The bad hospital experience that led Aminta Kouyate to become a doctor.

Going to the hospital isn’t fun, it’s when people are typically at their most vulnerable.

And for many people of color, traumatic encounters with the health care system are a reason to avoid going to the doctor. But for UC medical student Aminta Kouyate, it sealed her decision to become a physician.

Aminta was an undergrad at UC Berkeley, tackling general chemistry and physics, when she woke up at 5 a.m. with debilitating abdominal pain. Doctors first suspected appendicitis — but when the imaging showed her appendix was fine, “the tone in the room changed immediately,” Kouyate said. She was left for five hours by an open exit door in a hallway in just a thin patient gown.

“I was told I could leave at any time because they were not going to give me what I was looking for,” she said. “They thought I was there to seek pain medication, that I did not actually have a medical emergency.”

Finally, a Black nurse noticed her sitting in the hall and made sure the doctors addressed her problem and gave her the care she needed. But the experience left its mark.

“Nobody should ever have to have to feel this way,” she said. “I thought to myself, ‘If I have anything to do with it, nobody’s ever going to treat another patient like this again.’”

16th July, 2014 — the day an israeli Elbit drone targeted & killed 4 Palestinian children for playing football on the beach

Israeli colonial settlers raided the Palestinian Al Fara'a refugee camp, north of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, today (July 16th)

Eyad Hriebat (39 yo) from the city of sakaka, Hebron West bank, he was unjustly sentenced by the israeli courts to 250 years behind bars for his resistance and fight against the Israeli occupation, He was arrested when he was 19.

For 6 months Eyad got tortured, brutally assaulted and beatened in Hadarim prison by IOF, and left with complete medical negligence, he is currently in a very serious health condition he is amnesic, paralysed, septic, and in danger of developing a shock and death.

Update: rumours between the prisoners and other witnesses saying that the IOF injected Eyad’s head with an unknown substance which explains the rapid development of the amnesia and paralysis and the very recent mental deterioration.

Don’t leave him alone facing his death under the torture in the Israeli prisons.

Support him and his family by sharing his story and exposing the war crimes of the israeli occupation.

#Palestinian lives matter #SaveEyad

Medhat Essawi, The story of a hug that’s 8 yrs late.
#Palestinian lives matter #Save the Palestinians #Our land No peace

Israeli occupation forces shot Palestinian child Mohammad Hamayel during protests against land theft in Beita. The bullet hit his spleen & other shrapnel in his waist. He was transferred to the ICU, later released.

Harbi Al-Rajhi, got shot at his back yesterday by zionist occupation forces while he was going to pray at the mosque, in Silwan.

Due to his injury, he underwent nephrectomy and partial splenectomy.

people of Silwan are subjected to all types of violence by IOF, as the occupation government intentionally ordering its forces to make people’s lives miserable and unbearable in Silwan, so people leave the town in favor of zionist settlers.

stop the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.

Bassel al-Araj the educated martyr, was a Palestinian activist, writer, author and pharmacist. Known for his writings about revolution and Arab nationalism.

He was born in al-Walaja, a Palestinian village near Bethlehem on January 27, 1984.

He organized educational activities and lectures in which he narrated experiences of Palestinian resistance in tours of Palestinian landmarks, he admired talking about the stories of martyrs, who were killed while defending the land of their ancestors Palestine.

His friends described him as an encyclopaedia of the Palestinian history.

He was killed on March 6th 2017 in a stand-off with a unit belonging to Israel’s Yamam police force, after a gunfight lasting nearly two hours broke out as the IOF fired an ENERGA anti-tank rifle grenade, resulting in partial destruction of his house, then the Israeli forces stormed the building and murdered al-Araj.

Bassel opened fire after IOF troops were already in his house, he hadn’t run out of ammunition as claimed, he bravely fought until his death by 21 Israeli shots.

Rest in Power comrade.

المجد والخلود للحبيب والمعلم الباسل.

From Ghadanfar Abu Atwan:

My life is fading in front of my eyes, I lost my health & my body betrayed me, zionist occupier applies the slow death policy to me in Kaplan Hospital

‎Here I am declaring a water strike after 61 days of my hunger strike

**Update: According to his sister Warda, the (Israeli) Kaplan Hospital where Ghadanfar Abu Atwan is being held has threatened to force feed him, which under international law amounts to torture.

#SaveGhadanfar

#palestinian_lives_matter

On this day in 2014, Mohammad Abu Khdair was kidnapped by Zionist Jews, beaten, forced to drink gasoline, and burned alive. He was only 16.
We haven’t forgotten.

The Apartheid State terrified by girls and good nails

They used to have a house 1hr ago now they are gathering its remaining, this Palestinian family (with 2 children), has got its house demolished by the apartheid Israeli occupation, a whole family has become homeless.

Save Silwan, Stop the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.

The occupation continues to demolish Palestinians’ houses in Silwan, East Jerusalem.

these ruins used to be an apartment housing a Palestinian family (with 2 children) less than 1 hr ago, now the family is homeless.

Stop the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.

The lawless israeli occupation has begun demolishing houses in Silwan, 1500 Palestinians are about to become homeless (including 900 children).

Stop the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.

#SaveSilwan

Odeh family is a Palestinian family, living in Silwan and the IOF forced them to demolish their own house, otherwise they will get their house demolished for them and get fined with >20,000$

Odeh family and other families‘ houses are going to be demolished and left homeless, this is a part of a zionist plan to forcefully expel the Palestinians from Jerusalem to change it from an arab-majority city to a zionist majority city, this form of colonisation is called “Settler colonialism” where the indigenous people of the land are being forcefully replaced by the people of the occupier.

save Palestine

save silwan

Eyad Hraibat, 39-years-old, is currently in a coma in Soroka medical center after the Israelis removed his prostate last June. He was injected with an unknown medical drug in 2014 that caused to him complete paralysis and memory loss.

#SaveEyad

“They Came Here to Attack Arabs.”

During the Israeli attacks on Gaza, the past May, Israeli settlers marked palestinians’ houses with red paints in Al-lydd city in Jerusalem, so they could be raided on by armed Israeli thugs.

Meanwhile, the “Garin torani” or the “torah seeds” group aims to create a jewish majority in Arab-majority neighbrhoods by forcefully displacing the indogenous palestinians from these neighborhoods and welcoming settlers from all around the world.

AUGUST 2021 MONTH OF ACTION TOOLKIT:

Stop Ethnic Cleansing

in Silwan & Sheikh Jarrah, Jerusalem, and All of Palestine

#MakeNoiseForJerusalem  #SaveSilwan   #SaveSheikhJarrah  #SaveJerusalem   #PelosiDemolishesJerusalem

In August 2021, the Israeli government plans to continue its ethnic cleansing across all of Palestine by forcing Palestinians out of their homes in the Jerusalem neighborhoods of Sheikh Jarrah and Silwan, and beyond. Together we rise up for the Month of Action.

The Palestinian people remain steadfast in their resistance, refusing to be uprooted from their homeland, even as Israeli murder of Palestinians accelerates. For decades, the U.S. has funded this violence, and now in solidarity with a continuing, historic Palestinian uprising of unity against Israel’s colonialism, we in the U.S. have a role to rise with them. Rise up in solidarity with the steadfast Palestinian people and demand an end to U.S. military funding to Israel, and don’t let up until reps support H.R. 2590 as a bare minimum.