Notices by earthling (appassionato@mastodon.social), page 3

Israel’s attacks on UN peace mission

@palestine
#Lebanon
#UNIFIL

#Israel carried out 3,654 massacres in #Gaza in one year

Israeli forces have killed at least 41,870 people, including at least 17,000 children and 11,487 women

171 babies born were killed by the Israeli army

710 infants under the age of one have been killed by Israeli forces

986 medics and 85 members of the Palestinian Civil Defence have been killed by Israeli soldiers

Almost 26,000 children have been orphaned or have had one parent killed by Israeli forces

@palestine

What is success?
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate the beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

@bmacDonald94

Dolphin intelligence & playfulness

In this video, a team introduced wild dolphins to a bubble-ring-making machine and observed how the dolphins reacted. After some initial wariness, the animals played with them for hours, creating games and having fun. Note that there are some dolphins who create their own bubble rings to play with, so it’s hard to say that these particular dolphins have never seen a bubble ring before.

https://fyfluiddynamics.com/2022/10/dolphins-playing-with-bubble-rings/

#dolphins

Rashida Tlaib submits names of children killed in Gaza into US Congressional record

The Gaza Ministry of Health released a 649-page document with the name of every identified Palestinian killed in Gaza.

The first 14 pages alone are babies under the age of one.

This is not self-defense. This is genocide.

— Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (@RepRashida) September 19, 2024

@palestine
#Gaza
#children
#genocide
#Congress

@palestine

A new investigation by Al Jazeera’s Sanad agency has shown that the Israeli air strike targeting civilians in Gaza’s humanitarian zone was carried out using MK-84 bombs, which weigh 2,000 pounds.

The Israeli bombing caused widespread damage to the tents, homes, and facilities in the area with craters 10 to 15 metres deep, burying dozens of tents.

#Gaza
#AlMawasi

al-Mawasi attack survivor

The missiles struck about 200 metres (650 feet) from where she was staying. The serene night sky was replaced by flames, smoke and destruction.

“I only saw two colours – red and grey. Screams, crying, and the sound of ambulances were all I could hear,” she recounted.

“I felt like I had entered one of my nightmares, but it was real life”

“These missiles were meant for the biggest buildings, not for tents made of the weakest materials in the world”

@palestine
#Gaza

Orphaned children attend maths classes in Khan Younis

Raheen Shareef Abed, a displaced orphan in the camp, added that by going to the classes, they are “defying all odds and are adamant to march forward despite the hard living conditions under the war”.

@palestine
#Gaza
#schools
#children

A guide to cosmic temperatures

#astronomy
#cosmology
#temperature
#NASA

#Aysenur

The 26-year old activist’s family have said she was peacefully standing for justice when she was killed by a bullet that video shows came from an Israeli military shooter [sniper] and have called for an independent investigation and full accountability for her killing.

@palestine
#WestBank
#activists

All Palestinians are guilty of being Palestinians and for wanting to live on their land, the land of their ancestors. Their sentence: ethnic cleansing, apartheid, arbitrary detention or death.

Ambassador Riyad Mansour of the State of Palestine spoke at today’s meeting of the UN Security Council.

@palestine
#Gaza
#WestBank
#Palestine
#EthnicCleansing
#apartheid

Israel’s raid on Jenin continues

“The water is cut off. The electricity is cut off, the sewage system is no longer working. All the infrastructure is destroyed, we no longer have any services that work.”

“The bakeries are at a standstill. We can’t find milk for the children.”

@palestine
#WestBank
#Jenin

Israel is in full control of key resources in the West Bank, like water. It diverts water from Palestinian towns and villages to illegal Jewish settlements. As a result, there is a perpetual water crisis across the occupied territory, which the colonial authorities have purposefully made worse since October 7 by restricting even more the supply of water.

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/8/29/the-west-bank-israels-other-genocidal-war-in-palestine

@palestine
#WestBank
#water

Nothing can be more bizarre than the US showering Israel with $billions, supplying its genocidal army with unlimited lethal weapons & munitions, deploying its own warships, submarines, & fighter planes to the region in readiness to fight Israel’s wars of “self defence,”…

— Hanan Ashrawi (@DrHananAshrawi) August 27, 2024

@palestine
#Gaza
#Israel
#US

Ruby - throated Hummingbird by Steve Vetter

via s-usans-blog

@photography
#birds
#hummingbird

'Humanitarian zone'

@palestine
#Gaza

Palestinian journalist Ibrahim Muharab, 26, was killed last night by Israeli forces north of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.

Muharab is the 169th journalist to be killed in Gaza by the Israeli military.

@palestine
#Gaza
#journalists

Israel’s evacuation orders for Deir el-Balah limiting access to clean water
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Diab al-Jaro, the head of the Deir el-Balah municipality, said Israel’s latest evacuation orders will cut off access to more than half of the water tanks and water wells in the central area.

@palestine
#Gaza
#water

Why...

Why did they close the borders on us?
Why did they imprison us?
Why did they take away even our right to survive?
All I want is to survive, I just wanna live in peace and then leave in peace.
I don't wanna be just a number!
nor do I want my end to be in an unmarked bag...

@zinh_1 on X

@palestine
#Gaza
#women
#plea

@EricAlper

Single wattled #cassowary.

@photography