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A note found in a Syrian boy's diary:

"When the war is over in my country, we will close Syria's doors and we will put a banner that says: (No Entry). We will shed tears of joy alone, just like how we suffered our grief alone."

'Some day we will return' written on the window of a bus evacuating people from East Aleppo, Syria. 12/15/2016.

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“killing the flowers will not delay spring” / al-yarmouk palestinian refugee camp in damascus, syria

little palestine; diary of a siege (2021) dir. abdallah al-khatib

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لا شك أن الله يكفي 🕊

It is inevitable that there will be days when it feels heavier in the heart. When uncertainty knocks on our door and we are greeted with anxiety and impatience.

But we must not dwell on these moments too deeply. As all days will come to end, accept each day patiently as it comes.

It is important to honour our tawakkul, that we do not underestimate the power that it holds.

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عندما يحكم حب الله ، لا ظلام يمكن أن يخفي نور في عينيك

When the love of Allah reigns, no darkness can hide the noor in your eyes.

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اتبع نور الله ، ثم مشاهدة نفسك تضيء من الداخل

Follow the light of Allah, then watch yourself illuminate from within.

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يحمي

Protect your soul, your heart, your whole.

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هذا العالم ليس جنة ولا يمكن أبدا أن يطمح إلى أن يكون جنة

This world is not paradise and can never aspire to be paradise.

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Accept every emotion, accept what you feel. Then go a step further: accept that there is nothing you can do, and accept it completely. You are not in control.

Allah is.

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9th of November — Walking into the beauty of stillness

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May the angels of Palestine live peacefully in Jannah. May we hear and learn from their stories that touch our hearts, and may they finally live as beautifully as they deserve in paradise.

اَمِين يَا رَبَّ الْعَالَمِيْن 🕊🇵🇸

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“The soul always knows what to do to heal itself, the challenge is to silence the mind.”

— Book of serenity

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‎چو استاده ای٬ دست افتاده گیر

As long as you are standing, give a hand to those who have fallen.

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September 30th, at around 10pm EDT

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It’s important to remember that Hezbollah is a civilian political party as well as a militant organization. Hezbollah holds seats in the Lebanese parliament, duly elected. Just because you are a member of Hezbollah does not mean you are an armed militant, and thus a legitimate military target. The reverse is also true: just because you distribute handheld bombs to “members of Hezbollah” and detonate them, that does not mean you won’t end up killing civilians. In fact, several outlets have reported that the sabotaged pagers belonged to civilians as well as actual Hezbollah fighters, and were used by a “wide network of people, including administrators, medical workers, paramedics, [and] media workers.” But that’s only part of the picture. Even if it were true that Israel distributed the hidden bombs exclusively to armed combatants, they had no way of knowing what would happen to them after that. There were hundreds of the devices, any of which could have been sold, stolen, given away, or lost and picked up by a child. And even in the best-case scenario for Israel, if the devices had been held exclusively by militants at the time of detonation, the collateral damage would still be unacceptable. As Edward Snowden points out, “They blew up countless numbers of people who were driving (meaning cars out of control), shopping (your children are in the stroller standing behind him in the checkout line), et cetera. Indistinguishable from terrorism.” In other words, when Israeli agents pressed the button on September 17, they had no way of knowing what the civilian death toll would be. The act was not “precise,” but haphazard and reckless. They did it anyway.

24 September 2024

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Blatant war criminality aside, this doesn’t even work. They’ve been doing this in Gaza for almost a year and all it has done is radicalise people and send Hamas recruitment numbers up.

Lebanon is not going to any different.

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The entire neighborhood is just gone.

This is the Dahiya doctrine:

The Dahiya doctrine, or Dahya doctrine, is an Israeli military strategy involving the large-scale destruction of civilian infrastructure in order to pressure hostile governments. The doctrine was outlined by former Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Chief of General Staff Gadi Eizenkot. Israel colonel Gabriel Siboni wrote that Israel "should target economic interests and the centers of civilian power that support the organization". The logic is to harm the civilian population so much that they will then turn against the militants, forcing the enemy to sue for peace.