"I used to see dogs as gentle, loyal creatures. Now, every time I pass one, my whole body shakes." Palestinian journalist Marah Al-Wadyi describes how the genocide in Gaza has fractured something in the way Gazans see the animals around them. She speaks about her relative Najwa, killed along with her children Sahar, Tahsin and Tayseer by Israeli quadcopters, whose body was then partly eaten by starving dogs. Marah says she understands the animals were driven to it by hunger, that this is not their nature, that Israel starved the entire Strip, people and animals alike.
Yet she admits the terror and revulsion are things she cannot reason her way out of, because in the end she is human and the images stay with her. She recalls the documented killing of Muhammad Bhar, the young man with Down syndrome who was mauled to death by an Israeli army combat dog in Shujaiya as he pleaded "enough, my love," and she points to the systematic use of trained attack dogs, imported and deployed by the occupation, to rape and torture Palestinian hostages in its prisons.
What she describes is how an entire population's relationship with the living world has been bent out of shape under siege and starvation. She speaks of fearing even cats, sensing they might see hungry, emaciated bodies as their next meal, and of the most haunting detail of all: children in Gaza who, while playing with cats, have started telling them, "Tomorrow when we die, don't you dare eat us." Marah knows it is the occupation's engineered starvation and violence that turned the animals' nature, that the dogs and cats are victims of the same policy as the people. But she is honest that it has also changed something inside her that may be hard to mend, one more wound from a war that has reached into the smallest and most intimate corners of life in Gaza.
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❤️🔥Muhammad, a paramedic with the Nabatieh ambulance service in southern Lebanon, sits with friends and recounts how his home in Zabdin, near the al-Abdullah restaurant, was flattened by an Israeli strike about two weeks ago. He was on the balcony scrolling through his phone when he looked up and saw a photo of his own house, and he struck his head in disbelief. What carries him now, he says, is that everyone survived, that there is still running water, and that he is surrounded by his brothers and friends.
His story is one of thousands. Zabdin sits in the Nabatieh area, among the hardest hit as the Israeli occupation has pressed a renewed assault on Lebanon that, by 8 June 2026, had passed its hundredth day, with occupation forces destroying dozens of villages across the south. Despite a US-brokered ceasefire that Beirut has tried to uphold, Israeli strikes have continued almost daily, and Lebanon's Health Ministry says around 3,500 people have been killed since 2 March. The occupation has repeatedly hit Nabatieh and surrounding towns, struck cars, motorbikes and homes, and on 5 June targeted an ambulance in Zabdin itself as it tried to carry bread to a besieged family, killing a paramedic, one of Muhammad's own. Israel also continues to hold several points inside southern Lebanese territory it was meant to withdraw from, while President Joseph Aoun has condemned the strikes as flagrant violations of Lebanese sovereignty and international law.
Source: naghamrabih mohamad_s.leiman (IG)
Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, the 53-year-old pediatrician who directed Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, spoke through his lawyer Nasser Abu Odeh at a hearing before Israel's Supreme Court this week, stating that he is a doctor who provides care to the sick, the wounded and the vulnerable in the Gaza Strip, that he carried out his work in line with international law and humanitarian standards, and that his detention is unjust and arbitrary. He demanded the court order his immediate release. He has now been held for more than 500 days, around 17 months, without charge, after Israeli occupation forces stormed and set fire to Kamal Adwan Hospital on 27 December 2024 and seized him, in an image that became a symbol of the targeting of Gaza's medical system: the doctor walking alone toward Israeli tanks through the rubble of the last functioning hospital in the north, which he had kept running through an 85-day siege.
He appeared on screen handcuffed and shackled, with the court refusing to remove his restraints, looking pale, gaunt and visibly thinner, with lash-like marks on both arms. His lawyer says he is held in solitary confinement at Nafha prison under Israel's so-called "Unlawful Combatant Law," which permits indefinite detention without charge and strips detainees of Geneva Convention protections. Rights groups and his legal team have documented repeated beatings, electric shocks, prolonged solitary confinement, starvation and denial of medical care despite his heart condition. Physicians for Human Rights Israel says fourteen doctors from Gaza remain held in Israeli prisons, and the UN, the World Health Organization, the International Committee of the Red Cross and numerous human rights organisations have repeatedly called for his release. The court postponed its ruling, with a decision on whether his detention continues expected within days.
@euromedhr dr.hussam73 (IG)
EDITORIAL: Boycott Trump’s World Cup
The announcement of a World Cup hosted under the banner of a Trump administration represents a grotesque fusion of global capital and reactionary nationalism. This is not merely a sporting event, but a calculated exercise in sportswashing designed to sanitise the image of a regime built on the marginalisation of the working class and the demonisation of the migrant. The spectacle serves as a mass distraction, a bread and circus routine intended to desensitise the public to the erosion of civil liberties and the expansion of state violence.
Football belongs to the communities that built it, not to the billionaires who seek to use it as a tool for political rehabilitation. To participate in this tournament is to provide a veneer of legitimacy to an ideology that is fundamentally antithetical to socialist internationalism. We must recognise the psychological grooming inherent in such state sponsored pageantry. The Morning Star calls for a boycott. We refuse to be complicit in the commodification of our culture for the benefit of the far right.
#BoycottTrumpWorldCup #MorningStar #SocialistPolitics #NoSportswashing #FIFA #TheBeautifulGame
‘We were screaming, calling on God. They were laughing. They were filming us’
Palestinian detainee recalls the horrors of r*pe and torture inside Israel’s notorious Sde Teiman prison
Sexual violence against Palestinians in Israeli custody is often linked to October 7, but records, research and testimony point to a much longer history.
Al Jazeera’s Basel Ghazoghli traces the documented record from 1948 to the present.
Watch now: https://t.co/K8nGh9XbtF
⚡️Egyptian football legend Mohamed Aboutrika:
Whoever wants to whitewash their image hosts the World Cup.
A country that is participating in a genocide in Gaza right now wants to whitewash its image through the World Cup.
A country that waged a war against another country is now whitewashing its image through the World Cup.
A country that kidnapped a president of another country is now hosting a World Cup.
Then they tell us, “We are democracy” and bla bla bla
BREAKING: Harrowing footage of Israeli soldiers abducting Palestinian girls in the occupied West Bank town of Beitunia.
Source: Wonderful Palestine: https://t.co/j0XfQCesgy
1963 طلب ملك #المغرب من القيادة في #الجزائر منحه قاعدة عسكرية في #تيندوف لمهاجمة #موريتانيا مقابل الاعتراف للجزائر بحدودها وهو ما رفضته الجزائر ليقوم بعد ذلك ملك المغرب بمهاجمة الجزائر نهاية 1963
هذا هو تاريخ المغرب الغدر و الخيانة ضد جيرانه.
#الصحراء_الغربية
THIS IS THE NAKED TERRORISM
A new scenes of 4 bombs with 720,000 shrapnel that were tested for the first time in the world during the #WarOnIran in the city of #Lamerd.
It was done after 7 hours when #MinabSchool was hit. After 90 days the reports show the reality of savage U.S-Israeli missile attacks.
The target was every single one of the Iranian children, men and women.
Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya’s message to the court today as relayed by his attorney:
“I am a pediatrician. I provide medical care to patients, the injured, and vulnerable people in the Gaza Strip. I have carried out my work in accordance with international law and humanitarian standards. My detention is unjust and arbitrary.”