the fact that the israeli soldiers who are being killed in Lebanon are the same ones who committed the genocide in Gaza tells you that there is no justice in this world but in the hands of those who seek it.
Colonialism is not a thinking machine, nor a body endowed with reasoning faculties . It is violence in its natural state, and it will only yield when confronted with greater violence.
Frantz Fanon
I stayed, I stayed,
Among thundering swords,
Gazing at mine,
Its eroded blade—
The sun collapsed,
Has it ever shone?
Am I a cloud?
In a shattered alley,
That kills passengers, but doesn't die,
I lignified,
Longing for the blade,
I broke
In the last line
Of our forbidden book.
From the Jordan River to the East, all the way to the shores of the Mediterranean Sea to the West. Between lies the land of Palestine: its cities, villages, olive groves, hills, fields, memories, and people.
Therein also lies the future where every Palestinian can live with freedom, dignity, safety, and self-determination.
Palestinians will be liberated. Will be free. Will be sovereign. A future where the indigenous will no longer be displaced, occupied, besieged, or denied their basic rights.
From the river to the sea, Palestinians will be free.
Help us support Palestinians in Gaza. Aid is resistance against oppression, against occupation. Asssit with basic necessities and give to our General Fund link: https://t.co/1j2S3Rp86s
My translation of a new poem by my friend Hamed Ashour, who is in Gaza and writing from there:
And just like this,
whenever you smile,
I see sorrowful peoples migrating from one cheek to another,
mistaking—while thirst is killing them—
every dimple they encounter
for a well of water.
Eid mubarak to our people in Palestine, Iran, Sudan, and Lebanon. Eid mubarak to our martyrs, prisoners, elders, children, and freedom fighters. Eid mubarak to those who have sacrificed everything to fight for a world free from imperialism and colonialism.
The ONLY medical point in Northern Gaza is the Tawba Clinic by The Sameer Project. Recently, Aljazeera’s team came to visit and see the work done in our medical point.
Support our clinic: https://t.co/LLwKJegeB1
The location of this medical point is not a coincidence. It is the only one in the area and the closest hospital is 45 minutes to an hour away. Jabalia and Beit Lahia are extremely close to the yellow line, where daily bombings and shootings are happening. And more than 20,000 Palestinians chose to go back and live in their neighborhoods. So it is our role to support their steadfastness through this medical point.
Currently, the Tawba Clinic by The Sameer Project costs a minimum of $70,000 per month. That is around $2,300 per day to serve 200-250 patients daily for FREE. This clinic saves lives and provides relief to thousands of people thanks to your support.
Donate today to the Medical Campaign to keep supporting the Tawba Clinic by The Sameer Project: https://t.co/LLwKJegeB1
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my father is in Gaza, fighting illness without the treatment he needs...
I wake up every day praying he’s still safe...
Distance has never felt this cruel… I just want him to survive!!
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We persist in treating international law as a set of universal constraints when in reality it functions with a veneer of legitimacy that sanitizes imperial violence. It is bureaucratic theater used by the powerful to narrate their dominance, allowing them to pretend there exists some 'rule-based order' whereby the weak can formalize their grievances.
The attacks across south Lebanon, Gaza, the occupied West Bank, et al. being violations of international law does not matter because, for those in the crosshairs of the metropole, international law does not exist.
While you spend your energy invoking legal arguments, the settler spends his energy refining the material occupation.
No one can truly understand what I’m going through!!
If sharing this could help even a little, pls don’t scroll past....
This is a feeling I wouldn’t wish on anyone :(
Today, I spoke to people returning to Dahye (Beirut's souther suburb) whose homes have been partially or completely destroyed, and many of their faces beam with pride. One woman, a local teacher whose apartment in Haret Hreik was carved out after an Israeli airstrike, the roof completely collapsed, told me: "For the sake of our resistance we would have endured even more. For the sake of a single boot of our resistance fighters fighting on the borders we gave what we could, and if they asked for more, we would have gladly offered it."
There are already local efforts in numerous areas across Dahye to clean up and rebuild and while there is a sense of victory that has taken over, people are still asking everyone to remain vigilant and aware of their surroundings due to Israel's notorious disregard for ceasefire agreements and human life.
A shopkeeper in my own neighbourhood was sweeping glass out from his store and preparing to restock his goods, with a smile on his face. "Thank God for your safety," he told me. "Is there anything more beautiful than returning? There is nothing more beautiful than being home," he said.
Ritaj was sitting at her desk at Abu Ubaida bin al-Jarrah School when she was shot in front of her classmates https://t.co/QPaMBlVnRm // My latest news report on Gaza, West Bank and Lebanon
Among the 200+ killed by Israel in Lebanon yesterday: Poet and grandmother Khatoun Salma, who had two volumes of poetry published by @daraljadeed2 (publisher of the Arabic edition of my book). Killed with her husband Muhammad in the strike on Beirut's Tallet al-Khayat.