I really with my whole heart wish these journalists had the moral decency to not frame these actions as something criminal. Language matters. “Broke into” is unacceptable. These are people who are under full barrage with no help from global leaders. We are all witnessing a genocide while the media and many global leaders who are “pro democracy & human rights” are actively (like the old heads they are) trying to use propaganda to convince us it isn’t happening. Words matter. These are people in a desperate situation taking matters into their own hands and accessing the food that has been donated to them and withheld. It is their RIGHT. It is there for them!
5,000.
A deadly new threshold reached in Gaza. In just 2 weeks, Israel has now murdered 5,087 Palestinians, 2,055 of whom are children, and 1,119 of whom are women.
Last night was the deadliest night yet with looming ground invasion and essential supplies still cut.
Dear world,
Israel just bombed a Christian hospital in Gaza and murdered over 500 Palestinian civilians. White phosphorus chemical bombs confirmed by human rights watch was not enough to open your eyes. Over 1000 dead children wasn’t enough. Will you open your eyes and act now?
Israel told 1.1 million Palestinians that have already been suffocated in the cruelest of ways in North Gaza to evacuate within 24 hours to South Gaza, then bombed them on the way. But keep “standing with Israel” and telling yourself you oppose the murder of innocent civilians.
🇵🇸 #Gaza: This statement by Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola’s daughter, Maria Guardiola has put a lot of politicians, celebrities, journalists and others with a platform to shame:
‘My God.
So is this really what we're going to do now? Just sit back and watch a genocide happen on the telly? Then decades from now, when it's in the history books, all look round at each other and ask, 'how did that happen?'
For the first time, I truly understand how mass atrocities have been able to occur throughout history - again, and again, and again. We never learn.
What does the death count need to be before someone finally speaks against this madness and urges restraint, not more arms? 10,000? 100,000?
A million? More? When have enough Palestinians died?
I get that lots of us are scared to speak up. I get we're afraid to say the "wrong thing. But I won't sit by in silence and live with the fact that I never spoke up when an atrocity on this scale was committed because of fear. We can express our complete condemnation for what the Israeli govt are doing and also assert our unwavering belief in the equal value of Palestinian lives, without inciting hatred against Jewish communities - another persecuted people. Indeed, many Jewish and Israeli people, in the midst of their deep grief and knowing the pain of persecution too well, have had the bravery and strength to be the very first to do so.
This is quite simple. We are watching an occupied, oppressed people face annihilation by a nuclear state with the full backing of the western world. This is not - and has never been - an 'equal fight'. Right now, it is a massacre on a scale I don't think I've ever seen in my life.
6,000 bombs dropped in 6 days already. On a strip of land just 25 miles long and 7.5 miles wide at its widest point. Whole neighbourhoods flattened. Families wiped out. Hospitals collapsing under the weight of the casualties. On a population of 2 million - half of them children. 70% of them refugees. And now, the forced movement of 1 million people. A choice of forced migration or death is ethnic cleansing. The fact that it is impossible for that many to leave in that time means that this is now a genocide.
We have gone way, way beyond wishy washy 'praying for peace', 'all life is precious' IG statements, posted to show you've done your bit of performative activism. Show you mean it. If you have any kind of platform right now, please use it. Speak. Because it's becoming glaringly obvious that the world is happy to walk into an unspeakable horror that we didn't even bother to try to prevent.’
#Palestine 🇵🇸
School shootings are not fucking acts of nature, like hurricanes and tornadoes. They're man-made acts of inaction, of cowardice, of corruption by all lawmakers who refuse to pass laws PROVEN BY DATA to stop preventable, senseless shootings like in Uvalde.