Raeesa Verachia

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Because she said killing children is wrong…

[Gaza Notifications @gazanotice]

🚨BREAKING: The already worn tents sheltering thousands of displaced people in Gaza are now flooding under heavy rain, turning their suffering into a new disaster.

Israel continues to block proper housing and aid, leaving families in catastrophic conditions.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

‘Ceasefire’

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

A society so openly genocidal that the weatherman publicly hopes the rain will wipe out everyone in Gaza.

[Sulaiman Ahmed @ShaykhSulaiman]

DON'T STOP TALKING ABOUT PALESTINE!

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Ms Rachel says what the media refuses to report: THIS IS DELIBERATE.

Israel is DELIBERATELY preventing winter aid while babies freeze in Gaza.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

“Since the ceasefire”

[Alonso Gurmendi @Alonso_GD]

“You forced us to genocide you so now you should foot our bill” is a crazy position to hold. Like how does someone get this brainwashed?

[Maha Hussaini @MahaGaza]

A horrific crime..
We have spoken to the child’s uncles and he confirmed that the boy was still alive and moving his head when an Israeli bulldozer crushed his body and split it in half in northern Gaza.

The genocide continues, with less attention.

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

it's genocide (@amnesty)
it's genocide (@hrw)
it's genocide (@btselem)
it's genocide (@MSF)
it's genocide (IAGS)
it's genocide (@alhaq_org)
it's genocide (@UNHumanRights)
it's genocide (@UN_HRC)
it's genocide (@pchrgaza)
it's genocide (@AlMezanCenter)
it's genocide (@WarOnWant)
it's genocide (@PHRIsrael)
it's genocide (@fidh_en)
it's genocide (PHROC)
it's genocide (@LemkinInstitute)
it's genocide (@theCCR)
it's genocide (@ECCHRBerlin)
it's genocide (@UnitedforRight)
it's genocide (@JURDIasso)
it's genocide (@TheElders)
it's genocide (@Oxfam)
calling it genocide is a "libel" (@adam_louis52328)

[Frances 'Cassandra' Coppola @Frances_Coppola]

These were the "suspects" you eliminated. Two little children.

You're sick.

[Clayson Monyela @ClaysonMonyela]

Sorry, I couldn't resist.....!

[Adam @AdameMedia]

They’re removing the translation feature from Hebrew posts so you don’t realise that lsraeIis regularly talk about genociding the children of the Middle East.

Never forget that every study shows the majority support genocide and ethnic cleansing. The majority.

[Jenin Younes @JeninYounesEsq]

I am almost literally speechless. She's decrying the fact that kids' takeaway from Holocaust education has been that we must protect helpless people from powerful people killing them. The real lesson from the Holocaust, it seems, is that Israel must be able to commit genocide if it wants to.

[Mohammed AbuNaser 🇵🇸 @AbuNasserGaza]

The huge influx of modern smartphones entering Gaza doesn’t add up in any logical way. Even in the best of times, phones never arrived in Gaza by the carton-load, and the current prices make even less sense.

Israeli authorities have allowed large quantities of smartphones, luxury chocolates, and biscuits to enter Gaza. This appears aimed at creating the illusion that there is no poverty or starvation in the strip, even though people are unable to access essential food and basic necessities. At the same time, Israel is blocking humanitarian aid, tents, and caravans that are urgently needed to protect people from the winter cold and heavy rain.

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

When I worked at the Guardian, the foreign editor – now a major columnist – once told me that he did not like his correspondents to spend more than a few years in difficult posts like the Jerusalem bureau because, given time, they were likely to “go native”. At the time I did not understand what he meant. But I learnt soon enough.

I moved to cover the Israel-Palestine beat as a freelance journalist in 2001. I had no editors breathing down my neck. I based myself in Nazareth, a Palestinian community inside Israel, thinking that taking a different approach – my colleagues were in Jewish areas of Jerusalem or in Tel Aviv – would make my journalism distinctive and interesting to editors back home.

In fact, my different perspective made me far less interesting to them. Indeed, as quickly became clear, it made them extremely nervous of me.

But the point is this: despite my unique circumstances, it took me years to fully “deprogramme” and emerge the other side relatively whole.

I first had to unravel the conditioning and training – both ideological and professional – that had encouraged me to assume Israelis were the Good Guys and Palestinians … well, they must be something less than the Good Guys.

And then I had to rebuild my ideological and professional worldview from scratch – like a child, trying to make sense of all the new information I was absorbing. Although I hid it at the time, the truth is it was a slow, frightening and painful awakening. Everything I believed in and trusted had crumbled to dust.

Is it any surprise that the vast majority of journalists never make such a transition.

They are highly unlikely to have the opportunity to immerse themselves deeply in the lives of those “natives”.

They are rarely allowed the time to step off the journalism treadmill to develop a bigger perspective.

They are surrounded by family, friends, colleagues and bosses, who constantly reinforce received wisdom or enforce “professional” standards that shore up the existing consensus.

They are disincentivised from straying off the path, when they have a salary to earn, a career to develop, bills to pay, a family to feed.

And ultimately, of course, there is the prospect of a terrifying journey ahead, down a dark tunnel to a destination unknown.

This is an extract from my latest article Breaking free of media group-think is a scary, lonely journey. I know. I was forced to do it. Find a link to the rest in the reply below ⬇️

[Yanis Hamad 𓂆 @yanis_hamadGaza]

Today, I saw a bar of “Dubai chocolate” shamelessly gleaming on a market stall shelf, surrounded by snacks, nuts, and coffee — in a city where you can’t even find a single pill of medicine. I felt the rage choke my heart.

Just four days ago, I went through every pharmacy in Khan Younis looking for medicine for my son Mahdi — and only managed to find it through connections. No medicine, no meat, no chicken, no fuel, and nothing to sustain our lives even for one day. Everything that nourishes the body and soul is forbidden to us.

This is what they call famine engineering: they open the crossings for candy, coffee, and nuts to fool the world into thinking we’re okay — while denying us what keeps people alive. They want us to look like actors, not the starving. Like corpses, not the living.
How can a person live on snacks?
What filthy theater is this world — and the occupation forces — playing with us?
What the hell is this?

It’s a famine meticulously designed, controlled by buttons from afar — deciding when we eat, when we survive, when we live, and when we die.
What kind of cruelty is this?
And what kind of world chooses chocolate over medicine?

This pain has gone beyond hunger — the sorrow lives more in the heart than the stomach.

[Muhammad Shehada @muhammadshehad2]

🚨Israel had been holding hostage 71-year-old diabetic Gazan grandma, Siham Abu Salem, for 2 years

She was kidnapped from her hospital bed when the IDF raided Nasser hospital in Jan 2024

She was held without trial or charges as a bargaining chip & was released today

Her 2 sons were murdered by Israel

[Mosab Abu Toha @MosabAbuToha]

This belongs in every headline!!

This is the most heartbreaking video today.
A Palestinian hostage who’s just been released was told his wife and children were slaughtered by Israel while he was held hostage.
His youngest daughter was turning two years old on Oct 18, in five days.

You will not see this story on CNN, BBC, NYT, WP, or other mainstream media outlets.

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

Barbara Plett Usher describes the condition of the Palestinians released from Israeli prisons - thin, emaciated, pale, unable to walk by themselves.

Israel routinely tortures and sexually abuses Palestinians they hold. They also withhold medical treatment.