Tharwat

husband, father, soccer & ball hockey goalkeeper, @UTSC grad, huge foodie, @CanadiensMTL and @liverpoolfc fan.

[Clay Thompson. @harryt59_harry]

Dear President Trump.
Canada will give you Danielle Smith, all the convoy clowns, Pierre Poilievre, Stephen Harper, Scott Moe, and Michelle Ferreri, and we will throw in Tamara Lich, Jordan Peterson, Ezra Levant for free. In return, no tariffs.
Win win.

[Tharwat @TheWall_33]

@craigforrest1 Youth soccer in Canada has become way too expensive. A huge segment of the population can't play organized sport because of this. Also, we don't have enough qualified coaches and again the cost of getting your coaching license is too high!

[Alistair Johnston @_a_johnston]

What if I told you that myself and the other two ‘white’ players pictured here are the sons of immigrants as well?

This is Canada. Our strength is in our diversity and it is what makes our country so special - not tragic. 🇨🇦

[Tharwat @TheWall_33]

@calgarytransit I literally saw four 123 buses in a span of 15 minutes at stop 3494 and one 82 in a half hour that was packed dangerously! This is ridiculous.

[Paul Champ @PaulChampLaw]

Every Canadian university should be putting out a statement about this abomination. This is about the eradication of a culture and a people.

[Mustafa Barghouti @Mustafa_Barghouti @MustafaBarghou1]

The arrogance of a racist and unprofessional journalist

[Avi Lewis @avilewis]

I’m a Jew and I feel pretty safe.

Two things make me feel unsafe:

1. The sadistic unending murder of Palestinian civilians by Israel, supported by US,UK, Canada etc.

2. The attacks from other Jews, meant to silence me (and everyone).

Those 2 things stop, I feel 100% safer.

[Dan Cohen @dancohen3000]

I've just learned that Dr. Refaat Alareer, along with several family members, has been murdered in an Israeli airstrike.

I'm in tears and sick to my stomach as I write this.

I had the great honor to spend time with Refaat during my time in Gaza, including harvesting olives with him in 2015 in his home neighborhood of Shujaiya.

I visited him in the Islamic University of Gaza, where he used English-language literature and poetry to teach his students the difference between Judaism and Zionism, equipping them with the mental tools to resist Zionist propaganda that seeks to conflate the two.

Refaat was a guiding light as a I documented life and death for my documentary, Killing Gaza. He helped me gain access to elders in his neighborhood who provided testimony of shocking Israeli war crimes.

In one of our last exchanges, I told him that, in my time in Gaza, I felt as though I were documenting the Warsaw Ghetto before its liquidation by Nazis. I promised him that his writings would be featured in a future Victims of Zionism museum. I didn't imagine that would be my last message to him.

Refaat Alareer embraced everything good and pure about Gaza and Palestine. He will not be forgotten and his legacy will live on for many generations to come.

Rest in peace, Refaat.

[Rick Wiles @realRickWiles]

In my 70 years of life I have never seen anything so evil as Netanyahu's genocidal war against Gaza's innocent children. Netanyahu, his cabinet, and IDF commanders must be arrested by the ICC and imprisoned for life. Civilized humanity cannot allow them to escape justice.

[WHO in occupied Palestinian territory @WHOoPt]

WHO leads very high-risk joint humanitarian mission to Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza

18 November 2023 - Earlier today, a joint UN humanitarian assessment team, led by WHO accessed Al-Shifa Hospital in northern Gaza to assess the situation on the ground and conduct a rapid situational analysis, assess medical priorities, and establish logistics options for further missions. The team included public health experts, logistics officers, and security staff from OCHA, UNDSS, UNMAS/UNOPS, UNRWA and WHO.

The mission was deconflicted with the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) to ensure safe passage along the agreed route. However, this was a high-risk operation in an active conflict zone, with heavy fighting ongoing in close proximity to the hospital.

Earlier in the day, the IDF had issued evacuation orders to the remaining 2,500 internally displaced people who had been seeking refuge on the hospital grounds. They, along with a number of mobile patients and hospital staff, had already vacated the facility by the time of the team's arrival.

Due to time limits associated with the security situation, the team was able to spend only one hour inside the hospital, which they described as a “death zone,” and the situation as “desperate.” Signs of shelling and gunfire were evident. The team saw a mass grave at the entrance of the hospital and were told more than 80 people were buried there.

Lack of clean water, fuel, medicines, food and other essential aid over the last six weeks have caused Al-Shifa Hospital—once the largest, most advanced, and best equipped referral hospital in Gaza—to essentially stop functioning as a medical facility. The team observed that due to the security situation, it has been impossible for the staff to carry out effective of waste management in the hospital. Corridors and the hospital grounds were filled with medical and solid waste, increasing the risk of infection. Patients and health staff with whom they spoke were terrified for their safety and health, and pleaded for evacuation. Al-Shifa Hospital can no longer admit patients, with the injured and sick now being directed to the seriously overwhelmed and barely functioning Indonesian Hospital.

There are 25 health workers and 291 patients remaining in Al-Shifa, with several patient deaths having occurred over the previous 2 to 3 days due to the shutting down of medical services. Patients include 32 babies in extremely critical condition, two people in intensive care without ventilation, and 22 dialysis patients whose access to life-saving treatment has been severely compromised. The vast majority of patients are victims of war trauma, including many with complex fractures and amputations, head injuries, burns, chest and abdominal trauma, and 29 patients with serious spinal injuries who are unable to move without medical assistance. Many trauma patients have severely infected wounds due to lack of infection control measures in the hospital and unavailability of antibiotics.

Given the current state of the hospital, which is no longer operational or admitting new patients, the team was requested to evacuate health workers and patients to other facilities. WHO and partners are urgently developing plans for the immediate evacuation of the remaining patients, staff and their families. Over the next 24–72 hours, pending guarantees of safe passage by parties to the conflict, additional missions are being arranged to urgently transport patients from Al-Shifa to Nasser Medical Complex and European Gaza Hospital in the south of Gaza. However, these hospitals are already working beyond capacity, and new referrals from Al-Shifa Hospital will further strain overburdened health staff and resources.

WHO is deeply concerned about the safety and health needs of patients, health workers and internally displaced people sheltering at the few remaining partially functional hospitals in the north, which are facing risk of closure due lack of fuel, water, medical supplies, food, and the intense hostilities. Immediate efforts must be made to restore the functionality of Al-Shifa and all other hospitals to provide urgently needed health services in Gaza.

WHO reiterates its plea for collective efforts to bring an end to the hostilities and humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza. We call for an immediate ceasefire, the sustained flow of humanitarian assistance at scale, unhindered humanitarian access to all of those in need, the unconditional release of all hostages, and the cessation of attacks on health care and other vital infrastructure. The extreme suffering of the people of Gaza demands that we respond immediately and concretely with humanity and compassion.

[Mark Ruffalo @MarkRuffalo]

No. Sorry. They are not “collateral damage” they are human beings who happen to have been born there and live there and most of those human beings are stuck there. Have some compassion, they are Palestinians not buildings or roads or things, they are human beings and so are the hostages whose lives you may also be destroying. They aren’t “collateral damage” either.

“Netanyahu Calls Palestinians ‘Collateral Damage’ As Israel Destroys Gaza”
https://t.co/oUrUOofXZ9

[Tharwat @TheWall_33]

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[Tharwat @TheWall_33]

@calgarytransit @JenniferWyness I've done that many times online. This morning a passenger got stuck because the door closed on her. She was lucky she was unhurt. Poor drivers are packing the bus to the very front of him. There is nothing to hold on to.

[Tharwat @TheWall_33]

@calgarytransit the 82 bus near Walmart in Sage Hill is always packed! Even if you get on its like a sardine can and sauna. It's unsafe. This is happening everyday. I'm thankful my boss understands. Something has to be done. @JenniferWyness

[Tharwat @TheWall_33]

Sage Hill and Nolan Hill have seen a huge population increase yet bus service is the same the past 5 years since I moved here.

[theScore @theScore]

Legendary Italy goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon calls it a career. 👏 https://t.co/46S3PGXaoD

[Tharwat @TheWall_33]

@TheRealPFF @WestCoastGK represented!

[Rhonda Brownlee @RBrownlee33]

⚽️ Only two of the 32 teams headed to the World Cup on July 20th DON’T have a domestic Women’s professional league.

One of them is CANADA.

Now consider all that the CanWNT has accomplished. Let that sink in.

LFG, 🇨🇦!!!

(Excerpt from FIFPRO.)

[sarah @sahouraxo]

The logic of Western warmongers

[E @ElijahSchaffer]

We’re supposed to work 40+ hours a week

For 40 years

At a job we hate

To end up here? There has to be more to life