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From Italy to Gaza…
When humanity is worth more than palaces!
An Italian woman named Eugenia Granito has decided to sell her family’s historic palace, which dates back nearly 400 years, and donate the entire proceeds to help the children of Gaza.
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When did we get to the point where Palestinians are living in tents that are being flooded and Israel are still bombing them? Where is the world's condemnation? Where?
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Tens of thousands of Palestinians are not only acutely displaced, they are displaced, drenched, freezing cold, starving and have absolutely no where to go.
This is not an act of nature. This is by design.
Shut down aid to Israel now.
Sen. Brian Schatz (D-HI) calls on Israel to immediately allow building materials and winter supplies into Gaza after devastating floods left five Palestinians dead and tens of thousands displaced.
“More than half a million children lack safe shelter as winter begins,” Schatz warned, as Israel continues to block desperately needed shelter materials from entering Gaza.
Well deserved @cathywilcox1
Cathy Wilcox named Cartoonist of the Year at Stanley Awards
No doubt this will Trigger a huge number of brainless right wing trolls whose minds probably can't even understand Cathy's cartoons.
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Fuckers. They had an election.
Israele vieta l’ingresso a Gaza di rifugi mobili, case prefabbricate e persino camper. Limita drasticamente anche l’arrivo di tende e attrezzature per la ricostruzione. Non è solo un blocco degli aiuti: è una strategia che rende impossibile abitare, riparare, ricostruire.
Non è solo negare gli aiuti: è negare qualsiasi futuro.
E l’obiettivo? Imporre ai palestinesi di Gaza condizioni di vita destinate a provocarne la distruzione fisica, in tutto o in parte. Il nome è uno: #GENOCIDIO.
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They can buy X, they can buy Facebook and Instagram, they can buy TikTok and Google, they can buy journalists and television stations, and they can buy politicians. But they can't buy the people.
They tried to erase Palestine, but the world has become Palestine.
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“They have stolen my harvest and taken everything from us they’ve left us with absolutely nothing. They’ve destroyed our identity.”
A Palestinian grandfather cries after Zionist settlers destroyed his olive groves and stole the olives in Tulkarem (West Bank).
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No, you control the access of aid, which according to the U.N. and aid agencies, you've been blocking for more than three years.
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🚨 I watched NAZA today.
Its depiction of Israel’s evil war machine was horrific and disturbing.
One of the most chilling moments in NAZA comes when an Israeli soldier reflects on the Nazis and the Holocaust.
He had grown up believing the Nazis represented absolute evil. But after participating in the destruction of Gaza, he began to understand how ordinary people could commit terrible acts and then return home to their ordinary lives.
He asks: “I still see those Nazis as evil, but what does that mean I am?”
Another Israeli soldier acknowledges what happened in Gaza was genocide.
Parts of the film leave you speechless and in tears.
The film is far more disturbing than I can adequately put into words.
Sometimes we struggle to comprehend the suffering of people thousands of miles away. Sometimes it needs to be personal. We need to imagine the people we love being subjected to the same horrors before we truly understand what is being done to others.
So imagine for a moment that Britain was Gaza.
Imagine an Israeli soldier sitting in front of a screen, thousands of miles away, deciding whether your family lives or dies.
Your son has been identified by an AI system as a suspected fighter. There has been no trial. No opportunity to challenge the intelligence. You don’t even know he is suspected of anything.
The soldier knows where your son lives. He knows he is at home with you, your wife and your other children.
He could target your son elsewhere. But your family home is an easier target.
The anticipated deaths of your wife, your children and perhaps your neighbours are entered into a calculation. They are considered acceptable.
A button is pressed.
Your home disappears. Your wife is killed. Your children are buried beneath the rubble. Perhaps one survives, screaming for their mother.
The soldier moves on to the next target.
Now imagine this happening across Britain.
Imagine entire streets in London flattened. Families in Manchester wiped out in their homes. Hospitals in Birmingham overwhelmed with children whose limbs have been blown off. Parents in Liverpool digging through concrete with their bare hands, desperately trying to find their children.
Imagine being told to evacuate your home, taking your family somewhere you have been assured is safer, only for that place to be bombed too.
Imagine watching your child slowly starve because food is not getting through. Imagine having to choose which of your children gets the last piece of bread.
Imagine holding your injured daughter while she begs you to stop the pain, knowing there is no functioning hospital you can reach and no medicine to give her.
Now imagine the soldiers responsible discussing these deaths as numbers, targets and operational successes - and as fun!
Imagine them laughing, celebrating, or simply carrying on as though nothing extraordinary has happened.
This is the reality NAZA forces us to confront through the accounts of Israeli soldiers themselves.
The horror is not only the scale of the killing. It is the way human life can be reduced to a calculation. The way killing civilians can become routine. The way an entire population can be subjected to unimaginable suffering while those responsible become detached from the humanity of their victims.
And here is the point.
The Palestinian father pulling his dead child from the rubble loves that child as much as you love yours.
The Palestinian mother desperately searching for her missing daughter feels the same terror you would feel.
Their children are not worth less than ours. Their lives are not worth less than ours.
We should not have to imagine this happening in Britain to recognise the humanity of Palestinians.
But if you cannot comprehend the horror of what Israel has done to Gaza, imagine it happening to your family.
Then ask yourself what you would call the people responsible.
Watch NAZA.
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We need to demand full reconstruction of Gaza. Yes we demand all of the humanitarian aid needed by the ppl of Gaza gets in but we should also demand that large scale reconstruction of Gaza is carried out, that the state of Israel is dismantled & that all occupation forces go away
Yeah @AlboMP @SenatorWong it’s time to speak up
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‘To hell with a world that talks endlessly about human rights while leaving children to drown inside their tents. To hell with everyone who has witnessed this suffering and chosen silence…’
#RemembranceDay
I admit that I completely broke down today. I cried uncontrollably. I couldn’t hold myself together after witnessing what I saw with my own eyes.
Today, we went to film a journalistic report inside the displacement tents along the seashore. I swear, what we witnessed was beyond what any human being should have to endure.
I saw men crying bitterly. Men I had never seen cry when they lost their children or when their homes were destroyed. Today, I saw them crying because they were powerless to do the simplest thing: protect their children from the water and the cold.
We spoke to families who told us they had spent the entire night carrying their children in their arms after floodwater covered the floors of their tents and soaked their mattresses. They couldn’t find a single dry place to put their children. They couldn’t even give them a few hours of sleep.
I saw children no older than five, without proper clothes to protect them from the cold, without heating, and without a dry place to sleep. Children shivering inside tents that cannot keep out the rain, protect them from the wind, or provide even the most basic sense of safety.
What more must happen for this world to act? How much more suffering must people endure before someone remembers that they are human beings?
I am sick of this world. I am sick of its hypocrisy and empty slogans. To hell with a world that talks endlessly about human rights while leaving children to drown inside their tents. To hell with everyone who has witnessed this suffering and chosen silence, and to hell with the governments and institutions that have the power to act but continue to turn their backs on us.
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In the name of humanity @andyburnham, do something about Gaza! Now!
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These scenes bring me to tears every single day... I cry tears of joy, and sometimes I cannot hold back my tears in the face of all the love, care, kindness, and support you shower upon us.
You have no idea how much strength, hope, and energy you give us to keep going and remain steadfast in the face of all this pain. Your presence by our side is more than just solidarity; it is a ray of hope that illuminates the darkness of our days and reminds us that we are not alone in this world.
More than 200,000 activists took to the streets of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, yesterday, November 8, in a massive demonstration, the fourth in the series of «Red Line» protests, in solidarity with the Palestinian people and in condemnation of the genocide Israel is committing in Gaza.
Thank you, from the bottom of our hearts, to everyone who has stood by us.
Thank you to everyone who has refused to let our suffering be forgotten.
Thank you to everyone who has raised their voice when the world tried to silence ours.
Thank you to everyone who has spoken up for us, shouted for us, and carried our pain in their hearts.
Thank you, all of you... each and every one of you.
We may never be able to repay this love, and words may never be enough to express the depth of our gratitude. But we want you to know that what you are doing for us will never be forgotten.
These scenes will remain engraved in our hearts until our very last moments. They will forever stand as proof that humanity is still alive, and that there are people who have not abandoned us, even in our darkest days.
From Gaza, with all our love and gratitude... THANK YOU.
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Today:
60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck and we have the highest rate of childhood poverty of any major nation.
Meanwhile, Elon Musk owns more wealth than the bottom 53% of households and the 1% have never ever had it so good
Not acceptable
We need an economy that works for all, not just the few.
Strong 😍
Children wanted to die to be reunited with their families. Dr Mahmooda “Mimi” Syed returned from Gaza with blood on her shoes. She's an American ER physician, mother of three who volunteered in Gaza twice in 2024. Some of the horror she saw:
1. Eighteen children, most under twelve, with gunshot wounds to the head or chest. That was how many Dr Mimi Syed managed to document during her first month in Gaza. She encountered more. Many arrived dead or died shortly afterwards.
2. Four-year-old Mira had a bullet lodged in her brain. Her chances of survival were considered almost nonexistent. Syed refused to give up, secured her airway and rushed her to surgery. Against the odds, Mira survived.
3. A child arrived with a single bullet wound through the heart. There were no other reported injuries. The child was already dead when Syed examined the body.
4. A four-year-old girl had suffered terrible burns. She sat trembling, staring into space, softly humming a lullaby to herself. She wasn't crying. Syed described her as profoundly dissociated.
5. Children playing football or flying kites arrived with devastating shrapnel wounds. Some had tiny external injuries concealing catastrophic internal bleeding. Syed described repeatedly encountering this pattern.
6. Children told her they wanted to die. Some had lost their families. One wished to be killed by a bomb so that death might reunite them with loved ones, food and school.
7. Mothers were too malnourished to breastfeed their babies. Syed encountered women whose bodies could no longer provide the nourishment their newborns needed. She learned that some parents were feeding infants sugar water because they had nothing else.
8. The hospital ran out of running water. Equipment intended for single use was reused. Antibiotics were scarce or unavailable. Sometimes the electricity failed. Doctors could not even wash their hands properly.
9. Children living in makeshift shelters around the hospital befriended her. She brought them sweets and balloons. One morning, she discovered that someone had written in the dust on a car window:
“Mimi, I love you.”
10. When she finally left Gaza, she still had Palestinian blood on her shoes. In Jordan, a colleague took her to a beautiful restaurant. There was warmth, clean water and delicious food. She couldn't swallow a bite.
She cried as she recorded a message about the children and colleagues she had left behind.
And she pledged to continue documenting what she had witnessed and speaking about it for the rest of her life.
In August 2025, she attempted to return to Gaza for a third medical mission. Israeli authorities denied her entry without providing an explanation.
Her luggage contained baby formula and equipment intended to save lives.
