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[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

In 2015 I met this Palestinian farmer, Abdel-Majeed, on the West Bank. Israeli settlers were attacking him and stealing his land, and I thought the situation was about as bad as it could get.

No, it has gotten much worse. I revisited him last week, during a week-long trip through Israel and the West Bank, and I found that settlers have burned his cars and destroyed his tractor. They have cut down his olive trees and set his sheep shed on fire. They tried to break into his house when his granddaughter was home. Now his wife is arguing that they should give up their home, for fear of being burned alive by settlers.

This is life on the West Bank today. It doesn't get as much attention as Gaza, but the situation is desperate. And the US is largely AWOL. I know it feels a long way away, but this is central to the Middle East crisis and is one reason I fear the crisis will get worse. Here's my report: https://t.co/3sQ0KsASPT

[fmohsen @fmohsen]

@MichaelBiehl13 Impressive!

[fmohsen @fmohsen]

Published: https://t.co/uDLQ2svVwc! Our joint project with students from our institute and the US developed a framework to detect intrusive mobile apps. Rigorous testing on real datasets showed significant accuracy improvements over competitors @infosys_rug @BernoulliInsti2

[Joost Frenken @JoostWMFrenken]

Welcome to the Feringa Building! Today, the first lectures start in our brand new building. Of course, Ben himself is one of the first to teach here too, today. ⁦@univgroningen

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

Message I just received from an Israeli friend in Israel: "We need your urgent help. If there is no international intervention, we're gone. The entire Palestinian people are under a genocidal attack, and democratic Jews in Israel are under violent fascist persecution that increasingly resembles the junta regimes of the 1970s in Latin America.
Help us!"

[fmohsen @fmohsen]

Join me in demanding a ceasefire in Gaza: https://t.co/NtC7HkxrZH

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

39 days of war. So far Israel has killed 100 UN workers, >11K Palestinians, including ~5K children.

But no HAMAS fighter captured, as far as we can tell, and rather low number of "eliminated".
39 days.

[António Guterres @antonioguterres]

I am deeply disturbed by the horrible situation and dramatic loss of life in several hospitals in Gaza.

In the name of humanity, I call for an immediate humanitarian cease fire.

[A moment from the past @Apastmoment]

@Byoussef A woman holds a bloody shroud as people take part in a protest in support of the Palestinian people in New York

[Bassem Youssef @Byoussef]

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

[Jouke de Vries @JoukedeVries]

Techniek studeren kan in Groningen!

[Dr. Anastasia Maria Loupis @DrLoupis]

Make it trend and tag @elonmusk 🇵🇸❤️

[Bassem Youssef @Byoussef]

Message from Gaza . Please please stop

[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

Don’t Look Away

[Humza Yousaf @HumzaYousaf]

Gaza is under intense bombing.

Telecommunications have been cut.

We can't get through to our family who have been trapped in this war zone for almost 3 weeks.

We can only pray they survive the night.

How many more children have to die before the world says enough?

[Said Marouf @said_thedr]

A sad and disgusting reality.

[Said Marouf @said_thedr]

#StopGazaGenocide

[fmohsen @fmohsen]

@maxdeleoni @janmendling Thank you for providing clarification. It appears he is aware of this, but he is making significant efforts to rationalize the war crimes / collective punishment conducted by the israeli government.

[Dr. Abusalama @ShahdAbusalama]

"Thank you paramedics!" #Gaza children teach humanity even as they're pulled out from under the rubble.

[Humza Yousaf @HumzaYousaf]

I can not understand the PM's position, or Keir Starmer's unwillingness to call on all parties to commit to an immediate ceasefire.

How many more children have to die?

#CeasefireNOW