Alma Mirvic-Kapic

Optimist by make and choice. Aspirational ecosopher. Goraždanka.
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[Renaud Meyer @renaudmeyer]

Enriching discussion with partners from the Swedish Chemicals Agency coming to #BosniaHerzegovina🇧🇦 to bring expertise & share experience with BiH authorities on #POPs & chemicals management, part of @UNDPBiH Green Transition Portfolio supported by @SwedenBiH

[Philippe Lazzarini @UNLazzarini]

#Gaza: Israeli Forces bombardment continues from air & sea for the third day.
We are fearing that the worst is yet to come given the ongoing ground invasion separating the north from the south.

Evacuation orders forcing people to flee were issued impacting tens of thousands of people. The vast majority have been already displaced, treated like “pinballs” since the war began nearly 1.5 years ago.

In the past few days, another five @UNRWA staff have been confirmed killed, bringing the death toll to 284. They were teachers, doctors and nurses: serving the most vulnerable.

Meanwhile, the siege on the war-torn enclave tightens.
For nearly three weeks now, the Israeli Authorities continue to ban the entry of any humanitarian aid or basic commercial supplies.

Under our daily watch, people in Gaza are again & again going through their worst nightmare. An endless unleashing of the most inhumane ordeals.

No time left, we need now:
- a renewal of the ceasefire
- ⁠a dignified release of all the hostages in Gaza
- ⁠an unimpeded flow of humanitarian aid & commercial supplies.

[Alma Mirvic-Kapic @AlmaMirvic]

Office moments that make you pause to appreciate sunsets.

[UNDP in Bosnia and Herzegovina @UNDPBiH]

The marking of #HumanRightsDay2024 began with the panel "Environmental Human Rights in BiH," followed by the screening of The Sky Above Zenica - winner of the #UNDPBiH Special Environmental Awareness Award at the @30thSFF, highlighting human rights to unpolluted air & a healthy🌎

[European Environmental Bureau @Green_Europe]

📢 Stand with Sunčica Kovačević #StopSLAPPs

She is facing a SLAPP by Green Ivest/BUK d.o.o for speaking out about the harmful impact of small hydro-power plants on the Kasindolska river

💪 Join us in solidarity with Sunčica on her first day in court

🗞️👉https://t.co/WjM8C00LQi

[Alma Mirvic-Kapic @AlmaMirvic]

On this day, 5 years ago, Regional Dialogue Platform in #sarajevo as part of joint regional Dialogue for the Future Project, led by #undpbih. Close to 200 participants from govt, academia, media and youth orgs.
#peacebuilding #dff

[UNICEF @UNICEF]

"Children – deeply unwell children – are being denied the medical care that could save them in Gaza, and then prevented from leaving to places where help awaits.”

Full remarks from UNICEF's @1james_elder on lethal delays in medical evacuation: https://t.co/jXDJ1rGm8W

[UNRWA @UNRWA]

Another night of horror in the #Gaza Strip.

A strike hit a hospital courtyard, burning the tents where people were sleeping. Just before this, an @UNRWA school sheltering families was hit in Nuseirat.

That same school was going to be used as a #polio vaccination site today.

[UNRWA @UNRWA]

Just Tragic.
#Gaza
Six @UNRWA colleagues killed today when two airstrikes hit a school and its surroundings in Nuseirat in the middle areas.
This is the highest death toll among our staff in a single incident.
Among those killed was the manager of the UNRWA shelter and other team members providing assistance to displaced people.
Sincere condolences to their families and loved ones.

This school has been hit five times since the war began.
It is home to around 12,000 displaced people, mainly women and children.
No one is safe in Gaza
No one is spared.

Schools and other civilian infrastructure must be protected at all times, they are not a target.
We call on all parties to the conflict to never use schools or the areas around them for military or fighting purposes.

#CeasefireNOW

[UN Special Procedures @UN_SPExperts]

US, Germany, UK & arms manufacturers incl Boeing, Caterpillar, Lockheed Martin, Rolls-Royce Power & RTX must end weapon transfers to Israel: UN experts
"By continuing arms transfers to Israel, States & companies risk complicity in violations of int'l law"

https://t.co/ny0ob3Ii2B

[Christiane Amanpour @amanpour]

“I miss seeing mama.”

Since the strike, nine-year-old Hanan has been unable to open her eyes -- one of thousands trapped in Gaza, without hope for treatment they need.

@PHancocksCNN reports, with images difficult to watch – but Hanan’s parents want their daughter to be seen.

[Christiane Amanpour @amanpour]

“We saw many patients who'd had surgery for war injuries... they were all disintegrating, falling to pieces… the effects of malnutrition now are going to cause far more excess deaths”. Surgeon @maynard_nick gives me his harrowing account of what he saw as a doctor in Gaza:

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

No words.

[Cynthia Nixon @CynthiaNixon]

Dr. Jill Biden, the UN estimates that two mothers are killed every hour in Gaza. On this Mother’s Day, we call on you as mothers, daughters, sisters, grandmothers and as humans to use your voice and your power

⁦@FLOTUS
#AllEyesOnRafah
#PermanentCeasefireNow
#Artists4Ceasefire

[Alma Mirvic-Kapic @AlmaMirvic]

@Nevid_Teatar Sjajno!

[Alma Mirvic-Kapic @AlmaMirvic]

Owing to sincere enthusiasm and teamwork from both POPs project team in @UNDPBiH & 3d soba from Podgorica, this bench made of recycled plastic is now at the entry to the UN house in #sarajevo.
Hard work, eco design and durability.
#earthday #earthday2024

[Alma Mirvic-Kapic @AlmaMirvic]

Poetry of humanity.

[Alon Mizrahi @alon_mizrahi]

The life of (my) life, soul of my soul

I have been calling my daughter what translates from Hebrew as "the life of life" or "love of love" for some years now; this is a modern, Israeli take of an Arabic use of language.

I grew up in a very Zionist place and time. But I was lucky enough to grow among Mizrahi, Arab Jews; both my father and my beloved uncle spoke Arabic as their first language, and the two, childhood friends, marries two sisters, my mom ant aunt, born in Morocco to Jewish parents.

Arab music was part of the soundtrack of my childhood, and from a young age I knew the names and would recognize the voices of legends such as Farid al-Atrash, Abdel Halim Hafez, Warda, Umm Kulthum, Fairuz and others. My father would also take me with him to work occacionally (he was am aluminum worker in construction), and his teammate Isaa, an Arab from Nazareth, was almost a family friend. We all knew him, and loved and welcomed him whoever we would meet.

I never forgot how one cold winter morning, when I tagged along with my father on a work day, Issa's wife made us coffee and tea, accompanied by sweet, delicious sugar powder-covered cookies, as they wouldn't let us just pick Issa up and go (I certainly can't speak for all Arabs homes but I know enough to say with confidence that you don't just pass through an Arab home: you sit and have coffee and eat something and have some small talk. Arabs Jews are also similar in that regard).

Like many second and 3rd generation Mizrahi Jews, I can't speak Arabic, but I pick up quite a lot of it, and the musicality of the language always sounds a little like home to me.

fortunate to have been exposed to Arabs, Jews and just Arabs, from a young age, I was never intimidated by anything Arab. On the contrary: I grew immensely fond of the gentleness, the warmth of heart, the humor, the special sweetness of an Arab street, store or home.

In later years, I was lamenting the forced disconnect between me and my Arab roots created by Israel's paranoid mentality. Like many other Arab Jews of my generation I was not an Arab anymore, but not really an Israeli as well to this day I am not sure what being Israeli means, really, apart from a negation of Jewish experiences and denial of current realities).

Israeli, just like American or English, connotes whiteness. And white we Mizrahi Jews are not, nor will we ever be.

Unlike many Mizrahi Jews, I refused to become an empty shell, filled only with the ideological content of the state: A de-Arabized Arab Jew. That I wouldn't be. I chose to be free instead.
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When I heard of the way Nur's grandfather, Khaled, called her, and how similar it was to the way I call my daughter, and when I see the suffering, wounds, burns, pain and death of Gaza's children, the memory and consciousness of me and my roots, both known and simply genetic, springs to life immediately, undeniable and bare. These kids are not foreign or alien to me. They are me and mine, too. I feel their pain and fear, I understand the terms of endearment and the farewells of their grief-stricken parents, even as I really understand but a few words here and there. My soul understands Arabic is the way I'd put it.

Zionism's message of fear, hate and suspicion towards Arabs and Palestinians is totally and forever lost on me, and I consider it a personal triumph. I will never hate Arab people.

And I ache the terrible dehumanization of Arab people, societies and communities that have so much beauty, gentleness and love in them. The world will know the truth. I am sure of that, and I will do whatever I can to help bring this day about, which is why I write this.

(and that's me and my daughter)

[Alma Mirvic-Kapic @AlmaMirvic]

Heroes.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

South Africa’s legal team after the presentation at the International Court of Justice.

True heroes of humanity.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

1,000 children AMPUTATED without anaesthesia bcs Israel does not allow its entry into Gaza, together with many other essential supplies.

"The monstruosity of our century."

[Alma Mirvic-Kapic @AlmaMirvic]

Regional Meeting on Environmental Justice starting in #sarajevo today. Close to 50 reps of environment ministries, judiciary, inspection & CSOs in attendance. Jointly organized by @UNDPBiH & UNDP RBEC.
Opportunities 4 exchange and cooperation. @a_bekkoenova #ecojustice