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We literally spend our lives working to build a home where we can see our children and grandchildren grow up. It takes a life's time and savings to do so, and then the israeli occupation comes in a minute and turns those dreams into rubbles.
Israel is demolishing the remaining houses, ensuring they can’t be restored. This is a full-scale plan to destroy all homes in the south of
#Gaza
so that displaced people, who were told to go to the central area TEMPORARILY, can’t return.
This mirrors the scenario of 1948 & after
The death sentence is sent through the sky on paper. Leave or you will die. We all know that whether they left or not, the occupation will chase and kill them. The death sentence has already been taken decades ago and the only crime is being a Palestinian.
My sister in Gaza texted me, and I immediately thought something bad happened. Then, it was a photo of my cousin who had a baby girl tonight. Between fear and happiness, life keeps moving even when it is on hold in Gaza.
Imagine a childhood where you need to shout at the world that you deserve to live. That you need protection because since day one you know the occupation would kill you at any minute.
Thousands of Palestinians who broke into UN food warehouses in the besieged Gaza Strip are ‘scared, frustrated and desperate’ after 3 weeks of war, says director of UN Palestinian refugee agency ⤵️
They killed a child. Silence. They did it again.
They killed a family. Silence. They did it again.
They erased a neighborhood. Silence. They did it again.
They bombed a hospital. Silence. They did it again.
Flour massacre. Silence. They did it again.
Over and over again.
People from Gaza are writing their first tweet since the total disconnection, expressing their happiness and how they survived the most horrible two nights. Some palestinians out of Gaza sharing their joy that they finally talked to their families. Finally we can breath a little.
أنا خليل، عمري ٢٧ سنة، درست أدب إنجلش وتعلمت كتير أشياء، وعندي كتير أحلام وطموحات وأهداف.
بعرف أحب وبعرف أنبسط وبعرف أشتغل وأنجز.
لو استشهدت ما بدي أكون رقم، احكوا اسمي وسمعوا قصتي، وأدعولي.
أنا مش رقم. أنا كوكب كامل
We are losing Gaza. We are losing our home. A world-sponsored massacre and forced displacement. It is under your watch, and our blood is on your hands.
Today’s massacre screams more than any other day how much the world doesn’t see us. That our blood is cheaper than the others That justice won’t be served as long as those who ensure injustice prevail are in power.
An israeli sniper held his weapon, looked into the target, saw a nurse operating in an operation room, and decided it was a golden opportunity to hunt. And this is your moral army?
🚨A moment captured when a nurse was shot in the chest by an israeli sniper while inside the operating room in hospital !
Read this again & again !
Is there a more heinous crime than this‼️‼️
While we teach the world the justice of our cause, while we defend our truth, while we protect the identity of a stolen land; while we make the most of the little we have; we walk proud and undefeated.
#FreePalestine
#Jerusalem
I lost my grandmother. She was my everything. My storyteller, and my safe place. My connection to the past and to the people I never met. My window to the land I never saw. She was my Palestine. And those who stole Palestine stole my last touch, my last goodbye and my last story.
The israeli occupation killed his fiancée and called her collateral damage. They steal life and light from our eyes, then agree to a fake ceasefire, to go back to load their weapons and prepare for the next round of their death games.
#Gaza_under_attack
This night will be the last night for many Palestinians in Gaza. This night and so many nights could have been prevented, but the occupation's allies chose to support genocide. May your hands always be stained with the blood of those beautiful souls.
Some of us are not writing and talking as much as before. There are many things we can say and many horrors we can share, but for whom and for what? We have done this for 90 days and decades before, and the situation only worsens. Somthing in us is lost forever.
School started today in Gaza with many chairs empty missing the children who were killed in the last israeli aggression. Too many broken souls, and too much sorrow.
“Worst two days of my life. I lived a horror movie. I worked for more than 30 hours away from my family. The bombing continued 24/7. The ambulances weren't able to reach anyone…. We waited for the injured to come in anyway. Some came walking to the hospital while bleeding…”
أسوأ يومين بكل حياتي، عشت فيلم رعب اكثر من ٣٠ ساعة، مداوم بالمستشفى بعيد عن أهلي والقصف ما وقف ٢٤/٧ والاسعاف ما قدر يصل لحد هاد لو قدر يعرف مكان القصف اصلُا، بنضل بس نستنى الجرحى يصلوا بأي طريقة (لدرجة في جرحى وصلوا للمستشفى مشي وهم بينزفوا والله) عشان نعرف وين القصف ونتطمن
'My mother tried to protect my siblings from being arrested in Shujaiya. They took my mother, shot her, put her under the tank and walked on her in front of my siblings’ eyes. They arrested them and left my sister.'
أمي فزعت لأخواتي من الاعتقال في الشجاعية .. مسكوا امي طخوهاا وحطوها تحت الدبابة ومشيت فوقها قدام عيون إخواتي واعتقلوهم وتركوا اختي..
ما قالته نازحة من حي الشجاعية وهي تبكي والدتها.
My friend’s son built a fortress to protect himself. Most children in Gaza spend their nights like this, taking cover with what they have. Along with their hands covering their ears.
#gaza
#GazaUndrrAttack
@AmalShaikhah
For the first time in too long, we are a little happy. Hearing the voices from Gaza and knowing they are alive is such a relief. I know the coming hours will be heavy as we learn about what happened in the last two days. But for now, let's breathe and welcome Gaza back.
A lack of media coverage from Gaza ..
due to the killing more than 12 journalists, the bombing, and the blackout of electricity and the Internet.
However, we are still trying to withstand and continue coverage so the world can see the israili crimes in Gaza.
Palestinians always had to show the world they matter and that they are humans who deserve to live and be protected. But enough with this. The world needs to see the inhumanity of the brutal occupation, and it needs to question the humanity of its allies. Time to turn the tables.
He stood behind the spokesperson of the Ministry of Health in Gaza. Maybe he has children out of Gaza; this is how he tells them he is alive. I wish there were a press conference in every city where our parents, family members and friends could come and show us they are OK.
#Gaza
وقف هذا العم خلف الناطق باسم وزارة الصحة في غزة خلال المؤتمر الصحفي الأول منذ انقطاع الإنترنت على #غزة
هذا العم كآبائنا، ربما له ابن أو ابنة في الخارج، يحاول أن يطمئنهم أنه بخير وعلى قيد الحياة، وهذه حقيقة لا مجازًا هذه آلية التواصل الوحيدة مع الخارج منذ أمس.
We used to go to this place on Thursday to disconnect from the blockade and shop for the weekend. We would walk around thinking about what meal we should cook on Friday and the snacks for a movie night. It used to bring a sense of fake normality amid the chaos of the occupation.
The once-vibrant heart of Gaza city lies in ruins, its central shopping center Carefor reduced to ashes by the Israeli enmities of life. The city grieves for its lost landmark and the lives it once sheltered.
#GazaGenocide
We are losing Gaza, family after family, neighbourhood after neighbourhood, and city after city. Yet the US government thinks the genocide in Gaza doesn’t need a ceasefire because the occupation still has some war crimes to achieve.
An impossible meal to find in the north of Gaza. After searching for 5 days, he found some food for his wife, who gave birth to their baby boy a week ago. The cost of what you see in the picture was 95$.
وأما بنعمة ربك فحدِّث، هذا رزق الله بعد خمس أيام من البحث في محافظة الشمال عن شيء من اللحم لامرأتي التي أنجبت مولودًا، اليوم أسبوع ابني (عليّ)، جعلت هذا الطبق لزوجتي هدية الولادة، لعلك تراها قليلة، ولكن قطع اللحم هذه بـ 70$، وحبات الرز هذه بـ25$، ألا ترى قيمتها تستحق أن تكون
Beyond the Palestinian distress in the West Bank, an Israeli soldier recorded himself slapping a kidnapped, bound, blindfolded Palestinian man, compelling him to sing 'everything is good' in Hebrew for a TikTok video.
Israeli soldiers published a photo of them inside a house of a Palestinian family in Caza city, posing in a children's room.
The fate of the family and the children is unknown.
Amid the madness of our world, my mom plans to plant a pecan tree on our land in Gaza, which is heart-warming to know. She also shared this picture with the hope that spring would finally visit Gaza.
A child in Rafah lost all his family members. He was sleeping under a truck, saying that this way, the truck would hit him, and he could join his family. He later died because of sleeping in the cold weather.
He is now with his family.
#Gaza
#Rafah
North go south, and east go west, and no matter where you go, there is targeting, death and killing. The occupation war machine is everywhere, and the intention is one: committing genocide.
People are now evacuating from the eastern areas to Khan Yunis. Is this a new catastrophe "Nakba"? Where the people should go?
Ceasefire must be implemented immediately, and civilians should be protected.
#GazaGenocide
Growing up in Gaza in the 80s and 90s we rarely experienced the joy of playgrounds because we rarely had them. We mostly had the streets to play in when there was no curfew. It is not much different now as the occupation destroyed everything, including the playgrounds and swings.
In one minute, you are standing, telling the world what is happening. The second, the news talks about you. The third, the world moves on, it always does.
The last picture of journalist Ismail Al-Ghoul, taken minutes before his car was directly targeted by an Israeli attack after finishing his report in front of the late Ismail Haniyeh’s house.
1948, my great uncle tried to go back homes and collect some of the food that was stored. israeli forces were there. He hid somewhere, and then looked up to see if the israelis were gone; he got a bullet in his head and died immediately. They never tried to go back again.
I have been living out of Gaza for over a year and still can't wrap my head around the fact that I can take my bag and go to the airport—no more travelling to another country to use its airport and no more three-layer permit to leave. Travelling freely and with dignity is a right
“We are looking for corn flour for a child with a wheat allergy.”
Under the daily struggle to stay alive in Gaza lays challenges that get lost behind the loud sounds of tanks and airstrikes.
Can you imagine how Palestinians in Gaza feel as they watch the world vote for or against a much-delayed ceasefire while being killed by the israeli occupation?
Palestinians in Gaza are running out of time, and we are running out of words. What more can be said, and how many more horrors would be allowed before seeing any action to stop this?
More boxes of
@USAID
food aid are now headed to Egypt before moving on to Gaza.
Access to humanitarian aid is critical for civilians and I'm committed to working with our partners to increase the supply of food, water, and medicine, without diversion by Hamas.
I wonder if the person who lived in this room is still alive and if they have seen this photo. How would they feel seeing those soldiers violating their lives? A room that looks lively and filled with memories becomes a ground for the shoes of those who keep stealing our land.
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This is a story about actions that defy humanity —acts that blatantly cross the line into outright cruelty
This exclusive thread reveals incidents reported for 1st time showing Israeli soldiers in Gaza & West Bank. From wishing Gazans to b*rn alive, brazen theft & etc.
I heard a voice note circulated from Gaza about more massacres in Gaza City and the north. 100s of killed bodies are everywhere, and no help is reaching anyone. There are around 800k still there. The occupation is killing civilians under the communication and internet blackout.
I am Ahmed from Gaza. I miraculously have Internet. Maybe this is my last tweet…We cannot communicate with our families…and we do not know what happened to them! We do not know where the bombing was, who is alive, who was martyred…Just remember you left Gaza alone, very alone
انا احمد من غزة شابك انترنت بمعجزة، يمكن هادي اخر تويتات بكتبها، كل الانترنت والاتصالات مقطوعة بغزة..مش قادرين نتواصل مع أهالينا ولا حد ولا بنعرف شو صار فيهم!
ما بنعرف وين القصف ولا مين عايش ومين استشهد ولا أي أخبار عن شو بصير!!
بس ضلكم زاكرين أنه تركتوا غزة لحالها..لحالها جداً
صديقي كرم ترك زوجته وأطفاله الخمسة في المنزل وذهب لشراء بعض الحاجيات لهم من أقرب دكان للبيت وأثناء عودته كان يهاتف زوجته وطفلته ويخبرهم أنه أحضر لهم كل ماطلبوه وفي لحظة وأمام ناظريه سقطت الصواريخ على المنزل وقطع الإتصال وفقد عائلته الصغيرة كلها للأبد..
This picture breaks my heart beyond any words. The one thing we turned to when we were suffocating from the occupation and the blockade was the beach and the promise of freedom waving at us from the far blue horizon.
They are hitting an electricity generator of a hospital struggling to provide life-saving services and host displaced people. In addition to the massacres, they are destroying any resources the rest are dependent on. Anything that enables Palestinians to live is also a target.
Ceasefire in a couple of hours if the agreement holds. This is not an achievement, it was along delayed needed action that caused innocent lives to be lost. Palestinians in
#Gaza
will stop holding their breath, only to go back to the broken half a lung we were breathing through.
I am holding to the idea that my family is still alive; I don't want to think about what can happen. I am paralysed by fear and pretending they are not even in Gaza, but in a parallel reality where the sky of Gaza doesn't rain missiles. And I feel guilty for thinking this way.
Never be surprised when you hear Palestinians in Gaza say those who were killed are the ones who rested and were set free because we know how ugly this occupation is and how unfair this world.
Press sources: One of the abductees, who were released today by the Israelis, became unable to speak because of the severe torture to which he was subjected for weeks.
Big, violent airstrikes in our area. We are moving to sit in one room,, this night is not going to be easy, just like every night.
#gaza
#GazaUnderAttack
“Hours before the internet and communication blackout, this might be our last words. Don't get used to the bombing and genocide. Don't lose our voice; Gaza's voice. Every moment, there is a martyr and every moment, there is genocide. Pray for us.”
ساعات قبل فصل الانترنت والاتصالات.. قد تكون هذه كلماتنا الأخيرة. لا تنسونا، لا تعتادوا القصف والمجزرة، ولا تغيّبوا صوتنا.. صوت #غزة.. في كل لحظة هناك شهيد وفي كل لحظة مجزرة. وادعولنا.
I just saw a picture of three of my friends in Gaza for the first time since october. They looked tired, had lost lots of weight, and their hair is turning gray, yet they were smiling.
F** the occupation and its allies a thousand times.
I watch TV with my 85 years old Palestinian refugee grandmother every night. When she sees people on screen she asks:”they are not living in war, right?” When I tell her ‘no war’ she feels happy for them. She measures wellbeing by lack of wars, as it was all she lived through.
Over and over, Palestinians in Gaza are calling through social media for food, water and medication, especially in North Gaza. People are starving and looking for food inside the destroyed houses. If an airstrike doesn't kill them, hunger and thirst will.
لأيّ قادر في شمال غزّة.
بدأ التجويع وستزداد هذا الأسبوع هذا النوع من الرسائل. المخازن فرغت من المواد الغذائية والناس بدأىا يبحثون عن الطعام في المنازل المهجورة وبين الركام.
تباً لهذا العالم.
Ok people, please tell us to ‘Stay Sane’ instead of ‘Stay Safe’. We can achieve none of the two, but the first sounds less weird considering this madness.
#Gaza
#GazaUnderAttack
This one says: " This elderly man from the Hajji family was killed by an Israeli sniper during his displacement journey. The occupation photographed him before killing him and promoted that its soldiers were helping him...."
هذا المسن من عائلة حجّي، قتله قناص إسرائيلي خلال رحلة النزوح، وقد صوّره الاحتلال قبل قتله وروّج أن جنوده يساعدون الفلسطينيين، ساعدوه، صوّروه، وقتلوه. #غزة
Palestinians are among the most resilient people in the world. We find strength in the darkest time. But for decades, our resilience was abused by ignoring the root causes that forced us to be resilient to the survival point.
We draw lessons in resilience from
#Gaza
, where the supply of cooking gas has been entirely severed. Families in the refugee camp have reverted to baking bread over fires
We are devastated to learn about the death of Chevening Alumnus Dr Maisara Al Rayyes and members of his family. We send our deepest condolences to his surviving family. Our thoughts, and the thoughts of the Chevening Alumni community are with you.
So you are telling me in 2023, israel disconnected more than 2 million Palestinians from the world, bombed them, killed thousands, including children, destroyed their houses and hospitals, prevented food, water, and medicine, all while world leaders funded and approved it? Yes.
Desperate and barefoot, he walked 12 kilometres looking for flour. He found nothing and was lost. His eyes tell you the story of the lost morals and injustice of our world.
Tell them enough... Airstrikes didn’t stop from 11pm to 7am...The house is destroyed on us, my sister is pregnant and a rock hit her belly. At 7am we ran to the street...I can’t imagine or handle continuing like this. This is the 7th place I have gone to..there are no places left
It is the morning after and I still don't feel a sense of relief. I know on Sunday we are going back to see the destruction again, to rebuild again and mourn again. We never had a ‘normal’ to go back to, and even that was taking away.
#Gaza