Mosab Abu Toha
@MosabAbuToha
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Forest of Noise (Knopf 2024) National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist& Palestine Book Award Winner& Founder of Edward Said Library-Gaza
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Joined December 2011
Big News:. My book is a finalist for the 2022 National Book Critics’ Circle Award for Poetry.
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My tweet upset James Woods and he blocked me and said some bad words about me. 😡😡😡
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One last letter to James Woods:. When our house was bombed on October 28, 2023, I did not have a house or a safe place to go on the air and watch it bombed. I have not been able to return to the ruins on my house because my city is occupied. A friend of mine who was helping
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Now, James Woods, do you know how it feels when we watched, and we still do, our homes in Gaza destroyed? When our loved ones got, and they still do, buried under the rubble of their homes? When we were, and we still are, run after and burnt in tents?.When we don’t have a
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Please amplify this:. For more than 22 days, not a single drop of water or food truck entered north Gaza.
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I really cannot believe this!!!.Falling? Is this how you, CNN, describe the killing of tens of thousands and the expulsion of so many more?.Could you say that the Jewish population in Europe was falling between 1933-1945? FALLING?.Seriously?.Where did these people get their
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Why was he hosted on CNN to cry over his burnt house?
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Why the hell has no international press entered Gaza to show the devastation and to document and share live on TV?.Why the damned hell???!!!!.
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How many days did this man scream asking for support and protection? Now everyone condemns what happened to him and to his team and their patients!!.Now everyone looks up to him as a brave man. He did not ask for that. We failed them. We always did. Shame on everyone!!!
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I’m safe but still have pain in nose and teeth after being beaten by Israeli army. I gave them all my family’s passports, including my American son’s but they didn’t return anything. Also my clothes & my children’s were taken and not returned to me. No wallet, money, credit cards.
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We hope you are safe as possible. 💔💔💔💔.Bring him back home. Home is family.
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This is one of the most devastating news for me. My most talented student, Hatem, got killed in a shelter 2 hours ago. I can’t believe this. This is a nightmare. He used to wait for me at the end of the classes to walk with me to the school’s gate before everyone went their way.
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I really cannot believe this. This is Aziz Shallah. On Dec. 31, 2024, he posted a video of his children sleeping in the cold. His post was asking for blankets for his kids. The other video is of himself shoveling the mud and rain. Aziz was killed an hour ago in Der El-Balah,
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I never exaggerated when I said the bomb craters are 30 feet deep. Please amplify as the Gaza Civil Defense crew are looking for bodies in the craters.
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This is not breaking news:. Israel destroyed the Edward Said Public Library in North Gaza. Israeli cultural institutions must be boycotted.
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Photos of people abducted yesterday from inside Kamal Odwan Hospital, old people, injured people, family of patients.
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1- I’m alive, but not safe. 30 members of my family were killed yesterday at night in Gaza city. I just got the news from my brother that they bombed my neighborhood. Whole families, my neighbors are killed. We left our house on Thursday.
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Must-watch:.The moment the Anadolu photographer Mohammad Awad was shot in the neck as he was covering Beit Lahia’s ethnic cleansing.
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Shocking shocking:. Until now, not a single word in Western media, whether TV or newspapers, about what’s happening right now to the Kamal Odwan Hospital. You are all complicit.
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I swear to God this is ridiculous. NYT published an article about Netanyahu’s surgery today. I searched to see if they had any coverage for the attacks on two hospitals in Gaza today. It’s been 14 hours. None. None. None. If you think I’m mistaken and they did write an article
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My communication with a BBC producer. Everyone is complicit. The blood of our families are on your hands. The rubble of my city will remain on your shoulders.
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Amy Goodman asked me to look at the camera and send a message to the world. The next day, yesterday, my wife lost 22 members of her uncles families in Beit Lahia.
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I write with a heavy heart that my cousin Sama, 7 years old, has been killed in the air strike on their house along with 18 members of her family, which is my extended family. In the house was the grandmother, Fatima, who was my grandmother’s sister. She was killed too with two
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Heartbreaking. This journalist, named Ayman Al-Jidi, was in the press vehicle waiting outside the Al-Awda Hospital where his wife was in labor giving birth to their first child. 💔💔💔💔💔💔
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My wife’s family have been digging through the rubble to retrieve the corpses of 15 relatives who have been buried under their bombed house since last October. Of them are my wife’s three cousins, one of these cousins has been buried with her two children.
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It’s horrible that Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya is not released yet and there is no news about him, whether he is in good condition. Same goes for the hundreds who were taken into enforced disappearance, including a brother in law of mine and another of my wife. Sorry Dr. Hussam, the
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Breaking:. Israel now targets a gathering in Bureij Camp of people celebrating the ceasefire deal.
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By the way, Dr. Ahmad Mohanna, Alawda Hospital’s director, was abducted from inside the hospital 350 days ago and there is no information about him. Dr. Hussam Abu Safiyya got a lot of attention because he had the chance of talking to us. So many did not have a chance and this
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Israel’s denial of their arrest of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiyya means one of two things:. They either have killed him already or are going to kill him. This is the scenario of what happened to at least two people whose families received the same response when lawyers inquired about.
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Can someone tell me where I cursed James Woods? Why is this evil? What upset you in my post?
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In March 2022, my friend Waleed and I tried to trick Refaat into believing he had a parking violation at Islamic University of Gaza where he taught. Waleed and I wrote it on a piece of tissue paper. Waleed had an amazing handwriting. Refaat asked me, “Whose handwriting is this?
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This girl hurried to rescue some neighbors who were wounded in an air strike. Moments later, Israel targeted the area again. Name this!!
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Please please please help me help me help me. The family of my wife and relatives in Beit Lahia right now are under the rubble. More than 50 people are believed to be killed. There are now ambulances or anything. Please please. I’m crying I’m about to die.
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The way back. Some are returning to retrieve the bodies of their loved ones which were buried under the rubble for weeks and months.
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Update: 150 got killed. Breaking, breaking, breaking:. Around 4AM, more than 70 people got killed and more 500 got wounded after Israeli tanks opened fire at them while getting aid from the arriving aid trucks on the Rashid Road in Gaza city. Thousands of starving people slept.
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You are welcome to meet me in Cairo. I was kidnapped by the Israeli army and was released after 54 hours. I was stripped of my clothes, beaten, humiliated, with no proof. I’m a father of an American citizen and I was on my way to the Rafah border crossing as your Department of.
Today I met with the families of individuals detained by Hamas, and I assured them that we remain intensely focused on getting their loved ones home. We will continue to do everything we can to ensure the release of every hostage.
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Shocking:. This morning, the Israeli military informed Physicians for Human Rights - Israel (PHRI) that they have no record of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiyah’s detention. The response came after PHRI, acting on behalf of the doctor’s family, requested information to facilitate a.
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In the past 72 hours, Israel carried out 94 air strikes, killing 184 human beings.
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Breaking damn news: (please amplify far and wide). 1- The Israeli army is besieging people in Jabalia and Beit Lahia. Anyone goes out in the street will be shot by quadcopters. 2- Families are unable to go out and find food and water. 3- Ambulances no longer can take the.
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No, no, no, no. Refaat’s daughter, Shimaa and her new baby and the husband got killed in an airstrike today. Just a few days ago, I mentioned that Refaat became a grandfather. 💔💔💔💔💔.
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Remember when the State Department kept saying that Hamas was preventing a ceasefire?
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Fu***g horrible. Look at what they are doing right now in Jabalia camp?!?!?!? 💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔
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Oh my my my. This is Lebanon just now. At least 6 towering residential buildings have been leveled to the ground. Filled with people. 💔💔💔💔💔💔💔
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It is claimed that Israel was targeting Nasrallah. It turned out Nasrallah was not here. Six big residential buildings were knocked down by 2000 lb bombs. The fire is still on. Nothing is recognizable. Hell on earth. Even if he was there, you want to kill one man so you kill 2000
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I don’t understand what happened today at Harvard Bookstore, but the room and shelving spaces were filled with people. I even saw some people watching outside from behind the glass. The books sold out and people asked me to sign on a piece of paper or on a notebook they had.
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I’m so saddened that Israel destroyed UNRWA’s Health clinic in Jabalia refugee camp today. It’s where I used to see a doctor since I was 8 years old.
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I posted this photo three hours ago. The woman in the circle is Daniella Weiss, a far-right Israeli Orthodox Zionist and founder of Nachala, an Israeli settler organization. The photo is from Gaza today. With her in white beard is Israel’s Minister of Housing and Construction. In
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Can we take a rest?.Maybe die for a few.months or years.and wake up when the poem.is complete,.when the flowers in our.garden start to grow,.their scent luring.the sparrows into visiting.our house,.our house that’s now.a small forest of rubble.
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For exactly 10 hours, we have been posting about the attack on Kamal Odwan Hospital, from targeting the main gate to blowing up a booby-trapped vehicle and opening fire at the patients and doctors. And not a single “major” (or even minor) western TV or newspaper mentioned a.
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Heartbreaking:. Israel assassinated Chef Mahmoud Al-Madhoun, who has been helping the Kamal Odwan patients for months. He is brother of Hani Al-Madhoun, UNRWA USA’s senior director of philanthropy. I’m been watching Chef Mahmoud and his team doing the most amazing things in the
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In the cold, two monstrous Israeli “female” soldiers undress a Palestinian boy and take a photo with him in north Gaza.
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Heartbreaking as always. This time my uncle Said Abu Toha, 83 years old and husband of my aunt, was found killed in the street in Gaza. Said went missing on Nov 5. I’m heartbroken. This list is growing. Shame on the world.
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Awful awful! You don’t have to follow our news. I’m bringing this to you. Several massacres simultaneously in Beit Lahia, my dear city. My people are killed. My city is killed!!!.Please stop this. Whoever you are. Where is your power!!!.This is killing me.
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This is from Beit Hanoun today. I’m getting mad day after day. How many times did you watch a video like this? Why is it now stopping?.Is it ok with every one of you here in the US and Europe to be expelled from your home and then even be expelled from the shelter where you were
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A horrific day today. Since the early hours of the morning, 71 human beings got killed in Gaza.
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I will remember the Edward Said Public Library only as this place where I taught these beautiful souls, where I shared stories and love. Sweet ones, I’m sorry I don’t know who among you is still alive.
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Horrible news now. My lord. Several air strikes on the houses of my wife’s family and relatives kills many of them.
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This really needs to be amplified:. For a week, there is only one doctor, a pediatrician, left at the Kamal Odwan Hospital in north Gaza after the Israeli forces expelled all doctors, and even cleaners, from the hospital. Some have been abducted. My mother-in-law is staying at.
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Breaking:. The situation is still critical at the Shifa Hospital. The army has kidnapped all journalists on the ground.
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North Gaza as it used to look like from Sderot settlement in “israel.”.Before and after.
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Video of when the israeli forces abducted doctor Hussam Abu Safiyyah. The soldier in Arabic was saying, “doctor. Remove your shirt.”. If he were really a terrorist, why would they allow him to enter the tank and even shake hands with him?.Shame on you and your lies.
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Blowing up in Beit Lahia continues. And sickness and inhumanity continue. This is the most recent video.
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Hello America! Your “Israel has the right to defend itself” has divided north Gaza into three parts and I lost communication with my whole family now. We will not forget that.
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Do you know who they murdered last night?.The head of emergency unit in Gaza police forces, the person in charge of organizing the secure transfer of food aid from the checkpoint to the UNRWA warehouses.
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Breaking breaking breaking:. Big massacre in Mawasi Rafah right now. Tents are burning. Dozens of people got killed in artillery shelling and intense air strikes and gunfire from military quadcopters. Local time: 2:33AM.
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When this war ends, I hope my dreams can be my reality—The dream of seeing Gaza from sky on plane, of riding my bike with kids without stopping at the border, of diving deep in the sea without being fired at by a gunboat, the dream that this land can be safe to grow more dreams.
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@RealJamesWoods Now, James Woods, do you know how it feels when we watched, and we still do, our homes in Gaza destroyed? When our loved ones got, and they still do, buried under the rubble of their homes? When we were, and we still are, run after and burnt in tents?.When we don’t have a.
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Whoever decided that this fucking ceasefire comes into force 96 hours after it was announced in a press conference is evil. Every single hour, a family is wiped out and more houses are blown up. The last few hours witnessed an unprecedented level of death and destruction. And.
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Important:. Rather than dropping food from the sky on our heads, rather than constructing a “temporary” seaport to deliver aid, please stop shipping weapons to our killers.
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Breaking:. The Israeli army is starting to blow up complete neighborhoods in east Rafah, just four hours after ordering families to evacuate the area. Again, about 200,000 people live in east Rafah. Every house that is blown up makes dozens of families homeless more than ever.
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