Laila El-Haddad
@gazamom
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Journalist, author, public speaker, foodie and mom. I wear many hijabs. Order The Gaza Kitchen now @ .
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Many of the women we interviewed have now been killed. But their stories and legacies live on through the book. Everything and everyone is under attack now-our heritage, our farmland, our people.
Food is at the heart of Palestinian culture — Laila El-Haddad, author of the award-winning cookbook ‘The Gaza Kitchen,’ shares how it helps maintain humanity while under Israeli occupation
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“This may be my last video.” And it was.
#CeasefireForGazaNOW
Listen to Palestinian journalist Ayat Al Khadour final words before she was killed by Israeli bombardment earlier today. She knew the world is failing her urgent plea for
#CeasfireNOW
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“They stripped us naked …they beat us..and we don’t know what they did with the women”
A horrific testimony of a child who was arrested by “the most moral” army along with others after besieging them inside their homes in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood in Gaza.
#GazaGenocide
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Rafah doesn’t need our eyes. It needs our voices and our hands. MOBILIZE. ORGANIZE. ADVOCATE. MOVE.
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His parents were executed in front of his eyes-while carrying a white flag.
“When my mother was shot, my younger brother fell from her arms."
A young Palestinian boy recalls how his parents were shot and killed in front of him, during an Israeli forces raid on their home in Gaza ⤵️
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He was a master baby whisperer, and a master storyteller, having rocked my 7 month old to sleep in the middle of shooting our episode of
@PartsUnknownCNN
in
#Gaza
. RIP
@Bourdain
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It is with a heavy heart that I share that little Noor returned to her maker last night and left this cruel world.
“To those whose cherubic hearts could not handle the blow, you too were killed.” -Fady Joudeh
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Lost in the news shuffle: Israel bombed Gaza’s last operational flour mill yesterday, in line with its current starvation policy and consistent with 15 years of systematically targeting Gaza’s productive sectors. Let that sink in.
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“According to one whistleblower, the detention centre has quickly gained a reputation for being “a paradise for interns. There, they are allowed to use Palestinians as little more than lab rats and encouraged to carry out medical procedures they are not qualified to perform.”
A handful of Israeli whistleblowers have revealed that Palestinians are incarcerated for weeks on end in Israel's secretive prison Sde Teiman as they are tortured – both through formal interrogations and through the conditions they are held in.
They are forced to sit blindfolded
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I struggle to breathe
Under the weight
Of 10,000 children in Gaza
Birds of heaven
Murdered,
their deaths move no one
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Terrifying footage captured by Aljazeera’s cameraman in Jabaliya tonight -where IOF pounded the camp with over 100 bombs as quadcopters fired at civilians taking shelter in nearby schools. Safety is an illusion. Humanitarian zones a deception.
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Truly have never heard of a situation before where expressing joy for newfound freedom is punishable with renewed incarceration by the state
IDF special forces have stormed the home of freed Palestinian prisoner Israa Jaabis ahead of her return to remove family members, including her parents,& enforce orders banning all signs of joy&celebration.This is the reality of life under Israel’s oppressive military occupation.
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NBC: “Would you say Israel is on a track for a strategic victory in Gaza?”
Gallant: “uhhhhh…”
Austin: “Want me to go first?”
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What a historic and powerful day! Here was my immediate reaction after leaving the federal district court in which we sued Biden, Blinken and Austin for complicity in genocide.
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We will Return. We will Rebuild. We will Remain. InShaAllah.
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Israel has a history of sexually assaulting & violating Palestinian men & women. Back in the first intifada, as children, we were routinely stripped to our underwear, and my mother made to take off hers, including menstrual pads, as we entered the borders.
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My family had to move 4 times in and outside of Gaza City after Israel destroyed their house and they ran out of water . They are now being carpet bombed in Rafah-the very area they were told was safe. When will this end?
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Historic! In our lawsuit against Biden & co., the Federal Court found that Israel (with US help) “intends to eradicate an entire people”. The pressure continues to build. We will not stop fighting. Onwards. ✊🏼
In the historic lawsuit brought by Palestinians against Biden, a U.S. federal court finds that Israel’s assault & siege on Gaza plausibly constitutes genocide and “implores” Biden admin to examine its unwavering support of Israel, determining it lacks power to resolve the case.
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Israel just killed 5 municipal workers in Gaza in a targeted attack, while they were fixing the City’s water wells. This genocide is about making Gaza unlivable, and eradicating everything that sustains life there
بيان صحفي صادر عن #بلدية_غزة
الاحتلال يقتل 5 من طواقم الطوارئ في بلدية غزة العاملين في تشغيل آبار المياه.
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On the heels of the ICJ ruling, we are on our way to US federal court to hold the US government accountable. We are proud and hopeful and here for our families who are being genocided with UD complicity!
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@rachaelray
Funny because my Palestinian and Syrian great grandparents were making these dishes way before
#Israel
was even founded ...🤔
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Before Israel murdered him,
@itranslate123
sent me this picture of his arm & asked me to start a social media campaign based on the child found clutching a piece of bread in Gaza before Israel killed her. Raise your fist and post. I’ll start.
#LetItBringHope
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400, 000 strong out in Washington today to force an immediate ceasefire, an end to arming Israel, and a free Palestine. Be the change ✊🏼
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We live in an upside down world where victims are considered aggressors and genocide is considered self defense. Don’t normalize it. Ever. Reject and resist.
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Notice how western leaders say a ceasefire pause is important ONLY to free Israeli hostages and get aid to Gaza? Palestinian lives, freedom, and rights simply don’t matter to them. And that right there is the problem.
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“We are killed just for wanting a morsel of food “
🚨Israeli troops fired several tank shells at starving Gazans awaiting food aid, slaughtering 20 civilians & wounding over 150
This has been happening every single day where the IDF ambushes & shoots the very people they starve to near death as soon as they approach aid trucks
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I interviewed elders in Gaza who told me that during the Nakba, they foraged for purslane to survive as they hid behind orange trees from Znst terrorists. Now, they forage for mallow and wild sorrel. The Israeli weaponization of food continues.
Palestinians are being forced to eat weeds and leaves to stay alive in Gaza. The UN says Gaza is on the brink of famine and millions are at risk of starving.
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RIP, Tony
@Bourdain
. You did what many, what most, in the media failed to do: listen, and dare tell the real, human stories of Palestinians.
#Bourdain
#Palestine
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We’ve been saying this from day 1. When will the world wake up?
An Israeli news outlets reports Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a group of Israeli lawmakers on Monday, “Regarding voluntary immigration… This is the direction we are going in.” Palestinian leaders denounced Netanyahu for embracing what they describe as ethnic cleansing.
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Resolve to stay resolute. Keep saying keep praying keep doing keep writing keep posting keep advocating. For Gaza. For Palestine. For Humanity.
#PermanentCeasefireForGazaNOW
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@itranslate123
Refaat invited me to speak to his English Literature class at the Islamic University in Gaza in 2019. “Teach us how to tell our stories” his students asked. Refaat promised me he could have me back at the university again one day soon 😢
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The Earth is closing in on us
pushing us through the last passage
and we tear off our limbs to pass through.
The Earth is squeezing us…
We will die here, here in the last passage. Here and here our blood will plant its olive tree
-Mahmoud Darwish
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So they have…*gasp*…embedded themselves in a civilian area ? No!!
The Israeli Ministry of Defense is located in the middle of civilian areas and surrounded by at least 15 schools.
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My Palestinian refugee husband came here 20 years ago w/ nothing. Today he saves people's eyes at Johns Hopkins.
#RefugeesWelcome
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Pretty sure Jesus would not approve. As seen today in Howard County, MD during a council ceasefire resolution hearing.
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Recovered diary entries of 11 year old Sella, murdered by Israel in the Maghazi Refugee Camp 💔
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Israel assassinated Fayek Abdul Raouf Al-Mabhouh in Shifa today. He was Director of Police Operations responsible for coordinating and securing the aid trucks
It was a very dirty plan from the start...
A few days ago Biden approved the intervention of Palestinian Police to secure the aid trucks coming from the South to North Gaza and things went fine
Two days ago the aid trucks reached North Gaza with no problem for the first time in
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Israel’s “block bingo”, Gaza edition. If your unlucky number is called, you’re out! But there’s a grisly twist:there are no winners! Safety is an illusion! You’ll ultimately be killed, starved or driven out after being herded like sheep to the slaughter
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Some hope and light amidst the darkness
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My eldest cousin, a prominent lawyer, spent 20 years of his life building his family’s home. Israel destroyed it in a few seconds. His son miraculously survived-the neighbors did not. “We will not take our worldly possessions to the afterlife” he told me, always grateful.
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Just found out that my dear friend
@itranslate123
, co-editor, brilliant mind, professor of English, and mentor to so many young Gazans, was killed in Gaza City by Israel along with his sister, brother and 4 nieces. In Nov 1, he shared this poem…😭
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Remind you of anything you’ve seen recently?
Julian Assange’s fate is reportedly being decided tomorrow. A UK court will decide whether he will be extradited to the USA. A reminder why the US want to jail him for 175 years:
Among the many Wikileaks revelations was the Collateral Murder footage from Iraq, in which a US
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Our fight continues in our ongoing historic fight against
@POTUS
,
@SecBlinken
for their complicity in Genocide. Let this moment be a testament to our collective resolve. With
@Monadel
@AhmedAbofoul
@BasimElkarra
@Sawafeery
@alhaq_org
. Onwards !
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This was one of the most difficult pieces I have written. But also, strangely cathartic. الله يرحمك يا خالتي ام هاني
For cookbook author Laila El-Haddad, sumagiyya, the Gazan stew that was a specialty of her late aunt, has taken on new meaning.
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Absolutely harrowing “Israeli soldiers subjected Palestinian detainees to electric shocks, burned their skin with lighters, spat in their mouths, and deprived them of sleep, food, and access to bathrooms until they defecated on themselves.”
Inside Israel's torture camp for Gaza detainees
Palestinians arrested in northern Gaza describe how Israeli soldiers systematically abused civilians and combatants alike, from severe deprivation to brutal physical violence. By
@yuval_abraham
@mekomit
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Just yesterday I rewatched a clip of
@itranslate123
and wept and grieved all over again. He had just become a jiddo. May Shaimaa and Refaat be reunited in Jannah.
Israel today assassinated the eldest daughter of our Professor Refaat Al-Areer (
@itranslate123
), Al-Shaimaa, along with her husband and newborn baby. I am out of words, tears, and ways to comprehend this endless loss, this pain, this criminal annihilation of our people.
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I cannot describe how it feels to watch building after building in your hometown tumble like keva planks. This iconic tower was exactly 5 blocks from our apartment and one I frequented often.
#Gaza_Under_Attack
Israel hates the truth. The world watches as Israeli occupation destroys Gaza's most important media tower that houses Al Jazeera and AP and other media officee.
Israel wants a blind world. Israel wants more massacres.
#GazaUnderAttack
#GenociedinGaza
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My cousin in Gaza City sent me an urgent message last night telling me that Israeli forces had surrounded their bldg near Al-Nasr Complex in Gaza City, went home by home, stripped the men, then forced all of the families to leave and walk by foot on the coastal rd to the south.
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Study this map again and again and again. Gaza is and continues to be the most surveilled and closed off place on earth, now with a fast paced starvation policy intended to choke the entire population to death or submission .
In
#Gaza
:
📍 Nearly impossible to collect aid from Kerem Shalom crossing.
📍 Less than half of 115 planned humanitarian missions to the north facilitated in June, over 1/3 impeded and nearly 10% denied.
Ensuring unhindered access and a sustained flow of supplies is imperative.
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“At some point—whatever the justification—you’re either advancing a policy that enables the mass starvation of children, or you’re not.”
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Gaza is BEING starved by Israel-by design, not by accident…just as Dov Weissglas years ago perversely mused that the blockade was intended to “put Gaza on a diet”
Who is starving Gaza?
In this entire interview, neither Chotiner or Husain mention Israel - responsible for the starvation of Palestinians in Gaza - even once.
Here’s how you obsfuscate a war crime.
🧵
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This would not be the first time the IoF went on a killing spree in Jabaliya and Rafah. In the 1970s, Ariel Sharon razed large swathes of the camps and ordered the summary execution of over 1000 Palestinians to attempt and pacify the PFLP resistance there
هذا ما تم العثور عليه بعدما انسحب جيش الاحتلال من شمال غزة
30 شهيد ما بين اطفال ونساء
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Remember their names and faces.
شهداؤنا ليسوا أرقاماً
فلكل شهيد اسم وحلم وعائلة وأحباب
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Chilling. Mercy upon you
@itranslate123
.
Harvard University students gathered for an event to recite the poem of the martyr Refaat Al-Areer, titled "If Imust Die."
@itranslate123
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Most days I want to scream..but for the sake of these innocent children we must press on and hold the systems and individuals that allowed this to happen accountable
🚨Upon his return from Gaza, the president of the World Surgical Foundation says "Genocide was the overwhelming impression that I got"
He adds "The world's best marksmen are not gonna shoot a kid in the head twice & in the abdomen"
Very harrowing details
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“I’m witnessing chronic, insidious genocide”. Said two decades ago. Rest in Power Rachel.
"I think it is a good idea for us all to drop everything and devote our lives to making this stop"
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I love this. Honoring the tradition of Eid and celebrating in spite of genocide intended to eradicate life is the epitome of resistance
Palestinian women make traditional Eid Ka'ek (date cookies) on the rubble of their homes in Khan-Younis, Southern Gaza
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My family in Gaza faces starvation. How do I find solace this Ramadan? My op-ed for the LA Times.
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How is anyone still referring to this as anything other than a genocide ?
I used to see him carrying water fir his family.. He was KILLED on Thursday..
Just a week ago, his two little brothers were KILLED in
#Israeli_drone_attack
while carrying water bottles and jars!
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🔥🔥🔥🔥
“In my nearly forty years as a faculty member, I have never seen such brazen cruelty toward students and faculty, such cowardice before what amounts to a right-wing witch hunt, and such blatant dishonesty.”
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Spent the day delivering binders I helped put together about the impact of the war on Gaza to 15 democratic senators. Here we are speaking with Montana Senator
@jontester
staffers who were eager to listen and learn.
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This is what happens when dehumanizing disinformation is deliberately spread at the highest levels of power. One of these young men was my friend’s nephew. Absolutely heartbreaking and completely preventable. We hold you responsible
@POTUS
.
Hisham Awartani is a Palestinian American junior at Brown University, described as a math genius. He was shot by a white man yesterday in Vermont along with his friends Kinnan Abdalhamid and Tahseen Ahmed. The 3 students were wearing kuffiyehs.
There are fears Hisham may not walk
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Omg this made my day 🤣
I love you my Puerto Rican brothers and sisters ✊🏼
Kamala Harris mindlessly dances to song protesting her visit to US colony of Puerto Rico, stops clapping once her aide translates it.
🎵 "We want to know, Kamala, what did you come here for? We want to know what you think of the colony."
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We just met with one of 15 Democratic senators who insisted their coalition could keep pushing for amendments, and that Biden would not bypass congress for weapons sales. So much for that! Now when will these spineless representatives call for a ceasefire?
Can Blinken bypass Congress for healthcare for Americans? Of course not. But more bombs for Israel!
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The crimes continue unabated, as documented by the perpetrators to themselves
Burning mosques |
Israeli soldiers posing inside of a mosque they sat on fire in Gaza city.
Obtained from a private account of an Israeli soldier.
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Nonstop carpet bombing in and around Jabaliya in Northern Gaza tonight.
@AnasAlSharif0
counted 70 so far. IOF bombed his house for the second time tonight.
#عاجل سلسلة غارات في محيط مراكز الايواء وسط مخيم جباليا شمال قطاع غزة
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I’ve said it before and will say it again. Israel’s end game here mass expulsion to Sinai.
UN Special Rapporteur
@PaulaGaviriaB
warns Israel will deport Palestinians from Gaza en masse. I fear she is right & that Israel may take advantage of next week's holiday lull to ethnically cleanse 2.3 million Palestinians into the Egyptian desert and kill those who refuse to go.
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Intent to genocide. Loud and clear.
Zionists: The Nakba Never Happened!!! Also, We're doing it again!!!
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The literal weaponization of food
Breaking: Breaking: A new
#FlourMassacre
as the Israeli army targets hungry civilians in northern Gaza. Israeli tanks open fire and shelling on citizens waiting for food at the Kuwait roundabout.
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We teach love. We teach life. We teach dignity. Featuring
@solbandgaza
whose lead singer’s heirloom guitar got stolen by Zionist soldiers.
On the ruins of Gaza, Palestinians sing: Gaza our homeland is the land of dignity. If Israelis want to forcefully displace Gazans and expel them, they need to wake up from their pipe dream. Palestinians are determined to remain on their homeland. Even on its ruins.
على أنقاض غزة
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Meanwhile, in Hebron…
Happening now: Israeli settlers stole my metal water tanks , I usually save water in the tanks in order to use it later because we have shortage of water , Israeli government steals our water , and Israeli settlers steal our water tanks .
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Aiding and abetting genocide should never be a matter of policy. My latest for
@thenation
on our case against Biden and Co.
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Israel Occupation Forces shoot at Palestinians attempting to return to their homes in the north of Gaza from the south.
خلال محاولتهم العودة إلى شمال غزة، قوات الاحتلال الإسرائيلي تستهدف النازحين بالقرب من شارع الرشيد وسط قطاع غزة
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Israel's destroying power plant was meant to silence eyewitnesses: Most people not tweeting in Gaza bc electricity is out
#GazaUnderAttack
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This 👇🏼
No one taught us how to mourn an entire city, with all its memories , homes, streets, and people.
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All that remains of my eldest cousin’s home in Gaza City after IoF struck it last night. 3 of the neighbors were martyred. Thankfully my cousin was elsewhere-but the status of his son and family, who were in the house, is unknown.
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What perverse and morally vacuous logic is it that blames this child for her own death?
#Israel
#Gaza
#Shejaiya
http://t.co/EZyQernwtC”
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Happening now in
#Rafah
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