Tuba Asif

A career diplomat of Pakistan. Views are personal.

[Tuba Asif @AsifTuba70]

The world is still not waking up!

[Ounka @OunkaOnX]

GAZA, 1989. A camp surrounded by barbed wire and armed guards. 5,000 Palestinians detained without charge or trial.

Doctors. Lawyers. Children. Students. Journalists. Held for months. Administrative detention. No charges. No trial

October 7 was not the start of this. They've been doing this for decades and the world is just waking up.

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

As Arundhati Roy said, what is under the rubble in Gaza is not only the bodies of countless Palestinians killed by Israel, but also the carcass of Western Liberal Democracy...

[Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده @RamAbdu]

Live on air, one year ago today: Israel bombed journalists and Civil Defense teams as they tried to retrieve the body of journalists killed in an Israeli strike on Nasser Hospital in Gaza.

[Clash Report @clashreport]

83% of American doctors who treated children in Gaza emergency rooms reported seeing pre-teen patients shot in the head or chest.

The figure comes from a survey by trauma surgeon Dr. Feroze Sidhwa, featured in the new documentary "American Doctor."

An open letter signed by 99 US medical volunteers stated they treated such cases "on a regular or even a daily basis."

They called it impossible to dismiss as accidental.

One surgeon documented 13 children with single gunshot wounds to the head in just two weeks.

The documentary also shows the aftermath at hospitals where incubators failed under siege.

At Al-Nasr Children's Hospital, five premature babies were found decomposing in incubators after staff were forced to evacuate.

[Masood Khan @Masood__Khan]

On X, my post given below attracted hundreds of comments from #Indians containing expletives, filthiest possible language, obscene illustrations and personal attacks. Why? Can’t they argue out their position as I did reflecting Pakistan’s longstanding principled stand on Kashmir? Is it insecurity about the illegal occupation of one part of Jammu and Kashmir? Or some segments of Indian have sunk to the lowest levels of depravity and moral bankruptcy? Do they still believe in diplomacy and dialogue at all? Or this decrepit idiom has become their lingua franca? I would concede a few did disagree with me using neutral language but the majority indulged in unrestricted vituperation. Why?

[Tuba Asif @AsifTuba70]

Genocide is what Palestinians have been facing for decades by israeli occupiers. Moment of shame for humanity 💔

[Ryan Rozbiani @RyanRozbiani]

Israel's Ben Gvir Calls For Nightly Kill Quota In Gaza

Ben Gvir:
"There are people there who are not alive. They don't need to live. They are not people. I'm doing them a favor by calling them people."

He is calling for the killing of 30 to 50 people in Gaza EVERY NIGHT, pushing Palestinians to EMIGRATE, so they can begin building Jewish SETTLEMENTS across Gaza.

[Mustafa Barghouti @Mustafa_Barghouti @MustafaBarghou1]

The world should demand the disarmament of the Israeli terrorist settlers who are committing terror attacks in the West Bank every day .

[Mosab Abu Toha @MosabAbuToha]

(Remember when the MSNBC journalist asked me, “Why not humanize all?” Then please do exactly that. Cover this. Report on it. Tell these families’ stories. If this does not deserve sustained international coverage, what does?)

Today, a historic mass funeral in Gaza City laid to rest 112 Palestinian civilians from the Abu Sharia and Al-Hasayna families, making it the largest single-event funeral procession in Palestinian history. These victims were killed on November 22, 2023, during a devastating Israeli airstrike that completely leveled a densely populated residential block in al-Sabra neighborhood, claiming the lives of approximately 308 people in total. Because israeli intense military attacks and severe equipment shortages blocked emergency access to the site, the bodies remained trapped under the concrete rubble for over two and a half years. The collective burial finally took place at the Baptist Cemetery following an arduous, days-long recovery operation by the Gaza Civil Defense, drawing thousands of mourners to honor the victims, who included over 40 children and 30 women.

Now ask yourself this: if this had happened anywhere else in the world, would there have been live coverage from the scene? Would journalists from CNN, BBC, MSNBC, CBS, ABC, CBC, Sky News, France 24, or other major international outlets have been broadcasting this funeral to a global audience?

Surely, many a single victim elsewhere could command hours of international coverage. But sorry, the victims are Palestinians and the mainstream media does not even consider them human.

[Tuba Asif @AsifTuba70]

May the perpetrators of this genocide be brought to justice soon 💔

[Mustafa Barghouti @Mustafa_Barghouti @MustafaBarghou1]

Gaza is set to witness tomorrow what is expected to be the largest funeral in Palestinian history, as the remains of 112 victims from the Abu Sharia and Al-Hasayna families will be laid to rest. Their bodies were recovered from among the 308 people killed in the massacre carried out by the Israeli army during the genocidal war in Gaza, after having remained missing beneath the rubble.

[Tuba Asif @AsifTuba70]

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[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🇺🇸🇵🇸 “If they can do this to an American congressman, what can they do to Palestinians?”

Rep. Ro Khanna (CA-17) was detained for over an hour near Khirbet Zanuta in the occupied West Bank after armed settlers carrying American-made M4 rifles surrounded his van. Khanna said the IDF soldiers who arrived knew an American congressman was in the vehicle and still sided with the settlers rather than helping. Khanna’s group was only released after the U.S. Embassy intervened.

During his days in the West Bank, including Hebron, Bethlehem, Beit Sahour, and Turmus Ayya, Khanna says he witnessed a “culture of impunity.”

He visited the school in Al-Mughayyir, where a 14-year-old boy and a 32-year-old man were killed by settler gunfire earlier this year, and met with Palestinian American families who’ve lost children to Israeli military and settler violence, including the family of Mohammed Zaher Ibrahim, a 16-year-old American citizen from Florida who was held in Israeli prison for over nine months without trial and returned home starving.

Khanna compared the West Bank to the days of Jim Crow in the United States, and says that Americans need to come to the West Bank and see “the apartheid in the West Bank with their own eyes.”

🎥 Report by @maysamustafa in the occupied West Bank with Congressman @RoKhanna

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

MUST READ!

Congressman @RoKhanna after visiting Israel and Palestine:

“In Palestine, I felt first as someone who was brown,” he said. “We really saw the apartheidlike conditions, the inequality.”

He added: “No American would support this if they knew the details of what was going on here.”

https://t.co/PRor7hF8ux

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

BREAKING (bones)
Why does "Bring Them Home" exist only for some hostages?
Because in Apartheid Israel, where only Jewish lives matter, brutalising the Palestinians isn't an anomaly - it is the system. And the silence around it is the exact measure of our collective hypocrisy.

[Mosab Abu Toha @MosabAbuToha]

For your information, this video was taken just an hour ago. It shows Israel blowing up buildings east of Khan Younis.

Again and again, shame on Western media that continues to call this a “ceasefire.”

By the Western media’s definition, an Israeli “ceasefire” apparently includes the continued killing of families, especially those with very young children, blowing up residential buildings, burning tents sheltering displaced people, banning international journalists, blocking life-saving medical supplies, and restricting, and on many days completely preventing, patients from leaving Gaza for urgently needed medical treatment abroad.

[Tuba Asif @AsifTuba70]

Death of decency of civilised world 💔

[Dr. Omar Suleiman @omarsuleiman]

1,000 days since the genocide in Gaza began.

1,000 days of the open slaughter of innocent civilians, and the death of the decency of the so called civilized world.

[Richard @ricwe123]

"Anyone who has served in the Israeli Forces in Gaza since October 2023 should be considered a suspect in relation to war crimes, crimes against humanity, and the crime of genocide"

-Chris Sidoti, UN Commission of Inquiry on Palestine

[Zeteo @zeteo_news]

A teenager holding a white flag shot down from a quadcopter in his own home. A newborn baby shot in the head while breastfeeding inside a tent. These are some of the horrific accounts of Israel’s targeting of Palestinian children from the UN’s latest report. @mehdirhasan shares:

[Reuters @Reuters]

🔊 ‘It also found that Israeli forces were using heavy munitions on densely populated areas, resulting in mounting child casualties.' @LivvyLepoids explains the UN inquiry on the Reuters World News podcast https://t.co/dAwiEeM8mZ

[UN Human Rights Council Investigative Bodies @uninvhrc]

Israeli forces have killed over 20,000 children & injured 44,000 more since 7 Oct. 2023, Srinivasan Muralidhar, chair of the @UN Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory & Israel, told reporters today. #HRC62

More on their new report ➡️ https://t.co/gK2KhtlgFb

[Amnesty International @amnesty]

🚨The recent images of Dr. Hussam Abu Safyia are shocking evidence of Israel's abuse against Palestinian detainees.

Dr. Abu Safyia has been arbitrarily detained for one and a half years without charges, while being physically abused and denied healthcare.

His recent solitary confinement adds a further layer of concerns over his deteriorating health. Dr. Abu Safyia must be immediately and unconditionally released. Israel must release all Palestinians arbitrarily detained. States must pressure Israel to stop abusing Palestinian prisoners.

#FreeDrHussamAbuSafiya