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“They are trying to make the land uninhabitable. They are erasing our entire history, our entire culture, all our memories. Maybe the idea is that after some time, it will look as though nobody had ever lived here.”

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"I miss the feeling that the people I love are living in the same reality as me."

"...war has a way of placing people inside different versions of the same story..."

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Mohamed describes his body as “burning”, slipping between rage and grief. “I don’t know if it’s pain or anger. So I cry.”

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“You feel a deep sense of frustration. Like someone has the power to erase you”
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"This divergence reflects a deeper issue: borders are perceived differently within the same country."
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[عاصم النبيه Asem Alnabih @AsemAlnabeh]

The headline sounds simple: yesterday, 22 trucks carrying fruits and vegetables entered Gaza.

But once you examine what those trucks actually contained, the scale of the disaster becomes painfully clear.

Take cucumbers 🥒 as an example — just one-tenth of a truck, amounting to roughly 1.5 tons. At an average of 20 cucumbers per kilogram, that's 30,000 cucumbers for the entire population.

Now imagine the reality behind that number: Gaza would need the same quantity to enter every single day for more than two months just for each human being to eat one cucumber over the span of two months.

And this is not an exception. The same pattern applies to most of the food products entering Gaza. The Israeli occupation relies on images, headlines, and statistics to convince the world that aid is flowing into the Strip, while on the ground it is enforcing an unprecedented system of engineered starvation and siege against an entire population.

[language | land @hemaliee]

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'Every small act of bazm in Tehran – be it holding a girl’s hand in public, drinking arak on a street corner at night, writing a political column for a magazine, creating a new VPN to get around restrictions – felt like participation in a grand struggle.'
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"There is a powerful motor component to writing that is conveyed to and felt by the reader. The sentence but also the book as a whole, must have a rhythmic construction, must walk, run, leap and tumble..."
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"This is what power looks like on the ground. It doesn’t only come in bombs and missiles; it makes itself felt in the slow, deliberate narrowing of life."
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