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Visual artist @magnumphotos
Jan 19 5 tweets 1 min read
The most important lesson after 470 days of war on Gaza is this: never again expect the vast majority of Western media to fulfill its duty. They have failed journalism. By failing to critically examine the impact of injustice on people, they have sided with it.. In their refusal to challenge the prevailing narrative, they allowed injustice to persist, unchecked and unchallenged. Worse still, they helped uncover war crimes by using language that dehumanized the people they claimed to report on..
Dec 29, 2024 10 tweets 2 min read
A thread highlighting a critical ongoing issue in Palestine: Twenty-three days ago, Palestinian security forces launched a sweeping military operation on the Jenin refugee camp—their stated aim: to purge the camp of “outlaws.” The term, khārijīn ʿan al-qānūn—outsiders to the law—is as chilling as it is revealing..
Dec 28, 2024 5 tweets 1 min read
Gruesome details are emerging about the events that unfolded.. Shathaa left her house to buy something from the store, holding a one-year-old and a two-year-old. A Palestinian government gunman, positioned about 20 meters away behind a window in a nearby building, saw them—three women and two children—and opened fire..
Dec 27, 2024 22 tweets 4 min read
The PA is transforming into a repressive force. For 3 weeks, the Jenin refugee camp has been under total siege, accompanied by a harsh crackdown on dissent. Disturbingly, security forces are documenting their crimes and sharing the videos publicly. Here’s what you need to know.. The so-called Palestinian rulers of the West Bank increasingly operate as an extension of the occupying force. Many of these issues have remained obscured, overshadowed by the relentless violence of Israeli forces..
Dec 9, 2024 42 tweets 6 min read
Mazen’s body has been found—brutally murdered by the Syrian regime. Assad bears the primary guilt, but the Dutch government is jointly responsible for his death. Mazen lived nearby; I saw him just a short while before he disappeared. I’ll share more details below later. Mazen once lived in a small town nestled between Haarlem and Leiden. When he arrived in the Netherlands a decade ago, the scars of torture were etched vividly across his body, like an unrelenting shadow of his past..
Apr 20, 2024 20 tweets 5 min read
A thread: Normally, I would never reply to such garbage. But I really have to at this point since this ‘article’ by a so-called journalist contains so many fictional elements. It is pure slander and libel from someone who pretends to be a journalist.
Apr 14, 2024 15 tweets 2 min read
A thread about the ongoing events: More than fifteen thousand Palestinian children in Gaza were brutally murdered in the past six months, and the only thing the Western leaders did was supply Israel with additional advanced weapons to kill as many Palestinian children as possible..
Jan 7, 2024 8 tweets 2 min read
Earlier this morning, the Israelis again attacked the Jenin refugee camp. The Israeli army expected a force majeure where they could roam ‘freely’ in the streets of the refugee camp.. But the local Palestinian fighters have changed their tactics since the last waves of attacks in the past few months. Now Israel is really suffering from a lack of plan for how to handle the West Bank..
Nov 17, 2023 15 tweets 1 min read
Israeli airstrikes on the Jenin refugee camp. Many casualties. Multiple injuries by Israeli sniper fire. Dangerous developments.
Oct 31, 2023 8 tweets 2 min read
Dehumanisation. You can't raise your voice as a Palestinian. It's forbidden to be emotional when your people are being killed. You should condemn Hamas, and if you don't, you are a terrorist. If you call the people, even all those women and children, killed in the bombings martyrs..
Oct 31, 2023 25 tweets 4 min read
United under our dignity. Gaza is the epicenter of violence at the moment. Thousands of our beloved brothers and sisters have been killed, and large parts of the strip are left in total destruction. People are being told to relocate, yet they are killed while frantically seeking safety..
Oct 12, 2023 7 tweets 1 min read
The birds left. The birds left the skies of Gaza and migrated. Buzzing fighter jets have occupied their clouds and are hunting the people of the land. The peaceful whistling has been replaced by loud explosions. The living streets are now filled with bodies wrapped in blood-soaked white sheets..