After 625 days in Hamas captivity,
the IDF recovered the body of Yehonatan Samerano in a heroic operation. Yehonatan was murdered and abducted from the Nova music festival while trying to escape with his friends. His body was taken by UNRWA employees.
Now you can finally rest, Yehonatan.
We will never forget you.
On Oct. 7, 2023, 21-year-old Yonatan Samerano was shot dead & kidnapped into Gaza by an UNRWA social worker.
625 days later, Yonatan's body has been recovered by Israeli forces.
Throughout this ordeal, UN Watch has campaigned with his mother, Ayelet, for justice at the UN: 🧵
After 20 months of agony — and 20 months of silence from the UN and UNRWA — Ayelet and her family can finally lay their beloved Yonatan to rest in Israel. Our thoughts are with them all today.
50 hostages are still being held by Hamas in Gaza. Hamas must release them ALL now!
Iranian missiles are hunting Ukrainian children everywhere - even when they flee to safety.
7-year-old Nastya Borik came to Israel with her family for leukaemia treatment. This week, an Iranian missile killed Nastya, her grandmother, mother, and two young cousins in Bat Yam.
Iran's weapons follow Ukrainian families from their homeland to their refuge. No child should die twice from the same evil.
Iran turned Syria and Iraq into military outposts.
Tehran arms and commands Shia militias across both countries via its Quds Force. In Syria, they prop up Assad. In Iraq, they target U.S. troops. These militias are tools for Iran to export instability and deflect direct conflict.
Iran doesn’t just influence Lebanon - it hijacked it.
Hezbollah, Iran’s most powerful proxy, has over 100,000 missiles aimed at Israel and tight control over Lebanese politics. Funded by up to $1B/year from Tehran, its war with Israel in 2024 has crippled southern Lebanon.
What ended the 13-year Syrian war? Weakening Iran.
When Iranian proxies lost ground, Assad lost his grip.
Less IRGC = more space for freedom, democracy, and peace.
Photo: AP
Global shipping crisis? Thank Iran’s proxies.
Since late 2023, Yemen’s Houthis - armed and guided by Iran - have launched over 100 attacks on Red Sea vessels, paralyzing trade routes and spiking global costs. Iran gives them drones, missiles, intel - and a free hand to destabilize.
Image: Courtesy of Ambrey
The Iranian regime isn't just Islamist. It's expansionist.
Its goal?
Replace democracy with theocratic control.
Eliminate Israel.
Expel the West from the Middle East.
It’s not just anti-Zionist. It’s anti-freedom.
Hamas didn’t plan Oct 7 alone.
Iran has bankrolled and trained Hamas for years. Its fingerprints were all over the massacre: weapons, funds, and strategy. After the attack, Hamas openly thanked Iran. Gaza’s suffering is tied to that allegiance.
Photo: ATTA KENARE AFP via Getty Images
The fact that the Palestine Solidarity Campaign has suddenly become the Iran Solidarity Campaign is indicative of the fact that it's nothing more than an anti-Israel hate group.
The Iranian people are not the enemies of Israel. They are a sister nation.
The Islamic regime of Iran is the enemy. It is a radical regime that, in the name of Islamic fanaticism, has called for the destruction of the State of Israel and the Jewish people.
On October 7, 2023, the Iranian regime began its war against Israel, using its proxies which it arms, funds, and commands. Since then, we have been doing what is necessary to defend our lives.
This is a message to the people of Iran from a Yemeni in Tel Aviv.
You give me so much hope. Because you are the only people who are standing strongly against their fascist regime.
You do it everywhere — in Stockholm, in New York, in London, in Amsterdam.
Wherever there are Iranians, there are protests against the fascist regime in Iran.
The most important and courageous thing of it all is you do it in your home too, in Iran.
And because of that, you risk your own lives.
That is the kind of courage that we lack in the Middle East.
We’ve seen what this fascist regime has done to your people.
And we stand with you — from Lebanon, to Israel, to my country Yemen.
As a Yemeni, my country is also occupied by the Islamic regime, and it pains me that I never see Yemenis protesting against our fascist Houthis and the fascist regime in Iran.
That is why you give me hope.
You inspire me as a Yemeni.
You inspire the free people of Yemen, of Lebanon, of Syria, of Iraq,
to fight against Islamic extremism —
even if it risks our lives.
My hope is for the Islamic regime to fall.
For you to gain back your Iran,
for me to gain back my Yemen.
So thank you for all you do.
We see you.
We love you.
And we stand by you.
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این پیامی است به مردم ایران از یک یمنی در تلآویو.
شما به من امید زیادی میدهید. چون تنها مردمی هستید که با شجاعت در برابر رژیم فاشیستی خود ایستادهاید.
شما در همهجا این کار را میکنید — در استکهلم، در نیویورک، در لندن، در آمستردام.
هر جا که ایرانیان هستند، اعتراض علیه رژیم فاشیستی ایران وجود دارد.
اما مهمترین و شجاعانهترین بخش ماجرا این است که شما در خانهتان هم این کار را میکنید، در خود ایران.
و بهخاطر همین، جان خود را به خطر میاندازید.
این همان شجاعتی است که ما در خاورمیانه کم داریم.
ما دیدهایم این رژیم فاشیستی با مردم شما چه کرده است.
و ما در کنار شما هستیم — از لبنان، تا اسرائیل، تا کشور من، یمن.
بهعنوان یک یمنی، کشور من هم توسط رژیم اسلامی اشغال شده و دردناک است که هیچوقت یمنیها را در حال اعتراض علیه حوثیهای فاشیست و رژیم فاشیستی ایران نمیبینم.
به همین دلیل شما به من امید میدهید.
شما من را بهعنوان یک یمنی الهام میدهید.
شما مردم آزاد یمن، لبنان، سوریه و عراق را الهام میدهید
تا علیه افراطگرایی اسلامی مبارزه کنند —
حتی اگر جانمان در خطر باشد.
امید من این است که رژیم اسلامی سقوط کند.
که شما ایران خود را پس بگیرید،
و من یمن خود را.
پس از شما بابت همه کارهایی که انجام میدهید، سپاسگزارم.
ما شما را میبینیم.
ما شما را دوست داریم.
و ما در کنار شما ایستادهایم.