Israeli strikes on a house and a school in the Nuseirat refugee camp have killed 20 Palestinians.
A relative of Palestinians who were killed after an overnight Israeli air strike on Nuseirat refugee camp mourns near their wrapped bodies outside al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah [Haitham Imad/EPA-EFE]
Mourners grieve during the funeral of Palestinians killed in an Israeli strike during a funeral in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip. REUTERS/Hatem Khaled
Uncle of Sabreen al-Rouh, a Palestinian baby girl, who died a few days after she was saved from the womb of her dying mother Sabreen al-Sheikh (al-Sakani), killed in an Israeli strike along with her husband Shokri and her daughter Malak crouches next to her grave in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, April 26. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem
Mourners grieve during the funeral of Palestinian Yazan Ishtayeh, who was killed in an Israeli raid, in Salim, near Nablus, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. REUTERS/Raneen Sawafta
07 February, 2023
Mesut Hançer holds the hand of his 15-year-old daughter Irmak, killed while asleep when her grandmother’s home collapsed during an earthquake in Kahramanmaraş, southern Turkey.
Palestinian father cries as he holds the body of one of his two daughters after they were both killed in an Israeli air strike in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, on April 4, 2024 [Mohammed Abed/AFP]
Palestinian photographer Mohammad Salem has won the World Press Photo contest for Asia for his photograph ‘A Palestinian Woman Embraces the Body of Her Niece’.
The photograph, which has been seen around the world shows Palestinian woman Inas Abu Maamar, 36, embracing the body of her 5-year-old niece Saly, who was killed in an Israeli strike, at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on October 17, 2023.
The Abu Draz family mourns their relatives killed in an Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip at a hospital morgue in the southern city of Rafah on April 4, 2024 [Fatima Shbair/AP Photo]
Toribío, #Colombia
Mourners attend the wake of the #Indigenous leader Carmelina Yule Pavi, who was killed by rebels of the Estado Mayor Central. After her death, Colombia’s president, Gustavo Petro, suspended a ceasefire with the group.
Richard Rohr's contemplation inspired me to write about my own difficulty facing reality as my dog approaches the end of her life. Find my blog post here: https://www.spiritualbnr.org/living-in-reality
Local resident Lyudmila Timura, 72, mourns over the body of her granddaughter Lera Sukhanova, 15, who was killed by recent shelling in the course of Russia-Ukraine conflict in the settlement of Panteleimonivka in the Donetsk region, Russian-controlled Ukraine, February 17. REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko
Mourners react as the bodies of Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes lie at Abu Yousef Al-Najjar hospital in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, February 18. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem
I know Mastodon is designed to keep everything nice and to shield us from the horrors of the world, and that it is good for us to only look at cat pictures all day and cheer each other up, but honestly: sometimes i also think that that is just a lot of crap and everyone who turns away and continues with their nice privileged life as if all is ok is complicit #Gaza
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The text pointed below may help. Sarah Aziza, through a stirring mix of personal reflection and philosophical reckoning, disabuses the Western witness of its self-gratifying power, instead – amid Israel’s openly broadcast yet unimpeded march towards genocide in Gaza – unmasking the impotence, deceit and hollowness that witnessing currently entails. More than a collective indictment or last-gasp scream of defiance into the void, Aziza’s own testimony guides the reader towards a form of witness no longer elevated in angelic, uncompromised distance, but instead manifest in the embodied, intimate, ego-displacing position of “sacrifice, mourning and resisting.” https://jewishcurrents.org/the-work-of-the-witness