Doctor interviewed on BBC News in Gaza. Says pregnant women haven’t been fed properly for four months. Babies all being born seriously underweight, with almost no hospital provision. A woman interviewed has nothing else to feed her baby but water.

In Gaza’s hospitals : Medics eating animal feed to get through gruelling shifts; Mothers unable to breastfeed and Pregnant women in intensive care – even losing their babies – because they are so malnourished. Tiny newborns crammed two to an incubator. independent.co.uk/news/world/mid…

In Gaza : Newborn babies simply dying because they are too low birth weight,” said Dr Margaret Harris from the UN World Health Organization (WHO).  news.un.org/en/story/2024/…

WHO says an increasing number of children in Gaza are on the brink of death due to acute hunger, with newborns “dying because of low birth weight”. Meanwhile thousands of trucks with essential supplies have been blocked at Rafah for months.

Uh hum. News of my own: I’ve decided to leave Channel 4 News ! I’ll miss the madness of news and feedback from viewers here, but after twelve(!) years, it’s time for new adventures…

📣📣📣BIG NEWS! Tickets are now available for our second national gathering for women of colour in Scotland who want to share their expertise in media and policy influencing - after the huge success of last year, we’ve decided to keep it going. eventbrite.co.uk/e/pass-the-mic…

VERY excited to be able to finally announce this - Pass The Mic Scotland National Gathering for women of colour 2024. Delighted (proper fangirling) that we will be hearing from Fatima Manji and @JeanJohansson - can’t wait! Get your tickets 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾

Thank you for all your lovely messages! I’m trying to make my way through replying to them individually. None of my work at Channel 4 News would have been possible without the brilliant team and even more importantly the people who trusted me to tell their stories. 🤗

These are testimonies of Palestinians who thought they heard children and women screaming for help in Gaza's Nuseirat refugee camp, only to realize that the cries were coming from an Israeli drone broadcasting distress calls to lure them out so it could shoot them.

Everything has been said already. No words are left that can do any justice to the people of #Gaza They are people, like you and I. They used to have dreams, they were part of a vibrant and diverse community…. Now, it’s only broken lives and broken futures.

“All I see is destruction.” Hind Khoudary is a Palestinian journalist reporting from Gaza. Over 200 days, Hind and other Palestinian journalists filmed Israel’s military assault on the Gaza strip for a Channel 4 Dispatches special - made by basement films.

The rescheduled 2024 Molendinar Lecture is on Friday 14 June at Glasgow’s City Chambers and is given by broadcaster, journalist & writer Fatima Manji. Places are limited so book for free now: bit.ly/4594tGL (more info at stmungofestival.co.uk)

Check out my review of the important book by Fatima Manji newarab.com/features/hidde…

Book club: Fatima Manji's exploration of Britain's hidden heritage challenges simplistic views of Empire and invites deeper conversations about British identity. ⬇️ newarab.com/features/hidde…

A really informative talk by ⁦Fatima Manji⁩ on ‘Baghdad by Kelvinside’ last night for this year’s Molendinar Lecture. Not sure I enjoyed watching the Scotland-Germany game afterwards quite as much ⚽️

Archbishop Nolan introduced and concluded last night’s Molendinar Lecture by TV journalist Fatima Manji A fascinating talk on culture ethnicity migration and images of empire.

Polio has arrived in Gaza. 1 year old Abdurahman lives in a tent with his family and is the first diagnosed case in 25 years. Channel 4 News : channel4.com/news/gaza-poli…

Long thread: The story and treatment of Marieha Hussain is one of the most alarming, ludicrous and unbelievable I’ve ever witnessed. It is a story of eye-wateringly blatant state racism, media complicity in that racism, police manipulation and cultural incompetence. And it is a

2🧵 On the 11th of November 2023 Marieha Hussain went on a pro-Palestinian march with her husband, young children and other family members. She carried the now-famous British free speech symbol, the coconut placard. Not seen however, is that on the other side of the placard is a

The above takes us up to the point of arrests and charge. Things get even more insane from there - especially at the pre-Coconut trial hearing and the actual Coconut Trial. I'll continue the thread later. In the meantime, please watch the Channel 4 News report by SymeonBrown