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Dec 4, 2023 10 tweets 2 min read
Nour el-Din Haggag, 27, murdered by Israel in #Gaza today. This is his last message to the world:
Good evening, World,
Last night all communications and the internet were cut. What I thought impossible has come to pass. Image The postman won’t be able to come in all this bombing and destruction, and his newspapers won’t carry except the same news every day: that Gaza is being annihilated. And perhaps news of my death will be in the next edition.
Oct 31, 2022 7 tweets 4 min read
Alaa's letter written to his mother today:
"You know the story, but it’s important that I tell it again. This journey, I’ve walked it while mostly looking behind me, because I could see nothing in front of me except extinction .. the abyss. #FreeAlaa Gradually, with each step, each delay, something reached me .. from a visit, from a letter, from a book, an image, from the book, from news of the campaign and news of Khaled. Things changed and I started looking towards the future, a future for us as a family.
#FreeAlaa
Oct 9, 2021 12 tweets 5 min read
This is a long thread relaying what Laila pieced together from what @Alaa said when she visited him in Tora Prison today:
Sun Sept 12, (the day before the last court hearing), when Laila had brought his provisions and expected a letter, he had written expressing anger
#FreeAlaa expressing anger that he continues to be deprived of reading. The prison authorities refused to take the letter to give to her.
Tuesday 13th – after his outburst in court the day before – Laila went to the Prison to ask for a letter. One of the officers sat with him
#FreeAlaa