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Aug 8, 2022, 11 tweets

Israel and Palestinian Islamic Jihad declare ‘fragile’ truce in Gaza after a three day Israeli bombardment kills at least 44 Palestinians aje.io/q4dlca

"Israel enjoys total impunity for its crimes against the Palestinian people... Remember it was bombing Gaza with weapons provided by the US, EU and Canada, who all stood by Israel.”

- Ali Abunimah, The Electronic Intifada ⤵️ aje.io/q4dlca

"She was dreaming of going to kindergarten... What has she done wrong, this innocent child?"

The grandfather of 5-year-old Alaa Qaddoum, who was killed in an Israeli air attack on Gaza, mourns her death ⤵️

"Palestinian resistance has not abated for more than 100 years and will go on for another 100 years and more if needed, this means that the Israeli siege of the Gaza Strip will not end."

— writes @AyyashMark for #AJOpinion ⤵️ aje.io/8l2dm3

@AyyashMark “The situation is so sad and unimaginable.”

Gaza hospital at breaking point after deadly Israeli bombardment exacerbates health sector crisis aje.io/cukdo6

@AyyashMark “I was saying my last prayers.”

Nine-year-old Leen Matar was in her grandfather’s house when it was hit by an Israeli air strike in Gaza, and didn’t think she’d make it out alive ⤵️

🔗: aje.io/uus7b3

@AyyashMark Since 2008, Israel has waged four wars on Gaza, killing nearly 4,000 people – one-quarter of them children.

Here are the names and faces of the 15 children aged 18 and under killed by Israeli air attacks over the past three days aje.io/6ctzf4

@AyyashMark "Israel hates the Palestinians for being the living proof that the foundations of Zionism – a people without a land settling in a land without a people – is mythical at best and violent and colonialist in reality."

#AJOpinion by @marwanbishara ⤵️ aje.io/puzrph

@AyyashMark @marwanbishara Palestinian Islamic Jihad says no ceasefire if their high-ranking members are not freed aje.io/hp4mn3

@AyyashMark @marwanbishara "We ran out to find my son and his three cousins. They were all cut up into pieces.”

Many Palestinians were killed just hours before a truce was agreed on between Israel and Islamic Jihad aje.io/hnoyqo

@AyyashMark @marwanbishara UN Security Council holds emergency meeting over Gaza fighting aje.io/r0ho5u

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