Munazzah

[Brandon Stanton @humansofny]

“When I entered Gaza the Israeli military had a rule: I was only allowed to bring in three kilos of food. As I was weighing out protein bars, trying to get under the limit, I said to my husband: ‘How sinister is this?’ I’m a humanitarian aid worker. Why would there even be a limit on food? I’ve worked in many places with extreme hunger, but what’s so jarring in this context is how cruel it is, how deliberate. I was in Gaza for two months; there’s no way to describe the horror of what’s happening. And I say this as a pediatric ICU doctor who sees children die as part of my work. Among our own staff we have doctors and nurses who are trying to treat patients while hungry, exhausted. They’re living in tents. Some of them have lost fifteen, twenty members of their families. In the hospital there are kids maimed by airstrikes: missing arms, missing legs, third degree burns. Often there’s not enough pain medication. But the children are not screaming about the pain, they’re screaming: ‘I’m hungry! I’m hungry!” I hate to only focus on the kids, because nobody should be starving. But the kids, it just haunts you in a different way. When my two months were finished, I didn’t want to leave. It’s a feeling I haven’t experienced in nearly twenty years of humanitarian assignments. But I felt ashamed. Ashamed to leave my Palestinian colleagues, who were some of the most beautiful and compassionate people that I’ve ever met. I was ashamed as an American, as a human being, that we’ve been unable to stop something that is so clearly a genocide. I remember when our bus pulled out of the buffer zone. Out the window on one side I could see Rafah, which was nothing but rubble. On the other side was lush, green Israel. When we exited the gate, the first thing I saw was a group of Israeli soldiers, sitting at a table, eating lunch. I’ve never felt so nauseous seeing a table full of food.”

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Aqsa Durrani is a pediatric doctor and board member of Doctors Without Borders USA, with nearly twenty years of experience in humanitarian projects. During our interview Aqsa repeatedly expressed a desire to center the voices of her Palestinian colleagues. To this end I’ve spent the past week collecting stories from the Palestinian staff of Doctors Without Borders in Gaza. I will be sharing these stories over the next several days. I’m so grateful for the time that these people gave me; they were sleepless, hungry, traumatized, and often working 24-hour shifts. Because of the unreliable internet connection their images are sometimes grainy. Their words, however, will be crystal clear.

[Fariha A. @fariha_ab1]

Tum Pakistani alag hee makhlooq ho 😂😂

[Awais Athar @awaisathar]

My language - My AI

https://t.co/IT2YQPIZuA

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

The NYT headline reads "Surviving Gaza"... as if Gaza is maiming people. Zero mention of Israel. I cannot express how obscene this is.

[Sketchplanations @sketchplanator]

Paul Graham wrote in an essay Life is Short :
"Having kids showed me how to convert a continuous quantity, time, into discrete quantities. You only get 52 weekends with your 2-year-old. If Christmas-as-magic lasts from, say, ages 3 to 10, you only get to watch your child experience it 8 times. And while it's impossible to say what is a lot or a little of a continuous quantity like time, 8 is not a lot of something."
https://t.co/Ysfl5gecDa

[Munazzah @munazzzah]

"Escalating the nonsense"
#PhoenixFest2024

[Jamie Smart @jamiesmart]

🚨Okay let’s do this! BUNNY VS MONKEY: The Great Big Glitch is the TENTH book in the series, it’s not out till OCTOBER, but I have one super advance copy to send to a BVM fan to read earlier than anyone else!
💖All you have to do is share this tweet. Winner chosen Mon 22nd
🤞🤞🤞

[Dr. Mustafa Elmasri @Gaza_Psych]

We pull our children from the rubble, sometimes more than once, sometimes they survive, often they don't. Many are still there under tons of debris.

Until when?

[Heidi Matthews @Heidi__Matthews]

“I watched my son starve…I’ve seen a baby that I love get smaller rather than larger…So I’ve held a dead baby, my own.” @robdelaney’s empathy for Palestinians—& in Israelis—roots his activism on Gaza. We forget that vulnerability is indispensable in our fight against inhumanity

[Awais Athar @awaisathar]

The European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) is almost as old as I am! 🧬
It's one of the largest scientific data resources in the world, projected to exceed 150 PBs in 5 years! 📈
Join us as a Data Engineer to help modernise the pipelines & accelerate science! https://t.co/5MPiBLmWi0

[Sketchplanations @sketchplanator]

The Village Venus is a term from lateral thinking originator Edward De Bono.

[Munazzah @munazzzah]

What a terrible man

[KevO @Kev_OC66]

@soph_husk And then he laughed at her.

[Awais Athar @awaisathar]

🔬Science should be shared!

We have built an open-access web repository for microbiological Raman spectroscopy data which establishes a set of standards for data reporting to ensure reproducible measurements.

Read more in @NatureMicrobiol

https://t.co/RC6Bu0PTQq

[Awais Athar @awaisathar]

Qasai for surgery?

(Is there a site for transliteration faux pas in branding?)

[Shall never peme, Shall never lack @jiggymaami]

What’s your act of micro-feminism? 😂😂

[Jamie Smart @jamiesmart]

I don’t think I’ve read anything this heartbreaking in a long time. Worth a read. https://t.co/EdpVET8noH

[Munazzah @munazzzah]

Cambridge = potholes.

[Naomi Bennett @Murielschild]

Issues coming up on the doorstep include, potholes, housing, repairs, potholes, neighbour problems, buses, verges, antisocial parking, potholes antisocial behaviour, play spaces and crime. Oh and potholes.

[Nour Naim| نُور @NourNaim88]

"God, I'm so scared, God help us !
I can't take it anymore !
I want to go home !”

🚨Heartbreaking: A frightened child trembles and cries among the forcibly displaced inside Al-Shifa Medical Complex in #Gaza City, under heavy and intense Israeli army bombardment.