🧵 Let’s talk about the lie that “the aid is there, but the UN won’t distribute it.”
Here’s what’s actually happening at the Gaza border — and why Palestinians are still starving.
@SenDuckworth If you really cared about saving billions of taxpayer money you would have voted to halt yet another $8BILLION in bombs to Israel last week. Shame on you. Stop taking AIPAC funds. Support a ceasefire and end U.S. complicity in this horrific slaughter in Gaza.
@SenDuckworth And the right not to be massacred by US bombs provided to apartheid states engaged in ethnic cleansing… stop the weapons flow to Israel, Senator. All women and their families deserve to live in safety on Valentine’s Day and every day.
Today Israeli undercover forces raided both branches of the Educational Bookshop, a well-respected Palestinian institution in Jerusalem.
After an hour search, they confiscated English and Arabic books, and detained the owners Ahmad Muna and Mahmoud Muna.
No filmmaker, writer or artist should ever have to tell the story of their own extermination. Yet 22 courageous Palestinian filmmakers found a way to film their story this past year in Gaza using whatever tools they could pull from the rubble of their homes and cities. The extraordinary film FROM GROUND ZERO — for which I am proud to be an Executive Producer — is the collection of these short films, told all together in under 2 hours. The fact that this film exists at all is a human and cinematic miracle. Go see FROM GROUND ZERO — in theaters now!
The American Historical Association overwhelmingly approved a resolution at its annual meeting on Sunday to oppose "scholasticide" in Gaza, condemning Israel's systematic targeting and destruction of the Palestinian education system and Palestinian educators.
@WendellPierce Given the shameful complicity & support of Israeli war crimes/genocide in Gaza and billions of U.S. weapons sent by Pres. Biden killing Palestinian dreams for freedom for more than 45,000 people in Gaza, I wish the great Denzel Washington had used the moment to refuse this honor.
Thanks for listening to your IL constituents @SenatorDurbin and voting to stop at least one foreign military sale to the Israeli government . We continue to demand a permanent ceasefire and a military embargo, ending US complicity in genocide. https://t.co/giFQXe1N5W
Those soccer fans - or, more accurately, hooligans - were attacking people, ripping down Palestinian flags, and chanting happily that there are no kids left alive in Gaza. Oh, and it’s you and your administration that helped kill 16,000 Palestinian kids. That’ll be your legacy.
From a 91 year old man in #Gaza: “The policy of the occupation aimed at killing us and displacing us must stop. We are the Indigenous people of the land, and we will never leave our land, no matter what happens.” Full story here: https://t.co/QJvEwtmWY9
Is incredibly difficult to move around inside Gaza and to reach those in need here.
Getting aid into and around Gaza is a vast, bureaucratic & logistical challenge.
We must have a ceasefire, and we must have access, so that we can reach those in truly desperate need.
Hello America! Your “Israel has the right to defend itself” has divided north Gaza into three parts and I lost communication with my whole family now.
We will not forget that.
This girl is named, Hanan. Two months ago, her mother was killed in an air strike while she lost her two legs.
She cries, “I need my mother.” That’s all we need, a world that feels us, that stands with us.