‼️🇵🇸💚 “It’s a matter of steadfastness from God”, A speech from Dr. Suheib Al Hams to his medical team as Israel invades Rafah

[Plain text: “It’s a matter of steadfastness from God”, A speech from Dr. Suheib Al Hams to his medical team as Israel invades Rafah]

🔸 Sources: eye on Palestine, abdallah_alattar1999, translating_falasteen

[Video and audio description: The video shows Doctor Suheib Al Hams speaking to his medical team outside of the Al Kuwaiti Hospital. The caption in the video reads “A message of steadfastness and steadfastness from Dr: Suhaib Al-Hams to the medical staff working in Kuwait Hospital after the occupation's demands to evacuate the only working hospital in the city of Rafah.”. Above this, text in Arabic which reads the same. Doctor Suheib Al Hams is speaking in Arabic, and his words are being translated in the center of the screen in English. He says:

“Let’s stick together and keep each other steadfast. No one can deny that we are all afraid, but steadfastness comes from God. Read the Quran and pray to God. “Nothing will happen in God’s domain except what He wills.” It’s not a matter of preaching, it’s a matter of steadfastness from God. May God keep us all steadfast, and I’m not leading you towards death, I’m not leading anyone towards death, there is a hospital we are preparing as an alternative, when it is ready, I will move a part of the staff there, but this is the only refuge available for people, there is nowhere else for them to go. Sadly there’s nowhere else for them to go.

We are working with the most basic facilities but we are saving lives. May God keep us all steadfast. Keep one another steadfast and til the last moment, as I said, I will evacuate you with ambulances. I am in touch with the World Health Organization, they have medical missions here, if they sensed danger, they would have evacuated them. I consulted with the Red Cross, they would have advised us to evacuate. Even the occupation said not to evacuate medical teams in Al-Kuwaiti, but regardless I’m telling you brothers, they cannot be trusted. They’ve not respected either Al-Nasser or Al-Shifa [medical complexes]. That’s why I’m telling you, we need to remain steadfast till the last moment.

There is nowhere else to go. May God keep us steadfast together. Let’s stick together and keep one another steadfast. No one can deny that we are all afraid, but steadfastness comes from God, and until the last moment, one must make a stand, those who left have the whole system down, there’s nowhere for people to go. People are dying in the streets. When we have an alternative place for you and the patients to get treated, God willing, that’s when we will vacate in an orderly manner, God willing. When you see supplies leaving the hospital, it’s us providing food and drink for the new hospital and equipment for the hospital. We are staying here resolute until the last moment, God willing. And I am staying here with you, my brothers. I am not taking risks or treating the matter carelessly. I am not putting your lives at risk.”

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They asked the displaced people to go to Rafah! Now there is a bombings next to Al-Kuwaiti Hospital in Rafah, very close to us!!!! — Ahmed El-Madhoun from #Gaza (@madhoun95) December 20, 2023

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TRANSCRIPTION of Bisan's words:

Oh my God (repeated several times). This is Rafah. This is Rafah. This is the hospital in Rafah and all these bombings are around us now. Oh my God. You are telling us to go to the south. You are telling us to evacuate Khan Younis. Now we are evacuating Khan Younis - look at this! Look at all of this! This is the Kuwaiti Hospital, the last functioning hospital in the south after Nasser Medical Complex, and all these bombings around us, in front of our eyes and your eyes.

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Note: this is a transcription, NOT a translation. This is in case the audio is removed. This also helps non-english speakers and anyone that is deaf or hard of hearing.

Live coverage of the 28th of December 2023 has now begun.

Here is an amalgamation of news from the last near 2 hours, oldest at the top and latest at the bottom.

This is perhaps the most disturbing and troubling lecture I've ever heard.

Meet the most truly disgusting Tareq Al-Suwaidan, a Kuwaiti Islamic "scholar" and Muslim Brotherhood leader.

In Malaysia recently, Al-Suwaidan bragged about being with Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh right before Oct 7, that Israel "has no hope of crushing Hamas" which has "lost less than 20% of its power" so far in the war. He also claimed that Palestine will be free, October 7 was a "very clear start," that Rome will soon be under Muslim rule, and that the tunnels in Gaza were built by Morsi of Egypt in 1 year, who supplied Gaza with the equipment.

Thuraya Al-Baqsami (Kuwaiti, b. 1952), Uncle Hassan, 1995. Acrylic on board, 50 x 40 cm.

it’s looking like the iof have officially breached rafah. every palestinian i follow, most of whom have now been displaced to rafah, are posting that there’s non-stop bombing and sounds of clashes between the resistance and the israeli army (x, x, x). the rnn telegram is also reporting that armed clashes are taking place in northwest of the city and israeli bombing is concentrated around al-kuwaiti hospital (x, x). many martyrs already (x, x, x). in palestine, the time is currently just past 2am on 12th february 2024.

Rafah is a massive shelter with children and elderly unable to evacuate

Feb 12th 2024, 00:15 GMT

Tareq Abu Azzoum, reporting from Rafah in southern Gaza Strip

The Israeli army has been saying that there’s no victory without invading Rafah and dismantling the military capabilities of Hamas movements here.

But the civilians here are very concerned and this has triggered wide-scale condemnation among different international organisations and states in the region about the disastrous potential consequences.

Specifically, right now Rafah has become a massive shelter for more than 1.9 million Palestinians.

Evacuation centres and makeshift camps have been established recently alongside the borders of Egypt, which will absolutely pose a new significant threat also for Egyptian national security.

And let’s be very aware about the dangerous humanitarian catastrophe that will result if that military incursion happens, specifically among children and among elderly people who are unable to easily evacuate the city as Israel has claimed.

What is happening in Gaza’s Rafah as Israel threatens to attack?

Feb 12th 2024, 00:30 GMT

More than a million Palestinians are trapped at Gaza’s southernmost point, with the Israeli army preparing a ground attack.

But what is Rafah and what are the details around this announced Israeli “operation”?

Palestinian Rafah is 64sq km (25sq miles) and, as Israel assaulted Gaza these past four months, more and more people have been herded into it by Israeli forces who keep promising safety “further south” – which never materialised.

People are in dense clusters in the limited space not filled with debris or being bombed by Israel. Conditions are dire, with severe shortages.

You can read more here.

Reports of heavy shelling near Kuwait Hospital in Rafah

Feb 12th 2024, 00:38 GMT

We are hearing reports of heavy shelling in the areas surrounding the Kuwait Hospital in Rafah in southern Gaza.

Videos posted by local journalists on social media and verified by Al Jazeera show people who were killed and injured in the attacks being brought to the hospital.

We’ll bring you more on this breaking story soon.

At least 11 people killed by Israel airstrikes on Rafah: reports

Feb 12th 2024, 00:57 GMT

Our Al Jazeera Arabic colleagues are reporting that Israeli air strikes in Rafah have killed at least 11 people and injured many more.

Local media is reporting that two mosques were targeted in the north and central parts of the city in southern Gaza. The injured have been transferred to the Kuwaiti Hospital.

We will bring you further updates on this story when we have them.

Doctors in Rafah, the southernmost part of Gaza where over 1 million displaced Palestinians have fled, are raising alarm over the impact Israel’s expected military escalation will have on 25 preterm babies in incubators at Emirate Maternity Hospital. Glia, a medical aid group that currently has eight personnel at Emirate, said in a dispatch shared with Jezebel on Monday that no fuel has entered Gaza since May 6; the hospial has enough fuel for about 48 hours until its reserves run out. (On May 9, the United Nations said that no aid or fuel had been able to enter Gaza from Rafah since Israeli forces took control of the border crossing last week.) “If fuel does not enter immediately, the lights will turn off. Generators will stop running. Incubators will fail. Babies will die,” said Dr. Dorotea Gucciardo, a doctor with Glia currently stationed at Emirate. The 25 babies “are at immediate risk if these incubators are shut off.” Al Jazeera reported that, as of early Monday, Israeli forces ordered the medical staff at Kuwaiti Hospital, also in Rafah, to evacuate, as they continue to increase their attacks on the area. Last week, a UNICEF spokesperson said there is “nowhere safe on the Gaza strip to go to,” and that “Rafah is a city of children,” with 600,000 kids “caught in the crosshairs” of war. Since the start of Israel’s assault on Gaza in October, the United Nations estimates that over 14,500 children have been killed; more than 35,000 Palestinians of all ages have died due to Israeli bombs and gunfire. The full scale of casualties, including death from malnutrition and illness, is not yet known. Dr. Tarek Loubani, the head of Glia’s medical programs, and Gucciardo pleaded with the international community to care about the fate of the preterm babies being kept alive by incubators (and thus, fuel.) In a statement to Jezebel, Loubani referenced four incubated babies at al-Nasr Children’s Hospital who were found dead and decomposing (“eaten by worms [and] blackened by mold,” according to the Washington Post) in December, after Israel forced hospital staff to flee, assuring them the babies would be cared for. “The global community cannot allow this to happen again,” Gucciardo said.

On This Day in History June 19, 1961: The British protectorate of Kuwait becomes a fully independent States with the termination of the  Anglo-Kuwaiti Treaty of 1899. Sheikh Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah became Emir of Kuwait.

Kuwait would have parliamentary elections in 1961, making the State of Kuwait as first of the Arab states of the Persian Gulf to establish a constitution and parliament. Kuwait would be admitted to the United Nations on May 14, 1963.

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ZIONIST OCCUPATION FORCES AGAIN OPEN FIRE ON STARVING CIVILIANS IN GAZA

📹 Starving Palestinians waiting near the Al-Kuwaiti roundabout in Gaza City for the arrival of humanitarian aid trucks when Israeli occupation forces (IOF) again fire live bullets towards the crowds, causing panic as people run to find shelter from occupation's senseless violence.

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“Uncle, Please take me home ! ” He doesn’t know he was rescued from the rubble of his home ! Footage from the Kuwaiti Hospital in Rafah city southern of Gaza strip ! — Nour Naim| نور نعيم (@NourNaim88) December 20, 2023

And reading your eyes is like fortune-telling.

— Souad al-Mubarak al-Sabah, In the Beginning Was the Female, (1994)

Tareq got footage, that orange glow between the buildings is fire from the strike, here's the full video:

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Artwork details:

Thuraya Al Baqsami (Kuwaiti, b. 1952), ‘NO TO THE INVASION’ (1990), lino-cut print, 40 x 30 cm. Collection of Barjeel Art Foundation @barjeelart.