There are moments in Gaza when suffering becomes so ordinary that people stop asking for solutions.
They begin asking only for the smallest relief. A little less pain.
A child who sleeps through the night.
When I entered the clinic that morning, I noticed a young woman carrying a baby so small that I could not tell whether the child was a newborn or simply made tiny by hardship.
When her turn came, she gently placed the baby on my desk and said:
“I want any cream you have.” Any cream. Not a specific medicine. Not a particular treatment.
Just anything.
She uncovered the baby and showed me the severe rash covering much of the child’s fragile skin.
“I treat the baby with whatever free creams I can find in clinics,” she explained.
“Anything helps.”
As she spoke, I noticed something else. The baby was not wearing a diaper. Only pieces of cloth.
I asked why.
“I can’t afford diapers,” she replied calmly. “I wash these and use them again.”
Then she added that they were living in a tent and that her husband had suffered a serious foot injury and was unable to work.
“I’m not asking for much,” she said.
“I only want a cream.”
But what caught my attention most was not the rash.
It was the malnutrition.
The baby was severely underweight. The kind of malnutrition that is visible before any examination even begins.
So I asked the mother whether she had noticed.
She nodded. “Yes, I know.”
Then she said something I cannot forget: “When the baby gets older, things will get better.”
Not because she truly believed it.
But because hope was cheaper than treatment.
And treatment was something she could no longer afford. That was the moment that broke me.
Not the tent. Not the poverty. Not even the illness.
But the fact that this mother had lowered her expectations so much that she no longer dreamed of proper medical care, diapers, or adequate nutrition.
She came asking for the smallest thing she could imagine. A tube of cream.
Any cream.
Something that might make the baby hurt a little less.
The baby could not have been more than five months old.
Too young to understand war. Too young to understand poverty. Yet already carrying both on that tiny body.
There is something profoundly cruel about a world in which a mother’s greatest hope for her child is no longer a better future.
Only a little less suffering tonight.
#WoundedGaza
میں نے اپنے گھر میں پانی کے لیے بور کروا رکھا ہے کیونکہ واٹر سپلائی نہیں۔ میں نے چوکیدار رکھا ہوا ہے کیونکہ سیکیورٹی نہیں۔ مہنگی ترین بجلی کا حل ہم نے سولر لگوایا حکومت اس کے پیچھے بھی پڑ گئی۔ سرکاری اداروں میں بھیڑیے ہیں، جب ریاست ہمیں کچھ دے نہیں رہی تو لے کیوں رہی ہے، مصطفیٰ نواز کھوکھر
⛔️ This Christian pastor in Lebanon, his wife, and daughters were murdered by the IDF, and their church destroyed. Do you stand with Israel in its crimes against the Christian Church in Lebanon ?‼️‼️
🔴 سکیورٹی کیمروں کی فوٹیج میں یہ منظر سامنے آیا ہے کہ اسرائیلی آبادکاروں نے دو گاڑیوں پر حملہ کیا، جن میں تین بچے بھی موجود تھے۔ انہوں نے گاڑیوں کے شیشے توڑ دیے اور انہیں آگ لگا دی۔
یہ حملہ اس وقت کیا گیا جب بچے گاڑیوں کے اندر موجود تھے، اور انہیں زندہ جلانے کی کوشش کی گئی۔
PTI leadership has requested opposition leader Mehmood Khan Achakzai that, if there is a time frame on the gathering outside Adiala Jail on Tuesday, they can mobilize 10,000 people. We welcome this proposal and have accepted their request.
On Tuesday, 16 June, we will gather outside Adiala Jail from 3:00 PM to 7:00 PM.
A strong gathering of 10,000 people outside Adiala should create the necessary pressure to end Imran Khan’s prolonged isolation and ensure that his eye condition is properly examined and treated at Shifa International Hospital, Islamabad, in the presence of his family and personal physician.
This is a humanitarian and legal demand. The basic rights of a former Prime Minister and political prisoner must be respected.
This World Cup, everyone with Norway 🇳🇴
The joy Norway experienced at the end of the match after defeating Israel 5-0:
Norway donated all the match's proceeds to Palestine.
A Muslim teacher was stabbed in the neck protecting his pupils from a knife attack in Manchester.
The Mirror called him a hero. The Sun. The Independent. LBC. The MEN.
As of today, the BBC has not printed his name.
In 2015, the BBC named a stabbed Bradford teacher the same day.
His name is Maysum Abdullah.
Science teacher. Husband. 27 years old.
When a pupil pulled a knife at Co-op Academy Manchester, he put his body between the blade and his students. He was stabbed in the neck and hand.
His wife Saima: "My husband entered teaching to make a positive difference in young people's lives."
Not one headline tells you he's a Muslim man.
Now imagine the name Abdullah belonged to the attacker.
You don't have to imagine. We watched it after Southport.
Riots in the street. Far-right accounts amplifying his name to millions within hours. Every politician condemning it. Muslim leaders dragged in front of cameras to answer for him.
He ran towards the knife. And his faith vanished from the page.
When we're the suspect, our identity is the headline.
When we're the hero, it disappears.
His name is Maysum Abdullah.
A Muslim man.
Say both.
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This footage is 35 years old.
It shows how Israel was treating Palestinians decades ago.
The oppression did not begin on October 7; it has been a reality for generations.
بھائی نے تو پریس بریفنگ میں سچ بول کر سب کو لاجواب کر دیا! 👏
"غریب کا ٹیکس کاٹ کر سم بلاک، اور دبئی میں اربوں کے اثاثے رکھنے والوں کو کھلی چھوٹ۔ حکمران طبقہ اپنے مفت پٹرول، بجلی اور گیس کے مزے کم کرنے کو تیار نہیں، سارا بوجھ بس غریب عوام پر۔"
#Budget2026#BudgetForPakistan
آج ہماری بہن عالیہ حمزہ کو گرفتار ہوئے 80 دن ہو گئے۔ پنجاب کی اس بہادر بیٹی نے صوبے بھر میں پارٹی کو موبلائز کیا اور احتجاجی تحریک کو ایک نئی روح پھونکی۔ جب سے وہ قید ہوئی ہیں اڈیالہ جیل ہو یا کوئی اور احتجاج انکی کمی محسوس ہوتی ہے۔
اللہ ہماری بہن کو جلد رہائی عطا فرمائے
June is the only window available to PTI to build sufficient pressure to end Imran Khan’s isolation and ensure he is transferred to Shifa International Hospital for proper medical treatment in the presence of his family and personal doctors.
چکوال: CCD کی فائرنگ سے 9 سالہ بچی جاں بحق، آسٹریلیا سے آئے خاندان کے 2 افراد زخمی
چکوال میں ایک افسوسناک واقعہ پیش آیا جہاں مبینہ طور پر CCD اہلکاروں نے ڈاکوؤں کا تعاقب کرتے ہوئے ایک فیملی کی گاڑی پر فائرنگ کر دی۔ فائرنگ کے نتیجے میں 9 سالہ ہانیہ احمد جاں بحق جبکہ اس کے والد عادل احمد اور بھائی آفان احمد شدید زخمی ہو گئے۔ رپورٹس کے مطابق عادل احمد، جو آسٹریلیا سے اپنے اہلِ خانہ کے ساتھ حال ہی میں پاکستان آئے تھے، اپنے رشتہ دار کے گھر کے باہر رکے ہوئے تھے کہ دو مسلح ڈاکوؤں نے انہیں لوٹ لیا۔ اسی دوران CCD اہلکاروں اور ڈاکوؤں کے درمیان فائرنگ شروع ہوئی خوفزدہ ہو کر عادل احمد گاڑی لے کر وہاں سے نکلے تو اہلکاروں نے مبینہ طور پر ان کی گاڑی کو ڈاکوؤں کی گاڑی سمجھ کر فائرنگ کر دی۔واقعے کے بعد ایک CCD اہلکار کو معطل کر دیا گیا ہے جبکہ تحقیقات کے لیے جوائنٹ انویسٹی گیشن ٹیم (JIT) تشکیل دے دی گئی ہے۔ حکام نے متاثرہ خاندان کو ذمہ داروں کے خلاف کارروائی کی یقین دہانی کرائی ہے۔
پنجاب میں بے گناہوں کا کھلا قتلِ عام جاری ہے۔ سی سی ڈی کو کھلی چھوٹ ملنے کے بعد مجرموں سے زیادہ معصوم لوگ نشانہ بن رہے ہیں۔ چکوال میں کار پر اندھا دھند فائرنگ سے معصوم بچی کی ہلاکت اس کی تازہ مثال ہے۔