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[i-wanna-do-something]

Shireen Abu Akleh, a journalist working with AlJazeera since the Second Intifada in 2000, was shot in the head while covering Israeli raids on Jenin.

In the head. While wearing her press vest.

Another Palestinian journalist was also shot by a live bullet in the back, so far his condition is stable.

Al Jazeera reporter killed by Israeli fire in occupied West Bank

Israeli forces shot Shireen Abu Akleh in the head while she was on assignment in Jenin in the occupied West Bank.

[juiche]

I started a gofundme to help buy food for Ukrainian refugees in Germany.

Hi there!

My mum's working in a voluntary organisation in Germany that helps give food to people in need.

At the moment more and more Ukrainian refugees are joining her group every week, since the government support can only go so far.

With so many people to help, they have a shortage of food supply, and there is not enough for everyone.

If you want to support in this Ukrainian crisis, but you feel like you don't really know what your money is going into with big charities -

here is a chance to support some small cause and help volunteers purchase food for women and children who had to flee their country.

Even if you donate just a couple of dollars for a box of spaghetti, that's gonna help someone feel less alone in this crisis!

Any help is greatly appreciated and of course, reblog for exposure helps as well! :)

CLICK HERE to donate ❤️

Your friendly neighbourhood artist, Jules

[kum-mer]

New York & London

[valtunk]

[sadsongsandwaltzes]

How deep the Father's love for us

How vast beyond all measure

That He should give His only Son

To make a wretch His treasure

[kurhanchyk]

[alcestas-sloboda]

[nogi-scrapbook]

[pretordh]

Russian occupiers used banned anti-personnel mines in Kharkiv region, Human Rights Watch (HRW) reports

The mines, which were discovered by Ukrainian sappers on March 28, can indiscriminately kill and maim people within a radius of 16 meters, said HRW, adding that Ukraine does not possess this type of landmines or their delivery system.

“Countries around the world must strongly condemn Russia's use of banned anti-personnel landmines in Ukraine. These weapons make no distinction between combatants and civilians and leave a deadly legacy for years to come,” said HRW Weapons Director Steve Goose.

[tuha-nepoborna]

i haven`t seen people spread this on tumblr, so

https://mariupol.is/stories/

here is the link to the online archive dedicated to life stories of mariupol siege survivors. 

if you are a foreigner, i would highly encourage you to spread it and read them yourself. as a ukrainian, i hear those stories every day, be it through opening my social media account or through talking to my friends and acquaintances. 

for foreigners the situation is a bit different: you hear most of the information about mariupol from news and, therefore, tend to get a more polished, purely informative read. but by reading just those articles, it`s easy to forget that stories behind them are those of real people. and it`s much harder to feel as emotionally distanced when you actually see a person whose leg was torn into pieces, instead of just hearing that those people exist. 

which is why i think such projects are valuable. and which is why i would like for them to be more known. 

[pretordh]

In Kyiv, trying to secure the sights

Sculptures and monuments are sandbagged to protect them in case of hostilities.

[saywhat-politics]

Russians abroad try to get Ukraine news to relatives in their homeland

From his home in Seattle, Andrey Nokhrin sent his mother in Moscow a clip of a television editor interrupting a live Russian state-run news

PORTLAND, Ore., March 30 (Reuters) - From his home in Seattle, Andrey Nokhrin sent his mother in Moscow a clip of a television editor interrupting a live Russian state-run news bulletin to hold up a sign and shout slogans protesting the Ukraine invasion.

The editor, Marina Ovsyannikova, told Reuters earlier this month that she hoped her protest would open Russians' eyes to propaganda. read more

But his mother said the protest looked fake, as if it had been staged with a green screen, according to Nokhrin.

[sophiamamamia]

[nevver]

Tasha Levytska

[whatevergreen]

Large demonstration in Sana'a in Yemen against the war of the Saudi-led coalition that has caused one of the worst humanitarian crises of the century. After over 7 years of war, nearly 380,000 Yemenis have died and 23 million have suffered from hunger.

[politishaun-deactivated20230409]

Here’s What Russia Did in Ukraine While You Were All Squabbling Over Biden’s ‘Attack’ on Putin

Joe Biden’s off-the-cuff declaration on Saturday that Vladimir Putin “cannot remain in power,” almost immediately walked back by the White House, has dominated Western news coverage this weekend as it stepped on the message the president was trying to put out while giving a boost to the Kremlin’s fanatical propaganda claims about a “fifth column” supposedly working towards regime change in Russia.

But don’t let the wall-to-wall coverage of Biden’s “rhetorical escalation” distract you from the very literal, bloody escalations by Putin’s shock troops.

You may have heard about the six missiles Russia fired at the Ukrainian city of Lviv even as Biden was speaking just across the border.

But what about the reports of white phosphorus munitions being used by Russian troops on Saturday night—just as much of the Western world was in a tizzy over Biden’s assessment of Putin. Ukrainian forces in Avdiivka shared photos of the white phosphorus raining down, days after President Volodymyr Zelensky had warned the world that Russia was using “phosphorus bombs against peaceful people in Ukraine.”

Using a highly toxic chemical substance known for its ability to burn, as one chemical weapons expert put it, “very vigorously” through human flesh—that’s an escalation the whole world should be talking about.

Want another one?

The mayor of Slavutych on Saturday announced at least three civilian deaths as he said the northern city had been taken over by Russian troops. He said the decision to surrender was made to save civilian lives—and pleaded with relatives to come identify the bodies.

Imagine how many Ukrainians were agonizing over whether their missing loved ones were dead or alive while so many in the West focused on Biden’s speech, acting as if his comments might somehow drastically alter the trajectory of the war.

Their stories were pushed on the back burner as Western commentators speculated on how Russia might respond to Biden’s remark.

The story of survivors in Mariupol forced to bury their loved ones—or even complete strangers—in hastily dug graves in courtyards of apartment buildings.

The story of the funeral home there literally giving out empty coffins because there are so many dead bodies on the street.

“When burying the dead, put in the coffin at least some kind of information about the person,” the funeral home director, Nikolai Saparov, flatly advised on Facebook.

Ukrainians who said they’d made it out of Mariupol alive took to social media to vent about the nightmares they’d witnessed there playing on loop in their minds—and the fear that people in the West no longer want the realities of the war looping in their media feeds. That maybe it’s easier instead to nitpick over Biden’s remarks.

“Unfortunately, not many people want to hear about ripped off legs, fecal matter in buckets, and dead children with ashes instead of lungs,” one Twitter user wrote after she said she fled the devastated city.

[sailor-moon-rei]

The storks are flying home:

The storks flew home:

Oleg Shupliak Art