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When I made this post just ten days ago, it was about mass graves discovered at Al Shifa hospital and now we have learned that the same had happened at Nasser hospital in Gaza. The same genocidal pattern: a hospital is put under siege, patients and medical staff are abducted, tortured and buried in mass graves.

But to build on the last point I wanted to bring attention to in the previous post, it is very crucial to also keep in mind is that the Palestinian Civil Defence have reported that Israel had deliberately concealed the identities of those it killed and buried in these mass graves. Close to 400 bodies have been buried in these mass graves, 58% of the recovered bodies have not been identified.

In a press conference, a spokesperson of the civil defence in Gaza said that Israel had intentionally disfigured the bodies postmortem in order to remove any identifying markers such as birthmarks. He also mentioned that they suspect that the bodies have been placed in body bags that expedited the decomposition process, destroying any possibility of them being identified.

One of the main and only ways families have been able to identify the bodies of their loved ones is through the clothes they remember them wearing the last time they saw them. I saw a video of a mother identifying her son by his striped jacket. You can see the grief mixed with relief that she will be able to give her son proper burial.

Remember when months ago I said that to be identified and buried in Gaza has become a luxury? This is very much still the case.

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Please help the family of a non-verbal autistic child (who has been losing weight because he only eats certain kinds of food, largely unavailable during this time) leave Gaza!

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just so you know how these campuses deal with actual antisemitism

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Guys, stop being crap to creators. You aren’t hurting Amazon. You’re stealing from writers.

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Favorite adderall review

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Hundreds of Jewish anti-war demonstrators have been arrested during a Passover seder that doubled as a protest in New York, as they shut down a major thoroughfare to pray for a ceasefire and urge the Senate majority leader, Chuck Schumer, to end US military aid to Israel.

The 300 or so arrests took place on Tuesday night at Grand Army Plaza, on the doorstep of Schumer’s Brooklyn residence, where thousands of mostly Jewish New Yorkers gathered for the seder, a ritual that marked the second night of the holiday celebrated as a festival of freedom by Jews worldwide.

The seder came just before the US Senate resoundingly passed a military package that includes $26bn for Israel.

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Hey everyone, please consider buying the 2024 itch.io Palestinian Relief Bundle- it's 373 games, game-making assets, tabletop roleplaying games, zines, and comics for a minimum of just 8 USD! They have a goal of 100,000 USD, and as of the time I'm writing this post, they have 8 more days to reach it.

Link will be in the reblog!

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My grandmother Naifa al-Sawada was born in June 1932. A beautiful girl with blue eyes, she was the only daughter to her parents. They were originally from Gaza but moved to nearby Bir al-Saba, where Naifa’s father Rizq worked as a merchant. She did well at school and in 1947 obtained the necessary certificate from the British – then the rulers of Palestine – to attend university. She did not do so, however. Her father was fearful about what could happen to her at a time when war in Palestine appeared imminent. At a young age, she married my grandfather Salman al-Nawaty and went to live in Gaza. Between 1947 and 1949, Zionist forces expelled approximately 800,000 Palestinians from their homes. Among those directly affected by the Nakba – Arabic for catastrophe – were Naifa’s own parents, who fled their home in Bir al-Saba for Gaza. Having witnessed the Nakba, Naifa encouraged her own children to defend Palestine. Naifa gave birth to four girls and six boys.Like so many mothers in Gaza, she experienced great loss. Her son Moataz went missing while traveling to Jerusalem in 1982. It is still not known what happened to him. Another son Moheeb, a journalist, left Palestine for Norway in 2007. Three years later he traveled to Syria. In January 2011, he went missing. The Syrian authorities subsequently confirmed to the Norwegian diplomatic service that he was imprisoned. But he has not been allowed to contact his family.We do not know his current whereabouts or even if he is alive or dead. My grandmother witnessed the first intifada from 1987 and 1993. On the streets around her, youngsters with stones and slingshots rose up against armed Israeli soldiers in tanks and military jeeps. During that time, her son Moheeb – the aforementioned journalist – was held for more than a year without charge or trial. That infamous practice is called administrative detention. My grandmother lived close to al-Shifa, Gaza’s largest hospital. She took great care of arranging everything in her home with her delicate hands. She used those same hands to comb her hair into braids. She memorized the Quran and took great interest in the education of her children and grandchildren. On 21 March this year, Israeli troops broke into my grandmother’s home. The soldiers displayed immense brutality. They ordered the women in our family to evacuate on foot and arrested the men. They would not allow the women to take my grandmother, who had Alzheimer’s disease, with them. The soldiers claimed that my grandmother would be safe. That was a lie. The invasion of my grandmother’s house took place amid Israel’s siege on al-Shifa hospital. My grandmother’s house was destroyed during that siege and she was killed. Her remains were found days after the Israeli troops eventually withdrew from the hospital earlier this month. She was killed – alone – in the same house where she had lived since 1955. We do not know if she suffered or if she died quickly. We do know that she was older than Israel’s merciless occupation.

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the stuff going on at columbia campus rn is genuinely incredible

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the nuisance of our language is stunning

#nejebica #aka #maidenless

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ramblings about family, growing up, and the hunger games under the cut. no trigger warnings just trying to not clutter your dash :)

when i first read the hunger games, i was in middle school. i lived in coastal america, with my parents who were born and raised in appalachia. when i was a kid, the blue mountains and green woods represented grandma and papaw's house, summer and fun and beauty. pretty much until my grandparents' generation, my family was all coal miners and farmers for a long, long time. my mom and uncle (who still lived in my parents' hometown) tried to make it a point to emphasize to me that district 12 was based on our family's home. i kind of ignored them, because i was 12 years old and thought i knew everything. lol. as i got older, into my high school years, i really balked at how close my parents felt to their southern, mountain roots. the trump election had just passed, a lot of left-leaning spaces were trying to blame the south (honestly, with some degree of merit), and the infamous (derogatory) hillbilly elegy had just been published. all of these things impacted the way i saw my family and my home. i phased out the little bit of twang in my voice, i sneered at my mother's pride. i was different than them.

then i went to college close to my family's home, with people who had no roots there. i fell back in love with the mountains, and i learned more about the labor history etched into my bones. i started to chafe more at the people trying to abandon appalachia and the south because they only saw the worst in the people here. oh, don't get me wrong, i'm not saying appalachia is a beacon of leftist ideals. at some point, too many hillbillies and rednecks forgot that corporations are their enemies and decided (wrongly) that POC and queer people were. i am saying that POC and queer people have homes in the south and in appalachia. the belief that everyone should want to live in blue states and blue cities and have no connections elsewhere is. not helpful. and i remember how some of the people who advocated for the "stupid hillbillies elected trump" idea were also obsessed with the hunger games. interesting.

i started rereading the hunger games now, as a college grad most of the way through a master's degree. closer to my roots than i've ever been. reading tbosas for the first time actually flashbanged me, bc i have cousins with family names that characters in district 12 use. suzanne, what do you know??? but suzanne collins's picture of appalachia is. very important to me. it's not perfect, but the impact of a resource extraction economy on a region is, in my opinion, depicted very clearly and compassionately. especially off the heels of the jd v*nce era, collins actually making an effort to demonstrate compassion and diversity of ideas in her characters makes a serious impact. i know it's a sci-fi dystopian ya novel series, but i think there's a reason it holds up when other books in the same genre don't. and i think her depiction of district 12 is a major part of it.

this started as a 3-sentence shitpost. i'm supposed to be grading papers. oops.

#is this too niche? #idc #appalachiaposting #is that a tag #it is now #the hunger games #thg #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #tbosas

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i wanted to show everyone my favorite tiktok

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Israeli soldiers are conducting a series of invasive operations across the West Bank, abducting numerous Palestinians, killing and injuring civillians, and engaging in destructive raids on homes and Palestinian property.

This is what happened today (April 18) in the West Bank:

At dawn - Israeli soldiers launched a widespread operation in various parts of the occupied West Bank, breaking into homes, damaging Palestinian properties, and detaining at least 26 Palestinians, including two young women.

At day - The aggression continued as soldiers proceeded to assault Adli Rayyes and his son, Hashem, resulting in various injuries to both of them. Palestinian medics had to transport them to Jericho governmental hospital for treatment.

Afternoon - The Israeli Occupation Forces moved to the central West Bank where they entered the town Deir Ballout (west of Salfit city). There, they confiscated a telecommunications car that was being used for repair and maintenance work.

Evening - Dozens of Israeli soldiers invaded the Ein Al-Sultan refugee camp (north of Jericho). They stormed and ransacked homes within the camp and abducted a young man named Nayef Abu Dahouk, taking him to an unknown destination. At the same time an Israeli military jeep rammed into a young Palestinian woman in Jenin (northern West Bank). She was taken to the Jenin governmental hospital, and is currently suffering from fractures and severe bruising.

The Palestinian Detainees Committee reports that over 40 Palestinians were abducted by Israeli soldiers TODAY alone, from various parts of the West Bank, with a concentration of these abductions occurring in Nablus, followed by operations in Ramallah, Bethlehem, Jericho, Hebron, and Jerusalem.

Two homes belonging to Mohammad and Ahmad Zeidat, who have been kidnapped since January, in the town Bani Naim (near Hebron) were also demolished.

Over 8,310 Palestinians have been abducted by the Israeli Occupation Forces since October 7, 2023.

(Source: IMEMC News, International Middle East Media Center)