Just saw a video of a Palestinian man hugging the body bag of his killed brother in a moving ambulance. I can’t unsee the sheer desperation in his tears as others tried to pry him away from his brother, because they were in a military zone. Because Gaza is chopped to pieces and they’ve become prey within their own home. It’s moments like that that serve to remind me the Palestinians going through the thick of this have just as much humanity as the rest of us—that their pain and their suffering might be nothing more than a footnote in some western article, but that the agony they’re enduring could never be encapsulated in words. And yet western media still has the heart (or lack thereof) to downplay it, to mention it in passing, in their endless bid to humanize Palestinians as little as possible. But the footage is out there, and it speaks for itself.
The IOF are terrorists and war criminals -void of humanity. Yet another tragedy, and people still turn away from this disproportionate amount of violence Palestinian people have been and are facing. I'm beyond deeply disturbed, this is just heartbreaking.
"A child is not supposed to witness his family being killed."
Palestinian humanitarian worker Awni Farhat returned home to occupied Gaza to support children through their trauma amid Israel's deadly assault.
— AJ+ (@/ajplus) December 24, 2023
[ID: A video clip showing a Black person in a green coat interviewing an elderly white person holding up a flag, with more protesters in the background displaying Palestinian flags.
The interviewer asks, "Why is it important for you to be here today?"
The protester responds, "Well, uh, I'm Jewish, I'm Israeli, my parents were the only survivors of their families from the Holocaust. They both survived Auschwitz. I'm not going to support genocide am I?
"I'm here with the Palestinians, and we are here with Palestine, because we don't believe that what the British government is doing is correct. The British government is supporting this genocide! It's arming Israel, it's financing Israel.
"BBC and the other media here is supporting genocide. This is illegal. This is immoral. We don't agree with it, we will never agree with it, and as Jews -- and myself as Israeli -- I am totally against it, and we will continue to be against it.
There are now more than 60 such events in the whole of Britain, uh, people don't want to support this. They are against this government on so many other issues, but especially on this one."
Another elderly white protester next to the first joins in, leaning forward to add:
"And, also, this didn't start on October the 7th. In 1948, Palestinian villages, hundreds of them --"
Another elderly protester interjects specifically, "500 of them".
The second protestor nods and continues, "were demolished, thousands of Palestinians, innocent men, women, and children were slaughtered, and seven-hundred and fifty thousand Palestinian refugees were created. That's when it started, and it hasn't stopped since!"