Just back from Shifa Hospital: Met Dr Medhat Abbas, mabbas@hoh.gov.ps It is very important that people become friends on Facebook of Dr Abbas. His facebook is updated sometimes by the hour. Israel is committing war crimes on a massive scale. The details need putting out and in broad circulation. It is also important that word […]

It is difficult to describe the reality of the last 24 hours. It just keeps coming … non stop. Our hotel which is a very secure structure and extremely safe lost most of its windows last night. We were all gathered in the foyer and the front doors – heavy glass and metal things – […]

Last night was the worst yet. Even areas that were not directly hit have windows blown out and bits of buildings made unsafe. This is a tiny strip of land. People on the move – not usual for Palestinians but there is nowhere for families to go. UN schools have been opened. Yet the people […]

It is hell here. The Management of War keeps coming to mind … My IUG ID card which I have saying I work on a project in IUG and is issued by the Ministry in Gaza is counting for nothing. It seems there is this madness at the border about who goes in … Crazy […]

I am in Gaza. For around the last four hours the shelling from the sea has stepped up and the bombs are bigger … It has got constant. Blasts coming at us from every direction. I am sat with some experienced war journalists and they say this is very bad. We are expecting it to […]

I am in Gaza and it is not good … It is very difficult here at the moment. This afternoon I visited a hospital and so many of the children’s wounds are the result of phosphorous sprays. Also as the news develops on a possible truce the bombings have increased. There are circles of drones […]

Israel is carrying out bombing in Gaza City and saying it is “targeting” this person and that person connected to this or that militant organisation. This is a load of rubbish. Gaza City is a choc-a-bloc with people who live in apartment blocks. It is impossible to “target” anyone in these conditions. The fatalities are […]

Horrendous. I am down the coast, just miles from Rafah and there are ambulances and all sorts whizzing around. Smoke over the south end of Gaza. Will have more once I am in … will send emails as I can but my feeling is that I am going to be busy. I also think the […]

Rafah is open for the injured coming out. Nothing going in. IDF all around the Israel side – concentrated at entrances ready to go in. They are still calling up reserves. If there is a ground offensive – and everyone is convinced that there will be – it will be brutal. Must have had the […]