Rashida Abbas Ferrand
@rashida_abbferr
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Physician & epidemiologist. Working in UK, Zimbabwe and Pakistan. All views my own.
Joined November 2017
You should be so lucky to have people throughout your research career that you can openly bounce ideas to and from - especially if they complement your strengths in your areas of weakness - it is a rare and precious gift.
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Message from @TrevorChivan “Masters of Public Health is in the bag”- makorokoto - really really proud of you @ThruZim- where to next I ask? 🌟🏅🏅
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💥Again: Ceasefire according to Israel=“you cease, I fire.” Calling it “peace” is both an insult and a distraction. All eyes on Palestine: Israel must face justice, sanctions, divestment, boycott UNTIL occupation, apartheid and genocide are over and every crime is accounted for.
BREAKING: Israeli forces kill 5 Palestinians in Gaza City https://t.co/ySQXdxneUf via @AJEnglish WHAT CEASEFIRE?!
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🚨Today, Israel is releasing 1700 Palestinian HOSTAGES (not prisoners, not captives, hostages). They were all kidnapped after Oct 7, held as "bargaining chips" without trial, charges or legal counsel Any media outlet that calls them "prisoners" is morally bankrupt!
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Gaza is not a warzone; it is a laboratory of cruelty and oppression, a testing ground for the latest in Israeli surveillance, crowd control, and military technology - exported, marketed, and sold by British and American firms for profit.
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Israeli leaders screamed their genocidal intent at the top of their lungs all the way through. No crime in history has been so confessed to as it actually happened. But almost all Western media outlets suppressed this. Kudos to @ScotNational for not being one of them.
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🚨🇮🇱 I CAN‘T STAND THIS PROPAGANDA ANYMORE. Yes, I’m glad that Israeli hostages have been freed. And just as glad that Palestinian prisoners have been released. But a few things need to be made clear: FIRST: It’s absurd that Israelis are called “hostages” while Palestinians are
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It's incredible how the entire history of Western colonialism is being the stereotype of pillaging barbarians while calling the people they are pillaging barbarians.
Jared Kushner in Tel Aviv: "Instead of replicating the barbarism of the enemy, you chose to be exceptional, you chose to stand for the values that you stand for, and I couldn't be prouder to be a friend of Israel."
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From the civilization that gave you math and geometry you thought they’d build anything less than spectacular?
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A ceasefire is not the same as a plan for peace in Palestine. Peace without justice is transient-when will the world wake up to this
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The older I get, the more I realize adaptability is the highest form of intelligence. Knowledge matters, but the ability to learn, unlearn, and change course matters more. The rigid cling to what was. The adaptable adjust to what is and what will be. The future belongs to them.
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A ceasefire is respite. It is not justice. We are a global movement for Palestine, and we are never ever going away.
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The bodies of 135 Palestinians have been pulled from beneath the rubble across the Gaza Strip, as Israel’s ceasefire-mandated halt in its two-year genocidal war allowed rescue workers to reach devastated areas https://t.co/yahP3iNVhG
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Why does Israel have “families” but Gaza just have “people”?
After two years of unimaginable loss and suffering for Israeli families and the people of Gaza, we should all be encouraged and relieved that an end to the conflict is within sight; that those hostages still being held will be reunited with their families; and that vital aid can
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“If you look at H*mas's record while it was in power, it tried diplomacy, it failed. It tried international law, it failed. It tried non-violent civil resistance..it tried everything. So under those circumstances, what was it supposed to do?....” —Prof. Norman Finkelstein
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The most popular and potentially unifying Palestinian leader — Marwan Barghouti — is not among the prisoners Israel intends to free in the Gaza ceasefire deal. That's because he is best placed to negotiate for a two-state solution which Netanyahu abhors.
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The most popular and potentially unifying Palestinian leader — Marwan Barghouti — is not among the prisoners Israel intends to free in exchange for hostages held by Hamas under the new Gaza ceasefire...
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The first Swiss journalist to reach Gaza under the army of genocide lost his temper at the horror he witnessed, saying: “Humanity was destroyed here.” We renew our call on international media and investigators to pressure the genocidal state to allow immediate access to Gaza.
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The lack of pressure on Israel to release the thousands of Palestinian hostages (including CHILDREN) says a lot about what Peace that lays ahead, for the Palestinians. There cannot be peace without justice, human rights and dignity of ALL. Palestinian lives matter.
IF THIS IS NOT HOSTAGE TAKING, WHAT IS? Israel refuses to release Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya who insisted on staying with his patients in his bombed hospital even after his own son was murdered. Since then he has been held in one of Israel's torture facilities.
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A ceasefire may be in the making but this does not resolve the issue that the Palestinians have faced for decades-their displacement from their lands, statelessness of Palestinians around the world, the destruction of Gaza …
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While we celebrate the possible end of the genocide in Gaza, we should remember the journalists who lost their lives while reporting on it.
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