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appassionato, 5 hours ago to DadBin

The Israeli army attacked the al-Nazla elementary school building in the as-Saftawi neighbourhood, where displaced Palestinians were sheltering, on Saturday [Dawoud Abo Alkas/Anadolu]

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#children

appassionato, 6 hours ago to palestine

Israel has intensified its Rafah offensive despite yesterday’s ICJ ruling for it to halt, including bombing residential buildings near the Kuwaiti Hospital.

A series of Israeli air attacks have killed dozens of people throughout northern Gaza, including women and children sheltering in Beit Hanoon.

Northern Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital is out of service as Israeli forces continue to surround it.

@palestine
#Gaza
#Rafah
#BeitHanoon
#KamalAdwan
#hospitals

appassionato, 6 hours ago to graffiti

A Palestinian woman works on a graffiti art piece on a damaged wall in Gaza City [Dawoud Abo Alkas/Anadolu]

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#Gaza
#graffiti
#women

appassionato, 6 hours ago to palestine

A mural on a destroyed wall in Gaza City.
[Dawoud Abo Alkas/Anadolu]

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#Gaza
#mural

appassionato, 6 hours ago to books

Love Understood: The Science of Who, How and Why We Love by Laura Mucha, 2019

For Love Understood, almost 200 strangers in over 40 countries have come together to share their most personal stories, feelings, and insights about love. These are incredibly frank, intimate, and illuminating conversations, and author Laura Mucha has used these rare and varied insights as a springboard from which to dive into the subject of love, scrutinizing it from all angles ...

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appassionato, 7 hours ago to books

Frontlines Stories of Environmental Justice by Nick Meynen, 2019

Every unpacked frontline is one cutting edge of an economic system and political ideology that is destroying life on earth. Revealing our ecosystems to be under a sustained attack, Nick Meynen finds causes for hope in unconventional places.

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#books
#nonfiction
#environment
#EnvironmentalJustice

appassionato, 7 hours ago to books

Fixation How to Have Stuff Without Breaking the Planet by Sandra Goldmark, 2020

Our massive, global system of consumption is broken. Our individual relationship with our stuff is broken. In each of our homes, some stuff is broken. And the strain of rampant consumerism and manufacturing is breaking our planet. We need big, systemic changes, from public policy to global economic systems. But we don't need to wait for them.

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#nonfiction
#stuff
#consumption
#hoarding

appassionato, 8 hours ago to Pharmacy

Palestinians queue in front of the pharmacy opened by Sehveil, a Palestinian pharmacist who took refuge in Khan Younis, due to a shortage of pharmacies and health services in the area [Doaa Albaz/Anadolu]

@palestine
#Gaza
#KhanYounis
#pharmacy

appassionato, 9 hours ago to palestine

Israel’s attacks in Rafah continue despite ICJ ruling

There are intense attacks and aerial bombardment by the Israeli forces across the Gaza Strip despite the ICJ ruling.

There were massive attacks across Rafah, particularly in the eastern and the central parts, when the court was in session yesterday.

Smoke rises during an Israeli air strike, in Rafah, Friday [Mohammed Salem/Reuters]

@palestine
#Gaza
#Rafah
#ICJ

appassionato, 9 hours ago to palestine

Palestinians living in the Jabalia Refugee Camp, Beit Lahia, Al-Falouja, and Al-Fakhura in the north of Gaza migrate towards safer areas after being forced to flee due to Israeli attacks, Friday [Mahmoud Issa/Anadolu]

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#evacuation
#displaced

appassionato, 9 hours ago to books

Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? by Bill McKibben, 2019

We’re at a bleak moment in human history -- and we’ll either confront that bleakness or watch the civilization our forebears built slip away.

Falter is a powerful and sobering call to arms, to save not only our planet but also our humanity.

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#nonfiction
#civilisation
#collapse
#survival
#350Org

appassionato, 10 hours ago to palestine

The Israeli military has continued its operation in the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza, targeting more residential buildings and public facilities, including schools and UNRWA facilities.

There has been no water or food supplied to the camp for the last 17 days. There is an actual famine going on there.

@palestine
#Gaza
#Jabalia

appassionato, 11 hours ago to books

Human Longevity: The Major Determining Factors by Joseph A. Knight, 2010

Two thousand years ago, the average life expectancy from birth to death of a Roman citizen, an individual better off than most people at that time, was about 22 years (wars, infectious diseases, trauma, etc.). This progressively increased to about 47 years in the U.S. and most European countries by 1900.

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#nonfiction
#longevity