🕊️❤️🌎 ALL OPINIONS ARE MY OWN, NOT MY EMPLOYER'S. I DO NOT REPRESENT OR SPEAK FOR MY EMPLOYER. Agile Software Development & Product Management Professional.
Israel is committing genocide with our government’s help and has now killed OVER 25,000 WOMEN & CHILDREN in under 5 months. That is according to our own U.S. military: https://lnkd.in/gtQtw9zc And can Israel really be trying not to harm civilians if 70% of those killed are women & children, & over 85% are civilians? This is obviously ethnic cleansing & genocide. Israel has also orphaned over 30,000 more Palestinian children, & has made around 1 MILLION CHILDREN homeless during winter. And Israel is still blocking aid to these children, killing them with starvation, dehydration, & disease, in addition to U.S. supplied bombs. I also cry for the 36 innocent Israeli children killed on October 7th, but this horrible conflict did NOT start on that day. The proof is the nearly 2300 Palestinian children Israeli soldiers and settlers killed between the year 2000 and October 2023, including 43 children during the 9 months just before October 7th (all names & details documented on BTselem.org). Israel has also imposed a brutal 57 year occupation/apartheid on Palestinians, as well as a brutal blockade of Gaza since 2005. Both are illegal under international law, immoral, and ongoing acts of war. PLEASE WRITE & CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES & the White House to demand they stop helping Israel kill & starve children, commit war crimes, & maintain its brutal & racist apartheid, with our tax dollars. What would you do if someone stole your house and livelihood, killed some of your family, and left the rest of you with nothing to live in the squalor of a refugee camp, where your children were still not safe from Israeli bombs, bullets, and boots? Because that is what Israel did to over 750,000 Palestinians in 1948, over 300,000 in 1967, and over 250,000 since then, and more every year. Most of the families in Gaza owned homes, farms, or shops where Israeli cities and towns now stand, which Israel literally stole from them. Many still even have the keys to their homes, and some homes still stand with Jewish immigrants living in them today. Palestinians have been trying to protest peacefully for decades, but when they do, Israeli soldiers shoot them in the knees, kill them, or at least imprison and beat them. If you don't believe it, please google this 2020 Haaretz article titled: '42 Knees in One Day': Israeli Snipers Open Up About Shooting Gaza Protesters. It describes how IDF snipers would shoot many peaceful protesters in the kneecaps and ankles to cripple them, while shooting and killing many others, including journalists and medics. And if you still believe the lie that Israel has offered Palestinians many generous peace deals that they keep rejecting, please read and share this article: https://lnkd.in/g2_EV6dV
I'm building HEAL Palestine as a holistic response to Gaza's genocide, after founding and builing PCRF For 30 years.
For the last 30+ years, my mission has been to serve Palestine by helping to improve the health system. With HEAL Palestine we will continue to do that. But now we face a generation of children - kids my children's age - missing an entire academic year, and I cannot sit idle while their traumatized brains go without learning. I'm proud that HEAL Palestine is building these makeshift classrooms in #Gaza to help provide children some form of learning during this acute existential crisis, but this is nothing compared to the needs. Thank you all for helping to support our work. We will continue, until freedom.
