Tina Madsen

With DIGNITY - Danish Institute Against Torture // She/her

[The Hind Rajab Foundation @HindRFoundation]

🚨The #HindRajabFoundation has filed a criminal complaint in #Denmark against Israeli soldier Ohad Hillel for war crimes in Gaza.
Hillel was involved in the destruction of Jabalia, the arson attacks in Shuja'iya, and attacks on schools and UN buildings.
More info ⬇️
https://t.co/959EFhFNdP

[Dr. Ezzideen @ezzingaza]

I came back today. I thought I had known despair before, but what I saw today is beyond despair.
It is not grief, nor horror, nor pain. It is something colder, a stillness where even God seems to have withdrawn His hand.

The sky was impossibly blue. The kind of blue that mocks you, that makes you wonder whether beauty itself is a crime.
I walked through streets that no longer exist, streets that were my childhood.
They are now a wilderness of stone, wire, and dust.

A man stood on a heap, a neighbor, I think.
He pointed and said, “It’s here.”
I asked him how far.
He looked down.
And I understood: my house was beneath his feet.

I lifted my phone, as if the machine could recognize what I could not. The screen glowed; there was nothing to see. The earth had swallowed the distances. Even the smell of home was gone. It was as if the thread connecting me to life itself had been cut.

I dug with my hands. The dust burned. My palms bled.
My mother had told me: “Search for anything we can save.” And so I obeyed her like a son obeys the last voice that still believes there is meaning in obedience.

From a house that once cost my father one hundred and twenty thousand dollars, a lifetime of labor, of hope, of decency, I found two things:
a knife, and a pillow.

Two relics of civilization. One for necessity, one for illusion.
That is what remains of man.

I sat in the ruins, the blue of my shirt turned gray with ash, and I thought:
this is the end not of a city, but of meaning itself.

I thought of my parents, their hands, their faith in honest work.
How will they bear this? How will any man bear seeing his father’s roof turned into dust by a stranger’s hands, hands that will never know the names of those they destroyed?

But what tears me apart more than ruin is silence. No one speaks to us.
No one tells us where to go, who will rebuild, or who is responsible.
The politicians talk of victories, the generals of strategy, the world of peace and progress.
But none of them live here among the ashes. None of them stand where I stand, sifting through their own dead.

And those who claim to represent us, where are they? Where is the money they collected in our name, the promises they made before the cameras, the slogans they wrote while we buried our children?
Who among them will come to this ruin and say: Forgive us, we failed you?
Not one.

They sit in offices with clean shirts, counting our corpses as figures on paper. They say “reconstruction,” “aid,” “negotiations,” as though the vocabulary of power could fill the emptiness of a mother’s bed.

I tell you the truth: there is no crime greater than indifference.
The murderer at least acknowledges the victim.
But those who look away, they kill the soul itself.

I brushed the dust from my shirt, though I knew it was useless.
I wanted to see if there was still color left in the world.
There wasn’t.
The blue had become the color of mourning.

I looked at my hands. They were shaking, not from fear, but from the unbearable realization that we have become expendable to the world.
Our suffering is entertainment, our death a policy, our endurance a statistic.

I wept then, openly, shamelessly.
I, who once believed in the dignity of suffering, now see that dignity itself has been annihilated.
There is nothing noble in being forgotten.

If you are reading this, do not admire the style or the language.
Lower your head, and weep.
Because this dust, this silence, this cry, is what remains of us.

[Noura Erakat @4noura]

Media brought Palestinian experts arguing it was genocide in first months to be berated & attacked. Notice how now it is non-Palestinians being platformed to say it’s genocide as if they are heroes. We do not need saving but, it seems, liberals need to feel like theyre saving us.

[Palestinian Centre for Human Rights - PCHR @pchrgaza]

🚨Today, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) has published a 129-page report documenting the systematic use of torture and inhumane treatment of Palestinians from Gaza detained by Israel since 7 October 2023 based on the testimonies of 100 former detainees, including 10 women, and legal visits to 53 others still in custody. The report concludes that the treatment of Palestinians from Gaza amounts to torture and that such torture forms an integral part of the ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people.

Read our report: ⤵️

🔗 https://t.co/lD718SFQi3

An online webinar will held tomorrow at 16:00 Jerusalem time to discuss the report. Please register on the following link: ⤵️

https://t.co/g3wYb2YA3F

[Tina Madsen @ndergard_]

Join the launch of this thorough, comprehensive piece of work by excellent colleagues at @pchrgaza on a horrific reality - Israel's use of torture against Palestinians as a tool to destroy bodies, souls, and futures - another tool in the genocide toolbox #genocide #gaza #torture

[Palestinian Centre for Human Rights - PCHR @pchrgaza]

🚨Join us for the online launch of our new report "Torture and Genocide: The Shattered Futures of Former Palestinian Detainees in Gaza". The report sheds light on the testimonies of 100 Palestinians who have endured systematic and widespread torture and ill-treatment while in Israeli detention. The report presents new legal analysis of how Israel employs torture as a key element in its ongoing genocide against Palestinians from Gaza. The webinar will take place on 13 May 2025 at 16:00 Jerusalem time.

▶️ Register: https://t.co/g3wYb2YA3F

#Gaza #Genocide #Torture #Palestiniandetainees

[Palestinian Centre for Human Rights - PCHR @pchrgaza]

📑Today, 26 March 2025, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) issued a new report titled: “Severed Bodies, Shattered Souls: Women in #Gaza Victims of #Genocide”. The report highlights the widespread cases of amputations among women due to the Israeli military aggression and highlights that these injuries have not only caused bodily harm but also led to profound psychological pain, with women’s endurance of challenging conditions amid a devastated healthcare system and a strangulating Israeli siege. The report also confirms that these injuries, particularly limb amputation cases, fall under the second act of genocide, embodied in “Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group”, according to Article II of the Genocide Convention, as well as Article 6 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC). These injuries lead to permanent disabilities that obstruct victims’ ability to move, work, be productive, and socially integrate, as well as causing severe trauma and ongoing disorders that profoundly affect amputee women’s lives.

Read our report: ⤵️

https://t.co/NX18Ja9NAc

[Palestinian Centre for Human Rights - PCHR @pchrgaza]

🚨Breaking: PCHR staff member, Ihab Fisal, was killed along with his wife and two children by an Israeli airstrike on a house in Gaza city in the early hours of the morning. More details to follow in our press release.

[Kim Ghattas @KimGhattas]

Outrageous and ominous. First, his supposed goal was to push Hezbollah away from border so Israelis could return home. Now goal is for the Lebanese to "free themselves from Hezbollah" or face "abyss of a long war that will lead to destruction and suffering like we see in Gaza.”

[Tina Madsen @ndergard_]

244 ngo-ansatte i opråb: Vi kan ikke fortsætte arbejdet, hvis regeringen ignorerer menneskerettigheder i Gaza /
244 NGO employees in appeal: We cannot continue our work if government ignores human rights in Gaza - Open letter in https://t.co/zPZcvdiak0 https://t.co/cyqnDF5QeS

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

I am horrified by yet another senseless massacre of Palestinian civilians by Israel: 71 killed and nearly 300 wounded in a zone where Israel itself had told them to seek refuge. The justification is always the same: "targeting Palestinian militants". When is the world going to stop this death machine??
https://t.co/D3p105FZBS via @AJEnglish

[PalestineUCPH @PalestineUCPH]

COPENHAGEN UNIVERSITY DECIDES TO DIVEST FROM THREE COMPANIES ON UN LIST OF COMPANIES INVOLVED IN ILLEGAL SETTLEMENTS IN PALESTINE. THIS IS A HUGE VICTORY FOR STUDENTS AGAINST OCCUPATION AND OUR MOVEMENT.

[Tina Madsen @ndergard_]

💔 At man overhovedet er nødt til at sige dette, fordi en racistisk, afstumpet idiot med en platform påstår, palæstinenserne føler mindre end alle andre. Racismen i Danmark er ekstrem. Vi skal slå hårdt ned på dehumaniseringen. Den ødelægger os.

[Poya Pakzad @Pakzadesque]

Palæstinensere elsker deres børn.

De bærer sorgens byrde. Mærker kærlighedens omfavnelse. Hadets nådesløse greb. De kender glædens blide lys, nødens ensomme mørke.

De er mennesker som dig og mig. Sammensatte. Følende. Nød, smerte og afsavn.

Palæstinensere elsker deres børn.

[Tina Madsen @ndergard_]

‘I am treating a boy now who was imprisoned for several months (…) See, for this boy, it’s challenging because he’s constantly being retraumatized and has nightmares.  The occupation itself is traumatizing.’ - Noor Hamayel, psychologist, @TRC_Palestine

[DIGNITY International @DIGNITY_INT]

The levels of violence we're seeing now in the occupied West Bank are unprecedented, says psychologist Noor Hamayel from the @TRC_Palestine. Since the 1980s, TRC has provided treatment for Palestinians released from Israeli prisons. #dkaid ⬇️

https://t.co/Sq62mgn7jK

[Tina Madsen @ndergard_]

Amputated limbs due to over-cuffing.

Amputated. Limbs. Due. To. Over-cuffing.

The scale of these atrocities…

[Omar Shakir @OmarSShakir]

Amputated limbs due to over-cuffing. Stripped detainees in diapers fed thru straws. Revenge beatings. @CNN reports on Israeli detention based on accounts by whistleblowers & released Palestinians. What we know about Gaza is only tip of atrocity iceberg. https://t.co/sGRahdErk8

[Poya Pakzad @Pakzadesque]

@koebenhavns_uni This you?

[Poya Pakzad @Pakzadesque]

De færreste med selvrespekten i behold tør forsvare Israels fremfærd i Gaza, så derfor er fokus slået over på concern-trolling og tone-patruljering af aktivismen imod den.

[Rajesh Holmen @RajeshHolmen]

1. maj er en dag, hvor vi også mindes vores kampe mod undertrykkelse og uretfærdighed i Palæstina. Solidaritet med det palæstinensiske folk er afgørende, da de kæmper for deres ret til frihed, retfærdighed og selvbestemmelse. Jeg fordømmer enhver form for undertrykkelse, besættelse og krænkelse af menneskerettighederne i Palæstina. Lad os stå sammen i kampen for at sikre retfærdighed, fred og værdighed for det palæstinensiske folk. Lad os fortsætte med at kræve respekt for palæstinensernes rettigheder og støtte deres kamp for frihed og retfærdighed. Solidaritet med Palæstina på denne 1. maj og altid! 🍉 #dkpol #1maj #Gaza

[Jehad Abusalim @JehadAbusalim]

Israel today assassinated the eldest daughter of our Professor Refaat Al-Areer (@itranslate123), Al-Shaimaa, along with her husband and newborn baby. I am out of words, tears, and ways to comprehend this endless loss, this pain, this criminal annihilation of our people.

[Nicola Perugini @PeruginiNic]

Final independent report on UNRWA. After 6 months, Israel has not provided any evidence against UNRWA. $450 millions cut by governments in the midst of a starvation and annihilation war, based on fabricated “confessions” produced under torture. https://t.co/bL9OZBmvNx

[Tina Madsen @ndergard_]

Det at @Frede_Vad lyver om fakta fra Folketingets talerstol må ikke distrahere fra debatten siger @hrmarcussen i @P1radio.. Hva’? Det SKAL da handle om manipulation af fakta, politikeres spin og populisme, og brugen af anekdoter istedet for fakta🤦🏻‍♀️