A mother bids farewell to her child who was killed in the aftermath of overnight Israeli bombardment in the Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza [File: Bashar Taleb/AFP]
A woman and a man try to comfort an injured boy mourning the loss of his father who was killed in the aftermath of overnight Israeli bombardment in al-Maghazi, in the central Gaza Strip, at the morgue of the Aqsa Martyrs hospital
A man mourns by the body of the Palestinian doctor Hani al-Jaafarawi, Gaza’s ambulance and emergency teams chief, at his funeral at al-Ahli Arab hospital, a day after he was reportedly killed in an overnight Israeli strike on a medical clinic.
The body of Eyad Hegazi, a 10-year-old Palestinian child, who was displaced from Shejaiya and malnourished, is held by his mother after he died at al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital.
Relatives of a Palestinian child who died of #malnutrition mourn outside the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on Friday [Bashar Taleb/AFP]
"Embodying Homeland: Palestinian Grief and the Perseverance of Beauty in a Time of Genocide" by Devin G. Atallah & Hisham Awartani
"The layers of loss we, Palestinians in the homeland and exile, face individually and collectively in our bodies, families, and communities are stacked within decades of colonial violence perpetrated by the colonial cult of death. The accumulation, however, is not only across time, but also reaches across space. Our grief is transnational and intergenerational, intimate and collective, spiritual and embodied. And so is our homeland. As the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish reminds us, Palestine urges us to recast it, time and again, 'with all the tools of the impossible.'
"When we grieve, listen, and love as Palestinians, we are revolutionaries of the world. When we find the courage to transform our pain—to process our grief—into energies for the perseverance of the beauty in all that we love against the currents of cruelty our people face, we teach the world a lesson in humanity: 'Palestinians teach a fundamental decolonial truth, which the current world is still unable to comprehend—that Gaza has liberated us all.' Palestinian grief asks the entire world a question: What would life be like for you, without our people? Who will remember all the beauty of that which we love?"
FYI
I’ve decided not to report much on #HunterBiden’s trial. It is evident that he, Beau’s widow, & the #Biden family were in deep #grief.
In that grief, Hunter & Hallie self-medicated w/a highly addictive drug. Hunter already had a predisposition to #addiction, & he did what people addicted to drugs & alcohol do — made terrible decisions.
He admitted it & admitted to committing crimes during his addiction.
Detailing that painful time for the purpose of humiliating his family is cruel.
On the 1st day of #testimony in #HunterBiden’s federal #gun trial, #jurors heard his audio of his memoir, where he recounted his #drug use in graphic detail. A federal prosecutor told jurors “no one is above the #law,” & defense said the he did not “knowingly” lie when filling out forms to purchase a weapon.
The #FBI agent said they were able to confirm that the laptop taken from the repair shop was #HunterBiden’s partly from his iCloud data, which contained an invoice from the shop [wait - an invoice for the repair was on the laptop before the work was done? Remember, he never picked it up]
Big show of family support on the 1st day of #HunterBiden’s trial.
In addition to #POTUS’ statement, Hunter’s wife, Melissa Cohen, his sister Ashley Biden, his friend Kevin Morris, Peter Neal, who is married to Hunter’s daughter Naomi, & #FLOTUS Dr. #JillBiden are in attendance.
President #Biden will be in Wilmington, DL, w/no appearances scheduled. But he has given no indication that he would be in the courthouse — a possibility that would require considerable security arrangements.
Many people, pundits & politicians are comparing & commenting on #HunterBiden’s trial in reference to the #TrumpTrial that concluded w/34 felony guilty convictions last week.
However, there are vast differences in the 2 cases — chief among them that Hunter Biden is NOT running for anything, NOR has he ever held or aspired to hold any ELECTED OFFICE.
Still, #Republicans are certain to seize on these difficult episodes in the Biden family’s past.
Prosecutors plan to use highly personal evidence in #HunterBiden trial
Special counsel #DavidWeiss filings provide a look into prosecutors’ plans & how they may reopen some of the most painful moments in the Biden family’s past.
Court papers detail the depth of family members’ turmoil as they struggled to grapple w/the death of President Biden’s oldest son, Beau, in 2015, and the drug & alcohol #addiction of his younger son, Hunter.
Judge Maryellen Noreika swore in 12 #jurors — + 4 alternates — to determine the #legal fate of #HunterBiden, who is on trial for 3 #felony#gun charges….
A substitute #teacher, a fmr #SecretService employee & multiple #GunOwners were among those chosen to report back to court Tues morning, when opening arguments are expected to begin.…Most were people of color, &…appeared to range from mid-20s to 70s.
…The responses of dozens of prospective jurors to questions in open court reflected some of the most pervasive & divisive issues in American society, w/jurors discussing their views on #gun ownership & #mistrust of the #judicial process.
And in a trial where the #criminal defendant has been public about his struggles w/ drug #addiction, the #jurors told the court about similar battles fought by their parents, children & friends.
Palestinian woman Buthayna Abu Jazar reacts as she holds the hand of her son Hazma, who was killed in an Israeli strike in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip May 9, 2024. REUTERS/Hatem Khaled
@GottaLaff. Anyone who knows someone w/ #dementia, accompanied by some form of #primary progressive #aphasia, knows what they are hearing when #Trump trips over words, can't find words, makes up words. Here is an image from the #memoir I wrote with #UCSF#neurologist, Dr. Bruce Miller, that has this chart with the different kinds of aphasia. The #book is Finding the Right Words: A Story of Literature, #Grief, & the #Brain.
Veteran hospital chaplain to the sick, dying, and bereaved, J.S. Park offers you both the permission and the process for how to grieve and heal at your own pace.