I guess I just donātā¦see anyone applauding the killing of children or people of any age? I do see people arguing that committing war crimes is bad and that an illegal occupation should not be allowed to continue. Iām finding these claims of āsomeone somewhereā really disengenuous.
Exactly. Everyone in Gaza is trapped.
I agree, and also ā *no one* can evacuate. For 16 years Palestinians have been effectively confined in Gaza. Itās not so much an evacuation order as much as mockery. www.hrw.org/news/2022/06...
This month marks the 15th anniversary of the Israeli governmentās closure of the Gaza Strip, which effectively confines more than 2 million people into a 40-by-11-kilometer (25-mile by 7-mile) strip...
Reminder that if you see disturbing or traumatic images, playing Tetris as soon as possible afterwards can help the brain cleanse itself, and lessen the impacts of it longer term. No, I'm not kidding. And no one knows how or why it works. But it DOES work, and I encourage you to remember it.
Today, I was accused of violating the Geneva Conventions. Why? I said that disabled, sick, and injured Gazans can't comply with the 24 hour evacuation order and would disproportionately be harmed & killed in a ground invasion. Apparently that makes me part of Hamas.
i simply do not know how to wrap my head around witnessing a genocide happen in real time and being wholly unable to do anything about it
an āevacuate 1 million people within the next 24 hoursā order in a place as densely populated and heavily bombarded as gaza is should be read as a declaration of intent to commit mass murder.
Finished weaving my first plaid a few days back. I'm weaving a few more of this pattern and already see where I can make improvements. I'm absolutely in love with weaving, and so excited for all I can learn with this craft.
In September, I was so busy that I hoped that October would be calmer. Wish granted. Except now I remember that when my work schedule isn't busy, it gives room for anxiety (+depression) to really fester...
My dad's Roman Empire is the Civil War and he has an infuriating amount of oversized hardcover books that are making reorganizing this bookcase a pain. Had to pull out the kitchen scale to weigh books so I don't break the shelves.