It’s always funny to me how الله is translated as “Allah” instead of “God” so that intentionally or not (and I suspect more intentionally than not) it ends up sounding like Muslims worship some other, alternative monotheistic God of Abraham. A different one.
Anyway what I actually think we should do is just start doing this for every language. Have news stories talk about how Notre Dame is a cathedral where French Catholics pray to their god, Dieu. There’s a schism between the Russian and Ukrainian churches even though they both worship Bog. Etc.
Under international law, Israel is 100% obligated to vaccinate all the Palestinians living under its occupation, yet they have refused to provide Palestinians with vaccines since they started their vaccination campaign 6 months ago, despite the fact that 85% of Israel’s population are fully vaccinated (the highest percentage in the world) and despite the fact that Israel has been sending millions of vaccines to foreign countries in exchange for them moving their embassy to occupied Jerusalem instead of giving those vaccines to Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza.
Two days ago Israel has, oh so generously, decided to share some of the millions of vaccines that they have been hogging with the Palestinian non-Authority, but there’s just one small problem: all the vaccines that Israel has “donated” are either expired or near-expired and they were only given to Palestinians in exchange for them to give Israel a brand new vaccine shipment that’s supposed to be shipped to Palestinians this September directly from Pfizer as a form of charity, even though again, Israel is 100% obligated to vaccinate all the Palestinians without anything in return from them.
Gaza of course is left out of this deal, even though Israel bombed the ONLY COVID-19 facility in Gaza and their Ministry of Health just last month. Please keep that in mind when the media attempt to save Israel’s image by reporting on how they wanted to help out by donating vaccines, but it was the evil™ Palestinians who “refused” their generous offer.
Source for Israel giving Palestinians expired vaccines in exchange for taking their new vaccines: X, X & X.
Source for Israel giving vaccines to foreigner countries for political blackmail: X & X
Source for Israel bombing Gaza’s COVID-19 facilities and Ministry of Health: X & X
also this will make me lose all my followers BUT what you don’t see in the anti semitic media because it’s oh-so-convenient to ignore is that the idf literally calls every. single. person. who lives in building that hamas uses for storage/offices and warns them hours ahead to evacuate so they don’t get hurt.
OP we’ll be deleting your blog in a few minutes. Got some reports of Hamas hiding out in your drafts. Try not to be online when it happens, but if you are, we don’t really care
“Hey we’re reducing your home to atoms in five minutes, try to pick which of your precious family heirlooms, pets, and children you want to take with you in that time and try to get out, but if you can’t we’ll just add you to our tally of terrorists killed. Also you aren’t allowed to import any materials to rebuild the home we destroyed, we bombed the road to the hospital so the ambulance can’t come get you if you’re injured in our bombing raid, and we’re going to bomb the refugee camp you’re going to later today. Did I mention we’re the most moral army in the world?”
Also false. only a very very few receive a warning call, others receive a warning ROCKET in a technique known as roof knocking (they literally throw a rocket on civilian house’s roofs to warn them of another incoming bomb that will flatten their house in a second, usually follows the rocket in a couple of minutes), others just get bombed right away. Also, your “anti-semitic” card doesn’t work anymore, find another narrative to try to make your genocidal apartheid state look like the victim. The whole world is aware of the war crimes being committed by Israel against Palestinians, and the whole world knows that anti-zionism is not anti-semitism. fuck off.
Palestinian families huddle Tuesday, May 25th 2021, during a candlelight vigil, which condemned the killing of children and civilians, over the rubble of homes destroyed by an Israeli military strike in Gaza City. Photo by Marcus Yam
What sane country in the world arrests a 10 year old ?! In front of his younger sister ? Who begs for his freedom?
No sane country, Only Israel
Here’s what I could understand:
The girl : we’re sorry, we’re not gonna do it again. I swear. Last time please. Please don’t take him
The police man: No, It’s over
The girl I think begs some more
The police man: No, goodbye
The girl: please, do you want our father ?
Surprised ? I am barely. Because Israel is known for arresting children. You can look it up.
Here’s an extensive report from RefWorld about the brutality children go through.
Here’s the UNICEF
UNICEF calls to prevent further escalation and protect all children
In light of COVID-19 crisis, UN officials call for immediate release of all children in detention, including Palestinian children
Were they released? Of course not.
Since 2013 ,Asking for at least making the minimum age 16 and not to arrest them alone at night. Stating that no other country in the world puts children to military court.
Did that change? No. The age is still 12 . On paper. We know of children younger than that arrested, but released after a shorter time. Do you the insanity in these words ?
JERUSALEM, 6 March 2013 – UNICEF today outlined practical measures that could be adopted to improve the treatment of Palestinian children wh
“Save the Children, which surveyed 150 young adolescents, with a median age of 14, and 150 caregivers living in the coastal enclave, found that 95 percent of children interviewed displayed symptoms such as feelings of depression, hyperactivity, a preference for being alone, and aggression.”
in case you’re wondering why 95% of those children are suffering from depression, it’s because they’re living in the world’s biggest open air prison that was created by the state of Isra*el, which is also actively ethnically cleansing Palestinian people out of their land, literally stealing their houses that they built, and arresting anyone who dares stand up to the occup*ation. a modern day genocide is literally happening as we speak!!! expose Isra*el for its war crimes against my people
Hours after ceasefire, Israeli police attack Al-Aqsa mosque. They launched tear gas, rubber bullets and stun grenades at worshippers.
This is not over yet. Ceasefire does not mean the oppression of the Palestinian people is over. It does not mean Israel has been held accountable for the deaths of at least 232 Palestinians (including 61 children). It does not mean the zionist colonization has ended. They still need your support.
For those asking how come this happen after a ceasefire? It's because this is what they normally do. What we saw before was missiles and bombarding and that is what was ceased. But grenades, tear gas, and rubber bullets this is everyday life. In early Ramadan before this movement began, 2 children were shot and killed in 2 separate occasions as they were walking home for no reason but fun apparently.
Just because you didn't know about it, doesn't mean it hasn't been happening for the last 70+ years.
Beautiful #Ramadan tradition in the old city of #jerusalem. The callers who go from house to house in the early hours of the morning waking up each family by name for Qiyam and s7oor. They do so in a poetic form. Imagine being woken up daily in this beautiful way. This tradition has continued from generation to generation. Bless them #palestine
i reblog this every year, but this time i need to stress that this tradition, like many others in palestine, is now under threat. these callers are currently facing harassment, fines and detainment by israeli police who say the callers are no longer allowed to practice this tradition because “settlers living in the neighbourhood had complained about the noise”, even though these callers operate in predominantly palestinian muslim neighbourhoods.
You may have heard of what happened in Lebanon today and if not, basically, there was a big explosion in Beirut that affected many cities, destroyed shops, homes, cars, caused many injuries and deaths. The cause is uncertain.
As a fellow lebanese myself (that also lives there), today was absolutely terrifying, probably the scariest moments of my life. We heard a deafening sound as the floors were shaking. Some of us thought it was an attack, others thought it was an earthquake. As soon as it ended many expected a second one, which luckily never happened.
Here's a video of what happened that was sent to me, there are also many others that you can find online.
Windows were broken, doors wrecked, cars flipped over, buildings collapsed, people hit by flying or falling objects, and unfortunately, many didn't make it out alive.
We were one of the lucky ones, our families and friends were all safe and our homes were fine.
Some people couldn't even get out of the crumbling builings, so we saw corpses being pulled out, although some people survived the crash. But wherever we looked, there was blood, poeple were half covered in it, their shirts, pants, hair, everything. And that sight was traumatizing.
We watched the news with elders severely injured, children with blood-spattered shirts and people in pain that couldn't get in the hospitals because they were full.
Some people are missing. Just try to imagine the pain and fear their families and friends are feeling.
Articles about what happened, there are a lot more
Officials expect death toll to rise after huge blast rips through Lebanon's capital.
The explosion took place at the port shortly before 19:00 local time (18:00 CET) with a large cloud of smoke billowing over the city. Eyewit
Not only are we in the middle of a pandemic, but Lebanon is also going through a very serious economical crisis. To give you an example, before, $1 equaled 1 500 lebanese pounds. Nowadays, $1 equals more than 7 000 lebanese pounds. Not to mention that we obviously don't have any dollars at disposition, so yeah we're fucked.
People are hungry, homeless, unemployed. And even if they are getting paid, it'll be useless since the prices of everything went up because they were affected by the economical fiasco.
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Today, I heard my 7 year old cousins scream in fear that they were going to die. I saw my aunt shaking, worried that her children won't survive. I saw my dad freak out while trying to reassure us when we both knew that we were uncertain about the next minutes of our lives. I heard the panic in the trembling voices of my family and friends as they couldn't believe what had just happened. I thought my loved ones and I were going to die in the next seconds.
I'm never forgetting those moments and feelings.
I don't think signing petitions will help, i don't even know if the following links will help either, I just know Lebanon and it's people are desperate for anything because the future of this country is extremely uncertain.
https://helplebanonnow.carrd.co/
How can you help?
https://lebanoncrisis.carrd.co/
Lebanon Needs You More Than Ever. Know more about the crisis in Lebanon, sign petitions, donate or explore volunteering opportunities.
Help families, domestic workers, and refugees in Lebanon with food and other basic needs during this economic and public health crisis
I think donating to the red cross would be the most helpful, so if you are considering it, it'd be great.
There are so many great threads on twitter about what you can do to help, just search help lebanon or something to find them. Also if you can, please donate, and as I said, the lebanese pound is pretty much worthless currently so USD is way more useful to us.
