For centuries: *Palestinian Arabs and Jews live together peacefully, respecting each other’s religions and cooperating; Jews account for 5-10% of the Palestinian population*
1914-1916: *Ottoman Empire collapses, Britain and France carve up Middle East, Britain occupies Palestine with absolutely no right to do so*
1917: *Balfour Declaration signed, promising Zionists a home in Palestine, also with no right to do so*
1919: *Zionists begin immigrating to Palestine in massive numbers to make Palestine “as Jewish as England is English” (Weizmann) — looking to replace the existing population with this <10% minority group*
1922 - 1935: *Immigration takes Jewish population in Palestine from 9% to almost 27%; Incoming Zionists rename towns and cities, ignoring existing practices and customs*
1936: *In an attempt to protect their homeland, Palestinian Arabs mount revolt against British and Zionist colonists; British violently suppress revolt, killing, injuring, imprisoning or deporting 10% of Palestinian males by 1939*
1944 - 1946: *Zionist colonists declare war on British colonists — eventually bombing King David Hotel in 1946 killing 91, including Jews, Arabs and Brits — as they wanted to take over Palestine faster than Brits would allow*
1947: *Brits hand over Palestine to the UN; due to relentless immigration, 1/3 of population are now Jewish, but only 6% of land is Jewish-owned, however the UN partitions the land giving Zionists 55% of the land including key Arab-populated areas*
1948: *Nakba happens: Zionists ethnically cleanse Palestinian Arab homes and lands by force*
For the next 77 years: *ethnic cleansing, apartheid, massacres, rapes, oppression of the worst kind against Palestinians*
Every day, right up to Oct 6th, 2023, where a 19-year-old was shot dead in the West Bank by a Zionist settler: *Palestinians endure kidnapping/rape/torture/murder/dehumanisation of the worst kind*
Oct 7th, 2023: *Hamas attacks Israel, taking hostages to trade for some of the thousands Israel holds*
Oct 8th - ongoing: *Israel unequivocally commits genocide on Palestinians, refusing to agree hostage release deal, creating the worst live-streamed collection of war crimes in the history of mankind*
Some drooling little man sitting behind a keyboard who can’t even fathom the totality of suffering that exists within a single point on this list: hAmAs StArTeD tHiS wAr
Israel nearly killed the head of the World Health Organization.
Has any Western government commented on this yet? Can you imagine their response if it was Iran or Russia?
The Palestinian Authority forces have shot and killed journalist Shatha Sabbagh with a bullet to the head in the Jenin refugee camp, in the occupied West Bank.
The family of the slain journalist confirmed that the PA opened fire on Sabbagh while she was stepping outside her home.
The eyewitness stated that Sabbagh was holding a child when she got shot in the head.
She revealed in the last Instagram story she published on her account:
Before being shot dead by a PA forces sniper’s bullet, a PA officer shouted at her, ordering her not to film banners bearing symbolic images of Palestinians killed by the Israeli occupation, which PA forces had torn down in Jenin refugee camp.
This is Dr Hussam Abu Safiyeh, Director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, defiant in the face of Israeli tanks. Israel destroyed his hospital and cut off the oxygen to patients.
Free Dr Hussam Abu Safiyeh.
End all arms sales to Israel. End the occupation. Free Palestine
This man is being tortured by the most sadistic and barbaric people on Earth. For months before his detainment, you ignored his pleas for help—at the very least, raise your voice for his release to spare him further suffering and a likely death.
#FreeDrHussamAbuSafiya
@hasanthehun That’s how we feel Hassan , it feels like we’re screaming into the void and no one can hear us and no one can stop this madness . Every day I go out reporting but I’m not even sure for who .
5/5 Israel must immediately release all Palestinians arbitrarily detained, including health workers. Hospitals and health workers are not targets. The int'l community esp Israel's allies must act to bring an end to Israel’s genocide against Palestinians in Gaza #EndGazaGenocide
4/5 Since the beginning of its genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, Israel has detained hundreds of Palestinian healthcare workers from Gaza without charge or trial. Health workers have been subjected to torture and other ill-treatment and been held in incommunicado detention.
3/5 The raid, the latest in a series of attacks on healthcare facilities in North Gaza over the past two months, put Kamal Adwan, the last remaining major hospital in the area, out of service.
2/5 For months Dr. Abu Safiya has been the voice of Gaza’s decimated health sector, appealing for the protection of his hospital and working under inhumane conditions, including following the killing of his son.
1/5 We are extremely concerned over the fate & wellbeing of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Kamal Adwan hospital who was detained by Israeli forces along with others during a raid on the hospital on 27 December. He must be released immediately and unconditionally.
For each Palestinian life that should and could have been saved in Gaza, we have been put to the test. And we have failed, over and over. We must not fail again.
All of us must do all we can to save Dr Abu Safiya.
#FreeDrHussamAbuSafiya