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[Mustafa Barghouti @Mustafa_Barghouti @MustafaBarghou1]

The Israeli army shot this morning with live ammunition in Nur Shams refugee camp Sondos Shalabi a 23 years old woman who was 8 months pregnant and her Husband while they were trying to get out for medical treatment. She was critically injured and the ambulance that finally reached her and took her to Thabet hospital was held by the Israeli army for 30 minutes during which time Sondos bled to death and her child died too. Her Husband is in critical medical condition. They were accompanied by two other children who witnessed the horror of their tragic mother’s death.
Later the Israeli army shot another Palestinian woman in the chest and killed her.

[Diana Buttu @dianabuttu]

Just to update: Shaden’s father died tragically this evening in Jerusalem. She’s still in prison.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

This is what Biden officials called a “limited operation” in Rafah.

The magnitude of their lies becomes clearer every day.

[Louis Allday @Louis_Allday]

A level of devastation that's legitimately difficult to comprehend. This is what the West closed ranks to allow and facilitate for 15 months. Day after day after day.

[Linda Mamoun @mamoun_linda]

Once the ceasefire goes into effect on Sunday, millions in Gaza will try to return to their homes. This is what they’ll find: 50.8 million metric tons of rubble littered with unexploded ordnance, toxic waste and asbestos. Evil on a dystopian scale.

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

Gideon Levy: "Was it really necessary [for Israel] to kill another 200 people in Gaza after signing the agreement? Was it really necessary to kill another 20, 30 children.. I'm ashamed for the killing of almost 200 people in the last 48hrs. Wasn't it enough, 48,000 people?"

[Mosab Abu Toha @MosabAbuToha]

A horrific day today. Since the early hours of the morning, 71 human beings got killed in Gaza.

[Abby Martin @AbbyMartin]

.@FranceskAlbs perfectly deconstructs the bad faith question “does Israel have the right to exist?”

[Rania @umyaznemo]

Why do we insist on calling it gen0c!de? Because it's gen0c1de!!!! @FranceskAlbs calling a spade, a spade!

[Dr. Jennifer Cassidy @OxfordDiplomat]

If you listen to anything today let it be this. I had the pleasure of speaking and having individual meetings with
@francesca.albanese two years ago. In her capacity as Special Rapporteur. Everything you, we, are seeing through our screen is 100% her; honest, emphatic, fierce, moral and a staunch supporter for human rights everywhere.

All of this answer needs to be heard around the world. All of it: "Israel has conducted an attack, an unprecedented attack....now especially after the Knesset passed a law outlawing Unrwa... This is the nail in the coffin of the UN charter."

As someone whose career is dedicated to diplomacy, and has worked for and with the UN. I could not agree more with her words.

[Nesrine Malik @NesrineMalik]

‘The last stage of grief is acceptance. But we can only accept what has already passed. In Gaza, the death is so constant, there can be no acceptance – only rupture, withdrawal, disorientation. There can be no accommodation with what is happening.’ https://t.co/vWV6rTduZc

[B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم @btselem]

The world must stop the ethnic cleansing of northern Gaza

The magnitude of the crimes Israel is currently committing in the northern Gaza Strip in its campaign to empty it of however many residents are left is impossible to describe, not just because hundreds of thousands of people enduring starvation, disease without access to medical care and incessant bombardments and gunfire defies comprehension, but because Israel has cut them off from the world.

Ever since Israel’s current operation in the northern Gaza Strip began on 5 October, the area has been under a near complete siege, relentlessly pummeled by the military. Other than in the most exceptional cases, Israel does not allow humanitarian aid or emergency crews in, taking advantage of the fact that global attention has been diverted to irreversibly change reality on the ground.

According to reports from humanitarian agencies, about 50,000 people have already been forced out of their homes since the offensive began. The three hospitals that still operate in northern Gaza are on the brink of collapse and themselves vulnerable to attack. The same goes for public buildings used as IDP camps, where many people who had sought refuge were killed in Israeli bombardments. The few testimonies that have trickled out of northern Gaza describe dead bodies lining the streets, hunger, drinking water nowhere to be found, and civilians being killed as bombs are dropped on their homes without warning or as they flee for their lives.
For a year now, since the war began, the international community has shown utter impotence to stop the indiscriminate attack on civilians in the Gaza Strip. Now, when it is clearer than ever that Israel intends to forcibly displace northern Gaza’s residents by committing some of the gravest crimes under the laws of war, the world’s nations must take action.
Without immediate, decisive action from the international community, without using every tool available - political, legal, economic - the mass killings in the northern Gaza Strip will continue and the suffering of its besieged civilians will grow. All international bodies and institutions must act now to compel Israel to stop the war and end the carnage.

[Rashida Tlaib @RashidaTlaib]

I can't believe our country won't stop funding and enabling these war crimes.

[Jehad Abusalim @JehadAbusalim]

Israel is committing extermination in Jabalia—massacre after massacre. I have nothing more to add. I’ve been writing, talking, and screaming, but there are no words left, not in the way the cliché suggests, but literally. Entire families are being wiped out. Shame on all of us.

[Bruno Maçães @MacaesBruno]

When hundreds of babies under 1 year old are killed in Gaza that’s war. But when Israeli soldiers are killed while invading another country that’s terrorism

[Mona Chalabi @MonaChalabi]

For many journalists, Arab life is worthless. For many investors, Arab death is worth a lot. 

On October 6, 2023 the value of a Lockheed Martin share was $402. Today, they're worth $603.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

We live in an Orwellian world where Iran is the “destabilizing” force in the Middle East, not the country occupying the West Bank, Gaza, Golan Heights, & attacking Iran, Lebanon & Yemen.

The rest of the world thinks this rhetoric is mad. It’s for US domestic consumption.

[Alice Wong 王美華 @SFdirewolf]

I stand in solidarity with the people of Palestine in their struggle for freedom and self determination. In times of crisis, writers, like all artists, have a responsibility to speak truth to power–to say the unsaid, to think the unthinkable, to question