"On the road from Gaza to Khan Younis, a girl sat next to me. Her name was Sama.
She was in her mother’s lap, pointing with her small hand towards the window. I understood she wanted to see the sea, so I opened the window and placed her in my lap. A smile appeared on her face, like someone remembering that life can look different.
I said to her jokingly: “I didn’t notice you’ve been pointing at me for a while. Why didn’t you call me, uncle?”
Her mother replied: “She used to talk a lot, but after what happened to her two years ago, she stopped speaking. Now she only uses gestures.”
I fell silent for a moment, and inside me there was an old desire I hate and cannot suppress — the urge to ask questions. So I asked, realising I was about to commit the sin of curiosity once again.
On 7 December 2023, they were besieged in Muscat School on Yafa Street. Three hundred civilians were waiting for “evacuation”. Soldiers ordered the men to leave first. They deceived them and executed four of them in front of their wives and children. Sama’s father was one of them.
Half an hour later, her elder sister went out trying to pull his body away. They shot her. She bled on the ground for nine full hours, and by God’s mercy she survived.
The occupation army ordered the women to evacuate towards the west of the city after detaining the remaining men, the first of whom was her older brother. On the way, the mother discovered that her daughter was not with them. That moment alone is enough to age a soul for an eternity.
For three days she kept returning to the school, which had turned into a military barracks, begging the soldiers to allow her to search. On the third day, she was allowed in.
She entered the area searching among the rubble of houses and charred walls, among torn small bags, among extinguished voices, until she found her sitting under a wall, in soiled clothes, staring into nothingness for three days without food or water.
That was Sama. Since that day, not a single word has come out of her mouth. She does not cry, she does not scream, she does not speak. She only points to ask for things, and taps her plate when she wants to eat, and her cup when she wants to drink.
I looked at Sama as she laughed at the sea. I wanted to say something, anything, but there was no use. Just hearing her story made me lose my speech too, Sama.
How do you comfort a child who has gone through all this — who lost her voice, her father, saw her sister injured, and lost her childhood?
I cursed my curiosity, and I cursed this vile world that smiles in the faces of killers,
the world that decorates its screens with talk of “peace”.
This genocide will not end, and it will not leave us, even if the whole earth blossoms into an apology for Sama."
- Malek Shinbary, 9 November 2025
The lesson Israel has learned, time and again, is that it can commit genocide and other atrocities with near-total impunity.
Now it's exporting the Gaza playbook to Lebanon.
Israel's war in Lebanon is killing thousands and displacing over a million.
NO MORE U.S. AID TO ISRAEL.
Footage of the mid air collision between a pair of Navy Super Hornets/Growlers during the Gunfighter Skies Air Show at Mountain Home Air Force Base moments ago.
🚨 ITALY JUST SHUT DOWN FOR PALESTINE! 🇮🇹🇵🇸
Nationwide general strike in 75+ cities! Millions flood the streets of Milan, Naples, Florence & Turin.
Country completely paralyzed for 24 hours transport, schools, ports, logistics ALL stopped.
Port workers blocked arms shipments to Israel. Police fired tear gas in Milan after clashing with protesters near the central station.
Why? Meloni refused to recognize Palestine → the people said NO MORE.
Their demands:
1️⃣ Recognize the State of Palestine
2️⃣ Halt ALL arms sales to Israel
3️⃣ Sanctions on Netanyahu’s government
4️⃣ End the genocide in Gaza NOW
Bombshell: Leaked audio recordings prove Argentina's libertarian President Javier Milei is conspiring with the drug lord Juan Orlando Hernández -- the drug-trafficking former dictator of Honduras, whom Trump freed from prison.
In a recording between Milei and the drug lord, Hernández proposed creating a right-wing fake news operation, with the support of the US government, in order to spread propaganda online to "eliminate the left" in Latin America, targeting Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela, and the left-wing opposition in Honduras.
The self-declared "anarcho-capitalist" Milei offered to contribute $350,000 USD of Argentine government money to help fund this disinformation operation, while millions of Argentines are suffering in poverty, and they have to eat donkey meat, because they can't afford local beef.
Link: https://t.co/S8lJQtnldc
You are wrong again!
People at the pump in US know who is drowning here. Our armed forces have courageously defended our people, unlike your friends who hide behind pregnant women. Iranians will overcome all challenges and will prevail by sticking together.
@AJsaysOK I'm very much aligned with your point of view, but the very sad fact is that the vast majority of Americans live in a state of learned defeat, ignorance, and deep apathy about anything "political." They share some blame, but much of it is the result of propaganda and our own govt
@Parsa858774@ABC I'm pretty sure ABC did in fact report on the January protests, you fucking idiot. Are you claiming that ABC has a pro-Iranian bias? Are you really that fucking stupid?
@Villgecrazylady The holy book that I believe in says I get to use the bathroom at Chuck Schumer's house whenever I want and I don't even have to flush.