🇵🇸 ‘Do We Feel The Pain Or Do We Just Die At Once?’

“Mom, does it hurt when we get bombarded?” Al Jazeera correspondent Youmna ElSayed tells Dena Takruri how she’s having to speak to her children about death as Israel's bombardment of Gaza continues. She spoke from Gaza City amid declining internet connectivity. At least 39 journalists and media workers are among the more than 11,000 killed since the war began on October 7, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists

Source : Aljazeera / Aj+
#Palestine #Gaza #Testimonies #Children #Genocide
09/11/2023

A new #CDC report claims that the overall number of childhood vaccine exemptions for #children entering school has reached record highs.

As people are waking up to the dangers of the COVID injections, many are taking the next logical step and are now questioning the safety of, and need for, all childhood vaccines.

https://tlavagabond.substack.com/p/cdc-report-record-high-childhood

@TLAVagabond

🇵🇸 Palestinian woman helps Palestinian children amid despair

Source : Al Mayadeen
#Palestine #Gaza #Genocide #EthnicCleansing #Children #ForcedDisplacement #Refugees #Hope #Dignity
11/11/2023

🇵🇸 Treacherous journey south: Mother and her newborn displaced from home | Al Jazeera

Israel’s war on Gaza has killed thousands of children and made life difficult for newborns.
The infants are experiencing bombings and shellings long before they can even walk.

Al Jazeera’s Ali Hashem reports about one child and Aya Jouda a young mother who made the treacherous journey south.This traumatic experience has lead to her being unable to breastfeed her child.

#Palestine #Gaza #ForcedDisplacement #Genocide #WarCrimes #Refugee #EthnicCleansing #Children #Displacement #Trauma #Testimonies #NewNakba
21/11/2023

🇵🇸 1/2 - Some context and background on Palestinians detained & imprisoned by Israel :

1) A Palestinian "prisoner" does not refer to someone tried & convicted in a normal court of law that follows due process. Palestinians are detained by Israeli soldiers, https://www.addameer.org/israeli_military_judicial_system/military_courts

No arrest warrant, no right to a phone call, no lawyers present. 2) Palestinians are interrogated without lawyers present & widespread abuses amounting to torture, are documented by human rights orgs. This links to some #testimonies. https://addameer.org/publications/systematic-use-torture-and-ill-treatment-israeli-interrogation-centers-cases-torture

3) Palestinian children are also tried in specially designed "juvenile military courts". Between 500 & 700 🇵🇸 kids are tried in these courts each year. Sworn affidavits of nearly 800 child detainees show 86% were not informed of the reason for their arrest https://www.dci-palestine.org/military_detention

80% were strip-searched, 42% were denied adequate food & water, 31% were denied access to a toilet, 97% were interrogated without a family member present, 55% were shown or made to sign a paper in Hebrew, not Arabic. https://www.savethechildren.net/news/%E2%80%9Ctreated-animals%E2%80%9D-palestinian-children-face-inhumane-treatment-israeli-run-prisons

4) Israel widely uses "administrative detention" against hundreds of Palestinians. This allows for the indefinite detention of a Palestinian without charge - renewable every 6 months. Since '67, around 60,000 Palestinians were administrative detainees. https://www.btselem.org/administrative_detention

Source : Noure Odeh
#Palestine #Apartheid #Judiciary #Detention #Prison #Minors #Children #Addameer #Btselem
22/11/2023

🇵🇸 2/2 - Some context and background on Palestinians detained & imprisoned by Israel

5) At least 800,000 🇵🇸shave been imprisoned at one point in their lives since 1967 by Israel, making the issue of prisoners a topic that touches all families. In July @FranceskAlbs said this mass incarceration policy was another expression of apartheid. https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2023/07/dismantle-israels-carceral-regime-and-open-air-imprisonment-palestinians-un

6) Israel detains Palestinians from Gaza under an obscure law that strips away meaningful judicial review and due process rights. That says a lot given that Palestinian detainees from the West Bank barely have any rights. https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/03/01/gaza-unlawful-combatants-law-violates-rights

7) More than 10,000 Palestinian women have been imprisoned since 1967. Currently around 80 are imprisoned & detained by Israel.

8) Palestinians can be detained for raising a 🇵🇸, throwing stones, "incitement", or affiliation with any political faction. https://www.addameer.org/israeli_military_judicial_system/military_orders

9) Since 10/7, Israeli forces have detained around 3,000 Palestinians, including 30 journalists, community leaders, and non-violent resistance leaders & has denied lawyers & ICRC access. HR orgs have documented horrific tales of torture of detainees https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/11/israel-opt-horrifying-cases-of-torture-and-degrading-treatment-of-palestinian-detainees-amid-spike-in-arbitrary-arrests/#:~:text=Israeli%20authorities%20have%20dramatically%20increased,of%20torture%20and%20death%20in"

10) Released prisoners say in addition to cutting off water & electricity, detainees report that many have had their limbs, legs, and hands broken, and many others from unrecognizable from the beating. Soldiers are filming the abuse : https://invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=ltu-F_2ai1M

Source @Noure Odeh
#Palestine #OPT #Apartheid #Judiciary #Prison #Detention #Minors #Children
22/11/2023

🇵🇸 UN Women: ‘Seven women are killed every two hours’

Natalia Kanem, executive director of UN Women, said two mothers are killed every hour and seven women are killed every two hours during a briefing about Gaza on Wednesday.

Kanem noted that 67 percent of the more than 14,000 people killed in Gaza are estimated to be women and children, as opposed to 14 percent before 7 October.

Source : Middle East Eye
#Palestine #Gaza #Genocide
#Women #Children
23/11/2023

🇵🇸 Children under fire: At least 5,000 children killed in Gaza bombings

More than 5000 children have been killed in the Israeli bombardment of Gaza, while tens of thousands of others have either been injured or they've lost family members.

Al Jazeera’s Ali Hashem brings us the story of Donya.She's lost a leg. She's also lost her parents.But she says she'll still hold onto her dreams.

#Palestine #Gaza #Genocide
#Civilians #Amputee #Children
#Testimonies
27/11/2023