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Al Jazeera journalist @AnasAlSharif0 breaks down after a woman on the street collapsed from hunger. Gaza is now in an acute hunger crisis with 19 people starving to death per day.
“It’s heartbreaking to be besieged, with no way in and no way out.” Egyptian activist Anas Habib locked the gates of Egypt’s embassy in The Hague to protest the closure of the Rafah crossing between Egypt and Gaza.
Some children in Gaza have lost up to 80% of their body weight as Israel throttles food supplies and massacres Palestinians at “aid” sites.
Just hours before Freedom Flotilla activists were set to depart for Gaza, crew members discovered two apparent attempts to sabotage their mission to deliver aid to starving Palestinians.
“We are on an open hunger strike until the smallest child in Gaza Strip can eat.” As Israel completely blockades Gaza, journalists and civil defense workers in Gaza went on hunger strike to protest starvation tactics which have killed at least 21 children in 3 days.
While Texas families search for flood victims, Mexican volunteers crossed the border to help – even though some were held up waiting for visas. “It’s called empathy,” says the founder of Mexican rescue group Topos Azteca. “We’re one family.”
“The struggle of Palestine is the struggle of a colonized nation for its freedom.” Activists in India spilled fake blood outside a McDonald’s in New Delhi and called for a boycott of companies accused of associating with Israel during its war on Gaza.
“As a refugee sheltering in a school, you're a target.” Israel bombed this school in Gaza twice in 24 hours.
These Israeli teens are going to prison instead of joining an army they say is committing genocide. Footage courtesy of @the_andrey_x and @mesarvot
Alaa Azzam documented life in Gaza through videos of him singing and reciting the Quran. Israel killed him.
"There is no one who has clean hands when it comes to Palestine.” UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese for the occupied Palestinian territories called on countries to cut all diplomatic, economic and military ties with Israel over its genocide in Gaza.
“I get to have this relationship of joy. And I gotta remember that's what our ancestors fought for.” Indigenous teenagers spent a month kayaking hundreds of kilometers across the newly freed Klamath River in Oregon and California, after winning a decades-long fight to save it.
Just hours before Freedom Flotilla activists were set to depart for Gaza, crew members discovered two apparent attempts to sabotage their mission to deliver aid to starving Palestinians.
"No matter what they do to the Handala, this movement will not be broken.” These @GazaFFlotilla activists are sailing to Gaza to break Israel’s siege just weeks after Israel raided their last attempt to deliver aid.
Al Jazeera journalist @AnasAlSharif0 breaks down after a woman on the street collapsed from hunger. Gaza is now in an acute hunger crisis with 19 people starving to death per day.