Pulitzer Prize winner/ Author of Forest of Noise/ Founder of the Edward Said Public Library in Gaza
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Israel murdered this baby along with two of his siblings yesterday in Jabalia.
The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, BBC, and others! You are responsible for his death, as are his killers. You justified his killing with your coverage, even before he was born.
Even after his murder, you did not run a story on him. You dehumanized him and his family. You dehumanized all Palestinians, most of whom were born under occupation and siege.
To all those editors and TV hosts (especially those hosts who have millions of followers and never posted any of our pleas as our relatives got buried under the rubble for months.), except for the very, very few, this baby’s blood is on your hands. History will never forget you. And we will never forgive you.
I never asked you not to humanize others, even those who hate us, but you never respected our humanity. You played with language to relegate us to a status of subhumans. Worse, you contributed to and enabled our slaughter and the mutilation of our bodies and the destruction of every place we held close to our hearts despite the hell we grew up in.
How do you call yourselves journalists? How do you go to work?
Mosab Abu Toha retweeted
Israel carried out a strike on a group of people in Jabalia, north Gaza, today at 3:40 p.m. local time.
54-year-old Waheeb Khalil al-Adham was killed and some others were wounded.
As you can see, doctors were trying to save Waheeb’s life but couldn’t.
Mosab Abu Toha retweeted
Thanks to the tireless efforts of the US administration and the Board of Peace, which finally secured fuel for bulldozers in Gaza, Palestinian Civil Defense teams recovered the bones of three-year-old Reem Suleiman al-Baqa, killed in an Israeli strike on January 16, 2024.
Even after 34 months, the US administration and the Board of Peace never gave up on recovering the few bones left of our Reem and other kids.
On behalf of the victims’ families, thank you.
We hope the administration and the Board of Peace will persevere in their noble efforts to allow us to bury our children.
Thanks to the tireless efforts of the US administration and the Board of Peace, which finally secured fuel for bulldozers in Gaza, Palestinian Civil Defense teams recovered the bones of three-year-old Reem Suleiman al-Baqa, killed in an Israeli strike on January 16, 2024.
Even after 34 months, the US administration and the Board of Peace never gave up on recovering the few bones left of our Reem and other kids.
On behalf of the victims’ families, thank you.
We hope the administration and the Board of Peace will persevere in their noble efforts to allow us to bury our children.
Mosab Abu Toha retweeted
Only evil creatures deny human beings food, water, medicine, clothes, and shelter.
Only evil creatures sit mere kilometers from such suffering, breathe in, for decades, the stench of death and destruction, and do nothing.
Only evil creatures remain silent or deliberately turn a blind eye.
And I feel unspeakable rage toward those who witness this horror yet do nothing to end the suffering of people denied the most basic necessities of life, especially when they know full well that their money and their governments are enabling this abominable cruelty.
Mosab Abu Toha retweeted
Shocking. Or perhaps it shouldn't be shocking at all.
I just went through the X and Instagram accounts of several Democrats who were elected to Congress and who had made Gaza a central issue in their campaigns.
Not a single post acknowledging the suffering of our families in Gaza, who have endured heavy rains and landslides over the past three days, leaving people exposed, displaced, and dying.
Not even a repost. Not even a shared word about their suffering.
Not a single condemnation of the ongoing Israeli siege that continues to block desperately needed shelter, medicine, and warm clothing from reaching Gaza.
And what makes this silence even more disturbing is the reach these politicians have. Some have tens of thousands of followers. Others have hundreds of thousands, even millions. People who were drawn to them by their eloquence, their promises, and their professed commitment to human rights and dignity for all.
Imagine what even one post could do. How many people it could reach. How much awareness it could raise. How much pressure it could generate.
They had plenty to say about Gaza when they needed votes. But now, when Palestinian families desperately need their voices, silence.
What is the value of your commitment to human rights if it disappears the moment speaking up is no longer politically convenient?
If this is how they respond before they've even settled into office, then goodbye.
Palestinians are not campaign slogans. Our suffering is not an election strategy. And our lives do not stop mattering once the votes have been counted.
Israel carried out a strike on a group of people in Jabalia, north Gaza, today at 3:40 p.m. local time.
54-year-old Waheeb Khalil al-Adham was killed and some others were wounded.
As you can see, doctors were trying to save Waheeb’s life but couldn’t.
Shocking. Or perhaps it shouldn't be shocking at all.
I just went through the X and Instagram accounts of several Democrats who were elected to Congress and who had made Gaza a central issue in their campaigns.
Not a single post acknowledging the suffering of our families in Gaza, who have endured heavy rains and landslides over the past three days, leaving people exposed, displaced, and dying.
Not even a repost. Not even a shared word about their suffering.
Not a single condemnation of the ongoing Israeli siege that continues to block desperately needed shelter, medicine, and warm clothing from reaching Gaza.
And what makes this silence even more disturbing is the reach these politicians have. Some have tens of thousands of followers. Others have hundreds of thousands, even millions. People who were drawn to them by their eloquence, their promises, and their professed commitment to human rights and dignity for all.
Imagine what even one post could do. How many people it could reach. How much awareness it could raise. How much pressure it could generate.
They had plenty to say about Gaza when they needed votes. But now, when Palestinian families desperately need their voices, silence.
What is the value of your commitment to human rights if it disappears the moment speaking up is no longer politically convenient?
If this is how they respond before they've even settled into office, then goodbye.
Palestinians are not campaign slogans. Our suffering is not an election strategy. And our lives do not stop mattering once the votes have been counted.
Mosab Abu Toha retweeted
I hope you are all sleeping safely in your homes, surrounded by your families. I hope every child has warm clothes and every parent can provide the care their children need.
I hope your children have umbrellas, raincoats, and rain boots for school. I hope your cities are prepared to respond to winter emergencies.
Of course, sharing this news will change nothing for our families in Gaza, just as the warnings issued days ago changed nothing.
Tonight, at 8:30 p.m., as families slept on the ground inside their tents, a massive landslide of soil and rocks buried at least two families in Deir al-Balah.
The victims have been identified as:
Habiba Hossam al-Zain, 4 years old
Reem Hossam al-Zain
Ibrahim Hossam al-Zain
Salah Nabhan, 7 years old
Mariam Nabhan
The mothers of these five children remain in critical condition.
The father of the first three children had already been killed by Israel.
I hope everyone has heat in their homes.
Mosab Abu Toha retweeted
Meanwhile, Israeli gunfire continues to tear through the tents of displaced families, turning even their fragile shelters into scenes of terror.
I hope you are all sleeping safely in your homes, surrounded by your families. I hope every child has warm clothes and every parent can provide the care their children need.
I hope your children have umbrellas, raincoats, and rain boots for school. I hope your cities are prepared to respond to winter emergencies.
Of course, sharing this news will change nothing for our families in Gaza, just as the warnings issued days ago changed nothing.
Tonight, at 8:30 p.m., as families slept on the ground inside their tents, a massive landslide of soil and rocks buried at least two families in Deir al-Balah.
The victims have been identified as:
Habiba Hossam al-Zain, 4 years old
Reem Hossam al-Zain
Ibrahim Hossam al-Zain
Salah Nabhan, 7 years old
Mariam Nabhan
The mothers of these five children remain in critical condition.
The father of the first three children had already been killed by Israel.
I hope everyone has heat in their homes.
Only evil creatures deny human beings food, water, medicine, clothes, and shelter.
Only evil creatures sit mere kilometers from such suffering, breathe in, for decades, the stench of death and destruction, and do nothing.
Only evil creatures remain silent or deliberately turn a blind eye.
And I feel unspeakable rage toward those who witness this horror yet do nothing to end the suffering of people denied the most basic necessities of life, especially when they know full well that their money and their governments are enabling this abominable cruelty.
Meanwhile, Israeli gunfire continues to tear through the tents of displaced families, turning even their fragile shelters into scenes of terror.
I hope you are all sleeping safely in your homes, surrounded by your families. I hope every child has warm clothes and every parent can provide the care their children need.
I hope your children have umbrellas, raincoats, and rain boots for school. I hope your cities are prepared to respond to winter emergencies.
Of course, sharing this news will change nothing for our families in Gaza, just as the warnings issued days ago changed nothing.
Tonight, at 8:30 p.m., as families slept on the ground inside their tents, a massive landslide of soil and rocks buried at least two families in Deir al-Balah.
The victims have been identified as:
Habiba Hossam al-Zain, 4 years old
Reem Hossam al-Zain
Ibrahim Hossam al-Zain
Salah Nabhan, 7 years old
Mariam Nabhan
The mothers of these five children remain in critical condition.
The father of the first three children had already been killed by Israel.
I hope everyone has heat in their homes.
I hope you are all sleeping safely in your homes, surrounded by your families. I hope every child has warm clothes and every parent can provide the care their children need.
I hope your children have umbrellas, raincoats, and rain boots for school. I hope your cities are prepared to respond to winter emergencies.
Of course, sharing this news will change nothing for our families in Gaza, just as the warnings issued days ago changed nothing.
Tonight, at 8:30 p.m., as families slept on the ground inside their tents, a massive landslide of soil and rocks buried at least two families in Deir al-Balah.
The victims have been identified as:
Habiba Hossam al-Zain, 4 years old
Reem Hossam al-Zain
Ibrahim Hossam al-Zain
Salah Nabhan, 7 years old
Mariam Nabhan
The mothers of these five children remain in critical condition.
The father of the first three children had already been killed by Israel.
I hope everyone has heat in their homes.
Israel has just slaughtered two people in two separate strikes in Khan Younis.
Their names were Narmeen al-Amoor and Mahmoud Abu Hammad.
Mosab Abu Toha retweeted
I don’t know. It feels obscenely stupid to start posting videos of my loved ones in Gaza right now, as their tents flood with rainwater in the middle of the night, as they sleep in damp clothes on soaked mattresses, and to think for a f*cking second that these images might move someone to save their babies, to protect what little dignity they have left.
As if this time could be any different from last year, or the year before that, or the year before that.
As if people around the world, especially those with the power to do something, might suddenly be moved by a family’s tent flooding with rainwater when the sight of hundreds of babies whose bodies were shredded by Israeli bombs was not enough to put an end to this.
How many more times must we expose the suffering of the people we love, strip them of their privacy in their most vulnerable moments, in the desperate hope that someone, somewhere, might finally care enough to act?
I don’t know. It feels obscenely stupid to start posting videos of my loved ones in Gaza right now, as their tents flood with rainwater in the middle of the night, as they sleep in damp clothes on soaked mattresses, and to think for a f*cking second that these images might move someone to save their babies, to protect what little dignity they have left.
As if this time could be any different from last year, or the year before that, or the year before that.
As if people around the world, especially those with the power to do something, might suddenly be moved by a family’s tent flooding with rainwater when the sight of hundreds of babies whose bodies were shredded by Israeli bombs was not enough to put an end to this.
How many more times must we expose the suffering of the people we love, strip them of their privacy in their most vulnerable moments, in the desperate hope that someone, somewhere, might finally care enough to act?
Over the past few hours, three Palestinians succumbed to their wounds, including a medical student named Sarah Abu Jayyab who was injured when the Islamic University was bombed days ago.
Another victims was 15-year-old Mohammad Nedal Barbakh, a talented soccer player.
