• emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works
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    13 days ago

    Why do they call children ‘martyrs’? That implies that these children accepted their deaths for whatever reason. In reality Israel just murdered them. Let us not whitewash the horror.

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      @emergencyfood
      The term “shaheed” translated to martyr is used in different ways.

      First reference is for fighters who die in a holy war.

      The second is used for those innocent who didn’t fight, but were murdered unjustifiably.

      It’s a cultural thing that people unfamiliar with Arab/muslim traditions don’t understand.

      I don’t use the term, as I’m not religious, but when I post from Palestinian sources, I share what they wrote.

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      13 days ago

      The arabic defintion is wider. It can refer to people who die from plague, stomach disease, drowning, being crushed by a falling wall or structure, and those who die in battle

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      The way I see it, Israel creating the conditions for the martyr part of their religion becoming accepted by even children makes things even more horrible.

  • AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net
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    I was reading the other day about how one of the most effective things that we can do in effective dissemination of information about the scope of this genocide is to frame things around individuals; it is easier for us to respond to the death of one child, for example, than to understand the scale of tension of thousands of children being killed (I suspect this is why Hind Rajab became such an effective symbol).

    Apparently this is the most well documented genocide-in-progress the world has ever seen, and I can believe it. Images like this are powerful because it shows that Zeina Al-Ghoul isn’t just some abstract entity, or a number on a spreadsheet, but a real human child. There are so many others whose names I will never hear, but it’s powerful to continually remind ourselves of the human lives that are being destroyed.

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    @faab64 @palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@a.gup.pe
    There are so many! 😢 We don’t even know the numbers, let alone their names.

    Though they are not combatants, the words of the Ode resonate:
    “They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
    Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
    At the going down of the sun and in the morning
    We will remember them.”

    #CrimesAgainstHumanity
    #NeverForget #NeverForgive #SayHerName #GazaGenocide #SaveTheChildren