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All you need to know about the opening of the UN General Assembly’s 81st session is the distance between what is said inside the UN and what is happening on the ground in Gaza

Today, Refaat Alareer should have turned 47. He should have been here, teaching, writing, mentoring our writers, making jokes, challenging us to think harder, and reminding us again and again that our stories matter. Refaat was born in Gaza on September 23, 1979. He was a poet, professor, writer, and one of the co-founders of We Are Not Numbers. To so many of us, he was also a teacher, mentor, colleague, and friend. Today, on what would have been his 47th birthday, we remember Refaat, who was killed by Israel on December 6, 2023. We remember him not only for how he died, but for how he lived — teaching and inspiring generations of young Palestinians to write back and tell their stories.

As the Israel team travels to Europe where they will play against Austria, Ireland and Kosovo between 24 September - 6 October, Palestinian families are being displaced and dispossessed, their land stolen, their olive trees uprooted, and their histories erased by settlers with the support of the Israeli military. The beautiful game should bring people together, not rubber-stamp apartheid. It’s unconscionable that the Israel men’s football team will participate in the UEFA Nations League this autumn despite clear evidence that Israel’s football association continues to support illegal settlements. Sport should never be used as a public relations spectacle for states committing atrocities. When rules are broken, when occupation, apartheid and genocide are ongoing, we cannot look the other way.

A week after being pulled from beneath the rubble of a collapsed building in Gaza, seven-year-old Abdulrahman Azzam remains deeply traumatised. The boy reaches for his pregnant mother’s belly to protect her, only to remember that she is no longer there. middleeasteye.net/news/gaza-…

Nearly 10,000 Palestinian detainees are held in Israeli prisons—most without trial—including hundreds of children, doctors, and academics. They are subjected to the most brutal forms of torture, and no one in the world speaks about them. Be their voice.

A massive Israeli airstrike just rocked Gaza City. Intermittent artillery and quadcopter gunfire is heard. Drones are buzzing overhead. F16s and flying at low altitudes. It feels like war.

An Israeli airstrike just rocked Gaza City. Since the early morning, at least 3 Palestinians have been killed in ongoing Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip

Gaza: One year after ceasefire, killing and displacement of Palestinians persist middleeasteye.net/news/reliv…

Now that almost all the victims of the surreal scene of a building collapsing on top of its inhabitants in Gaza overnight have been pulled from the rubble, I can’t stop myself from saying that this has been one of my recurring nightmares since 2021, waking me up in the middle of the night multiple times. Having survived several Israeli attacks, I never had nightmares about being killed.. that doesn’t quite scare me. My worst nightmare is being asleep safely in my bed and suddenly seeing the ceiling collapse, the walls break, and myself falling with my entire apartment to the ground. In 2021, following Israel’s devastating 51-day attack on Gaza, I interviewed a survivor who had been pulled from under the rubble after an Israeli airstrike. She told me she didn’t hear the bombing when the building was hit, but the moment it was hit, and just before it collapsed, she saw cracks appearing in the wall in front of her. She pointed at the wall and tried to ask her family, “What’s this?" Before she could finish the sentence, she woke up after some time of fainting to find herself trapped under the rubble. She spent hours there before civil defence rescuers reached her. I documented her story. And ever since, I have relived it multiple times in my sleep. Throughout the genocide and until now, my brain has woken me up in the middle of nightmares, seemingly trying to save itself from the pressure it was under, giving me an almost real experience of being trapped beneath the rubble. Over the past few months, however, I have started having a different kind of nightmare. Less chaotic, just one single scene, but equally traumatising. In a random conversation with the kind of context only Gazans would understand, I spoke to a colleague about it just last week. I stepped into the office, made coffee and sat at my desk, visibly not in the mood. He routinely asked how I was doing. “Not in the mood,” I replied. “I had a nightmare.” “What was it?” he asked. “I saw a yellow block right on our street corner,” I replied. “Oh, merciful God. God forbid,” he said. “Amen,” I replied, and continued with what I was doing. A moment of silence passed before I laughed: “I just imagined someone abroad listening to our conversation and hearing you react like that to a colleague casually telling you she saw a yellow block in her dream," I told him. "How would they understand your reaction? Would it make sense to the most sophisticated psychologists, unfamiliar with our reality, that dreaming of a yellow block could require psychological support?” “No one would imagine,” he replied. And that’s exactly it. No one would imagine, how Israel is effectively perpetrating genocide across every single aspect of Palestinains’ lives. (*The yellow blocks are concrete blocks the Israeli occupation army places in civilian neighbourhoods to mark what it calls the “Yellow Line". Once residents see a yellow block placed at the doorstep of their homes, they know they have to evacuate immediately because the Israeli army is preparing to flatten the neighbourhood and move the line deeper into Gaza, an area that now cuts through around 70% of the Strip)

UPDATE: At least 21 bodies have been retrieved from under the rubble of the collapsed, bomb-damaged building in Gaza, including 12 children, 5 women, 2 elderly people, and 2 men. Another 14 injured were rescued, including 7 children, 4 women, 1 elderly and 2 men

Life in Gaza has become incredibly difficult. I’m a Translation graduate with a physical disability, looking for any genuine online job opportunity I can do from Gaza. If you know of an opportunity, please reach out. 🙏

RT @WeAreNotNumbers: At least 16 Palestinians, including children and women, were killed and 25 others injured after a residential building…

ألا تستحق فاجعة انهيار عمارة السعادة أن تنكَّس رايات مؤسساتكم في الضفة والقدس والداخل؟ ألا تستحق وقفات في جامعاتكم؟ ألا تستحق أن تنكَّس رايات سفاراتكم الفلسطينية حزنًا ولفتًا للانتباه إلى الفاجعة المستمرة؟ ألا تستحق أن تخرج فرق الدفاع المدني في مدنكم في وقفة رمزية تطالب بالسماح لها بالوصول إلى غزة للمشاركة في انتشال جثامين الآلاف، كما فعلت في إخماد الحرائق لدى الاحتلال وخارج فلسطين؟ مات الضمير الإنساني قبل الوطني..

Come on world leaders! 50 children are under the rubble We're not asking for thousands of rescue workers or a global coalition like the Oceangate Titan sub or the Tham Luang cave rescue Just pressure Israel to allow excavation equipment, machines & fuel into Gaza immediately!

At least 50 Palestinians have been killed in a single week as Israeli attacks continue to escalate across #Gaza despite the ceasefire. A ceasefire that leaves people under attack is no ceasefire. #Israel’s killing of Palestinians continues, and so does the genocide.

UPDATE: At least 16 bodies have been retrieved from under the rubble of the collapsed, bomb-damaged building in Gaza, while 25 injured people have been rescued so far Around 50 others remain trapped under the rubble

This is the “Happiness Building” before it collapsed in Gaza overnight, killing and injuring nearly 80 people. Displaced families were living in this severely bomb-damaged building because they had nowhere else to go. More than 1.5 million Palestinians remain displaced in makeshift tents and damaged homes across Gaza, while Israel continues to block the entry of caravans, reconstruction materials, and the equipment needed to clear rubble and search for around 8,000 people still missing, most of them believed to be buried under the rubble.

The building is called Al-Saada Building, meaning "Happiness Building" What happiness is possible under a genocidal military occupation?