I searched a Gaza war crimes archive for my family.
I quickly realized I wasn’t using it the way most people would. I wasn’t browsing it as an activist, researcher or journalist.
I was looking for my family.
My heart sank as I filtered the archive by the dates we lost them and searched for someone I loved.
I found footage I hadn’t seen before of the bombing of the Church of St. Porphyrius, where my cousin Soliman was killed.
I searched for the day my great aunt Elham was murdered, and the day Nahida and Samar Anton were killed by Israeli snipers at the Holy Family Catholic Church.
Eyewitnesses told us Elham was crushed by an Israeli tank. I have graphic photographs of her body that were sent to me by church workers in Gaza, but I found no footage of what happened.
It made me wonder how many people died without leaving behind any visual record.
The realization stayed with me.
Here was a digital graveyard where pieces of my own family history are preserved for journalists, historians, truth seekers and, undoubtedly, those seeking to exploit or consume human suffering.
I know I won’t be the only person to experience this. Other Palestinians searching for loved ones almost certainly will too. But it struck me that this is a form of grief that could scarcely have existed before our time.
It’s a form of grief I never imagined could exist.
Teenage twins, Angely and Alexka, were kidnapped by ICE and are now in a detention center in El Paso.
I’m urging for their immediate release, alongside state and local elected officials, their teachers, and a pastor at their church. We all want them home.
Release them NOW.
They interviewed all the three witnesses separately, and they all say the same thing.
They did not ram the car; ICE agents fired at them, and then mocked Mr. Salgado as he lay there dying.
To be clear: ICE shot and killed a man who was not their target. He had no criminal record, was seeking legal status, & was pushed off the road by unmarked cars.
There’s “no body cam footage”, his family can’t recover his body, and the witnesses in his van have been detained.
They killed him because he had prepared areas that were full of garbage, cleaned them up, and set up a large screen and chairs, making the area suitable so that the people of Gaza could watch the Egypt-Argentina match, to have some joy, to be like the people of the rest of the world. However, the occupation refused this and assassinated him.
🚨Breaking: Dr. Hussam Abu-Safeia, director of Kamal Edwan Hospital, is being killed by Israeli Occupation Forces.
Dr. Hussam is heavily tutored, and each time his lawyer visits, new injuries are discovered on him.
His last words to his lawyer were: “They brought me here to kill me; this is my end.”
Israel has already killed Dr. Hussam’s son, and now it’s Dr.Hussam’s turn.
Raise awareness and speak out to help him before it’s too late.
Here is another donation link to help Venezuelan earthquake victims by the Caritas organization of the Catholic church, they have a good track record in the country.
https://t.co/N4CZYd0LfH
@nuinroo Like I read the summary and was like civil war? By a Korean author…? This can’t be good aaaand I was right 😕 especially a love story about a native and a white man what are they thinking 🥴
Me lol there was a buy one get one free deal when I bought mine. Good thing I didn’t get a second pack cuz I finished the regular flavor Oreos no problem but the bts ones…well I still have them 😭