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appassionato, 2 months ago to KindActions

World Central Kitchen founder's response

“The air strikes on our convoy were not just some unfortunate mistake in the fog of war. It was a direct attack on clearly marked vehicles whose movements were known by the [Israeli military]. It was also the direct result of his [PM Netanyahu’s] government’s policy to squeeze humanitarian aid to desperate levels.”

Jose Andres

@palestine
#Gaza
#aid
#WCK

appassionato, 2 months ago to KindActions

World Central Kitchen

"These are the heroes of World Central Kitchen. These 7 beautiful souls were killed by the IDF in a strike as they were returning from a full day's mission. Their smiles, laughter, and voices are forever embedded in our memories. And we have countless memories of them giving their best selves to the world. We are reeling from our loss. The world's loss.” - Erin Gore, CEO

https://wck.org/news/honoring-gaza-team

@palestine
#Gaza
#aid
#WCK
#volunteers

appassionato, 7 months ago to Israel

Resignation letter of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in New York.

@palestine
#Gaza
#Israel
#HumanRights
#UN
#genocide

appassionato, 4 months ago to macrophotography

In macro photos, Barry Webb captures the fleeting, otherworldly characteristics of slime molds and fungi.

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2023/08/barry-webb-fungi-photos/

@photography
#MacroPhotography
#SlimeMolds
#fungi

Cribraria
Didymium squamulosum with ice crown. All images © Barry Webb
Pink stemonitis

appassionato, 4 months ago to nz

Thousands of Māori gather to tell New Zealand’s government: you cannot marginalise us

“The best protest we can do right now, is be Māori.”

“Be who we are, live our values, speak our reo, care for our mokopuna [children], our awa [rivers], our maunga [mountains], just be Māori – Māori all day, every day, we are here, we are strong.”
Kiingi Tuheitia

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/22/thousands-of-maori-gather-to-tell-new-zealands-government-you-cannot-marginalise-us

#NZ
#Maori

appassionato, 4 months ago to Belgium

Belgium refused to cut funding for UNRWA, so Israel just bombed their office building in Gaza.

https://www.tumblr.com/sar-soor/741277496539004928

@palestine
#Gaza
#UNRWA
#Belgium

appassionato, 4 months ago to palestine

Israel has destroyed all the universities in Gaza. Every single one of them. That is a war crime, pure and simple. It’s the obliteration of education and Palestinian future. Every university in the world should be outraged.

https://twitter.com/fbhutto/status/1748288558069149733

@palestine
#Gaza
#universities

appassionato, 1 month ago to palestine

Infrastructure damage in besieged and bombarded Gaza

@palestine
#Gaza
#infrastructure

appassionato, 13 days ago to palestine

More than 70 international organisations are calling on all authorities and international institutions to officially declare a famine in Gaza, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor has said in a statement.

The entire population in the Gaza Strip (2.2 million people) are experiencing high levels of acute food insecurity, with half of them in the disaster/famine stage.

Displaced Palestinian children line up to receive food in Rafah, on the southern Gaza Strip [File/AFP]

@palestine
#Gaza
#famine

appassionato, 3 months ago to Israel

"Children are starving in Gaza. Instead of opening up the borders and allowing humanitarian aid to come in, Israeli soldiers are shooting people who are desperately trying to get food off of trucks. This must stop. The U.S. cannot continue funding the Netanyahu war machine."

— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) February 29, 2024

https://twitter.com/SenSanders/status/1763304467661803844

@palestine
#Gaza
#Israel
#US
#BernieSanders

appassionato, 4 months ago to palestine

Journalists killed since the start of the war

The list does not include the members of their families.

@palestine
#Gaza
#journalists

appassionato, 5 months ago to palestine

Palestinians in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank carried a long banner filled with the names of thousands of Palestinians killed in Gaza, in a protest marking the beginning of the new year.

@palestine
#Gaza
#WestBank

appassionato, 5 months ago to palestine

Pro-peace demonstrators march with a banner and broken heart signs calling for a ceasefire in the conflict in Gaza during a protest in Tel Aviv on December 9, 2023 [Ahmad Gharabli/AFP]

@palestine
#Gaza
#protest
#ceasefire

appassionato, 6 months ago to spain

Hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters in Spain’s Basque Country formed a human mosaic representing the Palestinian flag alongside a reproduction on a giant banner of Pablo Picasso’s iconic anti-war painting, Guernica, Reuters news agency reports.

The protest on Friday took place in Guernica’s former market square which was aerial bombed in 1937 during the Spanish Civil War by Nazi Germany’s Luftwaffe.

@palestine
#Gaza
#protest
#Spain
#Guernica

appassionato, 6 months ago to palestine

A ceasefire in a time of genocide

"The bitter reality for us, Palestinians in Gaza, is that we are alone, beleaguered, under siege, and are seen as undesirables even by some of those who are supposed to be our brethren. Forty-five days of barbaric massacres have claimed the lives of more than 14,000 people, including more than 6,000 children and 3,500 women."

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/11/27/a-ceasefire-in-a-time-of-genocide

@palestine
#Gaza
#ceasefire
#genocide

appassionato, 1 month ago to palestine

A Palestinian child walks past a tent with a ‘thank you’ message dedicated to students at Columbia University in New York, at the Rafah refugee camp in southern Gaza on Saturday [Haitham Imad/EPA]

@palestine
#Gaza
#ColumbiaUniversity
#students
#protest

appassionato, 10 days ago to Iceland

Northern Lights shine over erupting Icelandic volcano

@photography
#Iceland
#volcano
#aurora
#AP

appassionato, 2 months ago to KindActions

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has ordered Israel to provide immediate, unhindered delivery of aid to Gaza as part of new provisional measures issued in a genocide case brought by South Africa.

@palestine
#Gaza
#aid
#ICJ

appassionato, 3 months ago to DadBin

“Children who do survive this war will not only bear the visible wounds of traumatic injuries, but the invisible ones too: Those of repeated displacements, constant fear and witnessing family members literally dismembered before their eyes. These psychological injuries have led children as young as five to tell us that they would prefer to die."

MSF’s Secretary General Christopher Lockyear

@palestine
#Gaza
#children
#trauma

appassionato, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to melbourne

In Melbourne/Naarm this Wednesday ...

'Stop genocide in Gaza now!

Protest Zim Shipping Line

5.30pm, Wednesday 8.11, 78 Webb Dock Drive

Protest to say: Block the boat

No Israeli ships in Port Melbourne

Hosted by Trade Unionists for Palestine

@palestine
#BlockTheBoat
#Melbourne
#Australia

appassionato, 13 days ago to Futurology

Due to fuel shortage, only 1/8 of water distributed: Doctors Without Borders

Last week they distributed 400,000 litres of water; this week they distributed 50,000 litres.

@palestine
#Gaza
#water
#children

appassionato, 2 months ago to KindActions

World Central Kitchen statement

https://wck.org/news/gaza-team-update

“This is not only an attack against WCK, this is an attack on humanitarian organizations showing up in the most dire of situations where food is being used as a weapon of war. This is unforgivable,” said World Central Kitchen CEO Erin Gore.

The seven killed are from Australia, Poland, United Kingdom, a dual citizen of the U.S. and Canada, and Palestine.

@palestine
#Gaza
#aid
#WCK

appassionato, 6 months ago to palestine

“Maybe the hardest case me for was a mother holding her child. The child was dead. She was holding her baby while her legs were broken. She had multiple injuries and had to be resuscitated. I didn’t know whether to take her child away from her. I decided to allow her to keep holding her son. This affected me so I followed up. Then I heard her say she wished she had died rather than had her legs amputated.”
Dr Haytham Kallab

@palestine
#Gaza
#hospitals

appassionato, 6 months ago to worldwithoutus

Portrait of Extinction

Field rangers from the Uganda Wildlife Authority pose in front of over 12 tonnes of metal snares confiscated in just one year in Murchison Falls national park. The snares are a cheap and effective method of poaching wildlife for sophisticated criminal syndicates who often exploit impoverished communities to supply a booming global black market for wildlife.

Photograph: Adam Oswell

@photography
#Africa
#Uganda
#poaching
#snares

appassionato, 2 months ago to Astronomy

A rose made of galaxies

Arp 273 is a pair of interacting galaxies, 300 million light years away in the constellation Andromeda. The larger of the spiral galaxies, known as UGC 1810, is about five times more massive than the smaller galaxy. It has a disc that is tidally distorted into a rose-like shape by the gravitational pull of the companion galaxy below it, known as UGC 1813.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arp_273

#astronomy
#astrophotography
#galaxies