Israel has renamed the Palestinian village of Silwan to an Israeli name in anticipation of their occupational violence.
There is a deadline for Palestinian families to demolish their own Palestinian homes on Palestinian ground, or pay Israel for the demolition of their homes.
This is ongoing, right now. Many of the Palestinian families that live in Silwan have indicated they do not intend to cooperate with the destruction of their homes by the illegal occupation, and we all know what is likely to happen to them. #SaveSilwan
Occupation, apartheid, persecution, silencing, violence, destruction, erasure. This type of occupational escalation is happening is so many places across Palestine right now that just listing them would take most of a tweet.
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Israel said it'll kill until there is "absolute quiet", & they mean it - they will kill & harm until every Palestinian has lost someone just in this last week, to remind Palestinians that peaceful protest means death, & that their rights are forfeit even in the international eye.
Every time you don't say #FreePalestine or #SaveSheikhJarrah, every time you stay quiet, the Palestinians are reminded that Israel will get away with these atrocities against protest, against life, against human rights, even in the full view of the world. Don't be part of that.
Palestine is watching to see what their lives & rights are worth to the world. Are you gonna help Israel prove to them that their lives & rights are forfeit? Or are you going to give them & their children hope that justice is possible?
Hey, it sucks @IGN & @gameinformer's posts & tweets with humanitarian resources supporting Palestine are gone - but it is clear their teams had no choice. They had a choice in posting, & unlike many others, they did.
Can we send a quick supportive tweet for chosing to speak up?
Nobody accidentally posts and tweets a list of resources to support the Palestinians. These are brave, potentially career-ending choices - and instead of blaming them for trying, let's support them for being brave, and blame the corporate owners that censored them.
The impact seeing the Palestinian flag next to the IGN logo had on me is impossible to overstate, or the article on Game Informer. Even if it was only up for a day before their teams were silenced, that day matters. How many people saw that flag, that post, & educated themselves?
Understand how important this is: clearly @IGN and @gameinformer editorial posted this under their editorial freedom. If these posts are gone, it very likely means their corporate owners stepped across the editorial barrier & forced the censorship of those humanitarian resources.
Here are details for IGN and Game Informer's corporate. Do send your objections.
My thanks to @IGN & @gameinformer Editorial for running these posts, very likely aware of the risks of spreading these humanitarian resources to support the oppressed Palestinian people against the current Israeli-instigated aggression.
I clicked on this list of names (right column) and ages (column to the left of that) of Palestinian children murdered by Israel and immediately recoiled at the "Page 1 of 2".
To see how uneven the violence is, & emphasizing that any death anywhere as a result of the current Israeli-instigated violence is awful: 9 Israeli civilians have died. Using this list of only Palestinian child victims, up to what age do you need to include to exceed that number?
For those of you who don't have the time to read through - it's the age of 6.
So statistically, for every Israeli civilian death, in Palestine 1 child under 6 years is blown up, along with 19 civilians of any age, 4-6 residential units, and 150+ wounded.
Tonight Israel further intensified the violence it started, escalated, and refuses to negotiate an end to, and Palestinian casualties and damaged are expected to rise further. Israel also bombed the main road to the primary hospital serving the Gaza territory.
Daily, I try to sift through the infinite horrors from Palestine to share with you a few stories emblematic of Israel's intentional & ongoing human rights violations against Palestine.
As for Israel's suppression of the press, the @AP has strict procedures & protocols to ensure safety for its crew, and to remain impartial & separate of whatever dangers it reports on. It has confirmed there was no indication of military in the building. apnews.com/article/israel…