Azadeh Sobout

The child who was subjected to torture (including having cigarettes extinguished on his body and a metal rod inserted into his feet in front of his father)— In a delayed video released by the occupation, the moment of his handover to the International Committee of the Red Cross is documented in the “Yellow Line” area east of Gaza, days after he was detained along with his father. During his detention, he was subjected to severe abuses, while his father remains imprisoned by the occupation to this moment.

My friend told me something shocking… He said that anyone who survives Gaza and goes abroad, even with advanced medical tests, discovers cancer in their body. The number is staggering, countless people, and every day new strange diseases appear… Here in Gaza, these rare illnesses, never seen by doctors before, keep emerging without explanation, with no proper testing equipment and no treatment available. How is this even possible? How can we live amid the destruction and siege, watching our bodies deteriorate with no way to understand or confront the damage? Here, we have no tests, no treatment, as if we are living experiments left to collapse. The weapons dropped on us do not just kill immediately they leave survivors suffering for life. Advanced missiles, destructive munitions, everything is used against us without mercy, as if our lives mean nothing. Those who survive the bombing… will never truly survive the diseases that follow. It is truly shocking and bewildering… We are in the largest human testing ground on Earth. Children grow up amid fear and pain, our bodies break down relentlessly, and the whole world ignores us as if we don’t exist. Each day, our sense of helplessness grows, and every day brings a new shock at the scale of the damage that is almost impossible to believe.

@ProfJohnBarry Will it be on zoom or the speaker is present?

"Environmental Injustice and Resource Colonialism in Palestine" Due to travel difficulies in West Asia, this talk has been rescheduled to Thursday 26th March at 3pm Free and all welcome

Iran’s struggle beyond empire and authoritarianism, says NI based Iranian Azadeh Sobout irishnews.com/news/northern-…

“War won’t liberate Iran”: Noted Iranian feminist challenges the West’s narrative: Iranian academic Dr Azadeh Sobout says that externally imposed regime change rarely produces democratic transitions, writes @Ullekh openthemagazine.com/world/war-wont…

I want to introduce myself… and I have an important question that weighs heavily on my heart: Do I deserve to live? I am a young man who grew up in my homeland, Palestine, in the city of Gaza. I am 31 years old, and I have lived through more than seven wars. I studied accounting and computer science, and I earned a Master’s degree in Business Administration. In the middle of this war, I read many books and wrote many texts. I even wrote a book from inside my tent titled “Diaries from My Tent in Gaza.” I defended my master’s thesis under the sound of bombardment. I studied while afraid, and sometimes while hungry… but I insisted on continuing until I completed my studies and earned my degree. I was also the father trying to protect his two children, Imad and Adam, and my wife from the middle of this tragedy, fighting every day to provide them with safety, food, and water. I am only 31 years old, yet I feel as if I have carried the burdens of a man who has lived a hundred years of hardship. So I ask you honestly… Do I deserve to live? Your answer means a lot to me. 💔

Today I mentioned her in a meeting, and coincidentally today marks the anniversary of her martyrdom. On this day, 12/3/2006, American soldiers stormed a house in the town of Al-Mahmudiyah, south of Baghdad, and committed the crime of raping the child Abeer Qasim Al-Janabi, then killing her along with her father, mother, and 5-year-old sister, and set fire to their bodies in one of the house's rooms. James Barker, Jesse Spielman, Steven Green, Brian Howard, and Paul Cortez, from the 101st US Infantry Division, admitted to the crime (rape and burning of the child and her family).

Tune in to the first episode of our new season of the Instant Coffee podcast! Hamidreza Vasheghanifarahani (@AFSEE_LSE) speaks with @AzadehSobout and Rindala about how transnational solidarity networks can strengthen efforts towards social change. soundcloud.com/lsemiddleeastc…

@JackieReillyDC As a result some festival victims were very likely killed by Israeli fire. There has been a call from UN and Palestinian side for international investigation on what happened on 7th Oct constantly blocked by the Zionist regime. electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abun…

I condemn the Nova massacre. Around 1500 innocent Israeli dead. And I condemn Israel for the 20,000 Palestinians dead since then. I note that none of the photos show the NI visitors in protective gear. If they’d gone to Gaza they’d have been fully equipped. But they didn’t go.

@JackieReillyDC Multiple investigations including Haaretz, The NYT, AP, and testimonies from Israeli police and survivors  acknowledge that Israeli forces fired helicopter gunships, tanks, and ground fire at vehicles and structures containing both Palestinian militants and Israeli civilians.

@JackieReillyDC The total deaths in Israel on Oct 7 was 1,200. Israeli police investigation shows 364 civilians were killed near the festival site. There were not 1500 innocent people as the soldiers and those who have served in the Israeli occupation army cannot be considered innocent.

40 Beheaded babies… babies in the oven …. rape by Hamas… October 7 propaganda is not new. This is a video about a story broke out in the 1980s, when former CIA agent John Stockwell revealed how the CIA plants fake stories in the western press.

@hertsgunner @moneillsf Yeah, we need to seek justice against every soldier participating in a colonial war, maintaining an unlawful regime of occupation either in Ireland and anywhere in the world.

@moneillsf Are you advocating justice for the 40+ families of soldiers murdered in 71, the 140+ in 72 etc ? No I did not think so.

The continued denial of justice for the Bloody Sunday families is deeply disappointing. Fifty three years ago, the British Army indiscriminately murdered civilians on the streets of Derry. Over fifteen years ago, the then British Prime Minister publicly acknowledged the role of British soldiers on Bloody Sunday. Yet, not one British soldier or their military and political superiors has ever been held to account. That is an affront to justice. I want to commend the courage and determination of the Bloody Sunday families. For more than five decades, they have campaigned with dignity and resilience for justice for their loved ones, their deeply cherished sons and fathers, uncles and brothers. I extend my full solidarity to the families and to the wider community of Derry who will be hurting today. I will continue to support you all in whatever steps you choose to take next in pursuit of justice.

@kennyp1886 @ElishaMcC_SF No matter how much you spread propaganda and whitewash colonial crimes, armed British soldiers had no right to be in a country they had occupied in the first place.

The Bloody Sunday families are an inspiration to the world. For over 50 years they have kept their heads held high, their voice determined, their dignity in tact! I am utterly devastated for them. We hold onto the truth, the world knows the truth. 💔 #neverforgotten#BloodySunday

@cretelover63 @ElishaMcC_SF No, it wasn't war. It was colonialisation and continues to be so.

@ElishaMcC_SF It was war love. War is ugly. Rules of engagement go out of the window in war.

'The only way we can understand what Israel is doing in an overall sense is not a series of war crimes. It is one big crime and that the name for that is genocide.' My question to Israeli historian Benny Morris - which he didn't answer - in @mehdirhasan's new @AJHeadtoHead.

@AliAbunimah @FranceskAlbs I came to your powerful response today and realised once again why the world should have always prioritised listening to Palestinians. Even people with the best intentions are conditioned in accepting the status quo in the name of lawfulness. Thank you for your tireless work Ali.

@FranceskAlbs Unless you can describe another "acceptable response" that specifically fits situation of Palestinians facing aggression by the occupying power in Gaza, then you are sentencing them to death. The immorality of this must trump whatever the law says.

Indiscriminate rocket fire from Gaza is no acceptable response to Israel’s unlawful bombings, because it harms civilians and it is therefore unlawful too. This should not obscure Israel's responsibility for maintaining its violent 55yo occupation and 15yo blockade of Gaza.

Never has their been a war where Health workers played such a decisive role in preventing erasure and ethnic cleansing. Never has there been a war where the genocidal aggressor centered hospitals as a integral part of the battlefield.

@dfatirl @SimonHarrisTD Perhaps just start by not referring to the occupied Palestine the Middle East! Palestinians have not sacrificed so many generations for their country to be called the Middle East, a euro centric Colonial term given to a region by Western power.

Following developments overnight in the Middle East, Ireland stands ready to assist in every practical way to achieve peace and an end to human suffering. Read the statement by Tánaiste @SimonHarrisTD