Marie

Every day we live in Gaza is a struggle with reality in order to stay alive.💔 I spent long hours thinking before deciding to write these words. It was not easy for me. But I have reached a stage where I have become unable to find a way out of a predicament that I do not know how to overcome. Israel is tightening its siege on Gaza and has been preventing commercial goods from entering for the tenth consecutive day. Prices here have become beyond our ability and means. For more than three years, we have been living through conditions that I would not wish anyone to experience, and I have been trying to endure and remain steadfast in the face of a harsh reality that gives me no opportunity to catch my breath. As time has passed, responsibilities have increased and needs have doubled, until providing the simplest necessities of life has become a heavy burden that I carry every day. At the forefront of my fears stands my little daughter, Ayla. Every day, I try to find a way to protect her from a harsh reality that has no mercy for her weakness or young age. I want her to live her childhood as every child deserves, to obtain her basic needs, and to sleep without illness, fear, and deprivation being part of her days. But I often find myself unable to meet her needs, because the circumstances around me make even the simplest things difficult to obtain. Alongside my daughter, I carry the responsibility of caring for my elderly parents, who need care, medication, and security. It pains me to be responsible for their safety at a time when I do not even have the ability to provide the minimum level of stability they need. Exhaustion has reached my depths, anxiety has become a companion that never leaves me, and fear settles in my chest and never departs. Sometimes I feel that the pressure has made breathing itself difficult. Nevertheless, I continue trying despite everything that weighs heavily on my shoulders, because there are lives that depend on me, and because surrender is not an option I can resort to. We in Gaza do not need the world merely to feel sorrow over our words. We need it to remember that behind these words are real children, destroyed homes, and mothers and fathers trying to remain steadfast despite everything that weighs heavily on their shoulders. Your donation is not a passing charitable act. Rather, it means providing healthcare for my daughter, Ayla, or buying medication for my parents, or securing some of my family's basic needs. No matter how small your contribution may seem to you, for us it makes a real difference and gives us an opportunity to get through another day without the fear of tomorrow overshadowing everything. Donation link: 🔗chuffed.org/project/maha30 And if you are unable to donate, please do not pass by my story in silence. Share my words, as they may reach someone who can help us at a time when we are in the greatest need of support. Behind these words is a family trying to cling to what little hope it has left. Thank you to everyone who read our story and extended a helping hand, and to everyone who contributed to conveying our story to others.❤️ @Lowkey0nline @Partisangirl @wyattreed13 @propandco @_ZachFoster @AryJeayBackup @ProudSocialist @GoodVibePolitik @KlonnyPin_Gosch @academic_la @NateB_Panic @ireallyhateyou @comrade_kumar_

By 19 votes to 3, the London Assembly condemned the Green Party’s new anti-Zionism policy. Reform, Labour, Conservatives and Lib Dems stood shoulder to shoulder. All three Greens voted against. The establishment united against the Greens.

Daniel Sloss explains why speaking about rumours surrounding Russell Brand was nothing compared to what survivors went through. Andrew Gold: “You were the first and only guy to speak up about Russell Brand in the comedy circuit. Were you nervous?” Daniel Sloss: “No, I think I was a bit naive.” “When you think of sexual assault, you think of it as a problem in the world, but not within your circle.” “The word ‘no’ was said several times, and that didn’t hamper him. It’s sexual assault.” “A lot of survivors minimize their trauma because what happens to them feels so normal. They’re made to feel that what happened to them was not assault.” “It takes no bravery to say, ‘Here are rumours that I have heard since I was 19 years old.’” “That’s not the courage that the woman in the documentary showed. Coming forward and reliving one of the worst days of their life… that was bravery.”

mind you he used to use an “obey” tag on katy perry everytime she wasn’t agreeing with him. imagine the horrors he did behind closed doors…

Last night was one of the worst nights Gaza has seen. The bombs have never stopped raining down on them, and when the actual rain fell upon them, their tents flooded. So many missing limbs, all missing loved ones, most without homes. And the world just pretended it stopped. I didn’t even post an image with people this time because they’re sick of showing us images of themselves in desperation without action on our part. A reminder to you and me to not forget them because they’re no longer in your feed.

Comedian Shappi Khorsandi has questioned “what consent looks like” to Russell Brand, and spoken about how one woman told her she had been raped by him. “One woman in particular that spoke to me after she had been with him…She called it rape,” she told Channel 4 News’ Russell Brand on Trial podcast. And she said that when Brand suggests women had “reimagined” their encounters with him in the past, he was “projecting”. Brand has been convicted of one count of rape and three counts of sexual assault following a trial at Southwark Crown Court but he has always denied having non-consensual sex. He is due to be sentenced on Monday.

Comedian Shappi Khorsandi has questioned “what consent looks like” to Russell Brand, and spoken about how one woman told her she had been raped by him. “One woman in particular that spoke to me after she had been with him…She called it rape,” she told Channel 4 News’ Russell Brand on Trial podcast. And she said that when Brand suggests women had “reimagined” their encounters with him in the past, he was “projecting”. Brand has been convicted of one count of rape and three counts of sexual assault following a trial at Southwark Crown Court but he has always denied having non-consensual sex. He is due to be sentenced on Monday.

@stavvers @UsVsTh3m he is open about this in his 2nd 'booky wook' eg woman who said his friend raped her, treats her with vicious contempt