medhat moussa

Engineering prof at UoGuelph. Research in Robotics and AI. Opinions are mine.

[Hanan Ashrawi @DrHananAshrawi]

And today they expelled patients & medical staff from Kamal Edwan hospital at gun point after shelling and bombing it for weeks; they burned it down thus depriving thousands of Palestinians of
the minimal health care provided by this besieged hospital.

[CTV Kitchener @CTVKitchener]

The University of Waterloo says twin sisters, who were set to start their PhD studies at the school, were killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza.
https://t.co/s82I7bnlW8

[Mada Masr مدى مصر @MadaMasr]

🧵While it may look like things suddenly changed in just 10 days, the advance of rebels from Syria’s northeast into the heart of Damascus on Sunday morning has been slowly building over months.

Suddenly, armed factions that were previously at odds with each other managed to put aside their huge differences and unite over one goal: the downfall of Assad’s regime. They prepared and trained, waiting for the “right” moment. But not only did the arrival of this “right” moment rely on internal calculations — but regional and global ones too.

Mada Masr spoke to military, diplomatic and political sources in Syria and across the region to understand how the impossible came to be.

To read the full story: https://t.co/rbxg0hemAC

[Rasha Elass @RashaElass]

No retribution. No slaughter. No blood letting. Here Jolani's men give verbal admonishment to Assad's fleeing troops: You let down our loved ones and killed our children. But go in peace. You are free.

[Dima Khatib @Dima_Khatib]

If you lived in Syria, you would know this is such an incredible moment. Try to think of Syrians as human beings, instead of geopolitics, just for a second. Imagine how people are feeling as their disappeared loved ones are being found in prisons, alive.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Some people who supported Palestinian freedom for the past 14 months seem upset about Syrians getting freedom from a dictator.

And a lot of people who spent the past 14 months opposing Palestinian freedom are now cheering Syrians getting freedom.

So much moral inconsistency.

[amel🪽 @sleepyamel]

Arab Twitter is crying in joy for prisoners released after decades in the worst torture facilities in modern history, while Anglo American leftists are calling everyone US backed regime change terrorists. The difference in priorities is staggering

[Monica Marks @MonicaLMarks]

My god. It’s happening. A post-Bashar Syria.

The transition starts now. Make no mistake: it will be incredibly rocky.

But today, take a beat to hear the soft, human joy of many Syrians as they cry, embrace, learn if wrongly jailed loved ones survived & vow “now we can go home.”

[medhat moussa @medhatamoussa]

@DrDanielGillis https://t.co/mY0SleICaC

[Tagreed Abdin 🇸🇩 @taggy_]

Aisha's Story:
*180 residents left El Gineina (capital of West Darfur State) together
*163 were massacred
*17 survived
*All surviving women were raped
*6 committed suicide
*1 died in childbirth
*10 arrived in Chad

#Sudan #KeepEyesOnSudan

What will happen to Aisha now?

[T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @TRyanGregory]

Read this as many times as you need to.

[T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @TRyanGregory]

Israel's new minister of defence.

"They will not receive a drop of water or a single battery until they leave the world."

[UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Housing @adequatehousing]

These images are seared into our collective consciousness as a symbol of bestiality, brutality and eternal shame. Hundreds of Palestinian men stripped naked in the middle of rubble in Jabalya. When and how will this end? Where is humanity?

[Ahmed Sewehli @LibyanIntegrity]

Breaking: Israel has punished the Director of Kamal Adwan Hospital Dr Hussam Abu Safiya for refusing to leave his post and shut down the hospital. They executed his son Ibrahim.

[T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @TRyanGregory]

He's talking about how his experience of running over Palestinians with a bulldozer makes it hard for him to eat meat now.

Don't ever dare pretend you didn't know.

[Evan Dyer @EvanDyerCBC]

Village of Susia, Hebron Hills, occupied West Bank, where a masked settler can use a club to beat a woman picking her own olives in front of IDF, knowing he won’t be arrested.
Even with foreign pressure and cameras present, IDF will 𝙖𝙩 𝙢𝙤𝙨𝙩 gently restrain/discourage.

[Monica Marks @MonicaLMarks]

“The burning figure from the night of fire appeared to the world as an articulate, intelligent teenager, a software engineering student, a young man who took care of his family planning a new life outside Gaza. He filmed himself donating blood & encouraged others to do the same.”

[Aidan Simardone @AidanSimardone]

I don’t want to hear any more land acknowledgements. I want to hear statements of solidarity

If you are not going to say how you are supporting indigenous peoples to fight colonialism, why say anything at all?

[Jasmine El-Gamal @jasmineelgamal]

For everyone who doubted the veracity of the images I and others recently shared from @nytopinion👇

So, once again, let that sink in. Palestinian children. Shot in the head. More than once.

(Proactively: yes I’ve also vociferously condemned Israeli civilian & child murders).

[Francesca Hong For Governor @FrancescaHongWI]

IDF are burning people alive in Gaza.
This is an extermination of a people that the world is complicit in.

We must not be numb to this.
It is worse than it was a year ago.
Crimes against humanity does not even begin to describe the pure horror.

I am so ashamed of this country.