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froqgy · 3 days
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I donated $25 to PCRF ($1.16 to cover transaction fees), please continue the chain if you can!
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froqgy · 4 days
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But the other images I had was like a mass refugee camp. So basically at that point in time, two months ago, about 20,000 people had sought refuge both in the hospital and outside the hospital. And these weren’t tents. They’re still not tents. They’re makeshift shelters with bed sheets or plastic bag sheets. The ones outside sleep on the floor. They’re lucky [if] they get a carpet or a mat. There was one bathroom at the time for about 200 people that they have to share. And inside, the hallways of the hospital were also made into shelters. There was hardly any room to walk, and there’s children running around everywhere. It’s important to remember all these people were not homeless. They all had homes that were destroyed. They’re all displaced people that took shelter in the hospital.
So that’s the kind of mass chaos that I encountered initially, and then I was told that every time there’s a bomb, give it about 15 minutes and the mass casualties come. That was the other thing that at the time shocked me: What we’d been seeing livestreamed on Instagram, on social media or whatever, I actually saw myself and it was worse than I can imagine. I saw scenes that were horrific that I’d never witnessed before and I never want to see again. You have a mother walking in holding her 8, 9-year-old, skinny — because they’re all starving — boy who’s dead, he’s cold and dead and [the mother is] screaming, asking for someone to check his pulse and everybody’s busy in the mass chaos. So that was kind of my initial welcoming scene when I entered Khan Younis the first time.
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What I saw — I’m an eye surgeon, an eye plastic surgeon, and so I saw the classic, what I penned “the Gaza shrapnel face,” because in an explosive scenario, you don’t know what’s coming. When there’s an explosion, you don’t go like this [cover your face], you kind of actually, in fact, open your eyes. And so shrapnel’s everywhere. It’s a well-known fact that the Israeli forces are experimenting [with] weapons in Gaza to boost their weapon manufacturing industry. Because if a weapon is battle-tested, it’s more valuable, isn’t it? It’s got a higher value. So basically they’re using these weapons, these missiles that purposely, intently create these large shrapnel fragments that go everywhere. And they cause amputations that are unusual.
Most amputations occur at the weak points, the elbow or the knee, and so they’re better tolerated. But these [shrapnel fragments] are causing mid-thigh, mid-arm amputations that are more difficult, more challenging, and also the rehabilitation afterward is also more challenging. Also these shrapnels [are] unlike a bullet wound. A bullet wound goes in and out; there’s an entry and exit point. Shrapnel stays there. So you gotta take it out. So the injuries I saw were — I mean, I saw people with their eyes blown apart. And when I was there, and this is my experience, I treated all children when I was there the first time. It was kids that [were aged] 2, 6, 9, 10, 13, 15, and 16, and 17 were the ones that I treated. And their eyes unfortunately had to be removed. They had shrapnel in their eye sockets that I had to remove and, of course, remove the eye. There’s many patients, many children who had shrapnel in both their eyes. And you can only do so much because right now, because of the aid blockade and because of the destruction of most of Gaza, there’s no equipment available to take shrapnel that’s in the eye out. And so we just leave them alone and they eventually go blind.
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I was on the ground, I toured the refugee camps, I went around Rafah, I saw, and if there’s an Israeli invasion, I can’t emphasize enough how catastrophic it’s going to be. It’ll be mass killing, mass destruction, because all these figures come in, 50 dead, 100 wounded. But what people don’t realize is, being wounded is a death sentence. Being wounded in this environment with no health care system, completely collapsed, is a death sentence. And the wounded often will lose everybody, like all family members, so they have no supports, especially children, have nobody left to take care of them, not even aunts and uncles. It will be catastrophic. I don’t know what to say to the world to stop an impending invasion. You’ve got to rein this prime minister of Israel in. You got to do something to stop this stupid invasion that he still wants to do, because it’ll be catastrophic.
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I had one young man, about 25 years old, he lost one eye that I took out myself. He spent about five, six, or seven years, basically spent thousands and thousands of dollars in IVF treatment because he got married young and they wanted to have a child and they couldn’t have one. So he spent years on IVF treatment and finally had a baby that was 3 months old. And there was a missile attack by Israel at his home. He lost his entire family, including his baby and his wife and his parents and family. He’s by himself, single guy. I took his one eye out, and he has nobody in this world. He just kind of walks around the tent structures, just kind of walking around with no home and trying to sleep wherever he can.
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froqgy · 4 days
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The shaheed Ameer Abou Aisha - a medic and emergency operator - celebrating the fact his team of medics managed in: getting flour, making bread with it, and having a good meal to eat during the siege on Ghazzah, back in December of 2023.
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He was killed last night in air strikes on Al Amal hospital.
الله يرحمه.
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froqgy · 4 days
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what a grim palm sunday it is
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froqgy · 4 days
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i love looking at video tutorials and the person's desktop background is always something .. interesting every time
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froqgy · 4 days
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US official accuses IDF of systematically sexually abusing Palestinians
TW: Rape and Sexual Assault/Israeli Propaganda Rag trying to deflect
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So this rag cites a general in this article in which the general tries to get the states person fired. In hindsight, this propaganda confirmed that the IDF has a mass rape policy of Palestinians.
Before you swarmily say “We knew,” shut the fuck up. You did not know this outside of anecdotal accounts and witness testimonies. This is an Israeli Hasbara Propaganda rag confirming that an Israeli general tried to silence a US official from revealing that the IOF has systematically raped Palestinians on fucking Israeli radio while trying to frame the state department of the United States spokeswoman as some Hamas loving extremist. This is an admission.
The State Department not only believes the UN report, but Israel knows it and is trying to control the spin outside of Israel.
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froqgy · 5 days
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the way the war in gaza has been constantly about targeting flour, targeting hospitals, targeting universities, targeting water containers, targeting anything that brings life in order to "thin out the population" and "encourage palestinians to move to tent cities in egypt"
and then you have western media readily calling it a "humanitarian crisis" therefore fulfilling israel's goal of manufacturing a humanitarian crisis. this entire war was with the purpose of collectively punishing a civilian population of 50% children. that's why it was immediately understood and labelled as a genocide by multiple genoide scholars, by the lemkin institute, and is currently on trial for genocide at the hague
like the starvation and the blocking of aid and the dropping of parachuted MREs to just barely salvage the reputation of a few politicians is not a byproduct of the war. it's not collateral damage. it is a central pillar of the genocide. acquiescing to israelis blocking aid by building ports and dropping pallets of food means acquiescing to famine as a strategy instead of trying to stop it. famine is not collateral damage, it is a central pillar of genocide. killing children is not collateral damage. it is a central pillar of the genocide. we don't need hindsight to say this plainly, anyone who denies it now is another pillar of genocide.
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froqgy · 5 days
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Current Palestine scammers stealing fundraising info and names as their own:
sweatymakerobservations | rahababibu | granddragonsalad | harddinosaurgiver | sweatythinglight | classyartisanavenue | babycupcakecolor | angrykittyluminary
(Copied from my list I added some more names after I shared the post so here’s a quick list update.)
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A woman reaches under a block from the apartheid wall trying to hold the hand of her mother on the other side. Many families have become segregated after the Israeli occupation regime completed the construction of the wall which runs through Palestinian lands. This is just one of thousands of cases. 
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Israel's government has advanced plans for more than 3,400 new homes in settlements in the occupied West Bank.
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froqgy · 5 days
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Crazy how so many of you on here are shamelessly didkriding Joe Biden, when it just broke that the House of Reps approved a 1.2 trillion funding bill that bans UNRWA funding—mere days after the IPC said that northern Gaza is on the official brink of famine. The bill is now waiting approval in the Senate, and Joe Biden has literally stated that he would “sign the bill into law immediately.” Remember that this is all based on hearsay that the UNRWA had something to do with the initial Hamas attack on Oct. 7, which was already thoroughly debunked. But this is the “lesser evil” you want voted back into office? How can you say that in good conscience, knowing he’s an active participant in Gaza’s starvation and terrorism campaign?
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froqgy · 5 days
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soooo does anyone know abt good reads for old ppl to get a better understanding of sex versus gender and understanding what nonbinary is
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froqgy · 6 days
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one of the things i can't really get over is talking to someone who works at the new york times (in a very local capacity and has never dealt with their overseas reporting) and realizing they genuinely, earnestly don't think there is a systemic bias in their reporting. they actually couldn't see it. this is someone who is very sharp and religiously fair in their own reporting. but it simply never occurred to them, even through the war in iraq, through the caliphate mess, through the thomas friedman op-eds, and through 75 years of reporting on palestine, that there may be a systemic problem in the new york times and that it is deliberate. at worst, they would say, it is an error on the part of these individual reporters. they were careless. they were sloppy. but they can't possibly mean it.
but you know, if you can't see the bias, you don't see the mistake until it's a scandal. and you think it's made once. but in fact the scandal is that this mistake was made a thousand times. when you make a mistake a thousand times, it's not a mistake, it's policy. it's an editorial decision. i think i was just really sad to see someone defend it not on the basis of malice, but rather on the basis of an earnest and thoroughly casual dehumanization. what's the problem if a headline is incorrect? what's the problem if a humanitarian organization is inferred to be a terrorist organization? what's the problem if an entire people are characterized as rapists? what's the problem if a cause and effect are incoherent? what's the problem with a few missing historical facts? these were all just earnest mistakes. people might be terrorists and rapists and things are complicated and history is disputed. i can repeat that endlessly even over the corpses of 13000 children. what's the problem with that? i don't see a connection between our reporting and the dead children. we report on the dead children too. i think our reporting is very fair. we talk about the dead children maybe a third as often as we talk about why they should be killed. that seems fine to me. yes the president of this nation quoted us, and the president of that nation quoted us, but this is surely correlation and not causation.
it's the kind of casual racism that makes you walk and talk like a fool. the editorial board knows what it's doing. but the casual racists, the ones who don't even want to be racist but have simply never lived a life that confronted their racism—they're being taken along for the ride. footsoldiers in a march for genocide who think they're on a scenic hike.
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froqgy · 6 days
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i hate the nintendo switch so bad bland stupid basic background no customization ugly flat ui no music for menu screen settings shop NO FUN OR WHIMSY ALLOWED. PAY TO USE OUR ONLINE, IDIOT.
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froqgy · 6 days
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'restaurant' being a common word that is difficult for people to spell. i get that but also i already have my way of remembering it (by pronouncing it wrong in my head) .... words that are difficult to spell? ones that you have to figure out if a letter is singular or in pair... like 'embarrass' WHAT DO U MEAN IT HAS TWO R's
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froqgy · 6 days
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This is my favorite set of Dunmeshi panels I think. The way Izutsumi curls her tail around Laois a little bit, and how she hides behind him making it look like he has kitty ears. Cute character moment, very cute visuals. 10/10
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