Alexander Aviña
@Alexander_Avina
Historian of Mexico and Latin America | Profe, Arizona State University | @OUPHistory author |@fx_newsletter @NACLA @thedialmag
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The smallest are the most mighty! But why is the world putting this immense pressure on Gaza’s youth…to support their families? This is what the world is ok with? chuffed.org/project/help-u…. The situation is horrendous in Gaza. There is no positive spin, there is no moral to the…
The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention – named after Raphael Lemkin, a Holocaust survivor who coined the term genocide – says it plainly: "No more discussions, meetings, reports, sessions, summits. GET FOOD AND WATER INTO GAZA NOW. IF YOU HAVE THE POWER, YOU MUST USE IT."
The @LemkinInstitute is calling on every leader in the world to step in immediately with measures that ensure food and water gets into Gaza right now. No more discussions, meetings, reports, sessions, summits. GET FOOD AND WATER INTO GAZA NOW. IF YOU HAVE THE POWER, YOU…
"We are on an open hunger strike until the smallest child in Gaza can eat," declared a group of journalists in Gaza as they launched the “Empty Stomach Movement.” The campaign comes as famine intensifies across the Strip and aid remains completely blocked by Israel.…
This is a really disturbing. A person detained in the Everglades was handcuffed and left outdoors in the sun as punishment for attempting to go on a hunger strike. As mosquitoes swarmed him, he pleaded with guards to bring him inside and was kept outside for nearly three hours.
A KINDERGARTEN. A KINDERGARTEN!!!
The Israeli occupation targeted a kindergarten in Gaza while the children were receiving their lessons.
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please please help Reem & her family!
My children are withering before my eyes… I watch their tiny bodies grow weaker each day. No food. No milk. Nothing. Their fragile frames cannot survive this hunger. We’re exhausted… from everything. Exhausted from the silence, the helplessness, the endless waiting. How much…
Video: A boy and his family rejoice after he returns with a bag of flour from the “death trap” GHF sites in Gaza. Israel gunned down and killed 92 aid seekers in Gaza today. More than 200 were wounded.
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"It bothers me that people compare ICE to the Nazis. Anyway, we are just following orders."
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Act Now, please,, Break the siege. Let us eat before we are killed‼️‼️
One million children in Gaza are being deliberately, methodically starved, and this the EU position. Fucking monsters.
One million children in Gaza are being deliberately, methodically starved, and this the EU position. Fucking monsters.
One million children in Gaza are being deliberately, methodically starved, and this the EU position. Fucking monsters.
We are dying now, the bombing will not stop, help us evacuate the place😭😭😭
🚨選挙開票にうつつを抜かしている間に、避難勧告が次々と‼️ Hindさん@hind_naeem12のところにも! ”Now we are very worried. They have sent leaflets to Deir al-Balah, to the area where I live. We will die at any time. I am afraid.”
They dropped leaflets near where I live. The place has been marked for bombing. The sounds of tanks and bombing are terrifying. We are dying now. The car owner asked us for $600 to carry us. Don't let us die. 😭😭😭😭Save our lives, we are dying now, bombing is everywhere😭
Breaking: Hani Dabour, one of the most active civil defense workers, was killed moments ago by the Israeli army after rescuing a group of children who had just been bombed by Israeli warplanes.
❗️Hunger strike from within Gaza: “I am Mahmoud Basal, a Palestinian citizen, a free human being, and the spokesperson for the Palestinian Civil Defense in Gaza,” he declared. “For days, I have been living off scraps of food, like more than two million others suffering from…
Oh wow another Barak Ravid “scoop” about how Fuming/Deeply Concerned the president over Netanyahu! Where have I seen this one before