Batool 🌸

certified water bear
survivor of 2020

[Batool 🌸 @batabeelo]

“Sometimes people fool themselves into believing things that aren’t true. Sometimes that can be quite dangerous for that person. They see the world in a wrong way. But often there is a part of the mind that does know, and the right words can let it out”. #terrypratchett

[Batool 🌸 @batabeelo]

@LNER Nope. I was just told to take the route. In the stress of getting to Euston on time no one will be able to check etc

[Batool 🌸 @batabeelo]

@LNER was advised to take train to Carlisle and change there to Newcastle. Is there a connecting train? Am on 7:30 from euston

[Batool 🌸 @batabeelo]

@LNER Can I take a taxi from Carlisle and claim that?

[Batool 🌸 @batabeelo]

@LNER Seriously? Why recommend a route that is unfeasible!!!

[Batool 🌸 @batabeelo]

@LNER But we get in at 11pm. Is there a replacement service at least from Carlisle?

[Batool 🌸 @batabeelo]

@LNER ?

[Batool 🌸 @batabeelo]

@MintPressNews @MedicalAidPal you need to address this ASAP
The founders of MAP would not condone this.
If you don't do something about this soon alot of people will suffer.

[Mark Ruffalo @MarkRuffalo]

“Let’s be very clear. This is tragic, but it is not an anomaly,” Scott Paul, of the humanitarian group Oxfam, said Thursday in a briefing with other relief organizations before the results of Israel’s investigation were released. “The killing of aid workers in Gaza has been systemic.” https://t.co/ughvSbdHLt

[Dr Andreas Krieg @andreas_krieg]

In our hyper-polarized and echo-chambered world, you have people feeling comfortable to organise a rave to block humanitarian aid, to women and children a stone throw away being who are decimated by an indiscriminate war machine

[Khadija @khadljasays]

A thread.

[Batool 🌸 @batabeelo]

LEGEND

[Norman Finkelstein @normfinkelstein]

In Order to Make the Debate with Boy Wonder Ben Shapiro Fair, I Herewith Declare that, So Long as I Get Equal Time, He Can Bring Along Jordan Peterson and Shmeulay Boteach

[Batool 🌸 @batabeelo]

@TanniieTann My heart

[Batool 🌸 @batabeelo]

@Dominiquetaegon You'd think a march against genocide would be in line with "never again". I believe they scheduled their March for 2 hours after the moment of silence

[Batool 🌸 @batabeelo]

He was suspended

[Ruqaiya @ruqaiya_h]

If that tube driver who said “free Palestine” gets fired, we will fundraise for him and make sure he’s good for a few years.

We need to show unity and support those ostracised by a political class who tries to single out & punish people who don’t tow the line of Israel apologism

[Batool 🌸 @batabeelo]

@clumsyoaf33 I'm so sorry to hear that. You shouldn't have to chase!!

[Batool 🌸 @batabeelo]

Not in his fan club fyi

[Batool 🌸 @batabeelo]

Genuine question .. about the Russell allegations. Were these attacks reported to the police and ignored? Or are the police only hearing of this now? What am i missing?

[Jenan Moussa @jenanmoussa]

This is the terrifying detailed account of @mariam_ghy, a survivor of the Derna disaster. I interviewed her via WhatsApp.

Below is the transcript in English of that same interview.

It reads like the script of a natural disaster movie. But remember, this is real, and it just happened to 22-year-old Mariam.

The described events by Mariam took place between 2AM and 4AM on September 10, 2023:

“We were in our apartment on the first floor.

We started to hear outside police asking people to evacuate.

But the neighbourhood was already “sinking”, already there was a lot of water in the street.

At the same time, we never thought that water would reach our apartment on the 1st floor.

We thought it was just a normal situation – rain, storm etc.

After a while, our neighbour came, and she was crying.

She said we should go to the fifth floor; the water level is rising, and the water now is really getting inside apartments.

So, we all gathered on the fifth floor, and of course, nobody expected that the water would rise to the fifth floor.

Our building has eight floors. It is impossible that the water would get that high.

After fifteen minutes from arriving on the fifth floor, we hear screaming and shouting and crying. And voices are saying: The water has reached the fourth floor! We should go to the seventh or the last floor.

Here, we started to realize how dangerous it all is. We all gathered on the roof top, also the neighbours of the other buildings. We felt the earth shaking under us. It was a horrifying feeling. And some buildings (in our area) were collapsing. The dam had collapsed already. Until that moment, we did not realize it was the dam. I thought it was an earthquake.

I can tell you: There are no words to describe my feelings. We felt death.

Either we will perish in the water, or the building will collapse. We couldn’t do anything other than praying and saying Duaa. And we said say goodbye to our loved ones. I was holding the hands of my sisters and my youngest brother. I told them – keep on holding my hand. Stay together even if the building collapses. Even if we die, we die together.

It was an indescribable moment. I still haven’t slept, I can’t stop thinking of those horrible moments.

The whole thing lasted from 2.18 in the morning until about 0400 AM. At 0408 AM, we left the building.

We left the building because we saw cracks in the earth and suddenly the level of water started to decrease quickly.

Suddenly, the water was gone. Literally, the earth had cracked.

When we got down from our building (most of the water had gone), we had to jump over all those cracks.

Even a neighbour died when she tried to pass a crack and fell into it.

At that moment, we had no idea it was the dam which had burst.

When we went down (from our building), I wasn’t thinking of the cause of the disaster. I just looked around me and saw all the buildings around had collapsed. I was only focused on this: how to get out of here.

When we were walking, it was still raining. And the lightning was so strong, it was lighting the whole sky. I could see everything had been taken by the water, nothing was standing anymore, it all had become one level.

We live in the center of the city and normally there are all kind of buildings around us. But there was nothing anymore, it was all flat. It was so flat that I thought: where am I? I could not even recognize our own street.

There were dead bodies on the street and floating in the water. And some people who had tried to escape, they fell and died. It was dark. There were no cars to take us. When we were on the fifth floor, we saw already that police cars and vehicles from the red crescent were swallowed by the water and thrown towards the sea.

I am hearing now that there are many donations, but we haven’t received anything.

We stayed here in Derna until yesterday (Wednesday). We had nothing. We didn’t get anything.”

@akhbar

[Batool 🌸 @batabeelo]

The number of ppl trying to justify this 🤢🤢🤢

[Batool 🌸 @batabeelo]

@iamTroyHudson Omg that poor woman!!!