Day 42
We are living the most awful days in this life
It’s been a lot of hard times before, we been under Israeli occupation since 1948
This time is the hardest, death is the cheapest and the most easy thing to get
I’m losing weight and power
A story of Olives and Cactus:
“Wherever you see cactus, know there was a Palestinian village in that place ” . That’s what they tell you if you ever visit the West Bank. Israel has been removing, bulldozing , erasing villages and cities for decades to terraform the land . But the problem is , Cactus keeps growing back . No matter how they try to destroy the land and the soil and build their settlements , cactus keep coming back.
A friend of mine just came back from there carrying a gift for me : Locally squeezed olive oil from a her village in the West Bank . “Forget the commercial stuff you buy from stores. We squeeze oil in our own villages.”
They squeeze the olives on the stone mills, use clean dedicated straw bags to squeeze it on the extruding machines . Same process that has been done for 100,200, 400 maybe 600 years . As old as these trees. You take a product of the land , squeeze it to its limits and you get that pure green gold.
A healing potion of life .
“Just put some oil” is the answer for everything in Palestine. Hungry ? Add oil. A bit sick ? Rub oil. Want to feel better about the world? Oil as old as the earth is there for you. They are not just olive trees. They are family . They are there to feed you , heal you and take care of you. How can you uproot a member of the family and call this land yours ? I have no idea . The trees don’t agree with that . And cactus definitely don’t agree with that. Maybe we got it all wrong! Maybe olive trees are not just an extension of Palestinian heritage. Maybe, Palestinians themselves are an extension of the land . They are like the trees . You can beat them , you can pressure them , you can squeeze them and push them beyond any human limits. But they don’t die . Like crushed olives that produce green gold. And from death, a million lives will be born. And their pain will eventually be the healing potion for all of us.
And if you try to uproot them , they won’t go away . You think they will. But they come back. Like cactus . To defy you , to stand up for you , take your abuse and prick you back. They are there , to stay . Forever
I am speechless with horror watching this. This is the Israeli security forces at the funeral procession for slain Al Jazeera veteran correspondent Shireen Abu Akleh. Al Jazeera accuses Israeli security forces of killing her. (Israel denies it)
الموضوع مش محتاج نظرية مؤامرة والله عشان تفهم ان الشباب الملون اللى وسطنا دول بالبرمجة بتاعتهم معمولين عشان لما حاجات كدة تحصل يقعد يقولنا حاجات عن التسامح والانسان ومنبقاش زيهم
🧵: Don’t waste your time reading western/Israeli news headlines about what happened to Shireen Abu Akleh. Hear it firsthand from the Palestinian journalists who were with her and witnessed everything:
https://t.co/xq2JKA6d8T
Israeli occupation forces assassinated our beloved journalist Shireen Abu Akleh while covering their brutality in Jenin this morning. Shireen was most prominent Palestinian journalist and a close friend. Now we will hear the “concerns” of the UK govt & the international community
We strongly condemn the killing of Palestinian journalist and @AJArabic news reporter Sherine Abu Aqleh with a live bullet in the head during an Israeli raid on Jenin, in the northern West Bank, short ago.
NOTHING justifies the targeting of journalists
Al Jazeera veteran Palestinian journalist Sherine Abu Aqelh shot dead by the Israeli Occupation in #Jenin this morning
Journalists are still targeted in #Palestine by Israel for their work in covering what is happening on ground
A sad day for journalism & journalists worldwide.
For decades Sherine Abu Aqleh has been a notable journalist on Al Jazeera reporting the Israeli war crimes against Palestinians. Today the Israeli occupation forces shot her in the head. They killed her. Will Israel be sanctioned? Boycotted? Isolated? Condemned?