Jehad Abusalim

Writer. Co-editor of “Light in Gaza.” My opinions are my own. "Storming the burning noon." Monitoring the situation.

[Jehad Abusalim @JehadAbusalim]

Our first testimony is live. Somaia trusted us with her story. Now we need you to carry it further.

Watch it, share it, and make sure it's seen.

[Gaza Genocide Center @GazaGenocideCtr]

Our first testimony from Gaza.

Somaia El-Swerki was 19 when an Israeli airstrike destroyed her family's home in Gaza City. For three weeks she lay trapped beneath the rubble. Her mother died beside her on the seventh day.

She survived. This is her account, in her own words.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

The newly launched Gaza Genocide Center has released its first survivor testimony, with English subtitles.

Somaia El-Swerki was 19 when an Israeli airstrike destroyed her family home in Gaza City on December 2, 2023. She survived 21 days trapped beneath the rubble. Her mother died beside her on the seventh day.

[Jehad Abusalim @JehadAbusalim]

This is the first testimony we recorded in Gaza. These are the voices of Palestinian witnesses and survivors, and they deserve to be heard. Please share this widely.

[Gaza Genocide Center @GazaGenocideCtr]

"Mama held on for seven days before she died."

Somaia lay beside her mother beneath the rubble of their home in Gaza City for three weeks, and lived to tell it.

Our first testimony from Gaza, now with English subtitles.

[Jehad Abusalim @JehadAbusalim]

this savagery will continue until the world decides to intervene, but it might be too late then

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

Masked Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian villagers on Friday, setting olive groves on fire and slinging rocks.

Caught in the attack was Post photographer Heidi Levine. “They just kept kicking me and kicking me, like probably 50 times,” Levine said. https://t.co/9YLUuU9ktP

[Gaza Genocide Center @GazaGenocideCtr]

🔴 1,501 Palestinians killed since the "ceasefire."
🔴 Israel now controls about 65% of Gaza.
🔴 94% of people lack adequate shelter.
🔴 44% of essential medicines are out of stock.
🔴 No patients allowed out through Rafah this week.
Gaza This Week: https://t.co/bKCMNTuWA8

[A New Policy @anewpolicyorg]

‼️Israeli firm placed millions of inoccuous online ads (including via Google Ads) that implanted Candiru spyware in thousands of phones and computers - targets included Palestinians and the Pentagon.

[Gaza Genocide Center @GazaGenocideCtr]

“Gaza’s children are not collateral damage.” In Buried Alive, Aya Harazin documents how Israel’s genocide is leaving children with injuries that will shape the rest of their lives: amputations, permanent disabilities, and lifelong psychological wounds.

[Gaza Genocide Center @GazaGenocideCtr]

Satellite images leave no room for denial: Israel is committing genocide.

199,500 structures across Gaza damaged or destroyed since Sept 2023. Homes, schools, hospitals, places of worship, erased on record.

[Jehad Abusalim @JehadAbusalim]

Her home was bombed. Her three siblings were killed.
Her mother died beside her on the seventh day.
She survived on one lollipop and rainwater squeezed from a mattress.
Soldiers mocked her when she begged for water.
Somaia was 19. This is her testimony.

https://t.co/BnJzYYyFbn

[Gaza Genocide Center @GazaGenocideCtr]

"Mama held on for seven days before she died."

Somaia lay beside her mother beneath the rubble of their home in Gaza City for three weeks, and lived to tell it.

Our first testimony from Gaza, now with English subtitles.

[Jehad Abusalim @JehadAbusalim]

American photojournalist David Douglas Duncan visited Gaza in 1956 and wrote this. Prophetic.

[Jehad Abusalim @JehadAbusalim]

Humanity versus bots

[Jehad Abusalim @JehadAbusalim]

هذه الشهادة هي الأولى في سلسلة متواصلة من شهادات الناجيات والناجين من الإبادة المستمرة في غزة. وسنعمل على توثيق أكبر عدد ممكن منها، فذلك أقل ما يمكن فعله لضمان أن يبقى ما حل بأهلنا في غزة محفورا في ذاكرتنا وذاكرة الأجيال القادمة.

[Gaza Genocide Center @GazaGenocideCtr]

Our first testimony from Gaza.

Somaia El-Swerki was 19 when an Israeli airstrike destroyed her family's home in Gaza City. For three weeks she lay trapped beneath the rubble. Her mother died beside her on the seventh day.

She survived. This is her account, in her own words.

[Gaza Genocide Center @GazaGenocideCtr]

في أولى الشهادات التي يوثّقها مركز توثيق الإبادة الجماعية في غزة، تروي سمية السويركي كيف بقيت ثلاثة أسابيع تحت ركام منزلها في مدينة غزة، إلى جوار والدتها التي فاضت روحها في اليوم السابع.

شاهدوا شهادتها، وشاركوها.

[Gaza Genocide Center @GazaGenocideCtr]

Our first testimony is now on YouTube.

Somaia El-Swerki survived three weeks beneath the rubble of her family's home in Gaza City. Watch her full account, with English subtitles:

https://t.co/7gDy1bS0ZS

[Gaza Genocide Center @GazaGenocideCtr]

Our first testimony from Gaza.

Somaia El-Swerki was 19 when an Israeli airstrike destroyed her family's home in Gaza City. For three weeks she lay trapped beneath the rubble. Her mother died beside her on the seventh day.

She survived. This is her account, in her own words.

[Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem @LPJerusalem]

https://t.co/qoeljGv3VS
Condolences message on the death of Maysa Khader Abu daoud and Mary Hafez who were killed in the Israeli Air Strike last night.

[عاصم النبيه Asem Alnabih @AsemAlnabeh]

For Palestinians, war means continued killing, displacement, starvation, siege and deprivation of the most basic rights, all of which continue as I write this article. It means that the scenes of war people endured during the two years of genocide are still unfolding, even if the Israeli occupation has managed to convince the world that the war is over.

My latest piece to @intifada titled "A failed attempt to describe life in Gaza during the “ceasefire”"
https://t.co/Q3BCRs2M0r

[Gaza Genocide Center @GazaGenocideCtr]

On October 10, 2023, Rasha Ghabayen fled her home in Gaza City. She didn't know she was seeing it for the last time.

This is Part One of her memoir. 🧵

[Forensic Architecture @ForensicArchi]

NEW ANALYSIS —
In Gaza, Israel’s ongoing destruction during the so-called ceasefire is desecrating the bodies of Palestinians which remain beneath the rubble.

Our analysis of videos and satellite imagery finds military practices of demolition, compaction and removal of rubble. These risk making the recovery of Palestinian remains impossible in the 65% of Gaza under Israel’s control.