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Inventor of compartmentalism

[🤫 @tamatims]

Nothing makes you quite as happy as making your parents happy wallahi

[Al Jazeera Breaking News @AJENews]

BREAKING: At least 72 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli airstrikes on the Strip since dawn today, including 53 in Gaza City, according to medical sources on the ground.

🔴 LIVE updates: https://t.co/W2iJwz9un3

[Writers Against the War on Gaza @wawog_now]

The flotilla crew, who to be clear are brave political prisoners, sailed right into being kidnapped by Nazis because they hoped the arrests of a few Europeans with recognizable names would mean more to us than the deaths of hundreds of Palestinians a week. Shame on everyone.

[Dr. Ezzideen @ezzingaza]

Today, I sat by the sea.
The wind moved in gusts. The water was gray. I had come seeking silence, but it was already there, settled like dust over everything.

Two girls passed. Barefoot. Their dresses were torn at the edges. No one stared at them. No one needed to. They were part of the scenery now, like broken stone, like rusted metal.

Each carried a small, worn purse on her shoulder. In better times, such a thing would have meant joy, a gift for Eid, a sign that a child had been seen, that she mattered. Here, it was a gesture preserved out of habit. A remnant of something that no longer existed.

That is Gaza.
Not the bombings, not the rubble, but this: a girl walking barefoot with a handbag she cannot fill.

Eid has arrived. We smile because it is expected. We say “Eid Mubarak” the way one might say “It will pass.” There is no celebration. There is only continuity.

The air stinks of metal. Since yesterday, the bombings have not ceased. Families die without fanfare. The names disappear. The houses collapse. We dig through concrete with our hands. The bodies are warm for only a moment.

Hospitals are full of the dead. The living are told to wait.

Bread is precious. Water is bitter. Aid comes late, and too little. There are no tears left in this place, only calculations. What time to run. Where to hide. Whom to carry if it comes again.

And from abroad, they speak. They wear suits. They sit in leather chairs. They call us a sacrifice. They say we are brave. That our death has meaning.

It does not.

A girl in rags is not a sacrifice.
She is a child.
She is hungry.
She is walking.

Cursed is the word that dignifies her suffering. Cursed is the sentence written on her behalf.

We are not symbols. We are not metaphors.
We are not strong, we have endured because there was no choice.
We are not hopeful, we are alive because the body clings to life.
And when it cannot cling, it falls. Quietly.

Somewhere in this city, a mother is heating water for tea she does not have.
A child waits.
A plane passes.
We do not look up anymore.

I sat by the sea.
It did not speak.

#GazaGenocide‌

[Dr. Ezzideen @ezzingaza]

Yesterday, at Al-Awda Hospital in northern Gaza, a girl-child came into this world, and the world rejected her. She had no brain. Not in the poetic sense of innocence or purity, but anatomically, literally: anencephaly. No cerebrum. No future thought, no dreams, no memory to be made. A skull empty of purpose. She was full-term. Her mother carried her for nine long months, through burning nights and weeping mornings, through dust, grief, and sirens. And then, birth. But no life to save. Only silence. The doctors stood helpless, mocked by the limits of their hands.

I saw them, people of medicine, their skilled, sterile fingers trembling. Not from confusion, but from recognition. Teratogenic damage. Developmental failure. Genetic disfigurement, not by chance, but by war. Bombs struck not only buildings, but chromosomes. The weapons, steel, shiny, American, fell not just to destroy the present, but to corrupt the womb. To poison the idea of tomorrow.

What do we call this horror? Radiation? Dioxins? Depleted uranium? Invisible toxins that do not kill quickly, they wait. They embed, cross placental walls, and twist the neural tube. They disrupt life before it begins.

There are more cases. Miscarriages. Premature births. Malformed limbs. Cleft palates wider than sorrow. Spinal cords like broken scrolls. The doctors whisper now, this is no cluster. It’s a pattern. A Lancet study warns of up to 200,000 indirect victims, not from blast wounds, but from genetic harm passed down to generations unborn.

But the world is deaf. It counts the dead by explosions, not deformities. It tracks casualties by limbs lost, not genes shattered.

And here, beneath the rubble, the deepest wound is in the womb. I saw her yesterday. The mother. She didn’t cry. She only looked. Her arms were empty. She had carried a daughter with no brain. But the child had eyelashes. Fingers. And that’s the most terrible thing: that life tried. That the body obeyed. That, even in apocalypse, the cells kept building.

Somewhere, another child may be born marked by air their mother once breathed. And they won’t know why.

They say war ends. That ceasefires come. That healing is possible. But how can it end when it lives in cells? When the placenta becomes a battlefield? When biology becomes the archive of war?

This is not just a war of fire and steel. It’s a war against life. Against women. Against the act of birth itself.

I have seen death, bodies torn, lungs gasping under broken ribs. But never have I heard a silence as loud as when a mother delivers a child already condemned by the sky above her.

And so I write. Not to accuse. Not to weep. But to remember.

Because some weapons do not explode.
They incubate.

#GazaGenocide

[أزهار @azhaarSholgami]

130 Sudanese women committing mass suicide. Tying their necks to something heavy to drown themselves.

All in attempts to avoid getting raped by the RSF.

How do we move past this? What kind of life is this?

I have no words.

#KeepEyesOnSudan

[Munchkin @BSonblast]

The weight Abubakr is carrying is unfathomable. Can you imagine 4 families counting on you for survival?

No one should carry this kind of weight alone. Please help him: https://t.co/RzTZ6cNNQr

#KeepEyesOnSudan

[Craig Murray @CraigMurrayOrg]

This is really beyond belief. Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, attacking Lebanon, attacking UN peacekeepers and burning hospital patients alive.

Which is all Iran's fault?

I hope every single person who voted Labour is deeply, deeply ashamed.

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

Sky News called a murdered Palestinian toddler a "lady", but describes four active IDF soldiers hit by Hezbollah as "teenage victims".

What accounts for this bias in infantilizing Israeli soldiers but treating Palestinian babies as adults? A thread.

[Sulaiman Ahmed @ShaykhSulaiman]

Hi @SkyNews, this is a picture of Israel burning children alive in Gaza last night.

Why are you using it for a headline with Iran?

Why are you lying and misleading your readers?

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

Iran's attack on Israel was a) aimed at military targets and b) didn't kill any Israeli civilians.

The result? The UK imposing sweeping sanctions on Iranian officials and organisations.

Israel wipes Gaza from the face of the earth.

The result? The UK keeps arming Israel.

[Munchkin @BSonblast]

another initiative worth supporting

#KeepEyesOnSudan

[David Frost @md_frost]

It deeply saddens and disturbs me that there is effectively a taboo in medicine against expressing even a modicum of support for Palestinians and/or criticism of the criminal actions of the government of Israel. It's dystopian and wrong and counter to our professional values 1/2

[Yousra Elbagir @YousraElbagir]

Of all the deadly anniversaries Sudan's military complex has given us, this one is by far the worst.

One full year of armed violence and devastation - no lulls, no ceasefires, no guarantees of safety or immunity for any volunteers or aid workers.

And it continues.

[Keith Siau @drkeithsiau]

😅

[Munchkin @BSonblast]

This 🧵 is about the orphans of Khartoum. If youve been following, you may remember the heartbreaking ordeal of their evacuation.

If you don’t, this is their story. Please read until the end, and help us apply pressure to get them the help they need.

#KeepEyesOnSudan

[Abier @abierkhatib]

This tribute to the WCK aid worker killed by Israel in Gaza is so moving.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

This is a war on civilians.

On doctors trying to save lives.

On aid workers trying to feed Palestinians.

On teachers trying to put a smile on the faces of children.

This is a war on humanity — and our government should never be forgiven for its contemptible complicity.

[Ori Goldberg @ori_goldberg]

2/ Reckoning is, in fact, the most rare of reaources in Israel. We move between rejoicing and renouncing. "We didn't do it; we had to do it; we did it and we're proud of it"; all variations on denial. We deny our own agency (what choice did we have?). --->

[Mat Nashed @matnashed]

SAF and the RSF are targeting Sudanese activists, including those running soup kitchens that feed their communities amid a looming famine #Sudan

The arrests are part of a broader campaign to deny relief to beleaguered civilians.

My latest @AJEnglish

https://t.co/vgnfNg62sP

[Dr. Mads Gilbert @DrMadsGilbert]

Today, we witness the total ISraeli destruction of the most important, 700 beds specialty hospital in Gaza, Al Shifa Medical Complex. It was established 78 years ago during the British Mandate, the name Shifa meaning 'The House of Healing'; now turned into a 'House of Death' by Israel and the US, burnt, totally destroyed to rubble and turned into a graveyard of patients, medical staff, relatives and refugees. A massive symbol of the heartless, cynical ISraeli politics of colonial occupation with the goal of elimination of the Palestinian people, their social institutions and their lives. US, EU, UK governments stand shamed, complicit by their support for ISraeli war crimes and atrocities against all humanity. Watch carefully the killing fields of Shifa, never ever forget the Gaza genocide, the perpetrators, and the complicit powers! Dr. Mads