Israel targets and kills at least one child every hour...

Israel targets and kills at least one child every hour

Maha Hussaini

@MahaGaza

I know people who obeyed Israeli displacement orders and evacuated Gaza City to the south, only to be killed there It’s never about where we can be safe, but about where the Israeli occupation chooses to bomb us

 

Maha Hussaini

@MahaGaza

Israeli forces bombed a residential building of the Hussari family in Shate refugee camp, west of Gaza City, bringing it down on its inhabitants. Around 25 family members remain trapped under the rubble.

 

 

Assal Rad

@AssalRad

It’s not an “evacuation order” when there is nowhere to go and Israel is destroying the city so Palestinians have nothing to return to. 

 

The words they refuse to use are ethnic cleansing, forced displacement, war crime… Western media is whitewashing genocide in real time.

 

 

Motasem A Dalloul

@AbujomaaGaza

Keep your eyes on Gaza 

 

In just 72 hours:

Israeli occupation military bombed and destroyed FIVE high-rise buildings that included 209 apartments. 

 

Each apartment sheltered at least 30 people —owners and displaced relatives. 

 

More than 350 tents were destroyed, each hosting around 10 displaced persons —about 3,500 people lost their last refuge.

 

 

UNRWA

@UNRWA

The attacks on residential towers in #Gaza have displaced dozens of families, many left on the streets without shelter or basic necessities. 

 

With humanitarian access severely restricted, the suffering of already displaced persons is only deepening. 

 

We need a #CeasefireNow.

 

 

Philippe Lazzarini

@UNLazzarini

#Gaza is being obliterated, reduced to a wasteland. 

 

Gaza is being emptied from its starving population forced to move into the so called “humanitarian” area of Mawasi. 

 

There is no safe place in Gaza, let alone a humanitarian zone. It is a large and growing camp concentrating hungry Palestinians in despair. 

 

Warnings of #famine have fallen on deaf ears. 

 

Will warnings of this deepening catastrophe also fall on deaf ears? 

 

 #Ceasefire, before it is way too late. 

 

 End the impunity before atrocities become the new norm.

 

 

UN Human Rights Council

@UN_HRC

"#Gaza is a graveyard." 

 

Speaking at the @UN Human Rights Council, @UNHumanRights chief @volker_turk said he was "horrified by the open use of genocidal rhetoric, and the disgraceful dehumanization of Palestinians by senior Israeli officials." 

 

 #HRC60

In Gaza, priests and nuns have chosen to stay. They refuse to abandon their people, even as bombs fall and threats grow. Their courage is a light in the darkest night... #Witness #Palestine #Churches #Christians

In Gaza, priests and nuns have chosen to stay.
They refuse to abandon their people, even as bombs fall and threats grow.
Their courage is a light in the darkest night.

Palestine is bleeding with Jesus -John X, Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and All the East

Mass in Gaza City Sunday, 31 August 2025

Mass in Gaza City Sunday, 31 August

Gaza August 28th, 2025

 

Deep thanks to the Christians of Palestine who share the photos of Palestinian Christian Churches on social media. I am afraid to name them here for fear Israel will choose to silence them by targeting their homes and families... or reputations.

WITNESS

“Palestinian journalists are being threatened, directly targeted and murdered by Israeli forces, and are arbitrarily detained and tortured in retaliation for their work. By silencing the press – those who document and bear witness – Israel is silencing the war,” 

The deadly toll on journalists in the Gaza war

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/ng-interactive/2025/sep/01/israel-gaza-war-media-palestinian-journalists-killed-cpj

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Aug 31 2025. About 700 meters south of the Parish. Let us pray for Peace

"Remember this was the Israeli military's first response after murdering Shireen Abu Akleh in broad daylight, repeatedly lying about it and then getting away with it. Doing Journalism was [IS] enough to get you killed by Israel." Yousef Munayyer

"More journalists executed in Gaza. This time, the IDF admits it deliberately targeted them because one of them was a “terrorist.” As usual no evidence is provided. But killings after killings, truth-telling won’t die. We all bear witness of Israel genocide..."

Yousef Munayyer

@YousefMunayyer

Palestinian-American Shireen Abu Akleh overlooking the Old City of Jerusalem - Shireen Abu Akleh^[a] (Arabic: شيرين أبو عاقلة, Šīrīn Abū ʿĀqila; April 3, 1971 – May 11, 2022) was a prominent Palestinian-American journalist who worked as a reporter for 25 years for Al Jazeera, before she was killed by Israeli forces while wearing a blue press vest and covering a raid on the Jenin refugee camp in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Abu Akleh was one of the most prominent names across the Middle East for her decades of reporting in the Palestinian territories, and seen as a role model for many Arab and Palestinian women.^[5][6] She is considered to be an icon of Palestinian journalism.^[7]

A farmer, a nurse, and a pastor return from war torn Palestine. They shared what they saw... “It’s also extremely meaningful for us to witness their [PALESTINIAN] courage and resilience and to learn from them..."

Local residents give eyewitness accounts from Palestine

by: Carina Dominguez

Posted: Mar 7, 2025 / 06:26 PM EST

 https://www.news10.com/news/local-residents-give-eyewitness-accounts-from-palestine/

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".... She described “constant bombs and sirens and bullets and arrests and harassment” and was surprised at how well everyone handles it.

“The calm chaos that the Palestinians now are just like, ‘Ok. The soldiers are coming in from this way. We need to move this way. This is where the snipers are,’ and the way they just navigate this oppression is super shocking,” said Maaih, who detailed her account in a blog.

Jeid Ebanks is a nurse and worked with the International Medical Corps while she was out there. She describes what galvanized her into taking action in Gaza.

“From the time I first saw what was happening in Gaza my heart was just completely broken for the innocent people and the children and the healthcare workers. I’m a healthcare worker myself and to see how they were being targeted and the just desperate, dire need they had. I knew that I had to do more,” said Ebanks.

She was a supervisor of wound care, helping perform surgeries at a field hospital in Deir Al-Balah.

“There were bombs dropping around us every day. People were getting shot in the waiting rooms while we’re trying to save lives,” said Ebanks. “These people just were complete heroes. The healthcare workers in Gaza were facing the same health disparities and the same crises that they were treating the patients for, but they still showed up every single day to save lives. So I mean, I was honored and humbled to work alongside them.”

She thanks the Capital Region community for going door to door in Albany, Schenectady and Troy and raised the funds – $10,000 – to send her there to help. She said the Palestinian people taught her a lot. 

“They gave me a lot of levity. Being with the children, handing out lollipops, making jokes, and you know just encouraging each other, and reminding each other that we’re never alone,” said Ebanks.

John Paarlberg is a former pastor, at First Church Albany, and has been to Palestine several times over the last 20 years.

His first trip, he said, came after a Palestinian woman went to his church and spoke to the congregation about what her life was like under occupation in the West Bank.

“And I asked what could we do? And she said, ‘Come and see’,” said Paarlberg.

After he was invited he went the next year, in 2005, with Christian Peacemaker Teams and, “by doing so to offer some degree of a protective presence.” Both he and Maaih said just the presence of foreigners offers a degree of protection from occupying forces.

“Much of what was happening 20 years ago is continuing to happen, only it’s been ramped up in the West Bank,” said Paarlberg.

His most recent trip was this past August. He was directly invited by Palestinian Christian leaders who wrote a letter calling for support.

“They wrote a letter to Christians here in the U.S. and elsewhere and said we very much appreciate your prayers but what we really need right now is for you to come and stand with us,” said Paarlberg.

He said he witnessed more demolitions, more detentions and more settler violence. He described how a village of sheep farmers had been forced from their homes after constantly being harassed and threatened by Israeli settlers...."

In Forest of Noise, renowned Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha explores the pain, loss, and struggle of life in Gaza, while holding onto his connection to home

'Every child is me. Every mother and father is me': A glimpse of Gaza, occupation and genocide in Mosab Abu Toha’s new poetry collection, Forest of Noise

 

Book Club: In Forest of Noise, Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha explores the pain, loss, and struggle of life in Gaza, while holding onto his connection to home.

Eman Quotah

06 November, 2024

You might begin reading Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha’s second collection, Forest of Noise, by judging his book by its cover. On a matte, off-white background, a bark-brown, finger-painted hand and spindly arm stretch diagonally; green thumbprint leaves sprout from the fingers. It’s a tree limb. A child’s raised hand. An arm stretched in terror.

With its multiplicity of meanings, Arsh Raziuddin’s arresting cover art captures the spirit of Mosab Abu Toha’s candid poetry about living in and through war and genocide in Gaza.

It teases a litany of quandaries central not only to this collection but also to Mosab’s online presence as an unceasing chronicler of Israel’s destruction of Gaza: How does life go on amid death and devastation? How do despair and hope feed each other? When will it end? How can we make art amid the rubble? How can we not?

"Throughout the book, Mosab grapples with poetry’s ability to convey the horror of life in Gaza under Israeli assault"

In a recent post, Mosab responded to the widely shared photo of 19-year-old Sha’ban al-Dalou, arms raised against flames as he burned alive. Witnessing this horrific image reminiscent of his cover, he writes, “How can I look at my book? How can I read my poems?”

Throughout the book, Mosab grapples with poetry’s ability to convey the horror of life in Gaza under Israeli assault — and makes clear to readers the price the poet pays when writing and revisiting what he has lived through.

He also vividly portrays his deep connection to everything in Gaza, where he lived most of his life before fleeing last December to Egypt, then the United States, with his wife and children.

In a dedication, he writes:

“Every child in Gaza is me.

Every mother and father is me.

Every house is my heart.

Every tree is my leg.

Every plant is my arm.”

Born in 1992, Mosab Abu Toha has endured multiple Israeli assaults, as well as the siege of Gaza that began in 2007.

His collection’s opening poem, Younger Than War, recalls tanks rolling “through dust, through eggplant fields,” book-burning soldiers, and warplanes overhead at the start of the Al-Aqsa Intifada in September 2000.

“No need for radio,” he writes, “We are the news,” and “At the time, /I was seven: decades younger than war, /a few years older than bombs.”

Last fall, Mosab himself became news when Israeli forces kidnapped him and other Gazan men and transported them to an Israeli prison. Under pressure from PEN International, the New Yorker, and others, Israel released him, calling his detention “a mistake.”

In On Your Knees, it feels as though he is sitting across from us, recounting the harrowing story aloud:

"On your knees!

A new soldier calls me by my full name.

He even says my grandfather’s name.

I love the name of my grandfather.

I hate the soldier,

I hate his name,

which I do not know.

Your ID number, say it aloud!

Remove your clothes,

Even your boxer shorts.

Turn around.

*

In my ears, I’m hiding

my mother’s stories,

my father’s recitation,

of the Holy Quran when I am sick."

These lines offer both a blow-by-blow account of Mosab’s abuse and humiliation and his interior response: wanting to protect and keep for himself the things that matter most to him (memories, stories).

As for many Palestinians, a lineage of loss and persistence looms large for Mosab Abu Toha, a third-generation Gazan refugee whose grandparents fled Yaffa during the Nakba.

In My Grandfather’s Well, his deceased paternal grandfather stands vigil in Yaffa. “Where have you been? Grandfather asks me,” Mosab writes. As though the living have abandoned the dead.

Later, in No Art — which echoes and responds to Elizabeth Bishop’s One Art (“The art of losing isn’t hard to master/so many things seem filled with the intent/to be lost that their loss is no disaster”) — Mosab writes:

"I’ve personally lost three friends to war,

a city to darkness, and a language to fear.

This was not easy to survive,

but survival proved necessary to master.

But of all things,

losing the only photo of my grandfather

under the rubble of my house

was a real disaster."

Writing after and in response to other English-language poets like Bishop, Whitman, Ginsberg, Bob Kaufman, and Mosab Abu Toha’s beloved late friend and mentor Refaat Alareer, the poet pushes against any notion that poetry must uplift and beautify — or that any poem can stand alone.

Of course, poets know their work is inspired by and in dialogue with other works. But today, individual poems have become standalone memes that many of us share on social media because we feel otherwise impotent to stop Israel’s violence against Palestinians.

Mosab’s unwillingness to hold any particular poem holy reminds us that poets’ conversations with each other, across time and space, among the living and the dead, hold more power than a single poem.

Take his response to Refaat Alareer’s well-loved poem of hope, If I Must Die (which echoes Claude McKay’s defiant 1919 resistance poem If We Must Die).

Refaat wrote of his own foretold passing, “You must live/to tell my story… let it bring hope/let it be a tale.”

Mosab brings another perspective by writing about the nightmare of always knowing you’re this close to dying: “If I am going to die,/let it be a clean death./No rubble over my corpse.”

He wants a funeral, something too many Palestinians have been denied, and clean, ironed clothes for his corpse. He wants the dignity of a nonviolent death.

He continues this logic in Rescue Plane, where he wishes for two planes: One to drop wheat, tea, and vegetables in Gaza and remove rubble. Another is to drop flowers for children to plant on graves. And then he strips away the flights of imagination and reveals his true, and truly simple, wish: “No planes at all.../No war/I wish we never had to wish.”  ... READ MORE https://www.newarab.com/features/glimpse-gaza-mosab-abu-tohas-forest-noise

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White House Statement from Vice President Kamala Harris on Aysenur Eygi "Aysenur was peacefully protesting in the West Bank—standing up against the expansion of settlements—when her young life was senselessly cut short. No one should be killed for participating in a peaceful protest. The shooting that led to her death is unacceptable and raises legitimate questions about the conduct of IDF personnel in the West Bank."

Statement from Vice President Kamala Harris on Aysenur Eygi

2. Briefing Room
3. Statements and Releases

The killing of Aysenur Eygi is a horrific tragedy that never should have happened. Doug and I are keeping her family and loved ones in our prayers. Aysenur was peacefully protesting in the West Bank—standing up against the expansion of settlements—when her young life was senselessly cut short. No one should be killed for participating in a peaceful protest. The shooting that led to her death is unacceptable and raises legitimate questions about the conduct of IDF personnel in the West Bank.  Israel must do more to ensure that incidents like this never happen again.
 
Israel’s preliminary investigation indicated it was the result of a tragic error for which the IDF is responsible. We will continue to press the government of Israel for answers and for continued access to the findings of the investigation so we can have confidence in the results. There must be full accountability.
 
The United States will continue to hold accountable anyone in the West Bank – Israelis and Palestinians – who stokes violence and undermines peace and stability.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/09/11/statement-from-vice-president-kamala-harris-on-aysenur-eygi/

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Two young American women—Rachel & Aysenur. Both from Washington State with hearts of gold... both were murdered

 

Huwaida Arraf

Two young American women—Rachel & Aysenur. Both from Washington State with hearts of gold. They traveled to PAL [Palestine] to witness and to stand with the oppressed; to make a difference. Both were murdered. By America’s great ally. With U.S. supplied weapons. With U.S. assured impunity. #RIP

Palestine is the most well-documented genocide in history, yet the most denied by American leadership & mainstream news.... September 2024

Mohamad Safa

@mhdksafa

This photo needs to be the front page of every news paper in the world. 20 tents full of displaced families buried alive in Gaza.

Maha Hussaini

@MahaGaza

In an overcrowded camp where hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians are scattered in makeshift tents, even the smallest bomb can cause immense damage and numerous casualties. Now, imagine the devastation when the Israeli occupation army uses 3 U.S.-made MK-84 bombs on them.

Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt

@FranceskAlbs

Apartheid Israel is accelerating the ethnic cleansing of Palestine, and committing acts of genocide on the way. How long will it take to UN Member states to impose sanctions on this serial violator of int'l law?

Dr. Omar Suleiman

@omarsuleiman

The tent massacre of Mawasi. 20 tents full of families buried alive by American bombs that have left literal craters in the earth. This was a humanitarian safe zone. Another site of a war crime that the world can’t stop because of Israel’s effective international immunity.

 

 

Susan Muaddi Darraj 

@SusanDarraj

I am forever changed by this year, by the evil we are witnessing, by the silence of so many, by the acceptance of such horror as normal.

 

António Guterres

@antonioguterres

I strongly condemn Israel’s air strikes on an Israeli-designated zone for displaced people in Gaza. Palestinians had moved to this area in search for shelter & safety, after being repeatedly instructed to do so by the Israeli authorities. I repeat my call for an immediate ceasefire & the immediate & unconditional release of all hostages still held in Gaza.

 

 Palestine is the most well-documented genocide in history, yet the most denied.

 

Aysenur Eygi- American murdered by Israeli troops 

 

Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi, a 26-year-old American activist killed while protesting in the occupied West Bank, was remembered by friends and former professors as a dedicated organizer who felt a strong moral obligation to bring attention to the plight of Palestinians.

"Eygi, who is also a Turkish citizen and leaves behind her husband, graduated from UW [Seattle Washington] earlier this year with a major in psychology and minor in Middle Eastern languages and culture, Fani said. She walked the stage with a large “Free Palestine” flag during the ceremony, Fani said."

American killed in West Bank was longtime activist ‘bearing witness to oppression’, friends say

 

Mosab Abu Toha

@MosabAbuToha

 

Please amplify: So the killing of Aysenur Ezgi Eygi was accidental, unintentional, etc.? 

 

Question for Israel: 

1-Why open fire in the first place? 

 

Two questions for the US: 

1-What about the settlements she was protesting? Are they accidental? 

 

2-What about the killing of children and their families Aysenur was standing in solidarity with?