Young Palestinian creator who shared glimpses of daily life during war dies
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Medo Halimy, a 19-year-old creator who documented personal, day-in-the-life vlogs from his “tent life,” died after an Israeli airstrike put him in a coma.
  • return2ozma@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    321·
    3 months ago

    Halimy was an alumnus of the State Department’s Kennedy-Lugar Youth Exchange and Study (YES) program, which gives high school students from countries with “significant Muslim populations” the opportunity to live and study in the United States for an academic year.

    He attended Harker Heights High School in the Texan city of the same name as part of the program in 2021 and 2022.

    “Medo was creating vlogs of his daily life as a refugee in Almawasi, where he showed people how it is to live in a tent and how surviving a genocide isn’t an easy feat but he was doing it either way,” it said. “It wasn’t an easy feat at all.”

  • Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.worldEnglish
    95·
    3 months ago

    I love how Americans kill half my people, refuse to even acknowledge it. Suddenly they’re on to the next news story and morally grand standing and patting their own backs, while calling everyone else murderers

    • halowpeano@lemmy.worldEnglish
      51·
      3 months ago

      Americans are not a hive mind. The ones who mourn his loss are not the ones in power happily sending aid to Israel. Just like not every Palestinian participated in Oct 7.

        • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
          31·
          3 months ago

          Wish there was a way to link to the modlog every time someone’s like “nO oNe oN lEmMy SuPpOrTs GeNoCiDe.”

      • jordanlund@lemmy.worldMEnglish
        4·
        3 months ago

        Tell me you don’t know the first thing about the Palestinian situatuon without telling me you don’t know the first thing about the Palestinian situation.

        Removed for misinformation bad enough to be overt racism.

      • eskimofry@lemmy.worldEnglish
        41·
        3 months ago

        Without western money your society will have collapsed a long while ago.

        Spoken like a typical dumb American. The world has seen more prosperity and wealth before the west plundered it all.