sandra frem

architect. urbanist alumni @mitarchitecture. founding partner @platau_lb. assistant professor of practice in architecture @aub_lebanon @msfea_aub

[Omar Tamo @OmarTamo19]

Basic necessity prices in Lebanon are skyrocketing this year as Israel escalates its strikes.

Increase in costs since year start:
Insurance for people & transport +397%
Water supply +168%
Hospitalization +72%
Coffee, tea & cocoa +44%
Fruits +42%
Bread & cereal +23%
Clothes +16%

[Craig Murray @CraigMurrayOrg]

Lebanon has zero air defences. There is no operational need for Israel to bomb at 4am.
The only reason they bomb in the middle of the night is to maximise civilian casualties and especially to kill as many children as possible, who would mostly be outside in waking hours.

[jeremy scahill @jeremyscahill]

As the Biden administration continues to abet Israel’s starvation campaign in Gaza, please read this dispatch from @AbubakerAbedW in Deir-al-Balah. A window into daily life amidst the genocide.

@DropSiteNews

https://t.co/8jMXVkUAfK

[Forensic Architecture @ForensicArchi]

NEW: ‘A Cartography of Genocide’. Since October 2023, we have collected and analysed data related to Israel’s military campaign in Gaza. Our findings indicate that Israel has systematically targeted all aspects of civilian life. https://t.co/UUxYqpTF72

[Mona Harb @mona_harb_]

The notorious "evacuation orders" mapped on south Beirut, to better qualify the intensity and scale of destruction and urbicide.

(Also, number of strikes exceed the orders--that's for another map.)

[KHALIL𓂆 @khalil_hinawi]

Maybe this is the last message. We are surrounded from all directions. I can't sleep from fear.

I am now in Jabalia camp.

[Aidan Simardone @AidanSimardone]

As a kid, I wondered how Germans allow the Holocaust to happen. In the past year I have heard why:

“I am too busy”
“I don’t want to lose my job”
“Both sides are bad”
“Protesting won’t do anything”
“It’s not my issue to speak about”
“I don’t want to lose my friends”

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

How many lives we could have saved. How many lives we can still save.

Please watch this video and remember: "Palestinians are not victims of war, they are victims of an ideology" (cit. @pappe54).

[Mona Harb @mona_harb_]

Dahiya is only a suburb in its name. It's an integral part of Beirut--once you read Beirut as a polycentric agglomeration extending from Jounieh to Khaldeh up to Hazmieh.

The urbicide of Dahiya by Israel's killing machine enabled by Western powers, is also that of Beirut.

[George Galloway @georgegalloway]

I've just blocked a large number of psychopaths who evidently believe that the Lebanese people are happy that Israel is invading their country bombing their capital slaughtering their children obliterating their sovereignty. I've concluded that Zionists are in the grip of a mental illness. And that the whole world is in danger from them. The whole world.

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

You have to admire the @WashingtonPost editors, who show unmatched creativity in finding ways not to use the word “invasion” when discussing what Israel is doing to Lebanon right now. 🇱🇧

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

The difference is by design.

[War Monitor @WarMonitors]

MEA is the most badass airline on the planet.

[Shadi Hamid @shadihamid]

I'm finding it very hard to comment on events in the Middle East. The indifference and even enthusiasm towards the indiscriminate bombing of Arabs and Muslims speaks to something deeper and dark. It never went away. But I never thought I'd see it presented so unapologetically.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

🇮🇱: The Pope is Hamas

[Mona Harb @mona_harb_]

heart-wrenching, infuriating, cannot fathom watching jnoob being invaded by zionists again. hateful expansionist supremacist colonizers.

[Sara El-Yafi @SaraYafi]

Let's put this invasion of Lebanon into perspective:

The Gaza Strip covers an area of 365 square kilometers. Despite 11 months and 3 weeks (almost one year now) of continuous bombing and a carte blanche to wreak havoc and commit free genocide — bombing homes, hospitals, schools, mosques, churches, and killing countless civilians, tens of thousands of unarmed men, tens of thousands of women, tens of thousands of children — the Israelis still haven't declared victory. That's 365 square kilometers of complete mayhem, and they couldn't even claim triumph there or bring home the hostages after nearly a year of relentless carnage. Despite all the destruction, all the bloodshed, they have failed to achieve even their own stated goals.

So, what will they do when they face approximately 5,000+ square kilometers of Hezbollah-controlled land in Lebanon?
The entire military command chain of Hezbollah has already been eliminated.
What level of destruction would they consider "success"? How many villages and towns will they flatten? How many civilians will suffer in their path of devastation?

Is this a 10-year war?

If Gaza has been a quagmire, what are they prepared to do in Lebanon?

What scale of violence is waiting to unfold?

But perhaps the most damning question is:
How long will the United States and the European Union — the largest suppliers of weapons and aid to Israel — stand by, their hands dripping with blood, offering empty calls for "ceasefire" while fueling not just one mass murder, but another? This is not just complicity; it is direct participation in genocide.

And we will try them all for their roles in this atrocity. Oh yes, we will.

[Mona Fawaz @mona_fawaz]

Imagine that you knew these neighborhoods, visited some of their residents, shopped in some of their stores. This is a real city that is being turned into rubble. This is real people’s lives- Israel is conducted televised war crimes. #Beirut #Ceasefire

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Like the Palestinians, the Lebanese know that you are lying. Like the Palestininas, the Lebanese know that Israel's leadership is as unscrupulous as eager to expand its genocidal violence to the region in order to maintain power and advance its settler-colonial agenda. Like the Palestinians, the Lebanese know that most of the Israeli society may simply be too hurt, traumatised or indoctrinated to see any alternatives beyond living in a perpetual state of war. Like the Palestinians, the Lebanese may be wondering why you are not in the #Hague yet.

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

Genocide tourism is now a thing in Israel