Asmaa AbuMezied
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My mom doesn’t express her love verbally. Today she told me how much she love me, how proud she is, and happy that I am safe away from them.
She told me to study hard, because I am their hope.
That broke me to pieces.
I wish my words of love can protect them all.
#CeasefireNOW
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My family is alive, my family is alive.
I still wasn’t able to hear my mother voice but was able to connect with my auntie.
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We need ceasefire NOW
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We need ceasefire NOW
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My professor was only concerned about the gender dynamics of why most of the people rushing towards the “air aid-drop” in
#Gaza
are men. “Where are the women?” was his question.
No critique of the humiliation aid or it’s depoliticization, or it being a strategy of death.
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The most ridiculous thing is mom who is in
#Gaza
, under the Israeli genocide & rarely slept last night due to incessant bombing, told me how worried she is about me being in Columbia University and its threats of violence with NYPD.
She knows systems of oppression are the same.
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Israel killed my cousin, Hamza, today in Al Maghazi Camp. The airstrike targeted children playing.
Israel has been doing to the Middle Area of Gaza what they have done to Al Shifa Hospital. It has been systematically destroyed particularly Al Nusirat.
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Today, Israel killed Jamal Aldeen Abu Eita, his wife, children, & grandchildren. They bombed his house and factory in Northern Gaza. I worked with him& saw his progress from a small dairy factory to one of the largest dairy factories in Gaza, that supported hiring women workers.
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As
@Columbia
University board of trustees send an email saying how antisemitism is totally unacceptable, then mentioned nothing about anti-Palestinian, Islamophobia, racism and xenophobia that students protesting for Palestine were subjected to. 🧵
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My 13yrs nephew planted some seeds before being forced to evacuate. When they went back after over a month in Rafah, only Arugula and pepper survived. He cultivated them few days back and distributed them between our family and our neighbors.
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My sister told me “tonight was the most vicious. I kept throwing my body on top of my children to protect them. We need to invent new words to describe what happened tonight”.
#CeaseFirelnGazaNOW
is the main demand right now. Join any action around you& call your representatives
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As a Palestinian from Gaza, I am tired of being talked about. As if we are voiceless, or only worthy of pity, given space to say a sad story, or data point for an extractive academic project. I wish we practice our collective refusal of colonialism by never indulging/engaging.
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My sister, a mother of 2 children, and I were fight on who should go out to buy bread and food supplies we needed. After half an hour of discussion, the “I am single” card won. As I was leaving the house, my mom followed me saying “you are single but you are my daughter”
#Gaza
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Palestinians in
#Gaza
are stuck between romanticization and humanitarianism. We are seen as either heroes or charity cases. No one wants to know us beyond these two extremes. It is easier for the conscience.
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We Palestinians, particularly in Gaza, are actively refusing all attempts by all academic profiteering scholars, non Palestinians from Gaza, who are using our blood to advance their career and publishing credit.
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This is where my family is and I lost contact with them since last night.
A terrible massacre in Zawaideh in the Deir AlBalah area. Israeli snipers are shooting civilians in the streets and the army is bombarding the houses.
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I spoke to my mom today, after 7days, &talked about how everyone lost weight. I humorously said it was their goal at the beginning of the year. We laughed.
My heart sank a little bit. It does whenever we laugh, for I fear that this conversation, this laugh might be the last one.
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Palestinians have been voicing how such actions by
@simonschusterUK
is a colonial practice because of the following:
1- ignoring/disregarding Palestinian scholars and historians who have both actual experience and long expertise about the history of Gaza.
.
@simonschusterUK
has signed A Short History of The Gaza Strip by historian
@Anne_Irfan
, 'an illuminating and necessary primer for anyone who wants the context to the current war'
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In my room, trying to breathe in and out to shutdown panic attack due to the sounds of police helicopters circulating around Columbia Uni as NYPD is preparing to sweep the encampment. This is aimed to terrorise students, and punish them for even standing up against genocide.
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My grandparent’s and his brother’s land that provide for over 20 families was destroyed by Israeli airstrikes this morning in
#Gaza
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I can’t connect with anyone from my family. For over an hour I have been trying but nothing, nothing.
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I was finally able to connect with my family, they are alive and evacuated to the South. My 13 year old nephew didn’t stop vomiting from the poisonous gas thrown at them all night.
Our call was a mess of crying and pieces of the horrors they experienced.
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I just learned about a colleague who was killed by an Israeli airstrike, along with his wife, children, parents and other family members.
My heart broke to pieces. Tariq was working hard to support startups in Gaza. He was always smiling until Israel took his life away.
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This freaking world sees us, Palestinians from Gaza, as nothing but worthy of death.
My mom believed only if world see, this genocide will stop.
One of the hardest things I had to tell my mom is that the world does see what is happening, actively choose to ignore and justify.
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Snapping out of sleep to hear that our neighbours’ house was destroyed. Many were killed, my family is alive experienced indescribable terror. My message to my mom is still unread. I wish for nothing in this world but to hug them, thus
#CeasefireNOW
is the only way.
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In my village in Gaza, my garden was one of my comfort and favourite spot, beside the sea. The first Baladi Juri flower bloomed during 2021 Israeli aggression. Someone asked me today about my garden. I froze for a bit and cried. We have no clue what happened to our house.
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There is little coverage of the current genocide happening in the Middle Area in
#Gaza
. Israel is killing whole families. I received the news of our friend and his family being killed.
No coverage doesn’t mean the Israeli killing machine stopped.
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Palestinians understanding of aid organizations complicity and its extension of colonial powers is historical. Their voices of calling out those actors dates to 1950s when refusing the resettlement plans UNRWA attempted then, INGOs refusal to challenge Isrl order to evacuate (1)
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#Gaza
is the moral compass of this world. It is the realization to never ever believe in any notions of human rights, International laws, decolonization, or any preaching coming from the West. It is the ultimate moral question and testimony of this unjust and inhuman world.
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People in Gaza are not just killed by Israel. The fragmentation of families, the news about an Israeli missile targeting a house you know, the desperate attempt to call an ambulance and civil defense while communication blackout is there for almost 2 weeks, cont.
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I was asked once “why not leave
#Gaza
?” As if not being physically here would stop the collective killing of our people, as if being physically safe would stop the daily brutality of the occupation toward our people. It’s not I who should leave, it is the occupation.
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I am between two parallel worlds, spending my morning trying to find ambulances and civil defenders to help getting family members out of the rubbles, then coming to a racist and anti-Palestinian Columbia university protest against the chemical attack on Palestine protest.
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I spoke to my mother and sister today. Gosh how much I miss them, and their hugs.
They kept asking me “Any news of ceasefire? Tell us, when is the ceasefire?”
I was only able to tell them how much I love them.
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Those rare days when we have full moon & electricity.
Unfortunately my humble phone wasn’t able to capture the beauty of the moon. If you are in Gaza, look out of the window, go out to the balcony and take a look at the moon, breath in and breath out. It has a healing effect.
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When I sent my sister a message that I love her. She responded: “As it is a love text your are sending, it means a ceasefire is far from soon”
I wish I could lie to her to comfort her, but it seems our love is not enough, never enough.
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It takes few seconds between hearing the sound of the Israeli missile being launched until it explodes. Those seconds when your heart stops beating, when your can’t breathe and the world stands still. When you feel death is embracing you until it doesn’t.
#Gaza
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Rasha is my best friend and Rami, her brother, was among the first people who taught me about marketing and capacity building. He was a man with a kind heart. He was killed in Israeli strike today, May his soul rest in peace.
لا نقول الا ما يرضي ربنا انا لله وانا اليه راجعون، أخي رامي شهيد بإذن الله #غزة
My brother Rami was killed in
#Gaza
by the barbarian Israeli forces .
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Today I saw a video of the destruction that befell our house. I wanted to cry but I couldn’t in an attempt of denial.
Israel purpose in destroying everything we have known is to erase not only our existence, but our memories and attachment to the land. Thus, I won’t cry for now.
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For the past few days, my 12 years old nephew would hug and kiss me every time he passes by me. If only that expression of love is not driven by the fear of loss and death.
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Growing up in
#Gaza
taught me not to give a damn about spaces dismissing our existence. I am aware of how my mere existence unsettles some of professors here. They don't grasp that I can also reject their spaces, blind to the notion that theirs aren't the only ones that matter.
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It has been almost a week since the ceasefire, I barely have the energy to get up and go to work. After May 2021 aggression, it took me a year to recover and functioning semi-normally. All lost in 3 days and can’t start recovery again.
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Doctor Youssef is one of the greatest dentists and most kind person I ever met.
A senior surgeon who operates for children and his dentist son- killed in Gaza today by an indiscriminate airstrike.
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6 months & no response to my complaint whatsoever and all what the university speak about is antisemitism only ignoring the threats on proPalestine students by zionist professors and students. The othering of us by the university & its board of trustees reflects is an oppression.
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Palestinians in
#Gaza
are not mythical creatures, we fear, cry, laugh, bleed, feel, dance and dream. However being under occupation for 75 yrs made us almost mythical for no one can experience and endure all this injustice and think of tomorrow.
Cont.
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The email talked about instantly suspending a students because of a video which resurfaced recently, they did nothing about a zionist student who made nukemap calculations on how to bomb northern
#Gaza
and posted it on their social media on October 15th 2023.
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Our mothers refusal to share their daily realities so they don’t burden us, those abroad, is heartbreaking. I wish I can hug my mom and tell her it is okay to be weak, cry, get angry, shout, and share what she is going through.
#CeasefireNow
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From the "No Feminist Struggle without Gaza" statement released by
@Gazagroup_
, the women of Gaza, refuse to have feminist ideals weaponized in service of colonial agendas and for the justification of a genocidal assault." cont.
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He also went on about executing Palestinians men and children over the age of 12, adopting children below 12, and re-educating Palestinian women if they were to live.
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Footage are circulating now for the immediate evacuation of foreigners from
#Gaza
. We are then reminded that the line between survival and being stuck here is blonde hair, colorful eyes and the impunity of a foreign passport. Those who claim coming to “save us” are saved first.
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He went to elaborate on using herbicide munition on the surviving farms to starve
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2- Giving a space/money/access to a non-Palestinian with no valid historical expertise on Gaza, someone who has been invited to speak about Palestine while her husband is an ex-IDF solider with active cheering for the current Genocide.
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Testimony of Palestinian hostages by the occupation army: Israel provided explosive-packed vests to detainees, &forced them in a tunnel as human shields. If resistance existed, the army would blow up the detainee booby-trapped in the tunnel. A 15 yrs child used as human shield.
شهادة وصلتني من ب��ض من اعتقلهم جيش الاحتلال: قاموا بتقديم سترات مفخخة بالمتفجرات للشباب المعتقلين، وأدخلوهم في نفق كدروع بشرية، وفي حال وجود مقاومين، يقوم الجيش بتفجير المعتقل المفخخ بالنفق!
من بين من تم اعتقالهم واستخدامهم كدرع بشري، طفل عمره 15 عام!
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We no longer send messages of “How are you?” to our family and friends in Gaza. We just tell them how much we love them.
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The fact that the Israeli killing machine stopped for an hour to release the 2 Israeli prisoners, then went into a rampant nonstop killings, tells you how much the world consider out lives invaluable.
#Gaza_Genocide
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Today, I saw the picture of a friend who used to work in a local organisation. Her name is Islam, she was always cheerful and smiling. Israel killed her when she was evacuating from Northern Gaza to the south. الله يرحم روحك يا رب
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@yarahawari
And it is a socially engineered starvation and ethnic cleansing not a “humanitarian disaster”
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Statement from
#Gaza
rejecting the exploitation of Palestinian blood for political leverage and demanding an immediate
#ceasefire
and opening of the Rafah crossing.
#CeasefireNow
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People don’t get how every little details matter to us in
#Gaza
. Such as the Eucalyptus tree near my grandparent’s house that was planted in early 1950s. Every detail is a marker of our history that Israel is targeting for erasure.
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5- All this narrative about centering Palestinian voices suddenly disappears when it comes to career advancement and money making right? Palestinians from Gaza should be the ones writing about Gaza history not someone irrelevant.
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I was just speaking with my family before they break their fast, when two huge bombardments took place. Everyone was silent for a second before calling everyone to come together in the same room. The only words that they uttered is “حسبي الله ونعم الوكيل"
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Isn’t it crazy that while Israel continues its genocide against education and academic institutions in Gaza, the world rewards non Palestinian academic, whose husband support the genocide, with grants to write about Gaza???
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Israel intentionally targets and destroys archaeological sites in old city of
#Gaza
. It is not only aiming to annihilate us but also erase our history and evidence to our historical ties to the land.
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3- Among the defenders people actually said how can we judge the work of someone based on their family political opinions. A ridiculous defense, but let me indulge it. If an advocate for Palestine is married to an active genocide supporter, wouldn’t your moral values collide?
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We survived another day in
#Gaza
, yet 25 people didn’t. 25 fathers, brothers, sisters, mothers, daughters and sons were brutally killed by the occupation. The question those who survived ask is “until when?”
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4- Another defense is “she worked in refugee camps” again irrelevant argument, and it is not like anyone working in humanitarian work is automatically morally and ethically good person. If so, we won’t see all these scandals in this field.
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Wouldn’t you leave someone who is against what one believes in morally and ethically? If not, then we can definitely call out these contradictions particularly if you profiteer from the so called advocacy, and see it clearly as a job and opportunism off genocide.
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Anyone defending otherwise should Stop calling themselves ally/advocate/etc. We don’t need your activism nor your solidarity.
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My mother birthday was few days ago. Since they went back to our house, the periods of no news got longer and longer. I wasn’t able to wish my mother a safe (happy is just so unattainable) birthday.
I want to tell her I miss her and that I love her.
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Stop saying to us how sorry you are for failing us. This means nothing right now, if you are sorry do something: 1- Call your representative/congress/parliament to end the genocide now. Call, write letters, go to their offices right now and non stop. 🧵
#Gaza
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A manifestation of the white supremacy and colonial aid industry in Gaza can be seen in this interview. A 6 (out of 8) minutes of centering the white aid workers experience & her experience of angry IDPs Palestinians harassing her, while no active mention of Israeli aggression.
Next on
@CNN
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Cali Callahan is an MSF nurse activity manager who was working in Gaza.
She's speaking with
@andersoncooper
about the incredible Palestinian health care workers and the harrowing situations they are facing every moment.
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We survived another day after the Thermobaric Israeli airstrikes all night in
#Gaza
. Parts of my hair turned white. The occupation forces us to age so early and die so young.
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Today I spoke 2 my sister, telling her how much I love her &will be waiting 4 her 2 explore cafés around the world. She reminded me of a small café we went 2 last year in Belfast, her 1st time in UK as a keynote speaker at a conference 4 teachers
We cried.
Phone disconnected.
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My family was sitting together. We heard the sound of the missile before it targeted a place 10 minutes away from our home. My 12 yrs old nephew disappeared. We found him praying to God for this to end.
#Gaza
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For Palestinians, there is no safe place.
Two Columbia University students, both IOF soldiers, sprayed a chemical weapon on peaceful protesters. Skunk spray is used on Palestinians in the West Bank by the Israeli occupation. It is known to cause nausea, abdominal pain, and vomiting.
@Columbia
must take action.
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despite all this talk about inter-agencies collaboration committees and working groups, and the millions of dollars spent on these things. To me there isn’t a starker contradiction than this. Aid systems need to be dismantled and Gaza, along with other places, showed us why.
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Trucks were just dropped there, so people can fight on who can get to that one pack of flour or rice. I saw this and remembered all the accountability, due diligence, assistance delivery protocol, emergency planning and strategies, written by “international experts”, (6)
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in Palestine while depending on Palestinians hard labor and all we get is an acknowledgement, to the ICRC refusal to evacuate Palestinian lives trapped under the rubbles yet deploying everything in their disposal to Israeli, including participation in espionage. (4)
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Israel, like settler colonialists, is the master of creating a “fleeting hope”. To force upon Palestinians in Gaza unimaginable annihilation and destruction of both the physical space and mental psyche. 🧵
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Ceasefire Now
Ceasefire Now
Ceasefire Now
Ceasefire Now
Ceasefire Now
Open Rafah Crossing and allow medical aid and personal in.
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I will never believe anyone lecturing me on human rights, International law and peace, particularly by Western educators/scholars or educational institutions. Those were made to give a false image of a just world and moral superiority.
#CeasefireInGazaNOW
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International staff going on news describing the risk on their lives from angry/hungry Palestinians while saying they will go back to Gaza in a heartbeat, the denial of the plethora of their privileges, benefits and opportunities they gain while working and after working (3)
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the North and causing havoc, the violent use of passive language in UN agency reports, valuation of Foreigners lives over Palestinians where they are given a priority for evacuation and no to rare efforts given to evacuate their Palestinian staff, (2)
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People are killed waiting for their loved ones, waiting for medical treatment, bleeding to death, by infections, by hunger, by thirst, under the rubbles calling their loved ones, and our souls are being murdered every single second.
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While heading home from work today, I have never seen the buzzing
#Gaza
this quiet. It is the quietness associated with death and mourning.
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I see pictures of “aid assistance” trucks dropped at the edge of Gaza City & people in hundreds and thousands waiting for it who are under Israeli systemic starvation, as part of its warfare tactics. (5)
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I heard my mother voice after a week. whenever I asked her if they have enough food and water, she says “Alhamdulillah”. I told her if they can secure/maintain whatever they have for another 2 weeks. She said “2 weeks! This can’t continue for another 2 weeks”.
I can only pray.
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The online pleas for people, for someone to connect with an ambulance, pleas with publish everyone for it can be the one causing their survival, that constant thinking “they are alive, they have to be. Are they alive? They are alive, but what if they are not”, cont.
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We don’t just get killed by Israel for it makes sure every single second is an endless state of decimation. Every act is part of a systemic structure for our erasure. Killing not only us, but or past, present and future.
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I couldn’t sleep for more than few hours though my body is shutting down. Morning chippering birds couldn’t cover the insistent sounds of drones that still hover in the sky. I am fighting my urge to take sleeping and anti-stress bills. This too shall pass.
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Search again, calling people, removing the rubbles, “they can’t be found. They are alive? Keep searching”, wondering what happened to those injured and gone to the hospital, no time to think, keep digging the rubbles “Are they alive?” They have to be, that feeling of hopelessness
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An endless havoc of thoughts placing us on the verge of collapse and craziness, waiting for the ambulance, wishing to be there removing the rubbles, searching the rubbles for familiar faces, praying/begging for their safety, losing hope/faith, cont.
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"We reject the weaponization of the suffering of Palestinian women within the patriarchal structures of their society to further vilify and dehumanize Palestinian men."
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The fact that a tiny place like
#Gaza
made imperial powers move their armies reflects a fear for the day when oppressed people in their countries will rebel.
Their brutality in Gaza is a warning to oppressed people everywhere, that you’ll be crushed if you fight back injustice.
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Day 3 at Columbia University with students encampment demanding divestment.
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My sister sent me this “Asmaa, please tell us if heard about a ceasefire”
What can I tell her? Should I lie and tell her everything will end soon? Should I lie about how the world has let us down? What do you tell a person surrounded by death everyday and second?
#Gaza
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People from
#Gaza
are so talented in so many fields. Yet all those organising events on Gaza, decide to bring all kind of experts from all places including Palestinians in the diaspora and WB, EXCEPT people from Gaza, to speak on behalf of Gaza. You NEED to FREAKING STOP.
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I can’t believe the audacity of monstrous people who are questioning and asking Palestinians to prove the numbers of Palestinians Israel killed in
@Gaza
What a F**ked up world that is out there to kill us and denies our death!!!!
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My sister, my nephews and I are counting the minutes until 10:00 PM when the ceasefire becomes effective in
#Gaza
. Time passing has never felt this long, as if it is also complicit in prolonging our suffering.
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