Louise Merrigan

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[Dr Rahmeh Aladwan @doctor_rahmeh]

White phosphorus ignites instantly on contact with oxygen. It burns at over 800°C. It melts through clothing, skin, muscle — and bone.

In the bloodstream, it becomes a systemic poison. It attacks the heart, liver, and kidneys leading to multi‑organ failure and death.

Monsters.

[Aidan Regan @Aidan_Regan]

Ireland should refuse to play Israel. You don’t share a pitch with a genocidal state and call it sport. Forfeit the 6 points. Rally the world. Embarrass UEFA.

[🇪🇬Sabreen Ragab🇪🇬 @JoK4Y0KPoPAdTm3]

فى مشهد صادم ينتهك كل الخطوط الحمراء في العالم جنود من الجيش الإحتلال الإسرائيلي يقتحموا مدرسة فى مدينة الخليل ليقبضوا على أطفال فلسطينيين في عمر ال 8 سنوات ليحدث رعب كبير لباقى زملائهم في الفصل 😢

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

.@AlexCrawfordSky: "She moves her fingers.. but with nearly half her body burned in an Israeli air strike, any movement at all is painful. Her name is Zaynab, she's only 12, and her entire family was killed in the same attack"

[Gabbar @Gabbar0099]

One of the most widely shared videos worldwide.

Brilliant lecture 🔥

[Marwa Osman || مروة عثمان @Marwa__Osman]

"I cannot begin to describe what I saw. I have spent years in this line of work, taken part in countless rescue and emergency operations, but what I witnessed today at the State Security center is beyond words. Severed legs, arms scattered in every direction. I lifted a decapitated head that was still letting out faint sounds. Blood flowed like water. Not a single body we recovered was whole. I do not know how I will sleep tonight. I am utterly shaken… I have been crying ever since."

—Testimony of a paramedic who took part in recovering the bodies of State Security personnel in Nabatieh following the brutal massacre carried out by Israeli occupation forces.

And yet, Nawaf Salam the sleaze says: "There is no strike without a reason."

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Gaza:

▪️A peer-reviewed study in The Lancet Global Health estimated 75,200 violent deaths between October 7, 2023, and January 5, 2025.

▪️Over 65,000 additional deaths from starvation.

▪️Women and children comprise approximately 60% to 70% of total fatalities.

▪️An additional 10,000 people are estimated to be missing and presumed buried under rubble. 

▪️Over 80% of buildings in Gaza are reported to be damaged or destroyed, with an estimated 320,000+ housing units affected and over 60 million tonnes of rubble created.

Hell on earth. And there is absolutely no justification for this scale of atrocity whatsoever.

[Zehra calligraphy @zehraavadh]

I don’t understand how the world is watching the destruction of Lebanon so comfortably.

[Alex Crawford @AlexCrawfordSky]

The saddest advisory: after at least 100 Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon, advice should you come across a parentless child. It says stay calm and reassure them, take them to the nearest rescue centre, call the authorities

[Jvnior @Jvnior]

🇪🇸 BREAKING: Spanish PM Pedro calls for the IMMEDIATE ARREST of Netanyahu

He said: "Netanyahu launched the worst possible unjustified attack against Lebanon. His contempt for life and international law is intolerable. He is a criminal that must be arrested immediately.”

He also adds that the EU will suspend its Association Agreement with Israel very soon.

This is what true leadership looks like.

[Ali Rida Sbeity @AliRida_SB]

The "Hezbollah" targets hit today by Israel:
📍 A funeral in Shmistar
📍 A Mosque in Saida
📍 A cafe for taxi commuters in Ouzai
📍 A local grocery shop in Ouzai
📍 A traditional bakery
📍 A shop in Rahab Market
📍 A house in a crowded street in Hayy el-Sellom
📍 A car wash in South Lebanon
📍 A grocery shop in Hayy el-Sellom
📍 A pharmacy in Mount Lebanon
📍 A civilian buildings

[Jess Ní Mhaoláin @Jess_NiMhaolain]

I wouldn’t have finished primary school without my SNA.

🎓No BSc in Public Health & Epidemiology
🎓No Master of Business & Science in Government
📖No 20,000-word thesis
🎓No Advanced Dip in Legislative Drafting from Kings Inn.
⚖️No employment.

SNAs are not a luxury.
#sightloss

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Not sure the magnitude of this is fully understood: Israel has wiped out 2,700 families in Gaza, leaving 6,000+ people as the sole survivors of entire bloodlines. This is the result of deliberate policy, pursued with full knowledge of its effects. This is not war. It is genocide.

[KNEECAP @KNEECAPCEOL]

Remember Hind Rajab.

Just 6 years old. She sat for hours on the phone to paramedics with 6 murdered family members around her.

She told them “They are shooting at us. The tank is next to me.”

The Red Cross waited hours for Israel to permit them rescue her.

When the ambulance that was cleared to rescue arrived they executed the medics and then murdered her putting 355 bullets into the car she was in.

Her final words to paramedics and recorded were "I’m so scared, please come".

[mohammed hussein~Gaza 🇵🇸 @mohammedIhysse]

I document for you in this video now a scream of pain from inside Gaza, where the rain flooded our tents this morning. Everyone in the camp is now without shelter because the water drowned the tents and the little children are soaked.
I call on human rights organizations and anyone who can help to intervene and save us in Gaza. We urgently need tarps and tents to protect ourselves from the winter cold and the rain.
A very sad day for our camps in Gaza 💔

[Carl Hindy, Ph.D. @DrCarlHindy]

IF I GET DEMENTIA…..
I’d like my family to hang this wish list up on the wall where I live. I want them to remember these things.

1a. Every time you enter the room announce yourself. “Hi Dad - it’s Amanda.”
NEVER ask- Do you know who I am??? That causes anxiety.

• If I get dementia, I want my friends and family to embrace my reality.

• If I think my spouse is still alive, or if I think we’re visiting my parents for dinner, let me believe those things. I’ll be much happier for it.

• If I get dementia, don’t argue with me about what is true for me versus what is true for you.

• If I get dementia, and I am not sure who you are, do not take it personally. My timeline is confusing to me.

• If I get dementia, and can no longer use utensils, do not start feeding me. Instead, switch me to a finger-food diet, and see if I can still feed myself.

• If I get dementia, and I am sad or anxious, hold my hand and listen. Do not tell me that my feelings are unfounded.

• If I get dementia, I don’t want to be treated like a child. Talk to me like the adult that I am.

• If I get dementia, I still want to enjoy the things that I’ve always enjoyed. Help me find a way to exercise, read, and visit with friends.

• If I get dementia, ask me to tell you a story from my past.

• If I get dementia, and I become agitated, take the time to figure out what is bothering me.

• If I get dementia, treat me the way that you would want to be treated.

• If I get dementia, make sure that there are plenty of snacks for me in the house. Even now if I don’t eat I get angry, and if I have dementia, I may have trouble explaining what I need.

• If I get dementia, don’t talk about me as if I’m not in the room.

• If I get dementia, don’t feel guilty if you cannot care for me 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. It’s not your fault, and you’ve done your best. Find someone who can help you, or choose a great new place for me to live. With a bus and activities!!

• If I get dementia, and I live in a dementia care community, please visit me often.

• If I get dementia, don’t act frustrated if I mix up names, events, or places.
Take a deep breath. It’s not my fault.

• If I get dementia, make sure I always have my favorite music playing within earshot.

• If I get dementia, and I like to pick up items and carry them around, help me return those items to their original place.

• If I get dementia, don’t exclude me from parties and family gatherings.

• If I get dementia, know that I still like receiving hugs or handshakes.

• If I get dementia, remember that I am still the person you know and love.”

ᴄᴏᴘʏ ᴀɴᴅ ᴘᴀsᴛᴇ in Honor of someone you know or knew who has dementia. In Honor of all those I know and love and lost who are fighting Dementia/Alzheimer’s.

[Haitham in Gaza 🇵🇸🍉 @HaithamElmasri1]

I will tell you something that happened before my eyes while I was at the hospital — an event that almost killed me with pain and sorrow.

While I was watching my wife's condition with intense anxiety and a worry that gnawed at my soul, a small child arrived with very serious and critical injuries. Immediately, the doctors rushed him into the operating theatre with extreme urgency in an attempt to save his life.

The operation began and they put him on breathing and oxygen machines, but suddenly the electricity went out in a shocking and unexpected way. In that moment the maintenance and emergency teams rushed to find the fault and try to fix it quickly, to save the patients who were in the operating rooms.

While they were desperately trying to deal with the problem, the breathing and oxygen machines stopped completely because they run on electricity. Then came the terrible shock when maintenance reported that the hospital had completely run out of fuel and it was no longer possible to run the generators.

Only moments passed before the child's heart stopped; he died of asphyxiation from lack of oxygen while still on the operating table. In an instant the hospital was turned upside down — doctors running in every direction, shock sweeping through everyone, no one knowing what to do.

When I saw that with my own eyes I couldn't believe it; I felt as if I were inside a dark nightmare, a dream no mind could accept as real. When the child's mother learned that her son had died she collapsed completely; she began to hit herself as if possessed, screaming and banging her head against the hospital walls: “My son… my son… my son!” Her screams pierced hearts and tore souls apart.

We all burst into tears; the place filled with hysteria and despair. How can this happen? How can a hospital full of thousands of patients and the wounded be left without electricity and without fuel?

And after only a few moments, the child's mother suffered a stroke and died on the spot, joining her son immediately. The child died from lack of oxygen, and his mother died of grief and pain over what had happened to him.

All of this happened because Israel deliberately prevents fuel from entering hospitals, to kill those who survived its strikes and attacks.

What kind of world allows Israel to do this?! How can it not stop Israel from committing these crimes against us?! How can it not stop the shedding of our blood and the killing of our people one after another in the most horrible, vile, and disgusting ways?!

I hate my life, I hate this world, I hate everything. I wish to God that He would take our souls to Him — it would be better than the torturous death we endure a thousand times every day.😭💔

[Tamer Nahed @Tamer_Alnoaizy]

Imagine if someone gathered two million cats or dogs and began, each day, killing some, torturing others, and leaving hundreds to starve and thirst… then filmed it all and shared it with the world.
How long would it take before animal rights organizations rose up in outrage? Before the media responded, courts intervened, and the world demanded the harshest punishments?
Hours-maybe less.
But we-humans in Gaza: children, women, the elderly-have been dying every single day for over two years.
Dying in every possible way: bombings, hunger, disease, cold, fear, displacement, loss, and a relentless pain that never ends.
We are filmed, documented, screaming, begging… and the world sees us, hears us-then moves on, as if we are nothing.
Where is the humanity you preach in your conferences and on your platforms?
Where are your consciences that tremble for a dog left in the cold, but stay silent when a child is buried alive under rubble?
Where are you… when our lives are stolen in front of your very eyes?
We don’t ask for much-only that you treat our suffering as if it were human.
Our grief is deep… not because we seek pity,
but because we once believed this world still held a shred of conscience.

[adam @AdameMedia]

Never forget Hind Rajab 💔

She was just six years old and lsraeI shot at her 355 times. They knew she was in the car. They shot 355 times.

She was terrified.

Western media described her as a “woman” to protect lsraeI’s image.

Never forget.

[Xavier Abu Eid @xabueid]

BBC asking the Israeli army “what was the target”, New York Times writing it’s “not clear” what the target was. Isn’t it clear the target were humanitarian workers and journalists after an hospital was attacked twice? They trust more an army of liars than Palestinian journalists.