sorry to put this back on your timeline but this made me so mad that I wrote about it. I think I was too mean and I felt bad about it but then I remembered she sucks so I feel less bad. Will drop the post below if you want to read it (Iâm the smiley doofus on drums).
This is Hossamâs team, and we are sharing his final message :
âIf youâre reading this, it means I have been killedâmost likely targetedâby the Israeli occupation forces. When this all began, I was only 21 years oldâa college student with dreams like anyone else. For past 18 months, I have dedicated every moment of my life to my people. I documented the horrors in northern Gaza minute by minute, determined to show the world the truth they tried to bury. I slept on pavements, in schools, in tentsâanywhere I could. Each day was a battle for survival. I endured hunger for months, yet I never left my peopleâs side.
By God, I fulfilled my duty as a journalist. I risked everything to report the truth, and now, I am finally at restâsomething I havenât known in the past 18 months . I did all this because I believe in the Palestinian cause. I believe this land is ours, and it has been the highest honor of my life to die defending it and serving its people.
I ask you now: do not stop speaking about Gaza. Do not let the world look away. Keep fighting, keep telling our storiesâuntil Palestine is free.â
â For the last time, Hossam Shabat, from northern Gaza.
A group of settlers just lynched Hamdan Ballal, co director of our film no other land. They beat him and he has injuries in his head and stomach, bleeding. Soldiers invaded the ambulance he called, and took him. No sign of him since.
If Hamas had killed 7 Israelis inside of Israel this week, it would be one of the biggest stories in the world, & all over the US media.
But Israel killed 7 HUNDRED Palestinians this week, including almost 200 children, & yet there's little outrage from our politicians or media.
Dorgham Qreaiqea, a young artist in Gaza we've been talking to for an art show in NYC, was murdered last night with his family during Israel's genocidal bombing. Lets celebrate his life, artwork, and the aid work for children he organized so he can live on. Glory to the martyrsđ
Nothing to see here, just a 49-page UN report documenting Israel's "genocidal acts" in Gaza and its systematic use of sexual violence as a weapon of war. https://t.co/SpEM8opnjn
This morning, one day after i came back from the Oscarâs a masked group of Israeli settlers stormed my neighbours home, assaulted the family members, sprayed pepper spray in their eyes, and smashed activistsâ phones.another group of settlers attacked another family in the area.
Do you understand what it means to say "Israel is blocking all goods and supplies entering Gaza?" it's not that Israel is GIVING any of the aid, no it means they're CLOSING the border so that everyone else cannot give the people of Gaza aid and the basic necessities to survive.
A state that on a whim can dictate whether an entire people can starve or live another day is a state that needs mandatory intervention from every international body to seize control and forcibly protect a population that is clearly facing annihilation from maniacal leaders and people.
Thereâll be no humanizing New York Times profile of this boy.
The Empire State Building wonât illuminate for his murdered siblings.
No US politician will condemn his kidnapping, or express an ounce of sympathy for his unfathomable loss.
Why does his grief mean so much less?
May Allah grant him the highest level of Jannah. May he be reunited with the soul of his soul, his beloved, beautiful little granddaughter. May we never forget him and the suffering he has endured.
Life after life is being brutally taken, when will we say enough.
honestly really sad that over 180,000 Palestinians have been murdered and people are more upset about protest chants than this enormous loss of life. you cannot bring these people back from the dead. every single life lost is someone's entire universe.