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9th ceasefire deal to be refused, the world leaders are still silent and the US is still supporting.

By wizard_bisan1 on Instagram

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Palestine Updates June 1st, 2024

By @letstalkpalestine2 on Instagram

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today marks day 111 of the genocide in gaza.

and i need you all to keep in mind just how dire the situation in gaza is right now. and to keep talking about it. now is not the time to turn away.

today i want to talk about khalil again. yesterday, khalil posted about how his aunt passed away and they went to the graveyard to bury her, only to find thousands of tents in the cemetery. the people living as refugees in rafah have been so jam packed that they’ve started sheltering at the cemetery.

in a heartbreaking sentence, khalil says “they are living in the cemetery, waiting for their time to be buried”. can you imagine the situation one has to be in to say something like that?

not only do the gazans not have a safe place to live, they are also starving and suffering from diseases and lack of medication. in fact, that’s the cause of khalil’s aunt’s death—bad food and no medicine.

the people of gaza barely have food to eat. the children have to clean dirt and insects off animal feed before milling it to make food. medicine isn’t coming into the gaza strip. there are pharmacies all around but none can help because they do not have the means to. why?

because israel consistently denies shipments of vital aid. in fact, according to the UN, israel recently added insulin pens for children to the list of prohibited items that are not allowed into gaza. this list also includes other medicines for chronic illnesses are also not allowed [here is the full press conference for anyone who’s interested].

this claim is also backed by the report journalist motaz azaiza was making as he was evacuating gaza of a plethora of aid trucks waiting at the border to enter gaza. and for the little bit of aid that is available to gazans? yesterday the israeli military opened fire at starving citizens who were queueing to get aid in northern gaza.

there are too many heartbreaking stories coming out of gaza; there is at least one per person, in a population of 2.2M people. i urge you to not turn away from hearing their stories and facing the reality of the crimes being committed against them by israeli occupation forces.

whatever anyone else might say, whatever the verdict of tomorrow’s hearing may be… i want you to remember that what’s happening in gaza is nothing short of a genocide—a collective total of 33,360 deaths (incl people missing under rubble), and 64,150 injured. don’t let them just be numbers. these are people.

people who are not just being killed in cold blood, but are also being starved. they are being tortured physically and psychologically. they are being subjected to illnesses with no treatment given. they are being subjected to eating things like grass, immature food, expired food. read the euro med monitor report for the full picture of the destruction happening in gaza at the hands of the israeli occupation forces.

this is a genocide. this is one of, if not the deadliest of war crimes we’ve seen in the 21st century.

i am so heartbroken i barely have the energy to type today. please call for an end to all of this, for a permanent ceasefire. and subsequently an end to the israeli occupation.

we cannot leave the palestinians to fend for themselves and continue being oppressed directly or indirectly by their oppressors and colonisers. this occupation must end. palestine must be freed in its entirety.

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please especially send donations to help supply aid and food to gazans. especially to the organisations working within gaza. it’s not like there isn’t any food at all. gaza is not a barren land. the food is just inaccessible and very expensive and unaffordable for most gazans (if you follow journalist muhammad smiry, you’ll see he posts a lot about the atrocious prices of food in gaza). so your donations help people purchase food in bulk within gaza and supply to the civilians.

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I'm just gonna be honest a second.

It's been almost a full year of genocide over in Palestine.

And the general lack of concern i see is very heartbreaking.

It's so fucking heartbreaking seeing so many lovely Palestinians PLEADING for help and my blog is just... sadly not very interacted with. I feel like I'm not doing enough so I beg for people to please just... help them even by just reblogging their posts. Especially if you've got more followers.

They need our HELP NOW. It's been almost a full. Year. Of. Genocide.

❗️I AM NOT A MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL, AND I AM ALSO NOT A RELIABLE SOURCE OF INFORMATION!! PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH ON PALESTINE OR ANYTHING MEDICAL I DISCUSS IN THIS POST!!❗️

Something I'd like to point out about the situation in Palestine is that kids have been raised in this environment. With the information we have now, Israel has been attacking Gaza and all of Palestine for over 70 years. That's enough time for someone's entire lifetime to have been just through suffering.

That's also long enough that only the older generations of people truly remember peace before the attacks from Israel. My grandparents are in their 70s, and if we had lived in Gaza, then they would barely have been at the remembering age before Israel began their genocide.

A child begins developing the ability to remember memories long term around the age of 3-5 years old, depending on the child. Which means that you'd have to be at least 78 or older to even have a single peaceful memory of Palestine, and (at least here in the US) the average age of dying of old age is 70-72 for men, and 73-76 for women. So most of those people may not even be currently alive, whether that's from the violence, starvation, organ failure, food poisoning or old age. That leaves a very small minority of the population that truly knows what peace is like.

If you don't understand what I mean by peace, then take it this way:

What does an average day for you look like currently?

Most of you might say some form of a routine, even if you don't realize it. Maybe you're seeing your grandparents tomorrow, or you got a good grade on a test and you're planning to go celebrate. Maybe you have work and you have certain hours. In general, it's simply things that have grown normal for us to expect in life.

For people in Palestine, their normal is horrific bombings, the current state of their land to them has grown normal.

That should never be someone's normal.

EVER.

So, it's very important that we strike today! Some of us (like myself) are unable to explicitly take action and boycott or leave work or school (fortunately I had state testing prep, so no school for me today). Which is why I'm posting this.

I may be unable to boycott, to leave school, to buy things that explicitly are pro Palestine (like pins or something). But I can do other things. I can draw. I can write. I can post on Tumblr to help spread awareness. I can sign petitions. Anything you can do is helpful!