Ain

[Ain @QAinHaider]

Swiss Post is supporting the 2 x Christmas campaign https://t.co/cJFjke5ha8

[Mambo Italiano @mamboitaliano__]

United in grief ❤️

Crans-Montana and the entire skiing community paid tribute “to all the victims, to those who assist, help, and provide care” forming a heart with their skis

A beautiful message at a moment of unparalleled tragedy for this mountain community in Switzerland

[Abier @abierkhatib]

For the first time, Al Jazeera couldn’t show their colleagues’ funeral.

Israel had killed them all.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

UNICEF Spox @1james_elder can barely hold back his tears: “What is there to say in the face of such pain here in Gaza and such impunity everywhere else?”

Look at the ruined building behind him, he’s at Nasser hospital. You know, like the hospitals Israel doesn’t target.

[𝐌𝐚𝐥𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐦 @Malcolm_Pal9]

American Star Richard Gere Reads Palestinian Poem by Mahmoud Darwish in Solidarity.

[Dr. Ezzideen @ezzingaza]

I’ve trained myself to turn my eyes away. Not because I don’t care. Because my heart can’t bear any more. Because I see too much already.

In the hospital, I see mothers carrying their children in pieces. Fathers who’ve stopped speaking. Babies who’ve never opened their eyes.
I sew skin, I stop bleeding, I sign death certificates with fingers that tremble behind gloves.

But outside of work, when my shift ends, I no longer watch the videos.
Not of the explosions. Not of the children dug out of the rubble like broken dolls. Not of the women who scream until their throats give out and no sound comes.

But today, something made me stay.

A video. A woman, covered in dust, was holding her son, what was left of him.
Still, she held him as if he were whole.

She leaned close, pressed her lips to his ear, and whispered: “I made you bread.” Her voice trembled like a candle about to die.

Her hands shook as she stroked what was left of his hair. She didn’t look at the wound in his skull. She looked at him like he was just sleeping in too long.

Then she lay down beside him, pulled his body into her chest, and closed her eyes.
As if she could dream him back.

And I understood something terrible: She believed the bread could bring him back.

Do you understand?

This was not poetry. This was not metaphor. This was a mother who believed that if she could have only brought him bread, if she had held it in her hands, warm and real, her child wouldn’t be dead.

Because he died hungry.
Not just poor.
Starving.
His ribs sharp under his skin. His lips split from thirst.
The kind of hunger that gnaws at you slowly until even death seems like relief.

He died without a piece of bread that costs less than a dollar in a world filled with excess.

And she, She thought a loaf could have saved him.
That bread was stronger than war.
That love and sesame seeds might be enough.

I turned off the screen.

And I sat in the dark for a long time.

I did not cry for the child.
I cry for children every day.
I cried for her.
For her belief.
For the broken world that made her think bread was all it would take.

And maybe, in another world, it would have been.

#GazaGenocide‌

[Rania @umyaznemo]

He's so happy that he could find his school distinction certificates. Thank God for small favours!

[UNICEF Palestine @UNICEFpalestine]

Ahead of #WorldChildrenDay, there is little to celebrate in the #Gaza_Strip.

#Children are simply asking for the end of their suffering, for the end of this war.

Listen to Merna, 10-year-old, from Deir el-Balah.

#ForEveryChild

[UNICEF @UNICEF]

“I don't know whether to scream or to cry.”

Earlier this week, our spokesperson, @‌1james_elder, met two-year-old Ali in Beirut, Lebanon.

Ali was buried under rubble for 14 hours after his home collapsed in an airstrike. His entire family was killed in the war.

Ceasefire now.

[حسام شبات @HossamShabat]

Today, I met my dad’s friend on the street. I honestly didn’t recognize him; no one looks the same after a year of genocide. I asked him how he had been doing. He said he had four sons, and one after another, they were killed over the span of a year. His last son and wife were killed last month. Now, he sleeps on the streets with no family. A vibrant man who once owned a house, a car, and a business is now deprived of everything, even his family.

[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.

[Ain @QAinHaider]

‘Mum, return if you love me’

[Eye on Palestine @EyeonPalestine]

“Please mom, return if you love me” .. a child bids farewell to his mother who was killed by an Israeli air strike, central Gaza Strip.

[Eye on Palestine @EyeonPalestine]

“Please mom, return if you love me” .. a child bids farewell to his mother who was killed by an Israeli air strike, central Gaza Strip.

[Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières @MSF_canada]

Doctors Without Borders received confirmation that Dr Obeid MSF orthopedic surgeon has been detained by Israeli forces w/ several medical staff from Kamal Adwan hospital during a military operation at the hospital. We are extremely alarmed by the detention of our colleague #Gaza

[AJ+ @ajplus]

This Palestinian medic in Gaza was transporting victims of an Israeli airstrike and discovered the body of his own mother.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

The director of the main hospital in Israel’s siege zone in north Gaza believes Israeli forces killed his son because of his work helping those in need – but still he refuses to leave his patients and is one of the few doctors left.

[حسام شبات @HossamShabat]

Not even a drop of water has entered the besieged north Gaza since October 1st. The Israeli government is systematically using starvation as a tool of war; they want to starve the remaining population that wasn’t killed by their bombs.

[Eye on Palestine @EyeonPalestine]

A mother searches for her daughter's shoes amongst the shoes of the martyrs, in hopes that she can find the remaining traces of her daughter's flesh, after the occupation destroyed their home.

[Ain @QAinHaider]

´Mama…p

[The Saviour @TheSaviour]

“I want my mum!”

This is childhood in Gaza…💔

[Eye on Palestine @EyeonPalestine]

Difficult moments for children bidding their final farewells to their father who ascended as a martyr, with the continued strikes on the Northern Gaza Strip.