As the Presiding Officer for NA-128, Election 2024, my nightmare began with a notification from my employer - the University of Home Economics. Here is my account of the experience. A 🧵
I keep writing and deleting cause I can’t find the words to describe the level of loss we Gazans are feeling right now. Can you imagine your whole world being wiped out? Everything. The level of destruction we’re seeing is beyond any words. Our homes, our landmarks, our schools, our universities, our restaurants, literally everything. Israel’s intent was to always remove Gaza from the map. They destroyed our city intentionally. They bombed our ancient landmarks to remove any proof of Palestinian history… I just can’t explain what I feel when I’m seeing all of my favourite places flattened. My whole city flattened. Everything I grew up with flattened.
babies decomposing in their cots is something that even fictional horror couldnt imagine. parents being forced to leave their infant children behind at the mercy of bloodthirsty zionists is pain no living being could bear. yet we expect all Palestinians to simply accept it? never
In my 35 years of covering wars, I have never seen criminals like the Israelis boasting about their crimes, bragging about them on social media and not being held accountable by nations worldwide, especially here in Europe, that pretend there are laws.
'... a painful glimpse of what the trio endured.
“They told us that some days there was more food and some days that there was less food.”'
Hope we also hear sth abt the recovery of Palestinian hostages, many of them kids.
https://t.co/dH1H7f3cdl
Not sure about the authenticity of the link and the last claim but completely agree with everything else. There are no two equals here. There's a victim and an oppressor.
Actually- its really quite easy to see the truth when you become loyal to it- even it is evident against yourself.
Israel is an occupation of Palestinian lands. This is its foundation and its legacy. Palestinians did not fight “Israelis” to create Palestine. Israel on the other hand, swooped into Palestinian lands as barefooted refugees, and claimed ownership; and since have ethnically cleansed millions of Palestinians.
You call Hamas’ defensive attacks as “massacre” without even having solid evidence that such was carried out. And before commenting with biased sources- do know that even Haaretz refuted these claims and has been shut down because of it.
You conveniently term Israel’s ongoing active GENOCIDE, “killings.” A genocide that has killed nearly 18000 people in 6 weeks- most of whom are children.
You also neglected to mention the one going Israeli crack downs and massacres in The West Bank - where there is no Hamas. I am sure that you have been following the multiple hunting streaks against Palestinians in Jenin, Nablus and Ramallah for over a year now.
There are no two sides here. There are no two equals.
There are the victims- Palestinians.
And there are the perpetrators of the most heinous crimes on earth- The Israelis.
That is it!
You might not like it and thats your opinion. But history is not sensitive to our emotions or allegiances.
Take it or leave it.
But do not try to corrupt it!
Also: please check out the link below… look at these “villainous” Hamas… and how they treat their hostages.
https://t.co/yF8yk7upud
Also the language. Israel is 'retaliating', Netanyahu is 'facing pressure ' ... The excuses to justify this horror show. And what does 'Hamas-led ministries' even mean? Would you call American ministries and institutions 'Democrat-led ministries '?
Speechless
“there was some concern in the administration about an unintended consequence of the pause: that it would allow journalists broader access to Gaza & the opportunity to further illuminate the devastation there & turn public opinion on Israel.”
https://t.co/k8kgSFR9ym
I'm speechless.
Biden folks feared that a pause in the fighting would enable more journalists to get into Gaza and cover the carnage...
"And there was some concern in the administration about an unintended consequence of the pause: that it would allow journalists broader access to Gaza and the opportunity to further illuminate the devastation there and turn public opinion on Israel."
https://t.co/rFrV6OoXGZ
I was just with a brand new patient, white American, who knew nothing about me, but saw my Arab face and my name, abruptly said “You prob support Palestine and Hamas”. Horrified, but as my Palestinian ppl have taught me: I stayed and provided top-tier care, b/c that’s how we are.
You couldn't make it up: this guy harassing Muslim cart vendors and asking “Did you rape your daughter like Muhammad did?”, or saying that killing 4,000 Palestinian children “wasn’t enough”... is Stuart Seldowitz, a senior American diplomat.
He was acting director for the National Security Council South Asia Directorate under Obama and deputy director/senior political officer in the U.S. State Department’s Office of Israel and Palestinian Affairs from 1999 to 2003 (src: https://t.co/7In4WAo3XG).
Staffed with folks like these, it's no wonder "American diplomacy" has become an oxymoron...
The IDF just released their first photos/videos from the Shifa Hospital after last night's raid. I count 10 guns. The IDF has claimed that the "beating heart" of Hamas' operations is beneath Shifa.
Presumably they'll release more photos/videos?
https://t.co/gZjhI4WW1X
Waisay warh gayi sari woke politics post israeli terrorism. Dil hi nahi karta white social standards ko ab respect karne ka. Infants are being butchered and you are worried that someone said wrong pronouns lol fuck u