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“When I entered Gaza the Israeli military had a rule: I was only allowed to bring in seven pounds of food. As I was weighing out protein bars, trying to get under the limit, I said to my husband: ‘How sinister is this?’ I’m a humanitarian aid worker. Why would there even be a limit on food? I’ve worked in many places with extreme hunger, but what’s so jarring in this context is how cruel it is, how deliberate. I was in Gaza for two months; there’s no way to describe the horror of what’s happening. And I say this as a pediatric ICU doctor who sees children die as part of my work. Among our own staff we have doctors and nurses who are trying to treat patients while hungry, exhausted. They’re living in tents. Some of them have lost fifteen, twenty members of their families. In the hospital there are kids maimed by airstrikes: missing arms, missing legs, third degree burns. Often there’s not enough pain medication. But the children are not screaming about the pain, they’re screaming: ‘I’m hungry! I’m hungry!” I hate to only focus on the kids, because nobody should be starving. But the kids, it just haunts you in a different way. When my two months were finished, I didn’t want to leave. It’s a feeling I haven’t experienced in nearly twenty years of humanitarian assignments. But I felt ashamed. Ashamed to leave my Palestinian colleagues, who were some of the most beautiful and compassionate people that I’ve ever met. I was ashamed as an American, as a human being, that we’ve been unable to stop something that is so clearly a genocide. I remember when our bus pulled out of the buffer zone. Out the window on one side I could see Rafah, which was nothing but rubble. On the other side was lush, green Israel. When we exited the gate, the first thing I saw was a group of Israeli soldiers, sitting at a table, eating lunch. I’ve never felt so nauseous seeing a table full of food.” ------------------------------------------------ Aqsa Durrani is a pediatric doctor and board memb

CAMPAIGN NEWS - Assisted Suicide Bill DEFEATED UKMFA are delighted to announce a major victory, after nearly 2 years of campaigning against a concerted push to bring in Assisted Suicide through Private Members Bills. A victory for life, ethics and humanity. At its 2nd Reading in Parliament, on Friday 11th September, after a compelling and emotional 4 hour debate, MPs voted by 286 to 270 AGAINST Lauren Edwards Private Member’s Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, meaning that this Bill has been defeated. https://ukmfa1.substack.com/p/assisted-suicide-bill-defeated

1000 filmmakers to be proud of! Israeli filmmakers decry ‘unprecedented campaign of incitement’ against ‘NAZA’ creators Over a thousand Israeli filmmakers signed a petition expressing solidarity with "NAZA" creators, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, stating that "we have witnessed an unprecedented campaign of incitement" against Abraham and Szor, "and the distance between it and the incitement to violence and physical threat to their lives is shrinking." On Sunday, Culture Minister Miki Zohar said he would seek to revoke Abraham and Szor's citizenship, describing their film as "vile" and saying it "constitutes treason." Former Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman, who leads the right-wing, anti-Netanyahu party Yisrael Beiteinu, called Abraham and Szor "enemies of Israel." "We, filmmakers, call on all who are still fighting for freedom of expression and creation to join in expressing support and solidarity with" the two, the petition said, adding that "the central role of art and journalism is to hold a mirror up to the society in which they exist, to create discourse and discussion without assumptions, even when the reality is difficult." Here is a proposal for Chief of Staff Zamir, who is ostensibly so troubled by the "absence of an attempt to establish the truth" in the "NAZA" documentary, which he hasn't taken the trouble to watch. Stop denying access to journalists wishing to enter Gaza. You don't like the film? You don't like the Palestinian journalists? What do you expect, that the world will believe the courageous journalists of the IDF Spokesperson's Unit? If you have nothing to be afraid of, go ahead. After three years into this war, it's time to remove the dictatorial objection to the entry of independent journalists into Gaza, writes Noa Landau https://us18.campaign-archive.com/?e

Mother pleads for brain-damaged son to be spared from death by dehydration "The mother of a 28-year-old man left severely brain-damaged is pleading for a British court to reverse a ruling that would let her son die of dehydration, calling the decision an act of unbelievable cruelty. A judge ruled last week that withdrawing the man’s food and water would serve his best interests, according to the United Kingdom-based advocacy group Christian Legal Centre..." https://www.christianpost.com/news/mother-pleads-for-son-to-be-spared-from-death-by-dehydration.html