Mosab Abu Toha
@MosabAbuToha
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Forest of Noise (Knopf 2024) National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist& Palestine Book Award Winner& Founder of Edward Said Library-Gaza
Joined December 2011
My tweet upset James Woods and he blocked me and said some bad words about me. 😡😡😡
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This is scary more than ever. In the air strikes today, two people flew even above the clouds of death. The girl who was filming 💔💔💔💔. I cannot sleep after this video.
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People who were posting “All Eyes on Rafah” should start using “Where Is Rafah?”
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One last letter to James Woods:. When our house was bombed on October 28, 2023, I did not have a house or a safe place to go on the air and watch it bombed. I have not been able to return to the ruins on my house because my city is occupied. A friend of mine who was helping
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Meta is upset after I won the Pulitzer Prize yesterday. It has suspended my Facebook account for the second time in a week.
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His name is Ahmad Mansour. He’s still alive but in very critical condition. Pray for him.
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Now, James Woods, do you know how it feels when we watched, and we still do, our homes in Gaza destroyed? When our loved ones got, and they still do, buried under the rubble of their homes? When we were, and we still are, run after and burnt in tents?.When we don’t have a
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Please amplify this:. For more than 22 days, not a single drop of water or food truck entered north Gaza.
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I really cannot believe this!!!.Falling? Is this how you, CNN, describe the killing of tens of thousands and the expulsion of so many more?.Could you say that the Jewish population in Europe was falling between 1933-1945? FALLING?.Seriously?.Where did these people get their
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We don’t want to just live! We want to live on our homeland!!.OUR HOMELAND!.
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Why was he hosted on CNN to cry over his burnt house?
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Burned alive in their sleep yesterday in their tent.
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I’m honored to receive the Pulitzer Prize today. Great thanks to the prize’s jury and board members for honoring me. I dedicate this success to my family, friends, teachers, and students in Gaza. Blessings to the 31 members of my family who were killed in one air strike in 2023.
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Why the hell has no international press entered Gaza to show the devastation and to document and share live on TV?.Why the damned hell???!!!!.
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Seven days and not a single grain of wheat entered Gaza for the 2 million human beings. And the world is….
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His name is Hasan al-Kilani. He is from Beit Lahia. He was a nurse. He was killed on his bike an hour ago. I know his brother Omar. Omar was killed in October 2023. Omar was a soccer referee. Their older brother is named Wisam. Wisam was killed in 2014.
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People were sleeping here. A mother, a father, and their children were sleeping?.Are you not parents who are watching this? Do you not have children?.What is this??!!!?!???!!
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Did you know that +17,000 girls under the age of 22 in Gaza have become amputees?.That is more than double the number of Columbia University’s undergraduate students.
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I have to be honest this time and sorry if this is harsh. I don’t think that me and others posting breaking news and photos and videos of our beautiful families getting crushed under the rubble in their sleep will change anything unless you all, especially in the United States,.
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I too was wondering why Ahmad Mansour RIP remained sitting on his chair while the fire was eating him. Today Ahmad's brother Sami revealed that Ahmad was hit by a piece of shrapnel in the head that paralyzed half his body. What a death!
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How many days did this man scream asking for support and protection? Now everyone condemns what happened to him and to his team and their patients!!.Now everyone looks up to him as a brave man. He did not ask for that. We failed them. We always did. Shame on everyone!!!
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I’m safe but still have pain in nose and teeth after being beaten by Israeli army. I gave them all my family’s passports, including my American son’s but they didn’t return anything. Also my clothes & my children’s were taken and not returned to me. No wallet, money, credit cards.
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We hope you are safe as possible. 💔💔💔💔.Bring him back home. Home is family.
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This is one of the most devastating news for me. My most talented student, Hatem, got killed in a shelter 2 hours ago. I can’t believe this. This is a nightmare. He used to wait for me at the end of the classes to walk with me to the school’s gate before everyone went their way.
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When someone is taken from his home without any charges and then is kept in a place that is unknown to both his pregnant wife and his attorney, it is called abduction. It’s not arrest.
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I hate that we always emphasize that half or most of the murdered were women and children as if our men do not count. They do count as much as our women and children.
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“I told them we wouldn’t leave. You expelled us from our country and took our land and homeland. Then the soldier assaulted me.”. An elderly woman was found by the Israeli army inside her home in Rafah. She had been under siege for a month and a half. She was taken to a military
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I really cannot believe this. This is Aziz Shallah. On Dec. 31, 2024, he posted a video of his children sleeping in the cold. His post was asking for blankets for his kids. The other video is of himself shoveling the mud and rain. Aziz was killed an hour ago in Der El-Balah,
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I never exaggerated when I said the bomb craters are 30 feet deep. Please amplify as the Gaza Civil Defense crew are looking for bodies in the craters.
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This is not breaking news:. Israel destroyed the Edward Said Public Library in North Gaza. Israeli cultural institutions must be boycotted.
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Photos of people abducted yesterday from inside Kamal Odwan Hospital, old people, injured people, family of patients.
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1- I’m alive, but not safe. 30 members of my family were killed yesterday at night in Gaza city. I just got the news from my brother that they bombed my neighborhood. Whole families, my neighbors are killed. We left our house on Thursday.
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Must-watch:.The moment the Anadolu photographer Mohammad Awad was shot in the neck as he was covering Beit Lahia’s ethnic cleansing.
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Today is the coldest day in Gaza in 20 years. Today three newborns died because of the cold and lack of electricity and heating. Today is yesterday, today is tomorrow.
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Nothing is more humiliating and morally wrong than dragging a pediatrician in shackles, someone who was determined to remain in the hospital even while it was under direct attack, even after his son was murdered, even after he himself got injured. Wake up world.
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Shocking shocking:. Until now, not a single word in Western media, whether TV or newspapers, about what’s happening right now to the Kamal Odwan Hospital. You are all complicit.
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This is what my family and friends in Gaza described today as DOOMSDAY. Do something! Do something!!!!!
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I swear to God this is ridiculous. NYT published an article about Netanyahu’s surgery today. I searched to see if they had any coverage for the attacks on two hospitals in Gaza today. It’s been 14 hours. None. None. None. If you think I’m mistaken and they did write an article
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This is boy is named Fayez Abu Samra. Today he risked his life by going back to their house in Shujaeeyah neighborhood, a neighborhood Israel decimated, in the hope of bringing back either him some wheat flour to feed his four sisters.
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Artist Deem Zurub who drew the martyrs got killed an hour ago.
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My communication with a BBC producer. Everyone is complicit. The blood of our families are on your hands. The rubble of my city will remain on your shoulders.
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Amy Goodman asked me to look at the camera and send a message to the world. The next day, yesterday, my wife lost 22 members of her uncles families in Beit Lahia.
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I write with a heavy heart that my cousin Sama, 7 years old, has been killed in the air strike on their house along with 18 members of her family, which is my extended family. In the house was the grandmother, Fatima, who was my grandmother’s sister. She was killed too with two
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Heartbreaking. This journalist, named Ayman Al-Jidi, was in the press vehicle waiting outside the Al-Awda Hospital where his wife was in labor giving birth to their first child. 💔💔💔💔💔💔
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Unfortunately I had to cancel all my upcoming events in the United States as I felt unsafe traveling, especially after watching students and university professors abducted on the street just in front of other people. I had 16 events scheduled for the next five weeks (at Stanford,.
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My wife’s family have been digging through the rubble to retrieve the corpses of 15 relatives who have been buried under their bombed house since last October. Of them are my wife’s three cousins, one of these cousins has been buried with her two children.
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It’s horrible that Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya is not released yet and there is no news about him, whether he is in good condition. Same goes for the hundreds who were taken into enforced disappearance, including a brother in law of mine and another of my wife. Sorry Dr. Hussam, the
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Breaking:. Israel now targets a gathering in Bureij Camp of people celebrating the ceasefire deal.
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By the way, Dr. Ahmad Mohanna, Alawda Hospital’s director, was abducted from inside the hospital 350 days ago and there is no information about him. Dr. Hussam Abu Safiyya got a lot of attention because he had the chance of talking to us. So many did not have a chance and this
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Israel’s denial of their arrest of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiyya means one of two things:. They either have killed him already or are going to kill him. This is the scenario of what happened to at least two people whose families received the same response when lawyers inquired about.
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Can someone tell me where I cursed James Woods? Why is this evil? What upset you in my post?
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In March 2022, my friend Waleed and I tried to trick Refaat into believing he had a parking violation at Islamic University of Gaza where he taught. Waleed and I wrote it on a piece of tissue paper. Waleed had an amazing handwriting. Refaat asked me, “Whose handwriting is this?
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This girl hurried to rescue some neighbors who were wounded in an air strike. Moments later, Israel targeted the area again. Name this!!
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Heartbreaking:. This is Yahya Sobeih, a journalist whose wife just delivered a baby. It was just five hours ago and you can see that from his stories. This baby was Yahya’s first child. Israel killed Yahya an hour ago.
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The three siblings who were killed today in Bureij, south of Gaza.
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Please please please help me help me help me. The family of my wife and relatives in Beit Lahia right now are under the rubble. More than 50 people are believed to be killed. There are now ambulances or anything. Please please. I’m crying I’m about to die.
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Remember Shaban al-Dalou‘s hands in the fire of his tent?. His name is Helmy al-Faq’awi. Thank you!
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The way back. Some are returning to retrieve the bodies of their loved ones which were buried under the rubble for weeks and months.
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Update: 150 got killed. Breaking, breaking, breaking:. Around 4AM, more than 70 people got killed and more 500 got wounded after Israeli tanks opened fire at them while getting aid from the arriving aid trucks on the Rashid Road in Gaza city. Thousands of starving people slept.
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Shocking:. This morning, the Israeli military informed Physicians for Human Rights - Israel (PHRI) that they have no record of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiyah’s detention. The response came after PHRI, acting on behalf of the doctor’s family, requested information to facilitate a.
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You are welcome to meet me in Cairo. I was kidnapped by the Israeli army and was released after 54 hours. I was stripped of my clothes, beaten, humiliated, with no proof. I’m a father of an American citizen and I was on my way to the Rafah border crossing as your Department of.
Today I met with the families of individuals detained by Hamas, and I assured them that we remain intensely focused on getting their loved ones home. We will continue to do everything we can to ensure the release of every hostage.
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On Sunday March 23 I was one of the first people to post about the heinous crimes Israel committed in Rafah. I was accused of lying and making up fairy tales. You can watch the video (i posted a few minutes ago) of the unearthing of the corpse of ETMs and Civil Defense personnel
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Another friend is gone. My world is getting smaller. It is so painful. My friend Bilal El-Masri today was killed. Yesterday he was mourning the death of his uncle and two cousins. Today he and six other members of his family were massacred at the funeral tent that was set for
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In the past 72 hours, Israel carried out 94 air strikes, killing 184 human beings.
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Breaking damn news: (please amplify far and wide). 1- The Israeli army is besieging people in Jabalia and Beit Lahia. Anyone goes out in the street will be shot by quadcopters. 2- Families are unable to go out and find food and water. 3- Ambulances no longer can take the.
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No, no, no, no. Refaat’s daughter, Shimaa and her new baby and the husband got killed in an airstrike today. Just a few days ago, I mentioned that Refaat became a grandfather. 💔💔💔💔💔.
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This is supposed to be a TV report with Dr. Hussam Abu Safiyya. It turned out to be an interrogation. This really shows not only how savages they are but also how bankrupt they really are. Look even at his question “Why are you here?” to which Dr. Abu Safiyya answers “I really
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Remember when the State Department kept saying that Hamas was preventing a ceasefire?
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Fu***g horrible. Look at what they are doing right now in Jabalia camp?!?!?!? 💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔
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Just found this photo of me and Hatem on my phone. It was taken in May 2022. Hatem Al-Za’aneen was my most talented student. He got killed in October 2024 while searching for firewood to help his family survive. It’s still a nightmare for me. He used to wait for me at the end of
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Oh my my my. This is Lebanon just now. At least 6 towering residential buildings have been leveled to the ground. Filled with people. 💔💔💔💔💔💔💔
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