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Im like if a corpse had to wake up every day

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Simone Weil, Waiting for God

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"here lie those who loved life and could not find a way to live it" x

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I need everyone to understand that even as Palestinians, with everything that we grew up witnessing and learning about, some of what we've been seeing unfold in Gaza is still too horrific for us to bear or wrap our heads around

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feeling extremely lucky that the land i grew up in was immortalised in such a way

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I am asking you to endure it.

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100+ dead tonight in a terrorist attack in Iran. Three months of total siege by Israeli forces in Gaza. Israeli attacks on both Hamas and Hezbollah officials in Lebanon within the last 24 hours. Shia militias exchanging fire with US forces stationed in Iraq and Syria on what seems to be a daily basis. Turkish airstrikes on Syrian Kurds. Escalating hostilities between the Houthis and US-led naval forces in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden.

The Middle East is closer to the edge of large-scale warfare right now than at any other point in many years, and the Biden administration has been escalating the situation, without pause, across multiple dimensions. The US government is severely underestimating the risks of what it’s doing right now

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Ahmad Abu Shamla, a Palestinian man, was killed by Israel in Rafah. He had been working for France since 2002 in the French institute.

Wanna know why he was still in Gaza? Because France refused to put his 4 oldest sons in the list of people allowed to evacuate through Rafah. Because of his job France could repatriate him and his family but they chose to put only part of the family in the list and refused to put his 4 older sons. Ahmad told the rest of his family who were on the list to leave and he stayed behind with his 4 sons and on Saturday he died because of his wounds after the house he was staying at was bombed. He was killed by Israel because France expected him to leave his sons behind.

It’s just so fucking disgusting I wanna throw up.

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thinking about this today

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(Dec. 16)

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IDF saw civilians in civilian clothing waving white flags, and opened fire on them, then hunted the survivor down and executed them. The only reason this reached the news, however, was that it was later revealed that these civilians were, in fact, not Palestinians.

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Hiba Kamal Abu Nada was killed on 20 October 2023, by an airstrike on her home in Khan Yunis in southern Gaza. She was 32.

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Urs Fischer you

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rachel corrie’s letters

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“Childhood is long and narrow like a coffin, and you can’t get out of it on your own.” 

“Childhood is dark and it’s always moaning like a little animal that’s locked in a cellar and forgotten. It comes out of your throat like your breath in the cold, and sometimes it’s too little, other times too big. It never fits exactly.”

“Wherever you turn, you run up against your childhood and hurt yourself because it’s sharp-edged and hard, and stops only when it has torn you completely apart.”

— Tove Ditlevsen, from The Copenhagen Trilogy, tr. Tiina Nunnally and Michael Favala Goldman