It was a general election campaign that aroused little enthusiasm and, fittingly, had the lowest voter turnout since 1885. The main political parties wrapped themselves in the UK flag and barely differed on policies. Starmer and Sunak maintained their complicity of silence on Israel’s war crimes even as the number of Palestinians killed and maimed kept mounting. And in the week that saw Starmer become the Prime Minister, Israeli violence again recalled some of the worst crimes of the 20th century.
On Monday 1st July, the emaciated figure of Dr.Mohammed Abu Salmiya, the director of Al-Shifa hospital emerged from nearly 8 months of captivity, having been seized by the IDF, in November. He and over 50 of his colleagues were released without charge. They had, he reported, suffered torture, had been assaulted with batons and dogs and deprived of food. Some of his fellow detainees had to have limbs amputated because of poor medical care. Several of them died in Israeli captivity, including Dr. Adnan al-Bursh, the head of orthopaedic medicine at al-Shifa hospital. Read more…
