Twenty years ago we invaded Iraq. The war killed many innocent Iraqis and Americans. It destroyed the oldest Christian populations in the world. It cost over $1 trillion, and turned Iraq into a satellite of Iran. It was an unforced disaster, and I pray that we learn its lessons.
Famine has now been confirmed in Gaza.
Over half a million people are facing the most devastating form of hunger, warns @theIPCinfo.
An immediate ceasefire and unhindered humanitarian access is imperative to save lives.
https://t.co/U2Dn8O0TS1 — via @WFP
Ambulance sirens are sounding simultaneously across the #Gaza Strip in a coordinated distress signal, highlighting the escalating famine and the collapse of the healthcare system.
(Source: IG: mohammed_fayq)
The world is about to witness the mass death of thousands due to an Israeli-induced famine. This catastrophe could be stopped immediately by the @UNRWA. The Israeli occupation has turned food into a lethal weapon against indigenous Palestinians.
#GazaGenocide
#GazaFamine
Israel is still bombing Gaza. Three residential blocks were just reduced to rubble, bodies - mostly children, according to reporters - strewn across. Expect increased bombardment and massacres in the coming days before the ceasefire, per Israeli tradition.
In some cultures, they call this “Ashura” dish as “Noah’s dessert”
They believe that the Prophet Noah was the first to invent it when the food on the ship began to run out. So he collected the leftovers and cooked them in a pot together.
It’s not very different from what we are going through.. we don’t have the luxury of picking luxurious ingredients. So I made Ashure from what was available
As this year ends, I pray that a solution is found in the upcoming one, and our suffering could end.
“It’s the end of humanity.”
Israeli forces unplugged oxygen supplies, stripped patients and forced them into the cold, and then burned Kamal Adwan Hospital, one of the last functioning hospitals in northern Gaza.
Nurse Ahmad Zaharna from the European Gaza Hospital & Red Cross Field Hospital, died in his tent due to the cold this morning in al-Mawasi, in Gaza
I saw a 14-year-old boy holding a bundle of worn-out clothes, trying to sell them to buy food for his family. I stopped him and asked about the price of one of the clothes. He looked at me with eyes full of exhaustion and sorrow and said, “Take all these clothes, just make sure my family has lunch. I don’t want anything, I just want to see my mother and siblings eat.
A lump formed in my throat, and I gently asked him, “Where is your father?” His voice dropped as he replied, “He was executed at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza. They took him in front of my eyes, saying he was guilty, but all he was doing was trying to get medicine for my little brother.
I froze, unable to respond. I tried to ask more, but he continued speaking as if the words were spilling out of his broken heart: “Since that day, I’ve been responsible for my family. My mother can’t get up from her grief, and my little sister cries all night because she’s hungry. I have nothing else to sell except these old clothes.
I looked at his small hands holding the clothes with determination, even though they trembled from the cold and hunger. I said to him, “Don’t worry, I will help you.” But he quickly replied, “I don’t want charity; I just want my siblings to live one day without hunger.
I gave him what money I had without waiting for him to say anything and took his current address and his mother’s phone number. I promised myself to help them with whatever I could in the coming days.
He looked at me with eyes brimming with tears but did not cry, as if he had grown used to hiding his weakness to stay strong for his family.
I watched him walk away, his small steps carrying a burden far heavier than his years. And I stood there wondering: how many children like him wander the streets of Gaza, carrying shattered dreams and hearts weighed down by sorrow?
When has it ever been normal to bomb hospitals? To use drones to fire at patients, their loved ones, doctors, nurses? When have such actions not been anything other than ghastly & depraved & vile & indefensible? Why such silence? #Gaza#Israel#KamalAdwanHospital
American philanthropist Amed Khan (who publicly dropped his support for Biden at the start of the genocide) managed to get his own shipment of aid into Gaza after a monthslong effort. Here’s a scene by the sea in Gaza:
Month after month, the world has watched as Israel treated Palestinians in Gaza as a subhuman group unworthy of human rights and dignity, demonstrating its intent to physically destroy them.