Disappointed the BBC cancelled my interview on Israel's killing of Hind Rajab
2 producers eagerly reached out. They confirmed the time & one called to prepare a brief for the anchor
She asked me whether Israel's announcement is positive, I explained in detail it was a cover up.
The IDF is blaming the killing of Hind, her uncle, aunt & 4 cousins on the family itself for trying to flee by car & on the ambulance sent to rescue her for "failures in the co-ordination of the movement."
None of this is remotely true! The Red Cross immediately informed the IDF about 5-year-old Hind who was hiding in that motionless car, & they requested permission from Israel to allow an ambulance to rescue them.
After multiple long hours, Israel granted greenlight to the ambulance & provided them with a designated route on a GPS to drive on.
As soon as the ambulance reached Hind's car, the IDF ambushed & bombed them immediately with an American made anti-tank missile then opened fire on Hind's car. The car was hit with 355 bullets.
Israel then kept that area under lockdown for 12 days, & prevented anyone from approaching.
Hind's mom went daily to the Ahli baptist hospital hoping to find her daughter, until her lifeless body was brought in along with the charred remains of the ambulance men.
Israel then claimed after an "initial investigation" that its troops were NEVER in that area to begin with. They maintained that claim for 2 years despite ample recordings & satellite images debunking this lie.
The only reason Israel is now making this new announcement of a deeper investigation is to shield its soldiers & generals from the International Criminal Court by invoking the principle of "complementarity;" that the ICC cannot investigate a state that is already investigating itself in good faith.
I told the BBC producer Israel today also quietly shut down the investigation into the triple tap killing of American, Canadian, British, Australian & Polish citizens in the WCK massacre. Israel blamed the massacre on the aid workers themselves for "deviating from the predesignated route" & for hiring an armed security guard "without informing the IDF" (both claims where debunked by WCK themselves, who had coordinates their every step with the IDF).
I told the producer the Israeli commander responsible for this massacre, Nochi Mendel, is a fanatical settler who had signed a petition calling for starving Gaza & that he was celebrated by settler leaders & supported by Israeli government leaders after what he did.
Mendel even received a box of chocolate from the settler council's leader & a letter of support for what he did.
Mendel was initially dismissed by the IDF & blamed for the massacre, but was quickly & quietly reinstated & promoted in the Defence Ministry as the head of the settlements and national infrastructure unit.
It's abundantly clear Israel is NOT serious about prosecuting any of the atrocities committed in Gaza. Since the genocide began, only two soldiers were punished by the IDF; one for microwaving a living frog & another for cooking sausages in the army kitchen on Shabbat.
The producer asked me: What about the 150 cases the IDF said are pending review?
I answered: it's just a number designed to give the appearance of seriousness, but it's essentially meaningless.
If it took the IDF two whole years to admit the simplest of facts that the entire world had already known, which is that their troops were the ones who fired on Hind Rajab's car, how do you expect them to do with the remaining cases that are not as high profile?
Five minutes after the call, the producer wrote me that they decided to cancel the interview & will not even host anyone else to comment on the issue, & instead they'll play archival footage!
Nog een leugen! De Staat Palestina kent geen doodstraf voor homoseksualiteit.
Nog een leuk weetje: Israël profileert zich graag als pro-LGBTQ, maar erkent zelf geen huwelijk tussen personen van hetzelfde geslacht.
De @Tesla community houdt hier al geruime tijd de vinger aan de pols over de toelating voor de FSD-technologie op onze Vlaamse en Belgische wegen.
Uit waardering voor jullie niet-aflatende interesse (en aanmoediging 😉), krijgen jullie hierbij de primeur: ik heb net de toelating getekend! 🚘
Deze beslissing gaat nu naar onze dienst homologatie, zij zullen @RDWnl op de hoogte brengen van de goedkeuring. Vlaanderen omarmt innovatie!
@woodhaus2 2016: my first Tesla Model X with FSD.
2019: another Model X.
2023: after a long wait due to production pauses, again the same choice. I’ve experienced the evolution firsthand, and the jump from 2019 to 2023 was a huge step forward in quality and finish. The Model X ❤️
📢 Breaking
Ik heb naar aanleiding van het Tesla FSD-testproject in Nederland aan @Tesla gevraagd hun dossier aan ons over te maken. Dat ligt nu bij mijn administratie, die ik de opdracht heb gegeven om tegen het einde van de week duidelijkheid te verschaffen over een mogelijke snelle homologatie. Want innovatie moet je niet afremmen, maar doordacht en veilig mogelijk maken. Zo houden we Vlaanderen op kop als vooruitstrevende regio.
@elonmusk
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We’re currently providing medical care in Gaza, as Israel takes steps to stop our work and that of other NGOs. If this happens, the impact will be felt. In 2025, we:
🔴 Handled more than 100,000 trauma cases
🔴 Provided 800,000 outpatient consultations
🔴 Supported 10,000 births
#HurricaneMelissa: Our emergency teams arrived in #Jamaica last weekend and are assessing the most urgent needs after the destruction.
We are accessing remote areas cut off by damaged roads and severe damage to health facilities.
Meinie Nicolai, MSF Medical Coordinator updates:
Update from the Family of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya
Our father, Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, has been included on the list of those approved for release,
but he has not yet been freed.
we received comforting news from released detainees who were with him —
they confirmed he is in good health and strong spirits, thank God.
So far, there are no confirmed details about the date of his release.
Please avoid sharing unverified news and follow only official family updates.
Thank you for your care, support, and solidarity, we love you all ♥️
Please share this update widely — your support truly matters
My name is Dr. Yipeng Ge. I am a family doctor and public health practitioner. I have studied the impacts of settler colonialism on health, locally and abroad.
I am demanding for the immediate and unconditional release of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya who is being held captive by the Israeli military for fulfilling his duty and calling to protect his patients.
I am calling for protection of hospitals, patients and health workers in Gaza.
#FreeDrHussamAbuSafiya
I write as former Head of Maritime Section of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office
and Alternate Head of UK Delegation to the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea Prepcom.
1) The flotilla is on the High Seas and not in Israel's 12 mile territorial sea. Israel has no jurisdiction.
2) The Israeli maritime blockade has been in place for 17 years and is an intrinsic part of the long term occupation found illegal in the ICJ advisory opinion
3) It is therefore not a short term measure in time of armed conflict as specified in the San Remo manual
4) In any event the San Remo rules explicitly state that humanitarian supplies may not be blockaded
5) The UN Commission of Inquiry has already determined that Israel is committing genocide. The blockade is plainly a part of the machinery of such genocide.
For reasons 1 to 5 the Israeli attack on the flotilla is plainly illegal.
6) On the High Seas, the law applying on each ship is the law of its flag state. An attack by a state military warship on a vessel on the High Seas is an attack on the flag state of the vessel attacked.
7) Acts of illegal possession of vessels or abduction of crew on the High Seas should be pursued by each flag state as crimes within their domestic jurisdiction, not only in international law.
8) So the Metropolitan Police and DPP have an obligation to investigate and act over the abduction of persons from UK flagged vessels on the High Seas.
This applies to each flag state mutatis mutandi.
I hope you find this helpful.
Call to action: let's stand all together and Stop the occupation of Gaza city! This cannot happen again! This is our last hope.
We are living the hardest days ever, we need help, real help!
Nederland gaat ook eten vanuit de lucht gooien. Alsof de Palestijnen dieren zijn. Waarom staat de wereld niet op en gaan ze niet gewoon naar binnen om iedereen te voorzien van eten en drinken. Het is ongelofelijk dat dit anno 2025 gebeurt.
Onze regering, de partijen in de Tweede Kamer, de mensen die dit bagatelliseren, die blijven roepen 'ja, maar...' - het zal ze decennialang achtervolgen. Het duurt niet lang meer of ze zullen zeggen dat ze hier altijd al tegen waren. De schandvlek van onze tijd.
There is no internet.
No signal. No sound. No world beyond this cage.
I walked thirty minutes through ruins and dust. Not in search of escape, but for a fragment of signal, just enough to whisper, “We are still alive.”
Not because anyone is listening,
but because to die unheard is the final death.
Gaza is silent now.
Not with peace, but with obliteration.
Not a silence of stillness, but of smothering.
They severed the last cable.
No messages leave. No images enter.
Even grief has been forbidden.
I passed the corpses of buildings, of homes, of men, some breathing, some not.
All of them erased by the same hand that erased our voices.
This is not a siege of bombs alone.
It is a siege of memory: a war against our ability to say, “We were here.”
The bombing never stopped, especially in Jabalia.
They shell the streets where children beg for food.
They shell the lines where mothers wait for flour.
They shell hunger itself.
No food. No water. No exit.
And those who try, those who reach for aid, are struck down.
People die here, and no one knows.
Not because the killing paused, but because the killing of connection succeeded.
The internet was our final breath.
It was not a luxury; it was the last evidence of our humanity.
Now it is gone.
And in the dark, they massacre without consequence.
I found this faint eSIM signal as a dying man finds a flicker of flame.
I stood beneath a broken sky, risking death, not for rescue, but to send this.
A single message.
A last resistance.
If you are reading this, remember:
we walked through fire to say it.
We were not silent.
We were silenced.
And when the cables are restored,
the truth will bleed through the wires,
and the world will know what it chose not to see.