🚨 Missing Person Alert 🚨
*Dear Vaosa Family,*
Our brother *Muhammad Arogundade (son of the first Chairman of Vanguards Academy and brother to many VAOSA members)* is missing. We urge members, especially those in Lagos State, to kindly check nearby hospitals (including their
Heartbroken by loss and overwhelmed with grief, two Palestinian men burst into tears as they pray over their loved ones who were brutally slaughtered by Israeli forces in southern Gaza last night.
Today was my shift at the hospital.
Since our return to the Indonesian Hospital, I’ve been working side by side with two doctors. One of them was Dr. Mahmoud Abu Amsha.
This morning, he was late.
We called. No answer.
We waited. Still, no sign.
Then the news came, cruel and sudden: Mahmoud had been killed in an airstrike. His body was brought to the very hospital where we stood waiting for him in silence that no words could fill.
I’ve known Mahmoud not just as a colleague, but as a brother in the trenches.
When the Israeli army stormed northern Gaza and most doctors fled for their lives, Mahmoud stayed. He and Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya were the last to hold the line at Kamal Adwan Hospital. Mahmoud - the only remaining surgeon - worked tirelessly in a place that had become more graveyard than hospital.
From inside, he sent me voice notes. Fragments of despair and courage. I posted them here, hoping someone, somewhere, would listen.
When the hospital finally fell, Mahmoud was taken. Beaten. Then released.
He made it to Gaza City with nothing not even his shoes. We went together to buy him some clothes. I teased him that he wouldn’t get to wear them all before another evacuation forced him to leave them behind.
I didn’t know then that his next departure would be eternal, not displacement this time, but disappearance into the silence of death.
When I opened our free clinic, I messaged him.
He was still trapped in Kamal Adwan.
“Just stay alive,” I told him. “Come when you can.”
He survived. He showed up. He volunteered two days a week, treating the wounded without asking for anything in return. With his hands, he healed. With his presence, he gave us hope.
And now, he’s gone.
Another light extinguished in a city of endless mourning.
Mahmoud’s death is not just mine to grieve. It is a wound in the heart of Gaza’s medical soul. It is a loss to the patients who will never know his care, to the children who will never feel his steady hands in the ER, to the future we are watching collapse one healer at a time.
We did not lose just a doctor.
We lost resistance in its noblest form.
We lost mercy.
Rest well, my friend.
You gave everything.
#GazaGenocide
After surviving for 492 days, journalist Hossam Shabat was hunted down and deliberately killed by Israel nearly a month later, simply for conveying the truth about his people’s suffering and exposing Israel’s crimes.
I can’t even begin to imagine how his mom is feeling right now. He used to tell me that once this genocide ended, he would get married and start his life…
There has never been a war in history where 80% of the country has been decimated, 100% of the population displaced and 50% of the deaths children…
So let’s just call it for what it really is… this is a GENOCIDE..🇵🇸💔
I’m on the Lebanese border with occupied Palestine. Israeli forces are not withdrawing and have massacred civilians attempting to return to their homes. So far today 4 dead and 41 wounded.
Over 100 people shot by the Israelis today in Lebanons, with 11 dead. A 12 year old boy was wounded by Israeli fire standing right next to one of my team, just before this.
Israeli occupation forces continue their wide-scale offensive in Jenin city and refugee camp, destroying infrastructure and displacing hundreds of people from the refugee camp.
Here’s everything you need to know about the Israeli assault on the occupied West Bank city of Jenin which is now in its fourth day.
https://t.co/own32eJzxM
Two Palestinians, including an 11-year-old child, were reported killed in an Israeli artillery shelling that targeted a residential apartment west of Rafah city in the southern Gaza Strip earlier today, despite the ceasefire that has been in effect since last Sunday.
More casualties are being reported in Jenin amid a wide-scale Israeli military incursion.
Palestinian Authority (PA) forces withdrew from the camp after a 42-day siege as the Israeli raid started.
Speaking to Al Jazeera, Dr. James Smith, a British emergency physician who has worked on medical missions to Gaza, said that “There is nothing legitimate about targeting hospitals. What we have seen over the past 14 months is the systematic decimation of the Palestinian healthcare system. We know that hospitals and healthcare workers sustain life and are meant to offer some safety and sanctuary." He added that “So targeting those hospitals forms part of Israel’s wider strategy to ethnically cleanse and exterminate the Palestinian people from the north of Gaza. To destroy and to disable Kamal Adwan, to psychologically terrorise the healthcare workers and patients, there is part of a strategy to pressure the remaining 75,000 Palestinians in the north to be forcibly displaced towards the south.”