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mrsvoldemort · 6 months

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I’ve been in a constant state of pain and disbelief since the Genocide in Gaza started. I have an undergrad in IR, and in IR we tend to read about Genocides. I remember in my second semester we read about the Rwandan Genocide and the Holocaust. I remember thinking how could normal civilians be enticed into killing people, children, pregnant women, and men, all who look like them. This Genocide made me realise that it’s actually pretty easy to mobilise the masses against the oppressed. All you have to do is look at the example of Israel. They dehumanised the Palestinians, called them animals and children of dark. They posted pictures where they were the shoe stomping on a cockroach labelled ‘Gazans’. Their use of propaganda against Palestinians is unparalleled. Their control over media means the ethnic cleansing and genocide isn’t even being broadcast. It makes my heart ache. My soul cry out in despair. How am I supposed to go on in my life when a few miles away from me people are being carpet bombed every single moment of the day. Be it day or night. There are families that have been wiped off and you expect me to go out and function.

This is not a war, it’s a genocide. Israel is a nazi state. It is a zionist state. Calling it out is not antisemitism. Not calling it out is.

Free Palestine

From the River to the Sea!!!

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pilloclock · 6 months

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There are no words

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remuslupinkinnie1979 · 2 months

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GO ON TIKTOK AND SEARCH THE HASHTAG

#ProtectGazaWomen

PLEASE, THIS IS URGENT. WATCH DR IDA'S VIDEO! SHARE, REPOST, LIKE, COMMENT, ADD TO FAVS JUST BOOST IT AS MUCH AS YOU CAN! PALESTINIAN WOMEN NEED OUR HELP! LET'S MAKE EVERYONE KNOW ABOUT WHAT'S HAPPENING!

#free palestine #free gaza #protect gaza women #ceasfire now #save gaza #feed north gaza #save rafah #protect gaza #protect palestine #save palestine

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ofdinosanddais1 · 5 months

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If you care about ending violence, you will care about condemning Israel first and foremost. We can condemn Hamas for the October 7th attack but we cannot truly rightfully condemn them without condemning Israel's decades of violence that created Hamas' attack as a reaction.

I will never view Hamas' attack as a good thing. It's not. People died. And the way you greatly reduce the chances of an attack like that happening again is addressing Israel's role in it. If you care about the people who died in that attack, then you would condemn Israel for all the ways they fueled that fire.

Israel does not view Palestinians as human. You can see it from how they speak about them. If Israel cared about protecting itself, it wouldn't have provoked the attacks by committing atrocities like the Nakba. It would clean up its treatment of Palestinians. They would make sure their police listen to Palestinians who report crime. They would give Palestinians citizenship at the very least. They would fix their prison system to not discriminate against Palestinians.

I think Elon Musk said it best that for every child you kill in Gaza, you are creating more Hamas members. It's like if you wanted to prevent a disease, you would partake in stuff like handwashing and not smoking and getting your vaccinations and getting regular checkups at the doctor. If Israel wants Hamas gone then it is up to Israel as the occupier of that land to clean up their treatment of Palestinians.

If you don't condemn Israel's actions for what led up to and caused the October 7th attack, then you don't want peace. You want an excuse for genocide.

#it's a dark time to be agreeing with Elon Musk on this #a broken clock is right twice a day i guess #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #free palestine #pacifism #prison reform #protect palestine #protect gaza #protect children

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intersectionalpraxis · 24 days

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This is the last birthday photo taken of Shireen before she was assassinated by the IOF nearly a month later:

Happy Birthday to an incredible woman who should still be here. You will always be remembered and forever missed.

#feminist #social justice #free palestine #palestine #free gaza #settler violence #settler colonialism #israel is a terrorist state #israel is committing genocide #israel is evil #end the occupation #shireen abu akleh #palestinian americans #palestinian journalists #journalists #protect journalists #gaza strip #gaza #gaza genocide

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esyra · 6 months

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After the hospital bombing, I finally heard back from my grandmother and confirmed that several of my relatives were murdered by Israeli bombing. Seven of them, to be precise. Three are still going, including her. We've been talking constantly ever since.

Asked if it was possible to head south, and was told they did but were also bombed there. So they decided to go back home, in Zeitoun. Their home was bombed and they were pulled out of the rumble, then driven by ambulances to the al-Ahli Arab Hospital. There were people in every corner. Gazans sheltering, sleeping on the floor. Gazans dying on the floor, waiting for beds.

Four were declared dead on arrival, three were in need of surgery and other three were just bandaged. Then, a bomb was dropped in the parking lot that made parts of the ceiling collapse, like Dr. Ghassan Abu Sittah reported in that horrific conference/interview. Those in need of surgery died.

By the way, just in case you didn't know: the Church of Saint Porphyrius, the third oldest in history, bombed by Israel a few days back, was located near the hospital.

When looking for new shelter, they saw schools with signs hanging outside, "We can't take any more families." They met families, sympathetic but already sheltering too many people. They're now staying in an apartment building they found empty. Sleeping in the corner of the living room. If the family comes back, they'll apologize and leave.

Told me she was saving her phone battery for when the bombing stopped, and she had to ask for help to rebuilt the neighborhood. But she doesn't think it's gonna stop anymore. The ones still with her are mute most of the time, like they're saving energy, but she feels lonely and wanted to talk. There's no internet and to connect to WhatsApp, people are buying "a card from the supermarket, there's a password and username." Not sure what she meant. Still, the internet is inconsistent and won't load neither videos or images nor pages, so she doesn't know what's happening on the outside world.

Told her there were a lot of people protesting to stop the genocide, she replied, "The bombings are getting worse by the day." The bombing yesterday was the worst she ever witnessed. The entire neighborhood is infested with the smell of death, of decomposing bodies. Bodies are piling up in the streets and she's not sure if it's because they ran out of places to store them, but most of them are in bags. The smoke of the bombings hide the blue sky—she hasn't seen the clouds for a while.

Asked if I could share their pictures, names and dreams with people and was told, of which I partly agree, "they're not entertainment." If anyone genuinely cared, they would be alive—I'd argue there are people who do care, but I'm not gonna lecture her pain. And they don't deserve to be used to fulfill someone's sick fantasy. Told me to remember what some Israelis do with pictures of dead Palestinians. And I do.

For those of you who are not familiar, many times before settlers got together to celebrate the murder of Palestinians. For one, in 2015, Israeli settlers set a house in Duma, West Bank on fire. An 18-month old baby, Ali Dawbsheh, was burnt alive. Both parents later died of wounds and only a 5-year-old, Ahmad, survived, although severely injured.

Two celebrations of their murder are widely known, one at a wedding and others outside the court in which two were indicted for the terrorist attack. In the wedding, guests stabbed a photo of the toddler, Ali, while others waved guns, knives and Molotov cocktails. Israel's Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben-Gvir, was present.

That's what happens in an apartheid. Palestinians are so abused by authorities that their "innocent civilians" come to accept the brutality as necessary or are desensitized by our suffering. After all, it's been 75 years—get used to it!

So I won't risk the image of my loved ones, in fear they are used in these kinds of depravity. I will say, though, the world lost a young footballer. Lost a female writer and an aspiring ballerina. Lost a kind father, who was also a great cook, and a loving mother that enjoyed sewing and other types of handicraft art. Lost a math teacher and a child that wanted to become one.

People think Israel is testing new weapons on them. There's civilians arriving at the hospital with severe burns, which they thought was from white phosphorus, but apparently the pattern is different from the one caused by white phosphorus. It's widely believed Israel tests weapons in Palestinians.

Jeff Halper, author of War Against the People, a book on Israel's arms and surveillance technology industries, said: "Israel has kept the occupation because it's a laboratory for weapons."

They've ran out of drinkable water and the "aid" Biden sent was only for the South of Gaza and no fuel, for hospitals, was allowed in. Many shelves in the supermarket are empty. She said many are convinced that if they don't die from the bombing, they'll die from starvation or dehydration, or whatever disease will develop from the dirty water they're drinking.

Told me all people do now is pray, cry and die. Told me she hopes West Bank is spared. Told her Israel bombed a mosque in West Bank and dozens of Palestinians in West Bank are being murdered by settlers, so she bided me goodbye.

#palestine #free palestine #gaza #free gaza #may allah protect them #may almighty allah see our pain #hopefully she'll message me tomorrow

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heyimboredtalktome · 6 months

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#this is one of the most terrifying things i have ever seen #ya allah please protect the palestinians #death to israel #fucking die DIE DIE NETANYAHU AND BIDEN #free palestine #free gaza #gaza strip #gaza #israel palestine war

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tomi4i · 27 days

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The land is ours

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sugas6thtooth · 4 months

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#free palestine #palestine #gaza #free gaza #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #pray for palestine #gaza strip #motaz azaiza #protect journalists #journalism #genocide #mental health #israel is committing genocide #ceasefire #america #usa #israel #permanent ceasefire

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wearenotjustnumbers2 · 5 months

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Israel warplanes are back in gaza's sky.

#god protect them and keep them safe 🙏#we should've known better than to trust Israel's word #palestine #gaza #israel #important #current events #free palestine #ethnic cleansing #free gaza #gaza strip #gaza under attack #israel apartheid #israel is an apartheid state #israel is a terrorist state

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heartcountry · 6 months

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-Tareq Hajjaj, a journalist and writer from Gaza

#i do not know if he is still alive #if he is may God protect him #if he isn’t then may his stories live on #gaza #palestine

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odinsblog · 1 month

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“I first started noticing the journalists dying on Instagram. I'm a journalist, I'm Arab, and I've reported on war. A big part of my community is other Arab journalists who do the same thing.

And when someone dies, news travels fast. Recently, I pulled up the list that the Committee to Protect Journalists has been keeping and looked at it for the first time. There are 95 journalists and media workers on it as of today.

Almost everyone on it is Palestinian. Scrolling through, I started to get angry. These were the people carrying the burden of documenting this whole war.

Israel is not allowing foreign journalists into Gaza, except on rare occasions with military escorts. These people's names are being buried in a giant list that keeps growing. What I want to do is lift some of them off the list for a moment and give you a glimpse of who they were and the work they made.

I'll start with Sadi Mansour. Sadi was the director of Al-Quds News Network, and he posted a 22-second video on November 18. That was a report from the war, but it also gave me a picture into his marriage.

Sadi's wearing his press vest and looks exhausted. He's explaining that cell service and the Internet keep getting cut off, and it's often impossible to text or call anyone, including his wife. So they've resorted to using handwritten letters to communicate while he's out reporting, sending them back and forth with neighbors or colleagues.

He ends the video with a picture of one of these letters from his wife. In it, she writes,

‘Me and the kids stayed up waiting for you until the morning, and you didn't come home. We were really sad.

I kept telling the kids, Look, he's coming. But you didn't show up. May God forgive you.

Come home tomorrow and eat with us. Do you want me to make you kebab or maybe kapse? Bring your friends with you, it's okay.

And give Azeez the battery to charge. What do you think about me sending you handwritten letters with messenger pigeons from now on? Ha ha ha.

I'm just kidding. I want to curse at you, but we're living in a war. Too bad.

Okay, I love you. Bye.’

A few hours after he shared that letter, Sadie and his co-worker Hassouna Saleem were at Sadie's home, when they were killed by an Israeli air strike that hit his house.

His wife and kids, who weren't there, survived.

Gaza is tiny, and the journalist community is really close. Reading the list, you can see all the connections between people. Like with Brahim Lafi.

Brahim was a photojournalist, one of the first journalists to die. He was killed while reporting on October 7. He was just 21, still new to journalism.

On his Instagram, you can see that in his posts just a few years ago, he was still practicing his photography, taking pictures of coffee cups and flowers. Then he started doing beautiful portraits and action shots. You can really feel him starting to become a journalist.

Clicking around on Instagram, I found a tribute post about Brahim from his co-worker Rushdie Sarraj. In this photo, Brahim staring intently at the back of a camera, his face lit up by the light from the viewfinder. He looks so young.

The caption reads, My assistant is gone. Brahim is gone. Rushdie himself was a beloved journalist and filmmaker.

And I know that because he's also on the list. He was killed just two weeks after Brahim. I read the tribute post to him too.

I saw this over and over again. Journalists posting tributes, who were then killed themselves soon after. And a tribute goes up for them.

And then the pattern continues.

Thank you.

Something else I saw over and over on the list, journalists later in the war who had become aware that they could be making their last reports. They'd say it at the beginning of their videos. And those were the hardest to watch, especially when it was true.

One video like that was posted by Ayat Hadduro. Ayat was a freelance journalist and video blogger. Her videos before the war covered a wide range from what I can tell, interviews about women in politics.

She even appeared in a commercial for ketchup-flavored chips. She clearly liked being in front of the camera. Once the war started, Ayat's pivoted to covering bombings and food shortages.

On November 20, she posted a video report from her home. You can hear the airstrikes hitting very close to where she is. It's scary.

‘This is likely my last video. Today, the occupation forces dropped phosphorus bombs on Beit Lahya area and frightening sound bombs. They dropped letters from the sky, ordering everyone to evacuate.

Everyone ran into the streets in the craziest way. No one knows where to go.

But everyone else has evacuated. They don't know where they're going. The situation is so scary.

What's happening is so tough, and may God have mercy on us.’

She was killed later that day.

Targeting journalists, in case you didn't know, is a war crime. So far, the Committee to Protect Journalists has found that three of the journalists on the list were explicitly targeted by the IDF, the Israeli military. Investigations by the Washington Post and Reuters, Human Rights Watch and the United Nations have also raised serious questions in these three cases.

And the Committee to Protect Journalists is investigating 10 other killings. When we reached out to the IDF for comments, they said, quote, the IDF has never, and will never, deliberately target journalists. That's the answer they always give in these situations.

Meanwhile, dozens of seasoned reporters have fled Gaza. Journalists who worked for Al Jazeera, the BBC, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Reuters, Agence France-Presse. So many media offices were demolished in Israeli airstrikes that the Committee to Protect Journalists stopped counting.

It's not just individual lives that have been destroyed. It's an entire infrastructure.

Thank you.

The name on the list that was hardest for me to look at was Issam Abdullah, because I'd crossed paths with him once. Issam was a Lebanese journalist, a video journalist for Reuters for many, many years. He had just won an award for coverage of Ukraine.

I'm Lebanese and still report there sometimes, and I'd worked with Issam a couple of summers ago. He helped me film a sort of random story in Beirut. I was interviewing this entrepreneur who had started a sperm freezing company after an accident where he spilled a tray of hot coffee on his private area, burning himself.

I know, ridiculous. It was a really silly shoot. Right after we said cut and started to rap, Issam started this whole bit about being in his late 30s, reconsidering his own sperm quality and everything he now realized he was doing to hurt it, and no one could stop laughing.

It was a really good day that felt good to remember and to remember him that way. Issam was killed by the IDF on October 13. His death was one of the three that the Committee to Protect Journalists has identified as a targeted killing.

He was fired upon by an Israeli tank while standing in an empty field on the Lebanon-Israel border with a small group of other journalists. Everyone was wearing press vests with cameras out. They were covering the Hezbollah part of this war.

A few other journalists were injured in the attack, which was captured on video. The IDF says they were responding to firing from Hezbollah, not targeting the journalists. But multiple investigations, including by Reuters, the United Nations, Amnesty International and the AFP, found no evidence of any firing from the location of the journalists before the IDF shot at them.

The journalists in the group and video footage confirmed that there was no military activity near them. I had only met Issam once, barely knew him, but it affected me so much when he died. I know that he understood the risks of his job, but somehow it still felt so random and unfair that he would be struck down like that, following the rules, wearing his press vest and helmet, and a pack of reporters on a sunny day in an open field.

I find myself thinking about him all the time. His last Instagram post was commemorating another journalist, this iconic reporter Shereen Abou Aql who had been killed by the IDF. When I first saw that post in October, I thought how ironic because a week later, Isam also was killed by the IDF.

But then, after spending time reading the list, I realized how common this had become. I still haven't finished going through the list and looking up the people on it. I keep finding things that stick with me, like the funny way this one radio host would cut off a caller who was rambling on for too long.

A tweet from reporter Al-Abdallah that quoted Sylvia Plath. It read, What ceremony of wars can patch the havoc? I'm going to keep going down the list, even though this story is over now.

Just for myself. My own way of bearing witness. Which is, in the end, all that these journalists were trying to do.”

—DANA BALLOUT, The 95. Dana sifts through a very long list—the list of journalists killed in the Israel-Hamas war, and comes back with five small fragments of the lives of the people on it. Dana is a Lebanese-American, Emmy-nominated documentary producer.

#politics #dana ballout #the 95 #palestine #israel #war crimes #gaza #committee to protect journalists #🇵🇸#brahim lafi #shereen abou aql #issam abdullah #ayat hadduro #rushdie sarraj #hassouna saleem #sadi mansour

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ofdinosanddais1 · 6 months

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Another song I wrote for the Palestinian people called "All of earth be free" in response to them being cut off from the world.

This song is meant to be sung as a choir. It is both an expression of grief but also a threat to the Israeli government for their egregious actions. We see what's going on even after you cut us off from their world.

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Worth it all, wasn't it

The title and the fall

The land bleeds from it

A kingdom and a call

And before we all rise

We see it with our eyes

They cut off all the fuel

They steal their supplies

And before we know

The truth will hit us cold

We'll walk before we crawl

And history unfolds

And all, all the children call

For mothers and for sleep

They cradle their hope, hidden underneath

And the truth, the truth is in the skies

We see it all unfold

We hear it down below

So all, all, all of earth be free

And we will fight for peace

All inside our grief

Save us all, all, all of one dream

And we will lie beneath

We'll walk before we crawl,

We save what must be seen

The walls crumble to the ground

They take the children first

When our will is down

Then comes the worst

Explosions in the air

Fire rains on our skin

None of this was fair

No one will win

And all, all the children call

For fathers and for sleep

They cradle their hope, hidden underneath

And the truth, the truth is in the skies

We see it all unfold

We hear it down below

So all, all, all of earth be free

And we will fight for peace

All inside our grief

Save us all, all, all of one dream

And we will lie beneath

We'll walk before we crawl,

We save what must be seen

They were begging you for mercy

Before you cut us off from the world

And the silence calls us for worry

But it seems the lines on our side are blurred

Writing their names on every limb they carry

Hoping someone will know it before we bury

Their souls beneath the rubble sourced from an evil blast

This is all the evidence we never learned from the past

And all, all the children call

For their siblings lost in sleep

They cradle their hope, hidden underneath

And the truth, the truth is in the skies

We see it all unfold

We hear it down below

So all, all, all of earth be free

And we will fight for peace

All inside our grief

Save us all, all, all of one dream

And we will lie beneath

We'll walk before we crawl,

We save what must be seen

#free palestine #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #protect gaza #protect palestinian children #fuck israel #fuck the military

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intersectionalpraxis · 5 months

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this cop also did this to another protestor:

i remember when Instagram mostly banned me from my account for an entire year after posting about police brutality and its' links to white supremacy and institutionalized violence -it was during the height of the BLM movement after George Floyd was murdered. i remember calling out ex-co-workers at the time and people on social media i was mutuals with at the time for saying 'but it's not all cops, some are good,' and my response to that, and will always be: policing systems do MORE harm than good in communities. cops get little to zero training and are allowed to bear arms and have a licences to maim, injure, and kill people (most of whom, are NOT threats). and it's beyond unacceptable. the amount of funding these fucking systems get too when it can be allocated to programs that ACTUALLY do good.

defund the police.

end the occupation and free palestine!

*also, a few people have noted this, but yes, I believe it appears that the cop spat on the memorial candles too. and the fact he will never be fired and told to give up his badge for doing such a heinous thing is just despicable* -and yes all cops are bad.

#feminist #feminism #israel is an apartheid state #palestine #freepalastine🇵🇸#social justice #free gaza #free palestine #israel is committing genocide #intersectionality #defund the police #defund the cops #defund the military #police brutality #protest #protect palestine

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kaapstadgirly · 3 months

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This was posted 4 hours ago by Palestinian photojournalist ph_youseeff. He has cancer and is in dire need of treatment. He has a gofundme in his bio. Here's the link. If you can donate, please do. If not, please share.

gofundme

#palestine #free palestine #free gaza #free west bank #gaza #gaza strip #israel #genocide #social justice #human rights #middle east #important #united nations #protect journalists

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vyorei · 6 months

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Journalists are at severe risk bringing us information through literal bombs falling, take a moment to read this article and think about these people

Full article here:

#free gaza #free palestine #gaza strip #irish solidarity with palestine #palestine #gaza #news on gaza #al jazeera #boycott israel #israel #Journalists #Journalism #Journalist death #Journalist targeting #Committee to Protect Journalists

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