Lives of Palestinian children matter.

Posted on March 6, 2025 by Admin
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Vice President of an American university refuses to admit that Palestinians are humans.

Posted on March 5, 2025 by Admin
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Israeli War on Gaza Doctors, Medical Staff and Hospitals

Posted on March 4, 2025 by Admin 


Background:
Israeli massacre of medical personnel in Gaza: since October 7th the Israeli army killed 685 medical doctors, Nurses and health workers and injured 900 of them . It bombarded and destroyed 104 ambulances, 142 health institutions, 23 hospitals and 53 primary health care centers. Is this still self-defence? 




Healers, custodians of life's grace,
Six hundred eighty five tales erased.
Nurses and doctors, casualties of strife,
In chaos' canvas, they gave their life.

Ambulances, once swift in urgent plea,
A hundred and four, now silenced debris.
Institutions crumbled, a hundred forty-two,
Hospitals shattered, twenty-three bid adieu.

Primary centers lost, fifty-three in the dark,
Gaza's heartbeat falters, leaves its mark.
A tapestry of tragedy, a solemn arc,
A symphony of loss, a haunting embark.
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Update on Gaza genocide

Posted on March 3, 2025 by Admin

The most important statistics of the genocidal war waged by the “Israeli” occupation on the Gaza Strip for day 160 – Thursday, March 14, 2024

▪️ (160) days since the genocidal war.
▪️ (2,761) massacres committed by the occupation army.
▪️ (38,341) martyrs and missing persons.
▪️ (31,341) martyrs who arrived in hospitals.
▪️ (13,790) child martyrs.
▪️ (27) children were martyred as a result of famine.
▪️ (9,100) female martyrs.
▪️ (364) martyrs from medical teams.
▪️ (48) Civil Defense martyrs.
▪️ (133) martyred journalists.
▪️ (7,000) missing.
▪️ (73,134) infected.
▪️ (72%) of the victims are children and women.
▪️ (17,000) children live without their parents or one of them.
▪️ (11,000) wounded people need to travel for “life-saving and dangerous” treatment.
▪️ (10,000) cancer patients face the risk of death.
▪️ (700,000) infected with infectious diseases as a result of displacement.
▪️ (8,000) cases of viral hepatitis infection due to displacement.
▪️ (60,000) pregnant women are at risk due to lack of health care.
▪️ (350,000) chronic patients are at risk due to non-administration of medications.
▪️ (269) cases of arrest of health personnel.
▪️ (10) cases of arrest of journalists whose names are known.
▪️ (2) million displaced people in the Gaza Strip.
▪️ (166) government headquarters destroyed by the occupation.
▪️ (100) schools and universities were completely destroyed by the occupation.
▪️ (305) schools and universities partially destroyed by the occupation.
▪️ (223) Mosques completely destroyed by the occupation.
▪️ (289) mosques partially destroyed by the occupation.
▪️ (3) Churches targeted and destroyed by the occupation.
▪️ (70,000) housing units were completely destroyed by the occupation.
▪️ (290,000) housing units that were partially destroyed by the occupation and uninhabitable.
▪️ (70,000) tons of explosives dropped by the occupation on Gaza.
▪️ (32) hospitals that were taken out of service by the occupation.
▪️ (53) health centers that the occupation put out of service.
▪️ (155) health institutions targeted by the occupation.
▪️ (126) ambulances were targeted by the occupation army.
▪️ (200) archaeological and heritage sites destroyed by the occupation.

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European commissioner calls for pressure on Israel to allow more aid into Gaza

Posted on March 3, 2025 by Admin

International community needs to take action to protect civilians from hunger and violence in Gaza, says Elisa Ferreira

Melike Pala  |14.03.2024 – Update : 14.03.2024 

ANKARA/BRUSSELS

The European commissioner for cohesion and reforms called Wednesdayi for pressure on Israel to allow the flow of more humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip.

The tragic events in Gaza underscore the urgency of ending the war, increasing humanitarian aid and releasing the hostages, Elisa Ferreira told a session of the European Parliament on the immediate risk of mass starvation in Gaza and attacks on humanitarian aid deliveries.

Reminding that civilians are dying from starvation in the besieged enclave, where the health system has collapsed, Ferreira also expressed concern over a planned Israeli military operation in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, which is packed with 1.5 million displaced Palestinians.

Anyone concerned about the situation in Gaza should pressure the Israeli government to allow unimpeded land access for aid trucks, she added.

Saying that the international community needs to take action to protect civilians from hunger and violence, she stressed that the European Union will continue to work with the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA).

Several countries suspended funding to UNRWA last month following Israeli accusations that 12 of the agency’s thousands of employees took part in the Oct. 7 attack last year by the Palestinian group Hamas on Israel.

The EU and Canada, which had suspended funding, announced later that they would resume support.

‘Hunger as a weapon’

Some EU lawmakers pointed out that the famine in the Gaza Strip is a result of Israel’s actions which constitute “genocide” and said those who remain silent are “complicit” in this.

This crisis was created entirely by Israel’s actions and the inaction of the world, which remained silent to the plight of Gazans, said Irish member of the European Parliament (MEP) Grace O’Sullivan.

Belgian MEP Hilde Vautmans also reminded that children are dying of hunger in Gaza and that humanitarian aid convoys and civilian infrastructure can never be the target of war.

Hunger can never be used as a weapon, she noted, stressing that Israel must open all corridors so that aid can reach the Gaza Strip.

Spanish lawmaker Miguel Urban Crespo said what is happening in the besieged Palestinian enclave is a “genocide.”

Saying that the world is watching a genocide take place in the middle of the 21st century, he noted that Israel not only kills people with bombs but also with hunger.

Israel has imposed a crippling blockade on Gaza since Oct. 7, leaving its population, particularly residents of northern Gaza, on the verge of starvation.

Israel has waged a deadly military offensive on the Gaza Strip since an Oct. 7 cross-border attack by the Palestinian group Hamas in which 1,163 people were killed.

More than 31,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, have since been killed in Gaza and over 73,000 injured amid mass destruction and shortages of necessities.

The Israeli war has pushed 85% of Gaza’s population into internal displacement amid a crippling blockade of most food, clean water and medicine, while 60% of the enclave’s infrastructure has been damaged or destroyed, according to the UN.

Israel is accused of genocide at the International Court of Justice. An interim ruling in January ordered Tel Aviv to stop genocidal acts and take measures to guarantee that humanitarian assistance is provided to civilians in Gaza

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Artists for Palestine UK

Posted on March 2, 2025 by Admin

Phalapoem editor, 26/02/25

800+ programme-makers condemn censorship and racism after BBC pulls Gaza documentary

February 26, 2025

Gary Lineker, Khalid Abdalla, Anita Rani, and Miriam Margolyes have joined over 800 film, TV, and media workers in condemning censorship and racism after the BBC pulled a documentary about children’s lives in Gaza.

The media professionals, including twelve BBC staff, sent a letter to the broadcaster’s director-general Tim Davie, chair of the board Samir Shah, chief content officer Charlotte Moore, and head of news and current affairs Deborah Turness on Wednesday. The letter (in full below) condemned a “racist” and “dehumanising” campaign targeting the film Gaza: How to Survive a War Zone, which the BBC removed from its iPlayer streaming service after pressure from supporters of Israel. The BBC’s board is set to discuss the documentary on Thursday.

“Beneath this political football are children who are in the most dire circumstances of their young lives. This is what must remain at the heart of this discussion,” the letter read. “As programme-makers, we are extremely alarmed by the intervention of partisan political actors on this issue, and what this means for the future of broadcasting in this country.”

The letter signatories include journalists Zoe Williams and Gary Younge, senior executives & filmmakers Brian Hill and Rich Peppiatt, and Sarah Agha, who presented the BBC documentary series The Holy Land And Us: Our Untold Stories. The letter said Gaza: How to Survive a War Zone offers an “all-too-rare perspective on the lived experiences of Palestinian children” and “deserves recognition” rather than censorship.

“The UK film and TV industry will no longer be intimidated by those whose sole mission it is to censor the voices of the many who are defending the rights of children, the marginalised and those in desperate need. All stories have the right to be told and journalistic scrutiny should not be at the whim of those who deem certain lives unequal,” said letter signatory Nada Issa, an award-winning producer/director and journalist who is part Palestinian and Lebanese.

The BBC has said the documentary would not be available on iPlayer while additional “due diligence” checks take place. Sources at the broadcaster have reportedly said the intention was to eventually make the film available to viewers once more.

The letter urged the BBC to reject efforts to have the film permanently removed or “subjected to undue disavowals”, saying that surrendering to efforts to stop its return to iPlayer would indicate “racialised smears against Palestinians outweigh journalistic ethics and public interest”.

The signatories also warned against intrusive scrutiny of Abdullah Al-Yazouri, a 14-year-old  child who narrated Gaza: How to Survive a War Zone. His father, Dr Ayman Al-Yazouri, served as Gaza’s deputy agriculture minister – a civil service role concerned with food production.

“ Almost half of Gaza’s population are children. What they have experienced over the past 17 months is something no child deserves to ever go through,” said Liam O’Hare, an award-winning documentary producer/director who signed the letter. “As journalists and filmmakers we have a duty to help tell their story and that’s what this film did so brilliantly. The BBC cannot allow a politicised campaign to succeed in silencing the children of Gaza.”

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Welcome to Belfast

Posted on March 2, 2025 by Admin
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In Handala’s Playground: Season 1, Episode 8 : Amal’s Unfinished Lullaby

Posted on March 1, 2025 by Admin

S.T. Salah, 12/02/2025

(The night is heavy with smoke and sorrow. The Nur Shams refugee camp is in ruins—walls shattered, streets littered with rubble. Handala, the eternal 10-year-old with his back turned to the world, stands at the edge of the destruction. His small, bare feet are planted in the blood-streaked dirt. Beneath the dim flicker of a burning home, he watches over Sondos Shalabi, who lies on the cold ground, her hands cradling her belly—her unborn child no longer moving inside her.)

Sondos: (weakly, her voice barely above a whisper) Handala… you’ve been here all this time, haven’t you? Watching… waiting…

Handala: (his voice is quiet, but firm) I have never left. Not when they bulldozed homes in Jenin. Not when they filled the night with gunfire in Tulkarem. Not when they called our cries for freedom “terror.” I have always been here.

Sondos: Then you saw it? You saw how they opened fire on our car? How they didn’t even hesitate? My husband… he tried to shield me, but their bullets were precise. They always are. They don’t miss when it comes to us.

Handala: (nods, his fists clenched at his sides) They aim for the heart. The home. The future. They saw a mother carrying her child and decided she was a threat.

Sondos: (a tear slips down her cheek, mixing with the dust of her face) My baby… she was almost here, Handala. I had a name for her. Do you want to hear it?

Handala: (softly) Yes.

Sondos: Amal. It means “hope.” I thought maybe—maybe despite everything—she would know a Palestine with fewer ruins. Fewer funerals. Maybe she would hear laughter before gunfire. Maybe she would grow up and never have to see you.

Handala: (a deep silence hangs between them) She would have loved the olive trees. She would have danced in the streets of Nablus and hummed songs from her grandmother’s lips. But they knew her name, Sondos. Even before she was born. They always know our names before they erase them.

Sondos: (her breath is shallow, her fingers trembling against her stomach) They wouldn’t even let me fight for her, Handala. The doctors, the ambulances—they were kept away. Do you know what it feels like to know help is just down the road, but the soldiers won’t let them reach you? That my baby could have lived, but they chose for her to die?

Handala: I know. I have seen mothers scream at checkpoints, holding their bleeding children. I have seen fathers forced to kneel beside their sons’ bodies, unable to close their eyes. I have seen homes turned to ashes before the tea on the stove has time to go cold.

Sondos: (her eyes flutter shut, exhaustion taking hold) Will you remember her, Handala? Will you carry her name?

Handala: I will. I will whisper it in the ears of the wind. I will carve it into the stones of Jerusalem. I will press it into the soil of every grave they have made. And when Palestine is free, Amal’s name will be among the first to be sung.

(The sound of distant gunfire cuts through the night. Sondos’ body stills. The silence that follows is the kind that only war understands. Handala does not cry. He does not turn. He only stands, as he always has, bearing witness to another stolen life. He is a child who will never grow old, living in a land where children do not get the chance to.)

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Raping Prisoners in Israeli Apartheid is not a Crime

Posted on March 1, 2025 by Admin
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Get The Facts About Palestine Correct

Posted on March 1, 2025 by Admin
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