#if you really absolutely cannot read the news bc it'll trigger you like...dont post about that lol

[eddiegirls]

if you're feeling like your mental health is too fragile to bear witness to the suffering in palestine, like you need to do "self care" and avoid reading the news...

i want you to consider the unimaginable privilege needed to even think such a thing. the people in gaza have lived under a permanent blockade for 16 years. they are trapped and israel controls their access to food, electricity, water, and medical supplies. israel has been OPENLY massacring and displacing the palestinian people for 75 years. the entire world sits by and lets it happen. palestinians are dehumanized constantly by the western media. the world's most powerful countries give israel endless funds to commit genocide.

israel WANTS you to look away. they don't WANT you to see the babies they've murdered and the hospitals and schools they've bombed and the white phosphorus they've used on residential areas that is hot enough to burn through to the bone and the armed militias with government-provided guns patrolling the streets killing palestinians and the people their soldiers have raped & tortured and the people they're keeping in cages and the systematic starvation and the mass destruction of palestinian farmland and the screaming, hysterical parents whose children were taken from them and...

if you look away, you're complicit. you have to see it. you, as a westerner, have very few options. but palestinians are BEGGING the world to bear witness. we are watching a genocide in real time. we HAVE to call it what it is and we HAVE to share the images and videos that palestinians and journalists in gaza have quite literally given their lives to get to us.