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Documenting Palestine so we can never forget.

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Obliterating the truth

As evidence of genocide is destroyed and removed, denial becomes part of the crime itself. From Auschwitz to Gaza, the obligation to preserve evidence, identify the dead and resist the erasure of victims is inseparable from the meaning of “Never Forget”.

Gaza paediatrician Dr Hussam Abu Safiya has been subjected to further torture in Israeli prison.

The Palestinian Prisoners Association says Dr Abu Safiya suffered rib fractures and is in poor health due to heart disease, high blood pressure, as well as injuries due to previous beatings in detention.

Karim Khan KC’s true legacy will be the ICC arrest warrants against Netanyahu and his former Defence Minister Gallant, for crimes against humanity in Gaza.

Despite US/Israeli attempts to destroy his reputation, ICC Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan KC will be remembered for his courage in pursuing arrest warrants, even in the face of threats to him and his family.

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Alternatives to the legacy Western media

Victory for UK anti-Zionists and supporters of the Palestinian people, marking a historic milestone and an “unmasking of Zionist intimidation”.

A binding and legal judgement, anti-Zionist beliefs are worthy of respect in a democratic society and are protected as a philosophical belief under S10 of the UK Equality Act 2010.

The far right’s demonisation of Muslims continues

Members of the far-right group Britain First forced entry into the East London Sharia Council, accusing the staff team of being a “Sharia Court”

The nameless, uncounted, undocumented dead of Gaza.

Civil defence workers came across a foetus whose mother can’t be found, and a baby’s onesie full of bones as they searched amongst the rubble.

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They claim to be ‘the most moral army in the world’, yet they publish images like this.

The family of a young Palestinian man are appealing to human rights organisations to identify his whereabouts and press for his release after identifying him from a leaked photograph published by Al Jazeera

Bloody Balfour’s Legacy

The Balfour Declaration was an act of dispossession by Britain, the promise of the land of Palestine over which it had neither sovereignty nor the consent of its inhabitants.

Israeli prison guards beat up Dr Hussam Abu Safiya again after his legal visit on July 2.

“Do everything possible to get me out of this place,” Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya told lawyers during a July 14 visit at Israel’s underground Rakefet detention facility