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Pakistani artist 💜🖤🤍 ISTP|| Lvl 19

ever since learning that the national bird of 🍉, the p❤️lestine sunbird survived a name change attempt… & that occupiers drove a subspecies of crocodile endemic to the region to extinction… I couldn’t get this image out of my head. a ceasefire is the bare minimum. but let’s start there.

a Palestine sunbird holds red poppies in their beak next to the text RIGHT TO EXIST. a Palestine crocodile (a subspecies of the Nile, now extinct thanks to occupying forces) guards a shining key next to the text RIGHT TO RETURN. a Palestinian olive tree, full of fruit is next to the text RIGHT TO RESIST. a Palestinian family of five, all embracing each other next to the text RIGHT TO REMAIN.

There are no universities left in Gaza. Al-Isra was used as an IDF base, meaning it wasn’t demolished because it posed any sort of military threat. NPR (and other outlets) are reporting that the IDF looted the university’s national museum before blowing up the entire campus.

Screenshot from NPR’s Instagram account showing the IDF blowing up the last university standing in GazaCaption from NPR’s Instagram account describing the IDF using al-Isra University as a base for 70 days, then looting its national museum before demolishing it.

With 19 Palestinian journalists killed so far, it's easy to assume Israel is targeting journalists but then you remember they're dropping more bombs in a week on Gaza than the U.S. would drop in an entire year on Afghanistan. It almost doesn't matter if these are targeted, the result is the same.

4 days ago we interviewed Roshdi Sarraj for a 
@washingtonpost
 story about the 23 journalists killed in the Israel-Gaza war. 
Roshdi, also a journalist, spoke of his late Palestinian colleagues with pride. Today we discovered that Roshdi was killed in an Israeli strike on his home