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Saher Alghorra (NYT) has won the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography for "his haunting, sensitive series showing the devastation and starvation in Gaza"
🔴 Il y a un an, le 25 avril 2025, Aboubakar Cissé, 22 ans, était assassiné dans la mosquée Khadidja de La Grand-Combe, où il était bénévole. Alors qu’il priait, le front posé au sol, il a été tué de 57 coups de couteau.
Hind Rajab's mom, Wesam, made this brilliant speech on Saturday:
Ladies & gentlemen,
I'll begin with no introductions.
On January 29, 2024, my daughter Hind Rajab was trapped inside a car, under direct fire.
Hind was a five-year-old child.
At that age, children don't think about politics, & don't know the meaning of war.
All they know is fear… & the hope that someone will come to save them.
Hind didn't die suddenly.
Hind waited.
She waited for help,
For her cries to have meaning.
She said:
"I'm scared…come get me."
This isn't a literary phrase.
This is the last thing a child said,
who knew she might not survive.
She said a sentence that tore my heart apart:
"Mom, they're lying. Stay with me!"
At that moment, I realized the betrayal.
An ambulance was sent to her. It didn't arrive. It was bombed.
This means one thing:
Saving a life wasn't allowed.
Today, 2 years later,
I'm not standing here to tell you a sad story.
I am here to speak about responsibility.
I will pose a weighty question:
What is the value of a human life when it is Palestinian?
Because what happened to my daughter Hind,
Had it happened anywhere else, would have shaken the world.
But it was in Gaza.
And that is why time was allowed to pass,
& the crime to be forgotten.
I ask you to imagine, even for a few seconds,
The magnitude of pain that mothers in Gaza carry when they lose their children.
Imagine the bitterness of the pain,
When you cannot save your child,
Or even reach them,
Or know what their final moments were like.
This pain lives with mothers
every day,
& with every breath.
What happened to Hind is not just a personal story.
It reveals how a child can be left to die, before the eyes of the world, without accountability.
You live in countries that believe in the rule of law,
that teach human rights,
& sign agreements to protect children.
But Hind was not protected.
Nor were the paramedics.
Nor was the truth protected.
I don't blame the people of the world,
but I do hold silence responsible.
The silence that makes the crime possible,
& makes its repetition easy.
Your presence here today
means that you have chosen not to be silent.
And that is important.
But what is more important, is what happens after this event.
Will Hind remain just a name at an event?
Or will she become a turning point?
I am not asking for the impossible.
I am asking for something very simple:
That the life of a Palestinian child be protected… as if it were your own child's life.
If the law cannot save a child, then it is a law that needs to be held accountable.
And if the world only acts when the victim resembles its own children, then the world needs a new conscience.
Hind is no longer here.
But her story is a trust.
And a trust is not preserved with words,
But with actions!
We need to talk more about how, under the pretext of women's liberation and human rights, some Western feminist organizations have at times reinforced Islamophobia by portraying the hijab as a symbol of oppression, persistently linking it to backwardness and lack of civilization, while supporting narratives frequently used to justify the invasion and bombing of peoples under the guise of liberating them from religious dictatorship.
This morning, an attack carried out by Israeli forces killed Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) staff member, Omar Hayek, and seriously injured four others. The attack took place on a street where our teams were waiting to take a bus to the MSF field hospital in Deir al Balah, Gaza.
All staff were wearing MSF vests, clearly identifying them as medical humanitarian workers.
We express deep sorrow and outrage over the killing, which occurs less than two weeks after another MSF colleague, Hussein Alnajjar, was killed by the Israeli forces, in Deir Al Balah.
Our thoughts are with Omar’s family and colleagues at this tragic time. Omar, 42 years old, is the fourteenth MSF colleague to be killed in Gaza since 7 October 2023.
https://t.co/C7Qglwa4DJ
Il y a 25 ans jour pour jour, l’armée israélienne tuait Mohammed al-Durrah, 12 ans, alors que son père tentait de le protéger. La scène, filmée à Gaza et diffusée le soir même sur France 2, marquera le monde entier.
La famille du garçon a témoigné pour AJ+ :
« Contrairement à ce qui a été dit, le droit de se défendre ce n'est pas à Israël qu'il est accordé (...) Le droit de se défendre revient à la population occupée et non à la population occupante »
Rony Brauman
"[We are] angry, outraged, powerless & ashamed," @clarissaward on the killing of Anas al-Sharif. "We are confronted by a stream of accusations from the IDF that seek to dehumanize our Palestinian colleagues, that seek to justify their killings. And the nature of the carefully calibrated language that we are using in our stories, I understand to many, just feel so detached and so not not proportional to the agony and outrage of the moment.
And behind the scene, many of us continue to push & press & sign letters & write petitions & do meetings, & none of it seems to make a damn bit of difference."
What's stopping more mainstream media journalists from stating this same message? The more people speaking up, the more difficult it's to silence them. Those remaining silent are betraying Gaza, their colleagues on the ground, their colleagues who speak up, & their very own souls.
It’s not easy for me to write this, but my community Masafer Yatta will be destroyed unless more activists and journalists don’t urgently come and join us on the ground. Settlers are now in Khalet Al-Dabia village 24/7 after the army destroyed it.
To the 100s of journalists who follow me here: Masafer Yatta is being ethnically cleansed by the army, we’re organizing an urgent visit on the ground for international media, please write directly for the date and time
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