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Sakir Khader

@sakirkhader

9 months

The birds left.

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Sakir Khader

@sakirkhader

7 years

Syrian father says last goodbye to his two young children killed in yesterday's heavy regime chemical attack on Khan Sheikhoun, Idlib.

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Sakir Khader

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3 years

Today, an Israeli sniper shot a bullet at us while taking some rest in the mountains. The bullet pierced the stone we sat on. We ran away. Ten minutes later, he shot again. That bullet hit Mohammad in his head. An 28-year old man from Beita. He died an hour ago.

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Sakir Khader

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9 years

Jack (7) was saving for an iPad. After the local mosque was vandalised, he donated his piggy bank. Their response:

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Sakir Khader

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2 years

This is Amjad from Mugayam Jenin. I met this kid a few years ago when I was in the Mugayam. He came to me and asked me to take a picture of him. So I did. A few days ago, Israeli soldiers killed him with 11 bullets. He was hit by 7 bullets in the heart and 4 around his neck.

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Sakir Khader

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8 years

Last message from this old man in Aleppo: 'We don't have anything left. Oh Arabs, where are you? We are being slaughtered. Safe us.'

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Sakir Khader

@sakirkhader

2 years

The situation in Palestine is reaching its absolute boiling point. And the world ignores the rapid developments completely…

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Sakir Khader

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2 years

This man lost 15 of his relatives. All killed in an American airstrike on Ghazni.

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Sakir Khader

@sakirkhader

20 days

Minutes ago, the Israelis shot a young man in Kafradan, Jenin. While he lay injured on the ground, screaming for an ambulance to help, the Israeli soldiers shot him again. He died on the spot.

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Sakir Khader

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7 years

This photo from yesterdays attack on Khan Sheikhoun is undoubtedly one of the most heartbreaking pics I've seen in a while. Without a doubt.

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Sakir Khader

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8 years

It's Father's Day. Let's remember that not all families having a great day today. He lost his 3 children yesterday.

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Sakir Khader

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6 months

Guardians of the olive fields.

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Sakir Khader

@sakirkhader

8 months

Israeli troops are all over Jenin. D9 bulldozers are currently destroying the roads leading to the Jenin refugee camp. Note: all these roads got repaired recently after being destroyed by the same Israeli bulldozers during the last July attack on Jenin City and the refugee camp.

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Sakir Khader

@sakirkhader

2 years

Every child in this photo has lost his father. All killed by American soldiers. Wardak, Afghanistan.

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Sakir Khader

@sakirkhader

8 months

Israel is silently increasing its bombing campaign in the West Bank. Nearly 20 of the 140 Palestinians killed in the past 25 days were killed by missiles from drones or jets. The Israelis attack a city, stay on the outskirts of certain places, lure the people, and then bomb them.

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Sakir Khader

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6 months

This photo was taken the very moment Israeli drones and jets started to appear above our heads, seemingly out of nowhere yet from everywhere at the same time. We felt it coming. Something really bloody was brewing while the whole world slept..

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Sakir Khader

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2 years

When Shireen was killed Dutch public radio called me. They asked me if I could chat about the situation in Palestine. I told them about the oppression, dangers and violence being used against us. It felt that I was saying things they didn't want to hear. They never called back.

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Sakir Khader

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8 years

Syrian father says last goodbye to his wife and 4 children killed in today's heavy airstrikes on Maʿarrat al-Nuʿmān.

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Sakir Khader

@sakirkhader

7 years

Hope.

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Sakir Khader

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8 years

The world nowadays..

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Sakir Khader

@sakirkhader

1 year

Today, in the early morning around 03:55, someone was knocking on the door very hard. I went out of bed and was still drowsy when I stood in my room, trying to figure out what or who it was. Suddenly, I realized that these were Israeli soldiers trying to enter the house..

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Sakir Khader

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8 months

Israeli airstrikes on the Jenin refugee camp. Many casualties.

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Sakir Khader

@sakirkhader

2 months

A thread:

The Times of Israel

@TimesofIsrael

2 months

Journalist who labels dead Palestinian terrorists ‘martyrs’ gets top Dutch award

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Sakir Khader

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2 years

This young child is standing in front of the graves of his father, brother, baby brother and cousin. All killed in an American mortar strike on Wardak. Just a few weeks before the Americans withdrew from Afghanistan.

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Sakir Khader

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8 years

Probably one of the best photos to sum up nowadays world.

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Sakir Khader

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5 months

This is ten-year-old Mohammed Amjad al-Jo’os from Jenin. His brother was brutally shot by an Israeli sniper on January 26, 2023. After the sniper shot and severely wounded his brother, the Israeli military truck ran over his head and crushed his skull as he bled to death..

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Sakir Khader

@sakirkhader

3 years

On top of the rubble of the destroyed road, which is being damaged every week by the Israeli army. And every week, the villagers rebuild the road again so they can reach the mountain and protest against the illegal settlement near the village. Beita, Palestine.

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Sakir Khader

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8 years

Without hope we are lost.

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Sakir Khader

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8 months

This morning, Israeli troops raided the al-Faur refugee camp in Hebron and clashed with the youth. In their raid, the Israelis arrested Alaa Abu Heshesh, blindfolded him, and used him as a human shield so the youth wouldn’t pose any danger during their military operation.

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Sakir Khader

@sakirkhader

3 years

Today, during the protests in Beita, an Israeli sniper shot a man in the eye for waving the Palestinian flag during the clashes. And because the Israeli bulldozer destroyed all the roads leading to the mountain, we had to walk the injured man at least 1km to reach an ambulance.

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Sakir Khader

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3 years

I just came back home from Mohammad Da’das’s funeral. He was still a child, thirteen years old, carried for nine long and heavy months by his mom and raised for years by his beloved parents. In the blink of an eye, he was gone. Brutally murdered by an Israeli soldier.

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Sakir Khader

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2 years

The kidney in exchange for food. Somewhere in Herat, Afghanistan.

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Sakir Khader

@sakirkhader

8 years

We found dozens of young Syrian refugee children working in dark factories. Our story:

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Sakir Khader

@sakirkhader

2 years

Oh, so, when it’s being done to you it’s occupation but when it’s being done to us, it’s ‘real democracy’?

Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський

@ZelenskyyUa

2 years

Congratulations to @netanyahu on winning the elections. It’s always important to see real democracy in action. 🇺🇦 & 🇮🇱 share common values & challenges that now require effective cooperation. We hope to open a new page in cooperation with the new 🇮🇱 Government for 🇺🇦&🇮🇱 benefit!

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Sakir Khader

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6 years

Syria, where the battleground is Russia vs U.S. Iran vs Israel Israel vs Hezb Turkey vs Kurds Kurds vs IS IS vs Assad Opp vs IS Assad vs Opp Turkey vs Assad U.S. vs Iran Hezb vs Opp NATO vs NATO Opp vs Kurds U.S. vs U.S. Iran vs Opp EU vs Refugees War is almost over, they said.

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Sakir Khader

@sakirkhader

2 years

The scars of war. Afghanistan.

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Sakir Khader

@sakirkhader

8 years

Our humanity isn't lost yet: Watch how people resp when a Turkish shop owner brutally beating a Syrian kid in Izmir.

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Sakir Khader

@sakirkhader

1 year

@IsraelMFA Your acts are inhumane too. Those who are responsible for such atrocities must definitely be prosecuted. Let's start with your crimes. We’ll never forget Deir Yassin, all our children taken in pieces from under the rubble in Gaza, and your bulldozers running over our dead..

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Sakir Khader

@sakirkhader

2 years

Moroccans raising the Palestinian flag is not a provocation. It’s a sign that you all need to take off your blinkers and realise what’s really going on these days. Twenty dead Palestinians in the past twenty days, including several children. Don’t look away from injustice.

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Sakir Khader

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2 years

Just a normal day in Palestine.

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Sakir Khader

@sakirkhader

3 years

Settler violence is state violence.

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Sakir Khader

@sakirkhader

2 years

قُلُوبَنَا مَعَكُمْ يَا أَهْل أَفْغَانِسْتَان

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Sakir Khader

@sakirkhader

6 months

This is the aftermath of an Israeli suicide drone attack. A cowardly weapon that flies straight towards people and explodes right in front of them. A murder machine made to kill as many Palestinians as possible.

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Sakir Khader

@sakirkhader

6 months

Earlier this morning, the Israelis again attacked the Jenin refugee camp. The Israeli army expected a force majeure where they could roam ‘freely’ in the streets of the refugee camp..

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Sakir Khader

@sakirkhader

8 years

Syrian boy who survived this mornings heavy regime shelling on Aleppo's rebel-held Jub al-Qubba: 'I found my mother here, death.'

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Sakir Khader

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2 years

The most humble and hospitable people on earth.

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Sakir Khader

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8 months

Airstrikes on Jenin.

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Sakir Khader

@sakirkhader

9 years

Someone has been a bit creative: Recep Tayyip Erdoğan ( #Turkey ) versus Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin ( #Russia ).

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Sakir Khader

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2 years

The aftermath of an American night raid.

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Sakir Khader

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8 years

What if the boy was your brother the baby was your child the girl was your sister Aleppo was your city..

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Sakir Khader

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7 months

This is problematic. Very problematic.

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Sakir Khader

@sakirkhader

7 years

Someone who lost his child in a strike asked me: ‘why are you still photographing? Is it possible that people dont know what’s happening in Syria?’ I havent found the answer. I constantly ask myself the question, why do I still take pics? Why do we take pics when nothing changes?

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Sakir Khader

@sakirkhader

4 years

مَرَّتْ سَنَة.

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Sakir Khader

@sakirkhader

4 years

Guys, I’m currently being held at Istanbul airport. They can’t let me in and say I’m a danger to public security based on terror laws etc. Tomorrow afternoon I will be deported.

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Sakir Khader

@sakirkhader

2 years

This man lost all of his sons during an American night raid on their village. All killed in front of him.

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Sakir Khader

@sakirkhader

9 months

The birds left the skies of Gaza and migrated. Buzzing fighter jets have occupied their clouds and are hunting the people of the land. The peaceful whistling has been replaced by loud explosions. The living streets are now filled with bodies wrapped in blood-soaked white sheets..

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Sakir Khader

@sakirkhader

2 years

It’s not just the group of armed men who are responsible for the current wave of protests and attacks. It’s a whole generation of Palestinian youths who are tired of being oppressed and have absolutely nothing to lose…

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Sakir Khader

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3 months

Deeply rooted in the homeland.

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Sakir Khader

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2 years

This man is standing in front of the graves of his family. All killed in an American drone strike on Wardak.

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Sakir Khader

@sakirkhader

8 years

Syrian girl: Treating people disrespectfully for being born on the other side of the planet is called: Racism.

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Sakir Khader

@sakirkhader

8 years

Just keep looking at this picture of a man trying to bring his old mother to a 'safer' place in east Aleppo.

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Sakir Khader

@sakirkhader

2 years

الْحِمْصِي.

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Sakir Khader

@sakirkhader

7 months

If they ever ask you why journalism, tell them Wael al-Dahdouh.

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Sakir Khader

@sakirkhader

1 year

Ok, the Israelis withdrew fully from Jenin. Tell me now, what’s their success exactly? The destruction of the infrastructure? The people will rebuild it. Everything they confiscated? The people will replace it.

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Sakir Khader

@sakirkhader

7 months

Using 'exclusive' here is such a show of disrespect to those who have been reporting tirelessly on all the atrocities since the beginning of the war..

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Sakir Khader

@sakirkhader

5 years

Here is a compilation of some of the last pictures and videos I took of Abdel Basset al-Sarout.

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Sakir Khader

@sakirkhader

8 years

Syrian boy cries for his sister who was killed in a airstrike on Aleppo: 'I want my sister Reema. I want my sister.'

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Sakir Khader

@sakirkhader

6 years

This Syrian family portrait...

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Sakir Khader

@sakirkhader

5 months

So, yesterday, I came back to the Netherlands after spending some time around my friends and family in Palestine. Life back home has irrevocably changed forever. Moving between cities has become extremely dangerous..

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Sakir Khader

@sakirkhader

9 months

Yesterday, Israeli settlers killed several Palestinians in Qusra, Nablus, and now, during the funeral procession of those killed in Qusra, Israeli settlers again opened fire at the people and severely wounded multiple Palestinians. Settler violence is state violence.

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Sakir Khader

@sakirkhader

7 years

Heartbroken Syrian father mourns loss of his young daughter killed in today's heavy regime airstrikes on the rebel-held city of Dūmā.

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Sakir Khader

@sakirkhader

2 years

American soldiers killed his 5 cousins a few months before they withdrew from Afghanistan. These kids are orphans now

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Sakir Khader

@sakirkhader

2 years

This is just a glimpse of the many stories. First the Russians invaded and murdered many Afghans in cold blood. Then America decided to invade and murder thousands of innocent civilians. But, ah, they only made brown victims. Angry farmers on sandals, or something. Who cares…

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Sakir Khader

@sakirkhader

2 years

Upcoming work. ‘the Wounded land’. A short film about the victims of American warcrimes in Afghanistan. Soon more.

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Sakir Khader

@sakirkhader

4 years

The photo I took of Abdel Basset when we first met. Kafr Zita, Ḥamāh, Syria.

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Sakir Khader

@sakirkhader

2 months

Normally, I would never reply to such garbage. But I really have to at this point since this ‘article’ by a so-called journalist contains so many fictional elements. It is pure slander and libel from someone who pretends to be a journalist.

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Sakir Khader

@sakirkhader

1 year

Before Dnipro it was Aleppo, Idlib, Maraat al-Numaan, Ariha, Kafr Hamrah, Latamneh, Khan Sheikhoun, Kafr Zita, etc. While Putin was bombing these places and killing sixty to eighty people in a single bombardment, Western leaders were drinking beers in Moscow during the World Cup.

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Sakir Khader

@sakirkhader

2 years

American soldiers killed their father too.

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Sakir Khader

@sakirkhader

8 months

Israelis are bombarding the Jenin refugee camp at this moment. Fierce airstrikes on the northern parts of the camp.

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Sakir Khader

@sakirkhader

1 year

This photo of a father in Kahramanmaraş, Turkey, holding the hand of his dead daughter, who died while stuck under the rubble, is truly one of the most heartbreaking things I’ve ever seen.

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Sakir Khader

@sakirkhader

2 years

And also his father. Killed in cold blood.

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Sakir Khader

@sakirkhader

1 year

Israël heeft veel van mijn familieleden en vrienden vermoord, waaronder mijn neefje en beste vriend Kosay. Hij was twaalf toen een soldaat hem twee keer door zijn hart schoot. Ik kan me niet vrij bewegen in eigen land en moet steeds via een omweg het land in..

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Sakir Khader

@sakirkhader

2 months

He didn’t die in a firefight. He was killed by an Israeli suicide drone. Fact-finding is journalism 101. Did they not teach you that in hasbara school?

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Sakir Khader

@sakirkhader

6 months

Israel has been given full immunity to do whatever it wants. To kill us one by one as the world continues to watch, too busy defending the Israeli aggression and whitewashing their crimes. Yet they keep calling this a war between Israel and Hamas. It never was..

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Sakir Khader

@sakirkhader

2 years

Young children standing on the edge Ahmad’s grave during his funeral. He was shot in cold blood by an Israeli sniper on mount Sabih in Beita, Palestine.

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Sakir Khader

@sakirkhader

9 months

The birds have migrated because they are privileged to leave. Their wings carry them wherever they want to go. The birds have migrated and left the people of Gaza stuck between the wall and the sea..

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Sakir Khader

@sakirkhader

9 months

The sound of children playing is no more. Now it’s a mother's hoarse voice echoing through the Gazan streets as she’s desperately screaming her children’s names between the ruins of her bombed house, hoping a survivor will respond..

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Sakir Khader

@sakirkhader

7 months

I’ve been working on this project for many months. Witnessing too many of us being killed and saying farewell forever to numerous friends, I tried to capture our society in an intimate way from the heart of Jenin. This is the story of everyday Palestine.

Dying to Exist. The impossible choice for a generation of young Palestinians in the Jenin refugee...

Generations of Palestinians are living in the Jenin refugee camp on the West Bank, dreaming of returning to the regions they originally came from. Some of them decide to take up arms. Israel consid...

www.volkskrant.nl

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Sakir Khader

@sakirkhader

7 months

It’s also a massive stab in the back to all Palestinian journalists who were brutally murdered by Israelis while doing their job, hoping the press sign would protect them. Shame on you, CNN.

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Sakir Khader

@sakirkhader

8 years

Heartbroken Syrian man mourns loss of his wife and son killed in todays heavy strikes on the ancient city of Aleppo.

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Sakir Khader

@sakirkhader

9 months

The birds have migrated and left the angel to take the souls of the Gazans. And now we say the Gazans are migrating. Migrating to heaven.

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Sakir Khader

@sakirkhader

2 months

Then this: trying to change the context of the word martyr in his own favor. Shaheed means witness. And in Palestine, everyone who gets killed by the Israelis is a shaheed. From young to old. From armed to unarmed. From doctor to journalist.

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Sakir Khader

@sakirkhader

2 years

His father got killed by American special forces during a night raid on their village.

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Sakir Khader

@sakirkhader

5 months

Hi Israa, what is your dream? A little silence. And she looks up and closes her eyes. Then she takes a deep breath and looks down again. I want to die, she says in a soft voice. What? I want to die, uncle. But Israa, if I die and you die, who is going to rebuild our land?

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