Thread by @MonaAbuamara

🧵1/11 #OTD
29 years ago, on Friday 25th, 1994, the 15 of Ramadan, my husband Tariq, who was 15 at the time, got up at down to have Suhoorسحور as usual, then went back to sleep.
A few hours later, not fully sure if he was dreaming or not, he was awakened by loud noises of👇

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people yelling & screaming, accompanied by deafening cries of Allahu Akbar & pleas for help, filling the air.
My father-in-law delivered the devastating news, a massacre had just been committed in the Ibrahimi Mosque, and help was needed. Tariq was one of the young men 👇

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who rushed to Alia hospital.
As soon as the sun came out, he could feel the chaos as cars & frantic people tried desperately to get to the mosque while others rushed to donate blood. Pharmacists were racing to get everything they had to aid the overwhelmed hospitals. 👇

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Little did the bereaved Palestinians know at the time, but the gruesome massacre that devastated Palestine was in no way over.
Baruch Goldstein, an American-Israeli ultranationalist settler, moved to 🇵🇸 to live in a settlement in Hebron built on stolen Palestinian land. 👇

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Baruch Goldstein opened fire at worshipers, including children, as they knelt down & prayed at dawn inside the Ibrahimi Mosque. He massacred 29 men & boys and injured more than a hundred.
News of the horrors & the grisly bloody scene spread fast, causing people to panic.👇

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Undisturbed by the ghastly event, the ruthless Israeli occupation forces declared a curfew, ordering the grieving masses that gathered on the streets to go home, Preventing them from finding, burying, or even aiding loved ones.
The IOF, primarily the "Mishmar Hagvul" who👇

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as Tariq remembers, were distinguished via their purple berets & their readiness to shoot to kill!
🇵🇸s couldn't hold funerals or even get to the cemetery, so they dug mass graves, & kept a record of the martyrs buried in them so when the killing stopped the families👇

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would come back to dig out their loved ones for a proper burial.
Those who got to Al Ahli hospital had it the worst. the monstrous forces besieged the hospital preventing people from donating blood or delivering supplies. Young men who were in the vicinity of the 👇

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hospital engaged the IOF to help people trying to come in. At that point, another massacre was in the making. According to the DM of the Al-Ahli hospital M.T., 4 men who came to donate blood were shot by occupation snipers as they exited the hospital, & no less than 15 👇

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were massacred in front & around the hospital. Tariq recalls horror stories about the injured flooding the hospitals, blood covering the floors, & people running around hysterically, trying to find their loved ones, those who were brought in from the scene of the👇

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#IbrahimiMosqueMassacre, & those injured across the street. Tariq & his friends were on the roof of Alia hospital, confronting the soldiers, trying to get them away from the building so people could have access to donate blood. In a split second, they realized that the 👇

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IOFs were on the roofs around them. They started to run as fast as they could, jumping from one rooftop to the other. But Tariq heard a shot & then a thump! He looked back and realized that a soldier had shot his friend I.S. in the back as he jumped over, he fell off the👇

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roof & has been paralyzed ever since. More than 10 young men became paralyzed that day. The number of people massacred totalled more than 60.
After the massacre & instead of providing protection to the anguished 🇵🇸s, the settlers called Goldstine a hero & promised to👇

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follow his steps were rewarded for his massacring of 🇵🇸s by awarding them control over 60% of the Mosque, & creating a model apartheid city.
The brutality & inhumanity of that day stayed with my husband until this day. & even as he told me the story today, I could see👇

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those recollections rushing back. Family, friends & neighbours were murdered, injured or jailed. Flagrant injustice & prejudice defined that day & every day since.
Israel, a state formed via genocide & land theft, today maintains its hold on🇵🇸s through brutality & terror.👇

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Today 29 years later, Israel has many Baruch Goldstein's; some even sit in government.
& while it has craftily formed the biggest 'democracy' charade of all time. That charade only survives through shielding & absolute impunity by the free🌎& that needs to stop🛑.
#Enough