| Sponsored General thread silence for Médicins Sans Frontières 20:44 - Nov 10 with 15436 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
I know many of you will hate this but I am going to take a break from commenting on general threads until after the Norwich game and attempt to raise some money for MSF in the process.....which I'm sure you will all agree will be much more constructive and productive use of my time.
I will still share my wisdom on football threads and update this one but other than that my virtual lips are sealed. If I transgress I will add £100 to the pot.
Just think of the fun some of you can have baiting me!
This is a once in a lifetime TWTD exclusive, let's see what we can do.
The link....hope it works!!
https://www.justgiving.com/page/banksy-1699645918708?utm_medium=fundraising&
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| Sponsored General thread silence for Médicins Sans Frontières on 17:33 - Nov 11 with 5409 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
| Sponsored General thread silence for Médicins Sans Frontières on 14:53 - Nov 11 by positivity |
great cause banksy, good idea. what are the chances of a postponement of the budgie game though?! |
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| Sponsored General thread silence for Médicins Sans Frontières on 17:48 - Nov 11 with 5395 views | Ryorry |
| Sponsored General thread silence for Médicins Sans Frontières on 17:33 - Nov 11 by BanksterDebtSlave |
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Think you might want to put a zip in that emoticon mouth mate ;) |  |
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| Sponsored General thread silence for Médicins Sans Frontières on 17:56 - Nov 11 with 5369 views | DJR |
In order to encourage donations, which I don't think will feed through to Gaza anytime soon, but may help in other conflicts, here's today's update from MSF.
Over the past 24 hours, hospitals in Gaza have been under relentless bombardment. Al-Shifa hospital complex, the biggest health facility where MSF staff are still working, has been hit several times, including the maternity and outpatient departments, resulting in multiple deaths and injuries. The hostilities around the hospital have not stopped. MSF teams and hundreds of patients are still inside Al-Shifa hospital. MSF urgently reiterates its calls to stop the attacks against hospitals, for an immediate ceasefire and for the protection of medical facilities, medical staff and patients.
“We are being killed here, please do something" texted one of MSF nurse from Al-Shifa hospital basement this morning, where he and his family were sheltering from the incessant bombing. “four or five families are sheltering now in the basement, the shelling is so close, my kids are crying and screaming in fear.”
“The situation in al-Shifa is truly catastrophic. We call on the Israeli Government to cease this unrelenting assault on Gaza’s health system. Our staff and patients are inside Al-Shifa hospital where the heavy bombing has not stopped since yesterday”, says Ann Taylor, MSF's Head of Mission in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
Al-Shifa hospital is the principal hospital complex in Gaza Strip, with 700 beds, providing emergency and surgical care. There are currently no other facilities in the Strip able to admit and treat as many patients with complex, sometimes life-threatening injuries. Despite regular attacks and shortages, the staff has managed to keep the hospital operational. Yesterday, Al-Shifa hospital lost electrical power. The ambulances can no longer move to collect the injured, and non-stop bombardment prevents patients and staff from evacuating. At the time of writing, our staff are witnessing people being shot at as they attempt to flee the hospital.
"There are a lot of patients already operated on and they cannot walk. They cannot evacuate, said Dr Mohammed Obeid, MSF surgeon at Al-Shifa hospital. We need an ambulance to move them, we don't have ambulances to evacuate all of these patients”.
"We cannot leave because from [yesterday] morning until now, we operated on about 25 patients. If I am not here or the other surgeon, who will take care of the patients? asked Obeid. There is a patient who needs surgery, another one is already sleeping [under anesthesia].”
MSF denounces the death warrant of civilians currently trapped in Al-Shifa hospital signed by the Israeli military. There needs to be an urgent and unconditional ceasefire from all warring parties; humanitarian aid must be supplied to the entirety of the Gaza Strip now.
MSF has lost contact with a surgeon, working and sheltering in Al-Quds hospital with his family. Other health facilities, including Al Rantisi hospital which MSF has also supported in the past, were reportedly surrounded by Israeli tanks.
We urge the US, UK, Canada, Member states of the League of Arab States, Member states of the Organisation of the Islamic Cooperation and the European Union who have repeatedly called for the respect of International Humanitarian Law (IHL) to take action to ensure a ceasefire now. The horrors unfolding before our eyes in Gaza clearly show that calls for restraint and adherence to IHL have gone unheeded. Working purposefully to reach a ceasefire is the most effective way to ensure the protection of civilians.
Thousands of people have been wounded since October 7, many of whom are in critical condition and will require complex surgeries and sustained treatment for weeks, if not months. This can only be done with a total ceasefire and the unconditional supply of humanitarian aid including access to food, fuel and water; the survival of people in Gaza depends on this. |  | | |
| Sponsored General thread silence for Médicins Sans Frontières on 18:55 - Nov 11 with 5318 views | N2_Blue |
| Sponsored General thread silence for Médicins Sans Frontières on 02:18 - Nov 11 by wkj |
Agreed.
Odd downvote to this, Jeera was usually a stand up chap on here and in PM - and it seems like I am not the only one who thinks so |
Have to disagree from personal experience. I won’t say anymore but as Ryorry has alluded to not everyone has had the same experience with them as you have had. |  |
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| Sponsored General thread silence for Médicins Sans Frontières on 22:17 - Nov 11 with 5256 views | DJR |
A further, rather poignant reason to donate to MSF. They and all medics in all war zones are real heroes.
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| Sponsored General thread silence for Médicins Sans Frontières on 13:09 - Nov 12 with 5128 views | EdwardStone |
| Sponsored General thread silence for Médicins Sans Frontières on 17:32 - Nov 11 by BanksterDebtSlave |
I'm living on a prayer! |
Take my hand, we'll make it I swear |  | | |
| Sponsored General thread silence for Médicins Sans Frontières on 17:32 - Nov 12 with 5051 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
Thanks one and all for your generous donations. Just having a big old bonfire of assorted hedge clippings, what with having all this time on my hands. Luvverly. | |
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| Sponsored General thread silence for Médicins Sans Frontières on 18:57 - Nov 12 with 4997 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
| Sponsored General thread silence for Médicins Sans Frontières on 13:09 - Nov 12 by EdwardStone |
Take my hand, we'll make it I swear |
Oooooo, Oooh! | |
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| Sponsored General thread silence for Médicins Sans Frontières on 21:56 - Nov 12 with 4904 views | WeWereZombies |
Once you get to your total I think you should reward yourself with a ticket (not paid for from the MSF donation, obviously) to Bearded Theory next year - not only are Panic Shack on the bill but Amyl and the Sniffers too:
https://beardedtheory.co.uk/ |  |
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| Sponsored General thread silence for Médicins Sans Frontières on 23:51 - Nov 12 with 4886 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
| Sponsored General thread silence for Médicins Sans Frontières on 21:56 - Nov 12 by WeWereZombies |
Once you get to your total I think you should reward yourself with a ticket (not paid for from the MSF donation, obviously) to Bearded Theory next year - not only are Panic Shack on the bill but Amyl and the Sniffers too:
https://beardedtheory.co.uk/ |
You may be on to something ...... unless we're in the play off final ! | |
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| Sponsored General thread silence for Médicins Sans Frontières on 20:02 - Nov 13 with 4724 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
Thanks for the continued generosity of you good TWTD folk. No idea what the wonky hedge fella is on about though! Also good on soupytwist whatever it is they did.
You'd be surprised how many times I've caught myself fighting the 'reply reflex!'
Edit....the things that annoy you thread is a thing of beauty. [Post edited 13 Nov 2023 20:05]
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| Sponsored General thread silence for Médicins Sans Frontières on 23:00 - Nov 14 with 4420 views | Ryorry |
"Edit 2.... Bollox there's a witness, DJR gave it an uppie. Oh well T&C's must be adhered to!"
Not necessarily a witness - I gave the blank post an uppie as I thought you'd immediately realised & edited out your words straightaway!
Unfortunately you have now written a confession though! 😂 | |
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| Sponsored General thread silence for Médicins Sans Frontières on 08:33 - Nov 15 with 4359 views | DJR |
I wouldn't hold you to the T&Cs. | | | |
| Sponsored General thread silence for Médicins Sans Frontières on 09:42 - Nov 15 with 4310 views | Ryorry |
Any chance you could keep it going? I'm sure everyone would happily continue donating  | |
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| Sponsored General thread silence for Médicins Sans Frontières on 09:43 - Nov 15 with 4308 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
| Sponsored General thread silence for Médicins Sans Frontières on 09:42 - Nov 15 by Ryorry |
Any chance you could keep it going? I'm sure everyone would happily continue donating |
Oh, definitely. | |
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| Sponsored General thread silence for Médicins Sans Frontières on 10:45 - Nov 18 with 3814 views | noggin |
| Sponsored General thread silence for Médicins Sans Frontières on 09:43 - Nov 15 by BanksterDebtSlave |
Oh, definitely. |
On a serious note, well done Bankster and everyone who has donated. |  |
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| Sponsored General thread silence for Médicins Sans Frontières on 19:13 - Nov 18 with 3716 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
| Sponsored General thread silence for Médicins Sans Frontières on 17:56 - Nov 11 by DJR |
In order to encourage donations, which I don't think will feed through to Gaza anytime soon, but may help in other conflicts, here's today's update from MSF.
Over the past 24 hours, hospitals in Gaza have been under relentless bombardment. Al-Shifa hospital complex, the biggest health facility where MSF staff are still working, has been hit several times, including the maternity and outpatient departments, resulting in multiple deaths and injuries. The hostilities around the hospital have not stopped. MSF teams and hundreds of patients are still inside Al-Shifa hospital. MSF urgently reiterates its calls to stop the attacks against hospitals, for an immediate ceasefire and for the protection of medical facilities, medical staff and patients.
“We are being killed here, please do something" texted one of MSF nurse from Al-Shifa hospital basement this morning, where he and his family were sheltering from the incessant bombing. “four or five families are sheltering now in the basement, the shelling is so close, my kids are crying and screaming in fear.”
“The situation in al-Shifa is truly catastrophic. We call on the Israeli Government to cease this unrelenting assault on Gaza’s health system. Our staff and patients are inside Al-Shifa hospital where the heavy bombing has not stopped since yesterday”, says Ann Taylor, MSF's Head of Mission in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
Al-Shifa hospital is the principal hospital complex in Gaza Strip, with 700 beds, providing emergency and surgical care. There are currently no other facilities in the Strip able to admit and treat as many patients with complex, sometimes life-threatening injuries. Despite regular attacks and shortages, the staff has managed to keep the hospital operational. Yesterday, Al-Shifa hospital lost electrical power. The ambulances can no longer move to collect the injured, and non-stop bombardment prevents patients and staff from evacuating. At the time of writing, our staff are witnessing people being shot at as they attempt to flee the hospital.
"There are a lot of patients already operated on and they cannot walk. They cannot evacuate, said Dr Mohammed Obeid, MSF surgeon at Al-Shifa hospital. We need an ambulance to move them, we don't have ambulances to evacuate all of these patients”.
"We cannot leave because from [yesterday] morning until now, we operated on about 25 patients. If I am not here or the other surgeon, who will take care of the patients? asked Obeid. There is a patient who needs surgery, another one is already sleeping [under anesthesia].”
MSF denounces the death warrant of civilians currently trapped in Al-Shifa hospital signed by the Israeli military. There needs to be an urgent and unconditional ceasefire from all warring parties; humanitarian aid must be supplied to the entirety of the Gaza Strip now.
MSF has lost contact with a surgeon, working and sheltering in Al-Quds hospital with his family. Other health facilities, including Al Rantisi hospital which MSF has also supported in the past, were reportedly surrounded by Israeli tanks.
We urge the US, UK, Canada, Member states of the League of Arab States, Member states of the Organisation of the Islamic Cooperation and the European Union who have repeatedly called for the respect of International Humanitarian Law (IHL) to take action to ensure a ceasefire now. The horrors unfolding before our eyes in Gaza clearly show that calls for restraint and adherence to IHL have gone unheeded. Working purposefully to reach a ceasefire is the most effective way to ensure the protection of civilians.
Thousands of people have been wounded since October 7, many of whom are in critical condition and will require complex surgeries and sustained treatment for weeks, if not months. This can only be done with a total ceasefire and the unconditional supply of humanitarian aid including access to food, fuel and water; the survival of people in Gaza depends on this. |
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| Sponsored General thread silence for Médicins Sans Frontières on 17:35 - Nov 21 with 3473 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
When you don’t get to go home after work....
7m ago17.25 GMT
MSF says its doctors were killed in strike on northern Gaza hospital
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has said it is “horrified” by the killing of two of its doctors and a third health ministry doctor following what it said was a strike on Al Awda hospital in northern Gaza.
MSF doctors Dr Mahmoud Abu Nujaila and Dr Ahmad Al Sahar were in the hospital when it was hit on the third and fourth floors, the charity said in a statement. Other medical staff, including MSF staff, were also severely injured, it said.
More than 200 patients are still in Al Awda and must be urgently evacuated to other hospitals in Gaza that are still functioning, MSF said.
It said it has regularly shared information about Al Awda – one of the last remaining functional hospitals in northern Gaza – and that it had shared GPS coordinates with Israeli authorities on Monday. The statement continued:
We condemn this strike in the strongest terms and yet again call for the respect and protection of medical facilities, staff and patients.
Attacks on medical facilities are a “serious violation of international humanitarian law”, it said, adding that such attacks have become “systematic” in the past weeks.
This is yet another incident that MSF staff have been subject to in the last few days. Our colleagues who are assisting hundreds of patients in Gaza are facing extremely difficult times in providing the little medical care they can. Seeing doctors killed next to hospital beds is beyond tragic, and this must stop now. | |
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| Sponsored General thread silence for Médicins Sans Frontières on 20:29 - Nov 21 with 3416 views | DJR |
| Sponsored General thread silence for Médicins Sans Frontières on 17:35 - Nov 21 by BanksterDebtSlave |
When you don’t get to go home after work....
7m ago17.25 GMT
MSF says its doctors were killed in strike on northern Gaza hospital
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has said it is “horrified” by the killing of two of its doctors and a third health ministry doctor following what it said was a strike on Al Awda hospital in northern Gaza.
MSF doctors Dr Mahmoud Abu Nujaila and Dr Ahmad Al Sahar were in the hospital when it was hit on the third and fourth floors, the charity said in a statement. Other medical staff, including MSF staff, were also severely injured, it said.
More than 200 patients are still in Al Awda and must be urgently evacuated to other hospitals in Gaza that are still functioning, MSF said.
It said it has regularly shared information about Al Awda – one of the last remaining functional hospitals in northern Gaza – and that it had shared GPS coordinates with Israeli authorities on Monday. The statement continued:
We condemn this strike in the strongest terms and yet again call for the respect and protection of medical facilities, staff and patients.
Attacks on medical facilities are a “serious violation of international humanitarian law”, it said, adding that such attacks have become “systematic” in the past weeks.
This is yet another incident that MSF staff have been subject to in the last few days. Our colleagues who are assisting hundreds of patients in Gaza are facing extremely difficult times in providing the little medical care they can. Seeing doctors killed next to hospital beds is beyond tragic, and this must stop now. |
I posted this on the thread about Palestinian lives.
What an absolute tragedy. [Post edited 21 Nov 2023 20:31]
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| Sponsored General thread silence for Médicins Sans Frontières on 22:14 - Nov 21 with 3393 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
| Sponsored General thread silence for Médicins Sans Frontières on 20:29 - Nov 21 by DJR |
I posted this on the thread about Palestinian lives.
What an absolute tragedy. [Post edited 21 Nov 2023 20:31]
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Not to mention the WHO doctor and mother, her 6 month old baby, 2 brothers, and 50 others killed in a flat after moving south. | |
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| Sponsored General thread silence for Médicins Sans Frontières on 14:43 - Nov 30 with 2879 views | phillymark |
| Sponsored General thread silence for Médicins Sans Frontières on 17:56 - Nov 11 by DJR |
In order to encourage donations, which I don't think will feed through to Gaza anytime soon, but may help in other conflicts, here's today's update from MSF.
Over the past 24 hours, hospitals in Gaza have been under relentless bombardment. Al-Shifa hospital complex, the biggest health facility where MSF staff are still working, has been hit several times, including the maternity and outpatient departments, resulting in multiple deaths and injuries. The hostilities around the hospital have not stopped. MSF teams and hundreds of patients are still inside Al-Shifa hospital. MSF urgently reiterates its calls to stop the attacks against hospitals, for an immediate ceasefire and for the protection of medical facilities, medical staff and patients.
“We are being killed here, please do something" texted one of MSF nurse from Al-Shifa hospital basement this morning, where he and his family were sheltering from the incessant bombing. “four or five families are sheltering now in the basement, the shelling is so close, my kids are crying and screaming in fear.”
“The situation in al-Shifa is truly catastrophic. We call on the Israeli Government to cease this unrelenting assault on Gaza’s health system. Our staff and patients are inside Al-Shifa hospital where the heavy bombing has not stopped since yesterday”, says Ann Taylor, MSF's Head of Mission in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
Al-Shifa hospital is the principal hospital complex in Gaza Strip, with 700 beds, providing emergency and surgical care. There are currently no other facilities in the Strip able to admit and treat as many patients with complex, sometimes life-threatening injuries. Despite regular attacks and shortages, the staff has managed to keep the hospital operational. Yesterday, Al-Shifa hospital lost electrical power. The ambulances can no longer move to collect the injured, and non-stop bombardment prevents patients and staff from evacuating. At the time of writing, our staff are witnessing people being shot at as they attempt to flee the hospital.
"There are a lot of patients already operated on and they cannot walk. They cannot evacuate, said Dr Mohammed Obeid, MSF surgeon at Al-Shifa hospital. We need an ambulance to move them, we don't have ambulances to evacuate all of these patients”.
"We cannot leave because from [yesterday] morning until now, we operated on about 25 patients. If I am not here or the other surgeon, who will take care of the patients? asked Obeid. There is a patient who needs surgery, another one is already sleeping [under anesthesia].”
MSF denounces the death warrant of civilians currently trapped in Al-Shifa hospital signed by the Israeli military. There needs to be an urgent and unconditional ceasefire from all warring parties; humanitarian aid must be supplied to the entirety of the Gaza Strip now.
MSF has lost contact with a surgeon, working and sheltering in Al-Quds hospital with his family. Other health facilities, including Al Rantisi hospital which MSF has also supported in the past, were reportedly surrounded by Israeli tanks.
We urge the US, UK, Canada, Member states of the League of Arab States, Member states of the Organisation of the Islamic Cooperation and the European Union who have repeatedly called for the respect of International Humanitarian Law (IHL) to take action to ensure a ceasefire now. The horrors unfolding before our eyes in Gaza clearly show that calls for restraint and adherence to IHL have gone unheeded. Working purposefully to reach a ceasefire is the most effective way to ensure the protection of civilians.
Thousands of people have been wounded since October 7, many of whom are in critical condition and will require complex surgeries and sustained treatment for weeks, if not months. This can only be done with a total ceasefire and the unconditional supply of humanitarian aid including access to food, fuel and water; the survival of people in Gaza depends on this. |
Let me fix this for you
'This can only be done with a total ceasefire and the unconditional supply of humanitarian aid including access to food, fuel and water; the survival of people in Gaza depends on this"
"This can only be done with a total ceasefire, obviously accompanied by the release of all Israeli hostages, and the unconditional supply of humanitarian aid including access to food, fuel and water; the survival of people in Gaza depends on this |  | | |
| Sponsored General thread silence for Médicins Sans Frontières on 18:23 - Nov 30 with 2833 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
| Sponsored General thread silence for Médicins Sans Frontières on 14:43 - Nov 30 by phillymark |
Let me fix this for you
'This can only be done with a total ceasefire and the unconditional supply of humanitarian aid including access to food, fuel and water; the survival of people in Gaza depends on this"
"This can only be done with a total ceasefire, obviously accompanied by the release of all Israeli hostages, and the unconditional supply of humanitarian aid including access to food, fuel and water; the survival of people in Gaza depends on this |
Just to point out that the work of MSF is far reaching and not just within Gaza. They are well worth supporting at any time irrespective of any political leanings we may have. | |
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| Sponsored General thread silence for Médicins Sans Frontières on 20:27 - Dec 1 with 2712 views | DJR |
| Sponsored General thread silence for Médicins Sans Frontières on 18:23 - Nov 30 by BanksterDebtSlave |
Just to point out that the work of MSF is far reaching and not just within Gaza. They are well worth supporting at any time irrespective of any political leanings we may have. |
They are real heroes. Here's today's update which suggests they are no longer operating in the north, where two of their doctors were killed.
https://msf.org.uk/article/gaza-five-things-know-about-dire-situation-south [Post edited 1 Dec 2023 20:40]
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| Sponsored General thread silence for Médicins Sans Frontières on 10:51 - Dec 6 with 2386 views | DJR |
Here's the latest from MSF.
Fuel and medical supplies are at critically low levels at al-Aqsa hospital in central Gaza due to road closures while hundreds of patients are being admitted every day, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has said.
The hospital, which we reported earlier received the bodies of 45 people killed on Tuesday from an Israeli strike on Deir al-Balah, according to its director, has been receiving between 150 and 200 wounded patients each day since the truce between Israel and Hamas ended on Friday, the aid agency said.
Marie-Aure Perreaut Revial, the MSF emergency coordinator in Gaza, said:
There are 700 patients admitted in the hospital now, with new patients arriving all the time. We are running out of essential supplies to treat them.
Shortages of medicine and fuel could result in the hospital being unable to provide life-saving surgeries or intensive care. Without electricity, ventilators would cease to function, blood donations would have to stop, the sterilisation of surgical instruments would be impossible.”
It is vital that the supply of humanitarian supplies is facilitated. The hospital urgently needs surgical sets, external fixators to hold broken bones together, and essential drugs, including drugs for chronic illnesses.
The agency called for an end to Israel’s siege on Gaza and for medical humanitarian supplies and aid to be allowed into the territory. | | | |
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