Tumgik
r8kirani · 5 days
Text
But the other images I had was like a mass refugee camp. So basically at that point in time, two months ago, about 20,000 people had sought refuge both in the hospital and outside the hospital. And these weren’t tents. They’re still not tents. They’re makeshift shelters with bed sheets or plastic bag sheets. The ones outside sleep on the floor. They’re lucky [if] they get a carpet or a mat. There was one bathroom at the time for about 200 people that they have to share. And inside, the hallways of the hospital were also made into shelters. There was hardly any room to walk, and there’s children running around everywhere. It’s important to remember all these people were not homeless. They all had homes that were destroyed. They’re all displaced people that took shelter in the hospital.
So that’s the kind of mass chaos that I encountered initially, and then I was told that every time there’s a bomb, give it about 15 minutes and the mass casualties come. That was the other thing that at the time shocked me: What we’d been seeing livestreamed on Instagram, on social media or whatever, I actually saw myself and it was worse than I can imagine. I saw scenes that were horrific that I’d never witnessed before and I never want to see again. You have a mother walking in holding her 8, 9-year-old, skinny — because they’re all starving — boy who’s dead, he’s cold and dead and [the mother is] screaming, asking for someone to check his pulse and everybody’s busy in the mass chaos. So that was kind of my initial welcoming scene when I entered Khan Younis the first time.
{...}
What I saw — I’m an eye surgeon, an eye plastic surgeon, and so I saw the classic, what I penned “the Gaza shrapnel face,” because in an explosive scenario, you don’t know what’s coming. When there’s an explosion, you don’t go like this [cover your face], you kind of actually, in fact, open your eyes. And so shrapnel’s everywhere. It’s a well-known fact that the Israeli forces are experimenting [with] weapons in Gaza to boost their weapon manufacturing industry. Because if a weapon is battle-tested, it’s more valuable, isn’t it? It’s got a higher value. So basically they’re using these weapons, these missiles that purposely, intently create these large shrapnel fragments that go everywhere. And they cause amputations that are unusual.
Most amputations occur at the weak points, the elbow or the knee, and so they’re better tolerated. But these [shrapnel fragments] are causing mid-thigh, mid-arm amputations that are more difficult, more challenging, and also the rehabilitation afterward is also more challenging. Also these shrapnels [are] unlike a bullet wound. A bullet wound goes in and out; there’s an entry and exit point. Shrapnel stays there. So you gotta take it out. So the injuries I saw were — I mean, I saw people with their eyes blown apart. And when I was there, and this is my experience, I treated all children when I was there the first time. It was kids that [were aged] 2, 6, 9, 10, 13, 15, and 16, and 17 were the ones that I treated. And their eyes unfortunately had to be removed. They had shrapnel in their eye sockets that I had to remove and, of course, remove the eye. There’s many patients, many children who had shrapnel in both their eyes. And you can only do so much because right now, because of the aid blockade and because of the destruction of most of Gaza, there’s no equipment available to take shrapnel that’s in the eye out. And so we just leave them alone and they eventually go blind.
{...}
I was on the ground, I toured the refugee camps, I went around Rafah, I saw, and if there’s an Israeli invasion, I can’t emphasize enough how catastrophic it’s going to be. It’ll be mass killing, mass destruction, because all these figures come in, 50 dead, 100 wounded. But what people don’t realize is, being wounded is a death sentence. Being wounded in this environment with no health care system, completely collapsed, is a death sentence. And the wounded often will lose everybody, like all family members, so they have no supports, especially children, have nobody left to take care of them, not even aunts and uncles. It will be catastrophic. I don’t know what to say to the world to stop an impending invasion. You’ve got to rein this prime minister of Israel in. You got to do something to stop this stupid invasion that he still wants to do, because it’ll be catastrophic.
{...}
I had one young man, about 25 years old, he lost one eye that I took out myself. He spent about five, six, or seven years, basically spent thousands and thousands of dollars in IVF treatment because he got married young and they wanted to have a child and they couldn’t have one. So he spent years on IVF treatment and finally had a baby that was 3 months old. And there was a missile attack by Israel at his home. He lost his entire family, including his baby and his wife and his parents and family. He’s by himself, single guy. I took his one eye out, and he has nobody in this world. He just kind of walks around the tent structures, just kind of walking around with no home and trying to sleep wherever he can.
3K notes · View notes
r8kirani · 12 days
Text
i wanted to show everyone my favorite tiktok
52K notes · View notes
r8kirani · 12 days
Text
Please help an Iraqi trans woman seek asylum! She is a friend of one of my good friends and I've spoken to her before. Her situation has been very difficult and it has not been easy for her to make this choice to ask for help. Chip in what you are able, she's a great comrade and I really want her to get to safety.
3K notes · View notes
r8kirani · 14 days
Text
3K notes · View notes
r8kirani · 17 days
Text
22K notes · View notes
r8kirani · 17 days
Text
when i was like 10 i got permabanned from warriorcatsrpg.com because someone called crookedstar whiney and i responded “how would you like it if i killed your entire family”
4K notes · View notes
r8kirani · 17 days
Text
Tumblr media
children are starving at the fastest rate that the world has ever known
41K notes · View notes
r8kirani · 18 days
Text
kms means know my situation
9K notes · View notes
r8kirani · 19 days
Text
emily gwen, the creator of the sunset lesbian flag that we’ve come to commonly use, still continues to live in poverty.
Tumblr media
multi-billion dollar companies have used their design and made profit from it, and yet they have not seen a cent for their creation.
i’ve been friends with emily for years, and i have not once seen them be financially stable the entire time. i’ve seen them homeless, unemployed, starving. right now, they need our help more than ever.
please consider donating to emily’s ko-fi, especially if you’ve used their design to create something and profited from it.
28K notes · View notes
r8kirani · 19 days
Text
Tumblr media
2 notes · View notes
r8kirani · 20 days
Text
this guy and i have mutual friends & i can attest to this being genuine - please consider helping him out or at least reblogging. more details/specifics in the gfm description
4K notes · View notes
r8kirani · 24 days
Text
The volcano Popocatépetl just errupted and the Mexican government is doing little to help the local indigenous population
3K notes · View notes
r8kirani · 24 days
Text
my dad has medicine at the pharmacy ready for him but the medicine is $75. he desperately needs this medicine, he is still recovering after being in the hospital and then rehab after a stroke. anything helps. if seven people sent $10 and one sent $5 we'll be set.
paypal.me/akirk432 (please send via friends and family)
cashapp: $autumnroses93
venmo: @catmom934 (pls dont send purchase protection)
344 notes · View notes
r8kirani · 24 days
Note
have you heard about what happened to mai rajab?
Tumblr media
this is so so sad oh my gosh.
Tumblr media
13K notes · View notes
r8kirani · 25 days
Text
$300-600 for a gynecologist or a doctor that dont gaf about ur symptoms, pick your poison
1K notes · View notes
r8kirani · 25 days
Text
Tumblr media Tumblr media
Nanami... Why do you think we've been able to live so happily together? It's because you're a girl who doesn't lay eggs. I pity the family of a girl who would betray them like that...
REVOLUTIONARY GIRL UTENA 🌹 EP 27: NANAMI'S EGG
607 notes · View notes
r8kirani · 26 days
Text
Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media
24K notes · View notes