Gaza is now flooded due to Israel shutting down the sewage system.
We are witnessing yet another phase of this genocide. Starvation, infection, and diseases.
Just because you've stopped talking about it doesn't mean it isn't happening.
@UCSFPolice@UCBerkeley has clearly violated the stay away court order that halted construction at People's Park. Bulldozers are moving in all over the park, cutting down the remaining trees. 🌳
The remaining people on site have been pushed out behind the barricades or arrested.
someone once said @taylorswift13 is only a feminist when it benefits her career & protects her whiteness. 62 days later, taylor hasn’t spoke up for the women in Palestine & since has decided to air her movie in israel despite the ongoing genocide.
JUST NOW: A large pro-Palestine march takes over the Westfield Mall in San Jose, California
Protesters are disrupting business as usual on the biggest consumer holiday of the year to demand an end to Israel’s war on Palestine and no more U.S. aid to Israel.
Today I talked to Hala (my cousin’s daughter) who’s the only survivor of her family. Hala is 8 years old, she doesn’t talk about what happened and she doesn’t speak with anyone since. I haven’t been able to speak with her since they were killed over a month ago. Hala lost both her parents, her 3 sisters, her grandparents, her two aunts, three uncles and all of her cousins that were in that house. I have thought many times about what I would tell her when I call her for the first time. I haven’t spoken to my remaining family who are still alive for over two weeks until today. Because of the “fake truce” I managed to video call them today as they had internet connection for the first time. Hala was next to my uncle and saw my picture on the phone. I kept asking for her multiple times. She then took the phone and went into a dark room to talk with me alone. I froze. I just kept saying Habibti Hala I miss you so much I love you so much. I couldn’t mention her family, and I genuinely didn’t know what to say to an 8 year old who just lost her whole family. I just talked to her about how I want to visit her soon and how much I miss her and all the toys I bought for her and I asked her if she wants anything in particular and she told me “I just want to see you and come live with you far away.” It broke me so much. I held my tears inside my chest and wondered what on earth did this little girl do to deserve all of this pain. I kept trying to think of things that will excite her but she was very quiet, not the Hala I once knew. Not the happy Hala who gets excited at the most simple things. Not the Hala that laughs with her whole heart, but a new Hala who’s barely able to smile. I told her I’ll take you to the best amusement park and she was shocked and said “oh you have that there?” Her little brain cannot comprehend that life is normal outside her home. All she can picture is destruction, bombs and dead parents and sisters. I wish I can hide this little girl in my heart from this cruel world forever. Hala is one story only, there’s more than 1 million children in Gaza who’ll grow up with so much trauma and unimaginable losses. Our hearts cannot bear all of this pain.
in case anyone is wondering why biden and the rest of our government is going so hard to remind us “israe| has the right to defend itself”.
they’re using american weapons to do the “defending” and thus american companies (and politicians) are profiting.
As Hawaiians wake up to the news of Palestinian anticolonial resistance in Gaza to Israeli settler colonialism, remember that—from Hawaiʻi to Palestine—occupation is a crime. A lāhui that stands for decolonization and deoccupation should also stand behind freedom for Palestine.