide diplomatic, military and logistical support to Israel during its ongoing genocidal assault on Gaza. [1]
Many of the activists had met up earlier at around noon at a Youth Demand (see YouthDemand.org) event at Victoria Embankment Gardens where they listened to some speeches before they dispersed in small groups, some followed by the police, but despite the challenging circumstances they seem to have been able to travel across central London presumably in different directions and regroup around Oxford Circus in a well planned and well coordinated protest.
Activists explained to onlookers that they had to carry out the action to try to prevent genocide. At one point a Palestinian shopper who came across the action by accident, spoke to the protesters, urging them not to give up.
Many refused to leave the road when threatened with arrest by the police.
According to the Morning Star, citing Youth Demand, 21 activists were arrested, but I don't know how many, if any, were subsequently charged.
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/21-arrested-after-blockin...
I took some video of the event which can be seen here -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-7xpmzEvRQ
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cdyKstOsFE&t
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOs_hQUo-z8
www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3YLFcmEBbQ
As of 24 June 2024, at least 37,626 Palestinians have been killed since 7 October, including more than 15,000 children. An estimated 10,000 are missing, of whom most are probably dead.
There is also an unknown number of additional deaths due to excess mortality from food shortages, disease and difficulties in obtaining essential medical care and medicines, while more than 86,000 Palestinians have been injured, many of them with life-changing injuries including many amputations. According to the United Nations, as of 23 June, more than half of all residential buildings have been destroyed or damaged but with some key infrastructure the destruction is even more devastating - including 130 ambulances, 267 places of worship, 80% of commercial facilities and 88% of school buildings damaged or destroyed.
www.aljazeera.com/news/longform/2023/10/9/israel-hamas-wa...
Additionally, as of February, the UN reported that some 83% of groundwater wells are no longer operational, adding that "all wastewater treatment systems are not working, and there is no access to clean water in the northern governorates."
news.un.org/en/story/2024/02/1146947
Also, according to the Committee to Protect journalists as of 25 June 2024, 108 journalists and media workers have been killed, 103 Palestinian, 2 Israeli and 3 Lebanese.
cpj.org/2024/06/journalist-casualties-in-the-israel-gaza-...
And as of 27 May, 8875 Palestinians have been arrested in the West Bank since 7 October 2023, many of them held in indefinite detention with no right to trial, while the Israeli military and settlers have escalated their attacks on Palestinians across the West Bank killing 518 Palestinians.
www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240527-8875-palestinians-arre...
Footnote
1. Re use of the term genocide. In March the UN special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese, referring to Israel's "unrelenting assault on occupied Gaza," stated that "there are reasonable grounds to believe that the threshold indicating the commission of the crime of genocide…has been met.”
news.un.org/en/story/2024/02/1146947
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At about 2.40 pm on Saturday 25 June, hundreds of activists staged a flash sit-down protest to close down London's Oxford Circus in protest at the UK continuing to provide diplomatic, military and logistical support to Israel during its ongoing genocidal assault on Gaza. [1]
Many of the activists had met up earlier at around noon at a Youth Demand (see YouthDemand.org) event at Victoria Embankment Gardens where they listened to some speeches before they dispersed in small groups, some followed by the police, but despite the challenging circumstances they seem to have been able to travel across central London presumably in different directions and regroup around Oxford Circus in a well planned and well coordinated protest.
Activists explained to onlookers that they had to carry out the action to try to prevent genocide. At one point a Palestinian shopper who came across the action by accident, spoke to the protesters, urging them not to give up.
Many refused to leave the road when threatened with arrest by the police.
According to the Morning Star, citing Youth Demand, 21 activists were arrested, but I don't know how many, if any, were subsequently charged.
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/21-arrested-after-blockin...
I took some video of the event which can be seen here -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-7xpmzEvRQ
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cdyKstOsFE&t
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOs_hQUo-z8
www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3YLFcmEBbQ
As of 24 June 2024, at least 37,626 Palestinians have been killed since 7 October, including more than 15,000 children. An estimated 10,000 are missing, of whom most are probably dead.
There is also an unknown number of additional deaths due to excess mortality from food shortages, disease and difficulties in obtaining essential medical care and medicines, while more than 86,000 Palestinians have been injured, many of them with life-changing injuries including many amputations. According to the United Nations, as of 23 June, more than half of all residential buildings have been destroyed or damaged but with some key infrastructure the destruction is even more devastating - including 130 ambulances, 267 places of worship, 80% of commercial facilities and 88% of school buildings damaged or destroyed.
www.aljazeera.com/news/longform/2023/10/9/israel-hamas-wa...
Additionally, as of February, the UN reported that some 83% of groundwater wells are no longer operational, adding that "all wastewater treatment systems are not working, and there is no access to clean water in the northern governorates."
news.un.org/en/story/2024/02/1146947
Also, according to the Committee to Protect journalists as of 25 June 2024, 108 journalists and media workers have been killed, 103 Palestinian, 2 Israeli and 3 Lebanese.
cpj.org/2024/06/journalist-casualties-in-the-israel-gaza-...
And as of 27 May, 8875 Palestinians have been arrested in the West Bank since 7 October 2023, many of them held in indefinite detention with no right to trial, while the Israeli military and settlers have escalated their attacks on Palestinians across the West Bank killing 518 Palestinians.
www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240527-8875-palestinians-arre...
Footnote
1. Re use of the term genocide. In March the UN special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese, referring to Israel's "unrelenting assault on occupied Gaza," stated that "there are reasonable grounds to believe that the threshold indicating the commission of the crime of genocide…has been met.”
news.un.org/en/story/2024/02/1146947
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At about 2.40 pm on Saturday 25 June, hundreds of activists staged a flash sit-down protest to close down London's Oxford Circus in protest at the UK continuing to provide diplomatic, military and logistical support to Israel during its ongoing genocidal assault on Gaza. [1]
Many of the activists had met up earlier at around noon at a Youth Demand (see YouthDemand.org) event at Victoria Embankment Gardens where they listened to some speeches before they dispersed in small groups, some followed by the police, but despite the challenging circumstances they seem to have been able to travel across central London presumably in different directions and regroup around Oxford Circus in a well planned and well coordinated protest.
Activists explained to onlookers that they had to carry out the action to try to prevent genocide. At one point a Palestinian shopper who came across the action by accident, spoke to the protesters, urging them not to give up.
Many refused to leave the road when threatened with arrest by the police.
According to the Morning Star, citing Youth Demand, 21 activists were arrested, but I don't know how many, if any, were subsequently charged.
ttps://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/21-arrested-after-blocking-oxford-circus-to-demand-an-arms-embargo-on-israel
I took some video of the event which can be seen here -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-7xpmzEvRQ
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cdyKstOsFE&t
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOs_hQUo-z8
www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3YLFcmEBbQ
As of 24 June 2024, at least 37,626 Palestinians have been killed since 7 October, including more than 15,000 children. An estimated 10,000 are missing, of whom most are probably dead.
There is also an unknown number of additional deaths due to excess mortality from food shortages, disease and difficulties in obtaining essential medical care and medicines, while more than 86,000 Palestinians have been injured, many of them with life-changing injuries including many amputations. According to the United Nations, as of 23 June, more than half of all residential buildings have been destroyed or damaged but with some key infrastructure the destruction is even more devastating - including 130 ambulances, 267 places of worship, 80% of commercial facilities and 88% of school buildings damaged or destroyed.
www.aljazeera.com/news/longform/2023/10/9/israel-hamas-wa...
Additionally, as of February, the UN reported that some 83% of groundwater wells are no longer operational, adding that "all wastewater treatment systems are not working, and there is no access to clean water in the northern governorates."
news.un.org/en/story/2024/02/1146947
Also, according to the Committee to Protect journalists as of 25 June 2024, 108 journalists and media workers have been killed, 103 Palestinian, 2 Israeli and 3 Lebanese.
cpj.org/2024/06/journalist-casualties-in-the-israel-gaza-...
And as of 27 May, 8875 Palestinians have been arrested in the West Bank since 7 October 2023, many of them held in indefinite detention with no right to trial, while the Israeli military and settlers have escalated their attacks on Palestinians across the West Bank killing 518 Palestinians.
www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240527-8875-palestinians-arre...
Footnote
1. Re use of the term genocide. In March the UN special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese, referring to Israel's "unrelenting assault on occupied Gaza," stated that "there are reasonable grounds to believe that the threshold indicating the commission of the crime of genocide…has been met.”
news.un.org/en/story/2024/02/1146947
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On Saturday 8 June, the 15th national rally since October 2023 was organised by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign and other groups, and possibly as many as 175,000 protesters marched across central London from Russell Square to Whitehall and Parliament Square.
It is difficult to estimate the total number of demonstrators but I stopped on Horse Guards Avenue to photograph individuals and groups, and it took at least an hour for the majority of the marchers to pass.
At exactly the same time as the front of the march was arriving in Whitehall, Israel's armed forces conducted an assault on the Nuseirat Refugee camp in Gaza which resulted in the rescue of 4 hostages, but in which 274 Palestinians and one Israeli soldier were killed. One man who was in the market buying vegetables at the time the assault occurred, described to the BBC how "people's bodies were in pieces, scattered in the streets, and blood stained the walls."
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cw44ve90dppo
The attack lasted some 75 minutes and caused horrific devastation to the area. Karin Huster who worked with Doctors Without Borders at the nearby Al Aqsa hospital commented
"There is nothing, nothing at all that justifies what I saw today... Nothing. These children — the 3-month-old, the 7-year-old, the 12-year-old who died — the 25-year-old man, the 78-year-old woman, who all have horrendous injuries. Why did they deserve this? And why is the world looking on in silence? To what level of horror do we need to go before we finally do something, before we finally tell Israel that this is not acceptable?”
theintercept.com/2024/06/10/nuseirat-massacre-israel-host...
Despite the staggering death toll it was hailed as a "stunning triumph" by Britain's "Sunday Telegraph" while Senator Tom Cotton described it as as "wonderful day," praising the "truly heroic, well-executed mission" and declared he was "very dismayed" by the New York Times and Washington Post which had been critical of Israel regarding the number of civilians killed. [1]
Would we have seen such jubilant commentary if 274 British or American citizens had been slaughtered during an operation to rescue hostages?
Rather more soberly some Arab media described the operation as a "massacre."
www.al-akhbar.com/Palestine/382962/مذبحة-في-الم...
As of the date of posting (11 June 2024) at least 37,702 Palestinians have been killed since 7 October, including more than 15,000 children. An estimated 10,000 are missing, of whom most are probably dead.
There is also an unknown number of additional deaths due to excess mortality from food shortages, disease and difficulties in obtaining essential medical care and medicines, while more than 84,000 Palestinians have been injured, many of them with life-changing injuries including many amputations.
According to the United Nations, as of 9 June, more than half of all residential buildings have been destroyed or damaged but with some key infrastructure the destruction is even more devastating - including 130 ambulances, 267 places of worship, 80% of commercial facilities and 88% of school buildings damaged or destroyed. Additionally some 83% of groundwater wells are no longer operational.
www.aljazeera.com/news/longform/2023/10/9/israel-hamas-wa...
FOOTNOTE
1. Sources- re: the Daily Telegraph editorial and commentary by Senator Tom Cotton.
vinnews.com/2024/06/09/sunday-telegraph-praises-israels-s...
www.dailywire.com/news/tom-cotton-rips-pro-hamas-voices-c...
www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2024/06/08/we-must-back-israe...
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