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Palestinians climbing the Israeli apartheid wall to pray the first Jummah of Ramadan at AlAqsa, Jerusalem. #Palestine: image via صايل @Pxlestine, 19 June 2015
أنا من هناك. ولي ذكرياتٌ . ولدت كما تولد الناس. لي والدة
وبيتٌ كثير النوافذِ. لي إخوةٌ. أصدقاء. وسجنٌ بنافذة باردهْ.
ولي موجةٌ خطَِفتها النوارس. لي مشهدي الخاص. لي عُشْبةٌ زائدهْ
ولي قمرٌ في أقاصي الكلام، ورزقُ الطيور، وزيتونةٌ خالدهْ
مررتُ على الأرض قبل مرور السيوف على جسدٍ حوّلوه إلى مائدهْ.
أنا من هناك. أعيد السماء إلى أمها حين تبكي السماء على أمها،
وأبكي لتعرفني غيمةٌ عائدهْ.
تعلّمتُ كل كلام يليقُ بمحكمة الدم كي أكسر القاعدهْ
تعلّمتُ كل الكلام، وفككته كي أركب مفردةً واحدهْ
هي: الوطنُ...
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On the first day of Ramadan a family in #Gaza break their fast amid the rubble of their destroyed home #Palestine: image via Mohammed Matter @AbuYazan_Gaza, 19 June 2015
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The next time you hear that "innocent" israeli civilians were targeted in occupied #Palestine, remember these images: image via Abbas Hamideh @Resistance49, 21 June 2015
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Israeli army prevented Palestinians from reaching Al-Aqsa mosque so they climbed the wall and made it. #Palestine: image via Mohammed Matter @AbuYazan_Gaza, 19 June 2016
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On the first day of Ramadan a family in #Gaza break their fast amid the rubble of their destroyed home #Palestine: image via Mohammed Matter @AbuYazan_Gaza, 19 June 2015
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On the first day of Ramadan a family in #Gaza break their fast amid the rubble of their destroyed home #Palestine: image via Mohammed Matter @AbuYazan_Gaza, 19 June 2015
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Mahmoud Darwish at University of Bethlehem: photo by Amer Somali, 2006
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The next time you hear that "innocent" israeli civilians were targeted in occupied #Palestine, remember these images: image via Abbas Hamideh @Resistance49, 21 June 2015
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The next time you hear that "innocent" israeli civilians were targeted in occupied #Palestine, remember these images: image via Abbas Hamideh @Resistance49, 21 June 2015
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The next time you hear that "innocent" israeli civilians were targeted in occupied #Palestine, remember these images: image via Abbas Hamideh @Resistance49, 21 June 2015
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Displaced Palestinian children peek from under the door of a shop where their family is taking shelter in Gaza City in July 2014: photo by Mohammed Abed/AFP via The Guardian, 26 March 2015
UN officials accused of bowing to Israeli pressure over children's rights list: Source says officials backed away from recommending that IDF be added to list of children’s rights violators after phone calls from Israeli officials: Harriet Sherwood for The Guardian, 15 March 2015 (updated 26 March 2015)
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The mother of one of the four Palestinian children from the Bakr family who were killed by Israeli military strikes on Wednesday grieves outside a morgue in Gaza City. Eight boys from the Bakr family had gone to the beach because their Gaza neighborhood had become a constant target of Israeli airstrikes: photo by Finbarr O'Reilly / Reuters. 16 July 2014
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I love Gaza: image via صايل @Pxlestine, 23 June 2015
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Palestinian girls walk past the rubble of a heavily damaged building in Shejaiya, which was destroyed during the 50-day war between Israel and Hamas militants last year. Israel killed more Palestinian civilians in 2014 than in any other year since the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip began in 1967, according to a UN report: photo by Thomas Coex/AFP via The Guardian, 18 April 2015
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The children keep #Gaza #Palestine alive. Lens: Khaled AbuHassira: image via Bea @Bea4Palestine, 21 June 2014
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Freedom to our prisoners written on one of AlQuds streets. Pray for them in this blessed #Ramadan. #Palestine: image via Abbas Sarsour @iFalasteen, 23 June 2015
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The beauty of Ramadan atmosphere in AlQuds. #Ramadan_in_AlQuds_is_
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Palestinians climbing the Israeli apartheid wall to pray the first Jummah of Ramadan at AlAqsa, Jerusalem. #Palestine: image via صايل @Pxlestine, 19 June 2015
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Israeli army prevented Palestinians from reaching Al-Aqsa mosque so they climbed the wall and made it. #Palestine: image via Mohammed Matter @AbuYazan_Gaza, 19 June 2016
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Picture of a Palestinian young man when he entered al-Aqsa mosque for the first time. #Palestine #Jerusalem: image via Palestine Social @Palestine Social, 22 June 2015
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Israeli army prevented Palestinians from reaching Al-Aqsa mosque so they climbed the wall and made it. #Palestine: image via Mohammed Matter @AbuYazan_Gaza, 19 June 2016
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It's a long day of fasting I'm just going to sit here and relax. #Ramadan. #Palestine: image via Abbas Sarsour @iFalasteen, 20 June 2015
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"I Come From There..." Courage in the Face of Cowardice. That's #Palestinianism #Palestine: image via Bea @Bea4Palestine, 21 June 2014
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Jerusalem. A Palestinian youth uses a satellite dish as a shield during clashes with Israeli security forces in the At-Tur neighbourhood, after Israeli police shot dead a knife-wielding Palestinian who attempted to stab colleagues at a checkpoint: photo by Ahmad Gharabli/AFP via the Guardian, 26 March 2015
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Israeli soldier aims his weapon at stone-throwing #Palestinian girl during a protest in #KfarQaddum #Nablus #AA [photo by Ahmed Talat]: image via Anadplu Images @anadoluimages, 12 June 2015
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#KfarQaddum #LastStand #respect #SettlementsAreIllegal #Israel #BDS #HumanRights #BoycottIsrael #PalestinianState #UN: image via AJ. @ajwildlife, 20 March 2015
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Intifada at its best: 1 Palestinian throwing rocks X at least 5 IDF armed forces. #KfarQaddum: image via Kety Shapazian @KetyBrazil, 6 April 2012
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Tonight's sunset from Nationals Park @ABC7News @nbcwashington @usa9 @fox5newsdc: image via Chris Duncan@AD4G, 23 June 2015
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View from NYC #Sunset #Sky: image via Zaddy @MissZindzi, 23 June 2015
Faces in the sky ... #clouds & #sky: image via Monica M. Singer @MonicaMSinger67, 26 June 2015
Sky: photo by Seth Ilys, 2004
Palestinians climbing the Israeli apartheid wall to pray the first Jummah of Ramadan at AlAqsa, Jerusalem. #Palestine: image via صايل @Pxlestine, 19 June 2015
أنا من هناك. ولي ذكرياتٌ . ولدت كما تولد الناس. لي والدة
وبيتٌ كثير النوافذِ. لي إخوةٌ. أصدقاء. وسجنٌ بنافذة باردهْ.
ولي موجةٌ خطَِفتها النوارس. لي مشهدي الخاص. لي عُشْبةٌ زائدهْ
ولي قمرٌ في أقاصي الكلام، ورزقُ الطيور، وزيتونةٌ خالدهْ
مررتُ على الأرض قبل مرور السيوف على جسدٍ حوّلوه إلى مائدهْ.
أنا من هناك. أعيد السماء إلى أمها حين تبكي السماء على أمها،
وأبكي لتعرفني غيمةٌ عائدهْ.
تعلّمتُ كل كلام يليقُ بمحكمة الدم كي أكسر القاعدهْ
تعلّمتُ كل الكلام، وفككته كي أركب مفردةً واحدهْ
هي: الوطنُ...
On the first day of Ramadan a family in #Gaza break their fast amid the rubble of their destroyed home #Palestine: image via Mohammed Matter @AbuYazan_Gaza, 19 June 2015
The next time you hear that "innocent" israeli civilians were targeted in occupied #Palestine, remember these images: image via Abbas Hamideh @Resistance49, 21 June 2015
Israeli army prevented Palestinians from reaching Al-Aqsa mosque so they climbed the wall and made it. #Palestine: image via Mohammed Matter @AbuYazan_Gaza, 19 June 2016
I'm from
there.
I
have memories. Like
any other
human
I
was born.
I come
from
there. And I go
back
crying
to return the sky
to
its mother,
when
it cries
for
her.
I'm from there: Mahmoud Darwish (1941-2008); primitivo English version: TC, 2009
On the first day of Ramadan a family in #Gaza break their fast amid the rubble of their destroyed home #Palestine: image via Mohammed Matter @AbuYazan_Gaza, 19 June 2015
On the first day of Ramadan a family in #Gaza break their fast amid the rubble of their destroyed home #Palestine: image via Mohammed Matter @AbuYazan_Gaza, 19 June 2015
Mahmoud Darwish at University of Bethlehem: photo by Amer Somali, 2006
Mahmoud Darwish (1941-2008): photo via Arabic Literature (in English), 9 August 2013
Mahmoud Darwish (1941-2008): photo via Arabic Literature (in English), 9 August 2013
Mahmoud Darwish (1941-2008): photo via Arabic Literature (in English), 9 August 2013
Mahmoud Darwish (1941-2008): photo via Arabic Literature (in English), 9 August 2013
The next time you hear that "innocent" israeli civilians were targeted in occupied #Palestine, remember these images: image via Abbas Hamideh @Resistance49, 21 June 2015
The next time you hear that "innocent" israeli civilians were targeted in occupied #Palestine, remember these images: image via Abbas Hamideh @Resistance49, 21 June 2015
The next time you hear that "innocent" israeli civilians were targeted in occupied #Palestine, remember these images: image via Abbas Hamideh @Resistance49, 21 June 2015
Displaced Palestinian children peek from under the door of a shop where their family is taking shelter in Gaza City in July 2014: photo by Mohammed Abed/AFP via The Guardian, 26 March 2015
UN officials accused of bowing to Israeli pressure over children's rights list: Source says officials backed away from recommending that IDF be added to list of children’s rights violators after phone calls from Israeli officials: Harriet Sherwood for The Guardian, 15 March 2015 (updated 26 March 2015)
Senior UN officials in Jerusalem have been accused of caving in to Israeli pressure to abandon moves to include the state’s armed forces on a UN list of serious violators of children’s rights.
UN officials backed away from recommending that the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) be included on the list following telephone calls from senior Israeli officials. The Israelis allegedly warned of serious consequences if a meeting of UN agencies and NGOs based in Jerusalem to ratify the recommendation went ahead. Within hours, the meeting was cancelled.
“Top officials have buckled under political pressure,” said a UN source. “As a result, a clear message has been given that Israel will not be listed.”
The mother of one of the four Palestinian children from the Bakr family who were killed by Israeli military strikes on Wednesday grieves outside a morgue in Gaza City. Eight boys from the Bakr family had gone to the beach because their Gaza neighborhood had become a constant target of Israeli airstrikes: photo by Finbarr O'Reilly / Reuters. 16 July 2014
Organisations pressing for the IDF’s inclusion on the list since the war in Gaza last summer -– which left more than 500 children dead and more than 3,300 injured -– include Save the Children and War Child as well as at least a dozen Palestinian human rights organisations, the Israeli rights organisation B’Tselem and UN bodies such as the children’s agency Unicef.
“These organisations are in uproar over what has happened,” said the UN source.
The children keep #Gaza #Palestine alive. Lens: Khaled AbuHassira: image via Bea @Bea4Palestine, 21 June 2014
The IDF’s inclusion on the UN’s list of grave violators of children’s rights would place it alongside non-state armed forces such as Islamic State, Boko Haram and the Taliban. It would propel Israel further towards pariah status within international bodies and could lead to UN sanctions.
I love Gaza: image via صايل @Pxlestine, 23 June 2015
Although Jerusalem-based officials cancelled the meeting -– and subsequently decided not to recommend the IDF’s inclusion on the list -– the UN complained to Israel over the intimidation of its staff. Susana Malcorra -– a high-ranking official in the New York office of the UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon -– raised the issue in a private letter to Israel’s ambassador to the UN, Ron Prosor. The UN in New York said it could not comment on leaked documents.
The telephone calls were made to June Kunugi, Unicef’s special representative to Palestine and Israel, on 12 February, the night before a meeting to decide whether to recommend the IDF’s inclusion on the list. One call was from a senior figure in Cogat, the Israeli government body that coordinates between the IDF, the Palestinian Authority and the international community; the other was made by an official in Israel’s foreign ministry.
The children keep #Gaza #Palestine alive. Lens: Khaled AbuHassira: image via Bea @Bea4Palestine, 21 June 2014
According to UN and NGO sources, Kunugi was advised to cancel the meeting or face serious consequences. However, Israeli sources described the telephone conversations as friendly and courteous attempts to persuade Kunugi to delay the working group’s decision on its recommendation regarding the IDF until Israel had been allowed to present its case on the issue.
At 8.54am the next morning, an email was sent on behalf of James Rawley, a senior official with UNSCO (the office of the UN special coordinator for the Middle East peace process) who had called the meeting, to participants. It said: “Please be informed that today’s meeting scheduled at 13:00hrs has been postponed. Sincere apologies for the inconvenience this may have caused.”
A joint statement to the Guardian from Kunugi and Rawley said the “strictly confidential process” of determining inclusion on the list was still ongoing and was the “prerogative of the UN secretary general, and it rests with him alone”. The UN in Jerusalem was unable to comment on the process, it added, but the submission from Jerusalem to New York was “based on verified facts, not influenced by any member state or other entity”.
Palestinian girls walk past the rubble of a heavily damaged building in Shejaiya, which was destroyed during the 50-day war between Israel and Hamas militants last year. Israel killed more Palestinian civilians in 2014 than in any other year since the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip began in 1967, according to a UN report: photo by Thomas Coex/AFP via The Guardian, 18 April 2015
Unicef has called a fresh meeting to update UN and NGO officials in Jerusalem on Thursday.
The decision on which state and non-state armed forces are to be included on the list will be taken by UN chiefs in New York next month. However, according to the UN source, “a political decision has already been taken not to include Israel”.
There is ample evidence … Israel’s armed forces have committed acts that amount to … grave violations against children
-- Defence for Children International (Palestine)
A separate source told the Guardian: “The UN caved to Israel’s political pressure and took a highly contentious step to shelter Israel from accountability.”
The children keep #Gaza #Palestine alive. Lens: Khaled AbuHassira: image via Bea @Bea4Palestine, 21 June 2014
The list of violators of children’s rights is contained in the annex of the annual report of the secretary general on children and armed conflict. A “monitoring and reporting mechanism”, established by a UN security council resolution, supplies information on grave violations of children’s rights, such as killing and maiming, recruitment of minors into armed forces, attacks on schools, rape, abduction, and denial of humanitarian access to children. The secretary general is required to list armed forces or armed groups responsible for such actions.
Relatives of Palestinians killed by the Israeli strike at a UN school mourn outside a hospital morgue in the northern Gaza Strip: photo by Mohammed Salem / Reuters, 24 July 2014
Following last summer’s seven-week war in Gaza, a number of UN agencies and NGOs met to consider whether to recommend the IDF’s inclusion on the list. According to insiders, participants “agreed there is a strong and credible case to recommend listing”.
A 13-page internal Unicef paper seen by the Guardian examined the case for the IDF to be listed on the basis of its actions in last summer’s war in Gaza, including the killing and injuring of children, and “targeted and indiscriminate” attacks on schools and hospitals.
The children keep #Gaza #Palestine alive. Lens: Khaled AbuHassira: image via Bea @Bea4Palestine, 21 June 2014
Several of the working group’s participants wrote to the UN secretary general to urge the inclusion of the IDF on the list. A letter sent in December by Defence for Children International (Palestine) said: “There is ample evidence to demonstrate that Israel’s armed forces have committed acts that amount to the grave violations against children during armed conflict, as defined by UN security council resolutions, including killing or maiming children and attacks against schools and hospitals.”
The Israeli ministry of foreign affairs and Cogat declined to answer specific questions about the phone calls to Kunugi, but said in a joint statement: “Israel has a good working relationship with Unicef and the United Nations in general. Israel has no desire to get into a slanging match with anti-Israel elements nor to submit to their intimidations.”
Less than an hour ago, Palestinian boy run over by Israeli illegal settler in Alkhalil...#Palestine: image via Mohammed Matter @AbuYazan_Gaza, 21 June 2015
Israeli settler runs over Palestinian child in Hebron shortly before ... #WestBank #Palestine: image via Said Shoaib - Gaza @saidshouib, 21 June 2015
Freedom to our prisoners written on one of AlQuds streets. Pray for them in this blessed #Ramadan. #Palestine: image via Abbas Sarsour @iFalasteen, 23 June 2015
The beauty of Ramadan atmosphere in AlQuds. #Ramadan_in_AlQuds_is_
Palestinians climbing the Israeli apartheid wall to pray the first Jummah of Ramadan at AlAqsa, Jerusalem. #Palestine: image via صايل @Pxlestine, 19 June 2015
Israeli army prevented Palestinians from reaching Al-Aqsa mosque so they climbed the wall and made it. #Palestine: image via Mohammed Matter @AbuYazan_Gaza, 19 June 2016
Picture of a Palestinian young man when he entered al-Aqsa mosque for the first time. #Palestine #Jerusalem: image via Palestine Social @Palestine Social, 22 June 2015
Israeli army prevented Palestinians from reaching Al-Aqsa mosque so they climbed the wall and made it. #Palestine: image via Mohammed Matter @AbuYazan_Gaza, 19 June 2016
It's a long day of fasting I'm just going to sit here and relax. #Ramadan. #Palestine: image via Abbas Sarsour @iFalasteen, 20 June 2015
"I Come From There..." Courage in the Face of Cowardice. That's #Palestinianism #Palestine: image via Bea @Bea4Palestine, 21 June 2014
Jerusalem. A Palestinian youth uses a satellite dish as a shield during clashes with Israeli security forces in the At-Tur neighbourhood, after Israeli police shot dead a knife-wielding Palestinian who attempted to stab colleagues at a checkpoint: photo by Ahmad Gharabli/AFP via the Guardian, 26 March 2015
Israeli soldier aims his weapon at stone-throwing #Palestinian girl during a protest in #KfarQaddum #Nablus #AA [photo by Ahmed Talat]: image via Anadplu Images @anadoluimages, 12 June 2015
#KfarQaddum #LastStand #respect #SettlementsAreIllegal #Israel #BDS #HumanRights #BoycottIsrael #PalestinianState #UN: image via AJ. @ajwildlife, 20 March 2015
Intifada at its best: 1 Palestinian throwing rocks X at least 5 IDF armed forces. #KfarQaddum: image via Kety Shapazian @KetyBrazil, 6 April 2012
A Palestinian protester throws tyres into a fire during clashes with Israeli security forces following a demonstration against the expropriation of Palestinian land by Israel in the village of Kfar Qaddum, near Nablus, in the occupied West Bank, on Friday: photo by Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP via FT Photo Diary, 19 June 2015
Tonight's sunset from Nationals Park @ABC7News @nbcwashington @usa9 @fox5newsdc: image via Chris Duncan@AD4G, 23 June 2015
View from NYC #Sunset #Sky: image via Zaddy @MissZindzi, 23 June 2015