Queer and HIV+ in Gaza: A Young Man's "Race Against Time" as Israel Blocks Medication

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    We speak with journalists Steven Thrasher and Afeef Nessouli about their new report for _The Intercept_, which examines how queer, HIV-positive Palestinians are struggling to survive in Gaza with limited access to medication due to Israel's siege and ongoing attacks on the territory. The report centers on E.S., a young Palestinian man who is HIV-positive and who has been in "a race against time," says Nessouli. "The genocide is making it impossible to get medication to people like E.S.," adds Thrasher.
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  • @NaymaTunc
    @NaymaTunc 13 วันที่ผ่านมา +52

    What more must happen to stop this cruelty
    they are human being and their life matter and has value

    • @mof5490
      @mof5490 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Did 1000 Israeli lives matter to Palestinians on October 7th?

    • @FM-ln2sb
      @FM-ln2sb 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

      This is why we have been right to call out DNC Liberals for their anti-LGBTQ genocide policies in Gaza.

    • @Curt-Gevert
      @Curt-Gevert 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Hamas has a nasty habit of executing homosexuals, most Muslim majority countries do.

    • @Tanjiro888-g6l
      @Tanjiro888-g6l 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Must Palestinians think gays are not human

  • @KaiCo-oi3fh
    @KaiCo-oi3fh 13 วันที่ผ่านมา +25

    How DARE THEY! THEY NEED THEIR MEDS, YOU MONSTERS! WE MUST STOP THIS WAR IMMEDIATELY!!

    • @Curt-Gevert
      @Curt-Gevert 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Hamas has a nasty habit of executing homosexuals, most Muslim majority countries do.

    • @adriankoh4859
      @adriankoh4859 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Y? They voted for hamas 😂

  • @romstar
    @romstar 13 วันที่ผ่านมา +16

    This story is so heartbreaking 😢 thank you for bringing it to our attention as only Democracy Now can 🎉❤

  • @kevinwilliams1768
    @kevinwilliams1768 13 วันที่ผ่านมา +13

    so sad to listen too . I hope help is given soon .

  • @longshank59
    @longshank59 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +11

    TY Amy for touching on this topic. i was in USN 78-81. I am. a Trans Woman have not been infected Thank GAWD. Lost 2 lovers to it though. When I stepped foot in Gaza in 1980 went to several Cafes. Palestinian people are wonderful no matter your Gender they accept you. Most indigenous people accept people for who they are.

  • @grzegorzgreg09
    @grzegorzgreg09 13 วันที่ผ่านมา +25

    Thank you Democracy Now!!!
    🇵🇱✌🇵🇸

  • @hisbigal
    @hisbigal 13 วันที่ผ่านมา +30

    I read the article. It was heartbreaking.

  • @jonrosell3700
    @jonrosell3700 13 วันที่ผ่านมา +21

    Can you please provide resources on how we can help if possible? Can we send him meds? or donate to an AIDS resource that can help him?

    • @georgemetesky5519
      @georgemetesky5519 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Yes, please provide a list of pro-LGBTQ agencies in Gaza, so we can support them😊

    • @PulverturmZA
      @PulverturmZA 13 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

      We don't really call it AIDS anymore, we refer to the virus that can result in AIDS if it goes untreated. We generally talk about HIV. Please rather refer to it as HIV, some of us lost close friends to AIDS who didnt get treatment on time. It's kinda re-traumatising.

  • @prinsespluis
    @prinsespluis 13 วันที่ผ่านมา +12

    My ❤ goes out to all those in dire need of med aid. And the rest
    Please let this case dire succeed

  • @jonrosell3700
    @jonrosell3700 13 วันที่ผ่านมา +13

    Y'all should provide a link to the article in your description

  • @melissabruhn1429
    @melissabruhn1429 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    Thank you Democracy Now for this coverage.
    Thank you Intercept and Aleef Nessouli.
    Also thank you Steven Thrasher.

  • @sylviac207
    @sylviac207 13 วันที่ผ่านมา +9

    Keep all innocent with no choice or say safe from all warmongers

  • @agnikollias6678
    @agnikollias6678 13 วันที่ผ่านมา +19

    Big respect 🙏
    Big respect Amy

  • @NVRagain4any1
    @NVRagain4any1 13 วันที่ผ่านมา +12

    Every time you think they couldn’t be more cruel they still surprise us🫂🥺✌🏼

    • @Curt-Gevert
      @Curt-Gevert 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Hamas has a nasty habit of executing homosexuals, most Muslim majority countries do.

  • @repurposedart9897
    @repurposedart9897 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    He was in America in college 2011 became HIV...He went back home to Gaza to be with family and receiving Medication for almost 14 years... now war is risking his life with out access to basic healthcare...Hopefully they raise the funds needed to get him his medication.

  • @dt-fv6bt
    @dt-fv6bt 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

    thank you so much for covering this

  • @Pacman420
    @Pacman420 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be Free!

  • @gratethayne
    @gratethayne 13 วันที่ผ่านมา +9

    God creates all including people who were born.

  • @Bluebaggins
    @Bluebaggins 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Creation of polio and enforced vaccines was enough to raise a red flag.

  • @blu3_enjoy
    @blu3_enjoy 13 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    So now even if they survive an initial shell, they may become pozzed from blood fragments. Great

  • @thisgirlisoverit
    @thisgirlisoverit 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

    🙏🏽 God bless.

  • @idontagree9658
    @idontagree9658 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    What are all the adult kids of billionaires & multi-millionaires up to? I wonder how much it would cost to rent (or purchase) a retired ocean cruise ship, or decommissioned oil tanker, or connex cargo ship. Meet up with an elected ambasador of your origin nation. Travel with friendly accompanying ships. Entourage of people who the world would spit nails if anything happen to. Travel with nation flag flying, maybe also monitiored by satellite &
    live feed. Announce your time of arrival and welcome Non Combatant Gazan Children, Women, Elderly, Ill & Disabled to seek refuge from war.

    • @UnfollowYourDreams
      @UnfollowYourDreams 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

      That would actually help zionists to reach their goal.

    • @UnfollowYourDreams
      @UnfollowYourDreams 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Bad idea. You would actually help israel with depopulating palestine.

    • @sparklemotion8377
      @sparklemotion8377 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

      They're suffering by being misgendered by overworked and underpaid wage slaves in the service industry. Have a heart

  • @Tanjiro888-g6l
    @Tanjiro888-g6l 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Israel is far more likely to help him than his own community

  • @picassofriend3289
    @picassofriend3289 13 วันที่ผ่านมา +8

  • @Ritualsrevenge
    @Ritualsrevenge 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Talk about living life on hard mode

  • @addorsubtract650
    @addorsubtract650 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Algo

  • @anitamurkes9511
    @anitamurkes9511 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Pinkeashing ?
    Palestinians gays in droves move to Israel since it’s impossible to live in Gaza.
    Incredible honophobia in Gaza.
    Hamas even killed one of their top leaders
    b c they suspected he was gay.

  • @JoanneMercader
    @JoanneMercader 13 วันที่ผ่านมา +8

    Amy, are you serious?

    • @georgemetesky5519
      @georgemetesky5519 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

      She's paid to tell lies.
      A quick search on LGBTQ rights in Gaza will give you the true story easily.

    • @n.i.114
      @n.i.114 13 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

      Are you?

    • @SanityMustPrevail
      @SanityMustPrevail 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

      She's very questionable, especially when she talks about Russia and Ukraine shows where she truly stands. He's Palestine and Human what the f his sexual orientation has to do with anything, it like here in the U.S where my Fellow African Americans will side with LGBT over their race. Gotta push the agenda anywhere and any how. Good way to fragment people. Western madness

  • @kgh065
    @kgh065 13 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    Queer in Gaza! He doesn’t have long. Hopefully he can claim refugee status in Israel.

  • @23mMICHAELJORDAN
    @23mMICHAELJORDAN 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Don’t be fooled by Klobashar. She slick but she ain’t that slick in how she times things and narrates. She’s horrible. This is why I stopped listening to DemocracyNow and try to stay away from any far left leaning and any far right leaning news sources. They’re both horrible both are horrible. I stay middle moderate, middle of the road.

    • @UnfollowYourDreams
      @UnfollowYourDreams 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Democracy Now isn't far left by any means, they _are_ the middle. It's just that there is no actual political left wing in the US, that's how far to the right you guys shifted over time. You voted for a carbon copy of hitler, after all. For the second time.

    • @UnfollowYourDreams
      @UnfollowYourDreams 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      You guys just voted for a carbon copy of hitler. For the second time. There is nothing remotely left wing in the US media landscape, Democracy Now is just the last remnant of moderate centrist news.

    • @UnfollowYourDreams
      @UnfollowYourDreams 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +7

      How far on the right are you that you think democracy now is far left?

    • @patrickemmett6269
      @patrickemmett6269 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

      You got the wrong Amy, troll.

    • @23mMICHAELJORDAN
      @23mMICHAELJORDAN 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@UnfollowYourDreams neither. Both far left and right are bad

  • @Blaqq44
    @Blaqq44 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Queer and Gaza in the same sentence??? Stop with the lies please 😂😂

    • @aleksanderbrygmann279
      @aleksanderbrygmann279 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Every human population have the same % of queer people. Gaza is not some magic exception

  • @stephendalton1648
    @stephendalton1648 13 วันที่ผ่านมา +17

    It's Hamas he should be worried about, not the Israelis

    • @NaymaTunc
      @NaymaTunc 13 วันที่ผ่านมา +12

      Why only hamas?

    • @agnikollias6678
      @agnikollias6678 13 วันที่ผ่านมา +18

      😂 what HAMAS has to do with....

    • @obtuse1291
      @obtuse1291 13 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      Prat!

    • @WiesSteyvers
      @WiesSteyvers 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Troll

    • @fama5860
      @fama5860 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I bet Is ra èl has taken the lives of hundreds or thousands part of of the queer community since October 2023, they survived H they don't know if they will survive is ra èl.

  • @brookiegremlin6660
    @brookiegremlin6660 13 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    my guy have you ever heard of a romance scam?

    • @goodpanda6901
      @goodpanda6901 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

      LOL Afeef got scamed and run to amy goodman to spread fake disinformation.
      this is soooo weird that anyone would actually believe that a queer dude can live in gaza and chose to go to gaza...people have no sense and amy goodman should go to prison for spreading hateful disinformation and Palestinian fetish.

  • @claytonheals
    @claytonheals 13 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

    Horrifying and i've heard in prison it's incredibly hard in the US to get meds. I couldn't get a tylenol so I hope they heal b/c this seems like a war crime. It all does to someone who isn't an expert and from what I hear, experts as well.

  • @Seekthetruth3000
    @Seekthetruth3000 13 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Hamas has been a disaster.

    • @filiplachance8576
      @filiplachance8576 13 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

      "Keep you friends close and your enemies closer." - Benjamin Netanyahu

    • @alexandraegorova1629
      @alexandraegorova1629 13 วันที่ผ่านมา +8

      Его создал Израиль