#Khan Yunis

[crunchyorangeleaf]

another communications blackout as tanks descend on khan yunis. I hope there are enough esims. I hope everyone manages to have some kind of connection.

if you haven't bought an e-sim, please consider it! with discount codes, it's as little as $6. allow Palestinians in Gaza to check up on loved ones, call for emergency services, and post updates on what they're living through. don't let their voices be silenced.

update: check the replies and comments for discount codes ♥

[mysharona1987]

[booasaur]

This is the Gaza Strip:

You might remember how earlier on, Israel ordered everyone to evacuate to the south of Gaza, and however painfully and sometimes fatally, many did, to Khan Younis and Rafah.

There've been attacks in "safe" zones throughout these last months, but tonight all eyes turn to Khan Younis.

Please keep raising awareness about Palestine. However much possible, participate in Bisan's strike this week, follow the BDS list, talk to friends and family and colleagues. Applying pressure is the only way anything will change.

[i-am-aprl]

If you think these atrocities are new, you haven’t been paying attention.

On the 16th of July 2014, 4 boys from the Bakr family were playing on Gaza’s beach when the IOF shelled them. One was killed immediately, 3 boys ran. So the IOF shelled them too. A Decade later, we’re still seeing the same atrocities.

[eretzyisrael]

Source

[moons-of-firdaws]

Truce ended. Genocide in Gaza unpaused on 7:11am Gaza time. They are telling the residents of Khan Yunis to relocate further south into Rafah

(الملاجئ here doesn't mean shelters, Gaza doesn't have bomb shelters bcs the material for this construction is banned. This means refugee camp)

But the first house reported bombed was Adwan's family home in Rafah. The first reported martyrs after the resumption of genocide were 4 in Rafah and 2 in Maghazi Camp.

There is nowhere to go. They are trying to force Gazans into Sinai. They don't care how many they kill doing it, even if it is all of them. This is ethnic cleansing and genocide. They are already internally displacing Gazans into combat zones.

Don't stop talking about Palestine. Demand a permanent ceasefire.

[girlactionfigure]

The military wing of the Islamic Jihad publishes a video in which it claims to show exchanges of fire between its operatives and IDF forces in eastern Khan Yunis.

Note that all Islamic Jihad military operatives are dressed in civilian clothes so they can blend in well with the civilian population. If they are killed, the Palestinians will claim that Israel is killing civilians, when these are military operatives par excellence.

This is also what Hamas does.

Abu Ali

[saddayfordemocracy]

Hiba Kamal Abu Nada (24 June 1991 – 20 October 2023)

Hiba Kamal Abu Nada was a Palestinian poet, novelist, nutritionist and wikimedian. Her novel "Oxygen is not for the dead" won second place in the Sharja Award for Arab Creativity in 2017.

She was killed in Gaza strip  by an Israeli airstrike in the 2023 Israel-Hamas war.

Abu Nada was born in Mecca, Saudi Arabia on 24 June 1991 fom a refugee family from Beit Jirja, which was displaced in 1948.

She received a bachelor's degree of biochemistry from Islamic University, Gaza, and a master's degree in clinical nutrition from Al-Azhar University.

She worked for a time at the Rusul Center for Creativity, associated with the al-Amal Institute for Orphans. According to Al-Ayyam, she was "preoccupied with justice, the uprisings of the Arab Spring, and the realities of Palestinian life under occupation."

She published a number of collections of poetry, and a novel, titled al-Uksujīn laysa lil-mawtā (‘Oxygen is not for the dead).

In 2017, she won second place in the 20th annual Sharjah Award for Arab Creativity, held by the United Arab Emirates, for her novel. The book was republished by Dar Diwan in 2021.

Her last post online was on 8 October 2023, when she wrote:

Gaza’s night is dark apart from the glow of rockets, quiet apart from the sound of the bombs, terrifying apart from the comfort of prayer, black apart from the light of the martyrs. Good night, Gaza.

On 20 October 2023, she was killed in the Israel-Hamas war, during an airstrike by the Israeli Air Force, which hit her home in Khan Yunis in southern Gaza. She was 32.

Rest in Power !

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In the Gaza Strip, Israeli forces has put the Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis under a brutal siege, barring entry and exit to the facility, which has forced Palestinian families to bury their relatives in the hospital’s yards. The Nasser Hospital is the biggest and most vital health facility in south Gaza and has the highest number of beds, doctors, and operation rooms. It offers medical services to Palestinians as far as Rafah, the most southern town in Gaza. Gaza’s Ministry of Health spokesperson Dr. Asharf al-Qudra said on Tuesday that Israeli forces are besieging the hospital for the second consecutive week.

Currently, there are 150 medical staff, 450 injured patients, and 3,000 displaced Palestinians trapped in the facility, and they are at risk of Israeli fire if they attempt to leave. “Electrical generators at Nasser Medical Complex will stop within two days due to fuel shortages,” Dr. al-Qudra said in a statement on Telegram. “Waste accumulates in the sections and courtyards of the Nasser Medical Complex, and the occupation refuses to allow it to be transported out,” he added.

The ministry said that Israeli forces killed 114 Palestinians and injured 249 others in 13 massacres in Gaza in the past 24 hours.  “A number of victims are still under rubble and on the roads. The occupation prevents ambulance and civil defense crews from reaching them,” it added. The number of Palestinians killed in the Israeli aggression on Gaza now stands at 26,751 martyrs, and 65,636 were injured since October.

-- From "‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 116" by Mustafa Abu Sneineh, 30 Jan 2024

[ohello0]

Every other update is see about Palestine is more devastating than the last. Things that occurred 1/16/24:

Bisan live streaming the IOF invading Al-Nasser Hospital, the last functioning hospital in all of Gaza, while bombs land nearby and the planes that dropped them soar over head (*x, x, x) update: Bisan survived the night

Reports of the IOF going through all aid meant for Gaza and removing the anesthesia (x)

Video of a doctor amputating his own daughter’s leg on the dining room table while IOF tanks close in on their home (x warning graphic, update: she lived x)

*the auto subtitles on the video didnt capture the name of the hospital, Al-Nasser, and the name of the area, Khan Yunis, properly

[18thcenturythirsttrap]

UPDATE - THANK YOU

I woke up this morning to find that close to 200 people had shared Bisan's Instagram posts! That was in addition to all the people I saw sharing it last night. Thank you so much, Tumblr friends!

Bisan's latest post tells us she managed to survive the night, thank Heaven, though of course many others didn't, and many more have been injured. She's putting out a call for a general strike next week in support of Palestinians and in protest at the Israeli Occupation's genocide.

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Please do visit her post to find out more about how you can support this strike, whether you work or not, wherever you are.

From the river to the sea...

[the-garbanzo-annex-jr]

by Stacey Mattews

The Biden White House has also said they want “answers”:

“We want answers,” National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan told reporters. “We want to see this thoroughly and transparently investigated.” A spokesperson for the US State Department also said Washington was continuing to press Israel for more information.

As with most things claimed by a Hamas-run organization, the problem here is that the mass grave was actually dug in January 2024 – but not by the IDF:

Analyses by Sky News and independent analysts of satellite imagery and footage published online found that claims spread by Hamas and Arabic media that the IDF had dug mass graves at the Nasser hospital in Gaza were false as the graves were made before the IDF entered the complex. Hamas, Al-Jazeera, and several news agencies claimed in recent days that the IDF had dug mass graves in order to “hide” the bodies of Palestinians after entering the Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis.

Here’s more from the Times of Israel:

The IDF, in its response, said that during its operation in the area of Nasser Hospital in recent months, troops examined corpses that had been buried by Palestinians on the medical center’s grounds, “as part of an effort to locate hostages.” The military said it operated in a “targeted manner,” only where it had intelligence that Israeli hostages may have been buried.

GeoConfirmed also has a lengthy thread that includes receipts that back up Shoshani’s statement. Make sure to click on the tweets to expand them for more detailed explanations:

The tweets are here

[beardeddetectivepaper]

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[i-am-aprl]

- Israel succeeds in isolating Gaza little by little

- Israel is severely bombing northern Gaza, and confrontations continue in Khan Yunis and the vicinity of Nasser Hospital

- The number of martyrs is still increasing, blood is still flowing, the silence is increasing, communications are cut off, and news is not coming from Gaza.

Don't stop talking, these are dangerous times.

[lyvm43]

Happening in the south that’s supposed to be “safe”

[notyourtoday]

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TW: Death / Mass Graves / Mention of torture

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