Leila

Sister/wife/mama/téta/proud public servant/food maker. Lover of life & learning. Advocate of justice, equality and change. Elle/She.

[B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم @btselem]

For the first time since the 1967 occupation, Israel is expelling an entire Palestinian neighborhood in Jerusalem.

The Silwan area, located near the "Holy Basin," the Temple Mount, and al-Aqsa Mosque, is home to many archaeological and historical sites of exceptional significance.

As of April 2026, approximately 1,800 residents in Silwan are under threat of expulsion, after hundreds have already been uprooted and left homeless in the past two years. In Baten al-Hawa alone, 33 families have already been expelled, and 53 additional families, including 130 children, face a similar fate. In al-Bustan, Israel has already demolished 48 homes and plans to demolish the homes of 123 more families, which will lead to the expulsion of approximately 1,450 people.

The expulsion in Silwan is part of a policy of ethnic cleansing throughout the entire West Bank.

Link to the full article >> https://t.co/hgffW3ngZm

[Maha Hussaini @MahaGaza]

"If anyone has survived this starvation,
it is this chicken.
She survived my knife through nine displacements.
Every time I reached for her neck, someone stopped me:
my wife,
Ayloul,
and Zein [my children], who found in his chicken friend something worth saving.

In a tent whose thin strips were colder than the hunger surrounding it,
she felt she was a burden to us—eating anything,
moving so lightly no one could hear her.
Even her clucking was faint,
and her gaze seemed to apologise for still being alive.
But what truly saved her wasn’t us.
It was the egg.
Every three days, she laid one egg—warm—
in a time when even a loaf of bread had disappeared.
We would divide it:
half for Zein,
the other half for Ayloul,
and I would postpone my hunger,
filling myself just by watching them.
And between one egg and the next,
a question circled in my mind:
Do I slaughter her, so we can eat for two days,
or keep her alive… so we can endure longer?

Even when my friend Hamed broke his arm
and needed any protein in this void,
I decided to slaughter her for him.
He looked at her for a long time,
then said:
“No, Malek… I can’t bear this guilt.
I won’t drink her broth… I won’t be the reason.”
In that moment, I understood:
we were saving ourselves from ourselves.
It was a test of the last part within us
that had not yet turned savage.
We could not bring ourselves to harm a chicken—
yet this vile world found it easy to abandon our children."

- Malek Shinbary, Palestinian from Gaza

[Paul Champ @PaulChampLaw]

And @csiscanada has adopted his Palantir data surveillance software without any consideration for the national security risks of working so closely (and sharing Canadians personal information) with an anti-democratic fascist.

[Tehran Tadhg @TadhgHickey]

The latest is at least 13 dead. There's never been impunity like this. Endless horror & hell.

[Leila @gholeila]

From the 4 year old daughter of the 28 year old AlJazeera journalist who was murdered by Israel on Sunday along with his colleagues while in a tent in Gaza.

[Middle East Eye @MiddleEastEye]

"I’m scared for my dad because of the bombing."

Sham, the daughter of assassinated Al Jazeera journalist Anas Al-Sharif, has delivered a heartbreaking plea for peace in a video shared by her father before his death.

In the clip, Sham speaks from a destroyed building in the Gaza Strip, describing the horrors she has lived through during the ongoing Israeli bombardment and expressing concern for her father amid the attacks.

“I have lived through the entire war. The occupation bombed us and bombed the houses. Netanyahu doesn’t want to stop the war,” she says.

Sham recalls her family’s suffering, including the death of her grandfather when their home in Jabalia was struck.

Her father had shared the video on social media, highlighting how children bear the heavy burden of war and suffering.

[United Nations @UN]

An average of 28 children have been killed each day since the start of the war in Gaza – the equivalent of an entire classroom, every day for 21 months.

"These children are not combatants,” says @unicefchief. "They suffer greatly and they wonder why the world has failed them."

[John Cusack @johncusack]

We are the evil empire -

[The Resonance @Partisan_12]

More than a million Iraqis were K!lled in the brutal US🇺🇲 invasion of Iraq🇮🇶....

They Lied
They Invaded
They Murdered
They Stole oil, Gold.....

Today they are trying to do the same with Iran.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

A video listing names of Palestinians killed in Gaza is 59 minutes long. It takes over a minute to get through “0 years old.”

This is genocide.

[Amal El-Mohtar @tithenai]

OH MY GOD WHO MADE THIS HAPPEN???? A THOUSAND BLESSINGS ON YOUR NAME(S)!!!

[Service Canada @ServiceCanada_E]

📢 The Canadian Dental Care Plan is here!

We will begin accepting applications in phases, starting with Canadian residents aged 87 or older who receive an invitation letter.

Learn more 👇
https://t.co/PrM2lJZvli

#CanadianDentalCarePlan

[Leila @gholeila]

From the UK.

[Amal El-Mohtar @tithenai]

POV: you are very jet-lagged in @WaterstonesGla but also wildly happy

[Amal El-Mohtar @tithenai]

They keep sending us poets, thank you @mightymur
https://t.co/i4QCNwcf8D

[Amal El-Mohtar @tithenai]

Friends--@maskofbun--y'all--

this has never happened to either of us before

just utterly stupefied with joy, thanks to every single person who bought or re-bought or re-re-bought a copy & made this happen, I want to make jokes but I can't this is so much

[Amal El-Mohtar @tithenai]

All right pals. I love you. You're amazing. Here endeth the thread, but the song, the ballad, the legend of Bigolas Dickolas Wolfwood must only (as appropriate) grow. The torch is yours. I carry it in my heart; you may carry it in your hands. Love & Peace.
https://t.co/RiTJ9NTmn8

[Leila @gholeila]

⁦@BlacksWeather⁩ a beautiful evening on the Ottawa River.

[Sylvie Bérubé @SylvieFBerube]

Today is #CanadianMulticulturalismDay. Let's celebrate all the cultural communities that make Canada a strong and vibrant society built upon a culture of inclusion and mutual respect.

[Leila @gholeila]

@BlacksWeather in the Pontiac this evening over the Ottawa River.