Going from “celebrations on the streets of Rafah as Hamas accepts ceasefire deal” to “Israel chooses to continue offensive in Rafah and is currently carrying out targeted attacks” within the span of an hour is the most viscerally heartbroken I’ve been throughout the past months
Israel is continuing its trend of kidnapping Palestinian doctors with the purpose of torturing, humiliating, and ultimately murdering them. Every doctor killed means dozens or hundreds more will die due to lack of care.
Israel also aim to break the spirit of Palestinians by subjecting people to horrific tortures and publicizing it. They want people to be afraid. They underestimate the resolve of the Palestinian people.
Edit: I want to clarify that Dr Al-Bursh was kidnapped by Israel in December of 2023 and his death was confirmed by Israel on April 19 2024. This was originally posted May 1, 2024, and has been getting a lot of attention in the weeks since then, so I wanted to make sure the timeline was 100% clear
The thing is that getting Palestine free is both very difficult but not as difficult as getting South Africa free. South Africa had more resources than Israel does, it could hold out so much longer and still the apartheid was ended by people working tirelessly and boycotting and pushing for divestment and sanctions. These methods will work for freeing Palestine too.
I know it doesn't feel like there have been many successes, but all the politicians are feeling the pressure. Pressure that we are able to sustain and even increase as we come up with new initiatives and convince new people to join.
One of the reasons they're resisting our pressure so strongly is because they know that when we see gains we will push harder, we will continue to push until the stones falling becomes a rock fall and Palestine's freedom is secured. They know if we get a taste of the power we can wield we'll turn that onto freeing Congo too. They know we're unhappy and have been for a long time and their very secure system starts to look a lot less secure when we start mobilising to change things.
i can’t believe this is happening… i’ve been thinking of the al-shifa siege for the past five six days and it has literally made me sick. when will this end?