“Gaza’s total population ‘fell by about 254,000 people, a 10.6% decline compared with pre-conflict estimates’, the research notes.”
Cue a Zionist in my mentions asking “but can you really call it a genocide if almost
90% of them are still alive?”
Imagine 10 out of every 100 people no longer exist as they did before the war.
254,000 lives have disappeared from the Gaza Strip… The British newspaper The Guardian reports that the population of the Gaza Strip has decreased by approximately 254,000 people (about 10.6%) compared to previous estimates.
https://gofund.me/d0cc0587
#Gaza #gazaverified #settlercolonialism #FreePalestine #fediaid #Palestine
@aral
If you know people on social.cologne who aren’t Zionists/genocide supporters please let them know that they cannot see posts by me and others who oppose Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people as our instances and accounts are blocked by their Zionist/pro-genocide server.
I can only assume Zionist/pro-genocide servers will not be allowed according to mastodon.social’s new server covenant and suggested as safe spaces to newcomers to the fediverse (including Palestinians suffering through genocide, ethnic cleansing, and apartheid) but it would be good to have official confirmation of this.
It’s time for people (and mastodon servers) to be unapologetically unambiguous about which side of history they stand on.
CC @staff
#socialCologne #cologne #germany #fediverse #mastodon #serverCovenant #israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #fediblock #Gaza #Palestine #StopIsrael #FreePalestine
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United States plans for Gaza amount to a “theme park of dispossession” for Palestinians, argues Drop Site News Middle East Editor Sharif Abdel Kouddous.
Abdel Kouddous tells host Steve Clemons the draconian measures planned for the two million shell-shocked Palestinians in Gaza are an Orwellian labyrinth of biometrics, bureaucracy and “a lab for government surveillance” – all meant to drive them out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mi6btefmYk4
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#Gaza #Palestine
#Press #News
United States plans for Gaza amount to a “theme park of dispossession” for Palestinians, argues Drop Site News Middle East Editor Sharif Abdel Kouddous.
Abdel Kouddous tells host Steve Clemons the draconian measures planned for the two million shell-shocked Palestinians in Gaza are an Orwellian labyrinth of biometrics, bureaucracy and “a lab for government surveillance” – all meant to drive them out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mi6btefmYk4
🕎 🇵🇸 ☮️
#Gaza #Palestine
#Press #News
LIVE: Israel opens Rafah crossing in Gaza as dozens killed in attacks
#Gaza #Palestine #RafahCrossing #israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism
Specifically, it is essential that we know whether the Mastodon server covenant (https://joinmastodon.org/covenant) adopts the IHRA’s Working Definition of Antisemitism (https://holocaustremembrance.com/resources/working-definition-antisemitism) – which conflates antisemitism with criticism of Israel – or the Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism (https://jerusalemdeclaration.org) – which does not. (Or some other declaration that I’m not myself aware of or had discussed with the mastodon.social team.)
#mastodon #serverCovenant #antisemitism #moderation #israel #zionism #genocide #Gaza #Palestine https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/115989885113349752
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Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man, a Jew living in Washington D.C., just writing down an account of his travel to Germany last year, where his mother was invited to participate in the ceremony marking 80 years since the liberation of Bergen-Belsen.
Read it in a quiet moment.
»My 83-year-old mother survived a Nazi concentration camp as a child. She has been plotting potential escape routes her entire adult life. She is a citizen of the United States, but spent years working to get me a second passport, “just in case.” She worries about my safety because, as a high-visibility advocate of Palestinian civil and human rights and a senior staffer at a prominent, left-wing civil society organization in Washington, D.C., I could be targeted by the Trump administration.«
https://newlinesmag.com/first-person/remembering-never-again-for-everyone-at-bergen-belsen/
// via @aral
Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man, a Jew living in Washington D.C., just writing down an account of his travel to Germany last year, where his mother was invited to participate in the ceremony marking 80 years since the liberation of Bergen-Belsen.
Read it in a quiet moment.
»My 83-year-old mother survived a Nazi concentration camp as a child. She has been plotting potential escape routes her entire adult life. She is a citizen of the United States, but spent years working to get me a second passport, “just in case.” She worries about my safety because, as a high-visibility advocate of Palestinian civil and human rights and a senior staffer at a prominent, left-wing civil society organization in Washington, D.C., I could be targeted by the Trump administration.«
https://newlinesmag.com/first-person/remembering-never-again-for-everyone-at-bergen-belsen/
// via @aral
This picture sums up what happened today… Bombing among the tents, where there are no houses or shelters,
only families trying to survive with what little life they have left.
My wife and I sit together, waiting for the unknown.
We cling to each other, leaving no one behind…
Not even our unborn child,
for whom I beg your help in securing the necessities for his birth,
so that if anything happens to us, we may die together.
#gaza #palestine
“Throughout our trip to Germany, most of the conversations I had with other survivors and their families reliably returned to fears and intergenerational traumas in the context of the Trump presidency; the rise of nationalism, authoritarianism and uncertainty in the U.S. and around the world. But although this was at the height of devastating reports of famine and genocide emerging from Gaza, everyone in our group, especially the Jews, seemed to make a concerted effort to avoid mention of Palestine.”
https://newlinesmag.com/first-person/remembering-never-again-for-everyone-at-bergen-belsen/
#germany #israel #USA #fascism #genocide #settlerColonialism #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #TheHolocaust #nazis #Gaza #Palestine
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I'm thinking back to 2021 when I was writing my thesis in university and had to read academic research papers every day.
The authors (all Israeli) of the deep learning papers I had to read in 2021, shared this in June 2024.
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for 27 months they called us liars, they called us #Hamas supporters, they called us antisemites, they called us terrorists and other things because we shared the horrifying numbers of deaths in #Gaza.
Quietly, while the world is busy with #Epstein, #Greenland, War on #Iran and other distractions, they accepted the reports of the casualties of the Israeli #genocide in Gaza.
But, the western media don't seem to care much about it.
#Israel #Haaretz
#Palestine @palestine
for 27 months they called us liars, they called us #Hamas supporters, they called us antisemites, they called us terrorists and other things because we shared the horrifying numbers of deaths in #Gaza.
Quietly, while the world is busy with #Epstein, #Greenland, War on #Iran and other distractions, they accepted the reports of the casualties of the Israeli #genocide in Gaza.
But, the western media don't seem to care much about it.
#Israel #Haaretz
#Palestine @palestine
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Hey everyone,
@aral and @joynewacc had the honour of speaking to one family from Gaza today and we’d like to welcome them to Gaza Verified.
They are:
• N-srat (@NsratR)
Please give them a warm welcome to Mastodon and to the fediverse, follow their account, and donate to their fundraiser if you can (and please share this so others can do the same).
Also, remember that you can find all our families who have fundraisers listed at the following page, ordered by those who have received the least in donations over the last week (on a rolling basis):
https://gaza-verified.org/donate/
Thank you for making Mastodon and the fediverse a safe space for our friends in Gaza and for your support.
💕
#Gaza #Palestine #GazaVerified #Mastodon #fediverse #newMembers #verification
Hey everyone,
@aral and @joynewacc had the honour of speaking to one family from Gaza today and we’d like to welcome them to Gaza Verified.
They are:
• N-srat (@NsratR)
Please give them a warm welcome to Mastodon and to the fediverse, follow their account, and donate to their fundraiser if you can (and please share this so others can do the same).
Also, remember that you can find all our families who have fundraisers listed at the following page, ordered by those who have received the least in donations over the last week (on a rolling basis):
https://gaza-verified.org/donate/
Thank you for making Mastodon and the fediverse a safe space for our friends in Gaza and for your support.
💕
#Gaza #Palestine #GazaVerified #Mastodon #fediverse #newMembers #verification
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#israel #palestine : #war / #gaza / #opt / #genocide / #idf / #warcrimes / #uno / #ocha / #eyewitnessreport
„Olga Cherevko grew up on military bases in Siberia, belonged to a Christian cult in the U.S. and was sent by the UN to some of the toughest places in the world. None of that prepared her for what she saw in Gaza.“
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Breaking | The sound of an explosion was heard west of Gaza City.
Earlier, a tent was targeted in the Al-Mawasi area of Khan Younis, resulting in 6 injuries, amid ongoing tension and developing events.
#gaza #palestine
#israel #palestine : #war / #gaza / #opt / #genocide / #idf / #warcrimes / #uno / #ocha / #eyewitnessreport
„Olga Cherevko grew up on military bases in Siberia, belonged to a Christian cult in the U.S. and was sent by the UN to some of the toughest places in the world. None of that prepared her for what she saw in Gaza.“
Breaking | The sound of an explosion was heard west of Gaza City.
Earlier, a tent was targeted in the Al-Mawasi area of Khan Younis, resulting in 6 injuries, amid ongoing tension and developing events.
#gaza #palestine