Sofia Imad

Public Health

[Johann Soufi @jsoufi]

🚨La Commission d’enquête des Nations Unies publie son premier rapport depuis le 7 octobre ! 🔍🇺🇳

📣 Elle accuse les groupes armés 🇵🇸 de crimes de guerre et les autorités 🇮🇱 de crimes de guerre et de crimes contre l'humanité.

Je vous explique cela en détail.
🧵👇

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Having once again been arbitrarily denied access to the Occupied Palestinian Territory by Israel, I have travelled across the region to meet with Palestinians and others who could help me better understand/assess developments on the ground.

Based on the information received, I concluded that the situation in Gaza is worse than previously assessed, extreme violence continues to spread to the rest of the occupied territory, and no Palestinian is safe under Israel’s unfettered control.

#Protection is a urgent priority for all Palestinians.

Press release (full report will follow):
https://t.co/XiIyihM6ZN

[Caroline Gennez @carogennez]

Le gouvernement israélien porte une responsabilité écrasante dans cette affaire.

Le bombardement d'infrastructures civiles et de civils innocents va à l'encontre de toutes les lois internationales, humanitaires et du droit de la guerre.

[chantal melonì @chamelons]

I just had a long distressing call with a friend from #Gaza What's happening now is much worse than anything we are told by the media. In the North the situation is one of "manhunting" where the residents who remained are chased after by #IDF home by home like "rats", he said 1/3

[Johann Soufi @jsoufi]

⚠️ Si c'est la position officielle du gouvernement, c'est grave !

La France a le devoir d’enquêter sur ses ressortissants possiblement impliqués dans des crimes à Gaza. Et ils pourraient être nombreux.

🧵Dans ce thread, je vous explique pourquoi.

[Anup Malani @anup_malani]

**New paper in Nature Scientific Reports**

State of Tamil Nadu, India, conducted 4 of sero-surveys during COVID, each >25,000 people.

We find:
- Antibodies decline by 30-60% within 6 months.
- Both infection & vaccination contribute to seroprevalence.

https://t.co/ReF8BcNmMm

[Sofia Imad @imad_sofia]

@Artha__Global @CafeEconomics @rashtrapatibhvn @APanagariya @NITIAayog Congratulations, Niranjan!

[Johann Soufi @jsoufi]

🚨Pourquoi plusieurs pays suspendent leur aide à @UNRWA, l’Agence des Nations Unies qui s’occupent des réfugiés palestiniens?

Dans ce thread, je vous explique pourquoi cette décision est extrêmement préoccupante, voire illégale! 🧵

https://t.co/yHVCwPMjZ5

[Sofia Imad @imad_sofia]

@DalrympleWill Heartbreaking 💔

[Sofia Imad @imad_sofia]

@zarinanteta ✊

[Breaking the Silence @BtSIsrael]

This is the same "tiny group of extremists" who in the past 8 weeks alone have forcibly displaced 16 Palestinian villages and murdered at least 8 Palestinian civilians, as well as carrying out hundreds of other violent attacks across the West Bank.
In a way, they're right: the
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[WHO in occupied Palestinian territory @WHOoPt]

Since 7 October, WHO has documented 212 attacks on health care in the Gaza Strip.

Attacks have resulted in at least 565 fatalities, 732 injuries, affecting 56 health facilities and 59 ambulances.

Three-fifths (60%) of health attacks and three-fifths (58%) hospitals damaged were in #Gaza City.

Health care is #NotATarget.

@WHO calls for the respect of international law and active intervention to ensure the protection of health care.

[Human Rights Watch @hrw]

Israel: Strikes on Journalists in Lebanon Apparently Deliberate https://t.co/F2UmERhszA

[United Nations @UN]

For first time ever, @antonioguterres invokes Article 99 of UN Charter, urging Security Council to help avert a humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza.

Appealing for humanitarian ceasefire, he says civilian population must be spared from further harm. https://t.co/vOFMPASWkQ

[Josep Borrell Fontelles @JosepBorrellF]

Worrying call from @UNReliefChief Griffiths. He informed me that, due to the bombing in the south of Gaza -with many victims and massive destruction- the UN won’t be able to continue operating unless there is an immediate ceasefire. As requested by the @UN, the fighting must stop

[Lauren Frayer @lfrayer]

Since Oct. 7, Israel has arrested 12 times more Palestinians than it has released as part of prisoner exchanges. And nearly 40% of the Palestinians in Israeli jails have never been charged.

https://t.co/oGAIe8UDfK

[Mirjana Spoljaric (Archive) @ICRCPresident]

My message from Gaza today:

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

ALARMING. Phase II of #GazaWar (see @EpshtainItay👇), risks to push the exhausted Gaza population to the border with Egypt & into #deportation to Sinai.
This may result in the largest #ForcibleTransfer of Palestinians in a long history of forcible transfers of Palestinians.

[Fadi Quran @fadiquran]

Here’s a personal story about Palestinian child prisoners:

- In 2012, I was arrested in Hebron while participating in a march to open Shuhada street, which was a main market street for Palestinians until the Israeli military shut it down, and made it for Israeli settlers only. It’s part of the area @JamaalBowmanNY visited.

- Handcuffed and blinded by pepper spray, and thrown in the back of an Israeli humvee after my head was slammed against it, the soldiers drive off. They suddenly stop, run out, and all I hear is a child screaming and crying.

- This child is then thrown on top of me, and is handcuffed. I ask him his age, he said 13. I asked him what happened, he says he was walking to his sister’s house and they just stopped and picked him up. He’s in panic mode crying “my sister cooked lunch for me, she’ll be terrified if I’m lost”. I tell him not to worry, we’ll make it out and give him the basic tips: You have a right to remain silent, don’t say anything without a lawyer…etc.

- We get to the Israeli military outpost, we’re dragged out of the humvee. The kid’s terrified, telling them not to blind him (He thought I was blinded because of the pepper spray, I couldn’t open my eyes).

- The smack the kid around and tell him to shut up.

- We wait a bit, then kid is called in for interrogation.

- The Israeli military interrogator literally tells him: I’ll let you go home, you just need to confirm the guy with you led the protest and told you to throw the stones at us.

- Kid says I want to call my family/lawyer. Interrogator says ok: Picks up mobile and gives it to kid. Kid puts in his mother’s number. Soldier snatches mobile. The mother answers. Soldier says: Your son is going to go to jail and if he doesn’t talk I’ll come and arrest you too. Puts it on speaker, mother is panicking. Kid starts to panic. Soldier hangs up in her face.

- Soldier tells kid: I can make your family’s life hell. But if you say what I told you to say, everything will be ok.

- Kid starts sobbing and says: But I don’t know this guy I just met him in the humvee when you picked me up. Sitting outside the room, I yell: Kid, stay strong, say your truth and don’t fall into his lies.

- They come and take me away. Thirty minutes later kid comes out of interrogation shaken. He says the soldier told him he’d shoot his mother. The poor child told me not to worry though, he only said the truth 🥺.

- The case brought against this poor kid was stone throwing, with two soldiers “testifying” they saw him throw a stone.

- He spent 3 months in prison as court hearings kept getting delayed, eventually he was advised by his lawyer to “admit” to stone throwing because that way he’d spend less time in prison because the lawyer could be able to negotiate his release in 4 months, while waiting for a ruling from Israel’s military courts could take a year.

- In short, working on this issue in Palestine for 12 years, I can tell you the majority of child arrests in Palestine follow this exact pattern:

- Israel wants to teach a Palestinian community a lesson, deterring people from protesting its oppression.

- It targets the kids, arresting dozens - up to 700 a year.

- Majority of kids get abused and interrogated.

- Lawyers and kids know it’s better to “confess” even if they didn’t do the crime, as waiting for a ruling and being in uncertainty/limbo is hell. That’s why you have a 95% conviction rate.

- Then the Israeli government, when challenged for the systematic abuse, comes out and says: “These kids are terrorists - they attacked our soldiers and admitted to it.”

- And because the lives of Palestinian children don’t matter, the world turns a blind eye again and again and again and again.

[Nanjala Nyabola @Nanjala1]

"The hostages to be freed are women and children, and the Palestinian prisoners are also women and people aged 18 and younger, both sides have confirmed." After all these years English doesn't have a word for Palestinian people who are aged 18 or younger? https://t.co/n4k5QmWPQI