Bahar | بهار
@BGhandehari
Human rights, journalism, law | Director, @ICHRI | Founder, Middle East Matters | Georgetown Alumna (views my own)
"The future Israel dreams of - one of dominance and submission - is not the future the region will allow. Because the peoples of this region have been here before. They have outlived empires" ✍️ Opinion by Soumaya Ghannoushi pulse.ly/y7z6tiwuig
A crime is a crime—no matter the victim’s sect, no matter the perpetrator. This was the principle of the Syrian revolution: to stand against injustice, whoever commits it. Today, in Syria, everyone is or has been a victim. The bloodshed must end. I don’t know how or when.
We’re not meant to be numb. You’re not meant to look away. That ache in your chest? That anger in your gut? That feeling you can’t shake that makes you feel like the world should suffer and tremble to finally wake up and put an end to this? That’s your humanity refusing to die.
Top Druze leader issues an important statement on Sweida. He says his guesthouse was burned & his father’s grave desecrated by Israel-backed Sheikh Hikmat Hajri thugs for rejecting violence & foreign agendas. Accuses them of lies, disinfo, betrayal & pushing sectarian deals.
Palestinians are being starved not only by Israel. The siege on Gaza is enforced with Egypt’s help and sustained by every state that has failed to intervene or uphold its obligations under international law.
Israel’s Energy Minister says he’s sad that Iranians are facing water scarcity while Israel is deliberately cutting off water to millions in Gaza. Israel’s “water technology” was built on decades of restricting Palestinian access to water. Spare us the humanitarian performance.
پیامی به مردم ایران از سوی وزیر انرژی اسرائیل: من رنج شما را میبینم و میدانم که حتی به اندازه کافی آب آشامیدنی ندارید. این به این دلیل است که رژیم ستمگر شما، به جای سرمایهگذاری برای تأمین آب آشامیدنی، منابع آبی را صرف برنامه شکستخورده هستهای کرده که اکنون به زبالهدان تاریخ…
I am grateful that my heart is still capable of breaking.
Timeline is flooded with pictures of babies and children who died of starvation in Gaza and there are still people who claim it is a farce. And Israelis who totally ignore the hunger in Gaza talk about Suwayda and say “humanity lost its common values…” I can’t anymore
This campaign hasn’t received any donations for two weeks. This family is going through extremely harsh and heartbreaking conditions — they don’t even have a single piece of bread. I beg you a million times to donate and share the campaign. gofund.me/ce0cc4e1
In 1948, the Soviet Union cut off all land and air routes leading to West Berlin, placing over two million people under siege. The Allies responded with the Berlin Airlift—a massive air supply operation for the besieged population of West Berlin. They delivered food, medicine,…
Health ministry: 18 people died from dehydration and malnutrition in 24 hours, including 8 children. They starved to death bc of this rotten evil world order. I can’t believe our crippling helplessness, or the death sentence given to an entire population in this day and age.
"Israel is blocking 6,000 UNRWA trucks from entering Gaza while children die of hunger." 972mag.com/gaza-starving-…
Israel committed a massacre this morning in the Zikim area during the entry of flour, more than 100 martyrs. This is not aid; these are death traps.
We don’t want humanitarian aid anymore just LET US DIE IN PEACE.
A video from today’s mass arrests of women in Kabul. A woman yells at a Taliban fighter: “You took our schools. Our lives! What more do you want? How much worse can you make this hell for us?” Her voice echoes what millions of Afghan women are living.
We are very much living with the consequences of the only discernible ideology the regime ever truly espoused: Assad or we burn the country.
Highly concerned by #Germany deporting 81 Afghans with Taliban & #Qatar cooperation. More likely to follow! Urge immediate halt of deportations. Even if criminals, int’l law applies incl. non-refoulement; flights to #Afghanistan where they’ll face real danger is not the solution.
Literally everyone I know in Gaza is starving. I never imagined I’d be witness to this level of inhumanity.
Do not be surprised when we journalists stop covering news here. I swear by God that today I could not get up from the hunger. There is no food. Even if someone has money, there is nothing in the market to even purchase. We are all starving. We are all dying.
Not any female protestor. The wonderful Zena Shahla, a former detainee and one of our strongest voices against Assad and member of the official committee on missing people. And if she wasn’t any of those things, one of the kindest people in the world.
One of the sectarian thugs approaches a female protester and calls here a whore, while asking his comrade to pass him a stick so he can beat her.
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