Everyday we ask our friends and colleagues in #Gaza if they’re alive. A simple text. Are you still alive. Today the silence from Izzeddin Nawasra was heartbreaking - He was murdered in an airstrike on his home in the Maghazi refugee camp last night. Here’s his story.
(Thread) Izzeddin was 16y in 2018 when an Israeli sniper shot him in the leg during a Great Return March protest in Gaza. Izzeddin was a refugee from 1948. He lost his leg and forever was to live as a cripple. We wanted to get him walking again so he could finish school.

I got a message today from the head of our now-closed pediatric cancer department that we opened to treat sick children in #Gaza in 2019 at Rantisi hospital. That department was bombed on Nov. 5 and forcibly evacuated two days later.

(Thread) This message hit me particularly hard, not just because I ❤️Gaza and I’m a human being with no hatred in my heart, but I also have a 5-year-old girl and can’t imagine her going through this. Our department head wrote me: “Safia is a 5 years-old with leukemia from Beit Lahia…..

At the end of Sept. an email from the father of a child with CP, for whom we provided solar panels in @Gaza. wrote: "I am one of the beneficiaries who was benefited from I am Yasser Khalil Al Maqadma. I am writing to express my sincere gratitude and appreciation for..
(Thread) your invaluable support in providing and facilitating the implementation of for the Solar PV System grant.
I would like to inform you that recently the contractor has completed the works and the Solar PV System has successfully installed and it is operating efficiently.

Here is an uplifting story we posted in 2018 about a refugee girl from #Gaza who we brought to the USA for free surgery and new legs, enabling her to walk.

(thread)pcrf.net/news/gaza-girl… Well that's a timeline cleanser for a change, you might think, a positive story about a Gaza child amid this neverending genocide. Not so fast. Raghad, who was born a refugee, was killed yesterday with her five siblings as they huddled terrified in a building in Rafah.

The brutal two-month long killing of thousands of #Gaza children has deeply affected me on an emotional and even a spiritual level in ways I will never truly recover. I think about thousands of other children in Gaza who we had planned to help.

Thread I built an organization for over thirty years that has intervened in Gaza’s health sector by sending hundreds of international volunteer medical teams to provide specialized surgery for thousands of kids, not only for those injured by physical trauma, but so many others.

It is with deep sadness that @ThePCRF learned of the bombing deaths of Farid, 12, and Qossay, 14, Salout, in Khan Younis yesterday. Their father, brother, and others were also killed. We sent boys to Shreveport in 2016 for craniofacial surgery. This was their last photo in #Gaza This was the story of Qossay in 2017 following his treatment in Shreveport that was on our website. pcrf.net/news/gazan-boy…

Here is today's update on Gaza, according to the family report sent out by OCHA, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the occupied Palestinian Territories: A total of 704 Palestinians, including 305 children, have been killed over the past 24 hours (as of 18:00 on 24 October), according to the Ministry of Health (MoH) in Gaza. This is the highest fatality toll reported in a single day in Gaza during this round of hostilities.

30 years ago, I was a writer during the 1st Intifada and met a 10y old boy named Nizar who lost his arm, a foot, and a leg from an IDF bomb that hit his home in #Gaza. I'd wrote a lot of stories about injured kids in Palestine and wanted very much to do more than just write. I was in my early 20s and had just graduated from Kent State in Ohio, my hometown. I couldn't keep writing about injured kids and then do nothing to help them. A year earlier, I sent the first two injured kids (from Hebron) to Ohio for free care. He was also a triple amputee.