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I broke down while filming these scenes. I couldn't bear the scale of the suffering unfolding before my eyes. I tried my best to amplify these families' voices, but what I witnessed was beyond words.
Children soaked, tents completely flooded, and families left exposed to the cold and rain. The world is not just witnessing this tragedy; it is complicit through its silence.
Watch the report for yourselves.
Children soaked, tents completely flooded, and families left exposed to the cold and rain. The world is not just witnessing this tragedy; it is complicit through its silence.
Watch the report for yourselves.
Dragnet's first dispatch from the besieged Gaza Strip: Dragnet contributor @Tamer_Alnoaizy spent hours walking through tents in Gaza's flooded displacement camps, where Palestinians whose homes and neighborhoods were destroyed by Israeli bombs are now sleeping in freezing water.
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Liliane Landor retweeted
Three years on amid a so-called ‘ceasefire’ in Gaza, Israeli authorities are still being urged by orgs like @UNICEF to allow in equipment and humanitarian aid which would provide some very very basic needs. All the gates into Gaza are firmly controlled by the Israeli authorities
Recent heavy rains in Gaza directly affected more than 106,000 people, damaging or destroying shelters, latrines, and belongings.
Three children aged four, five and eight were killed along with their mother over the weekend when a sand dune collapsed onto their tent in Deir after heavy rainfall.
The deaths happened as families, exhausted by war and the protracted crisis, prepare to face a fourth winter under very dire conditions. Some 1.7 million displaced people are still living in tents, makeshift shelters, or damaged buildings exposed to flooding, cold and collapse.
The flooding caused by the heavy rains is compounding a sanitation crisis created by the war. No wastewater treatment plant in Gaza is currently operational.
UNICEF and partners are distributing tarpaulins, winter clothing, blankets, and hygiene supplies, clearing blocked sewers and stormwater basins, and installing sandbags at sites to mitigate the impact of flooding. In the past week alone, we reached at least 10,000 children with winter clothing and thermal blankets, distributed tarpaulins to families whose tents have flooded, and cleared sewage and stormwater at more than 50 locations.
The emergency response is vital but is not a long-term solution. Tents and tarpaulins offer little protection against severe storms, and damaged water and sanitation systems continue to put children’s health and lives at risk.
UNICEF urgently calls on the Israeli authorities to allow the immediate entry of pumps, generators, spare parts and other materials needed to repair water and sanitation infrastructure, including the Sheikh Radwan stormwater basin and the Sheikh Ejleen Wastewater Treatment Plant.
We urge the international community to join the call for the entry of all life-saving humanitarian supplies and equipment, and to provide urgent funding for UNICEF's winter response in Gaza.
Learn more: unicef.link/4C96qDo
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Liliane Landor retweeted
well this is a horrible read
Bit quiet isn't he? theguardian.com/world/2008/may…
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Liliane Landor retweeted
Anyone knows why aid isn’t getting through?
The humanitarian situation in Gaza is getting worse. Heavy rain. Flooded tents. The reality on the ground is heartbreaking.
The UK government will not stand by. We will not rest until we bring an end to the intolerable suffering.
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Liliane Landor retweeted
People claiming today we didn't know about Brand's misogyny in 2013. We did.
I tweeted this after his stunt at the 2013 GQ Awards delighted the Left. Later, I was told to not to criticise Brand's stint at the NS if I wanted ever to be commissioned there.
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I tweeted this after his stunt at the 2013 GQ Awards delighted the Left. Later, I was told to not to criticise Brand's stint at the NS if I wanted ever to be commissioned there.
x.com/KateMaltby/sta…
Lefties: whatever you think of GQ, remember Russell Brand thinks it's cool to 'score' a girl & slut-shame her to her grandpa. Not feminist.
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Liliane Landor retweeted
I haven't been on this site for a bit.
But I haven't seen anyone share the photo the New Statesman staff staged in 2013 of Russell Brand as Christ, and themselves as his disciples. It seems to have been scrubbed from the web.
It made me angry then and it makes me angry now.
But I haven't seen anyone share the photo the New Statesman staff staged in 2013 of Russell Brand as Christ, and themselves as his disciples. It seems to have been scrubbed from the web.
It made me angry then and it makes me angry now.
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Liliane Landor retweeted
This weekend, a massive winter storm battered Gaza. Our teams report that thousands of tents were damaged or destroyed.
Strong winds tore away makeshift shelters, while families waded through centimetres-deep floodwaters as rain soaked their few remaining belongings. People with nowhere else to go.
This is the fourth winter that displaced Palestinians have been forced to endure these conditions.
Nearly 13 months after the ceasefire agreement, 2.1 million Palestinians are confined to just 30% of Gaza. Nearly one million people are living in areas at medium to high risk of flooding.
Yesterday’s storm exposed the consequences of years of restrictions and shortages. There is not enough heavy machinery in Gaza to prepare sites and mitigate flooding. Even the machinery that is available cannot operate properly because of shortages of engine oil.
Those organisations who support with shelter are mobilising to deliver tents and essential household items to families who have lost what little they had. But there are not enough tents and supplies to meet the scale of the need, let alone replace those damaged by the storm.
And tents and tarpaulins are not the answer to Gaza’s winter. They cannot withstand heavy rain and strong winds, and many are already worn out after months of use far beyond their intended lifespan.
In August, the NRC-led Palestine Shelter Cluster reported that 1.98 million people – 94% of Gaza’s population – needed shelter assistance. Since then, only a fraction of the required supplies have entered, while severe funding gaps are forcing humanitarian agencies to do more with less.
We must move beyond repeatedly replacing inadequate tents and scale up transitional shelters that offer families more durable protection.
We urgently need heavy machinery, equipment and supplies to enter Gaza to support flood mitigation, clear rubble and prepare safer sites.
Palestinians have the right to receive the assistance they need. States must press Israeli authorities to uphold their obligations and facilitate the entry of humanitarian aid and essential materials.
Palestinians must not face another winter without adequate shelter. They cannot wait.
Strong winds tore away makeshift shelters, while families waded through centimetres-deep floodwaters as rain soaked their few remaining belongings. People with nowhere else to go.
This is the fourth winter that displaced Palestinians have been forced to endure these conditions.
Nearly 13 months after the ceasefire agreement, 2.1 million Palestinians are confined to just 30% of Gaza. Nearly one million people are living in areas at medium to high risk of flooding.
Yesterday’s storm exposed the consequences of years of restrictions and shortages. There is not enough heavy machinery in Gaza to prepare sites and mitigate flooding. Even the machinery that is available cannot operate properly because of shortages of engine oil.
Those organisations who support with shelter are mobilising to deliver tents and essential household items to families who have lost what little they had. But there are not enough tents and supplies to meet the scale of the need, let alone replace those damaged by the storm.
And tents and tarpaulins are not the answer to Gaza’s winter. They cannot withstand heavy rain and strong winds, and many are already worn out after months of use far beyond their intended lifespan.
In August, the NRC-led Palestine Shelter Cluster reported that 1.98 million people – 94% of Gaza’s population – needed shelter assistance. Since then, only a fraction of the required supplies have entered, while severe funding gaps are forcing humanitarian agencies to do more with less.
We must move beyond repeatedly replacing inadequate tents and scale up transitional shelters that offer families more durable protection.
We urgently need heavy machinery, equipment and supplies to enter Gaza to support flood mitigation, clear rubble and prepare safer sites.
Palestinians have the right to receive the assistance they need. States must press Israeli authorities to uphold their obligations and facilitate the entry of humanitarian aid and essential materials.
Palestinians must not face another winter without adequate shelter. They cannot wait.
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Liliane Landor retweeted
Has the the human race not invented secure, portable, quickly constructed housing?
🚨HORRIBLE: Around 70,000 displacement tents across Gaza have been flooded, leaving thousands of families exposed to the harsh elements.
Floodwaters have also damaged shops, cafés, streets, and already-damaged buildings sheltering displaced families, compounding the suffering cidal war.
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Liliane Landor retweeted
I talked to Al Jazeera about why we started Equator and what we did in year one. More to come!
“The fundamental premise of so much Western journalism is the idea that it’s better to be us than to be them.”
We started Equator to do something different. Here’s @jonathanshainin talking to @AJListeningPost about our first year.
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Liliane Landor retweeted
Heavy rain has flooded tens of thousands of tents housing displaced Palestinians across Gaza.
It was a sleepless night for many, as the rain washed away makeshift shelters and soaked blankets and mattresses.
More than a year after the ceasefire began in Gaza, little has changed ,000 residents – most of whom now live in tent camps.
It was a sleepless night for many, as the rain washed away makeshift shelters and soaked blankets and mattresses.
More than a year after the ceasefire began in Gaza, little has changed ,000 residents – most of whom now live in tent camps.
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Liliane Landor retweeted
We need to support the people of Gaza…today and tomorrow! 🙏🕊️😔
Rain and dropping temperatures have arrived in Gaza. For families living in tents, winter makes an already difficult situation harder: soaked bedding, flooded ground, and no safe way to cook. Across our network of Palestinian-led kitchens, WCK teams are cooking through it, e most vulnerable families can count on a hot meal. #ChefsForGaza
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Liliane Landor retweeted
🚨 HORRIFIC SCENES IN GAZA: Displaced families’ tents are completely submerged in floodwater. After Israel destroyed their homes, families are now left with nothing but flooded tents, with nowhere else to go.
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Liliane Landor retweeted
Et en français pour les Américains multilingues: lemonde.fr/international/…
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“Stephen Miller, reactionary ideologue and white supremacist, promoted head of Trump administration”. Le Monde.
Good headline. Sometimes the French see us more clearly than we do. Cf. Alexis de Tocqueville, passim…
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Liliane Landor retweeted
David Glosser, Stephen Miller's uncle, told CNN his nephew is an "immigration hypocrite":
Our family history is entirely dependent on our ability to escape a terrible situation in Belarus. Had we not been able to enter America when we did, Stephen Miller would not exist. 't make it to America ended up dying in the Holocaust.
Our family history is entirely dependent on our ability to escape a terrible situation in Belarus. Had we not been able to enter America when we did, Stephen Miller would not exist. 't make it to America ended up dying in the Holocaust.
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RT @selfstyledsiren: You could read this body language from space.
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