Relatives mourn as they watch the body of Umar Kumhar, a civilian who according to local media was killed during clashes with Indian security forces near the site of a gun battle, during his funeral in Kashmir Photo Danish Ismail: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 4 May 2018
Photo and text by @JavedDar: Sister of a 9th class student who was shot dead by government forces during a protest near gunfight site, holds his uniform, urging him to “wake and go to school” during his funeral procession in village Pinjoora-Shopian in south #Kashmir: image via Wasim Khalid @WasemKhalid, 3 May 2018
#Kashmir - Resisting and fighting Indian occupation since 1947, will resist till the dawn of freedom.: image via Muhammad Uzair @MirUzair1, 3 May 2018
Women protest the burning down of Chrar-e Sharif shrine. Photo: Mehraj Ud Din May/1995: image via Zainab Mufti @zainab_mufti24, 3 May 2018
Militants appear at the funeral of local Hizbul commander Sameer Tiger in Drubgam in Pulwama. Pic via @Qayoomyousf: image via Mufti Islah @islahmufti, 30 April 2018
A policeman loads bullets in a magazine before storming a residential house where militants are fighting with them during a gun battle at Drabgam village of Pulwama district.: image via BASIT ZARGAR @basiitzargar, 30 April 2018
Pictures from Drabgam Pulwama encounter where Top Hizbul commander, Sameer Ahmed Bhat Alias Sameer Tiger, and his associate Aquib were killed in a gunfight.: image via BASIT ZARGAR @basiitzargar, 30 April 2018
Pictures from Drabgam Pulwama encounter where Top Hizbul commander, Sameer Ahmed Bhat Alias Sameer Tiger, and his associate Aquib were killed in a gunfight.: image via BASIT ZARGAR @basiitzargar, 30 April 2018
Pictures from Drabgam Pulwama encounter where Top Hizbul commander, Sameer Ahmed Bhat Alias Sameer Tiger, and his associate Aquib were killed in a gunfight.: image via BASIT ZARGAR @basiitzargar, 30 April 2018
Pictures from Drabgam Pulwama encounter where Top Hizbul commander, Sameer Ahmed Bhat Alias Sameer Tiger, and his associate Aquib were killed in a gunfight.: image via BASIT ZARGAR @basiitzargar, 30 April 2018
#India India storm toll rises with more wild weather forecast Photo @Chandanphoto #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 4 May 2018
#India A Rajasthani woman with a calf on her shoulder walks on a hot summer day in the outskirts of Ajmer Photo Shaukat Ahmed #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 4 May 2018
#Indonesia A one year-old elephant receives medical treatment from vets of the Indonesian nature and conservation agency in Saree after injuring its leg in a trap. Photo @mirroreye #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 4 May 2018
Aerial views of burned and abandoned Rohingya villages in Myanmar's northern Rakhine state: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 4 May 2018
Aerial views of burned and abandoned Rohingya villages in Myanmar's northern Rakhine state: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 4 May 2018
Aerial views of burned and abandoned Rohingya villages in Myanmar's northern Rakhine state: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 4 May 2018
Two Reuters journalists have been detained in Myanmar for 143 days. They were investigating the killing of 10 Rohingya Muslim men and boys: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 3 May 2018
Two Reuters journalists have been detained in Myanmar for 143 days. They were investigating the killing of 10 Rohingya Muslim men and boys: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 3 May 2018
Friends and relatives of Marai at his grave in the village of Guldara: photo by Andrew Quilty / AFP, 3 May 2018
Journalists killed today in Kabul:
1. Shah Marai - @AFPphoto
2. Mahram Durrani - RadioAzadi
3. Yar Mohammad Tokhi - ToloNews
4. Salim Talash -Mashal TV
5. َAli Salimi - Mashal TV
6. Ghazi Rasuli - 1TV
7. Nawruz Ali Khamoosh - 1TV
8. Ebadullah Hananzai - Azadi
9. Sabawun Kakar - Azadi: image via Zia Shahreyar @ziashahreyar, 30 April 2018
On March 29, 2016, young students in a classroom without a teacher at the Sayedabad-area school in Helmand’s Nad-i Ali District. The school was operating with Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers positioned on its roof, with a diminished number of students and teachers and with the sound of fighting nearby. At the time, Taliban-controlled villages were only a couple of hundred meters away. After years of relative calm in the Nad-i Ali, the Afghan Local Police, with the support of the ANA, were maintaining the tenuous frontline against the ever-encroaching Taliban who had pushed closer than ever to the nearby provincial capital, Lashkar Gah. Now, Nad-i Ali was overrun by the Taliban three months after this photo was taken and has remained under their control since.: photo by Andrew Quilty, 29 March 2016
On Feb. 19, 2014, a mother waits with her daughter in the emergency waiting room of the regional hospital in the capital of Helmand Province, Lashkar Gah, Afghanistan.: photo by Andrew Quilty, 9 February 2014
On Feb. 19, 2014, a mother waits with her daughter in the emergency waiting room of the regional hospital in the capital of Helmand Province, Lashkar Gah, Afghanistan.: photo by Andrew Quilty, 9 February 2014
On Aug. 26, 2016, Aziza, 52, who works at the National TV and Radio of Afghanistan, puts on make up as she gets ready to go out. Aziza lost her husband to cancer in 2006 and brought up her four children on her own with the support of her brother-in-law, a prominent Afghan-Australian musician. She was never forced to remarry, but temporarily lived with her brother-in-law’s family in the same apartment, which she recalls as being extremely difficult.: photo by Andrew Quilty, 26 August 2016
On Sept. 10, 2016, children put a photo of their father back on the wall. Their memories of him are blurred and shaped by the only photo that exists of him. Shakar, 29, lost her husband to a suicide attack while he was on his way to work. Shakir works as a cleaner but had to pull her oldest daughter out of school so she can afford to provide her children with basic needs. The family, which belongs to the Ismaeili shia minority, fears the return of the Taliban. “If [the Taliban] comes back, how am I going to feed my children?”: photo by Andrew Quilty, 10 September 2016
For the past decade, widows have built mud hovels by hand on a slope above a cemetery in an eastern neighborhood of Kabul. There are now thousands of hovels on the hill and its surroundings. The first squatter homes have since morphed into a crowded community that has a private drinking water supply and, at times, electricity. Most of the women have not been able to escape from abject poverty, but they have created something far more unusual in a country dominated by men.: photo by Andrew Quilty, 12 September 2016
#Palestinian #medic and groom Muath Al-Raqab before his wife Hadeel Al-Najjar during their #wedding nuptial celebrations in a tent east of Khan Yunis in #Gaza #AFP: image via said khatib @saidkhatib, 2 May 2018
Pictures of the moment when the martyr Abdel Salam Bakr was shot by occupation's sniper at east of Khan Younis south of the Gaza Strip today in #GreatReturnMarch: image via Ayesha Zara @ayeshazara, 27 April 2018
I apologize for the pictures But to see the whole world Where are the conscience of the free world?See the crimes of the Zionist enemy against the innocent #Palestinians Stop these crimes where human rights are Which your talking about in all international institution #Gaza today: image via Ahmed Hijazi #GreatReturnMarch @Gaza @ahmedhijazi96, 27 April 2018
I apologize for the pictures But to see the whole world Where are the conscience of the free world?See the crimes of the Zionist enemy against the innocent #Palestinians Stop these crimes where human rights are Which your talking about in all international institution #Gaza today: image via Ahmed Hijazi #GreatReturnMarch @Gaza @ahmedhijazi96, 27 April 2018
Therefore, there will be war.
تبولوا على فنادق ترامب pee in trump hotels #Solidarity: image via Soltan Nasser @Soltannasser, 3 May 2018
Thousands attend funeral of martyred student: Journalists working in difficult situation in IOK: Kashmir Media Service, 3 May 2018
Srinagar, May 03 (KMS): In occupied Kashmir, thousands of people
attended the funeral prayers of a student, Umar Kumhar, in Shopian
district, today.
Umar Kumhar, a ninth class student, was killed and more than thirty
people were injured when the Indian troops fired bullets, pellets and
teargas shells on protesters during a cordon and search operation in
Turkawangam area of the district, yesterday. The troops also damaged two
houses and at least four cowsheds in the area. Thousands of people
poured onto the streets as the body of the martyred student was taken
for burial. They raised high-pitched pro-freedom and anti-India slogans.
Multiple funerals were held for Umar to accommodate the huge rush of
people. Eyewitnesses said that the martyr was laid to rest with his
school uniform shirt over his body.
Complete shutdown was observed in Pulwama, Shopian, Islamabad and
Kulgam districts, today, to mourn the killing of Umar Kumhar and other
youth martyred by the troops. The Indian troops fired teargas shells in
Khudwani area of Kulgam after youth pelted stones on the vehicles of the
forces’ personnel. Clashes erupted between protesters and the Indian
forces in Malangpora area of Pulwama district. Indian police arrested
noted religious scholar, Qazi Ahmed Yasir, in Islamabad town to prevent
him from visiting Turkawangam area to express solidarity with the family
of the martyred student.
A report released by Kashmir Media Service on the occasion of the
World Press Freedom Day, today, maintained that occupied Kashmir is one
of the most dangerous places of the world where people associated with
the press and media are performing their professional duties in the most
difficult circumstances and situation. The report pointed out that ten
journalists have been confirmed as being killed while performing their
duties during the Kashmiris’ ongoing liberation struggle since 1989.
They included Shabbir Ahmed Dar, Mushtaq Ali, Ghulam Muhammad Lone,
Ghulam Rasool Azad, Muhammad Shaban Wakeel, Pervez Muhammad Sultan,
Mushtaq Ahmed and a woman scribe, Aasiya Jeelani.
The Chairman of All Parties Hurriyat Conference, Syed Ali Gilani, has
said that many Kashmiri political prisoners were still languishing in
jails given the fact that they had completed their incarceration period.
He was talking to noted Indian civil society member and Chairman of
Centre for Peace and Progress, O P Shaw, who called on him at his
Hyderpora residence in Srinagar. The Chairman of Jammu and Kashmir
Muslim Conference, Shabbir Ahmed Dar, and human rights activist,
Muhammad Ahsan Untoo, in their meeting with O P Shaw said that the
Kashmiris were offering huge sacrifices for a noble cause and no amount
of Indian state terrorism could intimidate them to submission.
Delegations of different pro-freedom organizations including
Salvation Movement, Voice of Victims, Kashmiri Affected Families and
Pellet Victims Association met Tehreek-e-Hurriyat Chairman, Muhammad
Ashraf Sehrai, and discussed the prevailing situation in occupied
Kashmir. The leaders of Jammu and Kashmir Democratic Freedom Party
including Muhammad Abdullah Tari addressing a press conference in
Srinagar expressed serious concern over the deteriorating health of the
illegally detained party Chairman, Shabbir Ahmed Shah, in New Delhi’s
Tihar Jail.
Hurriyat leaders including Muhammad Yasin Malik, Muhammad Yousuf
Naqash and Javaid Ahmed Mir visited SMHS Hospital in Srinagar and
enquired about the health of the youth injured in the firing of pellets
and bullets by the Indian troops in different areas. KMS
#Kashmir - Resisting and fighting Indian occupation since 1947, will resist till the dawn of freedom.: image via Muhammad Uzair @MirUzair1, 3 May 2018
Women protest the burning down of Chrar-e Sharif shrine. Photo: Mehraj Ud Din May/1995: image via Zainab Mufti @zainab_mufti24, 3 May 2018
A woman
stands near a wall ridden with bullet holes as she inspects a house
damaged during a gun battle between security and suspected militants in
Drabgam village of Pulwama district.: image via BASIT ZARGAR
@basiitzargar, 1 May 2018
A boy
looks towards the body of Sameer Bhat Alias Sameer Tiger a Top
Militant Commander during his funeral procession in Drabgam village of
Pulwama district.: image via BASIT ZARGAR
@basiitzargar, 1 May 2018
Funeral pictures of a Top Militant Commander Sameer Bhat Alias Sameer Tiger in Drabgam village of Pulwama district.: image via BASIT ZARGAR
@basiitzargar, 1 May 2018
Funeral pictures of a Top Militant Commander Sameer Bhat Alias Sameer Tiger in Drabgam village of Pulwama district.: image via BASIT ZARGAR
@basiitzargar, 1 May 2018
Funeral pictures of a Top Militant Commander Sameer Bhat Alias Sameer Tiger in Drabgam village of Pulwama district.: image via BASIT ZARGAR
@basiitzargar, 1 May 2018
Funeral pictures of a Top Militant Commander Sameer Bhat Alias Sameer Tiger in Drabgam village of Pulwama district.: image via BASIT ZARGAR
@basiitzargar, 1 May 2018
A policeman loads bullets in a magazine before storming a residential house where militants are fighting with them during a gun battle at Drabgam village of Pulwama district.: image via BASIT ZARGAR @basiitzargar, 30 April 2018
Pictures from Drabgam Pulwama encounter where Top Hizbul commander, Sameer Ahmed Bhat Alias Sameer Tiger, and his associate Aquib were killed in a gunfight.: image via BASIT ZARGAR @basiitzargar, 30 April 2018
Pictures from Drabgam Pulwama encounter where Top Hizbul commander, Sameer Ahmed Bhat Alias Sameer Tiger, and his associate Aquib were killed in a gunfight.: image via BASIT ZARGAR @basiitzargar, 30 April 2018
Pictures from Drabgam Pulwama encounter where Top Hizbul commander, Sameer Ahmed Bhat Alias Sameer Tiger, and his associate Aquib were killed in a gunfight.: image via BASIT ZARGAR @basiitzargar, 30 April 2018
Pictures from Drabgam Pulwama encounter where Top Hizbul commander, Sameer Ahmed Bhat Alias Sameer Tiger, and his associate Aquib were killed in a gunfight.: image via BASIT ZARGAR @basiitzargar, 30 April 2018
#India India storm toll rises with more wild weather forecast Photo @Chandanphoto #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 4 May 2018
#India A Rajasthani woman with a calf on her shoulder walks on a hot summer day in the outskirts of Ajmer Photo Shaukat Ahmed #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 4 May 2018
#Indonesia A one year-old elephant receives medical treatment from vets of the Indonesian nature and conservation agency in Saree after injuring its leg in a trap. Photo @mirroreye #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 4 May 2018
Aerial views of burned and abandoned Rohingya villages in Myanmar's northern Rakhine state: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 4 May 2018
Aerial views of burned and abandoned Rohingya villages in Myanmar's northern Rakhine state: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 4 May 2018
Aerial views of burned and abandoned Rohingya villages in Myanmar's northern Rakhine state: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 4 May 2018
Two Reuters journalists have been detained in Myanmar for 143 days. They were investigating the killing of 10 Rohingya Muslim men and boys: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 3 May 2018
Two Reuters journalists have been detained in Myanmar for 143 days. They were investigating the killing of 10 Rohingya Muslim men and boys: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 3 May 2018
Friends and relatives of Marai at his grave in the village of Guldara: photo by Andrew Quilty / AFP, 3 May 2018
'He Was Calm and Courageous.' Remembering Photographer Shah Marai: Massoud Hossaini, Time, 3 May 2018
When
nine journalists were among the at least 25 people killed in a double
suicide bombing in Kabul on April 30, I saw the blast through my camera.
It was only because of
luck that I survived, and then another photographer was shouting at me.
“Marai is dead,” he said. “Marai is dead.”
My friend Shah Marai, Agence France-Presse’s chief
photographer in Afghanistan, had a passion for his work that is rare to
find in a war zone. He was calm and courageous, just trying to take his
pictures. At 41, he was a mentor for younger photojournalists in Kabul,
having joined AFP as a driver in 1996, five years before the Taliban was
ousted, and later building a career with the agency to support his
family.
After the attack, which the United Nations said was
part of a “deliberate targeting of journalists,” I went to my office and
sent my pictures. Marai was dead and I had to do my job, to say what
had happened. In the afternoon, we went to his village, north of the
city. Then we buried him. He had promised to bring all the local
photographers there, to eat and be together in a good place, but it
never happened until his funeral. During the prayers, I was looking at
the sky and waiting for rain. If the rain came, it would mean Marai was
crying, that even the clouds were crying.
Hossaini is a Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist, now with the Associated Press
AFP
chief photographer in Kabul, Shah Marai spent many years covering the
Daily life, funerals, killing and destruction of his country, his images
was published in the international newspapers.
Today he appeared lying in the coffin on front page of The New York
Times: image via Khaled Desouki @khaled_desouki, 1 May 2018
Andrew Quilty: Afghanistan: Cranking up the ferris wheel, a quarter revolution at a time
Young
boys climb a broken-down ferris wheel on April 28, 2016, in order to
give a friend a quarter-revolution-ride in a dilapidated playground in
the capital of Afghanistan’s Helmand Province, Lashkar Gah. The ferris
wheel is long-defunct, with little incentive for local investors to
spend money in the provincial capital, which was threatened by a
determined push to take the city by the Taliban in late 2015, through
2016.: photo by Andrew Quilty, 28 April 2016
Young
boys climb a broken-down ferris wheel on April 28, 2016, in order to
give a friend a quarter-revolution-ride in a dilapidated playground in
the capital of Afghanistan’s Helmand Province, Lashkar Gah. The ferris
wheel is long-defunct, with little incentive for local investors to
spend money in the provincial capital, which was threatened by a
determined push to take the city by the Taliban in late 2015, through
2016.: photo by Andrew Quilty, 28 April 2016
On March 27, 2018, photojournalist Andrew Quilty takes
pictures on a jingle truck in Afghanistan.: photo courtesy of Andrew Quilty, 27 March 2018
On Sept. 30, 2016, a family on the road between the Pakistani border
and Jalalabad in eastern Afghanistan. Pakistani authorities oversaw the
removal of 600,000 Afghan refugees like them in 2016 alone.: photo by Andrew Quilty, 30 September 2016
On
March 29, 2016, young students in a classroom without a teacher at the
Sayedabad-area school in Helmand’s Nad-i Ali District. The school was
operating with Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers positioned on its
roof, with a diminished number of students and teachers and with the
sound of fighting nearby. At the time, Taliban-controlled villages were
only a couple of hundred meters away. After years of relative calm in
the Nad-i Ali, the Afghan Local Police, with the support of the ANA,
were maintaining the tenuous frontline against the ever-encroaching
Taliban who had pushed closer than ever to the nearby provincial
capital, Lashkar Gah. Now, Nad-i Ali was overrun by the Taliban three
months after this photo was taken and has remained under their control
since.: photo by Andrew Quilty, 29 March 2016
On March 29, 2016, young students in a classroom without a teacher at the Sayedabad-area school in Helmand’s Nad-i Ali District. The school was operating with Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers positioned on its roof, with a diminished number of students and teachers and with the sound of fighting nearby. At the time, Taliban-controlled villages were only a couple of hundred meters away. After years of relative calm in the Nad-i Ali, the Afghan Local Police, with the support of the ANA, were maintaining the tenuous frontline against the ever-encroaching Taliban who had pushed closer than ever to the nearby provincial capital, Lashkar Gah. Now, Nad-i Ali was overrun by the Taliban three months after this photo was taken and has remained under their control since.: photo by Andrew Quilty, 29 March 2016
On Feb. 19, 2014, a mother waits with her daughter in the emergency waiting room of the regional hospital in the capital of Helmand Province, Lashkar Gah, Afghanistan.: photo by Andrew Quilty, 9 February 2014
On Feb. 19, 2014, a mother waits with her daughter in the emergency waiting room of the regional hospital in the capital of Helmand Province, Lashkar Gah, Afghanistan.: photo by Andrew Quilty, 9 February 2014
On Aug. 26, 2016, Aziza, 52, who works at the National TV and Radio of Afghanistan, puts on make up as she gets ready to go out. Aziza lost her husband to cancer in 2006 and brought up her four children on her own with the support of her brother-in-law, a prominent Afghan-Australian musician. She was never forced to remarry, but temporarily lived with her brother-in-law’s family in the same apartment, which she recalls as being extremely difficult.: photo by Andrew Quilty, 26 August 2016
On Sept. 10, 2016, children put a photo of their father back on the wall. Their memories of him are blurred and shaped by the only photo that exists of him. Shakar, 29, lost her husband to a suicide attack while he was on his way to work. Shakir works as a cleaner but had to pull her oldest daughter out of school so she can afford to provide her children with basic needs. The family, which belongs to the Ismaeili shia minority, fears the return of the Taliban. “If [the Taliban] comes back, how am I going to feed my children?”: photo by Andrew Quilty, 10 September 2016
For the past decade, widows have built mud
hovels by hand on a slope above a cemetery in an eastern neighborhood of
Kabul. There are now thousands of hovels on the hill and its
surroundings. The first squatter homes have since morphed into a crowded
community that has a private drinking water supply and, at times,
electricity. Most of the women have not been able to escape from abject
poverty, but they have created something far more unusual in a country
dominated by men.: photo by Andrew Quilty, 12 September 2016
For the past decade, widows have built mud hovels by hand on a slope above a cemetery in an eastern neighborhood of Kabul. There are now thousands of hovels on the hill and its surroundings. The first squatter homes have since morphed into a crowded community that has a private drinking water supply and, at times, electricity. Most of the women have not been able to escape from abject poverty, but they have created something far more unusual in a country dominated by men.: photo by Andrew Quilty, 12 September 2016
A Friday in Gaza
GAZA
STRIP - Palestinians take part in a protest demanding the right to
return to their historic homelands in what is now Israel, at the
Israel-Gaza border Photo @saidkhatib #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard
@fgeffardAFP, 4 May 2018
GAZA
STRIP - A
Palestinian woman protester hurls stones towards Israeli forces during
clashes along the border with the Gaza strip Photo @MahmudHams #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard
@fgeffardAFP, 4 May 2018
GAZA STRIP - A Palestinian protester stands carrying a tire around his shoulder before fumes from burning tires during clashes with Israeli forces along the border Photo @MahmudHams #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 4 May 2018
GAZA STRIP - A Palestinian protester stands carrying a tire around his shoulder before fumes from burning tires during clashes with Israeli forces along the border Photo @MahmudHams #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 4 May 2018
burning tyres in Khuza'a near the border in southern #Gaza Strip. By: Hosam Salem: image via HosamSalem @HosamSalemG, 4 May 2018
#Palestinian #medic and groom Muath Al-Raqab before his wife Hadeel Al-Najjar during their #wedding nuptial celebrations in a tent east of Khan Yunis in #Gaza #AFP: image via said khatib @saidkhatib, 2 May 2018
Pictures of the moment when the martyr Abdel Salam Bakr was shot by
occupation's sniper at east of Khan Younis south of the Gaza Strip today
in #GreatReturnMarch: image via Ayesha Zara @ayeshazara, 27 April 2018
Pictures of the moment when the martyr Abdel Salam Bakr was shot by
occupation's sniper at east of Khan Younis south of the Gaza Strip today
in #GreatReturnMarch: image via Ayesha Zara @ayeshazara, 27 April 2018
Pictures of the moment when the martyr Abdel Salam Bakr was shot by occupation's sniper at east of Khan Younis south of the Gaza Strip today in #GreatReturnMarch: image via Ayesha Zara @ayeshazara, 27 April 2018
Pictures of the moment when the martyr Abdel Salam Bakr was shot by
occupation's sniper at east of Khan Younis south of the Gaza Strip today
in #GreatReturnMarch: image via Ayesha Zara @ayeshazara, 27 April 2018
#Gaza 3 Martyrs and 883 injured, two of which are serious.
The Martyrs are:
Mohammed Al-Maqid, 21 Abdul Salam Abu Bakr, 29 Khalil Naim Mustafa Atallah, 22
To Jannah my beloved brothers, to hell #Israel: image via Ahmed Hijazi #GreatReturnMarch @Gaza @ahmedhijazi96, 27 April 2018
#Gaza 3 Martyrs and 883 injured, two of which are serious.
The Martyrs are:
Mohammed Al-Maqid, 21 Abdul Salam Abu Bakr, 29 Khalil Naim Mustafa Atallah, 22
To Jannah my beloved brothers, to hell #Israel: image via Ahmed Hijazi #GreatReturnMarch @Gaza @ahmedhijazi96, 27 April 2018
#Gaza 3 Martyrs and 883 injured, two of which are serious.
The Martyrs are:
Mohammed Al-Maqid, 21 Abdul Salam Abu Bakr, 29 Khalil Naim Mustafa Atallah, 22
To Jannah my beloved brothers, to hell #Israel: image via Ahmed Hijazi #GreatReturnMarch @Gaza @ahmedhijazi96, 27 April 2018
#Gaza 3 Martyrs and 883 injured, two of which are serious.
The Martyrs are:
Mohammed Al-Maqid, 21 Abdul Salam Abu Bakr, 29 Khalil Naim Mustafa Atallah, 22
To Jannah my beloved brothers, to hell #Israel: image via Ahmed Hijazi #GreatReturnMarch @Gaza @ahmedhijazi96, 27 April 2018
I
apologize for the pictures But to see the whole world Where are the
conscience of the free world?See the crimes of the Zionist enemy against
the innocent #Palestinians Stop these crimes where human rights are
Which your talking about in all international institution #Gaza today: image via Ahmed Hijazi #GreatReturnMarch @Gaza @ahmedhijazi96, 27 April 2018
I apologize for the pictures But to see the whole world Where are the conscience of the free world?See the crimes of the Zionist enemy against the innocent #Palestinians Stop these crimes where human rights are Which your talking about in all international institution #Gaza today: image via Ahmed Hijazi #GreatReturnMarch @Gaza @ahmedhijazi96, 27 April 2018
I
apologize for the pictures But to see the whole world Where are the
conscience of the free world?See the crimes of the Zionist enemy against
the innocent #Palestinians Stop these crimes where human rights are
Which your talking about in all international institution #Gaza today: image via Ahmed Hijazi #GreatReturnMarch @Gaza @ahmedhijazi96, 27 April 2018
I apologize for the pictures But to see the whole world Where are the conscience of the free world?See the crimes of the Zionist enemy against the innocent #Palestinians Stop these crimes where human rights are Which your talking about in all international institution #Gaza today: image via Ahmed Hijazi #GreatReturnMarch @Gaza @ahmedhijazi96, 27 April 2018
1305030202 | Ethiopian woman on Orthodox Good Friday. Brumana, Lebanon.: photo by cedrus' , 3 May 2013
Taxi: Death of Israel, from Plato's Guns: Mideast Geopolitics and Poetics, 1 May 2018
BRO_4136: photo by Bronfer, 20 April 2018
For the zealot, Zionist West, International Law is
dead. Democracy is dead. Personal privacy is dead. Free speech is
dead. Free thought is dead. Morality itself is dead.
Therefore, there will be war.
Presently, with Syria and the Axis of Resistance so close to a
complete victory over the terrorist invading army that’s supported by
the Axis of Evil, Israel’s only chance at remaining a regional dominant
entity is to gather its Goyim Western friends on the front lines of
war-torn Syria. Israel desperately needs the Goyim slave nations of the
West to fight there on its behalf because, like I have been saying for a
good decade now, Israel is in an existential, geopolitical crisis that
it thinks can be resolved through yet another war of aggression against
its regional neighbors. It’s a gamble-war that the Israelis have no
choice but to ignite, all due to their enemies gaining continuing
strength and improved armory.
In the recent weeks, we’ve been hearing of much Western-Israeli-Saudi
preparations, both militarily and diplomatically, for this coming war.
But we don’t hear of the preparations of the Axis of Resistance and
this is because the Axis of Resistance is already very ready for the big
event. They sit in calm silent wait for the first bullet to be fired
by the Axis of Evil. They do this because their religion requires that
they be defenders and not assailants; and moreover, they do not want to
be remembered by history as the aggressors in a war that they see as a
physical and spiritual war of liberation from Imperialism, Colonialism
and Zionism: a triple-headed evil that’s been violently imposed on them
and their homelands for centuries now – since even before the dubious
creation of the state of Israel.
Dear reader, recent events as well as something in my waters tells me
that we are now on the threshold of this war that will end up
physically devastating not just the region, but the very nations of the
Axis of Evil as well – not to mention our global economy too: soon as
the Straights [sic] of Hormuz gets closed by an assaulted Iran. The Axis of
Evil is mistaken if they think they can contain a war in Syria when they
start attacking Iranians there – and I’m not talking randomly shooting
missiles at Iranian military stations or compounds like we’ve been
seeing of late: I am talking about an all out war against Iranians in
Syria, which is what the Axis of Evil is planning to do.
For lack of time, I wished today to write this article not as
thoughtful analysis, but as a bell to announce that the Axis of Evil has
more or less now lined up all their war ducks that will be quacking
thunderously within the next couple of months – maybe even in less than a
handful of weeks.
When this coming war occurs, expect Israel to lay in a bed of smokey
ruin, regardless of the hits it delivers the Axis of Resistance. In
fact, the destruction of Israel is the first thing that will happen in
this war and this will indeed change the world as we know it: change
especially the Middle East as well as the Jew-dominated Western world.
I am a hater of war but I am not a pacifist. I understand that
gathered forces of evil must be confronted head-on and destroyed by any
means necessary. This is why I personally support the Axis of
Resistance in this war. As far as I’m concerned, a world without the
terrorist state of Israel will be a better world, once the rebuilding
and post-war healing begins.
Brace yourselves tight. The righteous patriots of the Middle East
are about to begin their mission to liberate their land and take control
of their own destiny.
A world without American Imperialism, European Colonialism and Jewish
Zionism will enable the rest of humanity to live longer and in relative
peace.
1511220155 [Beirut}: photo by cedrus' , 22 November 2015
The champion (Bnei Zion, 2018): photo by Bronfer, 28 April 2018
The champion (Bnei Zion, 2018): photo by Bronfer, 28 April 2018
The champion (Bnei Zion, 2018): photo by Bronfer, 28 April 2018
When Right Reason requires you to pee in a trump hotel before morning, for it is written in the guest book (unless it's not)
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pee in trump hotels #Solidarity: image via Soltan Nasser @Soltannasser, 3 May 2018
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pee in trump hotels #Solidarity: image via Soltan Nasser @Soltannasser, 3 May 2018
تبولوا على فنادق ترامب pee in trump hotels #Solidarity: image via Soltan Nasser @Soltannasser, 3 May 2018
تبولوا على فنادق ترامب pee in trump hotels #Solidarity: image via Soltan Nasser @Soltannasser, 3 May 2018
تبولوا على فنادق ترامب pee in trump hotels #Solidarity: image via Soltan Nasser @Soltannasser, 3 May 2018
Mike Pompeo laughs in a side room before he is sworn in as Secretary of State at a ceremony at the State Department, Wednesday, May 2, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) @SecPompeo: image via Andrew Harnik @andyharnik, 2 May 2018
@realDonaldTrump gives his new Secretary of State Mike Pompeo a slap on the chest after he was sworn in at the State Department. Looking on is Susan Pompeo, wife of Mike Pompeo, and their son Nick. #swager #RealMikePompeo: image via Doug Mills @dougmillsnyt, 2 May 2018
President Donald Trump greets supporters after speaking at the NRA-ILA Leadership Forum in Dallas #NRAConvention Photo @sullyfoto: image via Getty Images News @GettyImagesNews, 4 May 2018
Really kind of funny when you think of it, but you might not want to and it's not all that hard to see why
Mike Pompeo laughs in a side room before he is sworn in as Secretary of State at a ceremony at the State Department, Wednesday, May 2, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) @SecPompeo: image via Andrew Harnik @andyharnik, 2 May 2018
@realDonaldTrump gives his new Secretary of State Mike Pompeo a slap on the chest after he was sworn in at the State Department. Looking on is Susan Pompeo, wife of Mike Pompeo, and their son Nick. #swager #RealMikePompeo: image via Doug Mills @dougmillsnyt, 2 May 2018
President Donald Trump greets supporters after speaking at the NRA-ILA Leadership Forum in Dallas #NRAConvention Photo @sullyfoto: image via Getty Images News @GettyImagesNews, 4 May 2018
President
Donald Trump speaks at the National Rifle Association’s convention in
Dallas: Photo @ReutersBarria: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 4 May 2018
One of the "featured products" at the NRA annual meeting is a pistol that looks like a cellphone. What could go wrong?: image via Timothy Johnson @timothywjohnson, 30 April 2018
One of the "featured products" at the NRA annual meeting is a pistol that looks like a cellphone. What could go wrong?: image via Timothy Johnson @timothywjohnson, 30 April 2018
One of the "featured products" at the NRA annual meeting is a pistol that looks like a cellphone. What could go wrong?: image via Timothy Johnson @timothywjohnson, 30 April 2018
Untitled: photo by pratyay, 30 September 2016
Untitled: photo by pratyay, 30 September 2016
Untitled: photo by pratyay, 30 September 2016
Untitled: photo by pratyay, 12 July 2014
Untitled: photo by pratyay, 12 July 2014
Untitled: photo by pratyay, 12 July 2014
Yum [Thailand]: photo by tananwad wanavit, 8 April 2018
Yum [Thailand]: photo by tananwad wanavit, 8 April 2018
One of the "featured products" at the NRA annual meeting is a pistol that looks like a cellphone. What could go wrong?: image via Timothy Johnson @timothywjohnson, 30 April 2018
One of the "featured products" at the NRA annual meeting is a pistol that looks like a cellphone. What could go wrong?: image via Timothy Johnson @timothywjohnson, 30 April 2018
One of the "featured products" at the NRA annual meeting is a pistol that looks like a cellphone. What could go wrong?: image via Timothy Johnson @timothywjohnson, 30 April 2018
Untitled: photo by pratyay, 30 September 2016
Untitled: photo by pratyay, 30 September 2016
Untitled: photo by pratyay, 30 September 2016
Untitled: photo by pratyay, 12 July 2014
Untitled: photo by pratyay, 12 July 2014
Untitled: photo by pratyay, 12 July 2014
Stephen Ratcliffe: from TEMPORALITY, Friday, May 4, 2018
5.4
pink red lines of clouds above
black plane of ridge
sound of bird chirping on branch
in left foreground
fifteen and twelve before a dozen,
to have at least
seen when we look things, image
falls away, “image”
twelve lines comma breaking the
rhythm of each line
separate from connected to the
line before after it
grey line of cloud above shadowed
shoulder of ridge
five white egrets gliding to the
right toward point
Stephen Ratcliffe: 5.4, from TEMPORALITY, 4 May 2018
... and for dessert ...
Yum [Thailand]: photo by tananwad wanavit, 8 April 2018
Yum [Thailand]: photo by tananwad wanavit, 8 April 2018
Yum [Thailand]: photo by tananwad wanavit, 8 April 2018
Dhaka | 2018: photo by Sohail Bin Mohammad, 2 February 2018
Dhaka | 2018: photo by Sohail Bin Mohammad, 13 April 2018
Untitled: photo by Soumyendra Saha, 4 May 2018
Untitled: photo by Soumyendra Saha, 4 May 2018
Untitled: photo by Soumyendra Saha, 4 May 2018
Dhaka | 2018: photo by Sohail Bin Mohammad, 2 February 2018
Dhaka | 2018: photo by Sohail Bin Mohammad, 13 April 2018
Untitled: photo by Soumyendra Saha, 4 May 2018
Untitled: photo by Soumyendra Saha, 4 May 2018
Untitled: photo by Soumyendra Saha, 4 May 2018
1610240465 | Finien Hotel, Butte, Montana 2016. This
isn't a 'real' real photo. It's a light homage to both Robert Frank and
Jason Eskenazi. The Finlen hotel is where Robert Frank took his "View
from hotel window -- Butte, Montana" shot in 1956, which is plate #26 in his "The Americans" book. As
to Jason Eskenazi, well the magazine I'm reading, DogFood, is his, and
that's Robert Frank featured on the back cover in an astronaut suit.
Also, for those who didn't know, Jason edited a book called "By the glow
of the Jukebox: The Americans list" where he asked 276 photographers,
including Frank himself, about their favorite photo from Frank's the
Americans book. And this tiny little book has a wealth of information,
not just about the analysis of Frank's seminal book, but also about what
draws photographers to certain photos and why.: photo by cedrus' , 21 October 2016
1610240465 | Finien Hotel, Butte, Montana 2016. This
isn't a 'real' real photo. It's a light homage to both Robert Frank and
Jason Eskenazi. The Finlen hotel is where Robert Frank took his "View
from hotel window -- Butte, Montana" shot in 1956, which is plate #26 in his "The Americans" book. As
to Jason Eskenazi, well the magazine I'm reading, DogFood, is his, and
that's Robert Frank featured on the back cover in an astronaut suit.
Also, for those who didn't know, Jason edited a book called "By the glow
of the Jukebox: The Americans list" where he asked 276 photographers,
including Frank himself, about their favorite photo from Frank's the
Americans book. And this tiny little book has a wealth of information,
not just about the analysis of Frank's seminal book, but also about what
draws photographers to certain photos and why.: photo by cedrus' , 21 October 2016
1610240465 | Finien Hotel, Butte, Montana 2016. This isn't a 'real' real photo. It's a light homage to both Robert Frank and Jason Eskenazi. The Finlen hotel is where Robert Frank took his "View from hotel window -- Butte, Montana" shot in 1956, which is plate #26 in his "The Americans" book. As
to Jason Eskenazi, well the magazine I'm reading, DogFood, is his, and
that's Robert Frank featured on the back cover in an astronaut suit.
Also, for those who didn't know, Jason edited a book called "By the glow
of the Jukebox: The Americans list" where he asked 276 photographers,
including Frank himself, about their favorite photo from Frank's the
Americans book. And this tiny little book has a wealth of information,
not just about the analysis of Frank's seminal book, but also about what
draws photographers to certain photos and why.: photo by cedrus' , 21 October 2016
Stephen's a master colourist.
ReplyDeleteFrom the images of Gaza to the beach in Israel.
Thank you Duncan. Perhaps helpful to advise in front that Stephen's certainly no terrorist. But is not the colour of any moment in any day the colour of the time?
ReplyDeleteThe oddest thing about living on the Bolinas mesa, whether in the days when it was nowt but flimsy fishermen's shacks, as was the case when we got there, or evidently now, when it seems a fair share of the world's very richest folk have made that bit of Earth their private enclave (showing that perhaps the rich have SOME taste after all, to go along with the acquisitiveness), is that if you're facing that mountain, every day when you get up it's still there, proving decisively once more that you're on the other side of it.
Stephen came around the time we left, and stayed, so now his daily log is as close as I'm ever again going to get to that place. Private, personal, yet real. The local knowledge. The look and feel. The not human. The faithful witness.
As for Israel and Gaza and the beach, and Kashmir, the local knowledge coming out of those places has none of the same familiar and endeared quality for me. But as I remain among the living, those are sites that remain of intense interest, for me, because until those sites are sorted, that is not by force but by some currently unknown light of justice, nobody anywhere can be complete, if they are human.
Living in this country at this point is a continual exercise in head-bowing helpless shame, for a useless old cripple comme moi. No longer able even to get in the way of traffic w/o being reduced to infantile helplessness. And next weekend the grand diplomatic triumph... hastened inauguration of the Embassy in Jerusalem. Wonderfully synchronised with the 70th commemoration of the creation of the state of Israel and the beginning of the forcible ejection of those from whose land (flesh) this new state was carved out, drop by drop. The whole passion play of the thing will be celebrated (that is, carefully ignored), seamlessly as it were (bumper to bumper), with a strangled curse, here on the freeway feeder, drowned out by the unceasing flow of vehicles speeding to and from the money.
TC,
ReplyDelete"Useless old couple." Them's fightin' words. Hey, if I had an extra fifteen cents I'd take a flight out there & punch ya in the knows-it-all mister smartipants. Yr talkin' 'bout Tom Clark & his Lady A. But I don't have the cash so will move with my Lady A to our local "Berkley" a week from today and try to establish a beachhead across Woodward
Ave. in full sight of Father Coughlin's touchdown Jesus. Pray for us, Tommy, and we'll pray for you. And remember this: EVERY day is nude beach day in Bolinas.
k
Now k, I'm already in enough trouble without any hint or suggestion that the uselessness is a ... what would the word be, "quality"?... that we two, Madame B and I, share as a couple. The woman of the house may not be Wonder Woman, but she's still in the ballpark. If you look again you will note that, therefore, the verbage I employed was "useless cripple". Simple accuracy. Total wreck, stumbling blindly across mayhem intersection in the permitted 2 nanoseconds, complete stranger ladies from other continents stop their cars, get out to enquire whether I need... I don't know what... emergency room??... Nah, hospitals are all closed or closing... while the not so complete and far less ladylike strangers from this continent step on the gas, trying to take me out... market forces, I get that... Crematorium you say? You can get me a deal?
ReplyDeleteIf no paperwork... Bingo!
Haha about the punchout though, that's my briar patch, people have been wanting to do that forever, I've been wanting them to want to, but no. And I'm not even talking about the people I love, like you and Mrs K. Just no.
And have you ever considered the potential implications of a nude beach day involving a lot of bent and wasted eighty year old skin bags, nobody able to stand up w/o support, and in any case no nude organs worth the glim time?
Steve R is exempt from all the above by the way, he like Madame Beyond is a miracle of sustainable longevity. He's got the long board, she's got the wire shopping cart on wheels.
Night, Tom. from greater Detroit. We love you forevermore. k
ReplyDeleteTom,
ReplyDeleteThanks for including "5.4" among the shocks and awes that precede it in this post . . . maybe brings in some strange sense of calm at the end of the horrors pictured above it. Does the fleeting moment of pink cloud above shadowed green ridge still exist (in such a world)? Not today it seems, nothing up there but fog and more fog . . .
Steve,
ReplyDeleteIt did exist, you saw it, your gift to us, tomorrow it may be fog, that other gift.
(Positively Siberian over here by the way... in fact temps Arkangelsk/here pretty much same-same currently...)
... remembering good old days when sarah P told Russian fake interviewers she could see Russia from wherever it was, maybe that back door stoop made out of the family dog, properly furry for scraping slushy boots on...