#neighborhood sniper

[tonicclonicaf]

“I’m here to save you but who’s to save me?”

-Eazy-E

[useradeers-tf2-problem]

Team Neighborhood Chronicles Screen Redraw!

Here are the closeups.

And here are the paper sketch and the OG screencap.

Also this drawing took way too long.

[agililyy]

Team Neighborhood fanart!

[madness9]

okay so... team neighborhood came back like a month ago, and i love them so much so i did this a month later

i havent posted in so long i apologize

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

Training Day (2001) directed by Antoine Fuqua and written by David Ayer

[oldbirdwithsomebrain]

Doodle dump :D

That moment when art. Most of these are from today, somehow... the art gods were apparently fond of me today!

[megabluex]

This is the best one so far, great animation, voice acting and worth the wait.

[underwhelmingalchemist]

When you find out your neighborhood block party is actually part of a program by cops where they encourage people to throw block parties so they can use them as an opportunity to "build community relations"

[spidergvven]

israel is built on top of the mass graves of palestinians, of entire towns burned to the ground, their inhabitants systematically slaughtered. the occupying settlers regularly arm themselves and rampage through palestinian neighborhoods. they march in the street chanting death to all arabs. israeli snipers shoot children and elders in the head and laugh about it afterwards. they assassinate journalists and doctors, bomb hospitals and apartment buildings. they openly call for a war of extermination and refer to palestinians as animals. israelis who oppose apartheid are jailed and anti zionist jewish people in the diaspora are labeled as self hating jews. peaceful protesting like BDS is criminalized in europe and the us.

but there are those who will look at these atrocities and say their heart weeps for both sides. they cry over genocidal fascists and pretend that makes them enlightened. they accuse those who unilaterally oppose apartheid and ethnic cleansing of extremism. their cowardice and complicity is heinous. never trust someone who will weep for the murderer while the victim is still bleeding out.

[sayruq]

On April 6, Hamas fighters launched a complex ambush against Israeli soldiers patrolling the Zanna neighborhood east of the central Gaza city of Khan Younis. The area, lying around two kilometers from the boundary fence that separates Gaza from Israel, had been under the control of the Israeli military since it was invaded five months earlier. Hamas claimed that nine soldiers were killed in the attack; Israel admitted to four dead and several injured. Hamas later released an eight-minute video documenting its fighters planning the attack, setting up the ambush, and carrying out the elaborate, multistage operation. A day after the attack, the Israeli army withdrew from Khan Younis, having destroyed much of the city but not, it seems, Hamas’s ability to fight there. On May 6, Hamas announced that it had accepted a cease-fire proposal drafted by Egyptian and Qatari mediators with the involvement of President Joe Biden’s personal envoy to the cease-fire talks, CIA Director William Burns. That night, Israel responded by beginning its long-threatened invasion of Rafah. As of today, at least 100,000 people have already fled the city. (The United States has indicated that it does not consider an invasion to have officially begun, and Biden told CNN on Wednesday that he is prepared to pause weapons transfers to Israel if the situation escalates.) The Zanna operation, Hamas’s approval of the cease-fire proposal, and Israel’s attack on Rafah together explain the dynamics prolonging this war—one that, no matter what Israel says, it has comprehensively failed to win. There is a myth, propagated by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his allies, that a “total victory” against Hamas is only one invasion of Rafah away. In this story, the bombardment of the Gaza Strip and the destruction of its civilian life is conflated with the destruction of Hamas itself. There are doubtless many people who do not see a contradiction there. For them, Rafah, whose pre-war population of 250,000 has quintupled with refugees from other parts of Gaza, needs to suffer the same fate as Gaza’s other cities. But the Zanna operation, among others, tells a different story: Despite Israel’s causing so much devastation that the UN estimates it may take decades to rebuild Gaza, Hamas and its allied groups have continued to function across the ruined Strip. Following its withdrawal from Khan Younis, the Israeli army carried out an incursion into the Nuseirat refugee camp and neighboring Mughraqa. But resistance on the ground was stiff. After several Israeli soldiers were killed in an ambush in Mughraqa that reportedly utilized an unexploded US-made Israeli missile, the Israelis withdrew. Meanwhile, the east-west corridor that the Israeli army has set up to bisect the entire Gaza Strip has been under frequent mortar, rocket, and sniper attacks. And on Sunday, rocket fire from southern Gaza killed four Israeli soldiers at a staging area in the Kerem Shalom military base. Palestinians are not just continuing to fight in Gaza; there is clear coordination, command, and control—and, with many of the attacks filmed, a coherent media strategy.

In retrospect, it seems obvious that, despite Israel’s bluster, Hamas has been confident for months in its ability to survive. One key piece of evidence for this is its handling of the cease-fire negotiations. The group has insisted on several conditions for a potential cease-fire: that Gaza’s displaced population be allowed to return unfettered to the north, that Israeli forces withdraw from Gaza, that any cease-fire lead to a formal end to the war, and that the Israelis in Hamas custody be released only in exchange for Palestinians in Israeli prisons. Back in February, for instance, Netanyahu called the group’s cease-fire conditions “delusional.” In the following weeks, the Israeli army raided Shifa and Nasser hospitals. The army’s chief of staff, Herzi Halevi, told soldiers the raids were meant to put pressure on Hamas during negotiations. By the time Israel pulled out, Gaza’s two largest hospitals had been reduced to burned-out husks, their courtyards the site of mass graves. But the pressure did not appear to work—Hamas did not budge from its demands.In fact, if anyone appears to be rattled, it’s Israel. With negotiations underway in Cairo last week, and reports indicating that an agreement might be in the works, Netanyahu announced that he would order an attack on Rafah “with or without a deal” to free the Israelis held by Hamas. A cynic could be forgiven for thinking the Israeli leader prefers to prolong the war over securing the freedom of his citizens. Other Israeli officials kept pounding the drum for a Rafah invasion. Shimon Boker, a deputy mayor of Beersheba who is tied to Netanyahu’s party, went on Israeli TV to say, “I think we should have gone into Rafah yesterday. There are no uninvolved [innocent] civilians there. You have to go in and kill and kill and kill.” There are 600,000 children in Rafah.

Perhaps Netanyahu was banking that his threat would torpedo the talks. Indeed, by the weekend, it seemed like the potential accord had fallen through. Hamas’s negotiators flew back to Qatar, but so did Burns, and indirect talks continued there. Hamas’s announcement on Monday that it had accepted the cease-fire proposal seemed to take the Israelis by surprise. Within hours, they were messaging that the deal wasn’t what they had been led to believe it would be—an interesting approach, considering the central role of the head of the CIA in drafting it.On the other hand, the Biden administration seemed warm to the development, before reverting to form. From the officials who first brought us “UN Security Council resolutions are not binding” came “accepting the cease-fire proposal is not accepting the cease-fire proposal.” But while Burns, the Israelis, Egyptians, Qataris, and Hamas resumed talks in Cairo—though they have apparently now broken up—Israeli tanks rumbled into Rafah under the cover of intense air strikes and artillery shelling that have killed dozens already, including many children. For months, world governments, the UN, virtually every humanitarian organization, and even the Biden administration have warned that a full-scale assault on Rafah would result in a bloodbath. With that in mind, it could be that the Israeli leadership truly believes that such a massacre could be what it takes to force Hamas to back off its demands. Or maybe it’s a last roll of the dice for a government that has little to show for this war other than tens of thousands of Palestinian corpses and millions of tons of rubble. This is a leadership that has failed catastrophically; its strategy of “managing the conflict” has failed, its attempt to integrate with the broader Middle East by bypassing the Palestinians has failed, and the way it has prosecuted this war has led to global revulsion even among allies. It is on trial for genocide at the International Court of Justice, the International Criminal Court may issue warrants against it, and it is unlikely to survive whatever political transition occurs in Israel after the war. This might be the last chance to bring this horror—a mass slaughter of children on a historically unprecedented scale—to an end. The US president has been the one person in the world with the leverage to force Israel to stop. If he decides, as he has many times before, to defer to the murderous whims of Israel’s fanatical, right-wing government, we may find ourselves witnessing new levels of savagery.

[vioredynamite]

This is an unsafe space for racists. If you speak ill of any country of Latin America and you are not from Latin America, pretend that there are snipers in your neighborhood. And I'm all of them.

[northgazaupdates]

20 December 2023

Video update from journalist Mahmoud Abusalama, with English translation added by translating_gaza on Instagram. The English text reads

Update on the situation in North Gaza. We’re broadcasting the scene and images from North Gaza Strip. Updating you with the latest developments in Jabalia Camp and the northern Gaza Strip. Vehicles are advancing along Al-Sikka St. near the Civil Administration area. Several vehicles and bulldozers are deployed along Al-Sikka Street in East Jabalia Camp. Vehicles are returning to the Fallujah area, around Shadi Abu Ghazal School. Occupation snipers are positioned in elevated houses overlooking Nuzha Street in Jabal al-Balad. They are firing sniper shots at Al-Halabi roundabout in Jabaliya city. The Israeli artillery is targeting Al-Jarn neighborhood and the start of Block Two on Asaliya Street. These coordinates are in the northern part of the Gaza Strip. A number of martyrs from targeting a house as well in Block Two, belonging to the Saqr family. A state of catastrophe.

Source: Mahmoud Abusalama via translating_gaza on Instagram

[muhammad-90]

My name is Mohammed Akram, I am a Palestinian mother living with my family, father and brothers: Ahmed, Hamza and Elias, in addition to my family of 15 people. Until last October, I was living a regular and stable life with my father, mother, brothers, immediate family and in-laws

Pictures of my beautiful house that was destroyed

After October 7, my life turned upside down because of the war on Gaza. On the night of October 28, the neighborhood where we lived in Gaza - the neighborhood where my brothers and I grew up and where we started our family - were completely bombed.

Unfortunately, the shelling was heavy, and the snipers were targeting anyone trying to leave their homes. A nearby house was bombed, and our house was severely damaged. We were trapped inside, and me, my father, my mother and my brothers were rescued from under the rubble and broken glass. That night, I witnessed. And my family..

Unimaginable things - from injuries to bloodshed and corpses...

The suffering didn't end there. We fled to the schools of the agency (UN) neighborhood of victory, which was considered a safe area at that time. However, we did not survive the heavy bombardment and constant airstrikes. As the evening approached, shelling intensified in the area, and the smell of gunpowder spread from nearby houses being bombed. We lost our ability to see clearly and had difficulty breathing, so I had to put wet masks on the faces of my child siblings in a desperate attempt to protect them.

Their screams and fear did not stop. I didn't know if we would survive. I grabbed them up close, trying to calm them down, while the sadness crushed my heart. I can't forget the first words of my four-year-old brother Hamza when he started talking about war-related terms such as bombings, rockets and tanks

Goods have become scarce and expensive. My father tried all possible ways to provide something to feed us, from weeds growing in the ground to bread made from animal feed

In the end, we were forced to flee to the south, the supposed safe haven that turned out to be otherwise. Rafah was crowded with displaced people, and we could only find a small tent that lacked the necessities of life. My family suffered from epidemics and skin diseases caused by pollution in the camp. Unfortunately, I have had viral hepatitis due to the shared bathrooms at the camp. And so was my appearance in the disease

After miraculously escaped from death with my family, I realized that there is no safe haven in Gaza. With multiple displacements, we faced the harsh reality of lack of essentials such as water, food and medicine, and the inability to even perform basic activities such as bathing, eating or accessing clean water

We have lost everything: our home, our jobs, our dreams. My biggest concern is Ali, Ahmed and Hamza, their future is uncertain. Where will they live, study and grow up? Gaza offers little hope now, as the fundamentals of life are being destroyed. My future seems, overwhelmed by uncertainty

Today, I ask for your help. I ask for the support of me and my brothers to recover from the shocks of the war we have gone through. To get a new warm home for my family, help my brothers go to school and get a decent education, and help us start our lives again. To live from the beginning again.

Your support is our hope and our future for a new opportunity in life for me and my children's brothers. Thank you for being part of restoring hope and stability in our lives.

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@delightfulspiteful

[embroid-away]

What If: Captain America Were Revived Today? #44 (April 1983) by Peter B. Gillis and Sal Buscema; Original Image by John Romita Sr.

In this What If? Marvel tale, Captain America is unfrozen in 1983 rather than the 1960s. Without the leadership of Steve Rogers, The Avengers disband. Meanwhile, a Captain America imposter, who calls himself a "real American," has decided to use his newfound influential media status to publicly support a National Identity Card to "deal with illegal aliens,” to suggest that members of civil rights groups "ought to think seriously as to whether or not their actions contribute to the strengthening of communist enemies," and declare that if those groups tear the country apart with protests, martial law is justified "for the peace to find a solution.”

Neighborhoods with large black populations (e.g., Harlem) are walled off and forced into poverty, and one character even mentions that Jewish people are being “put back into camps.” The right-wing politicians make sure that things like this aren’t shown on television, keeping the majority of the American public ignorant of the horrors committed with their indifferent support. The public are simultaneously told that with some sacrifices, America can be free once again. The fake Captain America confronts a group of peaceful protestors, and he is shot by a sniper (in what reads like an inside job), allowing the police to have “reason” to attack the protestors. The imposter does not die and instead uses the attack to provide more reason for the violent crackdown against protesting groups.

When the true Captain America is unfrozen, he is horrified to see what America has become, especially with his emblem stamped all over it. He immediately seeks out the resistance forces (who clearly represent the Black Panther Party) and joins their cause, stating that "the wrongs [he's] seen will take much more than one man to right -- but [he's] got a name to clear, a costume to unsoil-- and a country to die for!!"

By the time Steve joins them, the resistance only has one chance left to stop the American downfall: a political convention where the "America First" party will be able to secure its support to sweep the national elections and allow them "to return America to the pure and great nation [the] forefathers envisioned."

The resistance strikes just as the convention begins. The Captain America imposter is no match in a fight against the true Captain America -- especially against a Steve Rogers who's fucking pissed. ("Get up so I can knock you down!!")

With the imposter knocked unconscious, Captain America addresses the convention crowd, warning that an America that does not represent all its people does not deserve to exist at all; that liberty can be "as easily snuffed out [in America] as in Nazi Germany" and "as a people, we are no different from them."

The crowd realizes that the man speaking before them is the true Captain America and cheers. Captain America holds his hand up and silences them, stating that he will not allow them the chance to simply replace one idol with another. He alone can’t undo the horrible damage, and he pleads that there’s still a chance for the people to “find America once again.”

Fascism doesn’t change its tune, just its singers.

A 2021 Marvel Trumps Hate ( @marveltrumpshate ) commission, completed on 22-count aida cloth with embroidery floss and watercolors on a 9" diameter bamboo hoop.

[guerillas-of-history]

A Palestinian Hamas militant runs to avoid sniper fire during clashes between Fatah and Hamas members in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in Gaza City, Wednesday, June 13, 2007 (Photo: Hatem Moussa)

Following the 2006 Palestinian elections which resulted in a decisive Hamas victory, the Bush administration strenghtened Fatah with a slew of new weapons and training in the hopes of blocking Hamas from power. After a brief but bloody "civil war" Hamas routed Fatah and assumed full control of Gaza.

[ashwantsafreepalestine]

Footage taken by a Palestinian before he was killed by an Israeli sniper. The images are from the massacre that targeted a group of Palestinians at the Kuwait Roundabout in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood two days ago.

The fact that these IDF terrorists have approval to shoot Palestinians as they please makes this all the more sinister. These Zionists kill Palestinians for sport.