please. it’s time to speak up, now more than ever. be a voice for the silenced. especially now that gaza has gone dark with the israeli government cutting off their internet and phone lines, which means they’ve lost communication with each other and the world.
you absolutely cannot be on the wrong side of history. this is all happening right in front of us and there’s no way to see it except for exactly what it is: genocide. and when a government decides to cut all means of communication for over 2 million innocent people, carpet-bomb them and invade their grounds in the dark, their intentions of ethnic cleansing become very clear. completely silencing them as they inhumanely wipe them out and the rest of the world can only really sit and watch in horror. the nations and powers with actual influence are doing nothing to stop it. some are even funding and supporting this senseless massacre. please know that there is no room for your neutrality. remember that if you are silent, you are on the side of the oppressor. if you are neutral, you are on the side of the oppressor.
palestine has lost its ability to be vocal. please do not forget about them. do not stop posting about them. do not stop praying for them. even if you do not pray, do it for them. fight for them as much as you can. spread as much awareness as possible on all your platforms, go to protests if you can. but just don’t stop talking about gaza and about palestinians. we are their voice right now.
All cell data and internet has been cut off Gaza. Communication has been halted and no one can reach anyone in Gaza.
Simultaneously, israel launched the most aggressive airstrikes on Gaza since the start of its aggression.
This is genocide. This is genocide. I have no more to say.
We couldn’t fathom that the carnage could intensify but this is a catastrophe.
Reporters are saying that about 100 warplanes are bombing gaza right now that it feels like multiple earthquakes are hitting the strip.
Remember there are 2 million people trapped in gaza with absolutely nowhere to go. Literally nowhere to go, they are under siege by israel.
There is nowhere to hide. Nowhere to go.
ID: screenshot of tweet from Gabriel Elizondo (@.elizondogabriel).
Text reads: Our correspondent in his last report as Israel imposed total blackout. “Please guys if you can hear us send the message to the world we are isolated in Gaza. Again guys if you can hear us… we are isolated we don’t have phone signals or tech connections..”
Below is a screenshot from Al Jazeera news on TV. It shows a reporter in a press vest speaking into a mic and an image of bombs on Gaza, the explosion so bright it lights up the sky. The tagline is: Al Jazeera correspondent reports massive bombardment of north and central Gaza Strip.
and let the history books name joe biden, rishi sunak, justin trudeau, emmanuel macron, ursula von der leyen and every other world leader who did not step in to prevent the genocide of palestine as cold-blooded murderers. may they face a shred of the immeasurable pain and suffering they allowed to be committed against 2.2. million innocent lives.
God they cut off all the internet and cellular networks in Gaza
We are isolated now’: Communications lost with many parts of Gaza (from Al Jazeera’s live update, by reporter Tareq Abu Azzoum, 16:25 GMT)
We don’t know about anything that is happening in other districts in the territory. Maybe there are new bombardments taking place in these areas. We don’t know how many victims. We can only hear bombardments everywhere, but we don’t know any anything about the casualties, about the situation on the ground.
We don’t know anything also about the medical conditions of doctors, medical workers, even at the Al-Shifa Hospital [the largest in Gaza]. The situation is catastrophic right now. We can no longer communicate with the international community to send our voice to the world to know what is happening on the ground. I hope that this message might reach and have an access to the world despite what we have experienced throughout the last hour.
We are now in a hospital and we are going to be live by satellite as much as we can and every single hour. So please, if you can hear us, send that message to the world that we are isolated now in Gaza. We don’t have any phone signals. We don’t have any internet connections. We found great difficulty even to communicate and contact with our relatives in different parts of the territory.
Journalists here, even the citizens inside the hospital, they don’t have any access to the networks. They don’t have any kind of communication even with their neighbors. There is a great problem in the network connections. We don’t know how it’s dropped. We don’t know if it was targeted.
The situation on the ground is really terrible. Everyone is afraid, everyone is terrified. Please ,guys, if you can hear us send this message to the world that we are becoming isolated.
Al Jazeera currently only has sporadic communication with correspondents in Gaza following the latest strikes on the besieged enclave.
Abed Wadi was getting dressed for the funeral when the message arrived.
It was an image, forwarded to him by a friend, of a group of masked men posing with axes, a petrol canister, and a chainsaw, with text printed on the image in Hebrew and Arabic.
“To all the rats in the sewers of Qusra village, we are waiting for you and we will not mourn you,” the text said.
“The day of revenge is coming.”
Qusra was Wadi’s village, in the northern part of the West Bank near Nablus. The funeral that day was for four Palestinians from the village. Three had been killed the previous day - Wednesday 11 October - after Israeli settlers entered Qusra and attacked a Palestinian family home.
The fourth was shot dead in clashes with Israeli soldiers that followed.
The following day, the Qusra villagers were preparing to set out for a hospital half an hour away and return with the bodies of the dead. To do so, they would need to travel across land that is dotted with Israeli settlements, where the risk of violence, high even in ordinary times, has risen dramatically in the two weeks since the Hamas attack that launched a war with Israel.
Wadi put his phone down and continued getting dressed. There were four men in refrigerators in the hospital who needed to be brought home. He was not going to be deterred by a threat, he said. He had heard too many.
There was no way for Wadi to know that, in a few hours’ time, hardline Israeli settlers would confront the funeral procession and his own brother and young nephew would be shot dead.
“We’re in Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital. We have no idea what’s happening. There’s no connection, no Wi-Fi, no reporters. We’re cut off from everything.. People can’t call ambulances or civil defense. We are being bombed in an unprecedented manner. The sky around us just lights up [with explosions], and no one knows what’s going on. You can’t reach anyone, even if they’re only 500 meters away. Ambulances and medics are begging reporters to let them know which streets are getting bombarded to go rescue the victims but the reporters themselves don’t know where anything is happening [because of the connection loss]. We are trying to report the news but we have no idea what’s happening.”
can someone link me to cutesy edits of Lalo and Nacho? I think they make such a dynamic duo
