absolutely losing my mind that you have hundreds of international citizens who were been abducted, abused, some raped and tortured by Israel and… crickets in our news media. We are beyond “complicity” and ‘giving Israel impunity’ - its complete acquiescence and surrender.
The lack of news on Gaza isn’t because the genocide is over.
It’s because Israel slaughtered the journalists and Western media pretends there’s a ceasefire.
If you’re wondering how intense the bombing in Beirut was yesterday, then you need to watch this video. It documents the bombardment around the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza, near my family’s home in
Nov 2023.
This is what we call a “fire belt,” in Arabic, meaning relentless, consecutive strikes that feel like hell itself. I lived through this many times in Gaza before we left for Egypt. It feels like the end of the world, as if you’re standing in flames from every direction, with no escape and no way out.
Don’t look away from this video.
#Gaza #Lebanon #Beirut #Israël #Israel
Sumayya, the daughter of Al Jazeera journalist Mohammad Samir Washah, stood in front of the camera two years ago in an oversized press vest, speaking about her dream of becoming a journalist in Gaza.
Today, she is mourning her father, killed by Israel in a targeted strike on his car.
He leaves behind four children.
Today, Israel allowed rabbis and religious school students to enter and perform Talmudic rituals at the Western Wall of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, which has been closed to Muslims for over 36 days.
Israel justified the closure by citing the need to prevent gatherings due to Iranian missile strikes, while still permitting dozens of Jewish visitors in successive groups of 50–100.
35 days of continued forceful closure of Al-Aqsa Mosque.
Israel, as an occupying Power, whose presence in Palestine is illegal as found by the ICJ, has no sovereignty over Jerusalem.
Israel is deliberately undermining the Status Quo to impose new realities.
Egyptian programmer Badr El-Khamisy launched a digital initiative to honor every Palestinian who has been killed in Gaza
So far, over 60,000 names have been documented, each represented as a point of light on the screen. Clicking a point reveals their name, age, and birthday.
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
Canadian doctor Ben Thompson tells the story of a doctor in Gaza who was forced to strip naked and stand for two days by Israeli occupation forces, urinating, and deficating where he stood.
He was only allowed then to treat his patients while naked.
Anas al-Sharif should have been celebrating Eid today. And Hossam Shabat. And Ismail al-Ghoul. And Hind Rajab. And Shaban al-Dalou. And Mariam Abu Dagga.
And every beautiful soul in Gaza murdered by Israel.
May the next Eid be in a Palestine free from Israeli oppression.