With a heavy heart I announce that my 18-year-old younger sister, Lara Sayegh, was killed today on her way from Gaza City to the south. She and my mother were reaching Egypt for safety. My angel collapsed as she was walking on the “safe route” past the Israeli checkpoint, in an…
Today, I received the devastating news of the death of my father, who was among the besieged Palestinian Christians at the Holy Family Catholic Church. He died due to medical neglection and lack of access to medicine or hospitals in Gaza.
Irish Prime Minister to Biden: "We see our history in the eyes of the Palestinians, a story of displacement, deprivation, a denied national identity, forced migration, discrimination, and now hunger."
I promised you I’d bring you to safety; I promised you I would get you a place to call home instead of the one they destroyed. I said I would get you to enroll in a new university instead of the one they bombed.
But I failed, habibti, I failed miserably; I wish I were instead…
Who will tell these dumbasses that Hamas hates the white and black Keffiyeh, which symbolizes Palestinian nationalism and culture, which Hamas sees as secular. I actually was detained by Hamas’ police for wearing a similar Keffiyeh back in 2008
The last thing the Palestinians need during this terrible time is folks who claim to support our rights while spreading antisemitism and holocaust denial. Shame on you, Jory
I will tell you what type of Christian wears a Keffiyeh, Laura. It's the Christians in Palestine who have maintained their faith for over two millennia despite all the empires that came and vanished. It's the indigenous Christians who refused to leave their land
Disgusting. What type of “priest” is this?
Cannot believe
@TuckerCarlson
tried to legitimize this garbage person.
What type of “christian” wears a Keffiyeh around their neck?
What an absolute fraud this man is.
Hey psycho, the Christian community in Gaza has been there for two thousand years, and we always celebrated the birth of Christ and Easter, way before your ancestors knew anything about the Christian faith.
And by the way, we still celebrate Christmas and Easter, and if it…
@TuckerCarlson
Thanks, Tucker. As a Christian from Gaza, I have felt for so long that American Christians are not interested in listening to us about the suffering that the Israeli regime has imposed on us.
I just saw this picture of my nephew (also named Khalil) from today's divine liturgy at Saint Porphyrius church in Gaza City. I am so proud of him and miss him dearly, and I can't imagine what kids are going through in Gaza
My father, Jeries Sayegh, always taught me to love everyone, forgive, and never give desire for revenge space in my life. He always looked up to Christ as his model and told me I should too.
As hard and painful as it is, I promise you, Dad, to stay true to these principles.
On behalf of the Sayegh family, I invite you to St. Peter's Catholic Church in DC this Sunday, May 5th, at 5 pm Mass to commemorate my dearly beloved sister, Lara, who I just tragically lost back home in Gaza at the young age of 18.
Address: 313 2nd St SE, Washington, DC 20003
With a heavy heart I announce that my 18-year-old younger sister, Lara Sayegh, was killed today on her way from Gaza City to the south. She and my mother were reaching Egypt for safety. My angel collapsed as she was walking on the “safe route” past the Israeli checkpoint, in an…
I just saw the news about the murder of my friend, Mohammad Yaghi. He was killed in an Israeli airstrike on Der Al-blah together with his wife and child.
I met Mohammad at our UNRWA school in 2004, and we became best friends. I still remember his smiling face and tender heart,…
There is nothing I wanted more than to be next to my family in Gaza, who have to grieve my father's loss while also fighting for their survival against an enemy that normalized the usage of starvation and prevention of medical care as a weapon against civilians.
As a Christian who reads his Bible, including the Hebrew Bible, and has a degree in biblical studies, this is biblically illiterate.
The text reads as follows:
”Now go and strike Amalek and devote to destruction all that they have. Do not spare them, but kill both man and…
The PM understood “Amalek” refers to Hamas. His domestic audience also understood it referred to Hamas. Because that’s how he framed it, before and after the allusion. The only ones who don’t get it are those determined to take it out of context to frame Israel.
You don't believe us when we tell you Netanyahu helped Hamas prevent establishing a Palestinian state? Fine, hear it from former Israeli officials themselves
Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to destroy Hamas – but he enabled its development. Four Corners asked Israeli insiders how this happened.
Watch 'The Forever War' tonight on ABC iview:
#4Corners
The chairman of the Hamas Political Bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, told the Turkish foreign minister during a meeting in Doha that Hamas is ready to dissolve its military wing if a Palestinian State on 1967 borders is established.
Although Hamas did mention before that they are willing…
Maybe
@nytimes
will write a piece featuring this heroic woman for rescuing lives in Gaza, or their praise of “feminist” is limited to young women joining the IDF?
I have always empathized with civilian hostages, and I am glad more hostages are back home safely. But if you think rescuing two hostages deserves the murder of 60 Palestinians, including children, as a “diversion,” then simply fuck you
If Israelis continue this path of saying that they are "traumatized" and thus can't grant the Palestinians their minimalist human rights, soon you will find no arab or Palestinian that is willing to spend a moment hearing about your trauma.
For God's sake, we are living 75 years…
🧵Israel Pres. Isaac Herzog at Munich Sec. Conference, says Israelis feel too traumatized and insecure for talk of a two state solution: “Saying now a Palestinian state or a two state solution is kind of giving actually, without intention, kind of credit…to the fact that Hamas
In Gaza, one of the oldest Christian communities in the world faces the danger of extinction. Due to the Israeli genocidal attack on Gaza, which killed 3% of the Christians, 4% were forced to leave Gaza, and around 80% lost their homes.
My latest 🧵
Thanks for all your warm messages and prayers.
Quick update: my mom's health has improved, and yesterday, we were able to evacuate her to Cairo. I will continue to not be as much on Twitter for the next 48 hours as I am processing everything, but I will start checking my…
With a heavy heart I announce that my 18-year-old younger sister, Lara Sayegh, was killed today on her way from Gaza City to the south. She and my mother were reaching Egypt for safety. My angel collapsed as she was walking on the “safe route” past the Israeli checkpoint, in an…
The fact that my Twitter feed has more news and takes about the Columbia protests than the mass graves that were found at Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis today is telling.
Protests are very important, but they should not distract the real focus which is for the suffering of the…
Dear Palestinians 🇵🇸
This is what Gaza, Ramallah, and East Jerusalem could be like if we chose peace and economic development instead of trying to militarily recapture Tel Aviv and Haifa.
We wasted hundreds of billions of aid on tunnels and weapons.
I hate to keep on repeating this: when you wonder why the Palestinians are unable to resist non-violently, remember how Israeli occupation suppression of potential leaders like Layan makes collective actions and mobilization impossible and violent inevitable
Israel arrested Layan Kayed, a masters student at Birzeit Uni, from her home in Ramallah today. She was also arrested during her BA. Here she speaks on the price of Israel’s suppression of political participation & the price we all unwillingly pay even if not poltically active
Are you seriously comparing innocent civilians and aid workers victims to combatant occupation soldiers? How morally bankrupt do you have to be to make such a comparison
4 IDF soldiers fell in battle. They were ambushed from a Hamas tunnel.
Is the Security Council going to meet? Will the leaders of the USA, the UK, Canada, France and others angrily call the Palestinians and say this tragedy is unacceptable??
Will José Andrés go on CNN to…
Lucy is an example of the treatment you will get in Israel if you deny your Palestinian roots, become a zionist, and go all hawkish against the Palestinian people. Still, you will be seen as a second-class citizen at best.
🇮🇱’s Education Ministry won’t fund an event bc its host, Lucy Aharish, is an Israeli-Palestinian in a mixed marriage (she’s wed to a Jewish Israeli film star from Fauda).
“A woman who represents a mixed marriage cannot represent Jewish culture” said an Education Ministry letter.
When this genocidal assault on Gaza is over, and hopefully my family there becomes safe, I will perhaps have some energy to spend time writing about how a cult has emerged in the West with Hamas at its center, despite how little they know about Hamas or the experience of the…
In DC, a protester waved a picture of the spokesperson of the military wing of Hamas. Why on earth would that happen? I often don't blame folks in the arab world for supporting Hamas due to the lack of access to information, but here in the US, we have no excuses.
Not only did…
Ramzi was one of the prominent voices who called and led protests in Gaza against Hamas both in 2019 and in August 2023. Today, Israel killed his team, just like they killed anyone who dares to distribute food
Ramzi, a prominent anti-Hamas critic, was excited today his team managed to get & distribute 100 bags of wheat flour to the North of Gaza for the 1st time in 6 months.
Less than an hour later, Israel bombed his team, killing 10.
Engineered, deliberate famine as a weapon of war!
Contacts at the church told me that there were at least 50 Christians under the rubble, and there was no rescue team due to the bombing of Gaza everywhere. This is like at least 5% of the entire Christians in Gaza. Christians of Gaza asks for your help by sharing
We will rebuild Gaza against all odds, and our people will again celebrate Christmas, Ramadan, and Eid. We will end Gaza’s blockade, and the Palestinians will welcome everyone in Gaza, except those who looked away during our slaughter won't be welcome.
This is what happens when an occupying power sees its responsibility as only to kill people, not to facilitate the delivery of basic needs to them, and the world approves of that
In solidarity with
@azaizamotaz9
, to hell, anyone who tries to monitor or police what Palestinians living in Gaza can or can't say. To hell with anyone who thinks Hamas or any other faction is above the criticism of the people
Motaz Azaiza:
-Shared a clip of people cursing at Hamas & blaming them for leaving their homes.
-Shared a clip of a man saying he does not want the dissolving of Israel & wants to coexist with it.
The fact that Bassem Yousef recommended him should’ve told you enough of his ilk.
Having just been bombed, a Gaza resident lashes out:
"Biden is responsible for the extermination of the Palestinian people; this is a holocaust, and it's caused by 'Biden the Despicable'."
'Biden the Despicable'
🧵
"A former supporter of Hamas in Gaza told me: “They took us to hell; what a stupid decision,” referring to Hamas' decision to launch the Oct. 7 attack. "If you know that you cannot face such an aggressive response, why did we initiate the attack?”"
My worst nightmare happened; I learned my family's apartment building was targeted without notice. Thankfully, my family made it out 5 minutes before the strike, just after the building next to them was targeted.
The Israeli forces killed the Gaza police general in Hamas’ government during their invasion of Al-Shifa and its surroundings.
This comes a day after the first successful delivery of aid trucks into the north and in part due to police cooperation and protection.
Then comes someone to try to rationalize how this is resistance. It is not, and these guys are f$$king cowards. If you can't get this, I don't know what's rotten in you
One Israeli woman, Amit Susana, fighting 7 Hamas terrorists, who kidnapped and beat her on October 7. This video was published by
@N12News
with permission from Susana, who returned last week from Hamas captivity. What an amazing display of bravery.
Add this to the very long list of Israeli lies. The 6-year-old saw the tank shooting her parents. Then she was killed, and the ambulance staff that came to risk her were killed.
But never: no troops were operating there, probably that was a “Khamas” tank
In an interview with
@AJEnglish
, I told them my father was a man of peace. As a Christian, he always taught me to be like Christ, forgive, and love even my enemy. My father would have been standing with the civilian victims, both Palestinians and Israelis alike
Whenever I remember that I have to live without seeing Lara again, my breath gets short, and I am so sad, angry, and scared. She was taken too early from us.
Imagine the countless Gazans who are feeling just like me; God, this is unbearable.
The
@washingtonpost
confirms that Egypt is preparing an isolated area on its border with Rafah for potential Palestinian refugees.
However, the report also confirmed my analysis; when I said the Egyptian logic is more to prepare for a scenario in which Palestinians escape the…
Wow,
@TuckerCarlson
has interviewed Pastor
@MuntherIsaac
and allowed him to share the pain of the Palestinian Christians freely. To my knowledge, Tucker is the first on the right to platform Palestinian Christians
Ep. 91 How does the government of Israel treat Christians? In the West, Christian leaders don’t seem interested in knowing the answer. They should be. Here’s the view of a pastor from Bethlehem.
This is a man-made disaster and can be fixed by men, yet still, some people are trying to convince us that Israel's policy and war are “only targeting Hamas.”
I will never forget those who stood shamelessly silent in the face of these war crimes
Breaking: Starvation has reached unprecedented levels... Thousands in western Gaza city rushed out upon hearing of a food truck's arrival, only to be fired upon by the Israeli army.
#GazaGenocide
”We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed;“
2 Corinthians 4:8-9
I am often asked what Palestinian life would look like if there were no resistance or violence. I tell them the Palestinians still will be killed by the Israeli regime, if not by their military, then by settlers. Read this story about the killing of a Palestinian man in the WB.
Israel's obsession with UNRWA has nothing to do with any institutional connection to Hamas; they all know it's that's false. Instead, their frustration that the refuges problem that Israel has created remains alive after 75 years, and they convinced themselves it's UNRWA’s fault
According to the Times Of Israel, the Israeli prime minister believes it will take Israel two more years to “eradicate Hamas,” and the Israeli military will remain in control of Gaza for the next ten years.
Either Bibi is delusional that remaining in Gaza will lead to the…
Hamas could have chosen to contact the Red Cross to facilitate the hostage's treatment at one of Gaza’s hospitals, but instead, they decided to act like this with zero regard for international humanitarian law and with no respect for Gazans' lives they endangered by these actions
NEW
The Israeli Defense Forces have released security camera footage they say is from Al-Shifa hospital on October 7.
The IDF says in this footage you can see Hamas terrorists taking citizens of Thailand and Nepal through the hospital.
I am genuinely wondering what is an appropriate response for an ongoing slaughter of Palestinians and decades of occupation that won't be deemed as it is not about their rights but rather about “hatred of Jews.”
Revolution? No
BDS? No
UN resolution? No
ICJ? No
I'm heartbroken by the ICJ case.
At the end of the day, this isn't about "genocide," use of force, Palestinian sovereignty, Israel, or Zionism.
This is about a lot of people in the world wanting Jews to be powerless and dead.
We are not going backwards in Jewish history again.
Israel has assassinated three sons of Hamas leader Ismael Haniyeh and their kids. The cruelty and cowardness of such actions have no place in the modern world.
That's a positive development, and hostages should have always had their medical needs met. However, will anyone stop for a second and ask how it is normal for Israel to have prevented needed medical aid that could have saved the lives of many in Gaza, my late father included?
🚨Qatar’s
@majedalansari
announces reaching an agreement with Israel to allow medicine & aid to reach Gaza’s “most affected & vulnerable areas” in return for delivering medication to Israeli captives.
No, if it were Turkish Muslims, Buddhists Chinese, or Armenian Christians, still, the Palestinian people, like any other people, wouldn't agree to give them half of their land, especially when they were a small minority.
Now, the reality has changed, and Palestinians accept a…
Remember, this is what the Palestinians could have had in 1947.
The simple reason they didn’t take it is they dislike Jews, and history since then has been them indulging their impotent hate and therefore continuing to lose even more land.
Nuseirat RC yesterday | Psychopathic perverts
“Israeli soldiers undressed us completely naked including my 14 yo girl, gathered us in a hole and burned our underwear afront of our eyes. Soldiers released us naked and shouted on us, come one move you animals. They stole my money”
I remember back in October when I was on BBC talking about atrocities in Gaza, and the Israeli spokesperson called my friends who were killed at the church in Gaza by Hamas operatives. When I responded to him by pointing out that Christians can't join Hamas, he magically lost his…
Yesterday, the Israelis accused the Vatican of being Hamas. Today, they accused the UN of being Hamas…Hamas are a terrible organisation and we all agree on that. But have you spotted a pattern?
Why don't Palestinians try non-violent, they always ask? Well, here is an example: Palestinians and Israelis protest together peacefully, calling out both Hamas and Israel. The Israeli police arrest them, and one wonders where all those who say, “If they only try non-violent
Thread: Palestinians and Israelis protesting for a ceasefire in the West Bank this morning were attacked by Israeli soldiers and police, who made arrests and confiscated banners.
Videos by
@OrenZiv_
Netanyahu is telling the entire world that Israel will deepen its occupation of Gaza after the war. He claims that Gaza will have “a Palestinian civil administration that doesn't teach hate,” obviously implying it won't be the PA.
Bibi is fulfilling his long dream of apartheid…
Such lies were probably neither innocent nor accidental; they were meant to dehumanize the entire Palestinian population, in the eyes of the Israeli public, to prepare them for the genocidal attacks on Gaza
I heard directly from survivors of Oct 7 from the kibbutzim who were utterly crushed, traumatized, felt so betrayed, because they had been told that the Gazans they had come to trust had participated in the ultimate betrayal.
Now we learn it wasn't true.
The headline speaks volumes about the Palestinian experience. We get killed, oppressed, and displaced, and then we have to fight even to get a fraction of recognition of our suffering. Meanwhile, the media denies our aggressor's responsibility
There will always be in every protest a grifter who says horrible and disgusting things. This is one of them; there is a responsibility on the pro-Palestine movement to call out such anti-Jewish sentiment when it comes from someone who joined their crowd
Jewish students get harassed trying to leave
@Columbia
’s campus tonight. You can hear someone yell “Yehudim Yehudim”- “Jews Jews.” They curse and yell “go back to Poland.” Antisemitism has become the new normal here.
My sister in the north of Gaza told me that today was their first time having chicken or meat in a few months. The North has been living in a manmade famine, and now, when Biden finally woke up after the WCK killing crime, he actually pressured Israel to allow food in.
People writing that I should somehow understand how it sounds to Israelis as different than to the rest of the world, like really? And how about we also consider how Israeli extremists have used this same reference to justify the murder of Palestinians?
Plus, there are…
A generation of Palestinians see the Menorah as a symbol of occupation and oppression. It took me long years to realize that Jewish symbols used by the state of Israel represent more than my oppressor, for my Jewish friends also use them. However, many won't see this!
So
@X
decided that my two posts reporting the settler's terror attack on the Palestinian village are “hateful conduct,” and, thus, it has limited visibility. Seriously? Free speech
@elonmusk
I heard Gideon Levy speaking about how the Israelis don't see the miseries that are inflicted on Gaza because of their media self-censor. I'm afraid I have to disagree; most Israelis are well aware of the suffering in Gaza, but they are indifferent toward it or supportive of it
So a terrorist who is suspected in the killing of an American citizen on American soil is living freely in Israel, and not only that, but he is responsible for a group of radicals who prevent aid from entering Gaza, which is a genocidal act
I still can't get over the fact that the psychopath behind the "protests" blocking aid to Gaza is an American who fled to Israel to escape charges for his suspected role in the murder of Alex Odeh, a Palestinian in the US.
@JoeBiden
could literally extradite him and stop this.
This is Jonathan Yudelman, a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Princeton University, verbally abusing a Muslim woman, invading her personal space & forcing his body towards hers.
@princeton
this is unacceptable and he must immediately be investigated.
Twitter, do your thing.
Both the right and left in Israel agree on dehumanizing the Palestinians and painting them all as rapsit and monsters, but they disagree on the solution to Israelis’ security. The left wants a wall and complete separation, and the right wants endless occupation and apartheid
I told
@AJEnglish
that not only was there a missed opportunity to save my father's life, but there was and still is an opportunity to save the lives of 7 wounded Palestinians who were left in the church bleeding for days after the IDF shot them
After the murder of his colleagues, Jose Andres is appealing in his article for the Israelis to allow the Palestinians to eat and live, saying, “You are better than this.”
Well, Mr. Andres, you perhaps should spend your energy and moral outrage talking to the American…
Thanks for your humanism and bravery. From my perspective as a Palestinian, civilian hostages and Palestinian civilians in Gaza are two sides of the same coin, too.
Family member of a hostage: “From my perspective, the hostages and the civilians in Gaza are two sides of the same coin.”
She goes on to call for a deal and ceasefire.
For so long, Hamas has mobilized Palestinians with slogans like “the peaceful path has failed” and "UN can deliver nothing.” For Palestinians living under the repression of the occupation and seeing such an American vote, try not to convince them otherwise.
Let's put aside how morally deprived the Israeli assassination of Hanyeh’s sons and grandkids is. On the practical level, this will achieve nothing for Israel, and it will boost Hamas’ popularity, for Palestinians will see it as a movement with leaders willing to sacrifice their…
Palestinian women are assaulted, raped, and stripped by disgusting war criminals.
If you were rightly outraged by Hamas’ sexual assault against Israeli women and you are not outraged by this, then you are, at best, a hypocrite and likely a monster
“The son shall not suffer for the iniquity of the father, nor the father suffer for the iniquity of the son.”
Ezekiel 18:19
This is the biblical justice that I know; I am shocked that some are justifying the assassination of Haniyeh’s sons and grandchildren. Shameful
Another spontaneous protest in Gaza broke out today. The protesters shouted two things: “We want peace. We want peace.” “We want a cease-fire; we want peace.”
💥13-year-old Jerusalemite Rami Hamdan set off a single Ramadan fireworks & was shot dead by a cop who "felt threatened." Netanyahu's police minister & former (real) terrorist Itamar Ben Gvir: "I salute the fighter who killed the terrorist." Judge for yourself.
Please watch this and remember that the world was rightly outraged by the killing of the WCK aid worker but seems not to care when our children are being killed.
Sorry to distract from the most important topic: college campuses have tents with protesters in them; truly scary
An
@IDF
precision strike on a group of children inside a “safe” refugee camp in
#Gaza
, killing 10 young kids.
cc.
@DanaBashCNN
, in case accurate reporting of facts is still worthwhile.
A friend from Gaza voice messaged my friend about how he was kidnapped for two days by the Israeli army, who tortured him for three days and kept him naked in the cold—hearing his voice and the pain that it carries shattered my heart. We will never be the same!
It is not every day that the Egyptian president, Jordanian king, and the French president publish an opinion piece together. In their article, their urge for a ceasefire, the release of the hostages, and the two-state solution
The red one, just like Abu Obaida. To them, white and black are Fateh, secularism, Arafat, etc. Although some of their elites tried to use it once or twice recently to draw more support from the public, it's rare