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

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@AyyashMark “I was saying my last prayers.”

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

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