Nada chatila

IB DP Coordinator at American Community School Beirut

[Nada chatila @NadaChatila]

@Hasanillaik الله يرحمه 🙏

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

In killing Nasrallah, Israel chose to open the gates of hell. We'll all pay the price:

Hezbollah has confirmed that its longtime leader, Hassan Nasrallah, was among the hundreds of Lebanese killed in Israel’s massive bombardment of a suburb of Beirut last night.

Israel's decision to assassinate Nasrallah, using some of the enormous bunker-busting bombs the United States has been arming it with, is beyond foolhardy. It is outright deranged. Israel has removed – and knows it has removed – a moderating influence on Hezbollah.

Israel’s action will achieve nothing apart from teaching his successor, and leaders of other groups and countries labelled as terrorist by western governments, several lessons:

* That Israel, and the West standing squarely behind it, do not play by any known rules of engagement, and that their opponents must do likewise. The current restraint from Hezbollah that has been so baffling western pundits will become a thing of the past.

* That Israel is not interested in compromise, only escalation, and that this is a fight to death – not just against Israel but against the West that sponsors Israel.

* That Israel's ideological extremism – its Jewish supremacism, and its endless craving for Lebensraum – must be met with even greater Shia-inspired extremism.

Decades of western terrorism in the Middle East unleashed a Sunni nihilism embodied first in al-Qaeda and then in ISIS.

Now, the West, via Israel, is fomenting for the Shia resistance its own ISIS moment. The moderates in what the West dubs “terrorist organisations” have once again lost the argument. Why? Because the US imperial project known as “the West” has once again demonstrated it will not compromise. It demands full-spectrum, global dominance – nothing less.

Israel may make very short tactical gains in killing Nasrallah. But we will all soon feel the whirlwind.

When that whirlwind comes, the job of our politicians and media will be to ensure we make no connection between this moment of savagery and insanity from us and the blowback.

The role of western establishments will be to cry victim, to insist “They hate us for our freedoms”, for our civilisational superiority, because “they” are simply barbarians.

But what comes next, as with what came before, will be entirely predictable. Violence doesn't beget calm, it begets more violence. Israel knows that. Our leaders know that. But they opened the gates of hell anyway.

(Disclaimer: Nothing in this post, in line with Section 12 of the UK Terrorism Act, in any way indicates, or should be seen to be encouraging, support for any group designated as a terrorist organisation by the British government.)

[Palestine Festival of Literature @PalFest]

Brian Cox reads If I Must Die, by beloved Palestinian poet, teacher and martyr Refaat Alareer.

Refaat was killed on December 7th by an Israeli airstrike.

This was the last poem he published.

[Thomas Fazi @battleforeurope]

This testimony from Paul Ley, a doctor at the European Hospital in Khan Yunis, Gaza, is absolutely sickening:

“I have worked in hospitals in Afghanistan, Uganda, Ethiopia, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Cambodia... but I have never operated on so many injured children as I am now in the Gaza Strip. In the burns unit of the European Hospital we now have 78 patients, nearly two-fifths of them children under five. I have never seen anything like it. I have been in many war contexts where the type of wounds are the same but the number is huge. We never leave the hospital. We work round the clock. We do operations with minimal anaesthesia. If we run out, we can’t operate but there is no clear line. There are a lot of people crying, screaming with pain, but we don’t have enough analgesics. We keep them for the kids or very severe cases. Normally we would change dressings on patients with 40% burns with them under sedation and minimise the time by using more attendants... Now it has to be done with a lot of pain. We try to keep our heads cool and steady, but for local staff this is their families, friends, their people. They never want to amputate. They say: ‘I can’t do it any more’ and so I say: ‘OK I will do it, don’t worry,’ and you can feel the relief”.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

“My dream just came true.”

11-year-old Asif Abu Mahadi lost his leg in an Israeli air strike in Gaza. It’s his dream to get back on the football pitch and play just like his idol – Morocco's goalkeeper Yassine Bounou, who called Asif to wish him well ⤵️

[Ahmed Alnaouq @AlnaouqA]

Israel killed 60 Palestinian journalists since the 7th of Oct. Here are their pictures.

Remember them. And know their names. These heroes are the reason why we know much about the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza.

[Abier @abierkhatib]

In less than 1:20 minute, this kid ruined a multi million dollar propaganda campaign for #Israel

See, that’s why Zionists are waging war against kids on TikTok.

#Gaza

[Nada chatila @NadaChatila]

@GhassanAbuSitt1 God bless you 🙏🙏🙏

[شبكة رصد @RassdNewsN]

المفكر الأميركي كورنيل ويست يهاجم حكومة بلاده بأقوى العبارات بسبب تواطئها في حرب غزة

[Ghadi Francis | غدي فرنسيس @ghadifrancis]

احفظوا اسماء هؤلاء الأبطال… درسوها للأجيال…رسالة الدكتور همام الأخيرة قبل استشهاده:

اذا رحلت جنوباً من سيعالج مرضاي؟ تعتقدين انني تخصصت في الطب لأفكر في نفسي؟ لأنجو بنفسي؟

[Nada chatila @NadaChatila]

@GhinaNahfawi @saydehnawwar @Rrogersaad @paolarebeiz @Cubai40Inaya @MireilleNeww عالم بلا أخلاق و بلا ضمير. الحيوان مسؤولية و التزام مش ديكور و لعبة بالبيت منكبها وقت اللي منزهق منها!!

[LE RIFAIN LA NOUVELLE DU FRONT @rifain_nouvelle]

🔴⚡️URGENT : C’est historique, près de 2 millions de manifestants à Londres pour la Palestine.

[بريطانيا بالعربي🇬🇧 @TheUKAr]

النائب السابق بالبرلمان البريطاني جورج جالاوي يقول: "الحكومة الإسرائيلية تراجعت عن الاتهامات الكاذبة باغتصاب فتيات إسرائيليات في 7 أكتوبر وتم تقليص حجم الأطفال الأربعين 'الذين زعموا بأن رؤوسهم قد قطعت' إلى طفل واحد ميت ولم يتم قطع رأسه ولا يعرف من قتله، وتبين أن ثلثي الإسرائيليين الذين قتلوا في السابع من أكتوبر كانوا من العسكريين، والجيش الإسرائيلي ذاته قتل جزءا من الثلث المتبقي، أولئك الذين يتمتعون بالنفوذ والذين ينشرون الدعاية المعاكسة يجب أن يتم وصفهم بأنهم مجرمو حرب تسببوا في إراقة الكثير من الدماء التي ستلاحقهم وتلطخ سمعتهم إلى الأبد"

[Pierre Abi-Saab @PierreABISAAB]

للتعميم لو تكرمتم....
مطلوب متطوعين من الاطباء
للتواصل عن بعد
مع أطباء غزة
التفاصيل هنا
Volunteers needed - telemedicine service!*

(Please forward on to suitable colleagues too.)

Gaza Medic Voices (a group of senior clinicians with experience working in Palestine - https://t.co/cXJDqcHL4G) is trying to coordinate a remote telemedicine service to support medical colleagues in Gaza. This service will offer pro bono, remote support in the management of complex clinical cases. This is a medium to longer term project.

They need the following specialities:
- vascular surgery
- trauma and orthopaedics
- plastics and burns
- paediatrics
- obstetrics
- oncology
- radiologists - brain and body
- neurosurgery

Please fill in this form if interested.
https://t.co/VkHcTQ4zWO

If you have queries please email
[email protected]

[مجلة ميم.. مِرآتنا @Meemmag]

الدكتور النرويجي جيلبرت مادس ينقل صراخا مروعا من #مستشفى_الشفاء الذي يقصف بغزة: الرئيس بايدن، السيد بلينكن، هل يمكنكم سماعي؟ هل يمكنكم سماع الصراخ من مستشفى الشفاء؟ هل يمكنكم سماع صرخات الأبرياء؟ لاجئون احتموا هنا بحثا على مكان آمن يتعرضون للقصف هذا الصباح داخل المستشفى؟

[Dr. Mads Gilbert @DrMadsGilbert]

This is beyond everything.
Horror of all horrors.
I'm being eaten from within.
These are people.
5,000 children!
Five thousand children.
Slaughtered.
I feel myself dying.
Slowly.
I want to take their place.
Cover them with cool, clean sheets.
Let them drink cold, pure mountain water, slurp it up.
Until they're calmed.
Until they fall asleep.
Without screaming.
Without the devilish sounds of the drones.
Without the stench of the bodies of their mothers, brothers, siblings and grandparents, buried in the ruins of their bombed family homes
Just sleep.
Safe.

[Saja H. Mortada @MortadaSaja]

منذ اليوم الأول للعدوان وأنا أجمع العبارات التي قالها أهل #غزة لحظة اكتشاف استشهاد، جرح، اختفاء أحد أفراد عائلاتهم. كنت أبكي وأنا أسمع وأكتب كل عبارة. أنا ابنة جنوب #لبنان الذي عانى 15 عاماً من الاحتلال، والتي عشت حرب تموز 2006 بكل حذافيرها وشعرت أن قلبي توقف عن الخفقان يوم مجزرة #قانا. احفظوا هذه العبارات عن غيب. اكتبوها في ��فاتركم. سجلوها على هواتفكم. ارفعوها في مظاهراتكم. أخبروها لأطفالكم. قولوا لهم "إسرائيل فعلت هذا، والعالم كان يتفرج".
#غزة_تُباد #غزه_تقاوم #غزة_تنتصر #فلسطين_قضية_الشرفاء #GazaGenocide

[Gaza Notifications @gazanotice]

The scenes from the concert in Riyadh Saudi Arabia are shameful.

We are dying here, we are screaming. Our blood is flowing in disgusting ways.

The thing that hurts me most is we are the humans who are broken.

We are tricked.

[Nada chatila @NadaChatila]

@AlnaouqA This is beyond painful. May God be with you in these hard times.
#StopGazaGenocide

[Rana Ayyub @RanaAyyub]

Modern day genocide live streamed on social media with complicit silence from custodians of democratic values and human rights