Hanna Alshaikh - هناء الشيخ
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PhD candidate in History + Middle Eastern Studies @Harvard | DC-based writer + analyst | Project Coordinator @ArabCenterWDC
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I ended with a warning on universal implications--and a reminder in the form of a quote from a rare but important book:
"There is no solution to the Palestinian cause except for the return of refugees to Palestine and the return of Palestine to them" - Fayez Sayegh (1959)
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Not a single phone in Gaza can be reached right now. Israel completely cut off all communications to Gaza. No internet, no landlines. This is a total blackout. Every person you know from Gaza has completely lost contact with their loved ones.
We know what comes next.
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A child risks his life to save a NICU baby. Babies saving babies.
This footage, during which doctors and refugees transferred NICU babies, some injured, from one part of Al-Shifa to another to save their lives, while the army of a nuclear power, supported by Western powers, attacks a hospital, shows the true face of Zionism, Israel, and their
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Israel executed a four year old.
Israel executed 13 children between the ages of 4-16.
Israel shot 13 children as it besieged a hospital.
Israel intentionally targeted 13 children in the span of one week.
Israel continues to besiege Al-Shifa and will kill more children.
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On this day 54 years ago, my family was ethnically cleansed from our village, Yalu. Israel violently erased us from our land, but never replaced us with settlers. It figures prominently in Israeli greenwashing campaigns. Our only crime was being in Israel's way. This is our story
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In accordance with international law, Yemen took action to stop a genocide by blockading ships to Israel.
In violation of international law, Israel imposed a naval blockade on Gaza for 17 years.
In retaliation for their moral courage, the US and UK are bombing Yemen
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Israel vs. humanitarian aid. The Biden administration knows exactly who was responsible for the massacre in Gaza today, they told us before it even happened. A thread:
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Here is a play-by-play of just a small part of what
@CNN
has shamelessly called a "chaotic incident" in northern Gaza today:
-Aid arrives in the distance
-Israel begins shooting at the masses they've starved
-People run and duck
-A man asks the videographer "what are you even
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The Turkish Friendship Hospital in Gaza ran out of fuel today due to the Israeli aggression. As a result, 4 cancer patients died. It was the only hospital specializing in the treatment of cancer.
We truly don’t know the scale of Palestinians left to die because they couldn’t
وزارة الصحة: 4 من مرضى السرطان فقدوا حياتهم اليوم جراء توقف مستشفى الصداقة التركي، الوحيد المخصص لعلاج مرضى السرطان في قطاع غزة، بسبب أزمة نفاد الوقود.
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Let this go down in history. So-called "progressives" attending this
@HRC
dinner laughed at and mocked the words: "let Gaza live" and "ceasefire now."
A group called human. rights. campaign.
BREAKING: Biden was just interrupted by a Jewish activist at the
@hrc
dinner. "Let Gaza live" and "Ceasefire now." Biden couldn't make out what she was saying but that's what I'm being told she said.
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Rafah, where 1.5 million Palestinians are sheltering, is the next target for a mass-scale Israeli assault. This time around, the US is citing concerns about an unprecedented death toll and possible Palestinian displacement. There's more beneath the surface. A thread:
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Israel massacred Palestinians sleeping in their tents at the Mawasi refugee camp in Khan Yunis. Rescue operations are ongoing, with at least 65 dead or injured.
And no, it’s not Israel’s first tent massacre.
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About 500 trucks entered Gaza *daily* to meet basic needs before October 7. That wasn’t even enough then.
Gaza’s entire hospital system is on the verge of collapse. No food, no fuel, no clean water. A total of 216 trucks in 24 days is nothing but a cruel joke.
59 aid trucks entered Gaza through Rafah crossing today. The total of trucks that entered the Gaza Strip so far is 216.
216 aid trucks for 2.3 million people.
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Israel bombed four hospitals in just over 24 hours
BREAKING: Israel bombed the entrance of the Al-Nasser Children’s Hospital in Gaza this morning, just one day after it bombed a convoy of ambulances at the entrance of Gaza’s Al-Shifa Hospital and areas surrounding Al-Quds Hospital and Indonesian Hospital.
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We can’t reach our families. Please bear witness to this massacre. CALL your reps to demand a ceasefire:
And then march, organize, and hit the streets! We need your voice. Our families are counting on you.
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Evacuation area of the Gaza Strip, home to 1.1 million Palestinians ordered to flee south. This is a show designed to mask blatant ethnic cleansing:
1. Israel killed over 64 Palestinians in Khan Younis today alone, and never halted attacks on the south
2. Israel has repeatedly
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My piece for
@Vox
on the erasure of the plight of Palestinian refugees and Omar’s consistent progressive stances
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As someone who has tried to help get scholarships for loved ones in Gaza, and generally wants Palestinians from Gaza to have access to opportunities at US universities, I have some thoughts and questions for organizers to consider as they shape their political demands. A thread:
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Canada Park is one of many examples of Israeli greenwashing, where it claims be environmentalist in order to obscure the settler-colonial violence its military used to empty Palestinian land, planting foreign trees in the place of razed Palestinian homes
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At this point, human language fails to capture the scale of Gaza’s annihilation. What sufficiently captures the images we find on our screens, those images of Gaza’s living nightmare? Like scrolling and finding a flyer with instructions for adults on what to do when they find an
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"A movement that offers its commanders and founders as martyrs for the dignity of our people and for the dignity of our nation will never be defeated, God willing. Quite the contrary, all these assassinations and all these tactics will make us stronger and more determined than
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What happened to my family in 1967 might be happening to my in-laws in Gaza now. The Israeli tanks that ordered residents of our village, Yalu, to leave for permanent exile are now closing in on my husband’s family 57 years later. New generation, same logic of elimination
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283 bodies were found in a mass grave at Nasser Hospital today. Don't let the theatrics of a few entitled brats on college campuses distract from this--stay focused on what matters. Defend the courageous students, and join them in keeping the focus on Israel's genocide of Gaza
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The southern part of the Gaza Strip. The part that 1.1 million northern Gaza residents were ordered to evacuate to for their “safety”
Israel has intensified attacks near UN shelters:
This massive attack took place close to UN run school shelter in Khan Yunis, SOUTH OF Gaza Strip.
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I wrote a piece for
@thenation
on what the swearing in of
@RashidaTlaib
and
#TweetYourThobe
means for Palestinian Americans, who have been fighting for a voice in Washington and against repression for decades.
Thanks to Rashida Tlaib, Palestinians Finally Have a Voice in Washington
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On Gaza’s “miscarriage nightmare.” A doctor at the Kuwaiti Field Hospital reports that he sees 5-10 cases daily due to a lack of food and safety, as well trauma, grief, and fear. Displacement has been linked to many miscarriages. Further, miscarriages sometimes cause expectant
تغطية صحفية: "كابوس الإجهاض" يلاحق عشرات آلاف النساء الحوامل في قطاع غزة مع استمرار الحرب والقصف والرعب.. لتفاصيلٍ أوفى:
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Director of Al-Shifa Hospital vows that they will not abandon patients amidst Israeli incursion, “regardless of the cost”. Keeping the promise that Palestinian doctors made in mid-October: patients will not die due to abandonment. If Israel kills patients, we will die with them
#عاجل | مدير مجمع الشفاء الطبي للعربي: لن نترك المستشفى ولن نتخلى عن المرضى مهما كان الثمن
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During the 1948 Nakba, Zionist militias that later formed the Israeli army tried to conquer the Latrun villages (Yalu, Imwas, Bayt Nuba). Local resistance overpowered the Zionists' superior weaponry. My grandfather, an 18 year old orphan, was among those who defended our land.
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We need two things from you:
1. Call your elected officials NOW and demand a ceasefire. Call every hour. Ask 10 friends to ask 10 friends.
2. Attend every protest in your city until this is over
Check on us when this is over. Now we need action.
This isn’t a check on your Palestinian friends moment. This is a “I got your back” moment. We need our community in the US & all allied forces to loudly condemn & push to end this genocide. It’s already gone on too long.
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Saturday: Israel has attacked humanitarian convoys for weeks, including civilians waiting for aid and Gaza police guarding aid trucks. It has become such a problem that Biden asks Israel to stop shooting at the crowds, as well as the police forces guarding the trucks
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Israel has no right to force evacuation from, attack, or destroy the Gaza European Hospital.
It attacked Al-Shifa. Nasser Hospital. Al-Ahli Baptist. The Kuwait, Indonesian, and Turkish-Palestinian Hospitals. The list goes on.
Stop Israel's war on hospitals. Arms embargo now.
‼️Please this is EXTREMELY URGENT‼️
The European Gaza Hospital, the last standing hospital in Gaza has received orders to evacuate.
Please,
Call your representatives now, demand that they put pressure on the Israeli government to stop this invasion of the European Hospital.
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I was raised to know and love this land as if I had lived in Yalu myself. We are four generations living in exile. We plan to return together. Our elders did everything they could to spare us from the pain of dispossession, and we must honor their sacrifice by ending the Nakba
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A Yalu elder was blind, and was crushed to death under the rubble of his own home in the 1967 conquest. He was unable to flee in time. I think of Israel's "warnings" to Palestinians of Gaza before they bomb their homes, giving them nowhere to seek shelter, when I think of him.
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Israel assassinated Dr. Ayman Rafati, his wife and children. He often appeared on Al Jazeera to provide analysis as bombs fell around him. Today, Al Jazeera showed his brothers and neighbors searching for his body under the rubble with their bare hands.
This is scholasticide.
الاحتلال يغتال الكاتب الصحفي الفلسطيني د. أيمن الرفاتي
@aymanrafati
في غارة جوية على منزله في شارع الجلاء شمال مدينة #غزة
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Months. Months of your life go by, not knowing whether your family is living or dead. To this day, some members of my extended family still live in refugee camps. Any negotiated "peace" that excludes them is what Kanafani called a "conversation between the sword and the neck"
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As Israel's Defense Minister in 1967, Moshe Dayan returned to Yalu, Imwas and Bayt Nuba with a personal vengeance due to the humiliating defeat that local resistance handed his battalion in 1948. He ordered the villages razed and its residents emptied
From Tom Segev's "1967":
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Evacuation orders for the only hospital serving Gaza’s middle area, in the last standing city. Deir al-Balah was once home to 80,000 people. Now there are 1 million Palestinians sheltering there.
“I will not leave the hospital”
This is the last photo from ICU in Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital. We have been forced to evacuate hospital, there will be no doctor or nurse, and patients will be left to inevitably.
Please any one can see this post do any thing to stop this genocide
I will not leave the hospital
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The villages of Yalu, Imwas and Bayt Nuba became "Canada Park," established by the Canadian Jewish National Fund. The US JNF has tax-exempt status while it attacks the grassroots justice movement that children of exile like myself helped grow
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“I paid for Israel to kill my cousins and my aunt. There’s no two ways around it. It was my tax dollars that did that, that sent those bombs to Israel to kill my family"
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I wrote more about these attempts at forcing Palestinian capitulation, of Yalu, and the impossibility of any "solution" imposed upon Palestinians that does not plan for the return of refugees:
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We carry immense pain, just like the other 300,000 refugees of 1967, the 1948 Nakba refugees, and that of the people of Silwan and Sheikh Jarrah fighting settler-colonial erasure today. Their resistance today speaks to our stubborn refusal to abandon our liberation struggle
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Members of our extended family were missing for months. The people of Latrun were forced to move by foot towards either Ramallah or Jordan. My family ended up in Jordan. Each night, my grandfather would drive from refugee camp to refugee camp looking for his brother's family.
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Pieces of the homes remain. I love my great uncle. He doesn't say much, is quite stoic, has an acerbic wit. He's delivered some of the funniest one-liners I've ever heard. He wept when he recognized tile from his destroyed childhood home, visiting Yalu ~40 years after our Nakba
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Wednesday: Did Israel accede to its sponsor's request? Of course not. It's reported that Gaza police stop guarding humanitarian aid convoys. What does the US do in response?
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Everyone saw this coming, even Biden. The airdrop scheme was a way to evade blame for enabling Israel. It's an unserious plan and Israel sabotaged it anyways by committing a massacre and blaming the victims. That's how Israel justifies starving northern Gaza
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Reportedly, Israel didn’t expect such a large-scale Iranian response. It’s the essence of Israel’s provocative, expansionist, irrational behavior in the region:
▫️Attack
▫️Feign shock at defensive responses
▫️Escalate further
▫️Sabotage efforts to de-escalate
▫️Repeat
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However, Michigan voters showed us on Tuesday that these empty gestures will not absolve Biden for participating in Israel's genocide in Gaza. In only 3 weeks
@Listen2michigan
successfully organized 100,000 people to vote "uncommitted" in the MI primary. Their goal was 10k
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Emile Habibi pointed to the absurdity of greenwashing in his 1974 novel "The Secret Life of Saeed: The Pessoptimist." The main character, a wise-fool, asked: "Was this why you demolished the Latrun villages, Imwas, Yalu, and Bait Nuba, and drove away their inhabitants, master?"
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Nothing. Rather than cutting military aid or taking any action to get Israel to curb its genocidal impulses, the US, never one for confrontation, proposes a way to sidestep the crisis Israel manufactured: airdropping aid to avoid dangerous conditions Israel engineered for convoys
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How did this get to be so dire? Let's go back to events at the Kerem Shalom crossing where some aid passes through. Israeli protestors blocked most of it from entering earlier this month. When Gaza police guarded the few trucks that entered, they were hit by Israeli airstrikes
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@wifeoftoast
: “10,000 Palestinians have been killed in the last month, half of them are children. There is a genocide happening in Gaza!”
Biden supporter: “This is not the time”
When is the right time for Biden to talk about Gaza? After it’s 20k dead Palestinians? 30k?
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Biden is feeling the heat after months of dismissing the Arab American vote and all anti-genocide voters. This airdrop nonsense is his administration's lazy attempt at claiming to care about starving masses in northern Gaza, forced to eat animal feed--while still enabling Israel
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Wednesday is also the first time that aid trucks reached northern Gaza in over a month. Israel could not allow this to become a pattern. What will that mean for the security of the only democracy in the Middle East™️ if starving children get to eat?
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Thursday: Israel massacres 100+ Palestinians when it attacked masses awaiting aid, injuring over 700. Israel forced starvation in Gaza, engineered a dangerous scenario for hungry masses, police, and humanitarian relief teams, and then fired at crowds
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Israel had to do something to prove to the US that they were justified in blocking food from reaching northern Gaza for weeks. Force desperation, engineer a famine, eliminate the possibility of public safety, and then blame Palestinians for Israeli bullets. That's what followed:
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830 children in the Gaza Strip are missing under the rubble
830 children in the Gaza Strip are missing under the rubble
830 children in the Gaza Strip are missing under the rubble
830 children in the Gaza Strip are missing under the rubble
830 children in the Gaza Strip are
830 طفل في قطاع غزة مفقود تحت الأنقاض..
830 طفل في قطاع غزة مفقود تحت الأنقاض..
830 طفل في قطاع غزة مفقود تحت الأنقاض..
830 طفل في قطاع غزة مفقود تحت الأنقاض..
830 طفل في قطاع غزة مفقود تحت الأنقاض..
830 طفل في قطاع غزة مفقود تحت الأنقاض..
830 طفل في قطاع غزة مفقود تحت الأنقاض..
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The situation became so embarrassing for the Biden administration that
@SecBlinken
had to cancel his plans to visit the crossing in early February
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Residents of northern Gaza have been forced to survive on 245 calories a day or less, according to
@Oxfam
.
Those 245 calories are coming from animal feed, grass, skittles via American airdrops that may kill you, and aid deliveries where Israeli snipers will shoot at you
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This is a deeply personal essay I wrote, a reminder from a Palestinian American that you can't cage, starve, and exile people for generations. Like previous plans, you can't rob people of their collective rights, including the right of return, and expect them to thank you for it
“I have lived my entire life dreaming for a just peace in my Palestinian homeland,” writes
@yalawiya
. “I refuse to give up on my refugee family’s dream of returning to their emptied village.”
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It's no surprise that Reps
@RashidaTlaib
and
@IlhanMN
were barred by Israel from visiting Palestine. This is an important reminder of:
1- Israel's total control of travel in/out of the WB and Gaza 2- That this isn't the first time a US lawmaker was barred from entering Palestine
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Tahrir Square is full, and for just a moment, so is my heart 🇪🇬🇵🇸
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Americans, you surrendered to misinformation minutes into Israel’s bombardment of Gaza. Your lack of media literacy is quite literally enabling genocide.
For years, we warned that this war was inevitable. We begged you to see us as human. Make it right. Help us stop this
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Running his mouth as if he didn’t do Operation Cast Lead, killing 1400 Palestinians in 3 weeks. This is why criticisms that only condemn Netanyahu and his right wing government are empty. Olmert, the liberal, was extremely deadly for Palestinians. Don’t be deceived by this
“Netanyahu is a national and historical disaster for Israel"
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, in an interview with TRT World, expressed his belief that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is a disaster for Israel and that Ben Gvir and Smotrich are “terrible events"
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In conclusion, Washington is slowly waking up to the potential geopolitical, electoral, and legal consequences of participating in Israel's genocide in Gaza. But it's too late. No matter what comes next, the wheels are in motion, and the region is changing without them
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War on Palestinian memory.
In 1948, Zionist militias stole book collections from homes as they ethnically cleansed Palestinians to establish the state of Israel. Those stolen books remain in the National Library of Israel to this day.
In 1982, just one day before the Sabra
The Israeli occupation destroys the central archive of
#Gaza
municipality, executing thousands of historical documents, and deliberately razing all life forms; erasing the city and its
#history
. It is worth noting that the archive holds
#documents
more than a hundred years old.
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DC tonight: Hundreds are gathered at the Democratic National Headquarters demanding a
#ceasefireNOW
in Gaza. Police are violently arresting protestors and fired tear gas into the crowd
Like in 1968, protestors remind the DNC that “the whole world is watching”
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The people of Beirut are on my mind today. What a horrific trauma to endure, especially during a pandemic, where hospitals already had little capacity, and an economic crisis.
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Three days ago, State Department Spokesman Matthew Miller boasted about facilitating the entry of 200 aid trucks. Only 20 entered today.
Before the war on Gaza, about 500 trucks entered daily—it wasn’t even enough to meet basic needs then.
Israel is starving Gaza’s children.
Today, 20 trucks of food and humanitarian supplies entered the Gaza Strip, providing enough food for 5% of Gaza's population for one day.
Unprecedented starvation under the watchful eyes of the entire world!
#GazaGenocide
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I seem to have hit a nerve with genocide supporters.
ANYWAYS- Israel shot at the crowd. If you don’t believe me, take it up with your president, who asked Israel to stop shooting at aid convoys on Saturday. Biden even asked Israel to stop shooting at Gaza police forces
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Reports that Israel wiped 20 tents off the face of the earth and created craters almost 30 feet deep.
A nuclear state at war with hospitals, journalists, children, and tents.
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Israel is launching its largest-scale military incursion into the West Bank since 2002.
From Jan 1-Oct 6, 2023 the WB was already seeing its deadliest year since 2005. During the genocide, Israel has repeatedly raided the WB, assassinated and mass arrested WB Palestinians.
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Next on Israel’s hit list is likely Al-Aqsa Hospital. This time around, Israel won’t put on a circus to claim it’s a “command center” like they did with Al-Shifa. It’s not like there will be repercussions, after all.
Located in Deir al-Balah, Al-Aqsa is the only hospital serving
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Today is day 7 of Israel’s latest siege of Al-Shifa Hospital. Despite field executions, mass arrests, torture, bombing a medical building and other atrocities, there’s been insufficient outrage and action. We watched Israel and the US normalize attacks on hospitals in slow motion
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Received these photos from a friend at the encampment at DePaul University, my alma mater.
Exactly 10 years ago, my SJP passed divestment on this same campus. We spent 2 years preparing and 8 weeks having the time of our lives making Palestine the only topic at DePaul until our
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#ThobebackThursday
to when I graduated with my MA, in honor of
@RashidaTlaib
being sworn in today
#TweetYourThobe
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This is how an Israeli tank ended the lives of a father and his children today. The family was headed in the direction of the “safer” part of the Gaza Strip. No warning, no mercy.
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This must not come before divestment. We need to address systemic complicity by ending it, not by tokenizing a few Gaza Palestinians. And why weren’t there opportunities for Gaza Palestinians before? There was plenty of advocacy that aimed to break the educational siege on Gaza.
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Ismail Haniyeh had the unique experience of leading both the Gaza-based and external Hamas branches. He left his imprint as a skilled negotiator who shaped the movement’s foreign policy. A thread:
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Scholarships, Palestine studies, student centers: all things I love and value on a personal level, but they cannot come before divestment. That means tough decisions. It might mean ending the semester without a clear win. Gaza’s struggle has been long, our campaigns will be too.
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“For us, babies are born and die in the war”
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Israel bombed a hospital in Gaza. It killed over 300 people. The Arab National Hospital attack, known to Palestinians in Gaza as the Baptist Hospital, instantly wiped out medical staff, patients, and displaced persons seeking shelter.
Will you call this a genocide now?
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Exactly one week ago, I heard a report from Khan Yunis that ambulances carrying patients to Nasser Hospital were no longer making it in time to reach the ER, with most bleeding out before their arrival.
Remember that when the death count is inevitably downplayed.
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🚨 Emergency phone zap TOMORROW for Mosab Abu Toha, who was kidnapped by Israeli soldiers and separated from his family, and to demand a
#ceasefireNOW
in Gaza
Zoom registration:
@USCPR_
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Scholarships, if admin actually lives up to their promises, serve to sidestep matters of complicity in the systemic destruction of Gaza and decades of de-development, including its educational institutions, by doling out opportunities to a few selected individuals.
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Muhammad al-Durra's brother Ahmed was killed in an Israeli airstrike yesterday. In October, a clip of their father Jamal went viral, where he bid his two martyred brothers farewell.
Decades of pain for the al-Durra family. And Gaza has endured a century of pain in four months
مراسل العربي باسل خلف: استشهاد أحمد الدرة شقيق الطفل الشهيد محمد درة في قصف إسرائيلي استهدف منزل العائلة في مخيم البريج
@SihamBaba5
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An important report was published by the
@nytimes
last week behind a paywall, and didn't get much attention. It revealed that in a closed-door meeting with members of Congress, intelligence officials commented that Israel is nowhere near its goal of destroying Hamas
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Another overdue realization from DC: Israel hasn't damaged Gaza's tunnel network.
Days after an intel briefing for Congress on Israel's (lack of) military progress, Sen. Mark Warner points out a specific tactical failure. Worth noting he's chair of the Senate Intel Committee
Senate intel chair
@MarkWarner
told reporters in Munich that Israel’s success at clearing and fully securing Gaza tunnels is “minuscule.” It’s “tiny, tiny,” he reiterated, a “stunningly small” part of the estimated 500km.
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We are forced to plead with you to see our humanity, to stop the genocide in Gaza. Now, we have to fear for our lives here. We buried a six-year-old boy today because of your propaganda. The mainstream media, the president, and policymakers spread disinformation with the intent
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This is no surprise to anyone following Arabic-language or independent journalism covering Gaza, who provide daily evidence that Israel does not, in fact, have control of these areas despite misleading MSM narratives. The following admission is revealing:
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1. US officials might have to answer for the genocide of 30,000 Palestinians on the international stage, and likely fear legal consequences after South Africa's ICJ case against Israel. Despite dismissive comments while still in the news cycle, the tone shift now is undeniable
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3. The Rafah Operation could lead to a suspension--if not the total collapse--of the Israel-Egypt peace treaty, and mark an unprecedented shift in the region's geopolitics. Clearly, even some within Israel are concerned:
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I read books on Palestine for a living. In many accounts and memoirs, 1982 was a turning point: a major trauma, the moment to commit and recommit to Palestinian liberation. As Israel threatens “total siege” on Gaza, it’s clear that this is our 1982 moment.
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When I woke up this morning, I complained to myself about feeling tired. Then I thought of Wael Dahdouh, Hiba Akila, Hisham Zaqout, Basel Khalaf, and Moataz Azaiza. I pictured the faces of Wael and Hiba for a while. I then felt deep shame for my complaint.
Shortly thereafter,
The family of Al Jazeera’s Gaza bureau chief Wael Dahdouh has been killed in an Israeli attack at the Al Nuseirat Camp in central Gaza, where they had forcibly evacuated to shelter from Israeli bombardments ⤵️
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“Operations that kill militants often radicalize others, swelling the ranks of enemy organizations. And U.S. officials say death counts of fighters do not give an indication of whether a government has addressed the core issues driving the war.”
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Why is this important? At least on the level of intelligence officials, doubts about Israel's abilities are finally being expressed after months of
@POTUS
and
@SecBlinken
stubbornly endorsing, aiding and abetting Israeli goals, ignoring Israel's war crimes and battlefield losses:
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If you read one thing tonight, let it be this important interview with
@AnasAlSharif0
, one of the only journalists left in northern Gaza.
He describes reporting in defiance of assassination threats, Israel’s targeted killing of his father, multiple displacements, and famine.
Read Al Jazeera Journalist Anas al-Sharif on documenting Israel's genocide in Gaza every day for 11 straight months for
@DropSiteNews
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4. Even the NYT, which has eagerly disseminated Israeli propaganda and disinformation since day one of its war on Gaza, and made no secret of its institutional anti-Palestinian bigotry, is now letting some info trickle down that casts doubt on Israel's claims of military victory
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Gaza will never forgive the world. We don’t deserve forgiveness. Gaza never deserved this. We left them alone.
Uday Abu Mohsen was one day old.
His death certificate was issued before his birth certificate.
@Yasser_Gaza
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Not long after Israel’s brutal war on Gaza in 2014, Palestinian youth started the We Are Not Numbers campaign to tell their stories and fight back against the indignity of being reduced to statistics after Israel’s bombardments.
Ten years later, they aren’t even numbers. Israel
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Most intense night of bombing yet. Some in the Egyptian city of Arish are reporting that they can hear the Israeli bombardment from their homes. Arish is roughly 50 km from the Egypt-Gaza border!
Explosions light the sky of Gaza, marking a deadly night.
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