A £1.5 Billion Redevelopment Of London’s Liverpool Street Station Is ‘Grossly Disproportionate’, Historic England Says 

Proposals to redevelop Liverpool Street Station will be rejected in the ‘strongest possible terms’ by Historic England, the esteemed heritage body said.

The controversial £1.5 billion plan would see the construction of a huge new high-rise edifice and the partial demolition of the station, which is grade II listed.

It would also involve rebuilding the neighbouring Grade II listed Andaz hotel, which opened as the Great Eastern Hotel in 1884. The development would be capped with a roof garden and swimming pool.

After months of talks, the formal planning application, made by the developer behind the Shard building, was presented to the City of London.

It’s already been fiercely opposed by campaigners including the Victorian Society, but Britain’s premier heritage organisation also said it would formally reject the ‘grossly disproportionate’ plans.

Historic England is preparing a lengthy response but chief executive Duncan Wilson said that the plans were ‘fundamentally misconceived’.

Liverpool Street Station opened in 1875 and is now one of London’s busiest train stations.

An estimated 135 million people passed through it each year before the coronavirus pandemic.

Network Rail, which owns the station, and transport company MTR are partnering with developer Sellar in backing the redevelopment project.

Sellar says its proposals involve more than £1.5 billion of private investment, including £450 million to double the size of the station concourse and add more lifts and escalators.

According to the company, the station ‘suffers from significant overcrowding’ as well as ‘poor pedestrian accessibility and connectivity’.

A Historic England spokesman said the proposed demolition of the station concourse extension, built between 1985 and 1992 would ‘sever the fine 1870s trainshed from the Victorian ensemble that still characterises this special place.

They added that the architectural harmony and heritage significance achieved by the last redevelopment would be destroyed, and the natural light over the concourse lost.

They said that the proposed tall buildings above were of a grossly disproportionate scale and would trample on the station and the former Great Eastern Hotel, which is now listed as Grade II in recognition of its role as an impressive station front and for its lavish interior.

They said that its picturesque silhouette and proper grandeur would be radically compromised by the scale and bluntness of the new structures forced onto and through it.

They said the proposed redevelopment of the station would severely damage the Bishopsgate Conservation Area, to which the group of fine Victorian and Edwardian buildings on Liverpool Street is essential.

Never mind Historic England, modern England should reject that monstrosity, and it’s a slippery slope if they let it happen. How long before every other historic building has an office block plonked on top?

It’s a terrible proposition, driven by money rather than need, and we should be protecting our fabulous historical architecture, but then most of the population in London doesn’t give a damn about the history of the United Kingdom.

Why does this sort of thing only happen in this country? It wouldn’t happen in Paris, Madrid, Rome or any other European city, they treasure their history.

The problem is that developers and planners have no soul or feeling for our history, all they think about is how much money they’re going to make.

Developers know the price of everything and the value of nothing. I’m with heritage preservation every time.

By doing this they run down what makes London great and actually airbrush history and what you’re left with could be any place anywhere and London’s character is destroyed bit by bit. What we should be doing is preserving our historic buildings and saying NO to soulless boxes for profit.

As Keir Starmer Defended Not Calling For A Ceasefire In Gaza, His Car Was Ambushed

Keir Starmer has continued to resist calls to sack rebel frontbenchers who have demanded a ceasefire in Gaza.

The Labour leader attempted to reclaim the initiative amid a growing rebellion among activists, MPs and shadow ministers over his stance on Israel’s offensive in the Strip. Israeli Defence Forces have launched a ground operation against Hamas terrorists who massacred at least 1,400 Israelis when they unleashed a string of attacks on October 7.

He’s called for a humanitarian ‘pause’ to let in vital aid and for people to escape the war zone. However, senior figures frontbenchers Yasmin Qureshi, Jess Phillips and Imran Hussain have joined calls for an end to the fighting. Shadow Justice Minister Alex Cunningham pushed for an ‘immediate ceasefire’ less than an hour before Sir Keir Starmer gave an address at the Chatham House foreign affairs think tank.

Following his speech, about a dozen pro-Palestinian protesters besieged his Land Rover Discovery as police fought to clear a path from the building in London’s St James’s to the vehicle. Chanting demonstrators yelled: ‘Keir Starmer you can’t hide, we charge with you genocide!” and “Keir Starmer you’re a liar, we demand a ceasefire!’ as he emerged.

One man banged a snare drum while others waved Palestinian flags as the atmosphere deteriorated. Police forced back protesters as the car pulled away, speeding to a junction. One activist was pushed against a wall after apparently attempting to get in front of the Land Rover.

In his speech, Sir Keir Starmer continually insisted his response to the crisis was shaped by responding to both the massacre of Jews in Israel by Hamas and the ‘humanitarian catastrophe’ unfolding in Gaza. Hamas would be ’emboldened’ by a ceasefire and start preparing more atrocities, the Labour leader said.

He told guests that while he understood calls for a ceasefire at this stage, he did not believe that it was the correct position now. He said a ceasefire always freezes any conflict in the state where it currently lies, and as we speak, that would leave Hamas with the infrastructure and the capabilities to carry out the sort of attack they saw on October 7, attacks that were still ongoing, hostages who should be released, still held. Hamas would be emboldened and start preparing for future violence immediately.

He said that a humanitarian pause was the only credible approach, which could see ‘the urgent alleviation of Palestinian suffering’.

Pressed by reporters why frontbenchers who are bound by collective responsibility, the principle that they adopt a unified position, were not being fired after breaking the rule, he admitted that it was for him to address collective responsibility and he recognised that.

He added that it mattered that he took that duty extremely seriously, but he put it in the context of understanding what was driving people in the call for a ceasefire, which was in his judgment not the call that they should be making as things stood.

How is he supporting Britain by turning a blind eye to their ongoing war crimes?

Notice how the police force manages to have enough plods on duty to protect the elite, but not enough for other crimes on the streets, and so it seems these police jobs are there to protect the elite but not for the likes of you and me.

The sick, disabled and elderly are looked upon as excess baggage and our homeless are being booted out onto the streets with their children, and the Government forget that we are human beings.

Of course, any country has the right to protect itself, but it’s how a person or country protects itself, and the slaying of innocent civilians in order to destroy others is not acceptable.

I await the verbal onslaught but in my opinion, innocent civilians, especially children must be protected at all costs.

This madness must stop now! There’s no justification for the slaughter of innocent civilians and children. Once we condone the international killing of innocent people, especially children, then humankind is doomed.

Humanity, compassion and the belief that all human life is precious must prevail.

This Is A Real-Life ‘Hot Fuzz’ Moment

Police escorted a young swan out of a city centre in a ‘Hot Fuzz’ moment.

The cygnet caused a flap among shoppers when it strolled into the middle of Bath on Sunday afternoon.

Three police officers were summoned to move the bird towards the nearby River Avon, in an incident that was reminiscent of the 2007 comedy film starring Simon Pegg, which features a scene in which officers attempt to round up a swan.

One officer in Bath used a fluorescent police jacket to guide the disobedient swan towards the river as shoppers pulled out their phones to photograph the scene.

Locals were perplexed as the cygnet was seen strolling past a cafe and shops.

Simon Galloway, 59 said that he was just out shopping with his wife and daughter and they noticed a bit of a commotion outside the shop. That was when they saw the cygnet being escorted down the street, presumably down to the river.

He said that there were loads of shoppers around, and everyone had their phones out, laughing. A few dog walkers seemed quite amused, too.

A spokesperson from Avon and Somerset Police told a newspaper outlet that they were called to Upper Borough Walls, in Bath, on Sunday 29 October at around 1.30 p.m. following a report of a swan in the road.

The spokesperson said that officers from their neighbourhood policing team attended and contacted the RSPCA.

‘They then walked the swan to the canal where it would be safe.’

The incident drew comparisons with the 2007 film featuring hapless police officers played by Simon Pegg and Nick Frost.

Responding to descriptions of a suspect with a ‘long, slender neck’, the movie duo grappled with their own escaped swan in the fictional town of Sandford, supposedly in rural Gloucestershire, before driving it away in their patrol car.

Police were swiftly called to the incident in Bath, where they discovered the swan and a gathering of concerned locals, who had reportedly wrapped the distressed animal up.

After placing it in the back seat of their car, the officers drove the animal to the vet.

I suppose that’s all the police are good for these days and once in a while they actually do something useful, but then I suppose it’s nice to read of this kindness in this cruel world we live in, and perhaps we have finally found a vocation for our police.

At least it didn’t take three squad cars and 20 armed officers to rescue the cygnet! Poor thing didn’t even get an opportunity to indulge in some retail therapy – I was talking about the cygnet, not the police. And wasn’t that police officer a gentleman to have given the Cygnet his jacket on such a cold and chilly day?

It Has Been Decided To Cancel MORE Bonfires

Glasgow and Leeds have become the latest Bonfire Night cancellation casualties as councils across the United Kingdom continue to scrap annual firework displays due to significant budget pressures.

Thousands of residents across the two cities had been hoping to enjoy their first public showing since 2019, with previous spectacles having been cancelled due to COVID.

But council chiefs have once again dealt the cities a crushing blow by dropping the events as they struggle to finance them amid skyrocketing costs and the necessity to prioritise essential services.

The two cities have become the latest to reveal their Bonfire Nights will go off without a bang, following the likes of Manchester, Cardiff, Liverpool, Dundee and Hackney whose celebrations have also fizzled out.

It comes as Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham appealed to the public to give councils some slack over their decision to scrap firework displays.

Andy Burnham said councils were putting all of their energy and resources into helping residents through the current financial crisis, and he said that seriously, the picture out there is really bleak, really bleak, and that all of their councils were putting all their energy and resources into that at the moment.

He said during a phone-in with BBC Radio Manchester that he thought people needed to cut them some slack, to be honest, because sometimes things have to give, and they were just putting their focus now into food, and warmth for people, rather than fireworks, and that this was just a reflection of the time we’re living in.

In Leeds, the city council said it couldn’t spare the £200,000 needed to run its Bonfire Night events.

In a double blow for residents, the council also said it was axing its popular German Christmas market, saying it not be feasible due to rising travel and work visa costs for its partners at Frankfurt council.

In a statement, the council said the decision has been taken due to significant budget pressures faced by the council and the current cost of living pressures on local residents which are having a significant impact on the council’s demand for services and support.

They said, in addition, the council is facing an increase in the cost of electricity, gas and fuel and given the costs associated with restarting bonfires this year would be in excess of £200k, the decision to cancel the displays has been taken due to the need to identify any non-essential spend.

I’m assuming these councils have also sacked diversity officers and the assembly of advisors they use to save some taxpayers money, no of course they haven’t. That would be far too sensible.

What about our unwanted guests that the council pay their hotel bills for? Stop inviting unwanted guests into our country and then the councils would have far more money to spend on people native to this country. We are paying millions to house the illegal immigrants coming to live in the United Kingdom. It’s a pity Guy Fawkes isn’t around now!

So, the cost of council tax goes up, but councillors won’t be impacted by the cost of living crisis, awarding themselves pay rises.

Fireworks happen all year round now. It’s like Beirut in some regions of London, letting them off illegally at 2 a.m. God forbid we should celebrate an actual UK tradition.

We pay our council tax, so where has all of our hard-earned money gone? And most firework displays you have to pay for before being let in. So, you pay your tax and still pay again to watch these displays… con, con, con!

Having Gone To Bed English, I Woke Up Sounding Like A Welsh Person

Whether we like our accent or not, most of us are stuck with it for life. That’s unless you’re one of the 100 or so people in the world who’ve been diagnosed with Foreign Accent Syndrome (FAS).

These people can wake up one week with an American accent and switch to sounding Scottish the next.

Zoe Coles, who lives in Lincolnshire, is one of the people who suffers from the rare syndrome.

She made headlines earlier this year for appealing for medical help after waking up with a Welsh accent and she took to TikTok where she goes by @zoecoles1 to give viewers an update.

The Englishwoman revealed she’s been stuck with the Welsh accent for nearly five months and has shared her everyday struggles.

Her most recent video has already been seen by over 18,000 people in a week.

From being forced to have uncomfortable conversations to people not believing her syndrome is real, Zoe explained how it’s impacting her everyday life.

The pub worker originally developed a German accent before it morphed into Welsh, despite her having never been to Wales.

Last year she was diagnosed with a functional neurological disorder (FND) that affects motor control and speech.

She told viewers that she was in a clothes shop and a lady said to her that she loved her accent and asked where she was from and she said that she was from there and that she’d woken up with the accent and the lady didn’t believe her.

She said that the lady literally didn’t believe her and made her feel totally embarrassed and she just wanted the ground to open up and swallow her.

She said that she gets it a lot. People stop her and a lot of people that she’s serving ask her where she’s from and she said she does try to explain that she just wakes up like that and that she has foreign accent syndrome.

Stunned viewers sympathised with her, but one inquisitive person asked what happens when she tries to speak her original accent. Zoe said that it brings on tics and she’s unable to speak correctly.

Other people who suffer from the disorder include an American woman who woke up with a posh English accent after suffering a head injury and an Essex woman woke up one day speaking four different European accents.

Some people might make fun of this condition, but I can assure you that Foreign accent syndrome (FAS) is very real. It’s a condition where the way you talk changes and shifts in a way that’s sudden and extremely apparent.

There have been about 100 known cases of the syndrome since it was first reported. The most notable case was a Norwegian woman who was struck by shrapnel in World War II. She developed a German accent and was ostracised as a result.

Can foreign accent syndrome go away? It might revert back to your native accent in some cases, but it could also be a permanent change for others.

To date, about 200 cases of foreign accent syndrome have been documented in clinical studies, making it quite a rare speech disorder. Perhaps the best-known case was when the late George Michael briefly spoke with a West Country accent when he came out of a coma following a bout of pneumonia.

Flight WZ4728: Terror On Board

An aeroplane was targeted at an airport in Dagestan by an anti-Semitic mob who demanded to see passengers’ passports.

Israeli passengers onboard flight WZ4728 from Tel Aviv were caught in chaos at Makhachkala airport in the Russian Republic after people stormed the airstrip.

According to videos posted online, the protesters, some bearing Palestinian flags, broke through doors in the airport, with some running onto the runway while others broke barriers, seeking to check the cars exiting the airport for Israeli passengers.

According to Israeli television network Channel 12, passengers were told to remain in their seats before riot police were summoned in to help them off the aircraft.

One eyewitness said that there were hundreds of people at the airport.

Approximately 50 men approached the aircraft and asked passengers if they were Jews. One witness said no. He was Russian. However, they wanted to see his passport. He had a Russian passport.

According to Russian news agencies, numerous people in the gathering that stormed the Makhachkala airport were reportedly chanting ‘Allahu Akbar’ while others were yelling anti-Semitic slogans.

Video on social media showed some in the crowd waving Palestinian flags, with one protester seen carrying a sign reading ‘Child killers have no place in Dagestan’.

According to the AFP, footage also showed protesters trying to overturn a police car and others checking the passports of passengers who’d arrived in Makhachkala.

The majority of Dagestan citizens are Muslim and the area is reportedly considered an important centre of Islam in the Caucasus and former Soviet Union.

Dagestan’s Ministry of Health said more than 20 people were injured, with two in critical condition. It said the injured included police officers and civilians.

Dagestan’s health ministry said on Telegram that as a result of the incident at Makhachkala airport, there were injured people, who were receiving medical help.

Russia’s aviation authority Rosaviatsia reportedly closed the airport and said that all unauthorised citizens had been removed as of 10:20 pm local time (7:20 pm GMT).

According to PA, there were no immediate reports of injuries or arrests.

Rosaviatsia added that the airport would tentatively remain closed to incoming aircraft until November 6.

In a statement released on Sunday night, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said Israel expects the Russian law enforcement authorities to protect the safety of all Israeli citizens and Jews wherever they may be and to act resolutely against the rioters and against the wild incitement directed against Jews and Israelis.

The psyche and brutality of these fanatics are beyond belief and there are so many ignorant and uneducated people that are taking part in these events. They need to start familiarising themselves with real history, not just what they’re told.

Israel and Palestinians are as bad as each other because what they don’t seem to be able to get their heads around is that violence will NEVER end violence.

It’s angels and demons in the minds of simpletons and there are so many wrongs on both sides of the corridor, and it’s genuinely terrifying that this attitude still exists, and it’s going to get a lot worse.

The problem is that some people remain locked in a defunct age of feudalism and barbarity and just don’t seem to be able to evolve into anything better.

This isn’t about religion, it’s about land and manipulation for greed and need, and this is simply tribalism that’s infused into human nature.

Governments said that this would never happen again after World War II but it’s happening because the small things didn’t get stomped out, so now the big things are happening.

Holocaust Survivor Receives 1,000 Anti-Semitic Messages A Day After Hamas Attack

An Auschwitz survivor is worried and frightened after receiving a storm of anti-Semitic abuse online in the wake of the October 7 terror attack in Israel.

Holocaust survivor Lily Ebert, 99, receives about 1,000 anti-Semitic messages every day since Hamas terrorists slaughtered 1,400 people in Israel and kidnapped 200.

She has also been told to ‘get bombed’ and been sent devil and middle finger emojis on her widely followed social media accounts. London-based Lily and her great-grandson Dov Forman, 19, run a TikTok account with 2.1 million followers, which educates people about the Holocaust.

Dov has been forced to disable the comment sections because the abuse has become too unbearable for his great-grandmother.

Speaking to the MoS, he said that he was trying to protect her from seeing the full extent of the comments. He said she’s horrified that Jews, including himself, feel that they have to hide their identities like she had to in the 1930s and 1940s.

Aged 20, Lily was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau from Hungary. Her mother, brother and one of her sisters were executed on arrival in the Nazis’ gas chambers. Lily and her two other sisters survived after spending four months in Auschwitz.

Responding to the anti-Semitic abuse she’d received online, Lily said that it was incredibly worrying and frightening to see, yet again, individuals calling for violence against innocent Jewish people.

It’s absolutely shameful, and it just demonstrates how society has changed.

Look around you, whatever city or town you’re in, you can see the enormous changes in a few short years with ineffective policies, allowing the dripping tap to become a full-on unsustainable waterfall.

Trolls are monsters in every sense of the word, but they’re not just trolls, some of them would cause bodily harm if they could.

What are our Government and police doing about this? Clearly nothing!

Social media platforms need to be shut down so that evil trolls can’t continue their disgusting spewing of malice.

These trolls, if they can’t silence or cancel you, will make your life unbearable until you feel like you have no choice but to cancel yourself.

These trolls are true cowards who could never have survived the traumas and distresses that this very courageous lady had to and they’re pathetic!

No person who had to endure such a horrible experience should have to go through this agonising process again, but unfortunately, the hatred that some people have in their hearts is shocking.

It’s apparent that in each war that we have, we have learnt nothing, and it’s clear that evil is still happening and getting worse every day. Like cowards, they pick on the most vulnerable, but the fearless should make sure they never win.

Human beings are capable of horrific barbarity, especially when they can hide, using the safety of their keyboards.

This is absolutely appalling behaviour, yet it’s our Government that allows this stuff to happen.

This demonstrates more than anything the evils of social media, and since its invention, it has done absolutely nothing to enhance society and everything to destroy it.

The LATEST On Matthew Perry’s Death

Matthew Perry brought a sense of humour on screen and off screen, and now probably onto his next life in the afterlife.

He was a lovely person on the sitcom ‘Friends’, and I’m sure Matthew Perry won’t be resting in his next life.

Sadly, Matthew Perry tragically died at his Los Angeles home at the age of 54.

At the height of his ‘Friends’ stardom in the 1990s, Matthew Perry romanced Julia Roberts, Neve Campbell and Baywatch celebrity Yasmine Bleeth in the space of just two years, yet he appeared to have died alone.

Matthew Perry had a long-standing affair with drugs and addiction and had dozens of life-saving surgeries, numerous trips to rehab clinics and spent $9 million trying to get clean as he struggled with drugs and alcohol.

Matthew Perry sadly died, aged 54 after allegedly drowning in his jacuzzi at home, however, no drugs were found at the scene and there was no sign of foul play.

According to law enforcement sources, first responders were summoned to reports of a ‘cardiac arrest’ at his Los Angeles home.

In 2019, he barely escaped death after his colon burst due to opioid overuse.

Just two years later he suffered another brush with death at a rehab facility in Switzerland where doctors administered a sedative which interacted with the opioids in his ravaged body causing his heart to stop beating.

However, Matthew Perry was the wise-cracking Chandler Bing in ‘Friends’, and Perry gave ‘Friends’ some of its finest moments over the years.

People are heartbroken that Matthew Perry has passed away, saying that he will be forever loved, always missed and never forgotten.

Of course, there are other important events going on in the world at the moment, but this unfortunate news of Matthew Perry is also a tragic loss that will touch a lot of people. We didn’t know him personally but he always came across as a gentle and caring soul, and this was an extremely sad end to a clearly troubled life.

England And Wales Must Sell New Houses As Freehold

All new houses in England and Wales will have to be sold as freehold properties under ministers’ revived plans to phase out the ‘feudal leasehold system’.

Next month’s King’s Speech, when the Government will set out its fresh legislative agenda, will include proposals to ‘restore true home ownership’ to buyers.

Promised new laws will ensure that all new houses constructed must be marketed as freehold, although new flats can be leasehold.

Ministers also intend to cap all ground rents on existing leasehold properties to a ‘peppercorn’ rate, as well as modify the standard contract lease extension from 90 years to 990 years.

They also want to remove the requirement for someone to have lived in a property for two years before they can negotiate an extension.

However, Labour slammed the plans as ‘thin gruel’ and emphasised how the Tories pledged four years ago to axe leaseholds for new houses.

In January this year, Michael Gove committed to abolishing the ‘outdated, feudal’ leasehold system by the next general election.

His plans were subsequently dropped amid reports of a conflict between his department and Downing Street.

However, according to a newspaper outlet, Michael Gove has now reached a compromise with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak over a fresh package of reforms.

Housing minister Rachel Maclean confirmed there would be a new bill in the King’s Speech on 7 November.

She posted on X, formerly known as Twitter that plans to phase out leasehold and restore true home ownership confirmed as part of the King’s Speech.

She said that they would restore true home ownership to millions of people and end the reign of rip-off freeholder + incompetent profiteering management companies.

The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities has estimated there are about five million leasehold homes in England, of which 70 per cent are flats and 30 per cent are houses.

The majority of flats in the private sector are leasehold. An estimated 94 per cent of owner-occupied flats and 71 per cent of privately rented flats, while around 8 per cent of houses in England are leasehold.

The proportion of newly built houses sold as leasehold rose from 7 per cent in 1995 to a peak of 15 per cent in 2016.

The proportion has subsequently fallen and was less than 1 per cent in December last year.

Leaseholders own the right to occupy their home but the building or land is owned by the freeholder or landlord.

The Tories announced four years ago that they would axe leasehold for all new houses, which means that leaseholders have been failed by the Government.

Not only that, social care is a travesty. Now every family has to sell their home so that they can pay for sheltered housing or a care home. I mean, what do we really work for? We don’t get anything for it when we need it the most. No wonder the younger generation doesn’t want to work, they know what’s coming when they retire – absolutely nothing!

All the Tories really want is to keep the poor in the gutter while the wealthy feast off them.

This Government, or any Government thereafter need to do more for the people and these management companies have been making a killing for far too long. However, watch this space, it won’t happen immediately, but slowly but surely our freedom to buy our own home will not exist at all! They want to take everything.

Wiped Off The Map

Shocking satellite images have revealed the destructive aftermath of weeks of Israeli airstrikes on neighbourhoods in the Gaza Strip.

The photographs, provided by Reuters, reveal the true scales of the destruction the Israeli Defence Force’s (IDF) airstrikes have caused in Beit Hanoun and Atatra in the Northern Gaza Strip.

Prior to the bombing, large apartment buildings, homes, roads and the green of suburban trees and plots of land could be seen dotting the countryside.

However, a considerably different scene is the reality in these neighbourhoods now, as the ruthless bombing has laid destruction to much of what stood before.

Many of the photos reveal a dusty wasteland with crumbling structures and debris scattered all around.

The IDF suspects Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists were hiding in many of these neighbourhoods.

The Israeli Airforce has been striking targets, many of which include weapons depots and Hamas tunnels, since the beginning of the war on October 7.

Meanwhile, the United Nations said that nowhere was safe in Gaza amid Israel’s bombing.

Lynn Hastings, the UN humanitarian coordinator for the occupied Palestinian territory, said in a statement that nowhere was safe in Gaza.

She said that when the evacuation routes are bombed when people north as well as south are caught up in hostilities, when the essentials for survival are lacking, and when there are no assurances for return, people are left with nothing but impossible choices.

Reportedly more than 7,000 people have been killed in Gaza since the beginning of the war.

So far, the total of 7,028 deaths includes 2,913 children, the Hamas-run health ministry said.

Yesterday the ministry reported 6,546 deaths, including 2,704 children.

Joe Biden said he had ‘no confidence in the number that the Palestinians are using’, although he didn’t explain why.

The Council on American Islamic Relations said it was ‘deeply disturbed’ by his comments and called on the President to apologise.

Executive director Nihad Awad said that journalists had confirmed the high number of casualties and countless videos coming out of Gaza every day showing mangled bodies of Palestinian women and children.

It’s so sad that a so-called modern society would sink this low and have such a heinous disregard for human life. Sadly there are no rules in war, and it’s shocking that such a religious nation can do this to innocent people, including children and babies.

I don’t condone war of any kind. We all need to live together in peace, not bits and pieces. Do what you need to bring peace to Palestine, Israel, whatever you want to call it. It’s land, you can’t take it with you when you die. It’s there for you to nurture so that future generations can live on it in harmony, not devastation.

The Palestinians and Israelis need their heads banging together. You have lived on it for millions of years and some of that was peaceful, so why can’t you just stop all this fighting?

So, what was Israel called before 1947? Palestine of course, but a majority of biblical archaeologists deciphered a bunch of hieroglyphs as ‘Israel’, the first instance of the the name in the record. Under the British Mandate (1920-1948), the whole region was known as ‘Palestine’.

Why on earth would one human being want to kill another human being, well for one, greed, and of course land. Hasn’t there been enough war, enough killing? Perhaps like animals, once they got blood on their hands they started to relish the kill!

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