amreen.omar

Lawyer & Professor @senecacollege. Lover of literature, film and spicy food.

[The National @ScotNational]

This is a model of the car five-year-old Palestinian Hind Rajab was killed in alongside her family

Artist Doug Crabtree explains why he made the installation which is currently touring Scotland

[Reuters @Reuters]

Israeli strike kills infant girl in south Lebanon during father's funeral https://t.co/boGcDphpay https://t.co/boGcDphpay

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

In a matter of minutes, Israel killed more than 350 people across Lebanon on Wednesday, April 8. Here are some of their stories.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Israel dropped bombs on this child’s home in Beirut.

He was just pulled from under the rubble alive.

His parents are nowhere to be found.

This is what Israel’s bombs do.
This is who they target.

[Sarah Wilkinson @swilkinsonbc]

Dr Hussam Abu Safiya’s wife pleads with the world to intervene & save him before he dies in israeli jail: his only crime was saving people’s lives

[Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده @RamAbdu]

This is my beloved niece Layan—today is her birthday.

During the genocide, she gathered children to teach them despite warplanes and missile strikes.

Israeli murdered her.

[Abdullah Omar🇵🇸 @Abdullah_Om3r03]

#The heroic doctor Hossam Abu Safiya is among the prisoners scheduled for execution 💔

[Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده @RamAbdu]

Two Iranian brothers were killed in a U.S.–Israeli airstrike in Isfahan, Iran.

[Reuters @Reuters]

In a heart-rending moment, preterm babies who had been evacuated from a Gaza hospital and moved to Egypt for safety during the Israel-Hamas war were finally reunited with their mothers after two years as part of a United Nations mission https://t.co/W4a8p4f5eg

[Dr. Ezzideen @ezzingaza]

There are things in this world that should never happen
and yet, they are happening.

This story sounds like fiction.
But this is our life.

Two and a half years ago, when the Israeli army entered Al Shifa Hospital,
they took a number of newborn babies from the maternity ward.

Newborns.

They were separated from their mothers, from the only warmth they had ever known and sent to Egypt.

Without names.
Without families.
Without anyone to claim them.

They disappeared.

For more than a year, there was no news.
No answers.
No certainty about whether they were even alive.

Yesterday, some of them were returned.
And I cannot stop thinking about one moment.

A mother standing there.. trying to describe her child.

Describing the face of a baby she had only known for less than a week.

Trying to recognize her own son through memory alone.

Through fragments.
Through hope.
Through pain.

Then, suddenly.. he is in front of her.

Alive.
She breaks.
A joy so overwhelming it almost looks like grief.

And the child?

He looks at her .. without recognition. Without memory.
Without the instinct that should have guided him back to her arms.
He does not know her !!
And perhaps what is even more devastating
he does not know what a mother is.

What kind of world separates a child from his mother
before he even learns her face?
What kind of war steals not only lives,
but the most basic human bonds?

This is not just loss.
This is something deeper.
Something colder.

Something that tears at the very meaning of being human.

This ..

is what hell looks like.

#WoundedGaza

[Samira Mohyeddin سمیرا @SMohyeddin]

During his illness, Stephen Lewis spent what little energy he had, protesting Israel’s genocide in Gaza. This fact will most likely be missing from most remembrances of him today. Canada lost a giant of humanity and social justice. Sending love to @avilewis & entire family.

[حسام شب��ت @HossamShabat]

50,000 orphaned children are welcoming the first day of Eid al-Fitr without their fathers, who were killed by the Israeli occupation army in Gaza.

[Josh Matlow @JoshMatlow]

A 13 year-old boy was assaulted in front of his family as they were leaving the Toronto Islamic Centre after prayers. As a dad of a daughter the same age, that angers me to the core. Another member of the congregation was reportedly punched as they were walking home. This is the same mosque that was targeted with racist and Islamophobic remarks and violent threats earlier this year. Our city’s Muslim community, along with the Jewish community and all communities, must always be able to practice their faith, be who they are and come together, peacefully and safely. I’m committed to continue working to build bridges and understanding. I have also been calling for all laws to be fully and effectively enforced to protect our communities from harassment, intimidation, hate, and violence. Let’s support the Toronto Islamic Centre’s congregation and let them know we stand with them. Ramadan Mubarak.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

BREAKING:

Israel just executed Mohammad with a direct shot to the head.

He was only 5 years old.

He was killed along with his 6-year-old brother Othman and their parents in the occupied West Bank.

A whole innocent family erased.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Israel killed Maher today in Ghazieh, South Lebanon.

He was only 7 years old.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Israel killed little Qassem today in South Lebanon — with his entire family.

[Clash Report @clashreport]

The mother of Mikaeil Mirdoraghi, a third-grade student grade student killed in U.S. airstrike on primary school in Minab:

I had prepared dinner for him and when he was eating he said: “Mom, the food you made tastes like heaven.”

I said: “My son, why are you saying this? You’ve never said this before.”

Around midnight he put pillows around himself and sat with his brother. He said: “Brother, let’s play. I’m Iran and you’re America. Let’s play with guns and tanks.”

They started playing together. He said: “See, Iran won? Brother, Iran won. I was Iran and I won.” My son said Iran was the winner.

All these things seemed to be inspired to him that night. He did all of this the night before his martyrdom.

He also prayed and read the Quran that night.

In the morning he said: “Mom, take a picture of me.”

This child was an angel. He used to say: “My name is Mikaeel. Mikaeel means God’s angel. If anyone has a wish, tell me so I can fulfill it.”

God loved him too and took him to Himself.

It is true, exactly like that. It was the heartless America that launched a missile at this school where there was nothing suspicious. I myself lived in Minab for four years.

They just wanted to kill our children.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Trump and Netanyahu killed every child in this photo.

Every. Single. One.

Not combatants.
Not militants.

Schoolkids from Minab, Iran.

[Clash Report @clashreport]

📸 The last photo of Mikaeil Mirdoraghi, a third-grade student killed in the reported U.S./Israeli strike on a primary school in Minab, Iran.

He is waving goodbye to his mother.

[Ankit Mayank @mr_mayank]

Saddest pic on the internet 💔

The coffins of 165 dead kids killed by US-Israel attack on a girls school in Iran

Nothing can get sadder than this.