Who created WWI? Not Muslims.
Who created WWII? Not Muslims.
Who dropped 2 nukes on Japan? Not Muslims.
Who killed millions in Iraq? Not Muslims.
Who killed millions in Afghanistan? Not Muslims.
Who killed millions in Vietnam? Not Muslims.
“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.
I find it weird that people will see a homeless person with a dog and think “we have to help the dog” while helping the homeless person doesn’t even cross they minds.
Do you know what this celebration was for?
1$rael released 9 soldiers who RAP€D PAIESTlNlAN hostages in detention centre...
This is what western media hides from you!
It would cost $60 billion annually to make public universities free in the United States, and we just gave $150 billion more to the defense department in this bill.
I want everyone to see this because the West has dehumanised so much of our identity across the Middle East for centuries. They’ve been made to believe we come from nothing more than desert tents that flap in the wind. We come from culture. We must humanise our region and people.
Just a reminder that the West destroyed Iran’s progressive democracy in 1953, deposing a leader beloved of the people, and installed a dictatorship in his place. The US and UK have been terrorising that country for as long as any of us have been alive. It’s sick.
The fact that Israelis have a special day where they march into Palestinian neighborhoods chanting "Death to Arabs" and "May your village burn", attacking and destroying arab-owned businesses, should tell you everything you need to know about this state and its ideology
Official statement:
"The Ahmadiyya Community Pakistan [...] categorically states that every Ahmadi in Pakistan is ever ready to sacrifice their life and wealth for the defence of their beloved homeland."
Pakistan Zindabad 🇵🇰
What a shameful headline. This 13 year old was made to confess. No lawyer or parents present. Confession signed in Hebrew, a language he did not speak. Tried at a military court. Tortured and abused for 10 years in jail. Do your job @BBCWorld
That is a concentration camp. These people are kidnapping civilians off of the street, their places of work, schools, and homes, and taking them to concentration camps in the U.S. and a dictatorial foreign country to perform slave labor
This is domestic and international terroism