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‘Look at us with mercy’: displaced Palestinians dread onset of harsh winter People in tent cities on shore of southern Gaza fear disease, cold and hunger as shortages continue

‘Look at us with mercy’: displaced Palestinians dread onset of harsh winter

Honoured to have my story "Deliver" nominated! I love @innerworlds.bsky.social and all the work they publish, go and give the other stories a read 💫📖

They Promised This Would Be Beautiful by Elena Sichrovsky Your mentor once described a Bridge as being close to sacred. Inhale against the pull of time, they said. Let past, present, and future flood your molecules.

Read our Pushcart nominated stories!

Deliver by @safiyacherfi.bsky.social inner-worlds.ghost.io/deliver-safi...
They Promised This Would Be Beautiful by @esichr.bsky.social inner-worlds.ghost.io/they-promise...
Strangler Fig by @katharinetyndall.bsky.social inner-worlds.ghost.io/strangler-fi... 2/2

Pushcart Nominations: Lungs by Busayo Akinmoju Come F*** Yourself by Sylvie Althoff Grand Mal by Mary Buchanan Deliver by Safiya Cherfi They Promised This Would Be Beautiful by Elena Sichrovsky Strangler Fig by Katharine Tyndall

🥁 It's Pushcart time! 🥁

Almost impossible to choose again, but here are our 2025 nominees:

Lungs by Busayo Akinmoju
Come F*** Yourself by Sylvie Althoff
Grand Mal by Mary Buchanan
Deliver by Safiya Cherfi
They Promised This Would Be Beautiful by Elena Sichrovsky
Strangler Fig by Katharine Tyndall

UNRWA slams Israel for crippling Gaza efforts, aid woefully short of needs Despite a ceasefire mandating the passage of humanitarian aid, only a fraction of the aid needed has been let into Gaza.

Despite a ceasefire mandating the passage of humanitarian aid, only a fraction of the aid needed has been let into Gaza.

Israel attacks Gaza’s south, north during ‘repeatedly violated’ truce At least 245 Palestinians killed in Gaza since start of ceasefire, according to enclave's Health Ministry.

At least 245 Palestinians killed in Gaza since start of ceasefire, according to enclave's Health Ministry.

Today's quick update [Nov 12]:

- RSF drone strike attempts reported on Merowe Airport and Merowe Dam; repelled by SAF anti-aircraft artillery.

- RSF forces continue to surround and infiltrate the city of Babanusa, West Kordofan.

#KeepEyesOnSudan

No end to genocide The ceasefire agreement simply means that Israel is able to do whatever it wants.

In Gaza, we all want this ceasefire to hold, to save what remains of our home. Still, it does not take a genius to see that the ceasefire plan is nothing but a grotesque charade. #eiGazaDispatches

I Read Stories: Deliver by Safiya Cherfi Deliver by Safiya Cherfi in Inner Worlds On a remote Scottish island a reporter follows a strange story. About a mermaid, which he re...

I read Deliver by Safiya Cherfi in @innerworlds.bsky.social in which a reporter goes to a remote Scottish island to learn about the sea-child. nightofthehats.blogspot.com/2025/11/i-re...

A child in Gaza, selling drinks to help his family, is invited to play with the other children after he was watching them play from afar.

PALESTINE - 1 at Edinburgh's Radical Book Fair 📚🕊️

🎟️ lighthousebookshop.com/events/pales...

Basma Ghalayini & Mazen Maarouf discuss the stories of Palestinian villages in the year before the Nakba, & the place of history in constantly 'unprecedented' times.

🗓️ 9 Nov (4-5pm)
📍 Assembly Roxy

Saleh was 27 years old with his life ahead of him. He loved his people, he loved his religion, he loved his land. He covered the genocide for two years as the powers of the world tried to silence his voice. His voice will live on, even after the occupation ends. Glory to the martyrs.

The beloved Saleh Al-Jafarawi has been murdered. We are absolutely devastated. For 2 years he reported on the genocide of his people, just for him to be murdered during the ‘ceasefire’

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Gaza aid flotilla hit by drone attacks and explosions, activists say Activists on board the Global Sumud Flotilla said they heard explosions and saw drone attacks late on Tuesday.

Activists on board the Global Sumud Flotilla said they heard explosions and saw drone attacks late on Tuesday.

In a world with so little hope and so little moral constancy these are images of true joy.

A UN commission of inquiry has confirmed what was already clear: Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. For nearly two years we’ve witnessed the deliberate slaughter of civilians, starvation of an entire population, and the systematic destruction of hospitals and essential infrastructure. This has been accompanied by open calls to annihilate Palestinians from Israel’s political and military leaders. This is the most documented genocide in history. Yet just two weeks ago, the UK government claimed it had not concluded Israel was acting with genocidal intent. It continues to arm Israel's genocide, provide RAF reconnaissance support and roll out the red carpet for Israeli war criminals. The government’s position was already morally indefensible. It is now politically untenable. Keir Starmer and his Labour ministers must be held criminally accountable.

A UN commission of inquiry has confirmed what was already clear: Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.

The government’s position was already morally indefensible. It is now politically untenable.

Keir Starmer and his Labour ministers must be held criminally accountable.

‘A Life That Doesn’t Know How to Live’: New Poetry by Fatena Abu Mostafa  In this poem, by Fatena Mostafa, the narrator endures, "not out of strength, / but because even collapse has grown dull."

‘A Life That Doesn’t Know How to Live’: New Poetry by Fatena Abu Mostafa 

In this poem, by Fatena Mostafa, the narrator endures, "not out of strength, / but because even collapse has grown dull."

Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, UN commission of inquiry says The panel finds that four of the five genocidal acts defined under international law have been carried out against Palestinians during the war.

Another major independent report led by experts confirms that Israel is perpetrating genocide. The Israeli government has denounced its authors as "Hamas proxies". The litany of crimes continues with impunity. Full sanctions and boycott are long overdue. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I squealed when I saw this and had to take a seat on the stairs to read it. My novella has a review in Strange Horizons!!

We Knocked Until Our Hands Broke Gaza-based Palestinian author Alaa Alqaisi asks herself the question posed more than half a century ago at the end of Ghassan Kanafani’s “Men in the Sun”: Why didn’t they knock on…

Read this piece by Alaa Alqaisi, especially if you've read Men in the Sun by Ghassan Kanafani.

'We Knocked Until Our Hands Broke' arablit.org/2025/05/23/w...

I‘m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Maram. Maram was a kindergarten teacher before this and her family had a farm with many greenhouses. The farm was destroyed and she lost her job. Maram is trying to help her large family including 5 siblings and a nephew, Jood who is only 2.

Radical Object: A North African Book in the Early Medieval British Isles The oldest surviving book owned by English speakers was a book made in North Africa. Alison Hudson traces how these radical fragments reveal that immigrants and cultural exchange have always been fundamental to British economies, culture,…

The oldest surviving book owned by English speakers was a book made in North Africa.

In this article from our archive, Alison Hudson traces how these radical fragments reveal that immigrants and cultural exchange have always been fundamental to Britain.

Another one in the @innerworlds.bsky.social gang! Read this beautifully melancholic tale by Safiya with a hot cup of tea 🌊

Oh thank you so much Madeehah! I was definitely going for folklore vibes 🫶🏻 haha yes I do on both sides actually

Nothing like an overwhelming amount of ideas to cripple creativity (at least in my case) 😂

Gaza's journalists get massacred, Western press mollycoddles Israel electronicintifada.net/blogs/david-...

Israel wanted to punish a Palestinian village. So it destroyed 10,000 of its olive trees. Israel uprooted 10,000 olive trees in al-Mughayyir during a three-day siege of the West Bank Palestinian village. The Israeli army stated that uprooting the trees was intended to “deter” village…

Israel uprooted 10,000 olive trees in al-Mughayyir during a three-day siege of the West Bank Palestinian village. The Israeli army stated that uprooting the trees was intended to “deter” village residents and make them “pay a heavy price.” mondoweiss.net/2025/08/isra...

A 1955 writer casually dropping a “Germans tended to go along with Nazis just like your all-American wife goes along with segregation” is both the answer and the question for “how we got here”