Dima Hamdan

Palestinian filmmaker, writer, journalist, editor…. views are my own.

[Dima Hamdan @MsDimaHamdan]

To anyone still sceptical that what is happening in Gaza is a genocide… this is not a bet that we would like to win. No one is waiting for it to be over just to say “we told you so…"

[Maha Hussaini @MahaGaza]

Blessed Friday 🌱

[Dima Hamdan @MsDimaHamdan]

@MahaGaza no words………...

[Maha Hussaini @MahaGaza]

I laugh quietly every time I open Google to check the time difference between Gaza and a city on the other side of the world, so I can make it to a meeting on time.

The irony is hard to explain unless you are a "so-far" genocide survivor who is still alive by chance and still trying to maintain some sense of normalcy.

You wake up in the morning and begin negotiating with life before the day has even started. You somehow find a way to get to the office with the suffocating fuel and cash crisis. You skip asking the office boy to make coffee because you want to carefully make it the way that might help you survive another long day. You put on your headphones and play calming music, trying to drown out the constant buzz of drones overhead and the intermittent artillery shelling near the "Yellow Line"

Then you sit down at your desk and open your laptop to check the time difference between Gaza and another city thousands of miles away. Of course, you're not planning a holiday, there is just a deadline to meet, a submission to file about the very genocide you are living through.

For a moment, you are juggling calendars, time zones, and meeting invitations like any other professional anywhere else in the world. Then a drone reminds you where you are. An explosion reminds you what you are documenting. A power cut reminds you how fragile the next hour is. And still, the meeting must start on time!

So yes, I laugh every time I type that search into Google, because in less than 30 minutes, I have already overcome more obstacles than most calendar invitations were ever designed to account for.

Anyways, good morning world!

[Dima Hamdan @MsDimaHamdan]

@MahaGaza @RamAbdu We love you Maha

[Stefania Maurizi @SMaurizi]

We must protect vulnerable people, the underdog,truthtellers,those who fight for #Peace,#Truth,#Justice. We must protect @FranceskAlbs. If you haven't signed @couragefound's petition for @FranceskAlbs, pls do it now!

https://t.co/a7XDmJ0CjO

[Dima Hamdan @MsDimaHamdan]

@aseisfree Welcome back!

[Maha Hussaini @MahaGaza]

Israel has been killing at least 4 Palestinians in Gaza every day since the beginning of the ceasefire agreement in October

[Dima Hamdan @MsDimaHamdan]

@Alihashem My goodness this is just insane...

[The Marie Colvin Journalists' Network @MarieColvinNet]

🗨️Last month, MCJN's ED, Philippa Nairn (@highlandbedu), reflected on some of the most challenging moments during her 8 years with the network and expressed hope that MCJN will continue its mission of supporting Arab women journalists across the region.

📽️https://t.co/UtcPHsQyY9

[Ali Hashem علي هاشم @Alihashem]

A thread on Iran protests
1/ Iran’s new wave of protests should not be read as an imminent Islamic Republic toppling moment. The street lacks the organisational depth, unity, and leadership required for that.

[Maha Hussaini @MahaGaza]

‘They’re forcing us to gain weight’: Select foods allowed in Gaza as essentials remain missing
https://t.co/1nDjgcyvzF

[Mouin Rabbani @MouinRabbani]

I grew up in The Netherlands. During my youth it was easily the most pro-Israeli country in Europe. So pro-Israeli that visiting Palestinians would say it was easier to reason with Israelis than the Dutch about the Middle East.
Although the Dutch are like others a fundamentally decent people, even a decade ago a demonstration one-tenth this size would have been inconceivable in The Netherlands. It would also have been largely populated by Arab and Muslim immigrants.
Yet on Sunday, as confirmed by the police, a quarter of a million Dutch citizens, of all backgrounds, of all stripes and colours, turned out to draw a “Red Line” against the Gaza Genocide.
I never anticipated I would witness such scenes during my lifetime, and am genuinely humbled.
Israel has irreversibly lost the Dutch public, and future Dutch governments will find it increasingly difficult to hold the line on behalf of the genocidal apartheid regime.
We are living in a different world, and it will become a better one.

[The Marie Colvin Journalists' Network @MarieColvinNet]

We are deeply saddened over the passing of our beloved member, Hajar Harb, who died in London after a long and courageous battle with cancer.

🔗https://t.co/UunJ62H75o

[Ben Phillips @benphillips76]

First, know this: This young man has had his diploma suspended for doing this.
Now, watch what he did:

[Walid Mahmoud @walidmahmodrouk]

Journalist Hassan survived a previous airstrike.
He was receiving treatment in the hospital when Israel killed him in his hospital bed. His only “crime” was covering the events in Gaza.

[Dima Hamdan @MsDimaHamdan]

My interview with Mubi Notebook on my short film, Blood Like Water.

[Notebook @mubinotebook]

"Although I've known for quite some time that Israel was specifically targeting gay Palestinian men to blackmail them into being collaborators, I didn't think that I would make a film specifically on this issue. I realized that there was a story here because of the difficulty in reaching the people who experienced this firsthand."

In the third in a series of interviews with contemporary Palestinian filmmakers, Maria Kruglyak speaks with BLOOD LIKE WATER director Dima Hamdan: https://t.co/6Chl3vGbus

[Maha Hussaini @MahaGaza]

Due to its scarcity amid the ongoing Israeli starvation policy, the price of a flour sack in Gaza has increased by 100,000%

The one we used to buy for 2 shekels ($0.55) is now priced at 2000 shekels ($551)

[Maha Hussaini @MahaGaza]

I lost my mom to this Israeli genocide, blockade, and deliberate denial of proper medical treatment in Gaza. I’m not emotionally ready to say more now, but maybe one day I will. What I can say is that the numbers you see on casualties barely scratch the surface of the true death toll caused by Israel’s genocide.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

“Rape was mainly done by Israeli female officers inserting objects into the genitals of detainees. We have also documented a case of gang rape by two different soldiers, twice, on a woman in a detention center. She said she was filmed during the assault.”

Kifeya Khraim from the Women’s Centre for Legal Aid and Counseling (WCLAC), a Palestinian NGO, testified at the UN Commission of Inquiry hearing about Palestinian women facing systematic sexual violence and intimidation by Israeli forces, including threats to remain silent after abuse.

She described cases of sexual violence at checkpoints and during Israeli home invasions, where women were forced to strip and perform humiliating acts in front of soldiers.

Khraim also highlighted how the lack of knowledge and legal definitions makes it difficult for women to identify sexual violence. “We have women telling us that inspection devices were inserted inside them without being able to identify that as rape or sexual violence.”

[susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى @susanabulhawa]

Please stop repeating the lie that "Hamas killed 1200 people on October 7"

Repeating it over and over doesn't make it true.

First, the official number of dead is 1139. Second, and most important, we have no idea how many people Hamas killed or whom they killed.

It is now an uncontested fact—supported by video evidence, victim and eyewitness testimonies, and journalist investigations—that Israel deployed their Hannibal Directive, killing an unknown "hundreds" of Israelis.

It is a fact that ALL of those burned cars (hundreds), are the result of Israeli Apache helicopters incinerating them and everyone inside them. There were at least 28 helicopters, who had to restock their weapons and refuel at least once. Each Apache carries 16 hellfire missiles, 70 Hydra-70 rockets, and 1,200 30mm cannon rounds. And each of them emptied all their munitions on that day.

In addition to the Apaches, Israeli tanks fired onto Israeli homes, knowing their citizens were inside.

Predictably, there has been no meaningful investigation into what happened that day. Until then, it is dishonest to keep repeating this zionist lie.

It is a lie! Just like the 40 beheaded babies were a lie. Just like the mass rape was a lie. The babies in ovens. The cut off breasts.

I just shared the link to that BBC documentary because it was removed at the behest of zionists. But it too is problematic because it begins with that same lie. Pay attention, please. Lives are at stake.