شعاع

Growth comes from discomfort!

[Omar Hamad | عُـمَـرْ 𓂆 @OmarHamadD]

Today, I sat beside a woman in the waiting room of a small clinic. She held her baby, no older than six months, who was crying uncontrollably. My heart urged me to ask her why he was crying so much.
She replied, tears streaming down her face: “ I was displaced two days ago from northern Gaza to the south. At the checkpoint, the Israeli army stopped me. One of the soldiers mocked me and laughed at my baby in my arms. He said to me, "Give him to me." | refused, but he forcibly snatched him from my arms.
Then he started stripping him of his clothes. Holding a metal ruler, he began hitting the soles of his feet with force.
My heart broke, and there was nothing I could do to stop him. Then he handed my baby back to me and let me go.

I walked the entire way feeling as if the pain was in the soles of my own feet. I walked, aching with every step, wishing he had just shot us instead! ”

I said to her, 'I wish I had died before hearing this!

[sarah @sahouraxo]

“If I get killed, don’t wear black clothes, because my heart isn’t black, it’s red. Wear rainbow or pink instead.”

Israel wiped out Fatima and her entire family in Beirut, dropping bunker buster bombs on their home as they slept.

[Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad]

I am fixated on the man with crutches. His head is down. He struggles, the pain and humiliation unequal to any human.
These are Palestinians, many of them medical workers. They are wearing very ordinary briefs and shoes, suggesting the very basic means available to these men. Imagine being one of those Israeli soldiers? What must be going through their heads?
The Geneva Conventions (1949) says that civilians must not be taken prisoner, and that 'outrages upon personal dignity, in particular humiliating and degrading treatment' is basically a war crime.
Each one of these Israeli soldiers, regardless of what they are thinking, are war criminals.

[Juan Cole @jricole]

Burning the Indigenous Population up in their Tents is an old Colonial Technique of Genocide https://t.co/JnlrblRYah

[Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières @MSF_canada]

#Gaza: For the first time yesterday, the number of people killed arriving to MSF-supported Al-Aqsa hospital surpassed the number of injured people. 115 killed in 24 hours. The hospital is full, the morgue is full.

[Derenic Byrd @DerenicByrd]

This is what 40,000 child slaves look like while working in the cobalt mines of Congo. You don't need to upgrade your cellphone every year, maybe you shouldn't buy that electric car you were thinking about buying and vapes aren't good for our health anyway
https://t.co/846De7sX6I

[Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières @MSF_canada]

Doctors Without Borders urgently requests that the Canadian Government do everything within its power to achieve an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.

Read our letter: https://t.co/EetHBXcH7N

[United Nations Geneva @UNGeneva]

On average, one child is killed and two children are injured every ten minutes during the war in #Gaza, reports @unrwa.

Children are #NotATarget.

[Syed Asad Jafri @syedasadjafri]

If you woke up this morning, you woke up with two things: a chance and a choice.

…and therein lies the Grace of God.

[Amnesty International @amnesty]

A new Amnesty investigation has found that the Israeli army indiscriminately, and therefore unlawfully, used white phosphorous in an attack on Dhayra in south Lebanon on 16 October.

The attack must be investigated as a war crime.

[Jezebel @Jezebel]

As Gaza’s Hospitals Run Out of Fuel, Incubated Preterm Babies ‘Will Not Make It’ https://t.co/SeC1Ka2brR

[Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières @MSF_canada]

Thousands have been killed and injured. Hospitals were destroyed. Our staff across Gaza report a huge number of children being killed and severely injured by the relentless bombing.

[Heather McPherson @HMcPhersonNDP]

The children of Gaza need Canada to stand up for them. The Liberals must call for a #CeasefireNOW!

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

Over the hours, the New York Times subtly changes its headline multiple times to absolve Israel of any blame.

We are watching in real time how consent gets manufactured.

[Sana Saeed @SanaSaeed]

Israel has wiped out all generations of 45 Palestinian families.

Never in my life did I think I’d read a headline like this.

All generations, of 45 families.

[Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières @MSF_canada]

"The 24-hour notice that people in Northern Gaza must leave their land, homes and hospitals is outrageous." - Meinie Nicolai, MSF General Director

[Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières @MSF_canada]

Israel has given Al Awda Hospital just two hours to evacuate. Our staff are still treating patients.

We unequivocally condemn this action, the continued indiscriminate bloodshed and attacks on health care in Gaza.

We are trying to protect our staff and patients.

[Humza Yousaf @HumzaYousaf]

This is Elizabeth El-Nakla. She is my mother-in-law. A retired nurse from Dundee, Scotland. She, like the vast majority of people in Gaza, has nothing to do with Hamas. She has been told to leave Gaza but, like the rest of the population, is trapped with nowhere to go.

[Frank Waln @FrankWaln]

When I was in Palestine we visited a Palestinian refugee camp. My western American mind was expecting an encampment of tents but instead found a community that looked & felt eerily similar to reservations in the US