alisonphipps

alisonphipps, 12 days ago to random

She writes “Finish Them” and autographs the bombs
they sent that
are used to char the bodies
of the children who had
moved many times
and live in tents
in an area under UN protection

Woe to those who use the
desire to kill all the people
to feed a blood lust in voters

https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/28/nikki-haley-finish-them-missile-israel

alisonphipps, 14 days ago to random

The wicked speak of
legally killing children
Their mouths are twisted into evil
Their decisions are bombing tents
sending weapons
Their orders have destroyed hospitals
No one can learn
Eat
Drink
Live
Under the conditions made by those who deal in death

https://x.com/wawog_now/status/1794777955400393034?s=46

alisonphipps, 17 days ago to random

The wicked uprooted the olive trees
Destroyed the date palms
Bulldozed the land planted in hope
Stopped the seedtime
That leads to harvest
That feeds the people
Miserable are those with no food to gather from their land

More miserable still are the destroyers
of all hope

alisonphipps, 19 days ago to random

Academics gather bewildered
And unable to think straight
Unable to write
Parenting and grandparenting
in genocidal times
Words, self and voice - lost
or nearly lost
We are clinging on
To one another
To words which fail
To tears we share
To voices trembling
To the need to be in
Bewilderment and seen.

alisonphipps, 22 days ago to random

No where is safe
Thousands are forced again from their homes
Quadcopters stalk the streets
Dumb bombs destroy whole families
Homes of rubble are bombed again to dust
The wicked claim complete impunity
The soldiers mock the distress
There is no mercy

https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/05/1149951

alisonphipps, 23 days ago to random

Everyday the horrors grow worse
The enemies taunt with landing piers for food aid
even as it’s distribution is refused
Illegal settlers destroy sacks of flour
destined for wasted bodies
The wicked have brought famine to the land
Woe to those who do such things to a people

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-aid-pier-gaza-floats-into-wartime-reality-2024-05-16/

alisonphipps, 29 days ago to random

For Al Mawasi
Where millions are now forced to go
At gun point
Always under threat of death
Killed as they move
Where millions must live
With no food
No water
No shelter
No aid or medicine allowed in.

Where conditions are prepared
Only for death

https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/05/1149591

alisonphipps, 1 month ago to random

No crossing
No way out
No aid in
No tents
No hospitals
No universities
No medical supplies
No safe zones
No guard rails
No homes
No rascal children
No respect for binding orders
No consequences
No words for hope
No accepting hostage release
No…No …No

https://youtu.be/g-qvYm8i1KY?si=9RmtO-KbPvCQ458S

alisonphipps, 1 month ago to random

Breaking:

University of Glasgow signs MoU with Arab American University Palestine 🇵🇸

As with Ukraine medical school support, now working with Palestinian medical education support. Hard work by many behind scenes.

❤️‍🩹

https://www.gla.ac.uk/news/headline_1070928_en.html

alisonphipps, 1 month ago to random

If Israel has taken control of the Rafah crossing then the only albeit eye-wateringly-expensive way out of Gaza has now been destroyed.

I’ve been saying for months that they are just getting started. It’s going to get much worse now.

Nothing can come in and no one can leave.

alisonphipps, 1 month ago to random

For everyone subject this hell on Earth
And everyone trying to stop it
For a breakthrough
For help
For a way back to life

alisonphipps, 1 month ago to random

Gratitude for the frustration
with the infinitesimally small shifts
showing us our helplessness
showing us our care
showing us how much this will take
And how long
And that we are powerless
And that is where we will draw strength
And that there is no exit from Hope

alisonphipps, 1 month ago to random

For the knowledge that the tide has turned yet not knowing
Which protest
Which gathering, which growing chorus
Will be the one which brings justice
For knowing the lonely voices are alone no more
That those who have refused to speak are now isolated themselves
That there is hope.

alisonphipps, 1 month ago to random

For an end to mass graves
For an end to the use of hands to determine the manner of execution
For an end to the humiliation
of the dead
For an end to the smell of rotting flesh
For an end to the singular grief of identifying loved ones through decomposed remains
For this to end

alisonphipps, 1 month ago to random

In Anatomy of Genocide
Francesca Albanese speaks of ‘humanitarian camouflage’

Do we now have another stage to genocide:‘humanitarian luring’ ?

ohchr.org/sites/default/…

Israeli drones 'luring people with sounds of babies crying before opening fire'

Israeli drones 'playing sounds of babies crying before opening fire' | The National

https://www.thenational.scot/news/24261522.israeli-drones-playing-sounds-babies-crying-opening-fire/

alisonphipps, 1 month ago to random

For lavender to mean lavender
For meta to mean more than killing
For it to mean meta-
For it to move
our hearts,
for an end to
this blasphemy
For infusing lavender
teas, balms, oils,
To lift the spirits
To be essential
To heal our broken hope

https://blog.paulbiggar.com/meta-and-lavender/

alisonphipps, 1 month ago to random

For the land.
For the right of return to the land
for the land under rubble
for the land without seed time.

For the land that is under
Unexploded US donated
bombs.
For the land that is contaminated
For the land to know seedtime
and heal.

For the land to have
Peace from war.

alisonphipps, 1 month ago to random

For universal rights
For inalienable rights
For the right of return to the land
For the right to seek asylum
For the rights of non-combatants
in war
For the right not to be subject to war crimes

May the rights be respected everywhere for all.

https://www.against-inhumanity.org/2024/04/16/palestinians-in-gaza-do-they-have-a-right-to-seek-asylum-elsewhere/

alisonphipps, 1 month ago to random

A small step towards a bit of hope

This will now be considered for a Parliamentary debate.

Well done to Gaza Families Reunited

alisonphipps, 1 month ago to random

For the witnesses
For the witnesses being silenced
For the witnesses giving evidence
For never unseeing what we have seen
For never unsaying
For saying the names
For the medical, legal, cultural, educational witnesses
to the axis of genocide
For courage

alisonphipps, 2 months ago to random

For peace talks
For talks about peace
For talks that make peace
For talks that bring peace
For the people talking peace
For the interpreters of peace
For people talking
For sticking points
For the red lines
For the refusals to soften
That the lines may dissolve

alisonphipps, 2 months ago to random

For the ones rising early
Despite the soldiers
To find the body
To anoint the body
To bury him well
To bury her well
For the garden bombed
For the cemetery bull-dozed
For the mass graves,
the mountains of stones
For the longing to hear the beloved voice
say their name once more

alisonphipps, 2 months ago to random

For bags of flour
For safe distribution
Of bags of flour
For water
For safe distribution of clean water
For aid seekers
to seek aid without fear of
being shot
For flour
without a blood bath
For water
For clean water
For flour
For peaceful flour

alisonphipps, 2 months ago to random

“An independent multi-agency investigation by UN [..]found that it had most likely involved a GBU32 (MK83) missile package. This 1000 lb US-manufactured “smart bomb” was fired from an F16 jet. F16s are manufactured in US & include parts supplied by UK”
#ArmsSanctions #ICJ

https://www.rescue.org/press-release/gaza-irc-and-map-additional-statement-airstrike-residential-compound-housing

alisonphipps, 2 months ago to random

Please give and generously if you are able

My friends in Gaza prone to understatement and determined hope are losing all hope

“We want to breathe a little hope and stay alive”

https://www.map.org.uk/donate/donation-details/516