Amy Hodges

Assistant Professor of English, specializing in international tech comm and WAC/WID. Professional troublemaker, empathizer, and explorer.

[Amy Hodges @thehodges]

I am walking a 5K for UNRWA in September. Please consider donating for mental health services in the Gaza Strip - needed now more than ever. https://t.co/FZSZosTTJ4

[The Hind Rajab Foundation @HindRFoundation]

🚨🚨 Her name was Hind. Today, her Foundation takes 24 Israeli soldiers and commanders before the ICC for her killing — and vows to pursue them in national courts worldwide.
#HindRajabFoundation
#JusticeforHind
More info ⬇️ https://t.co/MHB2TuOMei

[Variety @Variety]

John Oliver slams Bari Weiss' takeover of CBS News:

"I wouldn’t want anyone who led a pure opinion outlet, not even one that I happened to agree with, to suddenly be running CBS News. But it is especially alarming to have someone doing it who has spent years putting out work that, in my opinion, is at best irresponsible and at worst deeply misleading." https://t.co/e2JGVIZtjZ

[Sana Noor Haq • سناء نور حق @sananoorhaq]

Israel will not release two Palestinian doctors – including the eminent pediatrician, Dr Hussam Abu Safiya – as part of a ceasefire and hostage release agreement with Hamas, according to a source with the militant group.

“The occupation refused to release Dr Hussam Abu Safiya,” a Hamas official told CNN on Friday.

Dr. Marwan Al Hams, the director of field hospitals in Gaza, will also not be released, the official added. The senior doctor was detained from the enclave July, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health there.

As part of the deal reached on Wednesday, Hamas must release the remaining 48 hostages held in the enclave — 20 of whom are believed to be alive. Israel must free 250 Palestinian prisoners who hold life sentences, as well as 1,700 Palestinians from Gaza detained after October 7, 2023.

Israeli forces detained Dr Abu Safiya during a raid in December as it shut down Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahiya.

At the time, Israel claimed without providing evidence that he was “suspected of being a Hamas terrorist operative.”

He has not been brought before a judge, interrogated or informed of the legal grounds of his detention since March, Physicians for Human Rights Israel (PHRI) said. Just last month, PHRI said Israel had inflicted starvation, abuse and invasive cell searches on Safiya.

CNN reached out to the Israel Prison Service at the time for comment on the allegations.

Read our reporting, with @AbeerSalmanCNN. https://t.co/tcso71fvBb

[Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib @RepRashida]

Trump and War Criminal Netanyahu, perpetrators of the genocide, do not get to decide the future of Gaza.

Palestinians get to determine the future of Palestine.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

“They’re saying we’re going to free 1,700 Palestinians taken since October 7th, including all women and children. And, you know, first of all, why doesn’t anyone ever talk about this?… Why is Israel holding children?… Israel is holding hundreds of dead bodies of Palestinians… For each Israeli body that they’re going to return, Israel would give 15 Palestinian bodies. They’re holding Palestinians in numbered freezers… in graves marked only by numbers. There are hundreds of Palestinian bodies being held by that sick society right now… They are holding unknown numbers of children. There are as many as 15,000 or more Palestinians held captive right now in Israel.”

Scahill explains that while the deal promises 1,700 detainees and 250 lifers, Israel intends to veto figures like Marwan Barghouti of Fatah or Ahmad Sa’adat of the PFLP. He says the exchange reveals Israel’s vast system of mass detention, where children, bodies, and symbolic leaders are held as leverage.

@jeremyscahill | @ryangrim

[Adil Haque @AdHaque110]

Full text of the International Association of Genocide Scholars Resolution on the Situation in Gaza 👇🏽

[Quds News Network @QudsNen]

The International Association of Genocide Scholars has passed a resolution stating that Israel’s actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide under the 1948 UN Genocide Convention, according to its president.

The resolution was supported by 86% of voting members within the 500-strong organization.

[BDS movement @BDSmovement]

The BDS movement thanks the United Methodist Church for its commitment to justice and calls on other churches, faith organizations, and pension funds to end their complicity in Israeli genocide, occupation, and apartheid, as is morally and legally obligated.

[لينة @LinahAlsaafin]

When western journalists claim that the only way to know what’s going on in Gaza is to send them in, they must know that they will never, ever reach the calibre and bravery and tenacity and professionalism of Palestinian journalists systematically murdered by Israel one by one.

[Muhammad Shehada @muhammadshehad2]

Israel murdering Gaza's most prominent journalists tonight is about creating a full blackout ahead of what's coming; the total annihilation of Gaza City & completion of genocide

[İyad el-Baghdadi | إياد البغدادي @iyad_elbaghdadi]

I'm more certain than ever that Netanyahu is an agent of Israel's decline, and that Israel will see a terrible 2030s decade, and may not see the other side of it.

Israel won't see its 100th birthday, and when it ends, it'll be clear the Gaza genocide was its downfall.

[Zara Rahim @ZaraRahim]

these same children who are starving to death right before our eyes tried holding press conferences begging us to save them in November 2023 and the world did nothing. I’ll genuinely never get over having to write these sentences as long as I live….the heart atrophies.

[Nayef Nahar نايف بن نهار @binnahar85]

I remember the German Interior Minister traveling to Qatar during the World Cup to support gay rights. Could she now travel to Gaza to stand with children for their right to drink water?

[İyad el-Baghdadi | إياد البغدادي @iyad_elbaghdadi]

Famine in Gaza has reached catastrophic levels. The Netanyahu government has intensified the famine during ceasefire negotiations, using mass starvation as leverage to force Hamas into concessions. People in Gaza are literally dying of famine as you read this.

[Eagle Eye @zarrar_11PK]

Iran informed U.S. via two diplomatic channels hours ahead of attacks on Qatar.

Tehran also informed Doha.

Source: Reuters

[Ragıp Soylu @ragipsoylu]

NEW: Iran's top security body says that its armed forces used the same number of bombs as the U.S. did in attacking Iran's nuclear facilities. — Reuters

[Mohammed El-Kurd @m7mdkurd]

The moment Iran strikes back, American journalists will tell us, calmly and confidently, that it was an unprovoked attack. They've already written their drafts.

[The Cradle @TheCradleMedia]

BREAKING | Iran launches missiles towards Qatar, large explosions are heard in Doha.

[Quds News Network @QudsNen]

Breaking | Explosions were reported in Qatar.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Israel is still committing genocide in Gaza, in case anyone is wondering.