International supporters of the Palestinian cause have used the hashtag “Total Eclipse of Palestine” to demand a change to the status quo during a “Twitter storm” on Sunday.
The Twitter account “VivaPalestina” first made the call to get the topic trending:
A GLOBAL STORM IS COMING
— VivaPalestinaفلسطين (@VivaPalestina48) January 10, 2017
Hashtag:#TotalEclipseOfPalestine
68 years is enough ..... pic.twitter.com/HUGZtnhojC
Quickly, many began to use the hashtag to highlight injustices in Gaza and the West Bank, and to urge ongoing resistance. #TotalEclipseOfPalestine has so far been tweeted more than 24,000 times:
Like the logic of this Guy ,
— Baz4peace (@Baz4peace) January 16, 2017
What you want them to Fly in the sky
End #GAZA siege #Palestinians Live Matter#TotalEclipseOfPalestine pic.twitter.com/AMqyJSM8Lm
Here r the most beautiful smiles of world, those of the resistance! #PalestineResists#TotalEclipseOfPalestine pic.twitter.com/0unD8W7mFa
— عابر سبيل (@shorbajie) January 15, 2017
And occupying force can never claim self defense #TotalEclipseOfPalestine pic.twitter.com/6zvQEVhZJl
— عابر سبيل (@shorbajie) January 15, 2017
10 years and the siege has not been lifted.. Gaza is still an open air prison! #TotalEclipseOfPalestine pic.twitter.com/wQuPV5CKMn
— eman qasim (@EmanQasim) January 15, 2017
#israel has nothing better to do but to kill, steal and lie to the world! #TotalEclipseOfPalestine pic.twitter.com/HN3pALYhlv
— eman qasim (@EmanQasim) January 15, 2017
Long live PALESTINE, its Heritage, Culture and its People. Palestine shall be FREE despite the Zionist Oppression #TotalEclipseOfPalestine pic.twitter.com/UgYafEHQ2X
— Susan John-Richards (@SJRTooting) January 15, 2017
4th Geneva convention:The indiscriminate bombing of a civilian population is a #WarCrime #TotalEclipseOfPalestine pic.twitter.com/bl0Guafpjm
— RosmeWarda_Palestine (@RosmeWarda) January 15, 2017
The recently released Human Rights Watch report on Israel/Palestine for 2016 highlighted that: “Israel continued in 2016 to enforce severe and discriminatory restrictions on Palestinians’ human rights, to facilitate the transfer of Israeli civilians to the occupied West Bank, and to severely restrict the movement of people and goods into and out of the Gaza Strip.”
Meanwhile, Israel has rejected a recent UN resolution which condemned Israeli settlement activity on occupied Palestinian land. Following what he called the “shameful” decision, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered a review of Israeli funding to the UN and recalled its ambassadors to New Zealand and Senegal, two countries who voted in favor of the resolution.
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