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Mosab Abu Toha Pulitzer Prize-winning Palestinian writer and poet from Gaza. |
Today, the “Israeli Defense Ministry” confirmed that 6,500 tons of U.S. military equipment just arrived at the ports of Ashdod and Haifa.
To put that in perspective, while thousands of tons of ammunition move freely, Gaza’s hospitals are running on empty. If the U.S. administration had both interest and power to save human lives in Gaza, here is what they could address:
🚨The Basics of Survival: Nearly half of all insulin, blood pressure, and asthma medications are gone. People are gasping for air or falling into diabetic shock without help.
🚨The Impossible Choice: 70% of cancer drugs have vanished. Doctors are being forced to stop treatment and tell patients there’s nothing more they can do.
🚨Surgery Without Relief: There is a desperate shortage of anesthesia and painkillers. Surgeries are being performed without the bare essentials—no sutures, no sterile gauze, no relief.... READ MORE https://substack.com/home/post/p-196011095
Israel has just shot my 30-year-old aunt in the chest while she was sitting with her three young children in a school shelter in Jabalia Camp. She is in critical condition; the bullet pierced her chest and exited through her back, devastating her lungs and spleen.
At the moment she was hit, she was holding her one-year-old son. He fell from her lap as she collapsed and was found bleeding from one of his ears.
I just spoke with my uncle, who told me that Israel has been using subsonic bullets lately. He said his sister is the second mother in the camp to be shot in the chest today.
Please pray for her and our family. Her husband was abducted by Israel in November 2024, and we still have no word on his condition.
https://substack.com/@mosababutoha/note/c-251683200
Mosab Abu Toha in response to LeMoyne College's President's email to students today*****
This is deeply shameful. I cannot believe what I am reading.
How dare you tell a person who survived a genocide that they cannot speak about it?
On April 15, I had the honor of visiting and speaking at Le Moyne College. I spoke about my lived experience in Gaza, shared the family trees of those killed by Israel, and read my poems. I also played the actual recordings of Israeli airstrikes and artillery shelling that I documented myself while on the ground in Gaza.
This morning, the President of the college sent out an email condemning my use of the word GENOCIDE when describing these crimes. She claimed that using that word is "antisemitic." She stated that she recognized the "real hurt" that the word caused to Jewish students.
Seriously? Are the crimes of the Israeli state representative of all Jewish people? I personally refuse to believe that is the case.
It is utterly ridiculous to begin a letter by stating that your institution welcomes the "free exchange of ideas," only to immediately condemn a speaker, not for sharing abstract ideas, but for sharing his own life. I still carry the physical wounds of a 2009 airstrike on my neck, my forehead, and my cheek. My wife and I have lost over one hundred relatives, most of them children. Some of them have still not been buried.
Who are these students you are talking about... READ MORE
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