Israel's destruction of Gaza's healthcare system and public health infrastructure is a central aspect of its genocidal campaign against Palestinians. This strategy impedes accurate death toll counts and exacerbates fatalities through infectious diseases & lack of medical care!
Palestinian writer Susan Abulhawa visited Gaza twice this year between February and May, witnessing firsthand the unimaginable scale of Israel’s actions. Based on statistics from the WHO, scientific literature detailing morbidity and mortality data for various conditions in Gaza, Abulhawa uses math to estimate a staggering reality: while the official death toll stalled at 30,000 for months before climbing to 37,000, they grossly underestimate the true death toll.
These figures only account for identified victims of 'direct fire'. Hundreds of thousands more remain uncounted—unidentified bodies or body parts, those who died due to a lack of medicine and healthcare, those buried by their loved ones without getting to hospital, those who starved to death, those trapped under the rubble, those who succumbed to torture while abducted by the IOF and/or those missing.
Abdallah and Maryam Farhat. Killed by Israel in southern Lebanon yesterday along with their siblings. Wherever they go, they kill children. If I posted pictures of Israel’s child victims ONLY, since October 7th, one every day, it would take almost 60 years.
@macklemore@sinanantoon May the force be with you! Please don’t acquiesce to the genocide club! This means so much to the people of Palestine and Lebanon !
If you follow the BDS movement and boycott the brands complicit in genocide and ethnic cleansing , you feel like you are undergoing a healthy cleanse from capitalism . You buy less. You need less.
@WearThePeaceCo Boycott boycott boycott. Boycotting campaigns work. See what happened with puma ! They are trying to normalize and overlook atrocities committed by these people. Our job is simple and easy. Don’t let them. Boycott ! So many other choices !
Who are the sexual perverts?
https://t.co/WOUciEGhbg
New long-form essay on how for centuries Muslims & Arabs have been cast as having a pathological relationship with sex - as having some sort of an inherent or inherited proclivity toward sexual perversion, deviance and violence - and how the example of Israeli sexual violence over the past three years has been treated, by design, not as pathological but as an incidental aberration.
This isn’t an essay that says ‘it’s because of racism’ or ‘the media has a double standard’ - instead, it’s an exploration of violence comes to acquire the meaning that it does.
I’m so proud to finally share ALL WE HAVE a Palestinian animation film about love, stolen time & resistance under occupation. Written & produced by yours truly, and directed by the brilliant Amer Hlehel & Mahmoud Ghalwa. Poetry meets stunning visuals, carried by a powerful original score by Nahed ElRayes.
Learn more: https://t.co/K0H9awVwc8
There are many realities in Gaza that rarely make it into daily coverage. One of them: there is not a single functioning MRI machine left in the entire Gaza Strip. All seven machines that once existed were destroyed by the Israeli occupation.
Doctors are now forced to diagnose and treat many patients without MRI scans, making already difficult medical decisions even harder.
These are the ruins of Bint Jbeil.
Israel has been systematically destroying towns and villages in Lebanon. This is an act of genocide.
Genocide is defined under Article Il of the 1948 UN Genocide Convention as any act committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial, or religious group. One of the five acts is “deliberately imposing destructive life conditions.”
More than 65 towns and villages in Lebanon are still under Israeli occupation and are undergoing daily illegal civilian home and infrastructure demolitions.