PhD MidEast History • Research @mediaintegrity_ •✍🏽Don’t Say Palestine: How Media Manufactured Consent for Genocide (Vintage: https://teapawt.net/t.co/ZTGXGYDHwS)
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Assal Rad retweeted
Does bombing hospitals violate anything? Like international law or a supposed ceasefire?
Gaza's Health Ministry says an Israeli airstrike targeting the Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza has killed six people and wounded at least a dozen more. apnews.com/article/gaza-isra…
Assal Rad retweeted
"If Israel—rather than U.S. taxpayers—pays for a bomb, that does not mitigate the bomb’s impact when Israel drops it on a Palestinian family. The United States will remain complicit in Israeli genocide and apartheid as long as U.S. arms keep flowing." trib.al/FCQuBxb
Assal Rad retweeted
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“fought these barbarians.” Barbarians.
The U.S. bombed a girl’s elementary school.
The war in Iran is unpopular, but defeat would be far less popular. Three generations of soldiers have fought these barbarians. We owe it to our country and the West not to make it a fourth, writes @TimSheehyMT
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Assal Rad retweeted
You're a war criminal.
אנחנו לא זקוקים לאישור מהאופוזיציה או משום גורם משפטי כדי להנחות את צה"ל לביצוע סיכולים בעזה, פעולות הגנה והתקפה בלבנון, שימור אזור הביטחון בסוריה להגנת יישובי הגולן, פינוי שכונת מחבלים בחברון - מבצע שהוכיח את עצמו מעל ומעבר ביצירת אפקט הרתעה חזק - והמשך הפעילות ההתקפית נגד הטרור ביהודה ושומרון.
גם מול איראן הוכחנו נחרצות ושיקול דעת, בתיאום מלא עם צה"ל - וכך יהיה גם כעת בהתאם למה שיידרש.
ביטחון ישראל לא נמצא במעבר ולא ממתין להליכים הפוליטיים שמתנהלים במקביל.
יש ראש ממשלה אחד, שר ביטחון אחד שמנחים את צה"ל - וממשלה אחת שאחראית על קבלת ההחלטות בכל
הנוגע לביטחון ישראל והגנת תושבי מדינת ישראל, וזאת כמובן תחת הפיקוח הקיים והמתבקש.
כך היה וכך יהיה גם בעתיד.
Assal Rad retweeted
“Under international law, hospitals are afforded protected status but have been repeatedly attacked by Israel… the World Health Organisation has documented 1048 attacks on healthcare facilities…”
The BBC now including this context reveals it was consciously omitting it before.
Assal Rad retweeted
Today at 1:40 pm, israel bombed a car west of Gaza City. At least one Palestinian was killed. He was identified as Wessam Salha.
Then at 2:36 pm, israel bombed another car in Der el-Balah in central Gaza, killing Nashaat Awwad.
Later at 3pm, israel bombed a number of people in Jabalia, north Gaza, killing Mohammad al-Adham.
Assal Rad retweeted
Language is loaded with meaning.
Israel holds Palestinian, Lebanese, & Syrian “detainees”.
Hamas held Israeli “hostages.”
“Detainees” strips it of any political weight and is neutral, whereas “hostages” clearly delineates victimhood on one side and aggressor on the other.
This is how @AP subtlety lets Israel off the hook when it’s the victimizer, and underscores when it’s the victim.
Assal Rad retweeted
Short report about Mansouri, Lebanon. This destruction is only what we can see, there are many destroyed villages behind this all the way to the border.
This is Zionism
Cameraman: Ali Ezzedine
Assal Rad retweeted
israel bombed a palestinian hospital yesterday murdering a beloved surgeon, a 13 year old, and four other people, but i’m glad the new israeli multimillionaire film executive makes israeli multimillionaire actress gal gadot feel safe ❤️
Gal Gadot Says Skydance Co-CEO Ynon Kreiz 'Gives Me Hope' Against Antisemitism: 'I’m Frightened by How Quickly Hatred of Jews Is Spreading' variety.com/2026/film/news/g…
Assal Rad retweeted
My colleague and friend Dr. Rizk Abu Shaaira was killed yesterday at work when Israel, backed by the US as always, bombed the surgical recovery room at Nasser Medical Complex. Two of his colleagues were badly injured, and many patients were hurt and killed. Dr. Rizk is featured on the original poster for the documentary American Doctor, standing to my right as we did a redo laparotomy on a disaster abdomen.
Dr. Rizk was one of those surgeons we describe as "super enthusiastic". On rounds he would jump at the opportunity to change a dressing, clean a wound, or pull a drain. He always had an answer to any question anyone asked. He embodied the surgical wisdom that "a chance to cut is a chance to cure."
Dr. Rizk's shocking murder is yet another reminder of why we must get control of our country. Our government has no right to force us to subsidize the mass murder of doctors and children, not in Palestine and not anywhere.
