#Syrian Children

[girlactionfigure]

[pamwmsn]

Give me the money that was spent on wars and I will dress every man, woman, and child in clothing that kings and queens will be proud of. I will build a school in every valley on the whole earth. I will crown each hillside with a place of worship dedicated to peace.

(Charles Summer)

Syrian children...... the humility of the invisible. Those who are there not to break the world but to reattach the broken pieces ..

[fromdarzaitoleeza]

وَلَا تَحۡسَبَنَّ ٱللَّهَ غَٰفِلًا عَمَّا يَعۡمَلُ ٱلظَّـٰلِمُونَۚ إِنَّمَا يُؤَخِّرُهُمۡ لِيَوۡمٖ تَشۡخَصُ فِيهِ ٱلۡأَبۡصَٰرُ

And never think that Allah is unaware of what the wrongdoers do. He only delays them for a Day when eyes will stare [in horror].

[without-ado]

Rescuers struggle to find survivors in Turkiye and Syria

If you feel pain, you're alive. If you feel other people's pain, you are a human being. —Tolstoy

[nc-vb]

if it’s gotten to the fucking point that the Ministry of Education has to announce that “the school year is cancelled” for part of Gaza because all its students have been murdered, humanity has failed, failed at everything— flat out, point blank, and unequivocally failed.

[soracities]

“He saw the past, present, and future like three drunk friends reeling as they walked, left and right . . . forward and back. . . running into one another . . . fighting . . . stabbing each other . . . losing their memory. He saw the skies raining gold and the people burying it so deep in the ground no human hand could reach it, then going back to their homes weeping from the weight of poverty and deprivation. He saw love’s emaciated body soaring with two huge wings of hate.”

Osama Alomar, “A Story for Children” (tr. C.J. Collins)

[aswiya]

Sedil al Mohammad, 12, here looking from her home’s rooftop, often asks her mother, Khadija, about life in Syria. Khadija says she sings songs from Syria to give her children a sense of their homeland.

HANNAH REYES MORALES

[divinum-pacis]

October 2022: Syrian refugees wait to leave the Lebanese border town of Arsal to head back to Syria. [Wael Hamzeh/EPA]

[niishi]

Idc what y'all say. If you support the two party system you support white supremacy. I don't care if one side is less openly horrific than the other. I don't care. Y'all are 1/16th of the way to a full thought. You got your fingertips out of the box but you're still trapped. Stop getting your political knowledge from tiktok influencers. Read anarchy and the black revolution and go from there. Saying "it's stupid not to pick the better of both evils" or "you must be privileged to say you aren't voting" is ridiculous. Follow indigenous ppl online and read what they have to say. Listen to them. If you're supporting a system that still enacts genocide on its most vulnerable (Dems are just as guilty) then you're supporting white supremacy and fascism. Talk less and learn more. If y'all were actually listening to the most vulnerable ppl in this country, instead of white tiktokers, your opinions and ideas would evolve. Don't EVER think you know exactly what you're talking about. You're the student until you die.

[girlactionfigure]

As if Assad gas attack victims didn't already suffer enough with the decade-long campaign accusing them of being false flag actors, now accounts falsely use the images of their dead children for clout.

[6ghassan]

A Syrian refugee child waits as refugees prepare to leave the Lebanese capital Beirut to return to their homes in Syria on September 9, 2018 (Anwar Amro - AFP - Getty) by Wasfi Akab Via Flickr: Over 12 million Syrians remained forcibly displaced in the region, including almost 6.8 million within the Syrian Arab Republic and 5.4 million living as refugees in neighboring countries.

[mimok]

Facing Future~ The Book is Here!

Facing Future~ The Book is Here!

Dear Friends, I would love to have your support for this important project. It has been urging to appear and to be put into into the world . I have spent the last few months working on curating the images of these amazing children. I have been reliving in the process the moments spent in those places, seeing the resilience, the hope and the strength in the faces of our future humans, how they…

[sayruq]

My grandmother Naifa al-Sawada was born in June 1932. A beautiful girl with blue eyes, she was the only daughter to her parents. They were originally from Gaza but moved to nearby Bir al-Saba, where Naifa’s father Rizq worked as a merchant. She did well at school and in 1947 obtained the necessary certificate from the British – then the rulers of Palestine – to attend university. She did not do so, however. Her father was fearful about what could happen to her at a time when war in Palestine appeared imminent. At a young age, she married my grandfather Salman al-Nawaty and went to live in Gaza. Between 1947 and 1949, Zionist forces expelled approximately 800,000 Palestinians from their homes. Among those directly affected by the Nakba – Arabic for catastrophe – were Naifa’s own parents, who fled their home in Bir al-Saba for Gaza. Having witnessed the Nakba, Naifa encouraged her own children to defend Palestine. Naifa gave birth to four girls and six boys.Like so many mothers in Gaza, she experienced great loss. Her son Moataz went missing while traveling to Jerusalem in 1982. It is still not known what happened to him. Another son Moheeb, a journalist, left Palestine for Norway in 2007. Three years later he traveled to Syria. In January 2011, he went missing. The Syrian authorities subsequently confirmed to the Norwegian diplomatic service that he was imprisoned. But he has not been allowed to contact his family.We do not know his current whereabouts or even if he is alive or dead. My grandmother witnessed the first intifada from 1987 and 1993. On the streets around her, youngsters with stones and slingshots rose up against armed Israeli soldiers in tanks and military jeeps. During that time, her son Moheeb – the aforementioned journalist – was held for more than a year without charge or trial. That infamous practice is called administrative detention. My grandmother lived close to al-Shifa, Gaza’s largest hospital. She took great care of arranging everything in her home with her delicate hands. She used those same hands to comb her hair into braids. She memorized the Quran and took great interest in the education of her children and grandchildren. On 21 March this year, Israeli troops broke into my grandmother’s home. The soldiers displayed immense brutality. They ordered the women in our family to evacuate on foot and arrested the men. They would not allow the women to take my grandmother, who had Alzheimer’s disease, with them. The soldiers claimed that my grandmother would be safe. That was a lie. The invasion of my grandmother’s house took place amid Israel’s siege on al-Shifa hospital. My grandmother’s house was destroyed during that siege and she was killed. Her remains were found days after the Israeli troops eventually withdrew from the hospital earlier this month. She was killed – alone – in the same house where she had lived since 1955. We do not know if she suffered or if she died quickly. We do know that she was older than Israel’s merciless occupation.

[tamamita]

how is isis different from hamas?

Gonna make it easy and comprehensible:

ISIS or DA'ISH is a transnational terror organization consisting of Iraqi Baathists, former Syrian rebels or moderates, recruited fighters from all over the world, former US captives in Iraq, and oppressed and disenfranchised Sunnis. Wahhabi in nature, ISIS subscribes to the literalist tradition of Islam, based on a strict adherence to Tawhid (Islamic monotheism), rejecting the concept of intercession and saint venerations, seeing them as an act of idolatry. Their religious verdicts are based on the literal interpretation of the Qur'an and Sunnah, rejecting metaphorical exegesis. They aim to establish a global caliphate, seeking to eliminate anyone who opposses it regardless of religious or ideological differences. They see their cause as a hastening of various Islamic end time prophecies in their interpretation of Islamic eschatology. Like many Salafis, they reject Taqlid, which is to conform to one of the four schools of thought in Sunni Islam. On top of that, they reject religious innovations (Bid'ah), which is the idea that anything introduced to the religion without any religious basis is heresy. Whether it be practical or theological, they deem any Muslim who engage in Bid'ah to be an apostate or heretic. They are notorious for their intolerance of non-Muslims and application of Takfirism (excommunication) on Muslims, whether Sunni or Shi'a. Christians had to pay the Jizya (poll tax) in their territories, while in other cases, they were murdered, expelled and had their churches destroyed or converted. They have no tolerance for Shi'a Muslims and will kill them on the spot (see: Speicher Massacre), and have often targeted them with IEDs or suicide bombers. Non-Muslims, like the Ezidis or Ahlul Haqq, were often subjected to execution whereas their women and children were either married away, converted or used as sex slaves. DAESH is not interested in national liberation, seeing it as a blasphemous innovation. DAESH does not consider Hamas to be Muslims due to struggle for national liberation which is supported by Iran and various Shi'i proxies.

Hamas is a political and military resistance group that consists of Palestinians. After the failures of the Oslo accord, Hamas broke away from PLO and formed their own political party. They either subscribe to the Shafi'i school of thought or some form of Ikhwani Salafism (Salafism as envisioned by the Muslim Brotherhood). They're a semi-governmental power in Gaza and are responsible for upholding the social and civil institutions, such as hospitals, schools and etc. Hamas' specific aim is localized and seeks to destroy the Zionist entity in order to form a one-state solution under an Islamic emirate or Islamic democracy. Their only enemy is Israel and any of its allies. As of the Hamas charter of 2017, they do not have an intolerance for non-Muslims or people of different religious and ideological comportments, as seen by them holding ties with both Shi'a and Socialist militias, such as Hezbollah and the PFLP/DFLP. Hamas is concerned with the national liberation of Palestine and the Palestinians. Being an entirely localized resistance group, they do not engage in global jihadism like ISIS nor do they carry out attacks internationally.

[biglisbonnews]

UNICEF warns 3.7 million children in earthquake-affected Syria face catastrophic combination of threats Country: Syrian Arab Republic Source: UN Children's Fund "These earthquakes and aftershocks not only destroyed more homes, schools and places for children to play, they also shattered any sense of safety for so many of the most vulnerable,” said ED Russell. https://reliefweb.int/report/syrian-arab-republic/37-million-children-earthquake-affected-syria-face-catastrophic-combination-threats-warns-unicef-executive-director-following-two-day-visit-enar

[bogleech]

"This has to just be antisemitism in disguise because everyone cares suspiciously more about Gaza all the sudden than Ukraine or Syria" is a sentiment I've now seen a few times.

The thing is, no other atrocities have people defending them to my face right now. None. You can find thousands of users on Tumblr posting long diatribes about how Palestinians deserve indiscriminate death for various crimes ascribed to their leadership or simply that their deaths are tragic but acceptable collateral in what's supposedly just proportionate retaliation (which it isn't).

I have to go out of my way and dig deep to find anyone arguing that Ukrainian or Syrian deaths are for a greater good, or that you're the evil one if you express anger at their killers. But when it comes to Gaza, I can get hate mail for saying absolutely nothing other than "don't bomb children."

Just what the IDF fully owns up to, even boasts about, is also as bloodthirsty and sick day after day after day as any single isolated slaughter in my lifetime. Something that would normally spark international outrage for an army to engage in just once is evidently the IDF's typical fucking afternoon. And again, that's if you were to only believe what they themselves gladly confirm.