[left: Anam is 90 years old. She lived through the Nakba in 1948, and today she was displaced again from the city to the south of the Gaza Strip.]
via ig: belalkh
[right: Amalia born in Martakert, Artsakh in 1920. Older than the borders of her region. She has experienced genocide all her life. She is now a refugee.]
via ig: stufankjian
Hundreds turned out today in Dunedin, Aotearoa, despite the rain and thunder to call for the New Zealand Government to demand a ceasefire in Gaza and an end to Israel's Apartheid State. When it began to rain, and thundred boomed overhead, a voice in the crowd shouted a new chant:
Come the sun and come the rain, Palestine will rise again.
While the people of Palestine are still fighting, dont give up. Talk about what is happening in Gaza with the people around you. Go to the ralleys. Send letters and call your local government representatives. Let the world know that the world sees what Israel is doing and that its crimes cannot be swept under the rug.
This boy's name is Mohammed. He lost all of his family and his right eye in an airstrike on his birthday.
DON'T STOP TALKING ABOUT PALESTINE.
romeo and juliet if romeo killed more people and they were both traumatised middle-aged men and juliet was the victim of ongoing psychological torture <3
Alaa Hathleen, a Palestinian activist from Masafer Yatta in the West Bank who exposes IOF and settler violence on his instagram, had his home raided, his 17 year old brother kidnapped, and his car and phone stolen by the IOF this morning (2 Dec 23)
This is a picture of Montaser Al Sawaf, another Palestinian journalist killed by the IOF:
I am continually enraged by the normalization of Palestinian people's deaths in mainstream western media, and the constant dehumanization of each of their lives. They are not just numbers -they are people who have dreams, ambitions, livelihoods, families, friends, hobbies, and interests.
The IOF is committing war crimes, crimes against humanity, is breaking dozens of international laws and UN Conventions -is committing mass genocide -but a small fraction of people in power get to determine the narrative of 'who is the REAL victim here,' by reinforcing IOF and American propaganda which sides with settler-colonial violence -and it is beyond abhorrent.
Grown IDF soldiers terrorizing, beating, and torturing a 14 year old boy for 'information,' I just... and knowing this is not isolated -this is the reality of MANY of the thousands of Palestinians being tried in illegal Israeli military courts and in prisons where they are in the most terrible of conditions, and are treated like this young boy. This settler state must not be able to continue to do this. This is, by definition, cruel and unusual punishment, as described by any and most Charter's around the world. This is beyond excessive use of force, abuse and violence.
End the occupation, ceasefire now and permanently, and free Palestine!
Numbers don't lie. We aren't just numbers.