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Video of Israeli soldiers using a freaking CATAPULT to set fire to Lebanese land. Burning our lands, biodiversity, trees, and sustenance. Where is the condemnation by the respective international environmental organizations? Why are you silent? What are you waiting for?
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What Lebanon has experienced today is undoubtedly, without question, without nuance, a terrorist attack. 3000+ injured folk, with injuries that are so stomach-churning they feel like they’re made up. Say it as it is. This is an act of terror.
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Isra*l just struck a car in south Lebanon, on the road between Aitroun & Ainata. It reportedly had a woman driving with three kids. The car is said to be registered to journalist Samir Ayyoub.
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+ something needs to be said about phosphorus’s effect on agricultural lands, which is the case in Palestine and South Lebanon. Its effects last for years and years: phosphorus severely pollutes the ground and groundwater and weakens the soil for agricultural production. 1/
White phosphorus has caused severe 4th and 5th-degree burns to Palestinian victims. While I won't display actual images, a mere description cannot fully capture the severity. Instead, I'll provide a medical illustration to depict the extent of the damage.
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Isra*li airstrikes so intense tonight on South Lebanon, it looks like a sunrise. Earlier today, Isra*l managed to conduct 100 airstrikes within the span of an hour, and it seems to be repeating the same thing this evening.
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Heavy day for South Lebanon today. White phosphorus raining on several villages across the border. Civilian infrastructure, green land, everything. Insane aggression. Dystopic photo.
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All 11 members of the medical unit in the town of al-Taybeh in South Lebanon have been martyred. The center director, the on-call doctor, the nurses, and the paramedics. All gone. Israel murdered an entire team of medical personnel in one town. Oh my god
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Lebanon declaring a 3-day mourning period for the queen of England is so embarrassing because not only are we mourning a colonizer we’re mourning a colonizer who didn’t even colonize us
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i can’t believe this is on the internet for everyone to see: this man is literally confessing to taking part in ethnic cleansing and illegal settlement and then zionists have the audacity to say “we’re being misunderstood and oppressed by society 🥺 “
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Zeinab was set to travel to meet up with her fiancé abroad in two days. Instead, Israel killed her and 22 others in Almat today, 7 of which are children.
Our people deserve their stories to be told. They are not just “another typical casualty in the Middle East.”
زينب القرصيفي. هذة الشابة الجميلة كانت تستعد للسفر بعد يومين لملاقاة خطيبها في الخارج. قتلها العدو الصهيوني مع جميع أفراد عائلتها في #مجزرة_علمات.
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Israel targeted Beirut, it targeted one of the most populated areas in Lebanon. This is your headline.
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Israeli jets’ favorite party trick in Lebanon is breaching not only our airspace but also our sound barrier, essentially enacting mock raids, which citizens made to believe they’re about to get bombed. I don’t think people abroad realize how much of the torture is psychological
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Israel is interfering with GPS systems and airport processes in Lebanon, putting commercial airplanes carrying civilians in danger, but that’s apparently not a big deal because who cares about Lebanese and Arab civilians at large, right?
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I don’t think people comprehend the magnitude of this. Isra*l performs massacres in Gaza, the West Bank, and all over Lebanon with the press of a finger. That’s all it takes. Such power vested in the hands of such an entity, this is insane.
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seeing tweets like this makes a special kind of deep-seated hate come up to the surface.
there are no bounds to the evil that is zionism. truly no bounds.
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Last night, Israel targeted over 17 towns in southern Lebanon, including my mother’s hometown, with relentless airstrikes. Almost all these targets are forested areas. This is what they call “self-defense.”
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Sound of ambulances filling Beirut following Israel’s targeting of Chiyeh. An area full of people. Midday. Freaking apocalyptic scenes.
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the Notre Dame was international news & everyone was in tears at how a religious monument was in flames. Al-Aqsa is being purposefully vandalized by settlers, and people who are praying are being attacked INSIDE. lets just throw out international law at this point why dont we
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Israel has called for the “evacuation” of the ENTIRE city of Baalbek. Baalbek & its surroundings are home to at least 180,000 individuals.
This is not an evacuation— this is an announcement of impending cleansing. They are cleansing cities.
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to call these attacks anything but deliberate is to lie straight through your teeth.
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Hey!
Lebanese ✅
Arab ✅
Comes from an Eastern Christian family ✅
This is one of the worst waking weeks/day/moments of my life. Hope that helps!
Israel is not invading Lebanon, it is liberating it.
This is a historic moment, not only for the Israelis, but for the Lebanese, Arabs, and Eastern Christians.
To not understand this is to have lost all moral and political compass.
#StandWithIsrael #Lebanon #IDF
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Israel striking the town of Kfarkela with white phosphorus. Notice what they’re striking at the bottom. Open areas of agricultural land. They are purposefully debilitating Lebanon’s agri sector, its economy, its environment, and its people’s wellbeing
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Over 300 airstrikes today in Lebanon and it’s not 1 pm yet. Israel is striking civilian homes, has struck a road leading to a hospital, agricultural land, it’s mayhem.
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Israel just struck Baalbek, in the Bekaa region, for the first time since the war. This seems like a replay of 2006, where they strike all over Lebanon and claim to hit military targets, while destroying the country’s infrastructure and killing civilians along the way.
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Border villages in South Lebanon are increasingly being leveled to the ground. Yet international news channels will not convey this, perhaps to avoid showing Israel’s true colors beyond the Hamas excuse: an expansionist, murderous, settler-colonial project.
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2/ By virtue, as its after remnants affect water and soil, they affect farmers’ livelihoods, as well as the composition of grown produce, which means consumers’ health is on the line, years after phosphorus has been used.
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We’re already starting to see the effects on crops:
From the #Lebanese border with occupied #Palestine: 15 ha of #avocado seedlings intercropped with early winter vegetables damaged by #Israeli phosphorus bombing.
#Farmers report feeling sick & nauseous after trying to eat some of the cabbages that had no apparent signs of injury
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“hamas stronghold”
“hezbollah stronghold”
terms used to justify the murder of civilians as collateral damage because there are other More Important Targets™️
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& let the barrage of fake news begin. The first slide is claiming that the car was transporting hezb members ( notice the subjectivity of the language used.) On the right is Samer Ayyoub, covered in blood after he and his family members’ cars were targeted.
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Was driving back from Beirut to Jbeil & I saw a few welcome tables with signs reading "اهلًا بالضيوف الكرام" / " Welcome to our esteemed guests” in Tabarja and Nahr Ibrahim on the side of the road for t to the displaced, for them to rest and drink. Heart is full❤️🩹
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Ecocide in South Lebanon tonight sponsored by Israeli white phosphorus bombs. What a devastating sight.
لا تزال فرق الإطفاء التابعة لجمعية كشافة الرسالة الإسلامية تعمل على إخماد الحرائق في بلدة #العديسة جراء إستهداف المنطقة بقنابل #الفسفور_الأبيض
تم توثيق إستخدام مكثف للا/حتلال للقنابل الفسفورية اليوم في مناطق عدة من #جنوب_لبنان من بينها #شبعا و #الخيام و #حرش_كونين
#لبنان
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I believe that there are no words left in the English language - or any language at all - that can really describe the cruelty of Isra*l. People, praying in what they resort to as a safe haven, only to be direct targets of airstrikes. This is the utmost level of evil.
An Israeli air strike blasted the area just outside the Latin Church in Gaza while the Christian community was praying: “Holy Mary, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death.”
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Evergreen trees (including oak and pine) scorched by phosphorus and other bombs in South Lebanon. Trees that have been around for hundreds & thousands of years. Now reduced to burnt skeletons. And how will this land be replanted with chemicals seeping into its soil?
آثار الحرائق التي تسبب بها القصف الاسرائيلي بالقنابل الفسفورية والحارقة على المنطقة الحرجية بين #علما_الشعب و #الناقورة في قضاء صور والذي أتى على مساحات واسعة من اشجار السنديان والصنوبر والبطم والكثير منها معمر
#لبنان #جنوب_لبنان #صور
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Maybe it’s just me but I can’t stomach the complete intellectualization of the massacring and misery of our people. Every massacre is a case study analysis for a foreign analyst to get a few extra likes on twitter. Our people are being slaughtered.
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Israel threw white phosphorus bombs into greenland in the vicinity of the Mays Al Jabal hospital in s. Leb this afternoon. The land is on fire and has the potential to spread quickly since much of the greenery is dry. Killing the land quickly, killing patients in the hosp slowly
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“pro-Hezbollah media?” their freaking uncle, journalist Samir Ayoub, covered in blood from the blast, was on live TV describing his nieces’ charred bodies and how he pulled their screaming mother out of their car.
BREAKING: 🇮🇱 IDF drone strike on a vehicle in southern Lebanon results in killing of three people, with pro-Hezbollah media claiming the victims were children.
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“even in beirut” lord please rid us of the covert orientalism that westerners living in the Middle East feel like they are entitled to amen
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beautiful campaign in question:
This is not Kamala’s fault btw. She worked her ass off to a beautiful campaign with the ~100 days she had. She’s arguably the most qualified US presidential candidate ever, with prior experience in all 3 branches of government. Americans simply voted against their best interest.
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That [very normal] moment when you’re sitting in Beirut and every person sitting outside collectively looks up as Israeli warplanes violate our airspace over and over and over again
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true lebanese independence is when the lycee frenchies will learn how to say one whole sentence in arabic
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Today is Liberation Day, marking 24 yrs since South Lebanon was liberated from Israeli occupation, which lasted from 1985-2000, during which Israel forcefully displaced, tortured& killed countless lives. Here’s to a day where we see the end of the occupation in the region.
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“my taxes”😭
boy this is not the united states our taxes aren’t building shit. our social security system is collapsed. our infrastructure hasn’t been renovated in years. so keep your awful opinions to yourself
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Two buildings leveled to the ground in Beirut’s southern suburb, Dahyeh. Israel has committed 3 massacres in three days in Lebanon, without impunity. 3 massacres in 3 days.
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protesting AND picking up the trash afterwards??? never been prouder #صار_وقت_نحاسب
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From “Hamas must be eliminated” to “Hezbollah must be eliminated,” Netanyahu is manufacturing consent to slaughter Lebanese people, just as he did with Palestinians.
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“If Hezbollah didn’t exist Israel wouldn’t attack it and it would be peaceful”
When has history ever proven that you can peacefylly coexist with a colonizing entity in the Global South without them trying to seize more land (which they continue to try to do in Lebanon)?
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A woman and her child were just killed in an Israeli airstrike on Sawwaneh, South Lebanon. Where is the international news? Where is the outcry over the “civilian deaths” you so love to differentiate?
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Arab men can only ever be demonized or sexualized. Even in death. Never anything in between. How disgusting.
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since trump is in my city today i want to thank him for making racist assholes more confident in public .
Thanks to you , a Sudani refugee I tutor has been called the n word & was told to go back to his country on A SCHOOL BUS. He’s 9 and has PTSD . he did not need this.
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Today, Israel committed yet another massacre in Bekaa: it killed 17 members of the same family. It continues the same strategy it has been committed to in Gaza: wiping off entire families of civil registries.
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Deir Qanoun Al Nahr, South Lebanon tonight. People awakened to their houses crumbling over their heads because of an Israeli airstrike, which attacked a reportedly two+ story building . A dystopic scene. Casualties reported
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“Leb women are not oppressed” he says as a 14 year old just committed suicide because her parents wanted to marry her off, as women are murdered by their husbands with no retribution, as women cannot pass their citizenship to their children, as women are called sluts for
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all I have to say is shame on the people who have to position themselves within our tragedies in any shape, way, or form, to seem relevant and get a few likes on social media. shame shame shame shame shame shame
One of my Lebanese friends, a funny & highly astute man in the publishing industry around my father's age w/ whom I danced tango in Byblos last weekend, lives in Hamra, about 7km from Dahiyeh.
I texted to check on him. "Did you feel the explosion today?" I asked. "Are you okay?"
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Many come and live amongst us, eat our food, learn our language, join academic and social circles, only for them to show us that they really don’t care about us as human beings, only as subjects worth researching, only as cash cows for them to market their $200 books on us.
Far too many scholars do not love the people of the middle east, or the colonized, or the victims of genocidal war, or those that live life in slow death. Instead, they find all of these people “interesting”
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I can’t stomach the idea that Israel has outright exclaimed that it will invade Lebanon way more times than I can count on my fingers and replicate what it has done in Gaza in Lebanon and the world’s leaders see that as Absolutely Normal Behavior™️
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You can tell how quickly The Telegraph changed its sources after the IATA disproved their allegations completely throwing out their credibility from the window. The updates weren’t spared of grammatical mistakes. Lol.
Why would the Telegraph release such an article today? They’re trying to convince the world that the airport would be a reasonable target, that targeting civilians is inevitable.
“The IDF would have no choice but to react, potentially placing civilians in harm’s way.”
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Often times, I mourn a Levant that never was. A Levant that was not colonially partitioned and pit against each other for the sake of imperialist gains. A Levant where part of its people wouldn’t be cheering on the slaughter of their brothers and sisters. What a shame.
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Gazan journalist Wael El Dahdouh only surviving son, journalist Hamza El Dahdouh, was just martyred by an Israeli airstrike directly targeting journalists in Khan Younis. Wael and his daughter are the only ones surviving from the family. Israel is wiping out entire families.
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It’s kind of ironic, a tragic comedy even, how the MENA region, and specifically the Levant, is constantly stricken with one tragedy after the other. And how do you rush to try to recover from one tragedy when you haven’t recovered from the last one?
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I love how an American account is telling me —a Lebanese person who has lived in Lebanon her entire life— to go read some history and if I knew the word “Druze” before Saturday.
Oh Michelle… please go back and read some history. I think there are some Druze people who might disagree. Did you know that work before Saturday?
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Why would the Telegraph release such an article today? They’re trying to convince the world that the airport would be a reasonable target, that targeting civilians is inevitable.
“The IDF would have no choice but to react, potentially placing civilians in harm’s way.”
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Delivery workers @toters_delivery are on strike today to raise their minimum wage from 18,000 LL to 35,000 LL. What they make now doesn’t even amount to a third of a dollar. Can’t express how important this strike is. All the solidarity with them✊🏻❤️
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How are you fetishizing a man that was just assassinated in what is arguably one of the most critical assassinations of our times?
You people are messed up on so many different levels and cannot read the room even if the room hit you straight in the face.
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Isra*l has carried several airstrikes in Baalbek tonight, northern half of Lebanon. Isra*l continues its attempts to expand the war, to solicit a “major” response from Hezb to possibly justify a large-scale destructive war on or invasion of Lebanon.
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خبر عاجل: يعلن الفاتيكان حالة طوارئ ويدعو البابا البطريرك الراعي وسمير جعجع وجبران باسيل إلى الفاتيكان لإيجاد طريقة لإقناع "أليس بيروتي" المسيحية بالتراجع عن قرارها
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This is Samir Ayyoub, being interviewed live in the top left frame. His name is also written in the caption in Arabic
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The occupation is using the “ceasefire” period to destroy as much Lebanese civil, economic, and environmental infrastructure possible. They just detonated a water sewage plant in Marjeyoun valley, South Lebanon. Funniest part is, no one’s ever going to question why they did it.
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Two martyrs and over 65 wounded. Parents separated from their kids and trying to find them amidst the chaos. Civil defense looking for people under the rubble. This is Israel’s legacy in Lebanon, in Palestine, in Syria.
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How are you as a Lebanese person posting about Mathew Perry’s death while being silent for the past three weeks when our neighbors and own people and country are being ravaged and attacked and destroyed?
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the way Gino raidy uses the words “ sulta, nizam” etc instead of just translating them reminds me of western academics who don’t know a drop of arabic but will write stuff like “ãl hûkùmà àl luubnâniïyya” to sound more knowledgable and connected
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Four victims removed from under the rubble of a building attacked by an Israeli airstrike tonight on Nabatieh. Amongst the martyrs are a mother and daughter. Israel killed three children in Lebanon today. I don’t have any words to explain the outrage anymore.
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Israel has started making claims about Al Sahel hospital in Haret Hreik, Beirut’s suburbs, manufacturing consent to attack it. We’ve seen this in Gaza, we’re seeing it in Lebanon now.
#عاجل ‼️ حزب الله يُحتفظ بمئات الملايين من الدولارات بالعملات الورقية والذهب تحت مستشفى الساحل في حارة حريك لاستخدامها لتمويل أنشطته الإرهابية
⭕️نكشف معلومات خطيرة عن قيام حزب الله بوضع الملجأ الخاص بالمدعو حسن نصر الله تحت مستشفى الساحل الواقع في قلب بيروت.
⭕️تقع فتحتيْ الدخول والخروج داخل عمارة الأحمدي وعمارة سنتر الساحل.
⭕️وداخل هذا الملجأ يوجد مجمع يُحتفظ فيه بمئات الملايين من الدولارات بالعملات الورقية والذهب، التي تم أخذ قسم كبير منها من مواطني الدولة اللبنانية والتي كان من شأنها ولا يزال من شأنها أن تعيد إعمار الدولة اللبنانية.
⭕️عنوان المستشفى في شارع ضرغام، طريق المطار، حارة حريك.
⭕️هذه الأموال مخصصة حصريًا لتسليح منظمة حزب الله الإرهابية، ولا ولم تكن لها أي وجهة أخرى.
⭕️قطع جوية تابعة لسلاح الجو تستطلع المجمع حاليًا. ونحن نتابعه وسنواصل متابعته.
⭕️ نناشد الحكومة اللبنانية ومؤسسات الحكم اللبنانية والمنظمات الدولية بإعادة الأموال التي سُرقت من مواطني لبنان إليهم، وعدم السماح لحزب الله باستخدامها لأغراضه الإرهابية.
⭕️حربنا ليست ضد مواطني لبنان إنما ضد منظمة إرهابية دموية تتمادى إيران في تسليحها وتوجيهها وفق المصلحة الإيرانية.
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The people of Palestine and Lebanon have been working night and day to humanize themselves. A burden that they should not have to shoulder in the first place. To prove themselves. To whom? To a world that simply does not deserve it.
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I know this is well meaning & these people clearly have Euro features but we have to stop with the phenotype argument. Indigenous Palestinians can go from having super blonde to super black hair or be super light to super dark toned. And none of them belong less than the other.
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The Lebanese army & UNIFIL just found the body of two shepherds in the South of Lebanon, killed by direct Israeli fire. Not because they were caught in crossfire. Nope. Because Isra*l just shot at them. While doing their job. How many more must die until the world does something?
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“ Is this at the expense of Arabs? Yes”I’m no lawyer but this would be considered as a confession of guilt in court!!!
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So many people in Lebanon unable to bury their loved ones who were martyred due to the intensity of the attacks & Israel’s very long track record of targeting people as they mourn.
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Violent Israeli airstrike on Bint Jbeil, Lebanon tonight. I have so many things to say but unfortunately they will get me kicked off this app.
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no one prepared me for the amount of lebanese arabic i hear on the streets of paris i really think there’s some reverse colonialism happening here
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Israel has hit Beirut dead right & center, after midnight, as people were asleep, but we already know what these headlines are going to look like. And I despise them already.
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What else there for one to say other than what’s been said about Isra*l scorching our lands savagely?
Anyway, Khiam, in South Lebanon endured very intense white phosphorus shelling last night. Everything else I have to say might get me banned off this app
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six people are dead, sixty people are injured, and people are scared for their fucking lives. maybe it’s not the best time to make jokes about it????????????????????????
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This morning, Israel issued a warning of evacuation for my mother’s hometown, Deir Mimas, a small border town which houses a handful of families yet 5 times the amount of olive groves. A town so green you can’t help but feel like a new person once you visit.
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Israel has just targeted a pickup truck in South Lebanon. Early reports claim that 4 civilians were in the car. Israel is deliberately attacking and killing civilians, moments after killing 2 journalists doing their jobs. Where is the international condemnation?
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A lot of people might view Westerners relocating to Lebanon while working a remote job as something “good”. But oh boy is it bad. Increased gentrification, the driving up of all sorts of costs, and who knows what else. Local renters are going ballistic because foreigners are
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The Syndicate of Chemists in Lebanon is warning people from coming within a 2 km radius of the strike sites in Dahyeh due to the likelihood of the missiles containing Depleted Uranium, which explains the magnitude of the impact & which caused respiratory, skin & other diseases
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" i’m voting for change” - person who believes refugees don’t deserve rights and just voted for kataeb
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Reports are emerging of the occupation wanting to announce that it will not withdraw from South Lebanon, because the Leb army is “failing to adhere to the agreement as required.” Meanwhile the IOF’s “adherence” looks like 353 ceasefire violations.
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