The Palestinian Sheikh who was filmed disarming and shooting Israeli soldiers during an Israeli settler attack on the West Bank has been identified as Farouk Ramadan.
Farouk was killed during the deadly confrontation in the occupied West Bank village of Tell, after he wrestled an armed Israeli settler to the ground and seizing his rifle during the fight.
Palestinian witnesses claim Ramadan acted in self-defence after armed settlers entered the village with the intent to carry out racist attacks against the native Arabs. The incident left four Palestinians and two Israelis dead.
There are things in this world that should never happen
and yet, they are happening.
This story sounds like fiction.
But this is our life.
Two and a half years ago, when the Israeli army entered Al Shifa Hospital,
they took a number of newborn babies from the maternity ward.
Newborns.
They were separated from their mothers, from the only warmth they had ever known and sent to Egypt.
Without names.
Without families.
Without anyone to claim them.
They disappeared.
For more than a year, there was no news.
No answers.
No certainty about whether they were even alive.
Yesterday, some of them were returned.
And I cannot stop thinking about one moment.
A mother standing there.. trying to describe her child.
Describing the face of a baby she had only known for less than a week.
Trying to recognize her own son through memory alone.
Through fragments.
Through hope.
Through pain.
Then, suddenly.. he is in front of her.
Alive.
She breaks.
A joy so overwhelming it almost looks like grief.
And the child?
He looks at her .. without recognition. Without memory.
Without the instinct that should have guided him back to her arms.
He does not know her !!
And perhaps what is even more devastating
he does not know what a mother is.
What kind of world separates a child from his mother
before he even learns her face?
What kind of war steals not only lives,
but the most basic human bonds?
This is not just loss.
This is something deeper.
Something colder.
Something that tears at the very meaning of being human.
This ..
is what hell looks like.
#WoundedGaza
Muslim mother had her Niqab ripped off in Anti-Muslim attack in Newham, London
This woman almost hit a Muslim woman and her child at a zebra crossing in Newham, London. She got out of her car and subjected the Muslim woman to racial abuse before ripping off her Niqab, all in front of her 3 year old child.
She drove away before police arrived at the scene.
Be vigilant!
On stage in Barcelona, Pep Guardiola @pepteam speaks for the children of Gaza during the Act x Palestine charity event. Wearing a keffiyeh, he welcomes everyone with a ‘Salam Aleykoum.’
Funds raised tonight are destined for grassroots and humanitarian projects in Palestine.
Sinwar’s Palace
Hamas official Jasser Al-Barghouti: I went to Yahya al-Sinwar’s house, and we couldn’t find a place to sit because it was so small, even though he is Abu Ibrahim, the man in charge of all the resources of the Gaza government.
When we couldn’t find space inside, Yahya Sinwar laid out a mat at the entrance of the house, and we sat there.
As we sat, I said to him:
“Abu Ibrahim, you’re the leader of Hamas. Your home, where people come to visit you, should be spacious.”
He replied:
“I have an office that fits everyone. This house is for close company. . And I live by a principle: the smaller your house is in this world, the bigger it will be in the Hereafter.”
🚨733 days of Israeli Genocide war on my people and homeland in #Gaza have ended…
733 days of terror
733 days of killing
733 days of grief
733 days of hunger
733 days of poverty
733 days of displacement
733 days of oppression
733 days of injustice
733 days without medicine
733 days without water
733 days without food
733 days of patience and resilience
Gaza endured. Gaza survived‼️
The bombs will stop.
The siege will break.
The healing will begin.
Gaza will breathe again.
And Palestine will be free.
Within our lifetime, Insha’Allah.