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Today on Roma Holocaust Memorial Day, also known as Romani Genocide Memorial Day, I want to honour my ancestors who were ruthlessly tortured and murdered by Nazi occupation.
The Roma struggle for dignity, safety, and justice has not ended. My love for all Romani people extends across the earth.
I will never forget.
I will always fight for you. I love you for eternity. Romani people deserve so much than this damn world.
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An Israeli soldier in East Jerusalem knocks out an Arab sign of Al Buraq wall (the Western wall) in 1967. Historically, the area next to the wall was the Moroccan Quarter, one of the quarters of the old city of Jerusalem before it was razed by Israeli forces following the war of 1967. The destruction of this sign was the trigger for razing the entire quarter. Retired Israeli Prime Minister Ben-Gurion was upset at seeing a sign in Arabic, the day after the Old City had been captured and protested at the presence of a sign in Arabic.
"He noticed a tile sign in front of the Wall, which read "Al-Burak Road" in English and Arabic but not in Hebrew. It was a reminder of the prophet Mohammad's legendary horse, Buraq, left tethered by the Wall as the prophet took his journey to heaven from the famous rock above. Ben-Gurion looked at the sign with disapproval and asked if anyone had a hammer. A soldier tried to pry off the tile with a bayonet, but Ben-Gurion was concerned about damage to the stone. An axe was produced and the name on the tile carefully removed. The symbolism of expunging Arabic from the redeemed Jewish holy site was not lost on the surrounding crowd, or on Ben-Gurion. They cheered, and Ben-Gurion exclaimed, "This is the greatest moment of my life since I came to Israel."
In addition to 135 houses, the demolition destroyed the Bou Medyan zaouia and the Sheikh Eid Mosque, – one of the few mosques remaining from the time of Saladin, whose historic significance was identified by the Israel Antiquities Authority. In destroying the small mosque near the Buraq section of the Wall, associated with the ascent of Mohammad on his steed Buraq to heaven, the engineer Ben Moshe is quoted as having exclaimed: "Why shouldn't the mosque be sent to Heaven, just as the magic horse did?"
The way they zionazis gleefully enjoy ethnic cleansing and destroying evidence of Palestine…
“People of the Homeland” by Sakir Khader
West Bank, Palestine
“Nguyen Thi Hien, 19, head of the militia squad in Yen Vuc in Thanh Hoa Province, survived more than 800 airstrikes and was buried alive four times in B‑52 bomber attacks. 1966. Mai Nam/Patrick Chauvel Foundation” (x)
According to the Palestinian Prisoner’s Club, the occupation released the prisoner Moaziz Abayat after several months of detention, where he was subjected to a systematic assassination attempt during his time in “Ofer” Prison.
He faced systematic and brutal assaults that included the breaking of all his limbs, visible in circulating videos, and he was left without treatment until his liberation.
It is worth noting that Moaziz is the nephew of martyr Hussein Abayat, who was martyred 24 years ago in 2000 during the Second Intifada. His uncle was one of the early founder’s of Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades in the southern West Bank and became one of the occupation’s most wanted resistance fighters due to his executing of several significant resistance operations which killed and wounded many zionist soldiers.
After receiving treatment for the first time since his abduction, the barbaric torture Moaziz endured and witnessed at the hands of zionist soldiers has become even clearer in a video where he is heard saying,
“They killed me…put me in a bag, in a black bag. I have been martyred…”
Resistance News Network
