Midhat Ali Zaidi

Former journalist turned Development Communication professional.
Firmly rooting for the rising global South.

[Seyed Mohammad Marandi @s_m_marandi]

Trump's troops are childkillers.

[Jvnior @Jvnior]

Did you know?

Israel used hammers instead of bullets against Palestinian kids in 1988.

IDF soldiers broke the bones of Palestinian children so they would not dare protest in the streets against the Zionist occupation.

[بانکے میاں @bankay_mian62]

جب کوئی قوم ظلم و زیادتیوں میں ملوث ہوتی تھی تو وہ کہا کرتے تھے ہمیں کبھی کچھ نہیں ہو سکتا
پھر اللّٰہ پاک کا عذاب نازل ہوتا تھا
اور آج ان عذاب ذدہ قوموں کی تمام گندی خصلتیں ہم میں پائی جاتی ہیں اور ہم بھی یہی سمجھ رہے ہیں کہ ہمیں کبھی کچھ نہیں ہو سکتا
تو پھر
انتظار کریں اللّٰہ پاک کے عذاب کا

ایک ماں نے اپنے جوان بچے کی میت پر اپنے سر کا دوپٹہ ڈال دیا
لیکن
ہسپتال والوں نے دیکھ کر بھی چادر نا دی

[Asad Ali Toor @AsadAToor]

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غریب 17 اور 22 سال کی جواں سال بچیوں کی ایک ہی ساتھ حراست اورایک ہی تھانہ میں ایک ہی وقت میں “ہارٹ اٹیک” سےموت نےپنجاب اور لاہور پولیس کو ایساانوکھاایوارڈ دیاہےجس پر وزیرِ اعلیٰ پنجاب مریم نواز کو “گورننس ایکسیلینس ایوارڈ” پہلی فرست میں ملناچاہئے https://t.co/1gp0vmpjwN

[AIPAC Tracker @TrackAIPAC]

One year ago today, Israel sent a drone to kill Al Jazeera's Anas al-Sharif outside al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. He was 28.

He knew what was coming. He wrote his own eulogy before he died: "If I die, I die steadfast upon my principles."

[Iran News 24 @IRanMediaco]

The danger of Israel isn’t just what it does to Palestinians.

It’s what it teaches the world.

That you can brutalize, and dehumanize an entire people. And still be called a democracy.

That you can rewrite horror as heroism.

That you can commit war crimes with Western approval

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

When a Palestinian gets into a car accident & an Israeli Jew dies, the Palestinian man’s home is demolished.

When an Israeli Jew strips a Palestinian naked, zip-ties his penis & parades him around his family, he is let free.

Not so complicated after all. it’s called Apartheid.

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

Mientras los soldados de EEUU custodian el campo de concentración de Gaza para que nadie escape, los colonos sionistas se colocan en las colinas para disfrutar del exterminio de los palestinos dentro del campo.

Los sionistas organizan tours turísticos a 800 dólares por persona donde los psicópatas hacen un recorrido alrededor del Auschwitz palestino, donde celebran en directo cuando caen las bombas y luego se van a cenar a los kibbutz con sus hijos como si tal cosa.

Ni los nazis organizaban tours alrededor de Auschwitz para que turistas alemanes viesen como exterminaban a la gente y vitorean cada vez que matan a alguien, sencillamente enfermizo y muy malvado.

[Tamer Nahed @Tamer_Alnoaizy]

I don’t know who will care about what I’m saying, but the situation here in Gaza is literally spiraling out of control in a terrifying way.

We are living in an area that makes up no more than 30% of the entire Gaza Strip, and this area has been reduced to rubble and tents. We are besieged by land, sea, and air. There is no real way out and nowhere we can escape to. There are cranes and massive sand embankments surrounding Gaza, and people are living under constant surveillance and fear. You cannot leave, and you cannot choose where you want to go. All you can do is wait.

Water stations have almost completely stopped operating because fuel and oil have run out. The tents have been torn apart and worn down by the extreme heat, and people are living inside them in conditions that are impossible to describe. Hospitals have been extensively destroyed, with medicines and medical supplies unavailable, and even basic diagnostic and treatment equipment has become extremely scarce. Almost everything is prohibited from entering Gaza, and even what is allowed in is subject to approval and restrictions.

The entire education system has collapsed. Schools have been destroyed, children have been deprived of their education, and families are sleeping on the streets or living in tents that offer no protection from the extreme heat, cold, or any other danger.

The reality here is far worse than anything I can write. Words cannot convey the scale of what we are experiencing, and no single photograph can show what it is like to watch an entire city collapse before our eyes.

We are not living a normal life. We are simply trying to survive. Besieged from every direction, without a home, without safety, and without any clear way out.

[LPC @landpalestine]

In the 26 years these 4 men invaded more than 10 Muslim countries and killed 11 million Muslim yet were never called terrorists

[Arya Yadegaar @AryJeayBackup]

Iranian police arrested 5 of the perpetrators in the ISIS-style murder of Hamidreza Rajabzadeh.

Along with the 5 terrorist was a female “influencer” who helped facilitate the murder. She was attempting to flee the country, but got arrested.

[Abubaker Abed @AbubakerAbedW]

This is the formidable Al-Jazeera journalist Mohammed Qreqia's unbearable grief moments over his mother who was kidnapped, starved, and murdered in cold blood in the vicinity of Al-Shifa Hospital.

Mohammed was then killed with his colleagues in a tent.

[Zo Brown @receipts_lol]

We have video evidence of Israelis blocking over 300 ambulances. Just in the past 3 years.

That is over 100 videos a year of Israelis blocking ambulances. Imagine how many times Israelis blocked ambulances without any published videos.

[Dr Rahmeh Aladwan @doctor_rahmeh]

Imported jewish terrorists are blockading a Palestinian family inside their home— for the third consecutive day.

Western governments brand Palestinians as terrorists for fighting this.

[Muhammad Arif @ArifRetd]

🚨 **لاہور میں انسانیت شرمسار — دو معصوم مائیں پولیس حراست میں جاں بحق!** 🚨

اسے شیئر کریں — شاید کسی کی نظر پڑے اور انصاف مل جائے! 🤲

لاہور میں 18 سالہ انمول بی بی اور 20 سالہ آمنہ — دونوں چھوٹے بچوں کی مائیں — بازار میں پنسلیں بیچ کر گھر کا چولہا جلاتی تھیں۔ شام کو گھر نہ لوٹیں تو گھر والوں نے تلاش شروع کی۔ ساری رات پولیس اسٹیشن میں رہیں — **صبح گھر والوں سے فون پر بات بھی ہوئی — بچیاں زندہ تھیں۔**

چند گھنٹوں بعد خبر آئی — **"جناح ہسپتال آ جاؤ، بچیاں فوت ہو چکی ہیں"۔**

جب ماں لاش دیکھنے پہنچی تو **جسم پر تشدد کے واضح نشانات تھے۔** وہ ماں جس نے صبح اپنی بچی کی آواز سنی تھی — شام کو اسی بچی کی لاش پر تشدد کے نشان دیکھ رہی تھی!

چوری کی جس FIR میں گرفتار کیا — **اس FIR میں ان کا نام تک نہیں تھا!**

ظلم کی انتہا یہ کہ لاشیں پولیس کی تحویل میں رہیں اور **آخری رسومات کے لیے اتنا کم وقت دیا گیا کہ سوگوار خاندان ٹھیک سے اپنی بچیوں کو الوداع بھی نہ کہہ سکا!** ایک ماں کا حق بھی نہ دیا گیا کہ وہ اپنی بچی کو سکون سے سپرد خاک کر سکے!

یہ کیسا نظام ہے جہاں غریب ہونا جرم بن گیا؟ جہاں بے گناہ مائیں صبح زندہ بولتی ہیں اور شام کو تشدد زدہ لاشیں واپس آتی ہیں؟

ہم مطالبہ کرتے ہیں:
✅ فوری اور شفاف عدالتی تحقیقات
✅ ملوث پولیس اہلکاروں کی فوری گرفتاری
✅ متاثرہ خاندان کو انصاف
✅ اعلیٰ حکام فوری نوٹس لیں

**انمول اور آمنہ کو انصاف دو!**
**خاموشی ظلم کی حمایت ہے — شیئر کریں!** 🤲

#انصاف_چاہیے #لاہور #پولیس_گردی #انمول_آمنہ #انسانی_حقوق #پاکستان #PunjabPolice #mariam #CMpunjabofficial #IGPunjab

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

There's a specific technique used in drone operations called the "double tap."

A strike hits a target. Then, when survivors, neighbors, and first responders arrive to help, when people are pulling bodies from rubble, when paramedics are treating the wounded, a second strike hits the same location.

The explicit purpose is to kill people who respond to the first strike.

The people killed in the second strike are not targets whose identity has been confirmed. They are people who were close enough to help.

In some cases, they were journalists. In some cases, they were family members who heard an explosion and ran toward it. In some cases, they were children who ran toward a sound.

Double tap strikes are not a malfunction.

Double tap strikes are a tactic.

Someone thought of this. Someone approved it. Someone trained operators to execute it. Someone reviewed the results and decided to continue.

When you tell me 168 dead children is an error and not a design, I need you to explain the double tap to me.

I need you to explain which part of deliberately striking rescuers is the error.

Take your time.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Anas Al-Sharif helped Reuters win a Pulitzer in 2024. This was their headline when Israel assassinated him a year ago today.

Justifying the murder of journalists.

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

"We can starve the Arabs of Haifa and Jaffa" - First Israeli Prime Minister, -David Ben Gurion, December 1947

"We'll deprive Gaza of water, and the Arabs will leave" - Israeli Prime Minister, -Levi Eshkol, 1967

"There will be no electricity, no food, no water, no fuel." -Israeli Defense Minister, -Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, 2023

Israeli leaders have demonstrated remarkable consistency from 1948 to the present. The solution to the problem that is the Palestinians, their existence in Palestine, is to deny them food and water to force them into exile.

Moshe Feiglin was the most recent Israeli politician to say the solution to the problem that there are Palestinians in Gaza is to deny them water.

It's not enough that they have to walk kilometers a day to fetch jugs of dirty water to bring back to their tents so they don't die of thirst, only diseases. That is too generous. The way to force them out is ensure not a single drop of water enters Gaza. #Zionism https://t.co/xyLHmNreid

[Yara Al-sharif @sub_allah]

CW: Violence
Sudanese civilians executed by RSF militia.

This is happening in Sudan 🇸🇩💔

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

Vean la histeria y el miedo que sufre Trump ante las amenazas de Irán, fue visto jugando al golf en su club de Nueva Jersey, con un sistema móvil de defensa aérea al lado.

El mes pasado, tras un viaje a Turquía, Trump no viajó en el avión presidencial y se metió escondido en un camión de catering del aeropuerto hasta un avión militar de EEUU.

Este pequeño hombrecillo arrogante está cagado de miedo a pesar de estar a 9.000 kilómetros de Irán.