BREAKING: Biden has cut off funding to
@UNRWA
, which provides life-saving aid to 2.2 million Palestinians in Gaza every day.
The US is collectively punishing Palestinians, who rely on UNRWA to survive, based on Israeli allegations against 0.0004% of UNRWA's staff. Outrageous.
“Our film shows where dehumanization leads at its worst ... We stand here as men who refute their Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation which has led to conflict for so many innocent people.”
Jonathan Glazer brings the call for a ceasefire to
#Oscars2024
Israeli mob and police try to break into a Palestinian family’s home in Haifa. This is the terror Palestinians are facing right now under the Israeli state.
BREAKING: Israel bombed the Baptist Hospital in Gaza, killing at least 500 Palestinians – patients, nurses, doctors, sheltering refugees.
The hundreds injured may die soon as Israel is still refusing to allow aid, including medical supplies.
This is a grave war crime.
Palestinians in Sheikh Jarrah were singing, painting murals, and flying balloons when Israeli forces attacked. Apparently Palestinian joy is a crime.
Via tarekbakri on Instagram
BREAKING: Israel has cut off all electricity, food, water and fuel to 2 million Palestinians in Gaza, over 50% of whom are children.
Israel is committing a mass atrocity: bombing and starving Palestinians indiscriminately. And it’s doing it out in the open – with US backing.
Israel bombed a truck full of Palestinians trying to evacuate, killing at least 40.
Palestinians are being massacred by Israel – while trying to follow Israel’s impossible order to “evacuate” over 1 million Palestinians from north Gaza within 24 hours.
This is an atrocity.
🚨🚨 Health ministry in Gaza confirms: 40 people were killed, 150 injured by an Israeli airstrike that targeted Palestinians attempting to evacuate from Gaza, as ordered by the Israeli army. Israel had ordered 1.2 million Palestinians to leave their homes in Gaza and head south.
BREAKING: Over a dozen Harvard students have filed a federal civil rights complaint over Harvard’s failure to protect them from targeted racism and harassment on campus, discriminating against them for being Palestinian, Arab, Muslim, and students supporting Palestinian rights.
“This is really a moment for moral clarity, and I think we need to look into our hearts and ask ourselves: Do Palestinian children deserve the same safety as all other children do?”
@CynthiaNixon
talks about joining the call for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza on The View.
Israeli forces are throwing stun grenades and shooting rubber bullets at Palestinians inside Al Aqsa mosque, effectively trapping them inside. Dozens are wounded, but medics are not being allowed through to treat the injured.
In a historic motion, Ireland has recognized and condemned Israel's de facto annexation of Palestine, and will now move on to voting on the amendment that, if passed, would expel the Israeli ambassador to Ireland and impose sanctions against Israel.
BREAKING: Tariq Habash, a senior official in the US Department of Education, has announced his resignation, citing the Biden administration’s ongoing complicity in Israel’s war crimes.
Tonight Israel is intensely bombing Gaza.
Israel has reportedly ordered all hospitals in North Gaza to evacuate immediately. That's impossible. Thousands of patients and refugees cannot simply leave.
Israel is committing a mass atrocity against Palestinians, right now.
Lifta, a Palestinian village on the outskirts of Jerusalem, was forcibly depopulated by Israel in 1948. It has sat empty since as Israel refuses its Palestinian inhabitants their right of return. Now, Israel is planning to demolish the village to build Israeli housing units.
This is what it looks like INSIDE Al Aqsa mosque right now. Israeli forces are shooting Palestinians, spraying tear gas, and throwing stun grenades with alarming frequency—all during the holiest time of the year for Muslims.
Israeli soldiers attacked
#Palestinian
children in occupied Jerusalem today. A young Palestinian girl was rushed to the hospital after Israeli police hit her with a sound grenade.
This is life under Israeli
#apartheid
.
BREAKING: Biden lied this afternoon during a speech, saying he’d seen photos of "terrorists beheading children."
The White House immediately walked it back, saying he in fact had not seen photos, only unverified claims.
Disinformation has deadly consequences for Palestinians.
Israeli soldiers shot and killed 2-year-old Mohammad Tamimi. Mohammad died today after Israeli soldiers shot him in the head on June 1st.
The soldiers shot into his father's car while invading the Palestinian town of Nabi Saleh. Mohammad’s father is still in critical condition.
Palestinians at Eid prayer this morning at the Al-Aqsa mosque compound. Even amidst Israel’s violence, Palestinians will not be deterred from joy and celebration.
It is important to note that the Palestinians of Lifta and their descendants are still alive, and their right of return is internationally recognized. Demolishing Lifta is an Israeli effort to make sure those Palestinians can never return to their homes. That’s ethnic cleansing.
Lifta, a Palestinian village on the outskirts of Jerusalem, was forcibly depopulated by Israel in 1948. It has sat empty since as Israel refuses its Palestinian inhabitants their right of return. Now, Israel is planning to demolish the village to build Israeli housing units.
One year ago today, an Israeli soldier shot Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in the head, killing her while she was reporting in a clearly marked press vest and helmet.
Here’s what’s happened since.
Three years ago today, Israeli snipers murdered Palestinian nurse Razan al-Najjar while she was trying to treat wounded Palestinians at the Great March of Return. She was wearing clearly visible paramedic gear when Israeli forces targeted and shot her.
Israel is misleading the media by claiming to have “turned on” the water in Gaza. Crucially, that does not mean Palestinians in Gaza have access.
Israel cut off electricity, which is needed to operate water pumps. It has also bombed many of the pipes that supply them water.
BREAKING: Israel shot Palestinian journalist Mo’men Samreen in the head last night during an illegal invasion of the West Bank.
He was working, wearing a clearly-marked press vest, documenting the violence of Israeli apartheid.
Attacking him amounts to a war crime.
Israeli forces are firing stun grenades INSIDE a medical clinic. Full of medics and Palestinians THEY injured. In the middle of a pandemic. While Israel continues to deny Palestinians vaccines. Layer upon layer of violence.
Israeli mobs are marching through several cities, terrorizing Palestinians. In Bat Yam, they are attacking people in the streets and destroying shops and homes.
Israel has killed over 1,030 Palestinian children in Gaza since it began bombing on Saturday.
Israel has killed over 100 children a day.
A child every 15 minutes.
Israel is deliberately and indiscriminately slaughtering Palestinians in Gaza – wiping out entire families.
In 24 hours, Palestinians in Gaza will run out of basic needs for survival – including food and water.
Israel is starving 2 million people as it bombs their hospitals, schools, and homes.
This is “a textbook case of genocide,” according to genocide studies expert Raz Segal.
BREAKING: Progressive lawmakers in the US House of Representatives successfully removed an extra $1 billion in weapons to the Israeli military. This is a notable victory for Palestinian human rights!
The Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza has reported that 20 Palestinians, including 9 children, have been killed by Israeli air strikes today. One Palestinian was younger than 10-years-old. At least 65 others have been injured.
“We don’t know when we will die or when we will survive.” Listen to the voice of this 10-year-old Palestinian girl in Gaza, describing what it’s like to live under Israel’s murderous bombing raids that are wiping out entire families.
There is only one military occupation throwing stun grenades into crowds of Palestinian men, women, children, and the elderly who are gathered to break their fast. You can't "both sides" this.
We are extremely concerned about ongoing confrontations in Jerusalem, including on the Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount and in Sheikh Jarrah. We call on Israeli and Palestinian officials to act decisively to deescalate tensions & bring a halt to the violence.
Israel has killed at least 1395 Palestinians in just over a week since the International Court of Justice ordered it to prevent all acts of genocide in Gaza.
Today, five Palestinian children were arrested by the Israeli military while picking flowers.
This is the reality and trauma Palestinian children face while living under Israel’s brutal apartheid.
Video Credit:
@btselem
BREAKING: Josh Paul, who resigned from the US State Dept. over arms transfers to Israel, reveals Israel declared rights group
@DCIPalestine
a "terrorist org" just one day after the US asked Israel's gov't about DCI’s research on the rape of a Palestinian child in Israeli jail.
WATCH: Kinnan Abdelhamid, victim of Vermont anti-Palestinian hate crime, speaks out.
“It was almost surreal… even at the moment it was kind of moving in a nightmare.”
Part 1 of 3.
BREAKING: The House of Reps just voted to give Israel $14.3 billion in weapons—weapons that will be used to kill Palestinians.
Instead of putting a stop to Israel's ongoing war crimes, the US is choosing to deepen its complicity in Israel's genocide against Palestinians.
Yesterday, Israeli soldiers killed 11-year-old Palestinian Mohammad Abu Sara.
Today, while he was attending Mohammad’s funeral, Israeli soldiers shot and killed 20-year-old Khaled Awad.
Israel’s murderous occupation must end.
THREAD: Who is Israel’s next Prime Minister, Naftali Bennett?
Bennett is a far-right ultranationalist who staunchly opposes Palestinian statehood or self-determination of any kind in Palestine/Israel.
Israel has begun arresting family members of the six escaped Palestinian prisoners. This arrest campaign is a form of collective punishment, meant to intimidate and repress Palestinians as a whole.
WATCH: John Oliver calls out Israeli war crimes on his HBO show. His message to media outlets is they should say what Israel is doing without sanitizing the brutal reality: "Forcing people from the homes they’ve lived in for decades and killing civilians and children."
BREAKING: Just hours ago, Israeli forces began destroying the Palestinian Karama family's home in occupied Jerusalem. More ethnic cleansing in real time.
BREAKING: Israel's siege on Gaza will force Palestinian ambulance services to shut down in 24 hours due to lack of fuel.
Two hospitals in Gaza are also expected to shut down. They have siphoned all fuel and electricity to intensive care – but both will run out in 24 hours.
Israel’s violent siege has turned Gaza into the largest open-air prison in the world.
For the past 16 years, Israel has subjected the Palestinians who live there to inhumane living conditions.
No human should have to live like that.
Moments after an Israeli airstrike on Waseem al-Qoulaq's family home, he began searching for his family in the rubble. When the search concluded, Waseem found that 22 members of the al-Qoulaq family (spanning 4 generations, ages 6 months to 90 years old) were killed.
GAZA UPDATE:
- Israel has cut off all communication with the outside world
- Israel is “expanding operations” on the ground
- Israel is intensifying bombing in all areas
- Israel has killed over 7,326 Palestinians in Gaza, including at least 3,038 children in less than 3 weeks
BREAKING: Israeli police reportedly burned the Star of David onto a Palestinian refugee’s face after tying him up and brutally beating him on Wednesday.
NEW:
@IlhanMN
will introduce a measure defending the Palestinian call to boycott Israel until it ends its human rights abuses. “An opportunity for us to explain why it is we support a nonviolent movement, which is the BDS movement.”
Comedian and actor Seth Rogen says he was never told that Palestinians lived in the land that became Israel—and that he has been misled his whole life about Palestine.
WATCH: Mothers of Vermont anti-Palestinian hate crime victims Hisham Awartani and Kinnan Abdelhamid speak out.
“As far as I’m concerned, it is those words, it is that rhetoric, it’s the dehumanization of Palestinians that have led to this event.”
Part 1 of 3.
On this day 21 years ago, the world watched as Jamal al-Durrah tried to protect his 12-year-old son Muhammad from the Israeli bullets that rained down on them in Gaza. Israeli soldiers murdered Muhammad, whose final moments were caught on camera, a haunting image of the intifada.
Diana Buttu provides crucial context: Israel commits violence against Palestinians daily through its military occupation and apartheid rule.
To understand what's happening today, we have to address the root cause: Israel's decades long oppression of the Palestinian people.
BREAKING: Yasmin Salahiya reports that Israeli soldiers beat her 9-year-old little sister and aunt, who is now unable to move from her injuries, before destroying the family's home this morning.
A 10-year-old boy in the family was seen crying on the street in the pouring rain.
Israel bombed a refugee camp in Gaza. At least 5 Palestinian children were killed. Dozens are believed to still be buried under the rubble. There is no such thing as "both sides."
Is Israel an apartheid state? Hmm let’s see:
✅Palestinian citizens of Israel face 60 laws that
discriminate against them.
✅Palestinians in East Jerusalem face ethnic cleansing and discrimination in access to education, health care, employment, residency & building rights.
An Israeli soldier published this shocking video of Palestinian children who were arrested & detained by Israeli forces, with the caption “FOR SALE” in Hebrew. The Israeli soldier can be heard saying “only today, two for 100, three for 75” just before the video ends.
Today would have been the 87th birthday of Palestinian author and intellectual Ghassan Kanafani.
Assassinated by Israel in 1972, Kanafani's writings cut to the core of Israel's violent colonial project in Palestine.
He was killed for giving a voice to the oppressed.
More than 40 celebrities, including stars from Game of Thrones & Succession, released a joint letter endorsing Emma Watson’s message of solidarity with Palestinians, which was posted on her Instagram last week.
Israeli warplanes dropped a bomb on this apartment building, completely demolishing the homes of 80 Palestinian families in the blockaded Gaza Strip. Here's what the building looked like before the bombs, and after.
BREAKING: Israeli soldiers just shot a 2 year old boy in the head.
The soldiers shot into his father's car while invading the Palestinian town of Nabi Saleh. Both the boy and his father are in critical condition.
Israel has killed 26 Palestinian children so far this year.
WATCH:
@mehdirhasan
asks
@MarkRuffalo
why he speaks out for Palestinian human rights: "Anywhere there's injustice in the world, I think as an artist we have a responsibility to speak up about...that kind of inequality, that kind of oppression, that kind of apartheid."
Ben & Jerry’s has called for a ceasefire in Gaza, making it one of the first multinational companies to do so since Israel began bombing civilians in Gaza over 100 days ago.
The ICC decision to investigate war crimes in the Palestinian territories was met with ire by US State Dept officials who claim that the ICC is unfairly targeting Israel, but
@StateDeptSpox
refuses to answer where else Palestinians should turn for justice.
THREAD: Updates in Sheikh Jarrah
Israel’s Attorney General essentially just paved the way for ethnic cleansing by declining to intervene in the Sheikh Jarrah case, giving Israeli settlers a green-light to forcibly displace Palestinians in the Jerusalem neighborhood.
Right now, New Yorkers are protesting Israel’s attack on Gaza. Watch
@ZohranKMamdani
, a New York State Assemblyman, speak to the crowd on why “the struggle for Palestine is the struggle for dignity.”
⚠️Gaza Update
Humanitarian organizations that once warned of catastrophe in Gaza are now describing “apocalypse”: Israel’s relentless bombing of Palestinian society has taken it past the point of collapse.
THREAD: Human rights organizations and Palestinians are suing Biden for aiding and abetting genocide in federal court right now.
What you need to know:
Israel has suffocated Palestinians in Gaza for 16 years. That's today's key context.
For 16 years, Israel has forced Palestinians in Gaza to endure violent, inhumane siege.
Israel deprives Palestinians of their most basic rights, then kills them for protesting their oppression.
Sinéad O'Connor lent her outspoken voice to the global fight against oppression, from her home country of Ireland to apartheid South Africa and Palestine.
She was never afraid to speak truth to power, no matter the consequences.
She will be missed.
Just days apart, Israeli occupation forces shot and killed 16-year-old Saeed Odeh and 60-year-old Fahima al-Hroub. Israel's shoot-to-kill policy and its complete disregard for Palestinian life extends from the youngest to the oldest of Palestinians.
“Palestinians are at best, third class citizens in the nation of their birth. The idea that it is even remotely controversial to call what Israel has imposed on Palestinians as apartheid is laughable.” A watershed moment as Ali Velshi on MSNBC calls out Israeli apartheid.