Diala

#Humanitarian, advocate for #women & equal #racial rights. Comms Coordinator - #MSF/ Doctors Without Borders. Views are all mine. RT doesn’t mean endorsement.

[MSF Sea @MSF_Sea]

📢We’re hiring a Field Communications Coordinator. If you have solid experience in humanitarian communications, and the ability to lead and support the SAR communications team, apply here: https://t.co/1L9UIb0zTl

This position is open only to candidates with MSF experience.

[MSF International @MSF]

We are concerned about our colleagues who we have not had contact with following recent violence in Lankien and Pieri, South Sudan.

https://t.co/xUXZCTXIiK

[MSF East Africa @MSF_EastAfrica]

This past Friday, we hosted the Humans in Transit screening and panel at Unseen Nairobi. Thank you to everyone who attended and engaged so thoughtfully - your participation helped amplify the voices and stories of people on the move.

🔗: https://t.co/D0ExmZ1XCu

[Diala @DialaGhassan]

Let us be clear… Ceasefire is not peace. Ceasefire is not the end of ethnic cleansing and genocide of Palestinians. Ceasefire is not justice and liberation! There is no peace while people are still colonized. #FreePalestineGaza

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

💥Again: Ceasefire according to Israel=“you cease, I fire.” Calling it “peace” is both an insult and a distraction.
All eyes on Palestine: Israel must face justice, sanctions, divestment, boycott UNTIL occupation, apartheid and genocide are over and every crime is accounted for.

[Gaza Notifications @gazanotice]

“Silence is complicity.”

This month, @TheLancet one of the world’s leading and most influential medical journals features Gaza on its cover, highlighting the ongoing health genocide committed by the Israeli army against civilians.

[Censored Humans @CensoredHumans]

Greta Thunberg shares a video highlighting the conditions in which Palestinian adults and children are being held by Israel, following her release

[Mustafa Barghouti @Mustafa_Barghouti @MustafaBarghou1]

The Israe prime minister Netanyahu ordered the closure of the Allenby bridge till further notice. The bridge is the only entry and exit point for 3.2 million Palestinians living in the West Bank. Netanyahu’s decision practically imprisons the whole Palestinian population in the West Bank following his imprisonment of 2.2 million Palestinians in Gaza for more the last two years.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Recognizing Palestine while you’re helping to erase it is political theater.

Recognize Israel’s genocide, occupation and apartheid, use your power to end it, and hold the perpetrators accountable. That would be meaningful political action.

[Diala @DialaGhassan]

Doctors can’t stop a genocide but world leaders can. Take action #msf #ENDTHEGENOCIDE #Gaza

[MSF International @MSF]

Each day, our 1,118 colleagues working in Gaza face the devastating reality that they cannot stop a genocide.

But world leaders can, if they choose to act.

[Diala @DialaGhassan]

“The Israeli military must stop its destruction of water infrastructure and allow the immediate repair of water systems that have been damaged to ensure people have life-sustaining access to water. Water and other necessities of life must not be used as weapons of war.”@MSF #Gaza

[MSF International @MSF]

After 22 months of Israel destroying and restricting access to critical infrastructure, the amount of water available in Gaza is wholly insufficient.

We would be able to produce more, but Israel is blocking the import of critical water treatment items:

https://t.co/i7Uax4A02w

[Brandon Stanton @humansofny]

“When I entered Gaza the Israeli military had a rule: I was only allowed to bring in three kilos of food. As I was weighing out protein bars, trying to get under the limit, I said to my husband: ‘How sinister is this?’ I’m a humanitarian aid worker. Why would there even be a limit on food? I’ve worked in many places with extreme hunger, but what’s so jarring in this context is how cruel it is, how deliberate. I was in Gaza for two months; there’s no way to describe the horror of what’s happening. And I say this as a pediatric ICU doctor who sees children die as part of my work. Among our own staff we have doctors and nurses who are trying to treat patients while hungry, exhausted. They’re living in tents. Some of them have lost fifteen, twenty members of their families. In the hospital there are kids maimed by airstrikes: missing arms, missing legs, third degree burns. Often there’s not enough pain medication. But the children are not screaming about the pain, they’re screaming: ‘I’m hungry! I’m hungry!” I hate to only focus on the kids, because nobody should be starving. But the kids, it just haunts you in a different way. When my two months were finished, I didn’t want to leave. It’s a feeling I haven’t experienced in nearly twenty years of humanitarian assignments. But I felt ashamed. Ashamed to leave my Palestinian colleagues, who were some of the most beautiful and compassionate people that I’ve ever met. I was ashamed as an American, as a human being, that we’ve been unable to stop something that is so clearly a genocide. I remember when our bus pulled out of the buffer zone. Out the window on one side I could see Rafah, which was nothing but rubble. On the other side was lush, green Israel. When we exited the gate, the first thing I saw was a group of Israeli soldiers, sitting at a table, eating lunch. I’ve never felt so nauseous seeing a table full of food.”

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Aqsa Durrani is a pediatric doctor and board member of Doctors Without Borders USA, with nearly twenty years of experience in humanitarian projects. During our interview Aqsa repeatedly expressed a desire to center the voices of her Palestinian colleagues. To this end I’ve spent the past week collecting stories from the Palestinian staff of Doctors Without Borders in Gaza. I will be sharing these stories over the next several days. I’m so grateful for the time that these people gave me; they were sleepless, hungry, traumatized, and often working 24-hour shifts. Because of the unreliable internet connection their images are sometimes grainy. Their words, however, will be crystal clear.

[Diala @DialaGhassan]

Israel killed more than 200 Palestinian journalists and reporters during their genocide campaign on Gaza. They will never silence the voice of justice, truth and freedom. May they all rest in peace @AnasAlSharif0

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Four Al Jazeera staff, including reporter Anas Al Sharif, were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent for journalists outside the main gate of Gaza's al-Shifa hospital https://t.co/MMKatjgeAa

[Diala @DialaGhassan]

Community based initiative in Sila, #Chad

[MSF International @MSF]

In Sila, Chad, members of the community were trained by @ibancolon to produce a video which explains how our teams empower the community to make decisions and implement health activities, in a more sustainable approach. 

Full video: https://t.co/3TFykVhDkO

[MSF International @MSF]

Significant aid cuts to humanitarian aid in Gambella, Ethiopia, led to the rapid deterioration of living conditions for refugees.

Basic services such as food distribution, healthcare, access to clean water, and sanitation services have been strained.

https://t.co/hlDXRzqpmb

[MSF International @MSF]

South Darfur, Sudan, is facing a deadly cholera outbreak. As of 5 August, the Ministry of Health in South Darfur has reported 1,440 suspected cases and 74 deaths. We are supporting cholera treatment centres that are now overwhelmed. This catastrophic situation could have been avoided with vaccines, however they are still not even available in Darfur.  

Why?
• 18 June 2025: the International Coordinating Group on Vaccine provision approves to transport 550,000 cholera vaccines to Chad, bound for South Darfur. 
• Chad is the fastest way to bring to the patients given the difficulties of transporting supplies from Port Sudan during the rainy season.
• Today, 7 weeks since the vaccines have been approved, nothing seems to be happening. 

Action must be taken NOW:
@UNICEF must urgently arrange transportation to Chad and immediately on to South Darfur and other areas in critical need. 
@WHO must organise a large-scale vaccination campaign in South Darfur urgently. 

We are ready to support, but action must be taken NOW to prevent more deaths.

[Diala @DialaGhassan]

We say it as it is, a genocide is taking place in #Gaza and it must end NOW. #endthegenocideingaza @AzG_nl @MSF #notatarget #LetAidIn #letgazalive

[Oxfam International Media Team @newsfromoxfam]

🚨REACTION: Responding to Gaza airdrops and Israel’s announcement of a "tactical pause," @Oxfam says what’s needed is the immediate opening of all crossings for full, unhindered, and safe aid delivery across all of Gaza.
#CeasefireNow
#LetAidIn

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

It is so late, Ms Kallas.

Only sanctions can stop Israel.

Suspending the EU agreement with Israel is a must.

Anything less will be just performance, which the millions of Europeans who are grieving for the genodice in Gaza, would much prefer being spared from.

[MSF International @MSF]

We have 983 colleagues in Gaza, Palestine, who are tirelessly working through the Israeli forces’ destruction of the healthcare system in the Strip.

This is how they cared for people in the last 4 weeks:

[Diala @DialaGhassan]

Gaza is being maimed, starved and destroyed systematically and intentionally. Silence is not an option! #stopthegenocid