One of the most important monuments in Palestine: The Israeli occupation bombed the Great Omari Mosque During its ongoing aggression against Gaza Strip!
The IOF bombed the Great Omari Mosque in Gaza City, the oldest and largest mosque in the Gaza Strip. It is one of nearly 200 mosques destroyed by the IOF since October 7th.
First built as a church in the 5th century, the mosque has undergone centuries of repeated renovations: destroyed by earthquakes in 1033 and 1260, by the Mongols in 1260, the British in 1925, and the IOF in 2023.
is terrorism about resisting oppression? is terrorism about demanding your birthright to live safely and peacefully in your homeland? is terrorism about hating the killers of your family, your friends and your people?
accusations of terrorism are often weaponized against those fighting for liberation and sovereignty and dignity. the french settlers called the algerians terrorists. the indian government calls the kashmiris terrorists. the pakistani army calls pashtun activists terrorists. the turkish government calls the kurds terrorists. apartheid south africa called nelson mandela a terrorist. americans called the vietcong and the black panthers terrorists. the israelis call the palestinians terrorists. all oppressive regimes are connected. all oppressed people are connected. injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Heba Zagout's art is so touching and beautiful you can feel her yearing and her hope. I'm so heartbroken that I didn't know her before her death. I keep looking at her work everyday and think about her and every artist in gaza and the children that are drawing under airstrikes everytime I look at my art supplies and see children schools with cute drawings on the buildings and doves because she always drew doves.
"but hamas is getting funded by extremist islamic hate groups!" do you think the U.S. government and military giving funding for israeli's war efforts against palestinians is a morally neutral and inherently righteous body that had no influence in the politics of southwest asia as a global colonial superpower. do you really think anything you can say about the people resisting oppression can't be said about the oppressors.
April 1, 2024. Samidoun Network - "Reports that Palestinian political leader, writer, intellectual and freedom fighter Walid Daqqah has been martyred as a prisoner of the Zionist regime. He has been subjected to deliberate medical neglect for years, denied release even as he was terminally ill...
He was prevented from accessing livesaving care and subjected to a slow assassination. Walid Daqqah's writing, thought and contributions to the struggle are immortal.
Our deepest condolences to his wife, Sana Salameh, who struggled tirelessly for his liberation and that of Palestine, and their daughter Milad, born of smuggled sperm as a child of freedom, and the entire Palestinian people. Glory to the martyr!"
Live coverage of the 10th of January 2024 is now closed.
Here is a recap of today's major events.
It is 12am in Ireland now so I have to go to bed.
I'll be back to resume live updates in the afternoon, but due to the ICJ case taking place allegedly being public I may be watching it as it happens if it's streamed. I'll be trying to update during, it's hard not to be glued to a historic event as it occurs.
Also, before I leave, this link will let you buy olive tree saplings for Palestinian farmers. I hope one day I can visit the trees I donated and the farmers who will raise them:
For continuous updates while I'm gone, click the link below:
The news about Hind should enrage you. She is one of more than 13k children who have been slaughtered. Mourn for them, see them as more than numbers, and honor their lives by fighting for a free palestine
[Video description: Dated black and white video of an interview between a man off-screen who speaks in an upper-crust English accent and a handsome brown man in his thirties seated at a table. He is lean with short curly dark hair, a very sixties moustache, and wearing a casual shirt with an open collar. The camera is zoomed in on him, leaning forward on his elbows, head low and tilted towards the interviewer, brow furrowed, and an intense gaze that flicks down at the table after each question in careful contemplation. He speaks with an Arab accent. The timer of the video recording ticks away at the top left of the frame.
Transcript:
Interviewer: "Why won't your organisation engage in peace talks with the Israelis?"
Ghassan Kanafani: "You don't mean exactly peace talks. You mean capitulation. Surrendering."
Interviewer: "Why not just talk?"
Ghassan: "Talk to whom?"
Interviewer: "Talk to the Israeli leaders."
Ghassan: "That's the kind of conversation between the sword and the neck, you mean."
Interviewer: "Well, if there's no swords or guns in the room you could still talk."
Ghassan: "No. I have never seen any talk between a colonialist case and a national liberation movement."
Interviewer: "But despite this, why not talk?"
Ghassan: "Talk about what?"
Interviewer: "Talk about the possibility of not fighting."
Ghassan: "Not fighting for what?"
Interviewer: "Not fighting at all, no matter what for."
Ghassan: "People usually fight for something, and they stop fighting for something so you can't even tell me speak about what—"
Interviewer: "—Stop fighting—"
Ghassan: "—Talk about stop fighting why?"
Interviewer: "Talk to stop fighting to stop the death and the misery, the destruction, the pain."
Ghassan: "The misery and the pain and the destruction and the death for whom?"
Interviewer: "Of Palestinians, of Israelis, of Arabs."
Ghassan: "Of the Palestinian people who are uprooted, thrown in the camps, living in starvation, killed for twenty years and forbidden to use even the name Palestinian?"
Interviewer: "Better that way than dead though."
Ghassan: "Maybe to you, but to us, it's not. To us, to liberate our country, to have dignity, to have respect, to have our mere human rights is something as essential as life itself."
Ghassan Kanafani is one of the heroes of the Palestinian liberation and celebrated in the canon of modern Arab literature. Forced out of his home with his family during the Nakba in 1948 at the age of ten, the shame of their surrender to Zionists moved him to devote his life to Arab nationalism, Marxist movements and Palestinian liberation through his career as a newspaper editor, journalist, novellist and non-combatant member of the armed resistance group Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. He coined the term "resistance literature" for the genre of his writing, that came to be instrumental in shaping the Palestinian national identity and ideology of its resistance. In 1972, he and his 17 year old niece were murdered in a car bomb by Mossad.
His obituary read:
"He was a commando who never fired a gun, whose weapon was a ball-point pen, and his arena the newspaper pages."