#Memories from Palestine

[virtualtourpalestine]

How 360-Degree Virtual Tours Bring Palestine's Attractions to You?

Are you prepared to set out on an unforgettable journey where exploration and adventure are abundant on the path?

Imagine having access to fascinating marketplaces, historic sites, and stunning scenery without ever having to leave the comforts of your own home. The rapidly advanced technology has now introduced the world of 360-degree virtual tours, where you can travel to far-off places with just a single button click and witness immersive experiences. Amidst various places, Palestine is the ideal place to explore virtually. From ancient ruins to bustling markets, you can experience all with a 360-degree virtual tour Palestine.

Explore History and Time

Every region of Palestine is rich in history and culture, from the historic walls of Jericho to the tranquil beauty of the Sea of Galilee. You can explore everything at your own pace with a 360-degree virtual tour. It allows you to explore some of the most famous sites and undiscovered beauties this nation has to offer. Palestine's breathtaking natural beauty is revealed to you in astounding detail, from the imposing Nativity Church in Bethlehem to the historic Hisham Palace Museum ruins in Jericho.

Establish a Connection with the People and Culture

Making connections with locals and taking in their way of life is one of the most fulfilling parts of traveling. You can do precisely that by fully immersing yourself in the diverse fabric of Palestinian culture with the help of a 360-degree virtual tour. Hear the call to prayer resonating through Ramallah's streets, or participate in lively discussions at a bustling Nablus market. You are free to explore every facet of daily life, like the traditional music and dance.

Accessible Adventure: Unrestricted Travel

The accessibility of 360-degree virtual tours is one of their biggest advantages. Virtual tours let you satiate your wanderlust from the comfort of your home, regardless of whether you're unable to travel because of health issues, budgetary limitations, or a simple lack of time. Just turn on your device and start exploring—you don't have to worry about lengthy flights, reservations at hotels, or jet lag. The world is really at your fingertips when you use virtual tours, and Palestine's attractions are only a click away.

Indulge in the Dynamic Culture of Markets and Mosques

360-degree virtual tours allow you to fully immerse yourself in the local culture, which is one of the best things about traveling. Experience a different world as you stroll through the busy streets of Jerusalem's Old City. Take in the sights, sounds, and smells. Visit a traditional market in Nablus to bargain for trinkets and spices, or simply take in the Dome of the Rock's exquisite architecture. You will have a 360-degree view at your fingertips and experience the sensation of being in the center of everything.

Educational Experience: Acquire Knowledge and Understanding

Virtual tours are a useful educational tool that can teach you about geography, history, and culture engagingly and dynamically. You can discover more about Palestine's rich past through virtual tours, including the struggles and victories of its people in the present era as well as the ancient civilizations that once called this place home. Virtual tours provide a plethora of information that is just waiting to be discovered, whether you're a student trying to increase your knowledge or just an inquisitive traveler keen to learn something new.

Convenience and Flexibility

Not to mention, virtual tours provide the utmost ease and flexibility. There are no time or pressure limits, so you can take your time and enjoy Palestine's attractions whether you have five minutes or five hours to spare. Would you like to spend hours admiring the minute details of ancient ruins or lingering in Bethlehem's Old City's narrow streets? The option is yours when using a virtual tour. Thus, take a seat back, unwind, and get ready to explore Palestine's wonders like never before—all from the comfort of your own home.

The 360-degree virtual tours of Palestine present a unique chance to experience its attractions from the comfort of your own home. These virtual experiences give visitors a glimpse into the rich history, culture, and breathtaking natural scenery of this amazing country, showcasing everything from vibrant markets to ancient ruins. Virtual tours are a useful tool for inspiration, education, and accessible travel as long as technology keeps developing.

[hussyknee]

Her final tweet on October 8 reads:

“Gaza’s night is dark apart from the glow of rockets, quiet apart from the sound of the bombs, terrifying apart from the comfort of prayer, black apart from the light of the martyrs. Good night, Gaza.”

[myceliacrochet]

Look at this wonderful mother -- a teacher -- and her precious children, full of life and love. They have a chance to thrive again given enough funds for food, water, shelter, and evacuation. They don't want our tears -- they just want action!

Donate here

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Hey sorry so looking back at this now I realize it sounded like I meant the funds were for education. They are for basic survival needs, I'm just saying Manal is a teacher. As you can see, she continues to teach her kiddos in their tent. Fixed the wording

[asparklethatisblue]

I cannot even begin to explain the cognitive dissonance of having grown up hearing of how my family survived the holocaust, of how life is sacred above all else and any other commandment… and then watching Israel invoke both religion and the Shoa while committing such violence and invoking the very same stuff that makes me think there's little worse?

Join protests, donate, try to make sure things can't be swept under the rug. I don't know what we can do to actually stop the genocide, but we also can't stop trying?

Donate to MAP - Medical Aid for Palestine

Or if you want a direct way to help a family, my friend Ahmed has a GFM as he's trying to afford food and winter supplies for his family. There is barely any food to be found, and if there is it's expensive, and his brother needs a waterproof tent

[swanasource]

Films By SWANA Filmmakers, 2024

The Apprentice (2024). Dir. Ali Abbasi The Village Next To Paradise (2024). Dir. Mo Harawe Sudan Remember Us (2024). Dir. Hind Meddeb The Seed Of The Sacred Fig (2024). Dir. Mohammad Rasoulof My Memory Is Full Of Ghosts (2024). Dir. Anas Zawahri

Everybody Loves Touda (2024). Dir. Nabil Ayouch Norah (2024). Dir. Tawfik Alzaidi Aïcha (2024). Dir. Mehdi Barsaoui The Teacher (2024). Dir. Farah Nabulsi Diaries From Lebanon (2024). Dir. Myriam El Hajj

[troythecatfish]

[casavanse]

It's been a month since the start of this war.

A month since October seven. A month since 1,400 innocent people were murdered in their homes. A month since 240 people were kidnapped to gaza, some of which mere children.

In jewish tradition, we mourn our dead for seven days after they died - Shiva - and for another memorial day 30 days later, a month.

This is the memorial day of all the dead. In this day we remember them. We pray for them. We say kadish about then. They were our brothers and sisters, they were our friends.

A month in to the war.

Dont you dare to forget them.

Here are the names of every known person that died on October seven, all together. There are still unidentified missing people.

May their memory be a blessing.

[girlinafairytale]

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[long-sleeved-sandwich]

i hope that when i’m old i’ve healed enough that my kids won’t have to tell my grandkids “oh you know how your abuelo is he can be a bit grouchy sometimes” i hope my grandkids see me as a hero who always stood up for what was right, who defended the poor and downtrodden, and lived for his dreams of an impossible world of justice and peace

[theupfish]

I don't have a photo. But the crest of the Capella Tower in Minneapolis is currently lit up as a neutral purple....with a small ring of blue and white underneath. Just visible enough for anyone looking.

[darklydreamingdexxter]

who will you help today? - Ruba's family

They currently need around €36,000 more

sorry for not posting yesterday I was at my friend's bat mitzvah

[atomic-cat]

I spent so many fucking hours making this memorial in my minecraft server

[mariegolddoesthings]

"Why are you boycotting products and blocking celebrities for a war?"

Because nobody is paying quite the attention to it. People are saying it's a war when it's really a genocide.

The media is quick to help Ukraine and all those other countries as if Palestine, Congo, and Sudan don't exist. Like, come on, how is this any different?

We're boycotting, protesting, and blocking to spread attention. We're speaking up, if that's the only thing you can do.

And they...America...Israel...they will keep lying to try to shut us down. But one day, they will have no places to hide.

Do not lose hope. Do not stop talking until they're free.

[thegaycousin-upgrade]

Reminder that while war is doomed to be accompanied by tragedy, the loss is still tragic.

I mourn every Israeli who was killed

I mourn every Israeli who was kidnapped

I mourn every Israeli the was r@ped

I mourn every Israeli who lived and lives in fear

I mourn every Israeli who lost someone close to them.

I mourn every innocent Palestinian who was killed.

I mourn every innocent Palestinian who did not get the help they needed.

I mourn every Palestinian who felt unsafe and still does.

I mourn every Palestinian who lost a loved one.

I mourn every Jew who lost the feeling of safety due to a rise in antisemitism

I mourn every Arab who lost the feeling of safety due to a rise in Islamophobia.

I mourn every loss that came from this war, and is yet to come. Whether they were inevitable or unnecessary, they were a loss.

I mourn each one deeply.

If you see someone mourning online, do not comment harsh or contradictory comments. No matter the reason the loss is tragic, and on either side denying it does no good.

May the memory of all innocent people be a blessing.

You needn’t be on my side for me to mourn for you.

[dailykugisaki]

Day 100!!! | Id in alt

She's not at the right place, but she's still here regardless.

(messing with backgrounds again! I just wanted Kugisaki to look too real in an unreal kinda place💥 also!fyi. I will not be posting this week or at least a bit so I can hopefully see more posts Abt Palestine n ect and bc of the strike!! Just letting you all know!)

[infiniteglitterfall]

Palestinians to platform, part 1

مؤمن الناطور / Moumen Al-Natour

@MoumALnatour

رئيس الشباب الفلسطيني للتنمية / President of Palestinian Youth for Development

Moumen Al-Natour is amazing. Not only does he run a Palestinian youth organization that is doing great work in Gaza, but he's also one of the organizers of the 2019 anti-Hamas protests.

Even to criticize Hamas, in Gaza, means to be interrogated, and potentially jailed, tortured, and/or killed. To actively protest Hamas is many times more dangerous.

To have survived that work and continued doing it? I cannot imagine the emotional strength this dude has.

Here's what Center for Peace Communications (another great organization) has said about him:

So many Palestinians, in or from Palestine, are out there talking about what everyday life in Gaza is like. About Hamas, about Israel, about what they want and what they need, about their struggles and their interests and their families.

My goal, in finding people for you to follow and platform, is to help more voices get out of Gaza after years of suppression, and to help more outsiders (like me) connect with them.

People care SO MUCH about Palestine. But frequently, all there is to share is outrage, semi-accurate news, and more outrage. Frequently, we're not calling for the same things they are. We call for a ceasefire; they demand Hamas return the hostages and surrender. We call for Israel to let aid in; they say Israel is letting the aid in, but it's being stolen, and call for air drops rather than trucks. We call for Israel to stop fighting; they say they hope Israel takes Hamas out first.

We aren't centering their voices and experiences. We aren't lending our reach and our strength to their demands.

I want to make that possible.

Ala Mushtaha, the son of this imam, evidently said, “On Saturday December 30, our front door was busted down and twenty masked men barged in and took my father, a widely respected and deeply learned imam here in Gaza."

“One dragged him by his head and another grabbed him by his beard. My younger brother tried to intervene and reason with the kidnappers, but they beat him. I have a medical condition that makes it hard for me to breathe, so all I could do was watch as the horror unfolded.

“He wouldn’t preach what Hamas told him to. He refused to tell Gazans that violent resistance and obedience to Hamas, is the best way out of our current hell.”

ok this dude needs his own post honestly, he goes on to say so much intense stuff about their lives.

OMG his dad was actually released!

This is what I'm talking about. This is effective activism. Imagine what all these people could do if they had the entire global pro-Palestinian movement behind them.

Al-Natour posts a fair amount of political commentary.

The "we want to live" hashtag is a callback to the amazing "We Want To Live" protests he co-organized against Hamas, in Gaza in 2019, and again in the summer of 2023. Activist Hamida Howidzy (who will also be getting a separate post) wrote about them in Newsweek recently.

Some things he posts in Arabic and then in English. Some of his posts are in Arabic only. In the thread above, he actually posted a couple more that were just in Arabic, presumably aimed at Arabic-language comments.

What I like about Twitter is that you can whack the "translate post" button and get a pretty decent translation most of the time.

Translation:

"I saw all the responses... What is wrong and forbidden in reuniting the West Bank, Gaza and Jerusalem through elections in which the people choose who will represent them??!?? Why are all the responses offensive...a collaborator, a traitor, and contain insults that indicate that whoever wrote them needs restructuring?! What prevents us, after ending the war, from returning our choice and choice to the Palestinian people?!+

"Everyone wrote that I opened??!! how did you know???!! Stopping the war is the most important thing now... Whoever sees the condition of the people and feels all this is easy for him does not have humanity, and is not a human being... Whoever, after the destruction of more than 80% of Gaza and the North, and still writing in a way that wants the war to continue while he lives abroad, should reconsider. He accepted to live the same suffering!++"

Note: I copied the "I opened" bit and threw it into Google Translate separately, because that cannot be right. It still insisted that it meant "I opened".... but it gave me the transliterated words, "ani fatah."

Everyone wrote that he's Fatah -- the party that runs the West Bank, the one Hamas violently kicked out of Gaza in 2007-08.

"The end of my speech... I know... whoever is not with you is a traitor and an agent... shameful... by God, by God, by God... there will be an account[ing] for all of this talk... so that you understand the word agent... and the account will be through a government of law... It is clear that there are many who benefit from the poverty and destruction of Gaza, and they must be held accountable according to the law.

"Have mercy on people with your tongues"

The comment on that one is noteworthy:

"Yes, whoever is not with the resistance is indeed a traitor, and those who must be held accountable are the traitors, agents, hypocrites, liars, and racists who slander the resistance and who want to hold it accountable only because it fights the enemy of humanity and defends truth and the oppressed. If you want to apply the law, apply it to yourselves first."

It highlights how much of what we hear in the West is Hamas propaganda. That's a whole other post too. But Hamas claims to be "the resistance," to "defend truth and the oppressed," while arresting people who refuse to preach its propaganda. While jailing and torturing someone 20 times for organizing a protest.

Which are the exact tactics that make it so easy for their propaganda to reach us . And so hard for us to even know that there has been an entire protest movement against Hamas in Gaza, much less to support its activists.

I'll just cut and paste the translations from his most recent thread, above. All emphasis is mine:

"When demonstrations took place in Israel demanding that Netanyahu stop the war and free the hostages, Al Jazeera and Hamas considered it a victory and an achievement, and that the Israeli government was under pressure. But what is striking is that these demonstrations were not suppressed. They were secured. The hostage issue and public pressure were dealt with professionally.

"The demonstrations that took place in Gaza demanding an end to the war and the return of the displaced...they were classified as suspicious [by Al Jazeera etc] ...even though the displaced Israeli lives in a 5-star hotel and has the privileges of the displaced, and when the Palestinian displaced in Gaza receives help, he needs a mediator, and if he wants a tent, he needs leadership intervention, and if he does not have the mediator And the intervention wants to scratch his pocket..+++

"Why did Israel allow demonstrations and look pressured, always trying to contain everything... while we have a displaced person lost, homeless, and no one is trying to contain him, and when he talks, they call him a fifth column???"

Last month, he posted about pregnancy in wartime. Note the cost of the tent later in this thread! Numerous Palestinians have posted about humanitarian aid getting stolen -- by Hamas, by NGOs, by others -- and sold on the black market. Food and tents especially get mentioned a lot. Everyone mentions the tents are being sold for more than (the equivalent of) $700, even though they were supposed to be free.

I'll leave you with this one for now:

You can read all the posts in this series in my "platform palestine" tag.