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[Brandon Stanton @humansofny]

“When I entered Gaza the Israeli military had a rule: I was only allowed to bring in three kilos of food. As I was weighing out protein bars, trying to get under the limit, I said to my husband: ‘How sinister is this?’ I’m a humanitarian aid worker. Why would there even be a limit on food? I’ve worked in many places with extreme hunger, but what’s so jarring in this context is how cruel it is, how deliberate. I was in Gaza for two months; there’s no way to describe the horror of what’s happening. And I say this as a pediatric ICU doctor who sees children die as part of my work. Among our own staff we have doctors and nurses who are trying to treat patients while hungry, exhausted. They’re living in tents. Some of them have lost fifteen, twenty members of their families. In the hospital there are kids maimed by airstrikes: missing arms, missing legs, third degree burns. Often there’s not enough pain medication. But the children are not screaming about the pain, they’re screaming: ‘I’m hungry! I’m hungry!” I hate to only focus on the kids, because nobody should be starving. But the kids, it just haunts you in a different way. When my two months were finished, I didn’t want to leave. It’s a feeling I haven’t experienced in nearly twenty years of humanitarian assignments. But I felt ashamed. Ashamed to leave my Palestinian colleagues, who were some of the most beautiful and compassionate people that I’ve ever met. I was ashamed as an American, as a human being, that we’ve been unable to stop something that is so clearly a genocide. I remember when our bus pulled out of the buffer zone. Out the window on one side I could see Rafah, which was nothing but rubble. On the other side was lush, green Israel. When we exited the gate, the first thing I saw was a group of Israeli soldiers, sitting at a table, eating lunch. I’ve never felt so nauseous seeing a table full of food.”

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Aqsa Durrani is a pediatric doctor and board member of Doctors Without Borders USA, with nearly twenty years of experience in humanitarian projects. During our interview Aqsa repeatedly expressed a desire to center the voices of her Palestinian colleagues. To this end I’ve spent the past week collecting stories from the Palestinian staff of Doctors Without Borders in Gaza. I will be sharing these stories over the next several days. I’m so grateful for the time that these people gave me; they were sleepless, hungry, traumatized, and often working 24-hour shifts. Because of the unreliable internet connection their images are sometimes grainy. Their words, however, will be crystal clear.

[Mohamed Salah @MoSalah]

Can you tell us how he died, where, and why?

[Dr. Jill Stein🌻 @DrJillStein]

Surely, it must be Hamas dressed up as Israeli settlers...

[Dr. Jill Stein🌻 @DrJillStein]

Brought to you by Democrats and Republicans.
Stop making excuses for them.
Throw the bums out.

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

John Oliver:

"Gaza is starving is objectively true. But it is also slightly misleading because it is too passive.

Gaza is being starved - by Israel."

The "Community of Nations" means nothing if you can forcibly starve a people and remain a full member.

[Ahmed El-Madhoun @madhoun95]

Yesterday, I documented the moment aid was airdropped into Red Zones in Gaza — areas that are extremely dangerous due to the presence of the Israeli army.
This method doesn’t save lives — it puts them at risk! The aid doesn’t reach those in need...

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Jon Stewart on Gaza: “I feel like I’m watching something that is so self-evidently inhumane and horrific and to be told that I have to shut up because I risk the Jewish state by speaking out? I would say the opposite. I think they’re putting the likelihood of a surviving Jewish state much more at risk with this type of action”

[Muhammad Smiry 🇵🇸 @MuhammadSmiry]

KEEP

TALKING

ABOUT

GAZA

[Muhammad Smiry 🇵🇸 @MuhammadSmiry]

KEEP TALKING ABOUT PALESTINE

[Ghassan Abu Sitta, Chair of Conflict Medicine AUB @GhassanAbuSitt1]

Over 467 days Israel killed 16% of Gaza's population.

[William Currie @WilliamCurrie]

@nntaleb unfortunately for me ANTI-FRAGILE as a book was not actually anti-fragile 😆

[Dr. Jill Stein🌻 @DrJillStein]

As a Jew who grew up just after the Holocaust, I was told we could never again allow genocide to happen. US support for Israel committing genocide shames all of us, and it's our moral duty to do everything we can to fight it. #Debate2024

[Muhammad Smiry 🇵🇸 @MuhammadSmiry]

I took these photographs of my city in 2021

Now, nothing of this left, it’s all destroyed.

مدينتي، خانيونس !

[YIMBYLAND @YIMBYLAND]

It's really a shame that San Antonio, who's biggest tourist attraction is centered around pedestrians, dedicates so much of its core to parking lots.

Imagine how incredible this city could be if those were homes and shops instead...

[Gregg Carlstrom @glcarlstrom]

A lot of people seem hopeful that Netanyahu will use Sinwar's killing as an opportunity to declare victory, negotiate a hostage deal and end the war. But to believe that you basically have to ignore everything Netanyahu has said and done over the past year

[Edward Snowden @Snowden]

What Israel has just done is, via *any* method, reckless. They blew up countless numbers of people who were driving (meaning cars out of control), shopping (your children are in the stroller standing behind him in the checkout line), et cetera. Indistinguishable from terrorism.

[Muhammad Smiry 🇵🇸 @MuhammadSmiry]

Bread selling point was bombed in Jabalia northern Gaza

[Munther Isaac منذر اسحق @MuntherIsaac]

Palestinian pastor called on U.S. churches to take action against Israel's genocide at the same church where MLK Jr. called out churches’ silence on the U.S. war in Vietnam in 1967.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

The fact that Israel could commit a genocide in Gaza without any nonverbal opposition (& Orwellian talking allies) is encouraging it to move to step 2, make the West Bank inhabitable to its Palestinian natives.

If you can't see what's going on, you have a problem.

[William Currie @WilliamCurrie]

One mindset I am learning to apply: de-emphasize the events; emphasize moments.