In Gaza City, I Have Surrendered to an Unknown Fate
By Rasha AbuJalal on 30 Aug 25 vía Drop Site vía thefreeonline no
I’m camped out on the rubble of my home as the Israeli army gets closer every day
Like so many other Palestinians in Gaza, I have ended up in a tent—the enduring symbol of displacement. I am camped out on the rubble with my husband and five children in western Gaza City.
Tents erected on the rubble in western Gaza City. August 28, 2025. (Photo by Rasha Abu Jalal) GAZA CITY—We refuse to move south. We have made our decision.
The merciless Israeli military machine is bearing down on us, getting closer every day and there is nothing we can do. But we won’t leave here. Not long ago, we were living in my friend’s house in northern Gaza City. Our home was destroyed by Israel a few weeks into the war, in early November 2023. My friend fled to Egypt in December 2023.
Not long ago, we were living in my friend’s house in northern Gaza City. Our home was destroyed by Israel a few weeks into the war, in early November 2023. My friend fled to Egypt in December 2023.
But earlier this month, the Israeli military began to implement Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to invade, seize, and ethnically cleanse Gaza City and force over a million Palestinians southward.
By Systema 161 at Nodo 50 in Federación Anarquista translation thefreeonline..August 25..
Tenerife: Two members of a fascist anti squat company have surrendered at a local police station.. with a mutilated corpse víctim in the car.
The 2 ‘Desokupa Ara’ directors confessed to the murder and are arrested.n the Spanish State its now common for far right criminal groups to set up ‘Squatter Removal’ companies staffed with their thugs and even attempt to evict Squat Centers as the cops stand by.
See Research Desokupas: six parts-
In the early hours of the night of July 31, two men parked in front of one of the police stations of the National Police of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. In the rear seat they carried a body with clear signs of a violent death.
Inside the vehicle was the Kickboxing fighter Andrés Moisés Baute, who admitted being perpetrator of the homicide.
Shortly after Jonathan Martín, gate keeper of a well -known disco in the area, also surrendered
According to the published information, the victim is known as Albertito . That same day, his partner had denounced his disappearance.
Although the investigation is still ongoing, one of the main hypotheses is that Alberto fought his aggressors, since he was a person of great corpulence and assiduous at the gym.
Subsequently, he would have received numerous blows, and could even have been tortured.
Police consider the possibility that it is an adjustment of accounts linked to drug trafficking.
To all this is added the existence of another person who remains hospitalized, and who allegedly would have also received a brutal beating by the two detainees.
Jonathan de Desokupa Ara y Andres Moises Baute
Baute, known as ‘MOI the ears, and a kickboxing fighter, appears to be the sole administrator of the company I Desokupa now (legally using the name of the Canary Islands Assets Union, B06997704).
Yesterday I was asked by a friend who’s into Spirituality, if I believed that to reach a higher, spiritual level he had to go through penalties or Supplications (I dont remember the word I used.)
He replied yes fasting, meditations, rare yoga postures and those things …
I asked “if a slap in your face would improve your spirituality?”
He got quite pissed off, I don’t see why.
Let’s see.. if fasting makes you more spiritual and sanctified, then taking into account the amount of famine in the world, people would be be almost flying in Gaza, people who are literally dying of hunger due to the blockade by the state of Israel and starvation by Europe.
In reality we see that people who go hungry are dedicated to looking for food.
Ok there’s a big difference between fasting and forced hunger.
To fast and be spiritual, you have to be rich, or not have to work. In a famine, oh.. the baby dies in the arms of his/her mother! I don’t even want to think about it.
As for other Supplications such as meditating … Consider the amount of time we have survived without television or the Internet.
La mejor manera de evitar que un hombre enferme es matarlo mientras se encuentra bien. Vanzetti [1]
A bordo de un transatlántico procedente de las Américas, “El Adriático”, en la White Start Line, dos italianos charlan entre sí. Matan el tiempo hablando de la suerte de dos condenados a muerte, Sacco y Vanzetti.
¿Nicola Sacco y Bartolomeo Vanzetti? Precisamente. Italianos-americanos como ellos. Arrastrados ante los tribunales de Massachusetts por dos atracos, uno de los cuales salió completamente mal. Protestan que son tan blancos como el cordero recién nacido.
Si te gusta nuestro trabajo, considera la posibilidad de ayudarnos a poder continuar con nuestro proyecto, con un pequeño donativo.
Es lo que se habla en los cafés. Todo el mundo se pone en pie en su defensa. El “asunto” es como para darle vueltas a la cabeza: hay filosofías sobre la inocencia y la culpabilidad, sobre la política, la violencia y el crimen, sobre la xenofobia, sobre la tolerancia con la gente que no piensa como tú.
Los dos pasajeros parecen compinchados, pero es sólo una apariencia. En realidad, uno de ellos está interrogando al otro. Su interlocutor, un joven robusto, delgado y bien parecido, no es demasiado inteligente, sobre todo cuando se trata de responder a preguntas que podrían despertar sospechas.
Pero hablan el mismo idioma, una mezcla de inglés e italiano. Y ambos son, ¡per bacco! anarquistas.
¿Anarquistas, qué es eso?
Buena pregunta, camarada. Vanzetti, uno de los acusados, te informará:
Y, nosotros, modestos obreros anarquistas, crecimos sin la ayuda de la escuela, en nuestros pobres hogares, sobrecargados de trabajo y sufriendo desde el nacimiento, e hicimos y creímos lo que nuestros enemigos obreros hicieron, creyeron y vivieron. Éramos como nuestros enemigos y adversarios.
Sólo que, a través de un incesante trabajo mental, una larga y terrible prueba de conciencia, hemos llegado a ser diferentes, como somos ahora. Es decir, hemos analizado, condenado y repudiado todas las concepciones, creencias, todos los criterios y principios que nos fueron inculcados desde nuestra infancia hasta el día en que se inauguraron nuestras nuevas convicciones. [2]
En otras palabras, el anarquista es un individuo que excita su cerebro: es diferente del idiota.
Protesto, Señoría. Durante la Belle Époque, ésta no fue su única especialidad. En los grupos italianos y franceses, una minoría particularmente radical ensalzaba las virtudes de las pistolas y la dinamita.
Practicaban la “propaganda por los hechos”, el ejemplo de la revuelta contra los “tiranos”.El anarquista está en guerra contra “la camarilla de senadores malcriados, diputados corruptos y carniceros de uniforme, la podredumbre de los envenenadores de cerebros, la rapacidad de los que matan de hambre al pueblo”. Canta Ravachole. Se prepara para la Gran Noche. Un escupitajo de tinta diría que quiere “desestabilizar a la clase dirigente”.
Modern emancipatory philosophies can be summarized as: Liberalism, Marxism, and Anarchism; we need a minimum of political culture to understand what the 3 have in common and how they differ.
Anarchism Today, Anarchism in History— Christian Ferrer, on Anarchism and Anarchists 2025
Christian Ferrer, born in Santiago, Chile, in 1960, is a sociologist, essayist, and anarchist, specializing in his writings on issues such as networks of power and societies of control. He is a professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Buenos Aires, where he teaches Philosophy of Language and Philosophy of Technology.
Among other works, he has published El lenguaje libertario (Libertarian Language), a collection of texts on contemporary anarchist thought, and a compilation of essays by the poet and essayist Néstor Perlongher entitled Prosa Plebeya (Plebeian Prose). Mal de ojo (Evil Eye. Critique of Technical Violence) is an essay on the daily technical violence inflicted on people and the urban landscape.
With the analysis presented in this work, Ferrer aims, not so much to criticize as to show, to understand that the technical process is an emotional movement; as the author himself expresses, a true free spirit must, above all else, avoid the blackmail of having to pronounce oneself for or against this entire process with a decidedly optimistic or pessimistic attitude.
In his essays on anarchism, Ferrer recalls that anarchists were, from the beginning of modernity, the “black sheep” in terms of political proposals, in an era when the idea of the democratic republic was imposed.
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The hostility anarchism generated in other political movements, including those that called themselves progressive, and the numerous defeats it had to endure, are not surprising.
Christian Ferrer explains the survival and cyclical rise of libertarian ideas by the lack of a better theoretical and existential antidote to the society of domination: And this, despite the fact that anarchist society is often labeled as fanciful, and even dangerous.
Ferrer is also quick to break the link often made between the words “socialism” and “totalitarianism”; in the case of the anarchists, there were none who wished to offer overly planned outlines of the future.
Modern emancipatory philosophies can be summarized in three fundamental ones: liberalism, Marxism, and anarchism; a minimum of political culture is necessary to understand what the three have in common and also how much they differ.
I have worked in the bombed and starving hospitals, seen things no human should ever witness, let alone experience. I feel the suffering with a visceral intensity.
Skeletal babies and children with their limbs torn away. Mothers too weak to feed their newborns. Even the nurses and surgeons collapsing from hunger.We take an oath to protect our patients. And that goes beyond their immediate medical care.
That’s why I joined Avaaz, travelling to meet governments face-to-face. To tell them what I’ve seen — to make them face the reality of genocide, and the costs of their inaction.
Politicians cried. I saw them break down. Heard them admit they had no idea it was so bad. And I felt the room shift when they realised it could be their children getting bombed, starving and alone.
Some governments are finally announcing sanctions and cutting off weapons. But it’s not enough.
Now we must turn that trickle into a tidal wave — and I’m humbly asking for your support. Avaaz is organising to take many more doctors to meet with as many Presidents and Ministers as we can.
They have the power to stop this genocide and open the borders for a flood of humanitarian aid. We cannot deliver that aid ourselves — Israel’s blockade makes it impossible. But we can fight like hell to make our governments intervene.
There is a fire in me, burning for all the children I’ve held, and lost. And I promise you now, I will not stop. This genocide will end. What matters is how many children we lose before then.
Please, donate whatever you can — so we can change the hearts and minds of those with the power to end this horror. Your donation will be used to help end the genocide and unlock humanitarian aid. Donate what you can now:
This is not some natural disaster — it is mass murder and intentional starvation. Trucks packed with baby formula, food, and medicine are waiting just across the border. But Israel won’t let them in.
Politicians aren’t always moved by headlines or reports. But I’ve seen how they react to the personal, human testimony of doctors like me.One moment of connection between two people can crack indifference wide open. And when it’s paired with huge, relentless public pressure, the excuses fall apart, paving the way for real action.
Now if we raise enough from this email, we could: Fund many delegations of doctors to meet with Presidents, Prime Ministers, and governments across Europe and beyond; Support an uprising of protests and flotillas, from the heart of Berlin to the docks of Marseille, to help stop the supply of weapons to Israel; Organise media-grabbing stunts outside parliaments and international meetings, forcing politicians to confront the genocide and their ability to stop it; Expand Avaaz’s team of Gaza campaigners, storytellers, and communication experts to shift the narrative around Palestine; Fund Avaaz’s work on the ground in Palestine, helping to organise thousands of people to end Apartheid and the ongoing occupation.
The worst-case scenario is now unfolding in Gaza. But we can do something about it, together.
People often look back on previous genocides and wonder what they would have done.It’s whatever you’re doing right now.
So don’t look away. Don’t change the subject. Because in another life, it could be any of us running from the bombs, queuing for scraps of food, pleading for the world to do something. I believe in the power of what we are doing together. And while I didn’t know of Avaaz before we started these meetings, I have been utterly blown away by what this community can do, and your ferocious commitment to the people of Gaza. It is needed more than ever.+
For the children of Gaza, and the hopes of tomorrow,
Dr Graeme Groom and the whole team at Avaaz
What You Should Know About The Doctors
Dr Graeme Groom is an Orthopaedic Surgeon who has worked in Gaza over 40 times, including four missions since October 2023.
International doctors are some of the only eyewitnesses to leave Gaza alive. With international reporters almost entirely banned, and local journalists getting killed or trapped inside Gaza, doctors like Dr Groom are uniquely positioned to bear witness — and to confront governments with what they’ve seen first-hand.
Dr Groom is just one of the doctors Avaaz is working with. We are preparing for many more doctors like him to meet with leaders of governments such as Spain, Germany, France, and the UK. The EU is Israel’s largest trading partner. This means they have enormous financial leverage to stop the genocide and open the way for humanitarian aid.
Everything Avaaz does is entirely funded by people like you. Your donation makes it possible for doctors like Dr. Groom to carry their eyewitness accounts to the halls of power and fuels our campaigning to end the genocide and bring peace to Palestine.
In this episode, we sat down with Margaret Killjoy and talked about the growth of anarchist culture within sub cultures as well as writing and a bit about themselves. lots of good info in this one!
fasting, meditations, rare yoga postures and those things …
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