#palestinian rights are human rights

[samasmith23]

I don’t know who made this artwork, but I feel need to share it since this is an incredibly important and dire situation! Ms. Marvel, Spider-Man, Nova & Snowguard all speak the truth here! Call for a ceasefire immediately! Free Palestine and end the Israeli apartheid & genocide in Gaza now! Palestinian rights are human rights and collective punishment is a war crime!

[voidster3]

Hello, I am so sorry for my absence. Since I haven't kept up with asks, I will be linking them all in one post, as I don't want to lose them all in the tags within a day.

Ahmed's( @ahmed-mohammed1) campaign has been vetted by @/90-ghost here! Please donate, as he has only made €1,826 so far, out of a €30,000 goal. He is trying to leave Palestine with his wife Asmaa and children Mohammed(9yrs), Kareem(6yrs), Nameer(4yrs), and Sahad(1½yrs). His son Mohammed struggles with motor & hearing disabilities, among other health problems. With your help, they can evacuate to a safe place to live out their life together.

At #141 on the spreadsheet, Shymaa( @shymaafamily ) and her family have been vetted by el-shab-hussein & nabulsi. Her goal is to evacuate with her child and reunite with her husband and the rest of her family in Egypt, as well as afford medical expenses for her daughter's needs. She has thus far made $9,337 out of a $50,000 goal.

Another campaign vetted by @/90-ghost, ( @salem-baker ), Salem is also trying to evacuate to Egypt with his wife Hadeel and their two children, Laila(5yrs) and Bakr(5m). They have been displaced more than 10 times during the bombardment and are desperate to escape to Egypt. So far, Salem has only gathered €1,724 out of a €38,000 goal. Every donation means something to him.

Not yet vetted but most likely legit, (as several photos lines up with an Instagram run by asma before it was removed in accordance with Instagram crackdown on pro Palestine accounts), Asma( @as-maa-56 ) Majeed is a 19 year old computer science major. She is trying to raise enough money to evacuate herself and 9 of her family members through the border, and find a safe place to live from Israel's reign of terror.  Currently, she is sitting at $1,101/$50,000.

Finally, I would like to share the campaign of 18-year-old Malek( @malakabed ) vetted by @/90-ghost here. She and her family have been displaced over 20 times, and her father, who is seriously injured, is unable to receive the medical attention necessary. Her brother Moataz was murdered by Israel in cold blood while trying to collect water, and her younger brother was also injured by the same missile. With a donation as small as €5, you can help Malek and her remaining family members survive and escape this nightmare they are living in. At the time of posting, she has raised €4,405 out of a €25,000 goal.

[baron-von-slipped-on-soap]

You wouldn’t let American children be killed because a terrorist organization was “using them as shields.”

DON’T FUCKING LET IT HAPPEN TO PALESTINIAN CHILDREN.

If you, for some reason, still have a subscription to the Atlantic, cancel it

[mysharona1987]

[morallyrainyday]

happy father's day to palestinian fathers. happy father's to palestinian grandfathers. happy father's day to palestinian fathers who have lost children. happy father's day to palestinians who have lost their fathers. happy father's day to palestinian fathers older than israel itself. happy fathers day to palestinian fathers forgotten by the media. happy fathers day to fathers living in the gaza strip and west bank, and to fathers that have escaped palestine.

happy father's day to all palestinian fathers. you are not weak or any less of a man for struggling or showing emotion. you are some of the bravest men out there. 🇵🇸✊❤

[samasmith23]

I’m currently reading “The Just War” arc of G. Willow Wilson’s Wonder Woman run and oh boy… these scenes of Diana arguing with Etta Candy about the U.S. government’s support of the fictional Eastern European country of Durvonia after the former prevented Durvonian soldiers from firing upon an innocent child from the country’s oppressed indigenous population? They hit uncomfortably close to home now more than they initially did in 2018 when this comic was first released due to America’s continued support of Israel’s current ongoing genocidal campaign against Palestinians IRL…

I especially love how Diana specifically calls out the US government’s piss-poor excuse, “That the most powerful army in the history of the world constantly claims its hands are tied,” since America obviously has enough power & influence on the international world stage to call for a ceasefire.

From Wonder Woman (2016) #58 by G. Willow Wilson and Cary Nord.

[voidster3]

Hello, 👋

I'm Ahmed from Gaza 🇵🇸.

The war has turned my life upside down I've lost everything: my home, job, and means of income. My children and I have also been seriously injured. 😔

I desperately ask for your help to protect my children, get them out of Gaza, and continue my medical treatment abroad.

Thank you sincerely for considering a small donation of 5 euros for my innocent children.

My campaign is verified, and you can verify my story by requesting any details you need. I assure you, I'm not a robot or a scammer. Please donate and share my story to help those in need.

"My children are waiting and in need of your donations."🙏🙏

Thank you deeply. 🙏

Vetted by @/90-ghost, Ahmed is very close to reaching his goal, at €36,189/€39,500. With your help, even a donation of €5 adds up. Ahmed is in need of these donations in order to cover travel costs in addition to the costs of crossing the border to Egypt with his wife Dana and their children: Yamen, Eileen, and Zeina. Please donate to this campaign here.

There is power and numbers, even in numbers that donate no more than the price of a coffee each, because that number means more than you know to the people in need of your donation.

[zegalba]

[historyandmemes]

RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — More than half a million people in Gaza — a quarter of the population — are starving, according to a report Thursday by the U.N. and other agencies that highlights the humanitarian crisis caused by Israel’s bombardment and siege on the territory in response to Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack. The extent of the population’s hunger eclipsed even the near-famines in Afghanistan and Yemen of recent years, according to figures in the report. The report warned that the risk of famine is “increasing each day,” blaming the hunger on insufficient aid entering Gaza. “It doesn’t get any worse,’’ said Arif Husain, chief economist for the U.N.’s World Food Program. “I have never seen something at the scale that is happening in Gaza. And at this speed.” ... At the start of the war, Israel stopped all deliveries of food, water, medicine and fuel into the territory. After U.S. pressure, it allowed a trickle of aid in through Egypt. But U.N. agencies say only 10% of Gaza’s food needs has been entering for weeks. (Dec. 21, 2023 | Source)

DON'T LOOK AWAY.

[maxi-is-not-well]

i cannot emphasize enough that this is the most viciously fucking homophobic thing i've ever seen. this is a more hateful depraved and wretched vision of homosexuality than anything the westboro baptist chruch has ever said. anyone who sees this and doesn't immediately feel sick to the bone is an eternal enemy of queer liberation

[chaithetics]

EDIT: I've now made a post that you can read here with more information about the ICJ rulings, their powers and what we can do with this ruling here. I had to this morning and will continue to delete, report, and block all comments/asks that are anti-Arab, zionist, Islamophobic, racist, and/or antisemitic.

We already knew this but the ICJ has now ruled that Israel's continued occupation of Palestine is illegal and needs to end ASAP.

They found that Israel's occupation does not give it the right of sovereignty over the West Bank and Gaza and that it is not a temporary occupation but is an illegal, permanent and discriminatory annexation. The ICJ also found violence against Palestinians, Israeli exploitation of Palestinian natural resources, transfer of civilian population (settlers and companies/organisations), extension of Israeli laws to replace local Palestinian laws, forced displacement of Palestinians, confiscation of Palestinian land, annexation. That Israel's 'security concerns' are not valid justifications for any of these measures.

The ICJ has ordered Israel to end its presence in the West Bank and Gaza immediately and to cease all new settlement activity, return all lands and assets to Palestinians that they've ceased since 1967 and that includes archives and items of cultural significance, evacuate all of their settlers from the settlements, pay compensation, and repeal all laws that maintain this occupation and discrimination. The ICJ is not legally-binding but does carry significant political weight and this ruling is important for continuing to advocate for Palestine and to put pressure on our government's to do the right thing and for them to put pressure on Israel. Keep contacting your representatives!

[rebel-girl-queen-of-my-world]

[baron-von-slipped-on-soap]

PALESTINIANS DESERVE AID BY VIRTUE OF BEING HUMAN

AND NOTHING ELSE IS OR SHOULD BE REQUIRED

FREE PALESTINE 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

I feel like ive seen quite a few gfms getting passed around and ive observed that a lot of them have stories of such exceptional people who have achieved so much, or were going to before the genocide cut it off. And i really commend them for it, i really do.

But it breaks my heart that palestinians reaching out to us feel the need to have to prove that they are they are good people who are worth the support, like theyre only worth being supported if they had a good gpa or were exceptional in some way.

They shouldnt have to prove that theyre beneficial to the economy somehow to be worth the support. They shouldnt have to be exceptional to deserve help. Our governments are putting them through this, both in the west and around the world too. They shouldnt have to prove anything. We owe them this

[genuinelyshallow]

Now, Palestinians lost their right to even be just numbers.

"Yesterday, Israel achieved one of the main objectives of its war against Gaza's health organisations. The death toll of thousands has been causing a worldwide uprising of anger against Israel, which increases every day as the numbers increase. With the health system collapsing, the health administration can not count the numbers of deaths and injuries. Starting today and to the end of the war, perhaps even years after, we won't know the real death toll. They will be buried in mass graves or be left in the open or under the rubbles for their corpses to rot. We would have liked to say that Palestinians are humans, lives, faces, and names, and not just numbers. Now, Palestinians lost their right to even be just numbers. The world was too cheap to leave them with even just that"

[violottie]

...i begging yall do not get desensitised to reading these. this is horrific. this is evil. children... were shredded... SHREDDED. do you understand what that means? do you get how evil someone has to be to do that to another person? can you process that sheer malevolence and wickedness it would take to do that??!! to a child?!?!!!

"Al Jazeera's Hani Mahmoud from Rafah, southern Gaza: About seven people, a mother and her children were killed earlier today. We��ve seen video from the hospital where their bodies were taken. The children’s bodies arrived in plastic bags. They were shredded in the air strike on the home. The only survivor of the attack is the father. ⁠

"This pattern of killing entire families is nothing new after nearly seven months of war. Entire families have been obliterated in Israeli air strikes. Just in the past 30 minutes, there was a strike at the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza. We’re trying to get more updates on that attack." from Al Jazeera English, 03/May/2024:

[bohemiandeer]

You know what hits me hard? When 5 to 6 year old children, all the way in Southeast Asia, knows about what's happening in Palestine right now. That children their age is getting bombed, that they're starving to death, that they're getting shot at, and sniped in the head. Because, just this past 2 or so months, I heard some of the little ones in the Kindergarten classes I'm TAing in as an Intern talk about it. Hell, one of the little boys downright said he didn't like Israel, because Israel is bad, because they do scary things. Another was questioning whether Palestine was bad too, because, "why else would they shooting at them?". A little girl in one of my classes doesn't want to finish her food at all, because she wants to save at least half her meat and rice for kids in Palestine, because she heard that, they don't have food. And that's just the ones I remember. Namely the inciting cases before their classmates slowly follow suit. The littles are fricking SCARED. We had to sit these kids down, and tell them that the topic is too mature for them at the moment, that they shouldn't even be concerned because they're KINDERGARTNERS, they're not even old enough to properly understand. The one teacher I was TAing for had to make a class announcement saying that. What gets me is, these are 5 to 6 year olds, the youngest I've worked with in this specific age group is 4. 5 years old on average, and they've already been exposed to the worst horrors genocide has to offer through the news and snippets of conversation among adults and hell, considering how many of them say they like to play games on Mama's phone, or their IPad, even from fricking social media. And the fact that, these literal babies, from all the way in Cambodia, has more empathy in their entire body and soul, than full grown fricking adults have in the nail of their pinky finger, gets me. FFS we as adults could LEARN from them I feel sometimes. I honestly don't know what to feel about it anymore. On the one hand, this is the next generation I'm working with. And if the next generation's default response to a tragedy such as Palestine, is what I've seen come up on occasion so far? Perhaps there's some bloody hope for this world after all. At least in this country. Especially since a majority of them already come from families who survived a genocide. These are the 3rd - 4th generation descendants of those who survived the Khmer Rouge. They've got grandparents at home, who no doubt are more than intimately familiar with what Palestine is going through right now. And it shows.

But on the other, it makes my heart sink because these are CHILDREN, these are LITTLE KIDS, they should be playing with their toys and watching cartoons and talking to their friends about everything from Spiderman to Speakerman to Kuromi and her friends, and be worried about whether or not they can go to playground that day, guranteed they're well behaved, or if Mama remembered to pack in their costume for swimming lessons that week. NOT JUST MY KIDS. But the little ones in Palestine too. They deserve better. They all deserve, so much better. Hell, it's come to the point that whenever I look at my kiddos right now, whether they'd be working in class, playing, doing something as mundane as eating lunch or getting ready for their nap. I think of the children their age in Palestine that didn't even get the chance to survive. I think of the ones whose memories from this age, is nothing but absolute horror and pain, rather than what has slowly become my normal, who never got to experience what my littles do on a daily basis right now.

Children shouldn't even be concerned about "War", about a Genocide. The last thing that should be on a 5 year old's mind, is pain, and suffering, and the worst horrors imaginable ever to be inflicted on a human being. ESPECIALLY WHEN IT'S INFLICTED, ON OTHER CHILDREN THEIR AGE. And for that alone, the world has failed them. Especially the kids in Palestine who didn't ask for any of this. They just wanted to carry on with life as kids do, the same way as my littles do on a daily basis no doubt, learning, playing, chatting with friends over their favourite cartoons and characters, worrying about whether they'd get to go to the playground or not that day.

I apologize for talking about this on this blog. I know my blog tends to be lighter in feel, a lot more unhinged and light hearted typically. I mean, I'm just a fricking nerd who likes to draw and write, and lurk about her favourite fandoms to consume and support what is shared among other nerds who also like to draw and write. But I couldn't stop thinking about it. About contemplating it, especially since I'll be back on a roll tomorrow, working with my kiddos again after not seeing them for 5 days straight because of Holidays. And, I just had to talk about it. This is something I felt I couldn't keep to myself this time, I don't think my soul'd be able to carry it. I had to talk about it.

FREE PALESTINE. Our children deserve better.