Gina De Marcellis

Works at the largest humanitarian agency in the world, The United Nations World Food Programme, WFP, Nobel Peace Prize Winner 2020

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

A Minister shows off gallows built for Palestinians only: the genocide continues.
Still no sanctions on Israel.
Why?
Because it's under our skin, the system we belong to: ams deals, tech contracts, pension funds, lobbies, abuses, impunity.

Left untreated, apartheid metastasizes.

[Gina De Marcellis @de_marcellis]

@janniksin Ciao Jannik. Very sad to see you out of a grand slam, or any tournament..wishing a speedy recovery, always ready to cheer you on, you make this sport special. Thankfully we have amazing Italian 🇮🇹 tennis players to keep us glued to the tournament..forza Jannie Forza Italia 🇮🇹

[GBC @GBC_Press]

🚨 BREAKING:

“I carry the image of a Muslim child who was killed in Lebanon, who, during my visit to Lebanon, was there holding a sign that said ‘Welcome, Pope Leo,’ and in this latest phase of the war, he was killed. I cannot support war.”

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Netanyahu: I need $12 billion
Trump: Approved

Elon Musk: SpaceX needs $4.16 billion
Trump: Approved

Jeff Bezos: Amazon needs $17.5 billion
Trump: Approved

Top 1%: We need a $1 trillion tax cut
Trump: Approved

Average Joe: My wife has cancer. Can we get Medicaid?
Trump: Denied

[GBC @GBC_Press]

🚨 BREAKING:

Dutch doctors and activists display 1,400 pairs of white shoes in a square in the Netherlands in memory of fallen healthcare workers in Gaza.

[Gina De Marcellis @de_marcellis]

@visit_lazio Sono stata di recente, finalmente ho visto il lago del Salto, bellissimo tutta la zona e quindi tornerò per visitare il paese di Petrella Salto

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya ran one of Gaza's last hospitals. He refused to leave his patients even after Israel killed his own son in a drone strike.

Israel kidnapped him for it. 18 months in detention, tortured and beaten, for the crime of running a hospital.

He must be released.

[Jeremy Wayne Tate @JeremyTate41]

This is the chief key keeper of the Vatican Museums, the man who holds the key to the Sistine Chapel.

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

This may look like a medieval village, but it’s actually the interior of Castel Sant'Angelo.

It was built in Rome almost 2000 years old.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Congress must say no to a bloated military budget.

[Gaza Notifications @gazanotice]

🚨 BREAKING: A horrific Israeli airstrike on Gaza has turned children’s bodies into pieces in yet another massacre targeting civilians.

[AS Roma Femminile 🇮🇹 @ASRomaFemminile]

Sempre più in alto 🏆🇮🇹

#ASRomaFemminile

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

This was carved from a single block of marble by a 23 year old in 1622.

Bernini turned stone into flesh...

The sculpture is called the Abduction of Proserpina, and it depicts the moment described in Ovid's Metamorphoses, when the goddess Proserpina was gathering flowers in a meadow and the earth opened beneath her. Pluto, king of the underworld, rose from the dark to take her.

Out of every instant in that abduction, Bernini chose the one when her feet leave the ground.

She is suspended in his arms. She is no longer in the world above, and not yet in the world below. Her left hand pushes desperately against Pluto's face. Her right is thrown back toward a sky she will never see again.

And where the god's fingers close around her thigh, the marble surrenders to them, dimpling inward as living flesh would, as though Bernini had reached the deepest secret of stone and discovered that it had always been waiting to give in.

He used to boast that in his hands, "marble became as impressionable as wax and as soft as dough."

On her right cheek, a single tear has been running for four hundred years...

The work was commissioned in 1621 by Cardinal Scipione Borghese, who wanted it as a showpiece for his own villa. He kept it for less than a year. In the summer of 1622, with a new pope newly elected, he gave it away as a political gift to the pope's nephew, Cardinal Ludovico Ludovisi. It disappeared into private hands for nearly three centuries.

The Italian state bought it back in 1908 and returned it to the room it had been made for. It has been there ever since.

I have stood in front of it, and I can tell you that nothing prepares you for the moment you actually see those fingers in her thigh. The marble seems alive and you forget, for a few seconds, that it is stone at all...

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[Eurovision Rai @EurovisionRai]

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[Alessandro Di Battista @ale_dibattista]

Il rapporto si intitola: “Un altro genocidio dietro le mura, violenza sessuale nelle prigioni e nei centri di detenzione israeliani e impunità sistematicamente costruita”. Leggete qui 👉 https://t.co/14EThq9QZd e iscrivetevi al mio canale Substack

[Gina De Marcellis @de_marcellis]

@InteBNLdItalia Prima volta a vedere Musetti live ..Forza Musetti !

[Gina De Marcellis @de_marcellis]

@Olympics @WorldAthletics Tokyo w/ Marcel 🇮🇹💪🏽

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Karan Singh and Rajmattie Persaud are on the Public Advocates’ “Worst Landlords” list. They have over a thousand violations for lack of heat, lack of hot water, hazardous mold, lead paint, broken elevators in 17-story buildings, roaches, and mice.

For too long, renters have cycled through bad owners and foreclosures. Not anymore.

A Chief Restructuring Officer has been appointed to ensure the repairs to Singh and Persaud’s buildings are made. We restrained funds from the owners’ bank accounts, which will be used by the Chief Restructing Officer to make repairs.

[Hala Jaber @HalaJaber]

Let’s talk about Khaled Daher.

A paramedic in Lebanon’s Civil Defence.
Not a fighter. Not a “target.”
A first responder who ran toward danger to save lives.

Two days ago, he was killed, along with two of his colleagues, when they were directly targeted while trying to rescue a civilian trapped under rubble.

But his story doesn’t start there.

Khaled wasn’t just a paramedic. He was the backbone of his family.
After his brother died in Bulgaria, he went searching for him, across borders & through uncertainty, until he finally located his grave & brought him back to Lebanon, where he laid him to rest.

He then became a father figure to his brother’s daughter, raising her as his own, carrying a responsibility that wasn’t his to bear, but one he chose anyway.

He was a son, a brother, a provider, a quiet pillar holding others up.

And in the end, he died the same way he lived, trying to save someone else.

Khaled Daher didn’t just lose his life.
His family lost their support.
People lost the man who showed up when everything else fell apart.
His niece has now lost both fathers.

Khaled spent his life saving others.
He was killed while doing exactly that.

This is what is being lost.

Over 103 medics and rescue workers have been killed since March 2.

Not numbers.
First responders.
Lives that held other lives together.

[Antonio Tajani @Antonio_Tajani]

È ormai evidente un quadro di crescente ostilità nei confronti della comunità cristiana in Israele, a Gaza, in Cisgiordania e nel Sud del Libano. Una violenza che questa volta non ha risparmiato una suora francese aggredita di fronte al Cenacolo sul monte Sion di Gerusalemme. Attacchi che vedono coinvolti anche i simboli e i luoghi di culto cristiani. Continuiamo a chiedere al Governo israeliano di garantire la libertà religiosa e la presenza dei cristiani che sono da sempre fautori di pace in Medioriente.