SWANA-LA

An anti-racist, anti-imperialist, pro-queer Southwest Asian/North Afrikan collective advocating for our communities on a global and local scale.

[SWANA-LA @SWANAlosangeles]

Dearest community and comrades: we invite you to join us and our co-strugglers this Sunday, October 6th at 6:30pm for a community vigil honoring the people of Palestine and Artsakh.

Sunday, October 6
at 6:30pm

Echo Park Lake
Lady of the Lake Statue

[Mariam Barghouti مريم البرغوثي @MariamBarghouti]

Every day someone is either getting killed or sustaining life altering injuries in the West Bank. The overwhelming majority being kids and youth under 25.

This comes amid an INTENSIFIED campaign on Gaza in which Israel mass killing tens of thousands of Palestinians in 14 months doesn’t seem to be enough to Israel.

[Mosab Abu Toha @MosabAbuToha]

I don’t how much we can take, how much a human heart can deal with. I wrote about my wife’s cousin, Suhaib, who was critically wounded and also the sole survivor of the air strike that killed his father, mother, his three sisters, one married sister with all her family three weeks ago
Just a few minutes ago, and as the World Health Organization delegation visited the hospital to take some wounded to Al-Shifa Hospital, the israel forces abducted Suhaib from the ambulance. Neither his uncles nor the WHO knows where Suhaib is or why he was taken.

[Afghans For A Better Tomorrow @AfghansTomorrow]

We are gearing up for a fight.

We are ready, energized and prepared to fight for our community.

Join us next Thursday 11/14 either in-person or virtually.

REGISTER: https://t.co/99aONj6Z6q

[حسام شبات @HossamShabat]

This is a video of me burying my 11 cousins. During the genocide in, the act of burial has become a painful experience that has lost all its traditional meaning. we are forced to quickly bury our loved ones in makeshift graves. Important customs like communal mourning, prayers, and the gentle preparation of bodies have been replaced by a sense of urgency and deep despair. The traditions that once offered comfort and meaning in times of grief are now swallowed by chaos and the relentless sound of bombings, leaving us to mourn in an environment of unbearable sorrow.

[Palestinian Youth Movement @palyouthmvmt]

🚨 Our #MaskOffMaersk campaign has successfully pressured Spain to block the MAERSK DENVER and MAERSK SELETAR —both likely carrying military cargo to Israel—from docking in Spain.

[حسام شبات @HossamShabat]

Urgent: Civil Defense in Gaza:

- We have completely stopped our operations in North Gaza , and the situation there has become catastrophic, with citizens left without humanitarian services.
- Israeli occupation forces present in the Sheikh Zayed area have arrested 5 of our personnel and taken them to an unknown location.
- Israeli tanks targeted the only fire truck in the northern sector with shells and set it on fire.
- Three of our personnel who were targeted by an Israeli drone in the Beit Lahiya project have lost communication, and their fate is unknown.

#North_Gaza #Jabalia

[Mosab Abu Toha @MosabAbuToha]

Breaking:
This is a new evacuation order. This is genocidal.
They are telling people who are staying in hospitals and schools in North Gaza that these are military zones and no one should be there.
This is extermination.
Please amplify.

[Michelle @Michelle3id]

Sound of ambulances filling Beirut following Israel’s targeting of Chiyeh. An area full of people. Midday. Freaking apocalyptic scenes.

[حسام شبات @HossamShabat]

Israeli occupation forces continue ethnically cleansing the north. Today, they attacked a school in the Jabalia refugee camp and forced people out of it. Then they lined them up and shot anyone who dared to move. Any male over the age of 16 is being detained, tortured, and investigated. Many people who are being lined up are sick individuals, such as amputees, cancer patients, and young kids who are being asked to stand in line for hours. The situation is catastrophic.

[حسام شبات @HossamShabat]

What’s happening in the Jabalia refugee camp can be summed up as a rapid extermination mission; we have never seen anything like this.

[حسام شبات @HossamShabat]

Feels like judgment day in the Jabalia refugee camp. For the past hour, artillery shelling has been nonstop. Israeli occupation forces are demolishing houses while residents remain inside. The ongoing horrors include relentless bombing, continuous artillery fire, and snipers that kill anyone who moves. What they are doing is extermination and an effort to empty the entire camp of its residents by killing and starving them.

[Mosab Abu Toha @MosabAbuToha]

I write with a heavy heart that my cousin Sama, 7 years old, has been killed in the air strike on their house along with 18 members of her family, which is my extended family.
In the house was the grandmother, Fatima, who was my grandmother’s sister. She was killed too with two of her daughters and their children.
I posted about this yesterday before the house was bombed. I told everyone that tanks and soldiers were besieging the area. But no one heard. No one did anything to save them.

I took this picture of Sama in June 2022.. it was Eid.

[Quds News Network @QudsNen]

Footage captures the extensive destruction caused by the relentless Israeli bombardment of Al-Faluja area in Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza.

For the twelfth consecutive day, the Israeli occupation has imposed a severe siege on Jabalia refugee camp and surrounding areas amid ongoing attacks targeting the region.

[Afghans For A Better Tomorrow @AfghansTomorrow]

We are reading deeply shocking reports that Iranian border guards murdered 260+ Afghans immigrants seeking refuge.

We condemn this massacre, showcasing the plight of Afghans across the world in search of safety.

[حسام شبات @HossamShabat]

Urgent Appeal:
My friend and Al Jazeera cameraman, Fadi Al-Wahidi, has suffered a severe decline in health after being shot by an Israeli sniper while clearly identified as press.
We are trapped in northern Gaza under siege.
Without immediate medical treatment abroad, his life is in grave danger.
I urge all relevant organizations to assist in facilitating his urgent transfer for treatment. Your support could save his life.
#SaveFadiAl_Wahidi

[Mohammed El-Kurd @m7mdkurd]

This is what decades of coddling Jewish Supremacy has permitted. This is what the US is bankrolling: the Jewish State’s right to burn Palestinians alive. Zionism is an absolute, irredeemable evil that must be eradicated. To support this is to be a repugnant, depraved individual.

[Mariam Barghouti مريم البرغوثي @MariamBarghouti]

Jabalia is straight out of a horror movie with it being completely surrounded with quadcopters shooting at people, war jets hovering above, bombs still ongoing, tank shelling.

The small town and refugee camp of 1.4 km sq. is being obliterated.

The infrastructure is destroyed completely and people are being wiped out.

Israel has been heavily targeting Jabalia in the last two weeks with the intention of wiping it out.

[حسام شبات @HossamShabat]

Fadi needs to be urgently evacuated for treatment. He is awake but in excruciating pain, and the hospitals are barely functioning. His case is extremely critical. Please help us share his story to facilitate his evacuation.

[حسام شبات @HossamShabat]

The situation at Kamal Adwan Hospital is catastrophic, and the coming hours will be critical for the lives of many children in the intensive care unit. The hospital is facing fuel shortages, compounded by the occupation's blockade preventing supplies from reaching northern hospitals, as well as severe overcrowding.

We urgently call on the international community to intervene immediately and without hesitation to save what can be saved.

We condemn the occupation's efforts to incapacitate northern hospitals, which threatens the lives of 400,000 people.

We hold the occupation, the US administration, and their partners in this genocide fully responsible for these ongoing crimes against our Palestinian people.

Government Media Office - Gaza

[SWANA-LA @SWANAlosangeles]

TODAY AT 6:30 PM

[SWANA-LA @SWANAlosangeles]

Dearest community and comrades: we invite you to join us and our co-strugglers this Sunday, October 6th at 6:30pm for a community vigil honoring the people of Palestine and Artsakh.

Sunday, October 6
at 6:30pm

Echo Park Lake
Lady of the Lake Statue