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[Dr. Ezzideen @ezzingaza]

A few moments ago, my phone rang.
An unfamiliar number.
I answered.

“Is this Dr. Ezzideen?”
“Yes,” I said. “Go ahead.”

He spoke politely, almost carefully.
“I got your number from someone.
They told me you might be able to help me.”

Then he paused.. and added:
“Please don’t misunderstand me. I’m not asking for money.
I just .. have a problem. And maybe you can help.”
I told him to go on.

He took a breath.
“My daughter is six years old.”

There was a weight in his voice even before he continued.
“Two years ago, during the war, she was injured.
Her face.. was badly burned. Her cheek .. most of it.”
“She has had two reconstructive surgeries. Both of them failed.”

For a moment, neither of us spoke.
“She was four when it happened,” he said quietly.
“Now she’s six.”
“She has started to understand.”
That sentence stayed with me.
She has started to understand.

He continued:
“She is being bullied by other children.”
“She feels ashamed when people look at her.”
“Even on Eid .. she refused to go outside.” “She told us she is not as beautiful as the other children.”

He stopped for a second, then added, his voice breaking:
“She cries when she looks at herself in the mirror.”
“She refuses to take pictures .. completely.”

I could almost see her.
A six-year-old girl,
is standing in front of a mirror,
trying to understand why her face is different.
Trying to understand why the world looks at her differently.
Trying to understand how something that happened before she even knew what war was .. has now become part of who she is.

At six years old,
she is already learning shame.
Already learning to hide.
Already learning that the world can be cruel to what it does not understand.

The father said something I cannot forget:
“I feel like I am watching my daughter’s life collapse in front of me.”
He was not asking for sympathy.
He was asking for a chance.

“Anything,” he said.
“Anything that could help her get a referral to leave..
maybe somewhere they can treat her..
maybe save her future before it’s taken from her.”

War does not end when the bombs stop. Sometimes it continues..

in the face of a child who no longer recognises herself,
in the silence of a girl who refuses to be seen,
in the tears, she hides from everyone,
except the mirror.

She is six years old.

And instead of dreaming about toys.. she is learning how to live with a face that the world has already judged.

There is a kind of injustice that kills instantly.
And there is a kind that stays.. and grows quietly inside a child.

This is the second kind.

Sometimes, what a child needs is not something extraordinary.

Just a chance,
to be seen without fear,
to be treated,
to grow up without carrying a wound that the world keeps reopening.

And sometimes, that chance begins with someone choosing to care.

#WoundedGaza

[Khaled @VyprCEO]

If you sum up the last 20 years of the US-Iran relationship, it reads like this:

US: Do not peruse nuclear weapons

Iran: Ok we signed the nuclear proliferation treaty

US: Too bad, you’re getting sanctioned

Iran: Ok

US: Stop pursuing nuclear weapons

Iran: We’re not; we’re generating energy just like other countries.

US: Sign a deal and have us inspect what you’re doing

Iran: Ok, deal signed, inspectors welcome

US: Too bad, deal canceled and you’re getting more sanctions

Iran: Ok

US: Stop pursuing nukes or else

Iran: Look, we did everything you’ve asked

US: Too bad, we’re gonna bomb you anyway. That girl school looks like a good target *BOOM*

Israel: *bombs Iran

Iran: *defends itself

Israel: “The evil regime of Iran is targeting our civilians”

US: “Iran is cutting heads off babies”

[Krystal Ball @krystalball]

Leqaa has now been hospitalized after telling her family recently that her health is failing and she feels like she’s slowly dying. She was targeted for peaceful protest at Columbia. Free Leqaa! https://t.co/OMfgTZFJ3n

[ImmDef @ImmDef]

ICE denied having Leonela, 8mo's pregnant, then deported her to Nicaragua days later, without counsel. All while attorneys members of congress actively searched for her. This should alarm everyone.

[Taylor Lorenz @TaylorLorenz]

No, thanks to Biden who wrote the ban and Democrats who voted for this law & passed it through congress. Democrat Mark Warner co sponsored the ban and Biden defended it in Supreme Court.

Every person opposing the ban said this exact scenario would happen! And Democrats knew that

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

This father was doing all of his legal immigration check-ins and had no criminal record.

He’s one of those heroic parents who dedicated his life to taking care of his disabled son, whom he was told would not live past five without a miracle.

As his son said, his father was his miracle, and he lived a meaningful, well loved life deep into adulthood. Then ICE snatched his father — and his son, as predicted, died without him. ICE did not let him attend the funeral.

[Ounka @OunkaOnX]

Israeli soldiers reportedly beat a 25-year-old at a checkpoint, stole his phone, forced him at gunpoint to say “I love Israel,” then uploaded the humiliation to his own Facebook

This is what dehumanization looks like when there are no consequences.

[LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @LongTimeHistory]

ICE detain single mother of 4 after dropping off kids at school—refuse to look at her legal asylum documents.

She has been dissappeared to an unknown location—kids can't find her even with help of local news.

She was on the phone with oldest daughter—when agents ended the call and took her phone and wallet.

"The agents did not ask for identification or give any explanation before they got my mother out of her car and put her in their vehicle," daughter said.

Micheline Ntumba has been in the United States for 10 years with pending asylum—background checks by local news confirm she has no criminal record.

She is the sole caregiver for her 4 U.S. citizen children.

The incident occurred near Deering High School in Portland, Maine.

[Rutger Bregman @rcbregman]

Sometimes you get a few minutes on live TV with a billionaire. I tried to make them count! 😅

[LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @LongTimeHistory]

ICE physically attacks lawyer—stand between her and clients they're trying to detain.

"Don't push me!" lawyer yells. "Why you trying to pick them up?"

"It's none of your business," agent scolds.

"It is my business—I'm their attorney," she replies. "It's EXACTLY my business!"

Immigration attorney Alicia Via Beeslev took this video after she received a call from a client that ICE was lying about having a warrant for arrest.

She drove to the scene and was able to chase them off the apartment complex property.

She wrote, "If you don't like the F word more than you don't like people getting kidnapped, you may not want to watch this video."

The incident occurred in Portland, Oregon.

[Krystal Ball @krystalball]

Minnesota cops are pissed because the black and brown ones are getting routinely racially profiled and harassed by ICE. This is WILD.

[Briahna Joy Gray @briebriejoy]

"I should have given up on this litmus test probably decades ago, but I kind of crave the New York Times saying one honest word about something like this...[Y]ou crush another society. Then there are protests, & then the government cracks down and you say: 'you see, I told you they were bastards,' and you can't get beyond that, or you can't recall for one moment that we had a signed treaty with Iran in 2016...and Trump, of course, repudiated the agreement & dramatically tightened the sanctions, maximum pressure, already going back to 2017 onward. None of this is reported. None of this is told." - Jeffrey Sachs

Video Premiere Now‼️: https://t.co/qp0RWrRNlh

[WarMonitor @TheWarMonitor]

A 6-year-old was found wandering the street in tears asking “Where’s Papi?” in Morristown, New Jersey, after ICE detained her father and left her home alone. He came to the U.S. legally as a refugee and has no criminal record.

[Congressman Shri Thanedar @RepShriThanedar]

A baby was hospitalized after being tear gassed by ICE.

The family was not illegal, and not even protesting—just driving home from their son's basketball game.

This can't be reformed. Time to abolish ICE.

[Sheri Ritsema-Anderson @SheriR_Anderson]

#Jordan Warehouses Still Full of Aid: @UN and @_jhco ready to send thousands of trucks to Gaza..

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

Banks pay you 0.4% interest on your deposits, then take your money & put it at the Fed, which pays them 5% interest on your money.

Federal law bars you from cutting out the middleman & depositing your money at the Fed to get the 5% rate the Fed pays banks.

This is oligarchy.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🔴 Under the U.S.– and Israel-imposed obstruction of winter aid, at least 32 Palestinians have died in Gaza over the past month from cold exposure and collapsing shelters, according to health authorities and multiple reports.

In a recent interview with The Economist, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defended the ongoing aid blockade, refusing to explain why minimum levels of food, medicine, fuel, shelter aid, and reconstruction, explicitly required under the ceasefire, remain blocked. Pressed on mass displacement and the widespread devastation, Netanyahu said the civilian suffering would only end after Gaza is fully disarmed.

The recent death toll includes at least seven children who froze to death from cold exposure, and at least 25 others killed in building collapses and shelter failures as winter conditions worsened and Israel and the U.S. continued to block mobile homes.

Doctors warn hospitals are overwhelmed amid acute shortages of medicines and medical supplies, rising malnutrition among pregnant women and children, and a surge in respiratory illnesses. Health officials say continued U.S. and Israeli restrictions are driving preventable deaths across the Strip.

[Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده @RamAbdu]

Israeli occupation soldiers directly shoot a child who tried to escape from them during his arrest in Hebron.

[The Hasbara Buster @ibrahimibnyusuf]

In 2009, Israel suspended its practice of branding Palestinian prisoners with numbers after member of Knesset Tommy Lapid, a Holocaust survivor, protested that that was what was done to Jews in Auschwitz.

But according to IHRA, Lapid is an antisemite, because he compared contemporary Israeli policies to those of the Nazis.

[Ounka @OunkaOnX]

Former IDF soldier exposing Israeli war crimes - the West Bank isn't a "disputed territory." It's an ongoing robbery, and the IDF is the armed wing of the real estate mafia