"It's a great river, you know, that only glimpses the sun once before it cascades into the sea. A long time ago, the prince named the river for his knight, and the river passed its name to the city. Now no one will forget Ezadir, who fell protecting his love."
(An original illustration project of mine, with my OCs)
THOUSANDS OF SYRIANS MARCH IN SOLIDARITY WITH PALESTINIANS FACING GENOCIDE IN GAZA
📹 Scenes from Syria where thousands of local residents marched in solidarity with Palestinians under siege and facing genocide at the hands of the Zionist occupation army.
3 Arab states (UAE no doubt one of them) joining forces with the US and Israel to starve and occupy Gaza. In case you're wondering why the protests in Jordan, Egypt, and Morocco are so important
A California inmate has donated hours' worth of his salary to support relief efforts in Gaza, according to Los Angeles-based filmmaker Justin Mashouf, who is in direct contact with the inmate.
The donation, worth $17.74, corresponds to what the inmate, who goes by the chosen name of "Hamza", earned for 136 hours working as a porter and janitor in prison. His hourly wage was 13 cents, according to the paycheck posted by Mashouf.
Mashouf said he had met Hamza in 2009 through a friend in Los Angeles' Muslim community who did prison outreach to incarcerated Muslims.
"At the time I was working on a documentary film about Muslims in prison and was seeking subjects for the film," Mashouf told The New Arab. "We have been in touch since then and I even visited him in person."
Hamza's symbolic gesture was also relayed by the Palestinian Youth Movement, who shared it on its social media on Tuesday.
"Some of the deepest solidarity with Palestine in the US lies in the prison system — not only today but historically," the Palestinian Youth Movement said in an Instagram post, which featured a picture of the inmate's paycheck.
"Since the time of the Black Panther Party and before, the dual presence of literature and Islam in US prisons have stirred in America’s most oppressed denizens, a familiarity with the plight of the Palestinian people, as well as other liberation struggles across the globe."
Around 40 percent of California’s 96,000 prisoners hold jobs while serving out their sentences, but their low wages have long been denounced by human rights activists as a form of exploitation and forced labour.
Inmates in California's prison system earn anywhere between 8 and 37 cents per hour depending on the task they perform.
really do not think people understand the extent to which palestinian sites/landmarks (especially muslim ones) were destroyed, beginning in 1948 until now, even in cities. the oldest extant mosque in jaffa (al-bahr mosque) was built in 1675, even though islam came there in the 7th century
ISRAELI OCCUPATION ARMY BOMBS TARGETS OUTSIDE OF DAMASCUS IN LATEST ZIONIST ATTACKS AGAINST SYRIA
📹 Scenes of large explosions resulting from the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) air and missile strikes targeting the outskirts of the Syrian capital of Damascus overnight.
According to a report in the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA), at least two civilians were wounded after Zionist aggression targeted a number of sites on the outskirts of Damascus.
“At approximately 21:30 p.m. on Sunday, the Israeli enemy launched an aerial aggression from the direction of the occupied Syrian Golan, targeting a number of points in the vicinity of Damascus,” a military source is quoted as saying to reporters with SANA.
“The Israeli aggression resulted in the injury of two civilians and some material losses," the source added.
Settlers & zionists trying to discredit Native American solidarity with Palestine by still calling Palestinians "not actually Indigenous" & "invaders" like motherfuckers you're just repeating the same shit the settlers on Turtle Island tell US (which just reinforces Palestinians ARE Indigenous), your stupid comments don't sway us. We deal with that bullshit on the regular so there's no use in trying