you've got that look in your eyes

Nearly 9,000 women have been killed in Israeli attacks in five months. Another 2,100 are missing and presumed dead, while 23,000 have been wounded and over half a million are displaced.

“Palestinian women, especially in the Gaza Strip, are exposed to the worst humanitarian catastrophe,” Ashraf al-Qudra, the health ministry’s spokesperson, said on Thursday.

Dozens of women and girls have also been detained and face harsh conditions in Israeli custody, including sexual abuse.

Women in Gaza also struggle to find menstruation products and access the necessary pregnancy and post-natal care. The consequences on reproductive health, including a rise in stress-induced miscarriages, stillbirths and premature births, have increased significantly.

Women in labour are undergoing caesarean procedures without anaesthetics, and a shortage of post-operative care such as medication, antibiotics and pain relief further exacerbates the situation.

According to the health ministry, 5,000 women give birth monthly in Gaza under “harsh, unsafe and unhealthy” conditions caused by Israeli bombing and displacement.

There are 60,000 pregnant women in Gaza suffering from “malnutrition, dehydration and lack of medical care.

this is my first jewish papercut! jewish papercutting is a folk art once done by many jewish communities that has largely been lost due to the Holocaust. a large number of the surviving papercuts are from Galicia, which is where some of my own family comes from, and i've been wanting to continue the tradition and join the modern artists working to revive the art.

i decided to make a mizrach, hung on the eastern wall of a home to indicate the direction of prayer, which is toward Jerusalem. for me, when i hang the mizrach and look to the east, it will serve as a reminder that 'Never Again' means never again for anyone, including the Palestinian people in Gaza at immediate risk with nowhere to go, who have already lost so much.

in the Ashkenazi tradition, there are often four symbolic animals used in papercuts: the lion, the deer, the leopard, and the vulture/eagle. here i decided to use the Palestine sunbird, the Palestinian mountain gazelle, as well as the watermelon and pomegranate, mixing together some symbols Jews and Palestinians share and some that are unique to us as a show of my own solidarity and love for the Palestinian community and my own Jewish community.

i have said it before and i will say it again! Jewish safety is *with* our Palestinian kin. We are mishpacha! i hear and see your pain and i want you all to live in freedom, peace, and dignity, the same as i want for jews and all people.

The double standard 🤮

Also when israeki diaper force snipes 4 year old, media says "accidentally a stray bullet found its way into a 3-4 year old young lady"

she was there in coalition with the organization jewish voices for peace.

🍉Data sources under the cut🍉

An enemy that bombs and uses white phosphorus against civilians doesn't know nor practice what your broken moral compass describes as "peace". Freedom was proven throughout history not to be achieved through kneeling and asking the oppressor to kindly stop. Freedom needs to be taken by force. Your little Utopian way of thinking doesn't work in the real world. Your feelings don't matter because you're not the one living under occupation. Your feelings don't matter because you're not one of the thousands of children who lost their limbs. You're not one of the children who became orphans due to this genocide. You're not the mother who lost her child to the carpet bombing. You're not the father carrying the remains of your child in plastic bags. You're not the newlywed woman who lost her husband. You're not the one at risk of either getting killed any second or losing your loved ones in the blink of an eye!

Not once has "please stop oppressing us" made an oppressor go "aw, shit, my bad, sorry bro". Oppressors want power. They don't want equality. If someone is willing to murder in order to prevent you from having equality, they won't care if you ask from that equality "peacefully". They'll take it as an opportunity to murder you and make an example of you to make everyone else fear the same fate, thus allowing the oppressor to keep their power.