Tweets Coming Out Of / About Gaza Tonight: "I Feel I Am Going To Die"

[Hissyspit]

Lisa Goldman @lisang · 9h
IDF is calling now for evacuation of Jabalyah Camp in Gaza. That means 110K people. Per @galberger https://twitter.com/galberger/status/493818637460180992 …

Mohammed Omer  @Mogaza · 8h
I feel I am going to die

Mohammed Omer  @Mogaza · 5h
AMBULANCE CREW ARE UNDER GUNFIRE NOW!

Guess what @Farah_Gazan · 5h
This is in my area. I can't stop crying. I might die tonight #Gaza #GazaUnderAttack #ICC4Israel #AJAGAZA

Mohammed Omer  @Mogaza · 5h
One ambulance is collecting bodies of firefighters now... not sure how many killed and injured...

Nalan Al Sarraj @NalanSarraj · 5h
The people in the UN school that was targeted are calling for help.Injures r many and nowhere or way to go! Our area is under heavy attack

Tom Gara @tomgara · 5h
The area of Gaza that Israel ordered evacuated / is bombing is 44% of the entire Gaza strip. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/07/28/as-israel-enforces-its-buffer-zone-gaza-shrinks-by-40-per-cent.html …

Electronic Intifada @intifada · 4h
Israeli airstrike kills beloved star of Gaza children's TV program http://bit.ly/WK5oKP

Mohammed Omer  @Mogaza · 4h
I have never seen intense nights as this one. children and women are paying the biggest price! #Gaza

Retweeted by Susie Madrak
Mohammed Suliman ?@imPalestine 3h
On the radio, people cry over the phone entreating for help. People are trapped in their homes under bombs with dead and injured among them.

Mohammed Omer  @Mogaza · 3h
I have seen #Israeli attacks since I was 14. This night is way beyond all what I have seen. No doubt! #Gaza

Mohammed Omer  @Mogaza · 3h
TONIGHT is the worst ever!

Mohammed Omer  @Mogaza · 3h
this is scary now. realy scary... the bombs are falling on residential areas! #GAZA

Belal - Gaza @Belalmd12 · 3h
They are making sure Gaza will not be the same for a very long time.

Greg Mitchell ?@GregMitch 3h
Amira Hass in Israeli newspaper Haaretz: Israel's "moral defeat will haunt us for years." http://bit.ly/1uzgaC6

Retweeted by Greg Mitchell
Mohammed Omer  @Mogaza · 2h
body of 70 year old woman arrived to Shifa hospital in pieces! #GazaUnderAttack

Mohammed Omer  @Mogaza · 2h
"they should kill us and finish off" says a man to me. " this is not a life"

Khaled Elgindy @elgindy_ · 50m
Today's bombing campaign is the most intensive and extensive since the Israeli offensive began, according to people in Gaza.

Mohammed Omer  @Mogaza · 7m
massive airstrike again, shaking all of me. my home, computer and windows!

OccPal-Gaza ?@OccPalGaza 7m
Four air strikes minute ago on the civil defense fire station across the street at Gaza Seaport. Glass everywhere flying debris 424am

Mohammed Omer  @Mogaza · 17s
its first time in my life to observe mosques unable to call for prayers. very dangerous and under bombing. only old man did it from home

[Cali_Democrat]

1. Now ambulances and hospitals are under attack...

If you don't kill them the first time, second time's a charm?

Unbelievable.

[cpwm17]

2. "AMBULANCE CREW ARE UNDER GUNFIRE NOW!"

As usual, Israel is targeting ambulances, as they have already murdered a number of ambulance crews in this conflict.

[enigmatic]

3. I'm following them on my twitter feed as well; this is absolutely horrible.

Barbaric.

[arikara]

4. Sickening.

Anybody who keeps spouting that Israel has a right to defend "herself" is an asshole. That is not defense it's to use a well known Bushism, shock and awe. Its deliberate and brutal genocide on a helpless population.

[WillyT]

5. Fuck...

[WillyT]

9. More Here: 'This 16-Year-Old Girl Is Live-Tweeting Gaza Under Attack' - BuzzFeed

This 16-Year-Old Girl Is Live-Tweeting Gaza Under Attack
“I might die tonight.”
posted on July 28, 2014, at 8:37 p.m.
Jenna Guillaume - BuzzFeed Staff



<snip>

Farah Baker has been tweeting and blogging about her life in Gaza since 2012, but has gained thousands of followers overnight as she live-tweeted Israel’s most recent attack on Gaza.

Farah wrote of her and her little sister’s terror at the sound of the nearby bombs.

Farah's Sister:



<snip>

More: http://www.buzzfeed.com/jennaguillaume/this-16-year-old-girl-is-live-tweeting-gaza-under-attack

[Scootaloo]

14. Careful WillyT!

You might be accused of "Supporting Hamas" if she turns out to be "photogenically dead"

[Hayabusa]

44. She's just a Pallywood shill!

[Big Blue Marble]

50. self-deleted.

[Big Blue Marble]

51. Why does the name Ann Frank come to mind? N/T

[Scootaloo]

6. And the John McCain / Pam Gellar wings of DU support this "to the hilt" n/t

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

19. Don't forget the ah*le that is crying wolf in I/P right now about a few broken windows.

There's a lot of broken hearts in Gaza, and Bibi baby killer can take all the credit he wants for it.

[NightWatcher]

7. This genocide is horrific and sponsored by our tax dollars

They are not defending themselves from the citizens they are slaughtering. I see pictures of wounded and dead kids. This can only be called genocide.

[Go Vols]

18. We have tons of tax dollars

to throw at countries,fuck what needs to be done here/US.

[Ed Suspicious]

68. Stop sending Israel our tax dollars. Harry Reed disagrees with me however.

[ClarkeVII]

20. Amen

[Skidmore]

45. Contact Reid and Boehner

and every rep and senator you can. I'm disgusted to the core. Perhaps they need to hear that there is a different mindset out here beyond that of AIPAC. I'll be damned if one more dollar goes to fund this crime in my name because I did not speak out.

[sabrina 1]

53. They know they can count on 'the base' no matter what they do. They let us call and rant but in the

end, 'where are you going to go, vote for Romney'? And this is why extreme partisanship is so dangerous. What they need to hear is that we DO have somewhere to go, that if they continue to support these horrors, they will lose their jobs. But so far, they have heard things like this 'look, I'm not happy with this, but if s/he runs I will support him/her'. No wonder we have no power to stop anything they do.

[countryjake]

8. We will remember those who shut their eyes covered their ears and closed their mouths.

found on Dima Eleiwa's Twitter feed a little while ago.

That tweet was accompanied by this photo:



https://twitter.com/DimaEleiwa/status/493908071702208512/photo/1

[hrmjustin]

28. This picture is so sad and heartbreaking.

[countryjake]

72. Yes, it carries with it both the inhumanity of what is occurring...

and the humanity of the victims who are enduring it.

Every time I look at that photo, I can't help but wonder if the old man is wearing his key around his neck.

[hrmjustin]

73. Exactly. The pictures on twitter are heartbreaking.

[madfloridian]

10. "Israeli airstrike kills beloved star of Gaza children's TV program"

[sabrina 1]

33. I was struck by that also. So incredibly cruel. Why is the world standing by an ALLOWING this?

Where are the leaders in this world, someone have the GUTS to speak out, where are the Democrats, why are they so silent?

I swear I am getting ready to quit this party if they don't come out and scream 'no more US tax dollars for Israel'.

But then, I remember the Iraqi children, the Libyan children, the Pakistani children, killed by our drones, horror from the sky.

And I remember reading yesterday from an Israeli news paper, that the 'US has no moral authority to tell Israel anything, just look at their own record of killing children.

[malaise]

42. Harry Reid wants more aid for Israel

[woodsprite]

52. Because all are afraid to speak of the conflict except in support due to religion & money.

I don't speak of it on FB because I have Jewish friends who are on both sides, and I have a few Palestinian friends who just want to be friends. It's wrong. I'm glad my church divested. All I keep thinking of is that you would think a people who had been under extermination would not turn into ones doing the exterminating, then I think I must not know enough about it because I haven't delved into their history, etc. To me (strictly my opinion), it seems their fight would be with the people of Hamas and not all Palestinians, yet the powers that be feel that all Palestinians should be dead. How can we as the US, offer shelter/protection to Palestinians already here while funding this destruction.

Screwed up world!

[Luminous Animal]

11. So so horrible. I went to a protest this weekend, as did millions around the world.

I know it doesn't matter if I protest or not but I needed to be around like minded people.

[madfloridian]

43. I think what you did is very important.

[ReRe]

12. And Bibi would call all these tweets "lies."

Thanks for sharing these with us, hissyspit. I know where evil lives tonight/this am. It lives in the hearts of the Israeli gov't and in the hearts of Hamas, equally. And in the hearts of the Arabs who could give the Palestinians a sliver of land to call their own, but for some unGodly reason don't.

[Scootaloo]

15. Question...

And in the hearts of the Arabs who could give the Palestinians a sliver of land to call their own, but for some unGodly reason don't.

Why should the Palestinians self-cleanse to flee to some other country? They have their homes right where they are, save those who were forcibly driven from those homes - in Palestine.

[ReRe]

23. I don't undertand the...

"self-cleanse" business. Well, yes, they could stay pinned in right there forever, until Israel kills every last one of them. But the drive for survival is strong.

[Unknown Beatle]

13. What happened to fucking

humanity?

"Man's inhumanity to man" is not a cliché but the truth.

[Ohio4theWin]

16. Netanyahu went to bed hard knowing his orders were causing the deaths of Palestinian women& children

This is what the coward lives for. No different from the damaged child killing helpless bugs, this is the leadership and legacy of Netanyahu.

[Uncle Joe]

17. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Hissyspit.

[lovemydog]

21. I cry looking at those beautiful faces.

Stop the slaughter. This is not self-defense.

[mylye2222]

26. I cry looking at all faces. Not only the beautiful ones....

[lovemydog]

31. They're all beautiful to me.

We're on the same page.

[NealK]

22. What a nightmare!

[LoisB]

24. AlJazeera reporter in Gaza said the Israelis sent a message to reporters that they

were to stay in their hotel tonight for 3, 4 hours; they would not be responsible for them. I guess this is why. This is beyond inhumane.

[Hissyspit]

35. Shock and Awe

[LittleBlue]

25. Inb4 "Hamas must have been launching rockets out the back of the ambulances"

[hrmjustin]

27. Reading my twitter feed was just so horrifying and sad.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

29. :(

Very very heavy heart.

[easychoice]

30. We are paying for this and providing arms.That blows chunks!

Our Government totally sucks.
Obama needs to intervene.

[defacto7]

32. .......

..... I have no more words.... said them all....

[MFM008]

34. ..........

[Skidmore]

36. This morning on the early news, I see that

there is footage of the destruction of fuel tanks for the hospital, the power center for the area, more residential areas, and Netanyahou's promising to continue for the long haul. What is left to destroy? Is it time to bomb the rubble to make certain that the dead are really dead or that the remaining children are wiped out too? This is a massacre. It is inhumane. It is unnecessary. It is wrong.

[eridani]

37. The absence of the usual apologists on this thread uplifts the moral tone of DU

I only wish that could stop this horrendous slaughter!

[Enthusiast]

38. Hey, Israel, WTF!

[B Calm]

39. 121 Billion Dollars in foreign aid to Israel. We are to blame for this!

[malaise]

40. I just watched BBC news

I cannot believe this hasn't been stopped.
This is a war crime. This is the extermination of a people.

[TBF]

41. They are killing all of them :( nt

[Hayabusa]

46. K&R. This is beyond war crimes.

[Marrah_G]

47. I watched some livestreams last night

It was a horrible night, almost constant airstrikes, tank fire and gunfire.

[historylovr]

48. Sickening. Heartbreaking.

[judy]

49. Seems like the Likudniks have decided to go ahead with genocide.

The world does nothing, as it usually does nothing, just like when the Jews tried to get asylum in the USA in the 40's and were turned away only to die later in concentration camps.
We have become so familiar with horror and propaganda that we have lost our moral compass...
I feel ashamed that my tax dollars are paying for this.

Part of the problem is the mixing up of Jews and Israel. Israel is not the Jews, it is a country built on invasion and that continues invasion, until no one is left to defend themselves.
Why do people on both sides equate Jewish people, and the extreme right-wing Likud government?

A great number of Jews (Hassidim among others) were against the creation of Israel. In the olden days, before 1948, Jews and Palestinians who spoke Arabic and were of many religious persuasions got along just fine. But Israel happened, and it needs to stay alive. It can only do that by stopping the bloodshed.

Why does a nation that was created to heal a huge wound want to do the same thing to a mostly innocent population they declared was less than them? Is it the abused child syndrome, where children of abusers have a tendency to become abusers themselves?

This is bad for the world, bad for the state of Israel, and bad for us

[closeupready]

65. Or consider the history of human slavery in the US - institutionalized

and enshrined in our Constitution. Even earlier and arguably more savage though, look at how Native Americans were exterminated.

The Palestinians unfortunately are going to be pushed out. But the world won't forget. I know I won't, personally.

[world wide wally]

54. Was it shit like this that got God pissed off at them in the first place?

[Tetris_Iguana]

57. Actually he explicitly told them to do it.

What we're witnessing now is just a good old fashioned Abrahamic ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian natives.


(good old fashioned is sarcastic phrasing)

[jwirr]

55. Supporters of Israel say that they have a right to defend themselves. This is beyond self-defense.

[Chathamization]

60. Slave owners probably said they had the right to defend themselves against people like Nat Turner.NT

[jwirr]

62. I am sure they did.

[closeupready]

66. Sadly, human slavery still exists - and we do nothing about that.

Or very little. I mean, I guess we have a list of states that are frowned on because they aren't doing enough to put an end to labor practices that amount, effectively, to human slavery, but in contrast to the profits that are to be made, what is that really doing, anything?

[lexx21]

99. I agree ...

This is no different than what the Nazi party did to the Jewish people in the ghettos back in WW2.

[JEB]

56. Those bombs and munitions came from right here in the good ol' USA.

We own a large share of Israels shame. Sickening.

[JNelson6563]

58. Genocide.

I am quite sickened by our government's handling of this.

Maybe someone in "leadership" position will say something once every single Palestinian is safely dead andthere are no buildings left standing.

Julie--truly sickened

[Tetris_Iguana]

59. Considering our government genocided millions of native Americans.

I wouldn't hold my breath.

All they see is dollar signs and an excellent opportunity sell Israel more munitions for lebensraum.

You know manifest destiny and all that...

[JNelson6563]

61. Yes, thinking about it all these days.

We will continue on the timeless, destructive path until we destroy each other and the earth too. I see no other outcome. The only question is when? It seems things are accelerating quickly...

Julie

[grahamhgreen]

63. Kick

[MrNJ]

64. The tears and blood of these children is first and foremost on Hamas

... and those who kept voting them in.

We cannot expect a country (Israel in this case) to tolerate rocket fire indefinitely.
Even the most pacifist and peaceful country will snap eventually if it keeps being attacked.

It sucks that children have to suffer.

[Ed Suspicious]

70. Whatever. If they would just lie down we'd stop killing their children.

Whomever is killing children, while they are killing children is at fault for the death of children. Period. It's really that simple.

[Fawke Em]

71. No.

[morningfog]

74. It sucks that Israel knowingly and intentionally kills so many children.

[MrNJ]

78. Intentionally? Really? I don't suppose you have proof of that?

Israel is responding to the ongoing attack.
They target places from where the rockets are fired.
The children are dying because terrorists (Hamas) put the children in harms way.

In you mind, how should Israel deal with the rocket attacks from Gaza?
- forcibly remove settlements from Gaza? - oh wait ...
- let the Hamas rockets rain AKA "roll over and die" - I am sure a lot of people would like it

[morningfog]

81. They intentionally strike and bomb places where children are known to be.

They intentionally kill children, that cannot be disputed.

Setting all that to the side, Israel's current massacre does not match its stated objective of the security of its people. Quite the opposition. Israel is radicalizing another generation of Palestinians and pushing towards a third intifada.

[MrNJ]

89. They strike places from which rockets are launched.

Those who put weapons near children and then invite response from Israel are the ones guilty

[morningfog]

90. They strike where they know children to be, but only suspect rockets to be.

Israel is guilty of repeated war crimes.

[morningfog]

91. I find it really disgusting the Israel apologists who have no problem with the slaughter of children

Really fucking disgusting.

[MrNJ]

92. Not as bad as terrorist apologists

Who are quick to forgive Hamas and those who elected them.

[morningfog]

93. I make no apologies for anyone killing children. Because that is fucking disgusting.

Think about it. You are supporting the slaughter of innocent children.

[MrNJ]

94. The main reason children are being killed is Hamas.

1. They launch missiles that provoke a justified response.
2. Some of their own missiles fall within Gaza killing civilians
3. Israel responds to suppress the missile fire
4. Hamas makes it impossible to avoid civilian casualties by selecting the launch sites in proximity to children.
Impossible to prove but a lot of reasonable people feel that Hamas does that on purpose to fuel their PR campaign.

Hamas deserves most (all?) of the blame.
Instead, all you and a few others do is blame Israel.

[morningfog]

95. Bullshit. Israel is targeting and dropping the bombs.

Israel is killing children. That is a fact and cannot be disputed. The rest is disgusting apologia. You are trying to justify Israels' war crimes.

Israel is solely to blame for the bombs it drops.

[MrNJ]

96. I would like to know what you propose Israel should do

In its current situation?

Because it seems to me that you would not be happy as long as Israel keeps trying to defend itself.

[morningfog]

97. I propose they quit targeting shelters and quit killing children.

This no longer has anything to do with self-defense. If it did, it would be a much smaller and simpler operation.

I just can't fathom how anyone can justify or rationalize Israel's, or anyone's, slaughter of children.

[upaloopa]

76. You can't be serious! Whoever's finger is on the trigger

is the killer.

[MrNJ]

79. killer but not murderer

[upaloopa]

82. Murderer! Fucking murderer!

Murdering civilians. Murdering innocent children, innocent men women and children.

[countryjake]

80. Snap

1-minute time lapse of an entire neighborhood being reduced to rubble.

A vivid example of those infamous "precision pinpont strikes".

It sucks that we are unable to open our eyes to what is really happening.

[stupidicus]

85. indeed

that's the same rationale the 9/11 hijackers used as well.

well done

[Fearless]

67. .

[Marrah_G]

69. I was following it too...

It was heartbreaking. I hope tonight is not a repeat

[jonjensen]

75. The children of gaza say "you want gaza, Israel?"

The children of gaza say you want gaza ,israel? Then just come on in and take it!

[SummerSnow]

77. Everyone in Gaza is not Hamas. Why are these people being killed?

[Fantastic Anarchist]

83. Just "cutting the grass." nt

[MyNameGoesHere]

84. Sounds like Herr Bibi has issued the final solution edict

for the Muslim problem.

[alterfurz]

86. Only the winners decide what were war crimes. -- Gary Wills

Fuck every cause that ends in murder and children crying. -- Iain Banks

[McCamy Taylor]

87. This is so sad.

[JCMach1]

88. Stop Whining it's just Bibi mowing his lawn...

intended...

[Solly Mack]

98. K&R