Dr. Yara Hawari د. يارا هواري
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Palestinian writer & co-director for @alshabaka. Podcast host of Rethinking Palestine & author of The Stone House (She/Her). Opinions expressed are my own.
Joined April 2015
This should be the headline in every major media outlet. In fact it should have been the headline in every major media outlet since the beginning of the genocide. But I guess that would be telling the truth.
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May the sea always provide for the beautiful people of Gaza. .
Fishermen in Gaza celebrate a bountiful catch, providing hope amid a critical shortage of meat in markets due to the ongoing Israeli blockade and genocide.
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There is no ceasefire for Palestinians.
BREAKING: Israeli military launches deadly attack on Jenin refugee camp in occupied West Bank
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Mbappe pulling away from Macron as he tried to console him and then trying to take the medal from his hands rather than allowing Macron to put it on him is a VIBE.
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South African lawyers sharing Israeli soldier "snuff videos", essentially videos of themselves committing mass atrocities, at the International Court of Justice is so powerful. Especially when they explain that this isn't a handful of bad apples, but rather systemic.
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Nope, Bernie. You don’t get to do this. YOU refused to call for a ceasefire.
More than 23,000 people killed. 1.9 million displaced from their homes. Children starving to death. What’s going on RIGHT NOW in Gaza is a horrific humanitarian disaster and we cannot turn our backs on it. Congress must act.
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In Gaza, children have to carry slain children.
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Never in my life did I think I would see a scene like this…. Thousands of Palestinians at Jaffa Gate (باب الخليل), waving Palestinian flags, marching in procession to bid farewell to Shireen Abu Aqleh, a daughter of the people. 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
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Let’s be very clear about something. The hundreds of thousands marching in Tel Aviv right now, demanding a ceasefire deal & the resignation of Netanyahu are not doing so in protest of the genocide. They are doing so in protest of how the genocide has been carried out: no.
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A Christmas message from Rev. @MuntherIsaac. “If you are not appalled by what is happening in Gaza…there is something wrong with your humanity… we, the Palestinian people, will recover… but for those who are complicit, I feel sorry for you. Will you ever recover from this?”
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Palestinians in Gaza are reporting that last night was one of the worst since the beginning of the genocide. Reminder; just because coverage has dropped in the mainstream media does NOT mean things have eased up. The genocide continues unabated and with international.
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1/6 Zionists are having a meltdown because of "Farha" - a film that depicts the story of a Palestinian girl during the 1948 ethnic cleansing of Palestine. The girl witnesses the depopulation of her village & the murder of a Palestinian family including children.
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How can the ICJ ask the Israeli regime to prevent acts of genocide and not call for a ceasefire?.
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As of 2pm local time, Gaza's only power plant ran out of fuel. This means that vital services, including hospitals, will soon no longer function. Those running on generators will also soon run out. Make no mistake about it, this is ethnic cleansing.
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It's phenomenal that people still don't get it. THERE IS NO SAFE PLACE IN GAZA. CNN Interviewer; Let us know if you need to go into a bomb shelter. Dr Barbara Zind: There are no bomb shelters here.
“There are no bomb shelters here.” . Sounds of Israeli strikes could be heard in the background of a CNN interview with an American doctor, Dr. Barbara Zind, stuck in the besieged enclave of Gaza. 🎥: CNN
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The Arab peoples are not their regimes.
Bahrainis are protesting against normalisation, against the presence of an Israeli Embassy in Manama, and against the US naval base
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It's pretty laughable that the Oscars have publicly stated they don't condone violence after the Will Smith/ Chris Rock live smackdown when they have consistently given out awards to films which glorify bombing the Middle East to pieces.
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CCTV footage of Israeli soldiers gang raping a Palestinian detainee at the Sde Teiman prison camp is being shared on Israeli media channels. But its not being shared on Western mainstream news channels. Why?. Because the systematic sexual abuse and torture that 1000s of.
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The Israeli regime has notified the UN that 1.1 million Palestinians have less than 20 hours to evacuate the northern part of Gaza. So many roads have been destroyed & most don't have vehicles. They know that this is impossible. This is ethnic cleansing & the world knows it.
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DO NOT take your eyes away from Sheikh Jarrah or from Palestine. The ethnic cleansing and destruction has not ceased. #SaveSheikhJarrah.
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Babies are freezing to death and journalists are still getting bombed in their cars. Gaza.
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There is no doubt about it that an ethnic cleansing is taking place in Gaza.
Palestinian academic @yarahawari tells @KamaliMelbourne 'this was not a provocation by Hamas. The Israeli regime has for decades placed Palestinians under colonial occupation.'. She adds that 'the level of dehumanisation is astounding.'. 📺 Sky 501
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A 15 year old Palestinian boy, Karim Jarrar, was arrested in Jenin for delivering supplies to a besieged hospital on his bicycle.
NEWS | At least 30 Palestinians have been detained by Israeli forces in the West Bank over the past 24 hours, Palestinian Prisoners Society confirmed. Among them is 15-year-old Karim Jarrar from Jenin, who became known for delivering essential supplies on his bicycle to the
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Babies in Gaza who have been born during the genocide are being killed in the genocide.
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The age group most killed in the ongoing genocide in Gaza are 5 to 9 year-olds. Sit with that.
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So @GiGiHadid announced that she will be donating money to Ukraine & Palestine. @voguemagazine posted about this & edited it shortly after removing the word Palestine. This is erasure 101. And if this happens to Gigi, imagine what happens to the rest of us.
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Since the start of this 4 day truce the Israeli regime has released 117 Palestinians from their jails & in that same time they've incarcerated 116 new Palestinian prisoners from areas across the occupied West Bank.
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The fact that the very few people in Gaza who are still able to access the internet start every social media post with "I am still alive" tells you everything you need to know.
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What is this world.
BREAKING| Rescue teams pull out a wounded little girl following an Israeli strike on eastern Rafah, Gaza.
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. in case you were wondering. This is how it is done.
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International doctors in Gaza are testifying over and over again that Israeli snipers are shooting Palestinian children in the head.
"We had children that were hit with such high velocity bullet wounds, exactly where I would put my stethoscope. And then they were shot perfectly in their temple and their brains were missing. No child gets shot twice by mistake." @mperlmuttermd on what he saw in Gaza
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The Israeli regime has given Al Awda Hospital in Gaza two hours to evacuate. Many of the patients can’t be moved. This isn’t just murder. It’s genocide.
🔴BREAKING: . Israel has given Al Awda Hospital just two hours to evacuate. Our staff are still treating patients. We unequivocally condemn this action, the continued indiscriminate bloodshed and attacks on health care in Gaza. We are trying to protect our staff and patients.
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Disgusting. Not a single mention of the 40,000+ Palestinians killed by the Israeli regime in Gaza. Shame on all of you.
A joint statement from the leaders of France, Germany and the United Kingdom on the Middle East.
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What a way to get around saying a child was tortured to death in an Israeli prison.
A teenager from the West Bank who was held in an Israeli prison for six months without being charged died after collapsing in unclear circumstances, becoming the first Palestinian under 18 to die in Israeli detention, officials said.
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Liberal Zionists like Bernie Sanders are scrambling to scapegoat Netanyahu for the genocide in Gaza. In doing so, they can obscure from the reality- that it is a massive, globally complicit apparatus that has enabled the Israeli regime to continue so violently & unabated in.
Mr. Netanyahu, antisemitism is a vile and disgusting form of bigotry that has done unspeakable harm to millions. Do not insult the intelligence of the American people by attempting to distract us from the immoral and illegal war policies of your extremist and racist government.
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Don’t buy into the “Israel is unstoppable”narrative. Just last week Israel secured a $8.7 billion military aid package from the US. Meanwhile the EU is its second largest supplier of weapons. Israel can actually be stopped from dropping bombs on Palestinian and Lebanese.
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Seeing as everyone is talking about football. In June 2014 the Israeli regime fired missiles at a beach in Gaza, killing 4 boys playing football aged 10-11 from the Bakr family. The attack happened in front of international journalists who were sitting at a beach side cafe.
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Israeli regime soldiers unleashed a combat dog on a Palestinian man with Down syndrome, Mohammed Bhar, which mauled him to death. His family were then forced out of the house and neighbourhood at gun point. One week later the eventually made it back, only to discover his.
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No one, and I mean no one, should break bread with this man. Not during Ramadan, not ever.
Honoured to receive such hospitality and generosity at an iftar this week during the holy month of Ramadan. It was a pleasure to pay tribute to the enormous contribution British Muslims make to our national life.
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We told you so. In fact we’ve told you for decades. The reason Netanyahu can spout this kind of fascism and colonial violence is because of decades of impunity and international complicity.
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Together. In the ethnic cleaning and erasure of Gaza. Shame on all of you.
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It's not just Sheikh Jarrah, its also Silwan, Lifta, Al Araqib. This is Palestine.
The Israeli Occupation Authorities ordered the residents of the Bustan neighborhood in Silwan to demolish their own homes within 21 days or pay the municipality for the demolition fees. #SaveSilwan
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Israel is wiping out entire families in Gaza. Like the Abu Hatab family where 8 kids & 2 women were killed by the Israeli army who fired a missile at their home in the Shati refugee camp. This is a massacre & the whole world is watching.
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Within less the 24 hours of the prisoner exchange, Israeli forces arrested at least 65 Palestinians across the West Bank including a 7 year old CHILD.
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21 yr old Palestinian student, Layan Nasir, was arrested by the Israeli forces on 07.07.2021. She was taken to Ofer Prison where she was interrogated & charged with participation in a leftist student bloc- she recognised her right to remain silent throughout. Freedom for Layan.
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There are now countless videos of Israeli regime soldiers & officials casually talking about killing Palestinian kids. This isn’t a few bad apples, it’s an entire regime. No one can say they didn’t know.
“We are looking for babies but there is no babies left, I killed a girl that was 12, but we’re looking for babies”. A circulating video shows an Israeli soldier bragging about killing Palestinian babies and children.
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What a piece of shit.
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The West Bank is on fire. Israeli regime forces are laying siege to multiple Palestinian localities including Shu’afat refugee camp and Nablus. Israeli settlers are rampaging around armed to the teeth. We are on the edge of something huge.
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Israeli regime airstrikes have hit Al Ahli hospital in central Gaza where thousands of people were sheltering & receiving treatment from previous bombardments. One doctor said that he suspects hundreds have been killed.
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Palestinians in Gaza were praying for an ICJ ruling that included a ceasefire. It didn’t happen.
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Seventy four years of continued resistance against Zionist settler colonialism. I’m proud of my people. 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸.
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The Israeli regime has claimed it has “turned on” the water supply in the southern part of Gaza. What they are not saying is that they’ve destroyed so many of the water pipes and that electricity is needed for the water pumps. Read through the propaganda folks.
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After telling people to evacuate the Israeli regime bombed them. No more words.
🚨🚨 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.
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To all the Israelis out there talking about Israel's benevolence for allowing Palestinians to be treated in Israeli hospitals, imma say this loud & clear; IT IS LITERALLY A REQUIREMENT UNDER INTERNATIONAL LAW TO PROVIDE FOR THE POPULATION YOU OCCUPY & 9 TIMES OUT OF 10 YOU DONT.
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Being Palestinian is the greatest honour of my life.
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The Israeli regime is attacking Palestinians across colonised Palestine. Last night at a demonstration in Nazareth, Israeli regime forces attacked and arrested a young Palestinian girl.
🚨BREAKING🚨: Fully armed Israeli soldiers attack and arrest young Palestinian girl, Hanaa Daher, during a peaceful demonstration in Nazareth tonight.
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The man is a war criminal. The man is a war criminal. The man is a war criminal.
Tony Blair open to becoming Israel’s ‘humanitarian coordinator’ in Gaza.
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The Israeli authorities are reducing the Ramallah water supply to 40%. Palestinian autonomy is a myth.
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A Palestinian man who’s son is taken by Israeli police is badly beaten on his head for demanding his son is returned to him at Damascus Gate…. This isn’t an exception. It’s standard practice by Israeli regime forces.
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Horrific testimonies of rape at the hands of Israeli soldiers continue to emerge from Gaza….
🧵: "They forced us to undress, then dragged us back outside by our hair”. Dozens of Palestinian women and girls reported sexual abuses committed against them by Israeli forces during the storming of Kamal Adwan hospital in Gaza last month. Here are some of their stories ⤵️
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Approx. 0.16% of the Palestinian population in the West Bank & Gaza (who live under Israeli sovereignty & military occupation) have received both doses of the vaccine. Meanwhile over 50% of Israel's population has received both doses. This is what medical apartheid looks like.
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Over 5200 Palestinians are held captive in Israeli prisons, of which 170 are children & 33 are women. They are held in direct contravention of international law, in horrific conditions, often tortured & interrogated & deprived of Red Cross access. Free them all, free them now.
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This is not being covered in the western mainstream media 👇🏽.
Nicaragua has asked the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to order Germany to stop weapons exports to Israel with 'extreme urgency'. Lawyers for the Central American nation say Germany’s ongoing military aid makes it complicit in possible genocide.
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. on International Women's Day the Israeli police raided a women's center in the Palestinian Al Tur neighborhood in Jerusalem in order to shut down an exhibition entitled "Palestinian Heritage is My Identity" established on the occasion of this day.
המשטרה פשטר על מרכז נשים בשכונת אלטור בירושלים ומנעה הקמת תערוכת"המורשת הפלסטינית היא הזהות שלי" שהוקמה לרגל יום האישה הבינלאומי
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1/2 Today, tens of thousands of Palestinians (including myself)will be on strike across colonised Palestine & beyond. Why? Because the Israeli settler-colonial regime & military occupation has suffocated us & attempted to extinguish all possibility for the past 73 years. .
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Instagram is deleting Palestinian activists’ stories on the ethnic cleansing happening in Sheikh Jarrah. This is not a conspiracy, this is not a fluke. Social media companies have been & will always be antithetical to revolution & resistance. #SaveSheikhJarrah.
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The Israeli regime is using white phosphorus on Gaza again. This is a poisonous chemical substance dispersed in artillery shells & bombs. It ignites on contact with oxygen & burns when it comes into contact with skin. When inhaled it causes serious damage to internal organs.
BREAKING| Israeli military forces use poisonous white phosphorus weaponry on heavily populated districts in the north of Gaza.
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Palestinian political prisoner Khalil Awawdah has ended his hunger strike after 182 days having secured his release from Israeli detention. He has lost more than half his body weight. As he took his first sip of tea this evening, Khalil saluted the Palestinian people.
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5/6The Palestinian narrative is so dangerous to Zionists because it shows the Israeli regime to be what it is: a rather unexceptional settler colonial enterprise built on ethnic cleansing of Palestine’s indigenous population.
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Ukrainians fleeing war and violence should be given shelter and refuge. Now take out the word "Ukrainian" and replace it with Syrians, Afghanis, Palestinians etc. If you have a problem with this latter statement, you are a racist. Seek immediate help.
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The Israeli regime systematically targets Palestinian children for arrest and abuse like in the video below. Currently there are 160 Palestinian children detainees in Israeli jails with 20 of them being held in solitary detention.
Grown Zionist man kneeling on the chest of a child just moments ago in occupied Jerusalem. Yet if you criticize the systemic targeting of children, you’re “invoking an trope.” Yawn.
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Because war and devastation is ok in “developing, third world” nations… 🙄.
'Now the unthinkable has happened to them, and this is not a developing, third world nation, this is Europe.'
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I think I’ve found it. the video that tops all videos. ولعت 🔥🔥🔥
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🧵1/4 Israeli journalists at the Qatar World Cup are being shunned left, right & center by fans, particularly from the Middle East but also beyond. They are even having to lie to & deceive interviewees- claiming to be German or Ecuadorian just to get them to speak to the camera.
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I am so proud of Palestinian women. They return to the streets every time, in full knowledge that their bodies might be weaponised against them. Palestinian women carry the revolution, not as baby machines, but as revolutionaries & fighters.
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Fucking bastards.
The Israeli settler who attacked an elderly Palestinian lady got a well-deserved beating.
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Palestinians just die. They are not killed. No. We just die. We can’t help it. We just drop down dead. @SkyNews & others using passive language to describe Palestinians being killed by the strongest nuclear power in the region is deliberate. Disgusting.
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3/6 I didn’t need this film to tell me whole families were killed during the Nakba because it happened to my family. The problem for Zionists is not the story of the film, it’s that Palestinians are telling it. Indeed there is a plethora of films that depict Israeli atrocities.
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Mahmoud and Ahmad Muna, owners of the Educational Bookshop in Jerusalem, were arrested by Israeli regime forces yesterday. Their crime? Selling books on Palestine.
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2/6 The Nakba, or 1948 ethnic cleansing, is documented by the 1000s of Palestinian & even Zionist archival sources. But most of all, it is documented by the people that it happened to. The story of Farha is the story EVERY Palestinian has inherited from the Nakba generation.
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These are the countries that abstained or voted against the UN General Assembly resolution for an International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling on the illegal nature of the Israeli occupation of the 1967 territories.
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This is so sick. Elbit Systems have developed a suicide drone that can enter homes undetected. The promotional video, with its palm trees & yellow dusty filter, tells you exactly who the targets will be. Elbit Systems & other companies like it need to be shut down.
This isn't a parody. It's a promotion video for a new suicide drone capable of entering Palestinian homes undetected, made by Israel's largest weapons firm, Elbit Systems #ShutElbitDown
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Since the beginning of the invasion of Gaza by Israeli regime forces we have heard hundreds of testimonies from Palestinians of sexual assault. Today, a UN agency finally reports on it in a press release;.
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6/6 A note for the allies; continue to uplift the film & Palestinian experiences of Zionist settler colonialism. And stop making space for shooting & crying. It is not progressive to admit to war crimes if you know there will never be any consequences for your crimes.
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We will never forget nor forgive those that aided and abetted genocide.
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Statement for sharing (thread). 1/4 Israel has declared war against Palestinians who dare to resist its colonial project and demand freedom. Today, the Israeli police announced their intent to arrest over 500 Palestinian citizens of Israel over the next 48 hours.
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A 16 year old Palestinian girl was shot in the head by an Israeli sniper as she looked out the window of her home near Jenin. But the BBC won’t write that. Instead they put scare quotes around ‘killed in her own home’ so you question whether it happened or not.
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Ethnic cleansing and forced evictions are not a “Palestinian perspective” on the situation. They are a fact. I need a better poker face because clearly explaining our lived reality over and over is exhausting me. #SaveSheikhJarrah
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Remember Layan? . Access to the Israeli court's charge sheet reveals that they are charging her with "walking around the university discussing politics, organizing a hike for her friends, visiting students recently released from prison." . Layan continues to await her "trial".
21 yr old Palestinian student, Layan Nasir, was arrested by the Israeli forces on 07.07.2021. She was taken to Ofer Prison where she was interrogated & charged with participation in a leftist student bloc- she recognised her right to remain silent throughout. Freedom for Layan.
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Roshdi posted this 5 days ago. Today, he was killed in an Israeli regime bombardment.
A lack of media coverage from Gaza . due to the killing more than 12 journalists, the bombing, and the blackout of electricity and the Internet. However, we are still trying to withstand and continue coverage so the world can see the israili crimes in Gaza.
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In the 10 days that Israel was bombing Gaza this last month Palestinians were inundated with media requests. Now that there's a ceasefire & we're back to the standard slow violent routine of colonial occupation & siege the requests have petered out. Interesting. #savesheikhjarrah.
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The Palestinian Authority is beginning rounds of arrest, targeting Palestinians who mobilised in the last few weeks. They fear challenge to the Israeli colonial occupation because it’s what keeps them in place. #palestinerisingup.
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An Israeli MK (member of parliament) from Likud- Netanyahu's party- stated that it is legitimate to rape Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons. These are not fringe politicians. These are from the ruling party whose leader was given a hero's welcome in the US congress a few.
MK Ahmad Tibi (TA'AL): To insert a stick in a person's rectum, is that legitimate???.MK Hanoch Milwidsky (Likud): Yes! If he is a Nukhba everything is legitimate to do him!. Some of you have probably already heard about the events in Sde Teiman concentration camp today: MPs came
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As we receive news that a ceasefire in Gaza has been reached, Israeli regime forces strike Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank.
Breaking | Multiple injuries were reported due to an Israeli airstrike targeting the Al-Damaj neighborhood in Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank.
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4/6 The difference is that they are Israeli made. They range from glorifying the violence they inflicted & inflict on Palestinians to the classic shooting & crying documentary. In all cases, they are attempts to erase Palestinians & their narratives from the historical record.
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This is 11 year old Nawar. The young Palestinian girl who was injured by Israeli regime forces yesterday at Damascus Gate.
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Breaking news: a bunch of human rights abusing, war mongering countries are signing agreements normalising relations between them in exchange for weapons and money.
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