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Cake day: February 6th, 2025

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  • There are many ways to die in Gaza, although one does not have the luxury to choose.

    You may be killed in a bombing, or be struck by a sniper’s bullet as you try to collect food to stave off hunger, or starvation itself may claim your life. The Health Ministry says 116 people have died because of malnutrition, many of them babies and children.

    In Gaza, the simplest, most basic necessity can also be lethal. Water is one of them. Every aspect of it can be dangerous: providing it, seeking it, drinking it, swimming in it.

    Since the start of the genocide, the Israeli army has relentlessly targeted Gaza’s water infrastructure.









  • Gaza is starving. Nearly 100,000 women and children are suffering from severe acute malnutrition, and a third of Gaza’s population is going days without eating, according to an expert from the UN World Food Programme. Tons of food sits rotting in warehouses just outside Gaza but the government of Israel will not allow it to be freely delivered. Instead, starving Palestinians must contend with a real-life version of The Hunger Games to try to eat. More than 1,000 desperate Palestinians have been shot dead by Israeli forces since the end of May trying to reach food distribution points run by the US – and the Israel-backed Gaza “Humanitarian” Foundation.

    Netanyahu touched on all his preferred talking points and lied continuously without any pushback. He started by sucking up to Trump – something he’s very skilled at – praising the US president’s sense of humour and sharing the fact that his wife, Sara, told him that Trump “is a good person with a good heart”. He claimed that most civilian casualties in Gaza are Hamas’s fault and, engaging in a little pinkwashing, said that it was nonsensical for women and gay people to support Gaza: “It’s like chickens for KFC, right?” He also said that everyone in Gaza wants to be transferred to another country, and falsely claimed that Hamas isn’t letting them leave. He also said Hamas was responsible for the fact Gaza is starving. And then he pivoted to the topic of Zohran Mamdani (he’s not a fan) before spending a lot of time talking about Iran.


  • An 80-year-old woman arrested for holding a placard at a pro-Palestine rally has said she is deeply traumatised after she was held by police for almost 27 hours, during which officers forced their way into her house and searched it.

    Marianne Sorrell from Wells, Somerset was detained at a rally in Cardiff on suspicion of supporting Palestine Action, which earlier this month became the first direct action group to be banned under UK anti-terrorism laws.

    She said officers removed 19 items from her house, including iPads, a Palestine flag, books on Palestine, material related to Extinction Rebellion and the climate crisis, as well as drumsticks for – and a belt that holds – her samba drum. A friend who went to feed the cats and walked in on the police searching the house said there appeared to be a geiger counter – which measures radiation – on the table.

    Sorrell, a retired teacher, said: “At 80, to be treated like a dangerous terrorist is deeply shocking. I’ve been very traumatised by this. Every morning I wake up feeling sick, nauseous. [I have] had to take anti-sickness pills.





  • A stomach-churning report from Human Rights Watch released on Monday detailed some of the horrific abuses that US government employees and contractors have put these people through. It’s not just the overcrowding and the inhumane and unhygienic conditions — it’s also the abuse, neglect and degradation from the ICE officers and staff themselves

    On top of way, way too many feces-related horrors, detainees have also been denied medication and denied medical care to the point that it has caused severe illness or injury — often while being mocked by ICE officers.