Safa Joudeh

Israel has now become the first state to codify a death sentence that applies in practice to one ethnic group, while another is effectively shielded from it.

Today was one of the most horrifying days of my life as an academic. Walking through Iran University of Science and Technology, a top-ranked public university in Iran, I was struck by the devastation. Only last month, this campus was alive with students, bustling between classrooms. Now, parts of the campus lie in ruins, classrooms shattered, hallways choked with dust and shattered glass. I saw the offices of professors burned. A newly renovated building, where students gathered for programs, for socializing, for life, destructed. One student, tearfully, told me: “My professor’s office was still burning a little. That’s where I used to wait for office hours. To ask questions. To appeal my grade.” This is the same university that launched Iran’s Omid and Zafar 2 satellites, symbols of homegrown technological achievement. A week ago, one of its professors was assassinated. Yesterday, they bombed it. From sanctions to targeted killings, to the bombing of research centers and universities, there’s a clear pattern: de-development & de-industrialisation/ the systematic dismantling of a nation’s indigenous development, its industrial base, its capacity to stand on its own. We will never forget that as the American and Zionist war criminals blatantly target universities, schools, hospitals/ assassinating professors and killing children, and after 2 years or genocice, western intellectuals are still debating whether or not to pass a symbolic, non-enforceable BDS resolution. Photos taken by me, full report incoming.

The opening of the Rafah crossing marks a concrete and positive step in the peace plan. The EU’s civilian mission is on the ground to monitor crossing operations and support Palestinian border guards. For Gaza’s sick and wounded, the reopening is a lifeline. It will allow families to reunite after far too long apart. Practical steps like this help move the truce plan forward and must continue. At the same time, Gaza remains in urgent need of aid. Its reconstruction will depend on Hamas' demilitarization.

بين جثةٍ تُستعاد… وآلاف الجثث تُترك تحت الركام يعثر جيش الاحتلال على جثة جندي له في غزة، فتُفتح له السماء الإعلامية، وتُقرَع طبول الإنسانية، وتُستدعى كل مفردات الحزن والكرامة و"الحق في الدفن". طيب… ونحن؟ أين أسرانا؟ أين جثامين شهدائنا الأسرى في سجون الاحتلال؟ أين جثمان الأسير د. عدنان البرش؟ أين جثمان الأسير د. إياد الرنتيسي؟ أين مفقودونا الذين ابتلعهم القصف ولم يُبتلع ذكرهم؟ أين آلاف الجثامين تحت الركام، التي لم تجد كفنًا ولا قبرًا ولا عدسة كاميرا تبكيها؟ جندي واحد يهزّ ضمير (العالم الحر)، وآلاف الأجساد الفلسطينية ما زالت تحت الأنقاض لا تهزّ إلا الغبار. هم يبحثون عن جندي، ونحن نبحث عن أحياء… ثم نبحث عن موتى… ثم نبحث عن أثر يدلّ أن هنا كان إنسان. هم يقيمون خيمة لانتشال جثة، ونحن نُقيم صلاة الغائب على مدن كاملة. هم يقولون: "لن نترك أحدًا خلفنا." ونحن نقول منذ عام: لم يتركوا لنا أحدًا أصلًا. في غزة، حتى الموتى مُحاصرون، وحتى الجثامين تُعاقَب، وحتى تحت الركام لا يُسمح للشهداء أن يكونوا خبرًا عاجلًا. هذه ليست مفارقة إنسانية… هذا ميزان عدالة مكسور، يُساوي بين جثة وجثة، إلا إذا كانت الجثة فلسطينية… فهي خارج جدول الاهتمام في (العالم الحر). Between a Body Recovered… and Thousands Left Under the Rubble The occupation army finds the body of one of its soldiers in Gaza, and suddenly the media sky opens, the drums of “humanity” are beaten, and every word of grief, dignity, and the “right to burial” is summoned. Alright… and what about us? Where are our prisoners? Where are the bodies of our martyred detainees in occupation prisons? Where is the body of detainee Dr. Adnan Al-Barsh? Where is the body of detainee Dr. Iyad Al-Rantisi? Where are our missing, swallowed by the bombs but not even remembered? Where are the thousands of bodies under the rubble, who found no shroud, no grave, and no camera lens to mourn them? One soldier shakes the conscience of the (free world), while thousands of Palestinian bodies remain under the debris, shaking nothing but the dust. They search for one soldier. We search for the living… then we search for the dead… then we search for a trace that says: a human once lived here. They set up a tent to retrieve one body. We hold absentee prayers over entire cities. They say: “We leave no one behind.” We’ve been saying for a year: they didn’t leave anyone for us at all. In Gaza, even the dead are besieged, even the bodies are punished, and even under the rubble, martyrs are not allowed to become breaking news. This is not a humanitarian paradox… this is a broken scale of justice, weighing one body against another, except when the body is Palestinian… then it is outside the table of concern in the (free world).

💥For the first time since 2014, there are no Israeli hostages in Gaza. The story of the quest for Ran Gvili's body has to be heard to be believed.

🧵In Trump’s so-called Charter for a US-controlled 'Board of Peace' (BoP), there is no mention of Palestine, the Gaza Strip, or the Palestinian people. The right to self-determination and return is entirely absent. Read on for a breakdown of the charter 👇 /1

🚨 Jared Kushner presented a “master plan” for redeveloping Gaza into a high-tech metropolis during a speech at the Board of Peace charter signing ceremony in Davos, Switzerland, on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum. Watch his full remarks here. We break down some key points in the thread below: 🧵