Game of Thrones stars and other actors read South Africa's case file charging Israel with genocide at the International Court of Justice.
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It was already known that repeated exposure to conflict and violence, including witnessing and experiencing housing demolition, combined with Israel'siege of Gaza since 2007, is associated with high levels of psychological distress amongst Palestinians.
Indeed, the United Nations Security Council Resolution 2712 expressed its deep concern that the disruption of access to education has a dramatic impact on children and that conflict has a lifelong effect on their physical and mental health.
This disruption and its dramatic impact on children must be considered in particular and in the context of the number of Palestinian students and educators who have been killed, 4,037 and 209 respectively, and wounded, estimated at 7,259 and the number of Palestinian schools having been damaged or destroyed 352 or 74% of the schools in the whole of Gaza.
Medical professionals assess that the health effects on all Palestinian children, women, men, older people, people with disabilities and people marginalized identities are immense.
An emergency coordinator for Médecins Sans Frontières interviewed on her return from five weeks in Gaza, describes: It's even worse in reality than it looks. The amount of suffering is just something incomparable. It's really unbearable. I'm speechless when I try and think of the future of these children. Generations of children who will be handicapped, who will be traumatized.
The very children in our mental health program are telling us that they would rather die than continue living in Gaza now.
The extreme levels of bombardment and lack of any safe areas are also causing severe mental trauma in the Palestinian population in Gaza.
Even before the latest onslaught, Palestinians in Gaza suffered severe trauma from prior attacks. 80% of Palestinian children experienced higher levels of emotional distress, demonstrating bed wetting, 79% and reactive mutism, 59% and engaging in self harm, 59% and suicidal thoughts, 55%.
Eleven weeks of relentless bombardment, displacement and loss will necessarily have led to a further increase in those figures, particularly for the estimated tens of thousands of Palestinian children who have lost at least one parent and those who are the sole surviving members of their families.
For the families who remain intact or partially intact, quote, “It's about doing everything you can so your child doesn't realize that you've lost control.”
There are reports of Israeli forces using white phosphorus in densely populated areas in Gaza.
As the World Health Organization describes, even small amounts of white phosphorus can cause deep and severe burns, penetrating even through bone and capable of reigniting after initial treatment.
There are no functioning hospitals in the north of Gaza in particular, such that injured persons are reduced to waiting to die, unable to seek surgery or medical treatment beyond first aid, dying slow, agonizing deaths from their injuries or from resultant infections.
Large numbers of Palestinian civilians, including children, have reportedly been arrested, blindfolded, forced to undress and remain outside in cold weather before being forced onto trucks and taken to unknown locations.
Medics and first responders in particular have been repeatedly detained by Israeli forces, with many being detained in communicado at unknown locations.
Videos published by Israeli media on Christmas Day appeared to show hundreds of Palestinians rounded up inside al-Yarmouk football stadium in Gaza City, including children, older people and persons with disabilities, being forced to strip to their underwear in degrading conditions. United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian affairs, or UN OCHA, reports video footage showing bruises and burns on the bodies of detainees.
Images of mutilated and burned corpses, alongside videos of armed attacks by Israeli soldiers are reportedly circulated in Israel via a Telegram channel called, 72 Virgins Uncensored, billed as exclusive content from the Gaza Strip.
One more point I would like to say is that the conversation around Yuki's attitude is always one sided and honestly a bit racist.
When Yuki has a moment of anger, they'll say it's because he's a hothead or immature. When any of the white drivers, especially Max, has an outburst it's seen as passion for the sport.
I don't think that's fair and why that's brought up constantly when Yuki isn't even angry every race is beyond me. This race, to me, was justifiable anger on the poor strategy.
God forbid you have strong feelings about the thing you've been doing since you were 3 years old. And God forbid if you do that and not be white.
LANDO, YOU'RE INSANE! HE CALLED HIM "OSC" ONCE AGAIN <3
god I LOVE that Oscar just leaned his body in to barely touch Lando's and when Lando pretends to be all 'oh you!' he fully leans back into him and calls him Osc like have we finally reached Oscar being able to cope with Lando's physical form existing casually in his own space ??
the important thing to remember about the "five watching the master burn to death on sarn" situation is that the last time they saw each other was in 'the king's demons' where the master deliberately engineered a situation where the doctor would have to beg for the master's life & then show just how much (little) those words meant by being made to choose an innocent's life over the master's. the master screams as he's being forced into the iron maiden. the doctor can't watch, doesn't even turn his head, squeezes his eyes shut. when it dematerializes, the doctor looks to whatever the gallifreyan equivalent of the heavens is in relief/exasperation. the master laughs to himself in delight inside his tardis. the doctor looks just a little unwillingly fond as tegan asks "what's the master up to?"
so when we get to 'planet of fire', with the master cajoling, threatening, begging, "won't you show mercy to your own—?" it's a boy who cried wolf situation. is he condemning the master to death in that moment? is he letting him burn under the assumption that it is a trick? the hope that it is? clara doesn't tell him "if you have ever let this creature live, everything that happened today is on you" until lifetimes later, but you know that same refrain is running through his head. he can't, in good conscience, save the master — the man who killed his fourth self, who killed nyssa's father & now walks around in his corpse, who destroyed nyssa's entire planet & people & a whole entire third of the universe, who abducted adric & tortured him. i think five looks determined as he watches the master burn but also, briefly, devastated. he walks towards the flames after the master disappears... hoping for what? the sound of the master's tardis again? his laughter? but the doctor has to turn and walk back to his tardis in silence.
Bagism advertisement that reads like a shitpost (what I’ve learned from this exhibition is Yoko’s kind of a shitpost queen)
Here is me and a drawing outline of my shadow. I realised after I left this was a prime opportunity to do shadow puppets so if anyone goes to the exhibition in the future please find the outline that looks like me and draw a shadow puppet of a dog next to it in my honour ❤️
I love this piece. I reminds me of that scene in the original Charlie and the chocolate factory movie—“you stole fizzy lifting drinks!!” 😡
Ladder to yes you will always be famous!!!!!! (Devo they didn’t let you climb it 😞)
This one was inspired by the refugee crisis and the instruction was to write your hopes and beliefs in the room (there was a boat in the room as well)
This was my mam’s favourite piece. They had a video of people who showed up to the exhibition being confused like “I’m disappointed I wanted to see yoko’s art” and an interviewer being like “well this is yoko’s art. It’s conceptual”. And they were like “well ok.” clearly bothered about it. Let it never be said that Yoko’s not funny figdjahska
Overall, it was a really fun exhibition and I think it gave a decent overview of all her work and her personality. My main take away is that she would love audio erotica and those “wreck this journal” notebooks they always sell in art shops. The stuff where she invites audiences to participate is probably my favourite. Oh to have been there in the 60s when she was doing performance stuff.