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Background image is from pinterest, I don't remember the artist's name.

I also post in German.
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Jo Kaur @SikhFeminist A sweet 4 year-old girl who was diagnosed with my son Riaan's disease - Cockayne syndrome - died after her feeding tube was ripped out at school in VA. Her parents are trying to raise awareness & demand answers. Pls sign this petition & help their efforts:
February 24, 2025 at 5:27 AM
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Please donate if you can. The fundraiser is off to a good start. 20,000£ is the goal. They're at £13,563 right now.

Also, their fundraising video was removed from tiktok (!!!), so it's important that word gets out for this important work!

Thank you.

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Budget We're asking for £20,000 which will allow the clinic to be immediately launched and cover the costs of providing free medical care to Palestinians for 2 months, with an expectation of serving approximately 200 Palestinians a day. As an estimate, the following costs are anticipated within this time: Building Structure (inc renovation, fixtures and fittings): £5000 Medical Equipment (inc patient beds, vital sign monitors, intravenous drips): £3000 Staff Costs x 4 (1 doctor, 2 medically trained nurses, 1 logistician) : £5000 Water +Energy: £2000 Fund for Individual Patient Medication & Treatment Costs: £5000
February 18, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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US & Canadian universities hire Israeli firms to curb pro-Palestinian protests.

Screenshots from @aljazeeraenglish.bsky.social live updates from today

Link to archived article w/more details here: archive.ph/qY0kr

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US, Canadian universities hire Israeli firms to curb pro-Palestinian protests: Report A report published on Saturday by the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth says that several universities in both the US and Canada have entered into agreements with Israel-linked security companies to suppress pro-Palestinian protests occurring on their campuses. The report notes that after the election of Donald Trump, who pledged to penalise academic institutions that failed to control “radicals and Hamas supporters,” a number of universities in both countries turned to Israeli security firms to manage pro-Palestinian protests. The year 2024 saw a wave of campus uprisings across the West in support of Palestine and against Israel’s war on Gaza. Students largely demanded their institutions end investments in Israel and Israeli companies. The City University of New York (CUNY), a major hotspot for protests last year, has recently signed a $4m contract with Strategy Security Corp. This company, owned by Yosef Sordi, a former New York City police officer, has publicly disclosed his professional training in Israel. Concordia University in Montreal, Canada, also enlisted two Israeli security firms: Perceptage International, led by Adam Cohen, the former head of security for the Israeli Central Court in Jerusalem, and Moshav Security Consulting, operated by Eyal Feldman, a former Israeli army reserve commander and ex-advisor to the Israeli Ministry of Defence.
December 7, 2024 at 5:18 PM
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Showing clickable icons for gift certificates, t-shirts, and tote bags. Link to page: https://open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/
November 29, 2024 at 4:56 PM
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Today:
Ahmed from Gaza @Ahmed_Nashwan_ 11:40 in Gaza now. Can you imagine people standing in line, waiting for the bakery to open tomorrow morning just to get bread? The southern part of Gaza is experiencing a real famine and a severe shortage of bread. It's terrifying because we've managed to endure the lack of fruits, vegetables, and meat, but now it's bread's turn. The occupation is killing us with hunger! Can you imagine that 25 kilograms of flour now costs $200 in southern Gaza? Please, do not let Gaza die of hunger. Hunger has worn down our bodies and those of our children and elders. Enough is enough, stop the genocide! 4:41 PM EST · Nov 19, 2024
November 19, 2024 at 11:01 PM
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This is their official account:
This is the official account: Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social 593 followers 108 following 51 posts Writers, artists and educators organizing classes and workshops to raise money for Palestinians: workshops4gaza.com 🇵🇸 Image copyright: Middle East Eye / Haroon James https://bsky.app/profile/workshops4gaza.bsky.social
November 17, 2024 at 11:37 PM
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This account is not the official Workshops for Gaza Account. The real account is active, and has the same image as their Twitter account.
This is not the official account: Workshops 4 Gaza @workshops4gaza.com.web.brid.gy 272 followers 0 following 0 posts Workshops for Gaza is a group of autonomous writers, artists, and educators organizing online classes and workshops to raise money for Palestinians. [bridged from workshops4gaza.com on the web: fed.brid.gy/web/workshop... ] https://bsky.app/profile/workshops4gaza.com.web.brid.gy
November 17, 2024 at 11:33 PM
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From Twitter today by: Abubaker Abed
@AbubakerAbedW

"Seba Awwad, 9, massacred by Israel in the school-turned-shelter massacre at Al-Shati Refugee Camp that killed 10 and maimed more than 20 a few hours ago.

Here she is in the video reciting Surat Al-Masad."

#StopGazaGenocideNow
#ArmsEmargoNow
a little brunette, brown-eyed girl wearing a yellow coat with her arms crossed. a still photo of a video
November 16, 2024 at 8:51 PM
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From Twitter an hour ago.

Please: #AllEyesOnGaza

#StopGazaGenocideNow
Abubaker Abed @AbubakerAbedW A sharp increase in attacks in central Gaza, amounting to more killings and wounds transferred to Al-Awda and Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah. Israeli warplanes and drones are ceaselessly hovering in the sky along with an abruptly discreet appearance of Apache jets. 2:46 PM · Nov 16, 2024 ·
November 16, 2024 at 8:46 PM
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most memorable closing
...and we will go from one to the other and let them destroy themselves...one to the other...one to the other... The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy - and a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all of its own - for the children, and for the children yet unborn. And, the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to The Twilight Zone. -Closing narrative from the episode: "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street" (Rod Sterling)
November 16, 2024 at 5:00 AM
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Posted on twitter today by: Nicola Perugini

"The Israeli occupation forces destroyed all the dialysis machines at al-Shifa Hospital on purpose – 60 machines catering to 350 patients, including children"
Kidney patients fight to survive after Israeli soldiers destroy dialysis machines For kidney patients in Gaza, the war threatens their access to life-sustaining treatment. "Now I am only treated twice a week, two hours each, and this is not sufficient to sustain my kidney," Omda Ouda Dogomash said. "Needless to say, we are starving, cannot find clean water and are living in tents. Even the routine medications are no longer available."
November 15, 2024 at 11:22 PM
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Hunger strike in Jordan:

#StopGazaGenocideNow
#ArmsEmbargoNow
Auto-translation from Arabic. Twitter post: Today marks 14 days since young men and women in Jordan have been on a complete hunger strike. Some of them have started to faint. Their demand is simple, clear and direct: to pressure the government to try to bring in 500 trucks to northern Gaza. This high moral and emotional solidarity is not easy and not simple. We will never forget this solidarity with our suffering for the rest of our lives. izzeddin @izzeddinshaheen 11:24 AM EST · Nov 14, 2024
November 15, 2024 at 7:46 PM
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Just now.

#StopGazaGenocideNow
Majd @Majdomar__ translation from Arabic: Before the war, the city was a city where dreams died, despite some of its shiny appearance. After the war, it became a city where dreams, lovers, children, women, relatives, neighbors, hopes, ambitions, animals, relationships, brotherhood, families, homes, and neighborhoods died—in which those who had not yet died wished for death every moment. Was this translation accurate? Give us feedback so we can improve: 12:56 PM · Nov 15, 2024 كانت المدينة قبل الحرب مدينة تموت فيها الأحلام، على الرغم من بعض مظهرها البراق، وصارت بعد الحرب، مدينة تموت فيها الأحلام والأحباب والأطفال والنساء والأقارب والجيران والآمال والطموح والحيوانات والعلاقات والأخوة والعائلات والبيوت والأحياء— فيها من لم يمت بعد، يتمنى الموت كل لحظة.
November 15, 2024 at 6:20 PM
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@muhammadshehad2 "🚨Israeli soldiers lavishing themselves with daily BBQ parties, air-conditioned accommodation, & soccer matches in Gaza on top of our fully razed depopulated towns...only meters away from corpses they killed being eaten by dogs, & acutely starved, overcrowded, daily bombed kids!"
"We slept in reinforced containers with electrical outlets, air conditioning and everything, it was at a higher level than most of the outposts I was in during my service," an officer who served at the end of the summer at an outpost near the Netzarim corridor told Haaretz. "We had a dairy kitchen and a meat kitchen [for purposed of kashrut], a synagogue that was brought in, and the war room was also inside a protected container." He said the feeling was that it was another front in the Gaza border area or in the West Bank, not a temporary arrangement in a danger zone. "We went around without helmets and without ceramic vests, and played soccer inside the post," he added. "We grilled meat outside almost every night. There wasn't a sense of being in a war zone." The conditions have even improved in the two months or so since then. Together with the emptying out of northern Gaza's civilian population, the area turned into a kind of military enclave. Senior political and defense officials reiterate that the evacuation of northern Gaza is not part of the "Generals' Plan," which calls for imposing a siege on the area and emptying it of civilians, and also holds that the withholding of humanitarian aid is legitimate. Muhammad Shehada @muhammadshehad2 🚨Israeli soldiers lavishing themselves with daily BBQ parties, air-conditioned accommodation, & soccer matches in Gaza on top of our fully razed depopulated towns... only meters away from corpses they killed being eaten by dogs, & acutely starved, overcrowded, daily bombed kids! 6:43 AM · Nov 14, 2024
November 15, 2024 at 3:52 AM
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From @AbubakerAbedW just now (twitter)
My dear neighbor, we always pray side by side and you check on me. May God compensate you with good, honor you, be pleased with you, heal you & cure you...
حبيبي يا جار، دايمًا بنصلي جنب بعض ورجل جنب رجل وبتفقدني، ربنا يعوضك خير ويكرمك ويرضى عنك ويشفيك ويعافيك..
A Palestinian senior citizen man sitting in an emergency room (in Gaza) with an IV in his arm. He has thinning white hair, a beard, and his face is covered in what appears to be a light coating of ash or dust. He is looking off to the side, exhausted, forlorn.
November 15, 2024 at 1:46 AM
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Glenn Greenwald November 11, 2024 from twitter @ggreenwald When the full record of the US-funded-and-armed destruction of Gaza is cemented into history -- and the evidence of it is already abundant -- it will be seen (as it already is by much of the world) as the worst moral atrocity and crime against humanity in the 21st Century: Quote tweeting: "We are here suffering, being killed, besieged and starving." Posted today by Gaza journalist @HossamShabat
November 11, 2024 at 11:19 PM
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Caption: Mohammed from Gaza
@ssiiiaaamm

I BEG U, DONT IGNORE!! Once again, I ask you for urgent help to help me buy asthma sprinklers for my little sister who needs to be sprayed every week, & because of the blockade, asthma sprinklers are expensive, pls Donate & retweet 🚨👇 gofund.me/344b2b0c "
Image description: a person holding an asthma inhaler
October 26, 2024 at 1:47 AM
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What is this world anymore?

cw: just awful I don't know what else to say.

#StopGazaGenocideNow
#ArmsEmbargoNow
Motasem A Dalloul @AbujomaaGaza A mother from #Jabalia says: “They took all the children from their mothers and put them inside what resembled a pit or a hole. The tank came to circle around them repeatedly until their bones cracked under the pressure of dust and sand, amidst the screams of children and the wailing of mothers. “After that, the soldiers came and started throwing the children towards the mothers, and whoever caught a child was ordered to carry him and move away quickly, with no guarantee that the child would be their own. “Many mothers carried children who were not their own, and were forced to leave with them, leaving their own children in the hands of other mothers. This marked the beginning of a new chapter of suffering, with mothers searching for their children in the arms of other women, trying to calm the children they held until they found their real mothers.“ 7:17 AM · Oct 23, 2024 · 549.5K Views
October 23, 2024 at 5:57 PM
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#BeitLahia
From twitter 19 Oct. 2024: Philip Proudfoot 🇱🇧🇵🇸 @PhilipProudfoot It is time for a UN Emergency Military Force. Enact Uniting For Peace and assemble a coalition that will uphold the responsibility to protect. Jehad Abusalim @JehadAbusalim The Beit Lahia massacre Israel just committed is even worse than initially thought. The death toll has now surpassed 70, mostly women and children, all from a single airstrike. Dozens more are injured or missing, and the numbers are rising as many are still unaccounted for.
October 19, 2024 at 9:55 PM
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From Twitter today

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August 28, 2024 at 9:56 PM
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Please read. ⬇️

www.metamates4ceasefire.com
Paul Biggar 🇵🇸🇮🇪 @paulbiggar Meta employees publish an open letter to management (see below) to show how meta has promoted the genocide. This is how the suppression happens 🧵 3:01 PM · May 7, 2024 · 45.2K Views
May 7, 2024 at 8:04 PM
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Taleed El-Sabawi, JD, PhD @el_sabawi They didn’t even give Palestinians with disabilities the time to evacuate from Rafah. 😭 6:05 PM · May 6, 2024 · 5,374 Views
May 6, 2024 at 11:44 PM
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Bisan and Motaz have called for a global strike on December 11th. Some people are confused on the call to actions so we'll outline them here: Do not shop anywhere. Do not use your bank. Do not spend any money on that day. Do not go to work. If you have children in school, call them out. If you are in University, call yourself out. If there are rallies in your city, go to them. Keep posting about Gaza. You do what you can, if you have appointments, important work, an exam, then do what you need to and refrain from everything else. Ceasefire Now!
December 11, 2023 at 3:05 AM
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August 15, 2023 at 10:53 PM