Azadeh Sobout

Urbanism, Post-Conflict Peacebuilding, Reconstruction and Justice 🕊
Research Fellow @QUBNBE
Researcher @Change_Stories_
Campaigner @PPR_Org

[Mustafa Barghouti @Mustafa_Barghouti @MustafaBarghou1]

Before and after, the effect of the Israeli #GENOCIDE : Tal al-Sultan neighborhood, northwest of the city of Rafah and Rafah Camp.

[Hala Jaber @HalaJaber]

Israel killed 9 paramedics in roughly 72 hours.
Let that sink in.

These are some of their faces.

According to Lebanon��s latest health sector figures, now updated after the killing of additional paramedics in the last 48 hours:

• 125 healthcare workers killed
• 273 wounded
• 149 attacks on the healthcare sector
• 142 ambulances targeted
• 32 medical centres destroyed
• 16 hospitals forced out of service
• 221 ambulance crews attacked

Lebanon’s emergency sector is not collapsing accidentally.
It is being systematically dismantled.
Israel is committing war crimes against Lebanon’s medical services.

[Azadeh Sobout @AzadehSobout]

@stiofanbruce_ @dreamdearg @belfastcc The Western democracy treats the language of the coloniser as automatic and unquestionable, while the Indigenous language must continuously justify its existence. Rights and recognition are not supposed to depend on whether the dominant group feels comfortable granting them.

[Azadeh Sobout @AzadehSobout]

@stiofanbruce_ @dreamdearg @belfastcc Did anyone go door to door across the North asking residents whether they wanted English-only street signs? Or does this sudden obsession with “democratic consent” only appear when the issue is the revitalisation of the Indigenous language of this land?

[Tamer Nahed @Tamer_Alnoaizy]

I don’t know if anyone will even care about what I’m saying now but the truth is harsher than any person can imagine.

A large number of children in Gaza are being born with shocking deformities: open spine defects, severe heart abnormalities, missing limbs, deformed heads, and faces that look as if they were burned inside the womb. They come into the world already marked by the war before they even take their first breath.

Mothers have been inhaling rocket gases and toxic smoke for months, drinking water contaminated with explosives residue, and living on soil saturated with toxins.

I saw photos and videos myself of children in extremely difficult conditions unbearable to look at. Babies screaming in pain during their first hours of life, their tiny bodies horribly deformed. Doctors say they have never seen such cases in their entire lives, and they warn: “These deformities are unprecedented and will increase because of the pollution.”

Here, we don’t just suffer from hunger and epidemics we are giving birth to an entire broken generation from the moment they are born. We live inside a giant prison, deprived of medicine, clean food, electricity, and even the basic right to have healthy children.

[Craig Mokhiber @CraigMokhiber]

After 80 years of mass murder, and today aggression in Iran, ethnic cleansing in Lebanon, genocide in Palestine, corruption of governments across the West, and the fielding of racist proxies to harass human rights defenders everywhere, no, Israel does not have “a right to exist” and does not have “a right to defend itself” anymore than Nazi Germany did. It must be isolated, weakened, defeated, and dismantled. The peace of the world and the rights of millions depend upon it.

[حسین کرمانپور Hossein.Kermanpour @HKermanpour]

The aggression against Pasteur Institute of Iran—a century-old pillar of global health & member of International Pasteur Network—is a direct assault on international health security. This violates Geneva Conventions & IHL principles. We call on @WHO @ICRC & global health bodies to condemn this attack, assess damages & support reconstruction.
#PasteurInstituteIran #HealthSecurity #GenevaConventions #InternationalLaw #GlobalHealth #WHO #ICRC #HumanitarianLaw #Iran #ReconstructHealth
#PasteurNetwork

[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

[Esfandyar Batmanghelidj @yarbatman]

The Israeli airstrike targeting Tofigh Darou represents a direct attack on Iranian public health.

Iran manufactures 90% of the drug doses it needs and mainly imports advanced therapies. This is possible because the country has a large pharmaceutical industry. Companies like Tofigh Darou produce ingredients and precursors which can then be used to make a wide range of drugs domestically. The only reason you would hit this target is to try to limit medicine production in Iran.

To make matters worse, Tofigh Darou is a subsidiary of Owzan, which is majority owned by the Social Security Investment Company. In effect, Tofigh Darou is a company owned by Iran's largest pension fund.

[Sameh Ahmed 𓂆 🇵🇸 @PalPress24]

The child who was subjected to torture (including having cigarettes extinguished on his body and a metal rod inserted into his feet in front of his father)—

In a delayed video released by the occupation, the moment of his handover to the International Committee of the Red Cross is documented in the “Yellow Line” area east of Gaza, days after he was detained along with his father.

During his detention, he was subjected to severe abuses, while his father remains imprisoned by the occupation to this moment.

[Tamer Nahed @Tamer_Alnoaizy]

My friend told me something shocking… He said that anyone who survives Gaza and goes abroad, even with advanced medical tests, discovers cancer in their body. The number is staggering, countless people, and every day new strange diseases appear… Here in Gaza, these rare illnesses, never seen by doctors before, keep emerging without explanation, with no proper testing equipment and no treatment available.

How is this even possible? How can we live amid the destruction and siege, watching our bodies deteriorate with no way to understand or confront the damage? Here, we have no tests, no treatment, as if we are living experiments left to collapse.

The weapons dropped on us do not just kill immediately they leave survivors suffering for life. Advanced missiles, destructive munitions, everything is used against us without mercy, as if our lives mean nothing. Those who survive the bombing… will never truly survive the diseases that follow.

It is truly shocking and bewildering… We are in the largest human testing ground on Earth. Children grow up amid fear and pain, our bodies break down relentlessly, and the whole world ignores us as if we don’t exist.

Each day, our sense of helplessness grows, and every day brings a new shock at the scale of the damage that is almost impossible to believe.

[Azadeh Sobout @AzadehSobout]

@ProfJohnBarry Will it be on zoom or the speaker is present?

[The Irish News @irish_news]

Iran’s struggle beyond empire and authoritarianism, says NI based Iranian Azadeh Sobout https://t.co/NepdfpEHH0

[Open Magazine @Openthemag]

“War won’t liberate Iran”: Noted Iranian feminist challenges the West’s narrative: Iranian academic Dr Azadeh Sobout says that externally imposed regime change rarely produces democratic transitions, writes @Ullekh
https://t.co/ldwqnS9HO4

[mohammed hussein~Gaza 🇵🇸 @mohammedIhysse]

I want to introduce myself… and I have an important question that weighs heavily on my heart: Do I deserve to live?

I am a young man who grew up in my homeland, Palestine, in the city of Gaza.
I am 31 years old, and I have lived through more than seven wars.

I studied accounting and computer science, and I earned a Master’s degree in Business Administration.
In the middle of this war, I read many books and wrote many texts. I even wrote a book from inside my tent titled “Diaries from My Tent in Gaza.”

I defended my master’s thesis under the sound of bombardment.
I studied while afraid, and sometimes while hungry…
but I insisted on continuing until I completed my studies and earned my degree.

I was also the father trying to protect his two children, Imad and Adam, and my wife from the middle of this tragedy,
fighting every day to provide them with safety, food, and water.

I am only 31 years old,
yet I feel as if I have carried the burdens of a man who has lived a hundred years of hardship.

So I ask you honestly…
Do I deserve to live?

Your answer means a lot to me. 💔

[Muntadhar al-Zaidi @muntazer_zaidi]

Today I mentioned her in a meeting, and coincidentally today marks the anniversary of her martyrdom. On this day, 12/3/2006, American soldiers stormed a house in the town of Al-Mahmudiyah, south of Baghdad, and committed the crime of raping the child Abeer Qasim Al-Janabi, then killing her along with her father, mother, and 5-year-old sister, and set fire to their bodies in one of the house's rooms. James Barker, Jesse Spielman, Steven Green, Brian Howard, and Paul Cortez, from the 101st US Infantry Division, admitted to the crime (rape and burning of the child and her family).

[LSE Middle East @LSEMiddleEast]

Tune in to the first episode of our new season of the Instant Coffee podcast!

Hamidreza Vasheghanifarahani (@AFSEE_LSE) speaks with @AzadehSobout and Rindala about how transnational solidarity networks can strengthen efforts towards social change.

https://t.co/YoOzWtlaZo

[Azadeh Sobout @AzadehSobout]

@JackieReillyDC As a result some festival victims were very likely killed by Israeli fire. There has been a call from UN and Palestinian side for international investigation on what happened on 7th Oct constantly blocked by the Zionist regime.

https://t.co/F1aQLUOFbO

[Azadeh Sobout @AzadehSobout]

@JackieReillyDC Multiple investigations including Haaretz, The NYT, AP, and testimonies from Israeli police and survivors  acknowledge that Israeli forces fired helicopter gunships, tanks, and ground fire at vehicles and structures containing both Palestinian militants and Israeli civilians.