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DK Large 🇵🇸 🇨🇺🪁 retweeted
Israeli forces killed at least 19 Palestinian children in #Gaza in October, an average of one child every 35 hours. Children have been killed at home, on the ruins of their houses and while returning from lessons.
These are the children behind that toll: their faces, their names and the lives Israel cut short ⤵️
DK Large 🇵🇸 🇨🇺🪁 retweeted
Ukraine did this after Cuba spent hundreds of millions of dollars treating thousands of sick Ukrainian children from Chernobyl. Cuba spent 20 years providing specialised care they couldn't afford in Ukraine. Ukraine paid nothing, voting to starve Cuba was their payment I guess.
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Two pictures emerge from this vote.
On one hand, the majority of humanity once again takes a stand against the genocidal US embargo.
On the other, the number of countries opposing it has fallen precipitously.
In 2022, I watched this same vote play out live from Caracas. Then, only two countries voted against: the US and Israel. Two abstained: Ukraine and Brazil.
This year, the US appears to have strong-armed another 40 countries to either vote against or abstain. This is one barometer of the dramatic corrosion of political sovereignty that we are witnessing as empire enters its long decline.
DK Large 🇵🇸 🇨🇺🪁 retweeted
Please, I urge the world to take this tweet seriously.
Gaza is on the verge of facing another catastrophe. The rain is coming, and hundreds of thousands of families have no shelter to protect them.
Tens of thousands of tents line the seashore, where families have nowhere else to go. Hundreds of thousands of people are living among the ruins of destroyed homes that may not withstand heavy rain.
The tents we live in are torn and worn out. They were designed to provide temporary shelter for a few months, yet we have been living in them for three years. When the rain comes, water will pour into our tents, leaving children and sick people exposed to the cold and flooding, with no protection at all.
Why must we live in such constant fear? Why don't we deserve a normal life, a safe home, and a winter we don't have to dread? Why must our children face this same fate year after year?
Why must the world watch us drown every winter before taking action, instead of intervening now to prevent this catastrophe?
Talk about Gaza. Do not remain silent. We are not asking for the impossible. We are asking for our basic right to live in safety and dignity, without fearing the rain as much as we fear the war.
DK Large 🇵🇸 🇨🇺🪁 retweeted
The removal of 400,000 cubic meters of accumulated solid waste from Gaza City's historic Firas Market, with support from South #Korea.
DK Large 🇵🇸 🇨🇺🪁 retweeted
Firas is beloved assassinated journalist @HossamShabat’s brother. Please help him and Hossam’s family by donating and sharing
Beyond our daily battle for food and basic survival a harsh arrival of winter has made warm clothes a matter of urgent necessity. Juggling all of this at once is an overwhelming daily struggle. Any compassion you show will mean more than words can express
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DK Large 🇵🇸 🇨🇺🪁 retweeted
Great tips from Brazil on how they turned things around for Lula online and offline:
1. Don’t ever engage, block far-right accounts immediately.
2. Don't debunk, focus on making new content on your platform.
3. Use all the tools at your disposal.
4. Be equally online and offline.
DK Large 🇵🇸 🇨🇺🪁 retweeted
you don’t have to feel sorry for a biomedical engineer from gaza.
you can believe in what he might become.
i’ve repaired medical machines during a war. now i’m fighting for a master’s scholarship.
i’ve already proved what i can do in gaza. now imagine what i could achieve with the right opportunities. 🇵🇸
DK Large 🇵🇸 🇨🇺🪁 retweeted
The Phoenix Library, which was built as the first library in Gaza during the genocide, needs your support to stay open. It is going through very difficult conditions and facing high operational costs.
After students, readers, and poets finally found a sanctuary in Gaza, the library is now on the verge of closing. Please do not deprive them, and do not deprive the children of reading and having a safe space to rest.
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DK Large 🇵🇸 🇨🇺🪁 retweeted
Over half of Jewish schools in the UK are teaching children to "love Israel." Many have invited occupation soldiers into classrooms while others make young children write thank you letters to Israeli troops. Investigation and details here
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DK Large 🇵🇸 🇨🇺🪁 retweeted
We extract blocks of cement from the depths of the sea, from a ship that sank off the coast of Gaza 53 years ago, and recycle them for reuse.
Here in Gaza, we don’t know the meaning of impossible.
In 1973, a Greek ship carrying cement sank off the coast of Gaza City, ending up at the bottom of the sea.
Today, 53 years later, people in Gaza have begun heading to the shipwreck to retrieve the cement, which has hardened and deteriorated after decades underwater, in an attempt to recycle it and make use of it once again.
Imagine how desperate things have become: people are now searching the wreckage of ships that sank decades ago for whatever cement remains.
DK Large 🇵🇸 🇨🇺🪁 retweeted
This is a lesson for UK journos that they have complete impunity (& incentive) to build their careers and reputations on cadavers of minoritised peoples. It is a reward for stochastic terrorism pretending to be journalism
Very happy to have been shortlisted in the Specialist Journalism category in this year's British Journalism Awards for my investigation into Cambridge University professor Jason Arday and the extensive plagiarism in his PhD thesis #BJA2026
DK Large 🇵🇸 🇨🇺🪁 retweeted
Can you imagine an entire family dying due to lack of food? This is our painful reality today. 💔
We need a 35£ donation from a kind-hearted person. Who's willing? We need food and medicine. If you see this, please leave a comment.. 👇😭
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1,117 days since the genocide in Gaza started. 1,117 days of displacement. 1,117 days of bombings & shootings. 1,117 days of struggling to get the most basic human needs.
Give to Gaza: chuffed.org/project/help-us-…
One of the basic needs that Palestinians in Gaza struggle with is water. Every morning, people spend hours just to be able to fill up a couple of jerrycans.
The Sameer Project provides water daily, and we are working hard on partnerships that will help us increase the amount of water we distribute. However, your material support is needed … consistently.
Please consider setting up a monthly donation to our Food & Water Campaign: chuffed.org/project/help-us-…
Other ways to donate include:
paypal.me/mahertali (Paypal option, please make sure to add a message saying "WATER")
account.venmo.com/u/Maher-Al… (Venmo option, please make sure to add a message saying "WATER")
DK Large 🇵🇸 🇨🇺🪁 retweeted
Gaza kids and families are being starved desperately fetching food and supplies.
Most families rely on free food distribution centres which don’t provide them with the nutritions their bodies need.
The winter is also coming. It’s terrifying beyond words.
DK Large 🇵🇸 🇨🇺🪁 retweeted
Can you give just $10 a month? How about $20 or $50?
Whatever amount you can consistently commit to makes a difference. Set up a monthly donation now: linktr.ee/thesameerproject?u…
Monthly donations allow The Sameer Project to plan ahead, sustain distributions, and make informed decisions about how much food, water, medical care, and other essential assistance we can provide to families in Gaza.
When funding is unpredictable, so is the aid people depend on to survive.
Consistency is solidarity. After more than three years of genocide, Palestinians in Gaza deserve something they can count on.
Commit to a monthly donation today. Even $10 a month helps us build a more reliable lifeline for families who have lost nearly everything.
Make your solidarity consistent. Become a monthly donor through the links: linktr.ee/thesameerproject?u…
Other ways to donate include:
paypal.me/mahertali (Paypal option, please make sure to add a message saying "GENERAL")
account.venmo.com/u/Maher-Al… (Venmo option, please make sure to add a message saying "GENERAL")
DK Large 🇵🇸 🇨🇺🪁 retweeted
An israeli quadcopter drone has just shot and wounded 7-year-old Lurin Orooq northeast of Gaza City.
This is confirmed by her uncle.
DK Large 🇵🇸 🇨🇺🪁 retweeted
One of the highlights of my time in Jordan was visiting UNWRA archives and examining the index cards and other records of the 750,000 Palestinians kicked off their land at the Nakba in 1948. They used to be kept in Gaza and were airlifted out at the beginning of the genocide- Israel has destroyed all the archives that remained. They form the best evidence for some form of reparations in the future and are now being scanned and digitalised
غزة ومنعطف التاريخ: الشرق الأوسط قبل وبعد النهضة (أرض) تنظّم زيارة للمؤرخ ويليام دالريمبل إلى أرشيف الأونروا وحواراً رفيع المستوى حول فلسطين
Gaza and the Turning of History: The Middle East Before and After ARDD Organizes William Dalrymple’s Visit to UNRWA Archives and High-Level Dialogue on Palestine
نظّمت منظمة النهضة العربية للديمقراطية والتنمية (أرض)، من خلال مركز النهضة الاستراتيجي، وتحت عنوان «غزة ومنعطف التاريخ: الشرق الأوسط قبل وبعد»، زيارة إلى أرشيف الصور والأفلام التابع لوكالة الأمم المتحدة لإغاثة وتشغيل اللاجئين الفلسطينيين (الأونروا)، بمشاركة المؤرخ والكاتب البريطاني البارز ويليام دالريمبل، إلى جانب لقاء عمل حواري رفيع المستوى جمع دبلوماسيين وأكاديميين وصنّاع سياسات وخبراء إقليميين، لمناقشة التطورات في غزة وفلسطين ضمن التحولات التاريخية والسياسية الأوسع التي يشهدها الشرق الأوسط.
وخلال الزيارة إلى أرشيف الأونروا، التي نُظّمت بالتعاون مع الوكالة، اطّلع دالريمبل على سجلات ووثائق تاريخية توثّق تهجير الفلسطينيين وتجارب اللاجئين وذاكرتهم الجماعية منذ عام 1948. ويُعدّ هذا الأرشيف، المدرج ضمن برنامج ذاكرة العالم التابع لليونسكو، مرجعاً تاريخياً مهماً يبرز ضرورة الحفاظ على التاريخ الفلسطيني والهوية الوطنية وتجارب أجيال متعاقبة من اللاجئين. للمزيد: ardd-jo.org/news/%d8%ba%d8%b…
The Arab Renaissance for Democracy and Development (ARDD), through its Renaissance Strategic Center (RSC), organised, under the theme “Gaza and the Turning of History: The Middle East Before and After,” a visit to the UNRWA Photo and Film Archives with renowned British historian and author William Dalrymple, alongside a high-level working lunch bringing together diplomats, academics, policymakers, and regional experts to reflect on Gaza and Palestine within the broader historical and political transformations shaping the Middle East.
During the visit to the UNRWA Archives, facilitated in cooperation with UNRWA, Dalrymple explored historical records documenting Palestinian displacement, refugee experiences, and collective memory since 1948. Recognized by UNESCO’s Memory of the World Programme, the archives underscore the importance of preserving Palestinian history, identity, and the experiences of generations of refugees.
for more: renaissancestrategiccenter.c…
