Colin Baker (@airlockben) 's Twitter Profile
Colin Baker

@airlockben

@AJEnglish news editor, science stories. Previously camera, producer, writer in west Africa for @AJEnglish and others, multimedia journalist @TheEconomist.

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mohammed~Gaza 🇵🇸 (@mohammedihysse) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Salute to the brave telecommunications heroes in Gaza — they restored the internet line amidst heavy bombing, risking their own lives. They brought our voices back from the heart of a silent genocide 📡💔

Salute to the brave telecommunications heroes in Gaza — they restored the internet line amidst heavy bombing, risking their own lives. They brought our voices back from the heart of a silent genocide 📡💔
Mahmoud Massri | مَحْمُود 🇵🇸 (@mahmoudmassri15) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Good morning to you all, and a bright morning to those true heroes who never knew fatigue and spared no effort in restoring the internet to the Gaza Strip. Despite the immense challenges and dangers that surrounded them, they insisted on pressing forward, refusing to let despair

Good morning to you all, and a bright morning to those true heroes who never knew fatigue and spared no effort in restoring the internet to the Gaza Strip. Despite the immense challenges and dangers that surrounded them, they insisted on pressing forward, refusing to let despair
Colin Baker (@airlockben) 's Twitter Profile Photo

stunning pictures of the thousands of people who wait for food each night at the militarised artificial borders cutting the #Gaza strip in pieces youtube.com/watch?v=G1mXn7…

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"I don't know any health care system in the world that could deal with the situation we're dealing with [here in #Gaza]", says Christy Black, an Australian nurse working with malnourished children in Gaza. UNICEF says over 100 children need care for malnutrition every day

Nichole “Vapor” Ayers (@astro_ayers) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Just. Wow. As we went over Mexico and the U.S. this morning, I caught this sprite. Sprites are TLEs or Transient Luminous Events, that happen above the clouds and are triggered by intense electrical activity in the thunderstorms below. We have a great view above the clouds, so

Just. Wow. As we went over Mexico and the U.S. this morning, I caught this sprite.

Sprites are TLEs or Transient Luminous Events, that happen above the clouds and are triggered by intense electrical activity in the thunderstorms below. We have a great view above the clouds, so
SPACE.com (@spacedotcom) 's Twitter Profile Photo

3I/ATLAS isn't just fascinating because it is the third interstellar visitor found in the solar system; new research suggests it's also the oldest comet ever seen, at over 7 billion years old. space.com/astronomy/aste…

Colin Baker (@airlockben) 's Twitter Profile Photo

#Rafah has been bulldozed, entire neighborhoods with 24,000 buildings leveled, and 1/3 of that happened since the last ceasefire. Left standing in that destruction, nearly 50 schools and health centers. Why? Sanad Agency وكالة سند asks via satellite images youtu.be/A_7tSg0w9tc?si… Al Jazeera English

UNRWA (@unrwa) 's Twitter Profile Photo

UNRWA has enough food for the entire population of #Gaza for over three months stockpiled in warehouses–including this one in Al Arish, Egypt–awaiting entry. The supplies are available. The systems are in place. Open the gates, lift the siege, allow UNRWA to do its work and

UNRWA has enough food for the entire population of #Gaza for over three months stockpiled in warehouses–including this one in Al Arish, Egypt–awaiting entry.

The supplies are available. The systems are in place.

Open the gates, lift the siege, allow UNRWA to do its work and
UNRWA (@unrwa) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The Israeli Authorities are starving civilians in #Gaza. Among them are 1 million children. Lift the siege: allow UNRWA to bring in food and medicines.

The Israeli Authorities are starving civilians in #Gaza.

Among them are 1 million children.

Lift the siege: allow UNRWA to bring in food and medicines.
أنس الشريف Anas Al-Sharif (@anasalsharif0) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Silence or Death. The Israeli army is once again threatening journalists for exposing the truth from Gaza. After I reported live on civilians collapsing from hunger, I was directly targeted with public incitement by the army’s spokesperson. This is an attempt to silence us—and

Silence or Death.
The Israeli army is once again threatening journalists for exposing the truth from Gaza.

After I reported live on civilians collapsing from hunger, I was directly targeted with public incitement by the army’s spokesperson.

This is an attempt to silence us—and
Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (@lemkininstitute) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention is calling on every leader in the world to step in immediately with measures that ensure food and water gets into Gaza right now. No more discussions, meetings, reports, sessions, summits. GET FOOD AND WATER INTO GAZA NOW. IF YOU HAVE THE POWER, YOU

The <a href="/LemkinInstitute/">Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention</a> is calling on every leader in the world to step in immediately with measures that ensure food and water gets into Gaza right now. 

No more discussions, meetings, reports, sessions, summits. 

GET FOOD AND WATER INTO GAZA NOW. 

IF YOU HAVE THE POWER, YOU
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (@drtedros) 's Twitter Profile Photo

.World Health Organization (WHO)’s staff residence in Deir al Balah, #Gaza, was attacked three times today as well as its main warehouse. Israeli military entered the premises, forcing women and children to evacuate on foot toward Al-Mawasi amid active conflict. Male staff and family members were

.<a href="/WHO/">World Health Organization (WHO)</a>’s staff residence in Deir al Balah, #Gaza, was attacked three times today as well as its main warehouse.

Israeli military entered the premises, forcing women and children to evacuate on foot toward Al-Mawasi amid active conflict. Male staff and family members were
UNRWA (@unrwa) 's Twitter Profile Photo

People in #Gaza, including UNRWA colleagues, are fainting due to severe hunger. They are being starved. Meanwhile, just a few kilometers away from Gaza supermarkets and shops are loaded with food and other goods. Lift the siege. Allow UNRWA to bring in food and medicines.

People in #Gaza, including UNRWA colleagues, are fainting due to severe hunger. They are being starved.

Meanwhile, just a few kilometers away from Gaza supermarkets and shops are loaded with food and other goods.

Lift the siege.

Allow UNRWA to bring in food and medicines.
Colin Baker (@airlockben) 's Twitter Profile Photo

"These are the worst complications I have ever seen in my career. It feels like we cannot do any good for these patients". Testimony from a doctor in #Gaza, describing the reality for people under bombings and starvation imposed by Israel youtu.be/WEuDu4alzCQ?si… Al Jazeera English

Colin Baker (@airlockben) 's Twitter Profile Photo

…but it also signals the levels to which universities are abandoning their stated commitments out of fears of legal or financial repercussions. #Palestine censorship goes all the way up to the very top. theguardian.com/education/2025…