#khaled ismail

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Hello,

I am Khaled Ismail, a father of three children. We are suffering in Gaza from the effects of war, and we truly need your support to help my family.

In these difficult times, any assistance can make a big difference. Your support will reach my children and give them the hope and positive energy they need.

I ask you to be part of our story, because together we can change their lives for the better.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

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Gaza's sky is black but Qatar is always sunny

The children of Gaza are suffering. They have no food or medical supply. But, you can help. Please, open your heart and make a donation by clicking on this link below. Shukran and god bless you.

I cannot believe what we have brought on Gaza Thank Allah that we are safe in Doha Plaza They have nothing left to eat Like a Ramadan retreat I don't really give a shit Cause I'm hanging in my suite Check, check, check Check out we are dealing here with monsters The room service wouldn't bring us lobsters Call Mia Khalifa To play with us some FIFA And tell her to dress up like she is a nurse in Shifaa Dollar bills, dollar bills My people have no water, wonder how it feels Dollar bills, dollar bills They have no gasoline I just ordered me new wheels Donate us money My dog needs new Armani Gaza's sky is black But Qatar is always sunny Knocking, knocking on the door Fuck it's the Mossad Chill ya baba I just ordered suchi avocad Dollar bills, dollar bills Mashaall is so street He just got himself new grills Dollar bills, dollar bills Put some Netlfix on I don't want to see the kills Donate us money My dog needs new Armani Gaza's sky is black But Qatar is always sunny You just gave me money Life is pretty funny Gaza's sky is black But Qatar is always sunny

Cry harder.

We need more money.

People of the world...

[secular-jew]

In a recent interview, Hamas ex-leader, Khaled Mashal, openly thanks American students for renewing their dream of wiping Israel off the map and murdering millions of Jews. His ideology is strikingly similar to Hitler. Given the amplification of social media, the Islamists are even more dangerous than the Nazis. NO CEASEFIRE. Full stop.

""Following Oct 7, I believe the dream and the hope for Palestine from the river to the sea, and from the north to the south, has been renewed....Palestine "From the River to the Sea" - that's the slogan of American students....We will not give up our right to Palestine in its entirety.""

[trendynewsnow]

The Impact of Yahya Sinwar's Death on Hamas Leadership

The Impact of Yahya Sinwar’s Death on Hamas The recent death of Yahya Sinwar, a prominent leader of Hamas, marks a significant turning point for the militant organization. Sinwar was killed on Wednesday by Israeli forces in Gaza, a move that Israel has been strategically aiming for throughout the ongoing conflict. His elimination is viewed as one of the most crucial successes in Israel’s efforts…

[khaledismael]

Help 5-Year-Old Mariam and Her Family Escape the Horrors of War in Gaza 🍉🕊

Five-year-old Mariam,🕊with her bright pink backpack and tiny hands clutching a red rose, was ready to head to her KG2 class. It was a Saturday morning, October 7, and Mariam was filled with excitement and pride for reaching the next stage of her education. She wanted to surprise her kind teacher with that little rose. But in an instant, her world — our world — was torn apart.

Without warning, the skies filled with the sounds of explosions. The joyful morning turned into a nightmare of dust, fear, and destruction. Her preschool was shattered, her teacher’s life taken, and our neighborhood became a place of ruin. That single day marked the beginning of a relentless assault on Gaza — a place where childhood dreams, laughter, and innocence were erased in moments.

I am Khaled Ismail, a 41-year-old father, and my wife Rasha is 32. We live in Gaza with our three children. Our youngest, beautiful Mariam🕊, is just five years old. Our eldest, Walid, 12, is a boy full of dreams, always hoping to become an inventor. And in the middle, there’s Karim, our 10-year-old, whose laughter and jokes used to brighten our darkest days.

But the war has left scars that words cannot heal. The day of the first airstrike changed everything. Rubble covered their toys, and black dust filled the air. The sound of my children’s cries mixed with the chaos of families running for their lives. We left our home that day, desperately searching for safety. But every step, every shelter, brought only more destruction.

For a year now, we have been displaced, moving from one place to another, only to be met with more violence. Today, our home is nothing more than a frail tent. It offers no shelter from the burning heat of summer or the biting cold of winter. My children’s small bodies are battered by this reality — malnutrition, intestinal infections, heat stroke, and even hepatitis are constant threats.

I have nothing left to change our situation. My children have lost everything. I have lost everything. Their childhood is buried under the rubble, their dreams replaced by survival, and their once-joyful laughter now a faint memory.

I am humbly reaching out to you with a plea to help us escape this endless nightmare. Our dream is simple: to find safety, to give our children a chance at life, to give Mariam and her brothers a future. With every dollar, you offer a glimmer of hope, a step closer to a place where they can finally be children again.

Please, be the reason my family finds peace. Your support, even just one dollar, can make all the difference. Together, we can turn this story of despair into one of hope and resilience. Start today, and be a part of the miracle we need.

Help Mariam🕊. Help my family. Let us find a place to live with dignity and hope. Thank you for reading, and thank you for caring.

[mygidon73]

Wrath of God II: To Win, Israel Must Assassinate Hamas Leaders Everywhere

Israel’s military achievements against Hamas are impressive. As part of its campaign to destroy the terrorist group, Israel has reportedly struck over 22,000 targets in the Gaza Strip and has killed some 7,000 fighters since the war broke out.Since Israel’s land campaign began, the IDF has discovered over eight hundred tunnels, many which were located near or inside educational institutions,…

[northgazaupdates]

10 April 2024

Journalist Ismail Al-Ghoul documents the aftermath of a bombing attack on the family of Ismail Haniyeh, head of the Political Bureau for the Hamas Islamic Resistance Movement. The family was getting into a car in Al-Shati refugee camp when the attack occurred.

According to Resistance News Network, seven people were martyred in the attack: Ismail’s sons Hazem, Amir, and Mohammed, and their children Mona, Amal, Khaled, and Razan.

Attacks by an occupying power on the families of resistance leaders is a war crime under international law, in addition to the crime of illegally targeting civilians. That these people were murdered on the first day of Eid is an act of spite by the occupation.

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Joint US-Egypt Archaeology Team Unearths 4,000-Year-Old Tomb in Luxor

11 coffins for men, women and children found inside necropolis, suggesting it was a family tomb.

Archeologists from Egypt and the United States unearthed an ancient tomb with 11 sealed burials near the famed city of Luxor, Egyptian authorities said in a statement Friday.

Egypt’s Tourism and Antiquities Ministry said that the tomb, which dates back to the Middle Kingdom (1938 BCE-1630 BCE), was found in the South Asasif necropolis, next to the Temple of Hatshepsut on the Nile’s West Bank in Luxor.

The joint Egyptian-American mission excavating the necropolis found coffins for men, women and children, suggesting that it was a family tomb used for generations during the 12th Dynasty and the beginning of the 13th Dynasty, said Mohamed Ismail Khaled, Secretary-General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities in Egypt.

He said ancient floods destroyed most of the burials’ wooden coffins and linen wrappings.

However, some items such as jewelry in women’s burials were found intact, including a finely crafted necklace with 30 amethyst beads and two cylindrical agate beads framing a hippo-head amulet, according to the statement.

Katherine Blakeney, chief American archeologist with the South Asasif Conservation Project, said they found two copper mirrors, one with a lotus-shaped handle, and the second with a unique design of Hathor, goddess of the sky, women, fertility and love in ancient Egypt.

According to a statement from the South Asasif Conservation Project, directed by Dr. Elena Pischikova, this find is the first Middle Kingdom tomb found in the area.

The project’s statement referenced several finds, including a green-blue glazed faience fertility figurine with truncated legs, decorated with jewelry markings on the legs and torso, and a square-shaped offering tray with relief representations of a bull’s head, a loaf of bread and other offerings.

In the 11 discovered burials, team member Dr. Afaf Wahba identified the skeletons of five women, two men and three children. Six of the individuals — primary females — were interred with burial assemblages.

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Yasser Arafat allegedly stole over $3 billion from the ‘Palestinian Fund’, which he stashed in over 200 overseas bank accounts under false names. He gave his wife Suha over $200,000 a month in ‘housekeeping money.’ Between July 2002 and July 2003 alone, over $10 million was transferred from a Swiss account into 2 Paris-based accounts in her name (Arab Bank & BNP). Ismail Haniyah bought vast tracts of land on the Gazan coast and spent many millions building homes for his 13 children. Khaled Mashal and his cohort Mousa Abu Marzuk are said to have ‘misappropriated’ around $2.6 billion each of money intended for Gazan homes, schools and hospitals. Mashal now lives an opulent life in Qatar. Mahmoud Abbas spent $17 million building a mansion in Ramallah, $50 million on a private jet and is said to have paid many millions in ‘salaries’ to family, friends and those loyal to him ( in addition to the hundreds of millions paid to convicted terrorists and their families). ‘Palestinian’ business is big business for these so-called leaders. The last thing they want is peace, for as long as there is conflict, as long as the media can be fed pictures of ‘disillusioned’ Gazans ‘living in poverty’ and as long as Israel can be blamed, the money will keep rolling in.

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[good-old-gossip]

"Symbolically, the death of Ismail Haniyeh is the heaviest loss that the Hamas leadership has faced since the assassination of its founder and spiritual leader, Ahmed Yassin, in 2004.

Although the damage is considerable, Hamas will not be destroyed by his absence. The group’s collective leadership is spread inside and outside of Palestine, with a structure designed to minimise the disappearance of any leader, however important they may be.

This pattern of assassination and renewal has been repeated over time. Eliminating individual leaders temporarily weakens the movement but consolidates its standing and popularity.

Younger leaders step in, reorganisation takes place, and the group’s base of support widens. What lies ahead for Hamas and the Palestinian people after Haniyeh?

For Hamas, this is a great loss, coming at a time when the movement is fighting what seems to be a war of survival in the Gaza Strip.

Hamas will need time to produce a charismatic leader of Haniyeh’s calibre.

But eventually, it will do exactly that, just as it did after the killing of Yassin and other top leaders.

On the slim chance that this assassination and the continuous killing in Gaza were to destroy Hamas as a structure, a regional nightmare would emerge. Instead of one intact military organisation,

Israel would confront countless splinter groups more radical than Hamas.

For the Palestinian people, they have lost a man of unity.

For Israel and its genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, all scenarios are now wide open in the wake of Haniyeh’s assassination and that of Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr the previous day.

Haniyeh was a key decision-maker in indirect negotiations to end the war on Gaza and arrange the release of Palestinian and Israeli prisoners.

By killing him, Israel kills the negotiations - at least for now - and, with that, many moderate tendencies in Hamas and beyond."

✍️ by Khaled Hroub

[hassanatforusmk]

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[mariacallous]

The path to Palestinian statehood has been crushed beneath an avalanche of bombs, bullets, smoke, and fire. “After Hamas is destroyed Israel must retain security control over Gaza to ensure that Gaza will no longer pose a threat to Israel, a requirement that contradicts the demand for Palestinian sovereignty,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said in a prepared statement in January.

What little hard-earned trust there was between Israelis and Palestinians has been shattered both by the slaughter of civilians by Hamas in Operation Al-Aqsa Flood on Oct. 7, 2023—the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust—and the subsequent war between Hamas and Israel. More than 30,000 Palestinians have now died, the majority of whom were civilians. Violent resistance has failed Palestinians—and empowered extremists in Israel.

In the Israeli collective psyche, Oct. 7 was a tremendous violation because of the sneak nature of the attack, the dismembering and burning of corpses, the use of systemic rape as a weapon of war, and the targeting of civilians including children in kibbutzim and attendees at a music festival. There is little appetite for peace with the perpetuators.

In Gaza, meanwhile, Israel is carrying out a brutal and unremitting war that has buried countless children under rubble and seen the destruction of more than half of all houses as well as libraries, court houses, hospitals, and all of the territory’s universities. Many Palestinians view the Israeli military offensive as an attempted genocide. The greater part of the Palestinian political spectrum, including both Fatah and Hamas, broadly support the South African case in the International Court of Justice.

Yet there is little hope of real victory for either side. Even today, parts of Gaza remain under Hamas control, and the top figurehead commanders inside Gaza who oversaw the planning and execution of the Al-Aqsa Flood—Yahya Sinwar and Mohammed Deif—have not been captured or killed. The Hamas political leadership outside Palestine is, for the most part, also still at large—top Hamas political bureau members Ismail Haniyeh, Khaled Meshal, and Mousa Abu Marzook are still alive, while Saleh Al-Arouri was assassinated by Israel in Beirut on Jan. 2.

Both sides have hardened against a two-state solution. In a Jan. 16 interview, Meshal dismissed the possibility of a two-state solution and said the Oct. 7 assault on Israel proved that liberating Palestine “from the river to the sea” is a realistic idea. In November, another Hamas political bureau member Ghazi Hammad pledged that Hamas would “repeat October 7 again and again” until they achieved their goals—the total destruction of Israel and a Palestinian state throughout the entirety of the land.

Strategically, this makes no sense. While occupied people have a right to violently resist military occupation, for relatively disempowered people, trying to assert their cause through advocacy and negotiation is a much more fruitful domain than violence because it relies on force of argument rather than military might.

The Palestinian case for self-determination—like any stateless people—is bulletproof, even if Palestinians themselves are not. The principle of self-determination is enshrined in the U.N. Charter, and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. Palestinians have an inalienable right to rule themselves in the land on which they live.

The trouble is that Hamas’ demands go far beyond demanding self-governance. What they and Palestinian anti-Zionists demand is the right to extinguish their neighbor’s self-governance, and conquer their neighbor’s territory. It’s the same right that Israeli extremists claim as they prepare new settlements on the West Bank—and even dream of seizing land in Gaza.

This overarching narrative of Palestinian resistance against the existence of any kind of Israel or Zionism has been deeply embedded into the cause since the start of the conflict—and has produced little but tragedy for Palestinians. Since before 1948, the use of force to resist Zionist presence in the land was normalized and glorified. Muslim leaders such as the Grand Mufti Haj Amin Al-Husseini refused to permit the establishment of any kind of Jewish state at the heart of the Arab world on what they held to be Islamic land. This absolute rejectionism fueled the anti-Zionist pogroms of the 1920s and 1930s, and spurred the Arab Palestinian factions to try to extinguish the newly created state of Israel in 1947 to 1948.

It was only in the 1990s that the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) renounced the strategy of violence, recognized Israel, and switched toward a strategy of diplomacy and negotiation. But this did not last very long. After the failure to agree upon a negotiated two-state solution at Camp David, Yasser Arafat gave his blessing to armed groups including Hamas to initiate a Second Intifada, perhaps as an attempt to achieve greater negotiating leverage and further Israeli concessions. Hamas’ takeover of Gaza and their war against Israel is simply a continuation of this long history of anti-Zionism.

Of course, this approach has failed to achieve both Hamas’ objective of eradicating Israel, and also failed to grant Palestinians any kind of state. So why is this?

Reliance on violence fuels a cycle of violence. This cycle of violence has led to severe Israeli retaliation, exacerbating the suffering of civilians and leading to deep humanitarian crises, cruelly visible in Gaza today. The use of violence has sabotaged the Palestinian cause on the international stage. Violent tactics have frequently been used to justify the delegitimization of Palestinians, and serve as an excuse to prolong the occupation of the Palestinian Territories by Israel. Horrific acts such as those of Oct. 7 alienate potential allies and supporters, particularly in the Western world.

This is not to mention the internal Palestinian political landscape. The split between Hamas and the PLO over tactics, strategy, and goals has fragmented Palestinians. This has made it more challenging—if not nigh on impossible—to present any kind of united front in negotiations with Israel and the international community.

The Israeli right has used Palestinian fragmentation as a way to prevent the development of a two-state solution. According to the Jerusalem Post, in 2019 Netanyahu admitted as much when he told a private meeting of his Likud party that bolstering Hamas was part of his strategy to help maintain a separation between the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank and Hamas in Gaza and prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state.

Yet the use of peaceful protests and strategies has also faced significant challenges. Despite the moral and ethical superiority of nonviolent resistance, its effectiveness in the Palestinian context has been limited due to several factors. Peaceful protests often receive less media attention compared to violent conflicts simply because they are of lower impact and lack the visceral shock of terrorism.

This lack of visibility can limit the impact on the global stage, making it harder to garner any kind of recognition or negotiation leverage. While violence might isolate Palestinians on the world stage, the dramatic and attention-grabbing nature of violent attacks helps to bolster Hamas’ standing on the Palestinian street, where they are seen to be the ones doing something—anything—to fight for the Palestinian cause.

Beyond this, peaceful protests have often been met with heavy-handed responses from Israeli security forces—such as with the Great March of Return in 2018. This suppression not only risks the lives and well-being of protestors and also discourages participation from the broader population. Violent elements including Hamas have also infiltrated these movements, and turned efforts at peaceful protest into acts of aggression.

The ongoing occupation, the blockade of Gaza, and settlement expansions in the West Bank underpin a sense of desperation and frustration among Palestinians. As Frantz Fanon suggested in his anti-colonialist opus The Wretched of the Earth, violence sometimes can be viewed as a cathartic force and as a response to the systemic violence inflicted upon an occupied people by a process of colonization or military occupation, and thus as a means for an occupied or colonized people to reclaim their humanity and agency.

Additionally, Palestinian nonviolent campaigns have been blighted by the same tendency for maximalist demands as Hamas’ violent campaigns. The Boycotts, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement for example opposes Palestinians having dialogue with Israelis, in what they call “anti-normalization,” and makes maximalist demands about the right of return for all Palestinian refugees to Israel. By making maximalist demands that are never going to be met in a negotiation, nonviolent campaigns can doom themselves to failure through the perception that these demands are not serious or in good faith.

After this war, we must call for a new approach rooted in realism, a renewed commitment to coexistence, and the willingness for both sides to compromise. Both Israelis and Palestinians need to abandon maximalist demands and delegitimization to focus on pragmatic solutions, accepting the fact that neither side is going to disappear, or push one or the other into the sea.

Israelis and Palestinians must both accept that maximalist positions—whether it’s the complete destruction of Israel as a state or the denial of Palestinian statehood —are unattainable, implausible, and only perpetuate the cycle of violence, hatred, and trauma. Moving beyond this demands a culture of coexistence, where both Israelis and Palestinians acknowledge each other’s right to live in peace and security. Education and public discourse—on both sides—must emphasize mutual respect, understanding, and the historical and emotional ties that both groups have to the land.

The focus must shift back to negotiating a pragmatic compromise that can satisfy the core needs of both sides. Palestinians and Israelis need to prepare to head back to the negotiating table and work out our differences. This involves working towards establishing a Palestinian state with agreed borders, preventing the takeover of this state by terrorist groups like Hamas. We need to establish a consensus on Jerusalem’s status, refugee rights, and an end to settlement expansion. On the Palestinian side, trust was lost in previous peace efforts due to settlement expansion. On the Israeli side, trust was lost due to continued violence, leading to a lack of faith in Palestinian leadership’s ability to control extremism and provide security.

The international community, including regional powers and global organizations, must play a constructive role in mediating and supporting this process. This includes ensuring that any agreements reached are respected and providing economic and political support for peace initiatives. This pathway to peace is undoubtedly challenging and requires courage, vision, and perseverance. But it’s the only way toward a future in which two peoples can live side by side in peace, dignity, and safety.

[llycaons]

🇵🇸 Vetted fundraisers for Palestine 🇵🇸 (18/20)

Hi everyone, here are some more campaigns of the people who have reached out to me recently!

Khaled Ismail, his wife, and their three children: @khaled-12 and @khaledismael // vetted by 90-ghost // donate // $194 CAD/$30,000 (critically low on funds!)

Lara Al-Sharafa's family: @thelareeeee21 // #241 on GazaVetters list // donate // €291/€20,000 (critically low on funds!)

14-yr old Ahmad Waleed, and his family: @ahmadwaleed555 // #167 on gaza-evacuation-funds list // donate (NEW LINK after old organizer stopping responding) // $925/$20,000 (critically low on funds!)

Ahmed Abusaada, his wife Noor, and their four young children: @ahmedsada1 // vetted by 90-ghost // donate // £1,265/£25,000

Muhammad Shehab's family: @hyamshehab96 // #127 on GazaVetters list // donate (NEW LINK) // €1,890/€60,000

Sondos Jad Al-Haq, her husband Mohammed, and their two young children: @familysondos-gaza2 and @sondos220 // #70 on GazaVetters list // donate // $1,338 CAD/$30,000

Mohammed M Siam and his family: @supportmohammedmsiam1 // #198 on the Bees and Watermelon campaign list and vetted by association // donate // $2,275/$25,000

Hilda and Mohamed Ayad's family: @hildanasr1 // vetted by gaza-evacuation-funds here (#6) and by bilal-salah0 // donate // €3,470/€50,000

Raneen Bakroon and her three children: @ranensworld // vetted by 90-ghost // donate // €10,562/€80,000

Mohammed Atalla, a 17-year old with shrapnel injuries, his father Sobhi, who needs chemotherapy, and the rest of their family: @mohammedatallah // vetted here // donate // €22,721/€82,000

All of these campaigns are legitimate and all these people do need support for food, medical care, clothing, and shelter when winter comes. If you don’t know who to donate to, click here. Whatever number you get, donate $5-$20 to that family, or whatever you can afford. Every little bit really does help :) I’d really like to encourage donations with these lists, not just reblogs. Thanks, everyone! 🇵🇸

[karineverse]

Hello,

I am Khaled Ismail, a father of three children. We are suffering in Gaza from the effects of war, and we truly need your support and assistance to save my family.

In these difficult times, every little help makes a big difference. Your support will reach my children and give them the hope and positive energy they need.

I ask you to be part of our story, because together we can change their lives for the better.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart. 💔🙏

Khaled

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