First almonds of the season, in Lifta 🇵🇸!
Over past month, Lifta was blanketed with almond blossoms... now it is fruit! Tastes perfect too.
Lifta is my maternal family's village of origin. It was forcibly depopulated & destroyed by the invading Zionists(🇮🇱). Never Forgive.
I've resigned from @hrw after 10+ yrs—most as Israel/Palestine Director—after HRW's new ED pulled a finalized report on the right of return for Palestinian refugees on eve of its release & blocked for weeks its publication in a principled way. Full story: https://t.co/npbjjwBqf5
🚨Watch | Issam Hijazi, Founder of UpScrolled, explains why he launched the platform after facing severe censorship and shadow banning by Big Tech and social media companies.
Hijazi also reveals that Israel killed 60 members of his family in Gaza over the past two years.
🚨 Omran Shaheen, a Palestinian child, was seized by Israeli occupation soldiers while playing ball after they accused him of throwing stones at their armored military jeep. Inside the jeep he was beaten, cursed, and threatened with rape and years of imprisonment.
Soldiers forced him to walk as a human shield so that if anyone fired, the bullets would hit him. He was sprayed with water, filmed against his will, and interrogated in Hebrew, a language he could not understand. Now he cannot sleep at night, living in constant fear that soldiers will come for him again. “All of this is for the sake of Palestine and Gaza. May God be in the aid of Gaza’s children, dying of starvation and k**ed by the occupation army.”
Source: mojahed.tabnjeh1, nabluspost, and @PalpostN
This is my will and my final message. If these words reach you, know that Israel has succeeded in killing me and silencing my voice. First, peace be upon you and Allah’s mercy and blessings.
Allah knows I gave every effort and all my strength to be a support and a voice for my people, ever since I opened my eyes to life in the alleys and streets of the Jabalia refugee camp. My hope was that Allah would extend my life so I could return with my family and loved ones to our original town of occupied Asqalan (Al-Majdal). But Allah’s will came first, and His decree is final. I have lived through pain in all its details, tasted suffering and loss many times, yet I never once hesitated to convey the truth as it is, without distortion or falsification—so that Allah may bear witness against those who stayed silent, those who accepted our killing, those who choked our breath, and whose hearts were unmoved by the scattered remains of our children and women, doing nothing to stop the massacre that our people have faced for more than a year and a half.
I entrust you with Palestine—the jewel in the crown of the Muslim world, the heartbeat of every free person in this world. I entrust you with its people, with its wronged and innocent children who never had the time to dream or live in safety and peace. Their pure bodies were crushed under thousands of tons of Israeli bombs and missiles, torn apart and scattered across the walls.
I urge you not to let chains silence you, nor borders restrain you. Be bridges toward the liberation of the land and its people, until the sun of dignity and freedom rises over our stolen homeland. I entrust you to take care of my family. I entrust you with my beloved daughter Sham, the light of my eyes, whom I never got the chance to watch grow up as I had dreamed.
I entrust you with my dear son Salah, whom I had wished to support and accompany through life until he grew strong enough to carry my burden and continue the mission.
I entrust you with my beloved mother, whose blessed prayers brought me to where I am, whose supplications were my fortress and whose light guided my path. I pray that Allah grants her strength and rewards her on my behalf with the best of rewards.
I also entrust you with my lifelong companion, my beloved wife, Umm Salah (Bayan), from whom the war separated me for many long days and months. Yet she remained faithful to our bond, steadfast as the trunk of an olive tree that does not bend—patient, trusting in Allah, and carrying the responsibility in my absence with all her strength and faith.
I urge you to stand by them, to be their support after Allah Almighty. If I die, I die steadfast upon my principles. I testify before Allah that I am content with His decree, certain of meeting Him, and assured that what is with Allah is better and everlasting.
O Allah, accept me among the martyrs, forgive my past and future sins, and make my blood a light that illuminates the path of freedom for my people and my family. Forgive me if I have fallen short, and pray for me with mercy, for I kept my promise and never changed or betrayed it.
Do not forget Gaza… And do not forget me in your sincere prayers for forgiveness and acceptance.
Anas Jamal Al-Sharif
06.04.2025
This is what our beloved Anas requested to be published upon his martyrdom.
There are two sides right now:
On the side of genocide
On the side of ending genocide
There is no nuance. There is no neutrality. There is no additional context needed. There is only complicity and ending genocide.
The Pope should go to Gaza, and bring aid in. He should dare the Israelis to block him. Words, no matter how heartfelt, will not save a single starving child.
Yesterday the UN said it has 3 months worth of food for all of Gaza stored in warehouses just a few miles away, but that Israel won’t let them in.
Just let the damn trucks in!
Gaza isn’t starving — Gaza is dying.
The UN has confirmed it: Gaza is in Phase 5 famine — the final, deadliest stage.
There’s no food. No clean water.
Children are wasting away in front of their parents’ eyes.
People are collapsing from hunger.
And the world watches.
🚫 Borders stay closed
🚫 Aid is blocked
🚫 No urgency, no action
To anyone still listening, still feeling:
Don’t wait until the graves are too many to count.
Don’t let Gaza disappear in silence.
This isn’t just a warning.
It’s a plea.
A cry for help.
Act now.
#GazaIsStarving #SaveGazaNow #FaminePhase5 #GazaAppeal
“Israel has killed a classroom full of children every single day.”
UNRWA Sam Rose tells BBC Radio 4.
Children in #Gaza have been killed while sleeping, sheltering in schools, or queuing for water.
Graphic by @TRTWorld
If it took you 19 months to speak up on genocide, you are not my ally, not my comrade, not my friend. We knew the crushing reality of mass extermination would force careerists to move to this inevitable point, but you get no pats on the back after you abandoned us