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Dec 18 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
THREAD: 3 must-watch Palestinian films have made the 2025 Oscars shortlist.
These are the movies:
“From Ground Zero” was shortlisted for an Academy Award for Best International Feature.
In it, 22 Palestinian filmmakers in Gaza tell their stories of struggle and resilience through Israel’s genocide.
Dec 16 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
THREAD: In the past 24 hours, Israel has killed at least 60 Palestinian civilians in Gaza, including journalists, civil defense workers and families seeking shelter in schools. Israel’s genocidal assault is destroying Palestinian lives and wiping out entire communities.
Yesterday, Israel bombed a UN school in Khan Yunis and killed at least 20 Palestinians forced from their homes by Israel’s relentless attacks.
Dec 16 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
THREAD: Remembering Naheda and Samar Anton, the Palestinian mother and daughter Israel killed in a church.
Naheda Antoun, 70, was the matriarch of Gaza’s largest Christian family.
Her daughter Samar, 50, worked at a Catholic missionary for disabled Palestinian children.
Israel killed them both, one after the other, in the church where they were sheltering for their lives.
Dec 11 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
THREAD: A California county has divested from Caterpillar Inc. over its complicity in Israeli apartheid and genocide, marking the first time a US county has officially divested from a corporation in support of Palestine.
Alameda County—a county in California that includes the city of Oakland—will divest $32 million from Caterpillar Inc., the construction equipment manufacturer that supplies heavy machinery to the Israeli military.
Dec 6 • 8 tweets • 1 min read
THREAD: 5 things to know about the @amnesty report finding Israel Is committing genocide in Gaza
1. Amnesty International’s report provides extensive evidence that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza as defined under international law.
Dec 3 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
🚨 THREAD: Israel’s killing of humanitarian workers is a deliberate part of its genocide.
Since it began committing genocide in Gaza, Israel has killed at least 338 humanitarian aid workers.
On Saturday alone, Israel killed humanitarian aid workers from Gaza Soup Kitchen, @WCKitchen, and @SavetheChildren.
Nov 26 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
THREAD: Talk to your family & friends about Palestine (Part 2)
Our research-backed guide can help.
To read part 1 of our research guide, featuring advice on how to start a meaningful conversation about Israel’s oppression of Palestinians, check out this thread:
THREAD: Talk to your family & friends about Palestine.
Our research-backed guide can help.
Israel is still killing Palestinian children and families every day. Having challenging conversations is a small but meaningful way you can advocate for them.
Commit to talking with at least 3 people about why they should support Palestinian freedom.
Nov 21 • 9 tweets • 1 min read
🚨 THREAD: The International Criminal Court issues arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant for war crimes in Gaza; White House rejects decision. Here’s what you need to know ⬇️
The @IntlCrimCourt has issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, charging them with war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.
Nov 20 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
THREAD: As it commits genocide in Gaza and continues to violently steal Palestinian land in the West Bank, Israel’s government is enacting draconian laws that target the rights and freedoms of Palestinian citizens of Israel.
A new Israeli law bans flying the Palestinian flag at gatherings.
Palestinian citizens of Israel will be fined thousands and jailed up to a year for flying their flag.
Israel will use the law to repress nonviolent protests
Nov 19 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
THREAD: Journalist Fadi Al Wahidi’s mother is going on hunger strike until Israel lets her son get treatment.
In October, an Israeli sniper shot Al Jazeera cameraman Fadi Al Wahidi in the neck while he was reporting in Gaza, paralyzing him.
Nov 19 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
THREAD: Israel is preparing to take over the Palestinian West Bank.
Israel's 2025 economic plan is part of the process.
Every year, Israel’s government forces Palestinians out of their homes in order to steal Palestinian land and build illegal settlements for Israelis.
The Israeli government just passed a new economic plan to steal even more land and cement its control over the West Bank.
Nov 15 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
THREAD: Call to boycott @Netflix film Mary over Israeli actors amid Israel’s genocide against the Holy Land. Learn the facts ⬇️
Netflix casts Israeli leads in new film Mary, sparking backlash from Palestinians and human rights activists who are are calling for a boycott, citing the hypocrisy of casting Israeli actors while Israel commits genocide against Palestinians in the land tied to Mary’s story.
Nov 12 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
THREAD: Israel’s government is assembling plans to take over the entire Palestinian West Bank once Donald Trump takes office.
Israel’s Finance Minister said, “I have directed the start of professional work to prepare the necessary infrastructure to apply Israeli sovereignty over [the Palestinian West Bank]... I have no doubt that President Trump… will support the State of Israel in this move.”
Nov 11 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
THREAD: Israel Is Systematically Annihilating Palestinians in North Gaza Right Now.
Here’s how.
Right now, Israel’s military is committing the worst atrocities of its genocide in north Gaza. Those atrocities are happening by design.
Via @ForensicArchi, this is the infrastructure Israel has set up to systematically mass murder Palestinians in Gaza:
Nov 11 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
UN Report: Nearly 70% of Palestinians killed by Israel are children and women.
A new report from @UNHumanRights confirms that Israel has overwhelmingly targeted women and children in its assault on Gaza.
Learn the facts ⬇️
With bombs and weapons paid for by American taxpayers, Israel has killed Palestinian children and families in their homes and shelters while starving them and denying them access to lifesaving medicine. This is what genocide looks like, plain and simple.
Nov 8 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
THREAD: Israel has been severely torturing Palestinians in camps for over a year.
Israel has been torturing Palestinians after taking them captive for decades, but it’s severely escalated the scale and extent of this torture since it began committing genocide in Gaza.
Nov 7 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
THREAD: On November 7, 2023, Palestinian children held a press conference outside Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza, calling on the world to stop Israel’s unfolding genocide.
What has Israel done to them?
"We come now to shout and invite you to protect us. We want to live, we want peace, we want to judge the killers of children. We want medicine, food, and education, and we want to live as the other children live."
- A Palestinian Child
November 7, 2023
Nov 5 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
THREAD: From Gaza to the West Bank, Israel has one goal: stealing Palestinian land without regard for Palestinian lives.
Israel has been killing Palestinian families and destroying their homes for over 76 years with the goal of stealing Palestinian land.
Nov 5 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
Israel has kept the Rafah Border closed for 6 months, cutting Palestinians in Gaza off from food, medicine, and the rest of the world. Learn the facts ⬇️
For six relentless months, Israel has kept Gaza’s Rafah border crossing with Egypt sealed shut, trapping over 2 million people in Gaza.
Nov 4 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
THREAD: Israel just bombed the pediatric and nursery wards of Kamal Adwan Hospital – one of the last hospitals in north Gaza.
Here's what you need to know.
Last week, Israel’s military invaded the Kamal Adwan Hospital and abducted over 40 doctors and nurses who were working inside.
Today it bombed and invaded the hospital once again, destroying vital infrastructure in the pediatric and nursery wards.