Kidnap, extortion and murder in the Mediterranean: ‘He’s giving us one option. If you don’t go, he’ll kill you’ irishtimes.com/life-style/peo…

BBC Eye Investigations documents 196 settler ‘outposts’—illegal even under Israeli law—across the West Bank, & finds evidence “organisations with close ties to the Israeli government have provided money & land used to establish new illegal outposts.” bbc.com/news/articles/…

2.5 weeks until the Freedom & Transformation festival in Albania. I have a few extra days there too & it's my first time in the country, so please let me know if anyone has any recommendations. eafestival.com/2024-september…

This is Israel’s longest-running English podcast, Two Nice Jewish Boys. Hosts Naor Meningher and Eytan Weinstein call for wiping out every single Palestinian in Gaza and the occupied West Bank. Radio Rwanda in full effect here. This is deeply disturbing.

.Rory Peck Trust crisis fund appeal for freelance journos in Gaza, Sudan, Myanmar, Bangladesh etc: "£20 will provide a food shop, £50 a month's internet, £200 a month's rent for an exiled journalist, £400 a new laptop & £900 an electricity generator." justgiving.com/campaign/crisi…

.Sally Hayden was on board Geo Barents few weeks ago and could speak with many rescued people, who told her the harsh conditions they face during the journey, specially in Libya. "If you don’t go, he’ll kill you" Read their experience at @irishtimes ⤵️ irishtimes.com/life-style/peo…

The book club of the Irish embassy in Brussels is discussing’My Fourth Time, We Drowned’ on September 18. It seems to be open to anyone, info here (I won’t be there): eventbrite.ie/e/embassy-of-i…

“You can leave Gaza, but I don’t think Gaza can ever leave you.” x.com/chehayebk/stat…

We have young men from Sudan who have been missing since 08/14/2024. They moved from Libya. There is no contact and we do not know anything about them. We are worried about them. We ask for your help. Sally Hayden MSF Sea

Message from refugee in Khartoum: "Sally there is no humanitarian aid come to Sudan…I am not [looking] for food aid but I am looking the way to leave out from this country. As a human being it is a great challenge to live in such area but I have no alternatives" #keepeyesonsudan

This says there are just a few tickets left now. Thanks to everyone who got one & see you next week. x.com/UCC/status/182…

My report from yesterday on extreme hunger in Sudan: irishtimes.com/world/africa/2… x.com/sallyhayd/stat…

Not sure if this is relevant to anyone who will see it here but I do not have an Irish Times email address, if you have tried to contact me on one I won’t have received it (just as this has come up with someone today).

Twenty one *people* x.com/nytimes/status…

979 *people*. 15,117 this year (to August 31). x.com/IOM_Libya/stat…

🆘~29 people adrift south of #Lampedusa! Alarm Phone alerted authorities about a group who fled from Libya. They report they are out of fuel & they have kids and some sick, elderly people onboard. There is no food + no water. They are very exhausted and ask for immediate rescue!

“Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi, a 26-year-old volunteer with the anti-occupation International Solidarity Movement, died in hospital on Friday after being shot in the head during a protest in Beita, near Nablus…”

From Lea Ypi’s excellent ‘Free’: waterstones.com/book/free/lea-…