u know when i was 16, we were being bombed for 23 days. I think on the 15th day, i realized that we were completely alone and I was completely ok with the fact that I might get killed. imagine a kid in gaza now, after 9 months.
this seems to be a trend in the last three weeks. medical personnel are killed with their families after they leave the hospital to take a break from long shifts. why is israel killing doctors, nurses, and medics? there's no reason. "israel doesn't owe anyone any justifications."
Another tragedy. Tariq Abu Obaid, one of the most skilled OR nurses and one of very few cardiac perfusionists in
#Gaza
who I worked with, was killed along with his family as a result of an
#IOF
air strikes shortly after he left Shifa Hospital
#NotATarget
#MedTwitter
Refaat is alive. His words are soaring everywhere. I'd like to believe his soul is, too, every time his words move a heart as they are recited, contemplated.
Brian Cox reads If I Must Die, by beloved Palestinian poet, teacher and martyr Refaat Alareer.
Refaat was killed on December 7th by an Israeli airstrike.
This was the last poem he published.
"Israeli soldiers executed the men and put the women and children in a room and threw a bomb inside and left them to bleed until now. Nobody's able to rescue them."
الاحتلال ارتكب مجزرة بشعة في المكان، أعدم الرجال، وجمّع النساء والأطفال في غرفة واحدة ورمى قنبلة عليهم وتركهم ينزفون إلى الآن.
لا أحد قادر على إنقاذهم.
Aljazeera offered the most comprehensive evidence that the IDF was lying about the bombing of al-Ahli Baptist hospital and is the only widely available network with reporters in ALL Palestinian cities be it in Gaza or the West Bank.
Israeli tanks are surrounding a 7-year-old girl in a car in Gaza city after they killed her entire family. medics are communicating with the girl to try to calm her down.
الهلال الاحمر الفلسطيني : طفلة تبلغ من العمر 7 اعوام محاصرة بالدبابات الاسرائيلية في مدينة غزة داخل مركبة عائلتها التي قصفها الاحتلال قبل نحو ثلاث ساعات، فاستشهد جميع من فيها (والدها واشقاؤها الأربعة)، ولا تزال طواقمنا تتواصل مع الطفلة لتهدئتها لاسيما وأنه تم قصف العائلة خلال
Everyone I follow in Gaza is saying that this past half hour has been the most violent they've ever experienced having just listened to and withheld the shock of 40+ heavy airstrikes all over the city.
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citizens in Gaza use traffic islands to bury the dead as cemeteries are filled and in some instances attacked, graves are dug up, and it's not safe to go anywhere.
Israeli airstrikes bombed the two main roads leading to Alshifa Hospital making the work of paramedics more difficult and committing yet another war crime.
It's not an evacuation, It's forced expulsion. It's not a safe area, its a ghetto. It's not a combat area, It's a militarily segregated area presumed ethnically cleansed but there are still people being massacred+ starved there.
Yesterday, Ismail documented the Israeli strike that targeted the Orthodox church of St. Porphyrius that housed many displaced Palestinians. Today Israel killed Ismail and the camera man with him. A child walking in the street was also killed in this assassination.
A palestinian kid was stabbed to death and three young men were shot in the back because of American media coverage of gaza and still nyt and wsj come out with the most explicitly racist shit. It's not a mistake. These places are run by racists.
My family in Gaza is sheltering another family whose residential building was targeted this morning. I don't have an exact number of how many families are doing the same but yesterday and this morning about 150 families (if not much more) were displaced in Gaza.
So is bombing houses with 30+ family members inside not equally disturbing to bombing hospitals? I'm just trying to understand where moral lines are drawn.
while CNN journalists run PR reports for the israeli military, palestinian journalists in Gaza are struggling to stay alive and keep their families alive due to israeli bombing.
every other day israel allows an aid truck into the north of gaza. When the people gather to take the food, the israelis open fire on them killing and injuring dozens.
journalists want to see footage of the 471 who were killed at the hospital yesterday for verification. they weren't satisfied with the press conference among dead bodies or the video of the immediate aftermath. They want to see the piles of dead bodies. verification matters.
israel constantly admits to war crimes one day after the other. meanwhile our resistance morality is the one constantly being questioned. we don't have to defend our acts or our words.
after the 'evacuation order' which was impossible to implement by anyone, people in Gaza are reporting airstrikes everywhere. nobody knows how many people are being killed.
I'm holding space to mourn our friend and teacher Refaat together virtually. If you'd like to come in and talk about him or just exist with other people who loved him, message me or respond to this and I'll send you a link.
As Palestinians and as Arabs we are always always told to depoliticize the same way Palestine is constantly being spoken about as a humanitarian crisis. As if we exist in a vacuum and what is happening to us is a natural disaster.
There are thousands of people in Gaza who are probably crying because their children have made it. They have made it. But they can't process the horror they've seen. But they have made it, for now.
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it's been 15 years since 'operation cast lead'. Half of my life, we've lived in fear of annihilation. But my grandmother knew all her life. She's lived this fear since she was 10 years old.
I also have a friend who won a journalism award and was told to "depoliticize" in their acceptance speech. Imagine. journalists around the world still don't take the fact that israel killed over 60 journalists personally. maybe if these journalists were white..
Israeli government has put a ceasefire into effect in Gaza to free its hands for a much more pressing crisis, Palestinians inside Israel who protested against decades of apartheid. They're making this already glaring hole in their PR worse by arresting those who protested.
Mark regev is present in my own adolescence as the epitome of stupidity if not a beackon of hope for all failed propagandists who resort to absurdist logic to justify an ugly reality.
i always thought that the Nakba was allowed to happen because there were no instant news sources or because there were no Palestinians advocating for us abroad. But now I know why it happened.
Breaking: Ministry of health in Gaza to release a detailed 212-page report of the names and ID numbers of the huge number (7000+) of casualties recorded in response to Biden's remarks about the truth of the numbers of killed being reported.
any struggle for liberation is the world's struggle. if americans think their government wouldn't sell them at the first turn of events then they're dreaming. their government has already sold them to corporations. everyone in the world is in constant struggle for freedom.
The UN said it would impossible to relocate 1.1 million people to the south of Gaza. israel's 'warning' means they're about to do something horrific in Gaza and don't want to be held accountable.
'They opened the door and shot my dad and mom'
Ahmed, a child, narrating how Israeli occupation soldiers executed his parents in front of him and his younger siblings in Gaza.
"Today tens of us that grew to thousands marched on foot from al-Shati' refugee camp until we reached al-Nusairat refugee camp. The collective escape from definite death, the dead bodies on the road, one of the most horrible scenes that will stay in my memory. Alhamdulillah.."
اليوم مشينا على الأقدام من مخيم الشاطئ بالعشرات وصولاً للآلاف حتى وصلنا للنصيرات
مشهد الهروب الجماعي من الموت الحتمي ومشاهدة جثث الشهداء في الشارع من أصعب المشاهد التي ستبقى في الذاكرة،الحمدلله يارب على كل ما كتبته وما ستكتبه علينا.
⭕️⭕️Most violent Israeli airstrikes have been carried out for the last 20 minutes while landlines, cellular, and internet networks stop working completely.
They're one of the few(not really sure if there are any others) that are providing live coverage of what is happening in Gaza and one of the few that shed light on what happened in Jenin this week.
I started crying during my physio and when I said I was crying because my country was being bombed the physio thought I was israeli. This is how distorted the media has been, flipping narratives and being complicit in genocide.
"We're cut off from the world with no internet. Israel's bombing hasn't stopped for a moment, from the boats, fire-belts, airstrikes, not to mention the ongoing clashes and heavy shooting. It's really horrible and we only have hope in God."
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تقريبًا احنا معزولين عن العالم، الانترنت مقطوع. القصف ما بوقف لحظة وحدة، قصف عنيف من الزوارق وأحزمة نارية وغارات من الطائرات الحربية، عدا عن الاشتباكات المستمرّة وصوت إطلاق النار الكثيف.. الوضع صعب للغاية. والأمل بيد الله. #غزة
Gazans kept the graves of Jews killed during the First World War in pristine condition for decades, while the Israeli military desecrated, dug up, and bulldozed entire Palestinian cemeteries.
One of the most renowned optometrists was killed along with his family in Gaza. He also used to be my optometrist. A man full of life and passion for his work.
د. سعيد خورشيد، واحد من أجمل الناس اللي ممكن تقابلهم، وأكثرهم احترامًا وتعاملًا جميلًا وطيبًا. استشهد مع كل عائلته، إخوانه، زوجاتهم وأطفالهم وأحفادهم.. بلحظة انتهى مصير أشهر وأفضل أطباء عيون في #غزة.
A lot of the people in gaza have gone silent.. no electricity or internet and there is an incredible amount of explosives being dropped all over the strip right now, destroying entire neighbourhoods..
witness in the video says: they took videos with us claiming we're hamas fighters and the next day came and videoed us claiming they were treating us humanely.. they electrocuted us, hung us with handcuffs, gave us hallucinogenic pills, urinated on us, beat us with their M16s
Horrifying testimonies from Gaza civilians released by Israel after being falsely labeled as Hamas members. They endured unspeakable torture, human dignity stripped away, subjected to hunger, electric shocks, and medical neglect leading to fatalities. Hundreds held for
All I can say to my brother who is in Gaza and has just experienced a close-by bombing in the neighborhood: "Stay away from the window." What a lame thing to say as an older sister.
The thing about seeing israelis blocking aid trucks from entering Gaza is the proof that its not just netanyahu and his right wing cabinet who are criminals and should be prosecuted, but it's a whole society built on racism and Jewish and white supremacy. It's terrifying.
I saw a photo of protestors holding kites with refaats name and free palestine on them and i broke down again. Your soul i soaring everywhere. You are alive with us.
these are not children of this world. these children have seen the ugly face of humanity and they stare it back with the remnants of courage this world has.
“We are the children that came up under the rubble, we are the children you did this to,we do not fear you. Sufficient for us is Allah and he is the best disposer of affairs.” Children came back to Shifa hospital to light candles for the martyrs massacred at the hospital entrance
The world did not condemn when my grandparents were forced out of their homes and they won't condemn when another 2 million people are slaughtered and ethnically cleansed. After this happens the Palestinians will still be asked to condemn themselves.
إمي ما كانت ضحية حد غير المجتمع المتخلف اللي كانت عايشة فيه. ما عملت إشي إلا من حبها إلي و لإخوتي و لأبويا. إمي ما كانت إلا مرا قوية، إم مضحية و فخورة، معلمة ملتزمة و فخورة بشغلها، صديقة و أخت و بنت مخلصة. أي حد بيصغر من ذكراها بيستحقش الحب اللي أعطته إياه.
There was a woman holding a sign at the protest today that said: "I'm Ukrainian not a hypocrite" and she was crying the whole time i was walking next to her.