My horse helps me separate hay from chaff. It hates mass production, market research, guns, royals, the conservative & banal. Yoko is its favourite Beatle.
On February 21, 2025, 12-year-old Ayman al-Haimoni left his grandfather's house with his 10-year-old brother, Aisar, to deliver a sum of money to their uncle, who lives across the street. When the children saw Israeli soldiers in the street, they turned back. The soldiers then shot Ayman in the back. According to his mother, Anwar: "Aisar ran toward us in panic. 'They shot Ayman,' he said. I saw three soldiers surrounding Ayman, shining their flashlights on him. Ayman said to me in a weak voice, 'Mom, the soldiers shot me.'"
Fifty-four minors were killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank in 2025. The report “Unshielded Childhood” tells their stories and documents the circumstances that led to each of their deaths.
Since October 2023 until July 27, 2026, Israel has killed 1,100 Palestinians in the West Bank, including 242 children and teenagers. This is the highest number of Palestinian children killed in the West Bank since the area was first occupied in 1967. This reality is the result of an Israeli policy that permits and supports such killings while ensuring that no one is held accountable.
Read our latest report, "Unshielded Childhood" >> https://t.co/BVvGKphhlp
Rep. Andy Ogles, who said Muslims and gay people don’t belong in America, just lost his primary. I guess his voters thought he didn’t belong in Congress. Proud of Tennessee Republicans who threw the bum out. It’s a good day in America when we reject the idea of hating each other.
Israel has committed so many shocking atrocities over the past 2.5 years that many forgot how it massacred over 300 people in a November 2023 strike on Gaza’s Al-Sabra neighborhood
112 of those victims from two clans were just extracted from the rubble and given a mass funeral
Tony Blinken, Jake Sullivan, Brett McGurk and Kamala Harris all have this blood on their hands
One year after Awdah Hathaleen was killed by an Israeli settler in his hometown of Umm al-Khair in the West Bank, residents gathered to remember him. Minutes into the memorial, Israeli army and police forces declared the area a closed military zone and shut down the ceremony. For his family and community, the struggle to mourn continues | Abby Seitz, Nagham Zbeedat and Shira Shechter
Read more here: https://t.co/490eBejrdH
Credit: Shira Shechter https://t.co/ruT3TAv3tp
While kids in the U.S. are getting ready to go back to school, our tax dollars are helping Israel demolish schools.
The worst part is how the kids are just helplessly watching…
'Doctor of the poor' describes beatings, medical neglect, and humiliation inside Israeli prison
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▪️Haaretz has published the testimony of Dr. Mazen Rantisi, a 71-year-old Palestinian physician from Ramallah in the occupied West Bank known as the "Doctor of the Poor," who has endured severe medical neglect, beatings, and degrading treatment since his arrest on 21 June.
▪️Rantisi, who has spent decades providing low-cost medical care to underserved Palestinians, gave his account to attorney Saja Misherqi Baransi of the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI) during her first in-person visit with him after more than a month in detention at Ofer Prison.
▪️According to Rantisi, he was denied his regular medication for the first 10 days of detention and is still being refused one of his prescribed medicines. His repeated requests to see a doctor allegedly went unanswered, with a medic checking only his pulse once through a small opening in his cell door.
▪️He described being escorted outside his cell blindfolded, handcuffed behind his back, and forced to walk bent over with his head lowered, saying guards shove detainees' heads down if they try to straighten up.
▪️He also said prisoners are forced to kneel facing the wall during daily roll calls, are routinely cursed and humiliated, and that prison squads frequently storm cells and beat detainees.
▪️During one raid, he said guards fired tear gas into the overcrowded cell, while younger prisoners shielded him from the blows.
▪️Rantisi told his lawyer that his six-bed cell houses 10 detainees, with four sleeping in shifts on mattresses on the floor. He described scorching heat, mold, fleas, gnats, no cleaning supplies, a single shared bar of soap, and food that was unfit for human consumption, including moldy bread, spoiled rice, rotten tomatoes, and stale eggs, which caused him to lose significant weight.
▪️Haaretz noted that his testimony closely mirrors findings in a 1 July report by Israel's Public Defender's Office, which documented worsening detention conditions, severe overcrowding, poor sanitation, inadequate medical care, hunger, and routine violence in Israeli prisons.
▪️The Israel Prison Service of course rejected the allegations, calling them "untrue" and part of what it described as a "worldwide smear campaign" against Israel.
ICC CHIEF PROSECUTOR @KarimKhanQC: “Oppose Israel and we will go after your family — You have been warned. Rubio, McConnell sent me a letter… what’s liberating is accepting mortality.”
I have observed and studied legacy media reporting on Palestine for years. I have had the opportunity to analyse documented patterns of dehumanization that - nearly three years into a genocide - are beyond shocking.
Reuters is doing its best to frame the Israeli bombardment of one of the few remaining Palestinian medicine warehouses as something legally ambiguous. Obviously the argument they parrot is the Israeli military’s: that in Gaza, healthcare is a human shield for military activities.