There are 2⃣2⃣children in .@baroud942001's family:
10 are her own children
12 are her grandchildren.
She hasn't received in support in 2⃣2⃣DAYS.
Can you, please, break the silence for her today!
* by Olive's friend*
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When the public made noise for Liam Ramos, the little boy in the bunny hat, ICE let him and his father go.
Now they’ve kidnapped another 5 year old named Liam.
They’re disappearing little kids.
Make noise for every one of them.
Shut Dilley down.
🚨🚨We are screaming at the top of our lungs. We are sounding the alarm. We need to get back to work🚨🚨 https://t.co/HVDgjRJJ2B
Just yesterday, three young men were killed in a fight over drinking water. People are so deprived of the most basic necessity of life, that they are now dying trying to access it.
The situation in Gaza is desperate, and it is quickly deteriorating.
People need water. They need food. They need the basic essentials required to stay alive. And The Sameer Project needs to be able to respond.
But we do not have consistent funding to operate at the capacity Gaza demands. And yet people are waiting, they need our assistance.
We need monthly donors.
Consistency allows us to plan. Gaza needs stability. And in a place where almost everything has been made uncertain, your monthly donation allows us to show up not just today, but tomorrow.
Please sign up to become a monthly donor today: $5, $10, $25, $50, $100 - whatever you can commit to consistently. And then send this to everyone you know. Ask your friends. Ask your family. Ask your coworkers. Ask your community to sign up with you.
We are sounding the alarm because this is critical now. Monthly giving means daily survival. Help us get back to work.
Scan and become a monthly donor to our Food and Water Campaign.
Other ways to donate include:
https://t.co/OmIU4SiNtb (Paypal option, please make sure to add a message saying "WATER")
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Yes we were informed of this yesterday and were extremely heartbroken. The Sameer Project has the ability to scale up water, all we need is funding. Help us do more than half a million liters of water. We beg you. Things are bad in Gaza, really really bad.
Support now: https://t.co/6l9JFjWInX
EXCLUSIVE: I've obtained a detailed account from the attorney representing Jose Mejia Hernandez, a man who says he was violently apprehended, hospitalized with a brain bleed, and held by ICE with almost no communication to his own family for three days.
On the morning of August 11, at around 6:30 a.m., Mejia Hernandez was walking to work when a truck sped up on him and two men jumped out and ran toward him. Scared and not knowing who they were, he ran. While fleeing, he says he was hit with what he believes was a stun gun or Taser. He has no memory of anything after that, not how he was injured, not how he was transported, nothing, until he woke up in a hospital many hours later with serious facial injuries consistent with blunt force trauma.
According to his attorney, two ICE agents stayed at his bedside the entire time he was hospitalized. He was never given a private moment with his own doctors. When he asked the ICE agents what happened to him, they told him they didn't know. He says hospital staff seemed reluctant to speak openly in front of the agents, and that medical staff appeared to communicate more with ICE than with him directly. A nurse eventually told him quietly, in Spanish, that he'd suffered a brain bleed and brain swelling, but he says he never got a full explanation of his diagnosis or how he got hurt.
Meanwhile, his wife and stepchild had no idea where he was for about three days. Neither DHS nor the hospital, according to his lawyer, ever notified his family that he'd been detained, injured, or hospitalized.
When ICE decided to discharge him, he says he didn't even understand he was being released. He was driven from the hospital, given food and told to contact his family, then taken to an ICE office where they strapped a GPS ankle monitor on him and handed him a Notice to Appear.
By Friday he felt significantly worse and went back to the hospital, where he was again diagnosed with a traumatic brain injury and brain bleed and stayed for two more days. His lawyer says doctors couldn't even complete the imaging they needed because of the ankle monitor. When he later went to his ISAP appointment still in pain, dizzy, with doctors saying he needed an MRI, ICE reportedly refused to remove the monitor unless he could produce a specific MRI appointment date and time, forcing him to bounce back and forth between the hospital and immigration offices just to get basic care while suffering from a brain injury.
His attorney is now demanding a full accounting: who was involved, what force was used, why his family wasn't notified, why ICE was reportedly more involved in his medical communications than he was, and preservation of every record, custody log, and communication tied to this case. Mejia Hernandez still needs an MRI and further evaluation for a serious neurological injury.
FYI - if you’ve noticed your timeline isn’t filled with images from Gaza anymore…
It isn’t because the genocide has stopped
It’s because Israel have murdered their journalists.