Abir Kopty
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Palestinian writer/journalist, words in MEE, TRT, The Nation, Sowt podcasting. Samir Kassir Award Nominee. فلسطين حرة #ceasefirenow
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You know, Gazans are normal people, who in normal days have diabetes, cancer, kidney failures etc. patients.
How do you think are these people managing? They are not, they are enduring slow death as Israel put most hospitals out of service & prevents any medical aid into Gaza.
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Israel is the only country in the world that prosecutes children in military court.
How about this one tiny piece of context as you discuss the prisoners swap deal?
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This is a journalist. But even if it was a baker, a worker, an unemployed.. they do not deserve this. They are our brothers and fathers and sons. They are beloved ones for someone.
so much darkness right now.. They are not going going to survive this if we don’t stop it
من بين المعتقلين المدنيين الذين صورهم جيش الاحتلال، الزميل الصحفي ضياء الكحلوت، مدير مكتب صحيفة العربي الجديد في غزة، الذي يظهر في هذه الصورة
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News today told you that Israel will transfer over 1 million Pfizer doses to the Palestinian Authority. Well, they omitted a “minor” detail: these doses are about to expire. Israel in return will receive a new shipment of the same amount, which is allocated to the Palestinians.
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اسرائيل رمت مصر، اللي قدمتلها صكوك الطاعة خلال الإبادة وكانت شريكة وفية، رمتها تحت الباص عند أول فرصة.
وفضحت بطولات الإنزال الأردنية لأنها حصلت بتنسيق وإذن إسرائيلي وتستخدمها حجة لصالحها في المحكمة.
هذا انتم لإسرائيل: أداة.
مبروك عليكم الكرامة والسيادة.
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Palestinian women and girls are being raped and sexually assaulted by Israeli soldiers.
This is now from the UN Press Release, February 19.
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This is literally a vote to kill more Palestinians. What a disgrace.
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A THREAD regarding the release of the Israeli women and the two children by Hamas fighters:
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These detentions by Israeli police tonight are in Lydd, 100s more are planned against Palestinians in 48 in the next 48 hours.
They want to humiliate & terrorise to "discipline" people & make them accept their subordination.
Don't be silent over this.
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A friend from Gaza just told me that his sister, her husband and their 8 kids, the older is 16, the younger is 6 where among those detainees. Who ever they don’t end up taking to their concentration camps, are ordered to go to the south.
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Do not turn your anger into mercy over the people of Gaza. Do not deprive them their dignity once again. Turn your anger into action. Take to the streets, write your politicians and media. Gaza wants political action, not mercy.
Gaza wants ceasefire.
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#FadiWashha
, 34, was shot in the head by Israeli army during a protest (May15). Today, after 3 weeks in ICU he succumbed to his wounds. If u think Israel kills Palestinians once you're wrong. Here is a timeline of how many times they killed him & how he rose as a hero each time:
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Free Muna Kurd, Free Mohammad Kurd, Free Zuhair Rajabi, Free Eyad Abu Snaineh, free all prisoners, those we know their names or faces and those we don’t, free Palestine.. louder & louder & louder.
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Berlin now.
Ceasefire now.
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We will not get tired.
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Don't reduce
#Gaza
to a humanitarian issue. It is also political and requires political action that addresses the root cause of the problem and that is ending the Israeli blockade, aggression and military occupation.
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انا مظبوط خلقت لعيلة مسيحية فلسطينية، عمري ما حسيت بانتماء غير لهويتي الفلسطينية، المسلمة قبل المسيحية. هاي الصورة عار عار عار ولا تمثل المسيحيين الفلسطينيين اللي عم يبكو دم على أهلنا في غزة. الله يلعنكم من رجال دين.
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It’s still early for the ICJ hearing but people at The Hague are already walking to the protest. Palestinian flags are everywhere.
End Israeli genocide in Gaza.
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Three days in a row: Assualting a marathon, arresting a veteran Aljazeera reporter, arresting
@kurd_muna
and summoning
@m7mdkurd
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Right before releasing the 13 Israelis, Hamas released 12 Thai hostages who were not counted by Israel among the 240 Israeli hostages & no one discussed their absence even though they were workers at the Israeli Kibbutzim.
There is a hierarchy of worthiness, after all.
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Tomorrow a general
#strike
is declared across historic
#Palestine
. This is a historic moment. Last time this happened was on May 16, 1936. Exactly 85 years ago. 1936 strike was against British mandate & Zionist immigration to Palestine & lasted 6 months.
A legacy of resistance.
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What's happening in
#Jerusalem
today: someone stole your house kicked you out changed everything in it to erase your presence. Every year he organises a party in your garden to celebrate. He brings 1000s armed for protection bc he is afraid you'll come to remind him of his theft.
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نعمة القراءة بالعبري وانا عم اقرأ أجواء الإحباط في الإعلام العبري..
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Police just interrupted the Congress as soon as the video from Dr. Salman Abu Sitta played.
#palestiniancongress
#Palaestinakongress
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5/ In summary, Israel's narrative is based on misinformation and manipulation. Disgracefully, individuals, journalists, and politicians continue to perpetuate these falsehoods.
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The silence over Gaza that started to prevail is scary and horrifying.
هذا الصمت الذي بدأ يسود من قبل العالم كله بدون استثناء تجاه ما يحدث في غزة، مرعب ومخيف
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THREAD: Leaked documents from Israeli Ministry of Intelligence outlines strategic options for Israel and concludes that the best option is the eternal and complete transfer of Gaza population to Sinai and the re-occupation of
#Gaza
. In this document they outline 3 options: 1/4
מסמך מטעם משרד המודיעין, שתוכנו המלא מתפרסם כאן לראשונה, ממליץ להעביר באופן כפוי את אוכלוסיית הרצועה לסיני לצמיתות, וקורא לרתום את הקהילה הבינלאומית למהלך. כמו כן המסמך מציע לקדם קמפיין ייעודי לתושבי עזה ש"יניע אותם להסכים לתוכנית"
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3/Israeli propaganda concealed the release of the Israeli women and 2 children and relied on the video of their capture as primary evidence of "Hamas kidnapping women and children." This propaganda persisted despite their awareness of the fact that they had been released.
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German police brutally evacuating the Palestinian solidarity encampment in front of German Bundestag.
They are surely inspired by the US police and they both are surely inspired by a genocidal regime somewhere else.
Oppressive regimes inspire each other.
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I can’t stop thinking of Hind. She is the age of my son. She saw her family shot dead in the car. She is lying terrified between their bodies, waiting for an angel to drop from the sky. But all what drops is bullets. We are waiting for you Hind. Hang on please.
We are so sorry.
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The so called Israeli “left” was silent for months as their army was destroying, massacring and starving in Gaza, committing the most barbaric crimes in modern history. They either legitimized their army’s actions or at best remained silent.
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1/ The video capturing the release dates back to Saturday, October 7, published by Aljazeera on October 12. The release took place on Saturday as Hamas fighters could escort them to the border, while Israel had not yet taken control over it.
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بحر بشري في #برلين الآن، هذا البلد القابضة على نفس مواطنيها فيما يتعلق ب #فلسطين.. يبدو وكأنها تثور هي أيضا.
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Bir Zeit university’s student, Layan Kayed, was released today from Israeli prison after 16 months imprisonment. Each time a prisoner is free, our hearts are filled w joy & love. The freedom of political prisoners is sacred in our struggle for freedom.
#FreeThemAll
#PowerToThe6
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2/ Israeli website Ynet also stated the video was from Saturday. Remarkably, Israel maintained silence about their release. Their release from Saturday became known, only when Aljazeera published the video on October 12.
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Sorry Bel, I’ve long respected your work but this is not a simple mistake that you correct by deleting a tweet. People’s lives are at stake here. They are being slaughtered while journalists are helping dehumanizing them & legitimizing their slaughter.
Words sometime kill, too.
I just wanted to clarify that I did not tweet 40 babies had been beheaded. I tweeted that foreign media had been told women and children had been decapitated but we had not been shown bodies - which was my response to reports which had gone viral about the 40 babies. I realised
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@m7mdkurd
arrived at the police station. He will be joining his sister
@kurd_muna
in detention. But they fear not! The occupation is so stupid if they don’t understand this by now.
#محمد_الكرد لحظة اضطراره لتسليم نفسه لمركز شرطة الاحتلال بعد مذكرة التوقيف. يودع والده ويمضي. تصرير طارق بكري
@TarekBakri
#MohammedElKurd
#freemunaalkurd
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4/ The video depicting their capture shows armed civilians reassuring them that no harm would come to them. It is believed that these armed civilians, not Hamas fighters, who initially brought them into Gaza. Subsequently, Hamas fighters facilitated their release on the same day.
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Those holding weapons entering a Palestinian hospital are an Israeli death squad.
They went in to assassinate people in the hospital.
These people are sick and funded by the most powerful countries in the world.
Insane documentation of the Israeli death-squad disguised as Palestinian civilians and medical workers, which murdered three Palestinians inside Ibn Sina hospital this morning in Jenin, occupied West Bank.
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Hind passed a third night in the car with 6 dead bodies. Is she still alive or did the Israeli soldiers kill her too? Where is HIND?
I can’t stop thinking of Hind. She is the age of my son. She saw her family shot dead in the car. She is lying terrified between their bodies, waiting for an angel to drop from the sky. But all what drops is bullets. We are waiting for you Hind. Hang on please.
We are so sorry.
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As we tweet, 100s of houses will be raided, 100s of mothers & fathers will be terrorized as their sons are being detained by Israeli police to face brutality & horror in interrogation centers. We know what happen in these centers. We know! This is yet another war on
#Palestinians
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The way Israel is using the horrifying killing of 11 children in Majdal Shams, occupied Syrian Golan Heights, is disgraceful. a) They are NOT Israelis NOR Israeli citizens, they are Syrian Druze who refused to become Israelis since the occupation of Golan Heights in 1967.
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I’m a feminist Palestinian & I don’t need a racist Islamophob chauvinist white man to use us, our struggle as women in our societies or treat us as victims who need to be saved. Our struggle for a
#freePalestine
goes deeper than what such racists may ever comprehend.
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أختي بعتتلي هاي الصورة من #الناصرة.
والدي، مواليد 1944, أكبر من دولة الاحتلال،متواجد في الشارع ومشارك في #إضراب_فلسطين.
بحبك يابا <3
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This is Abu Ghannam family in al-Tour
#Jerusalem
, watching their home demolished.
They had to make the difficult choice to demolish their own home.
Why? Bec Israel charges families w 10s of thousands $$ if it sends its forces & bulldozers to do the job!
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No matter what happens today at the ICJ, one thing is clear: Gaza will still need every voice, every action, every march, every boycott, every pressure.
Non-stop until we stop the genocide.
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Nothing ever will reverse this photo.. this is what will last in our collective memory, the small victories of the oppressed that will accumulate, to the great victory: freedom!
#FreeThemAll
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You are a mother, a political prisoner. Your daughter died while you are imprisoned by your colonisers who deny you the chance to grieve next to her & your family..
What could be more devastating??
#FreeKhalidaJarrar
& let her hug Suha one last time.
RIP beautiful Suha Jarrar.
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The Palestinian Authority got rid today of one of its fierce critics, Nizar Banat. His family testified he was severely beaten with sticks & iron objects on his head during his arrest.
Liberation does not come in parts.. it's a whole, from our colonisers & internal oppressors.
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الواحد مش عارف كيف يشرحها، بس سارق البيت رح يضل كل عمره يبحث عن اعتراف لانه البيت مش بيته. اما صاحب البيت مش بحاجة لاعتراف من أي حد. لانه صاحب البيت. #القدس #فلسطين
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8) In every Palestinian story, you will find multiple killings, because they want to silence the voice of freedom and dignity, but they can't and won't. Rest in Peace and Power
#FadiWashha
. Your bravery will lighten our way to liberation.
End.
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في حاليا فيديو، مش رح اشاركه، عم ينتشر بشكل كبير عن "حرق بيت في الناصرة"
انا بنت #الناصرة.. لا البنايات ولا الشارع في الفيديو بيشبه شي في الناصرة..
بحياة ربكم.. وقفوا هالمسخرة وتاكدوا من المصدر قبل ما تشاركوا عالطالعة والنازلة..
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How do you think babies who need to take vaccines, who need baby milk, clean water and sterilisation measure for feeding are managing?
How are starved mothers supposed to produce milk to feed their babies?
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How do you think those who were injured, amputated, went through c-section etc. are managing without antibiotics and pain killers?
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COGAT is the Israeli “Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories” and they allow only surgeons who are not Palestinians to go to Gaza. So Palestinian doctors are not allowed to enter Gaza and treat their own people?
How do you call this in your academic circles?
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Israel has destroyed the social fabric in northern Gaza and killed so many community organizers and civil society figures who could have been organizing now the scarce aid that is arriving to north Gaza and which Israel yesterday lied to the court about.
Severe hunger in the northern Gaza Strip, with very few trucks arriving, amid Israeli shelling targeting volunteers attempting to organize affairs and security personnel affiliated with Hamas administration. Israel refuses to allow Gaza's authorities to manage the incoming
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#Palestineonstrike
from river to sea today..
Ramallah, Haifa, Nazareth, Nablus, Hebron, Kafr Qara, Arrabah, Jerusalem, Sakhnin, Dir al-Asad.. EVERYWHERE.
Voluntary, awareness & children activities are planned all day including protests and vigils.
Here is a photo from Haifa:
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"My life is fading away before my eyes", wrote Palestinian prisoner, Ghadanfar Abu Atwan, who has been on hunger strike for 61 days! He declared a water strike in addition to the hunger strike and he already called him self "martyr to be". Don't let him die!
#Palestine
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There are hundreds of such devastating questions that run through one's mind every day.
Nothing can stop this madness except a complete ceasefire, lifting the siege and letting volunteers get to Gaza. It will take years or maybe decades to recover. Genocide must end now.
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Israeli hostages are not allowed to freely speak to the media but western media only focuses on them.
Palestinian prisoners have so much to tell the world about their imprisonment but western media is not interested in knowing.
Expected of course.
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The Israeli so called “left” woke up only after ICJ discussed Israel’s genocide and it was clear Israel is becoming a pariah state. They wanted to distance themselves from their government for self interest, but they are also complicit.
The “bothsidesm” won’t cover up.
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This morning my son, Mina, woke up feeling sad about Gaza. I asked him to imagine something good and draw it, he drew a house he wants to help building in Gaza after the war is over, for our friends who lost their homes.
Amid of all this despair, we will rise & rebuild Gaza.
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what happens to an elderly, who gets a heart attack or a stroke and their lives are on the line within minutes?
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They talk about “peace”! Peace with whom? a completely decimated Gaza? 2m Palestinians whom their lives were destroyed? If they were sincere they would talk about accountability. But no, they will be the first to tell you “boycott will harm our work” (Just wait for it)
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Everyone who circulated this news should delete their posts and apologise NOW. If it was journalists they should be decent enough to quit journalism.
Same with those who circulated about "rape" when not a single evidence or testimony was provided. The list includes "feminists".
#BREAKING
Israeli army tells Anadolu that they have no information confirming allegations that ‘Hamas beheaded babies’
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I translated main parts of this important testimoney from a released Palestinian prisoner Ramzi el-Abbasi, it adds up to the testimonies from other released prisoners about the horrors in Israeli prisons amid complete absence of the
@ICRC
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My sister in
#Nazareth
tells me that settlers tried last night to enter the city but they couldn't. There are confrontations every night. A new generation is emerging strong and fierce. 10 detainees have court hearing today. Much love to my Nazareth.
#Palestine
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حكيت مع امي في #الناصرة.. اول شي حكتلي اياه.. يا ماما قلبي بوجعني كتير ومش قادرة اشوف الاخبار..
وانا صرت افكر.. يا ريتهم وصلوا عندها...
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They bring in Pal citizens who were terrorized into silence since Oct, arrested for a mere “like”, no one uttered a word then. Now they are offered a space to talk “peace”, under domination of fellow Israelis, conceived to “Let’s be positive & talk about peace, not genocide.”
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No, Israel doesn't care for its image. Beating and assaulting mourners is just part of its essence as an occupying colonial power. The absurdity is that you will hear calls for "both sides" to calm things down. Both sides: one side lost a national icon. The other killed her.
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German Police just cut off electricity at the Congress!
Wow.
#Palaestinakongress
#Palestiniancongress
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Tell us more about the “democracy” that wants to silence Palestinian and pro Palestinian voices, get people fired and censored..
It’s remarkable how some institutions chose to be fooled and manipulated and terrorized.. it’s a choice!
British University of Sheffield Hallam has suspended the Palestinian graduate student Shahd Abusalama from teaching amid a smear campaign by Israeli lobby.
The smear campaign resembles the tactics used last year to target David Miller, a professor at Bristol University.
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They are ethnically cleansing Gaza. That is not an analysis. That is happening openly. This are stating it clearly.
Gazans have two choices: Ethnic cleansing or genocide.
Under the watch of the world.
"never again" is reserved for people with the right color of skin.
“They need to move south, out to the Sinai Peninsula”
Amir Avivi, from the Israel Defence Forces, calls for Palestinian civilians to leave the “warzone” of Gaza and cross into Egypt.
#Newsnight
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Four Israeli settlers stabbed a Palestinian in Jerusalem near his work place. This is not extreme. This is everyday for Palestinians.
مترجم:قاموا بطعنه عدة مرات...كاميرات المراقبة توثق اعتداء أربعة مستوطنين على شاب فلسطيني قرب مكان عمله بالقدس المحتلة
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Let the history also note down, that while Israel was massacring Palestinians from north to south of the Gaza strip on May 11, Europe was welcoming Israel in its Eurovision contest, business as usual, sending once again a message to Palestinians: your lives do not matter.
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شرطة برلين حوّلت شارع العرب الى ثكنة عسكرية، حواجز تفتيش وانتشار لقوات كبيرة لتمنع اي مظاهر احتجاج على الابادة في غزة. ورغم ذلك تخرج هتافات "الحرية لفلسطين ولغزة" من كل مكان.
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It took 3 months of a genocide and a file at the ICJ for some journalists to become more careful with their words. We the people who know our oppressor the best told you this is going to be atrocious but your racism was in full force. Now it’s too late. You allowed it.
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Israel bombed an ambulance & civil defense team. 10 were killed. These are the heroes who dig with their hands to rescue people under the rubble, heroes who move the wounded to barely surviving hospitals, who try their best to save lives w minimum means under a brutal genocide.
🚨Breaking : The Israeli army bombed the Civil Defense and Ambulance Unit, resulting in the death of at least 10 team members in the center of
#Gaza
strip !
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Israel will tell you the UN is "Hamas".
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4) While in prison, (in February 2014), Fadi lost his cousin and best friend Mu’taz Washha who was assassinated in his house while resisting Israeli army’s attempt to arrest him. They bombed his house and killed him. Mu'taz' last words were “I will not surrender to the villains”.
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We have been reporting cases of rape/ sexual assault by Israeli soldiers against Palestinian women (and men) during this genocide but no one cares. The UN is finally reporting but no one will care either.
There are 1000s of Pal detainees subjected currently to torture by Israel.
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6) In late 2019,
#FadiWashha
was shot by Israeli army during a protest against Israeli assault on Gaza. Soldiers prevented medics to approach him but the medics managed to rescue him. Here is his photo from 2019, which is widely shared now.
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Hello Palestine! Finally made it home after two years away. مرحبا حبيبتي
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Breaking: The Berlin police just announced in the hall that the Palestinian Congress is banned! They won’t let it continue.
This was expected as they tried everything possible to get to this point.
“This is what “democracy” looks like”, the participants chanted.
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A day that will go down as one of the ugliest days in anti-Palestinian history of Germany.
Well done, Germany.
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ليش في ناس مصرّة تتعامل مع فلسطينيي ال 48 عأساس هلأ صحيوا على انتمائهم الوطني؟ طيب راجعوا التاريخ..
صحيح سياسات الدمج والتفتيت والأسرلة زادت في العقدين الأخيرين لكنها زادت بعد مشاركتنا في الانتفاضة الثانية، ما يعرف ب "هبّة أكتوبر".. وقتها كمان قيل عنا: صحيوا على انتمائهم الوطني.
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They are trying to shut down this Congress in every way possible. How democratic and friendly.
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“I’m an academic, the toughest thing I have at home is probably an expo marker.. if the Israeli army come, I will through this marker at them”
Dr. Refaat Elareer was killed by Israel after they bombed the home he was staying at in Gaza.
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1) In 2009,
#FadiWashha
was imprisoned by Israel. He spent about 2.5 years before released in an exchange deal between Hamas and the Israeli occupation in 2011.
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Ethnic cleansing underway live in
#Silwan
right now! This is not 1948, were Palestinians were terrorized and forced to leave their homes and villages out of sight. This is 2021! You can’t hide or alter history and we will not wait another 70 years!
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7) In recent months prior to his murder,
#FadiWashha
was pursued by the Israeli army who wanted to arrest him. In May 2021, he was shot by the Israeli army with a live ammunition in the head. Three weeks later he succumbed to his wounds.
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