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defiant-firefly · 1 hour
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You’re placed in a room with an animal. The door is closed and you cannot leave. The animal is completely calm and has no intent of harming you. You are in no danger unless you provoke the animal in some way.
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defiant-firefly · 2 hours
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🇵🇸 A Palestinian living outside of Gaza bids farewell to his children on a video call. Tragically, the children were killed by an Israeli airstrike last night, with one of them born and killed during the aggression.
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defiant-firefly · 5 hours
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i can’t believe this is happening… i’ve been thinking of the al-shifa siege for the past five six days and it has literally made me sick. when will this end?
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defiant-firefly · 6 hours
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defiant-firefly · 7 hours
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Despite the UN ceasefire resolution, the occupation continues to commit the same crimes, even at a higher pace after the resolution was passed. Last night felt like I had traveled back in time to October.
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defiant-firefly · 23 hours
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From Occupation to Liberation Quilt
The action began with several concurrent events, including protestors unfurling a 30-by-50-foot quilt on the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s steps, a dabke-inspired performance disrupting the museum’s lobby, and the distribution of fliers in adjacent galleries that detail the institution’s Zionist ties. The quilt, a collection of painted squares contributed by 64 artists around the world, was shipped to New York City and debuted in a reclamation of the city’s largest art museum. 
Read more here.
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defiant-firefly · 1 day
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But the other images I had was like a mass refugee camp. So basically at that point in time, two months ago, about 20,000 people had sought refuge both in the hospital and outside the hospital. And these weren’t tents. They’re still not tents. They’re makeshift shelters with bed sheets or plastic bag sheets. The ones outside sleep on the floor. They’re lucky [if] they get a carpet or a mat. There was one bathroom at the time for about 200 people that they have to share. And inside, the hallways of the hospital were also made into shelters. There was hardly any room to walk, and there’s children running around everywhere. It’s important to remember all these people were not homeless. They all had homes that were destroyed. They’re all displaced people that took shelter in the hospital.
So that’s the kind of mass chaos that I encountered initially, and then I was told that every time there’s a bomb, give it about 15 minutes and the mass casualties come. That was the other thing that at the time shocked me: What we’d been seeing livestreamed on Instagram, on social media or whatever, I actually saw myself and it was worse than I can imagine. I saw scenes that were horrific that I’d never witnessed before and I never want to see again. You have a mother walking in holding her 8, 9-year-old, skinny — because they’re all starving — boy who’s dead, he’s cold and dead and [the mother is] screaming, asking for someone to check his pulse and everybody’s busy in the mass chaos. So that was kind of my initial welcoming scene when I entered Khan Younis the first time.
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What I saw — I’m an eye surgeon, an eye plastic surgeon, and so I saw the classic, what I penned “the Gaza shrapnel face,” because in an explosive scenario, you don’t know what’s coming. When there’s an explosion, you don’t go like this [cover your face], you kind of actually, in fact, open your eyes. And so shrapnel’s everywhere. It’s a well-known fact that the Israeli forces are experimenting [with] weapons in Gaza to boost their weapon manufacturing industry. Because if a weapon is battle-tested, it’s more valuable, isn’t it? It’s got a higher value. So basically they’re using these weapons, these missiles that purposely, intently create these large shrapnel fragments that go everywhere. And they cause amputations that are unusual.
Most amputations occur at the weak points, the elbow or the knee, and so they’re better tolerated. But these [shrapnel fragments] are causing mid-thigh, mid-arm amputations that are more difficult, more challenging, and also the rehabilitation afterward is also more challenging. Also these shrapnels [are] unlike a bullet wound. A bullet wound goes in and out; there’s an entry and exit point. Shrapnel stays there. So you gotta take it out. So the injuries I saw were — I mean, I saw people with their eyes blown apart. And when I was there, and this is my experience, I treated all children when I was there the first time. It was kids that [were aged] 2, 6, 9, 10, 13, 15, and 16, and 17 were the ones that I treated. And their eyes unfortunately had to be removed. They had shrapnel in their eye sockets that I had to remove and, of course, remove the eye. There’s many patients, many children who had shrapnel in both their eyes. And you can only do so much because right now, because of the aid blockade and because of the destruction of most of Gaza, there’s no equipment available to take shrapnel that’s in the eye out. And so we just leave them alone and they eventually go blind.
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I was on the ground, I toured the refugee camps, I went around Rafah, I saw, and if there’s an Israeli invasion, I can’t emphasize enough how catastrophic it’s going to be. It’ll be mass killing, mass destruction, because all these figures come in, 50 dead, 100 wounded. But what people don’t realize is, being wounded is a death sentence. Being wounded in this environment with no health care system, completely collapsed, is a death sentence. And the wounded often will lose everybody, like all family members, so they have no supports, especially children, have nobody left to take care of them, not even aunts and uncles. It will be catastrophic. I don’t know what to say to the world to stop an impending invasion. You’ve got to rein this prime minister of Israel in. You got to do something to stop this stupid invasion that he still wants to do, because it’ll be catastrophic.
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I had one young man, about 25 years old, he lost one eye that I took out myself. He spent about five, six, or seven years, basically spent thousands and thousands of dollars in IVF treatment because he got married young and they wanted to have a child and they couldn’t have one. So he spent years on IVF treatment and finally had a baby that was 3 months old. And there was a missile attack by Israel at his home. He lost his entire family, including his baby and his wife and his parents and family. He’s by himself, single guy. I took his one eye out, and he has nobody in this world. He just kind of walks around the tent structures, just kind of walking around with no home and trying to sleep wherever he can.
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defiant-firefly · 1 day
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The shaheed Ameer Abou Aisha - a medic and emergency operator - celebrating the fact his team of medics managed in: getting flour, making bread with it, and having a good meal to eat during the siege on Ghazzah, back in December of 2023.
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He was killed last night in air strikes on Al Amal hospital.
الله يرحمه.
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defiant-firefly · 1 day
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🚨 According to Al-Arabi TV, the IOF arrested 8 aid truck drivers while they were returning from northern #Gaza.
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defiant-firefly · 1 day
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Round 1 Group 8
African stonechat - Saxicola torquatus
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Bee hummingbird - Mellisuga helenae
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Brown eared pheasant - Crossoptilon mantchuricum
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Common bronzewing - Phaps chalcoptera
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Common kestrel - Falco tinnunculus
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Cresent-caped lophorina - Lophorina niedda
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Please reblog with the bird you voted for and why!
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🎉🎉🎉 Happy possibly late borthday!!! 🎉🎉🎉 Merry escape the womb day!!! 🎉🎉🎉 Congrats on the Age!!! 🎉🎉🎉
Oh yeah. Its now my birthday lol
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This is the final video posted by Ghazzawi Ameer Abou Aisha, before he was killed by the zionist air strikes you see on screen. Do you know what they're bombing? They're bombing Al Amal hospital. At the same time as they bomb the European hospital and siege and raid Al Shifa.
March 24th 2024.
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defiant-firefly · 1 day
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🚨 Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza:
The "israeli" occupation commits 8 massacres against families in the Gaza Strip, with hospitals receiving 46 martyrs and 102 injuries during the last 24 hours.
A number of victims remain under the rubble and on the streets, and the ambulance and civil defense crews cannot reach them.
The toll of the "israeli" aggression has risen to 32,390 martyrs and 74,889 injuries since last 7th of October.
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defiant-firefly · 2 days
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This video was supposedly removed from other platforms. Since I'm only active here and on Reddit, I found it there before it gets taken down from there. I hope it stays up here.
I request you all to keep a copy of the video and upload it if it gets removed. Upload it even if it isn't removed.
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