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"August," 2024.

Watercolor on hot press. 7.125 x 11.125”

New piece available now via @everydayoriginal

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This 2023 article by Human Rights Watch talks about how of the 7000 hostages held by Israel, a majority of them have never been convicted of a crime. In fact 2000 of them were being held in administrative detention where this is no charge or trial at all. And these numbers are actually outdated.

This 2024 article by Save the Children says that number has increased from 7000 to 9000. Of those 9000 around 500 are minors who are held without charge or trial. And these numbers are still outdated because Israel has been increasingly more violent since the reports have come out.

"A Save the Children’s report in July 2023 showed that even prior to October 7, Palestinian children arrested by Israeli forces faced immense emotional and physical abuse, with four out of five - 86% -  of them being beaten, and 69% strip-searched. "

So yeah these Zionists are either intentionally trying to distort the facts or they're so close to understanding the truth which is:

Israel has 30x (or more) hostages than Hamas. And that Oct 7th is a result of this disproportionate violence Palestinians experience.

Today I learned about Khalida Jarrar who was part of the recent hostage exchange. Khalida is a Palestinian political leader (she's part of the PFLP and PLC) and human rights and feminist advocate has been held in administrative detention since December 2023 (without charge). She has reportedly spent the past six months in solitary confinement in a 2-by-1.5m cell.

The pics above show what she looked like when she was released vs what she looked like when she went in.

She's been arrested multiple times for things like participating in demonstrations on International Women's Day, advocating for Palestinian prisoners, attending the Human Rights Defender's Summit in Paris (if this doesn't sound absolutely crazy to you then you're a lost cause). Check out her Wiki page. Israel has continuously abused this woman for standing up for basic human rights.

Reading her wiki and all the articles I found about her made me so furious. It's disgusting how she has been abused by Israel.

There are THOUSANDS of cases like this where Israel will simply arrest Palestinians. Hold them hostage without trial. No charge no reason.

I cant believe some of you are supporting this.

Israel is conducting massacres and mass arrests as it decimates northern Gaza. With journalists and social media activists increasingly targeted and detained, less and less footage is getting out of Israel’s ethnic cleansing campaign. ⁣

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Israel has killed at least 175 journalists since the start of its genocide. Now, it has labeled six Al Jazeera journalists as “terrorists,” which the network denied, calling Israel’s claims “fabricated accusations as a blatant attempt to silence the few remaining journalists in the region.” ⁣

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The Committee to Protect Journalists said on X, “Israel has repeatedly made similar unproven claims without producing credible evidence.” ⁣

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As it silences journalists, Israel has leveled over 10 residential buildings in Jabalia and stormed the north’s only remaining hospital, threatening the lives of about 200 patients trapped inside and conducting mass arrests. ⁣

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One of the journalists targeted by Israel, Anas al-Sharif, wrote, “North Gaza is being wiped out.” ⁣

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Journalist Bisan Owda reacted to the attacks in Jabalia, saying: “No civil defense to grab the people from under the rubble. Nothing. Even journalists. No one to cover this massacre ... the world is complicit in this, is silent on this.” ⁣

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i’ve gotta get out of here

And I just need everyone to read this passage from Pappé, because the symbolism of what happened to those European pine trees in the desert speaks for itself:

This story really spoke to me.

I've been shying away from making anything based on the attempted genocide happening right now.