On this day 26 years ago, the world watched, as Jamal al-Durrah tried to protect his 12-year-old son Muhammad from Israeli bullets that rained down on them in Gaza for 40 minutes. Despite pleads, Israeli soldiers intentionally shot Muhammad in the stomach- whose final moments of fear and horror were caught on camera and streamed by France TV, and injured his father.
Muhammad became the defining and haunting image of the Second Intifada.
'The Israelis are worse than the Nazis, at least the Nazis has the decency to try and hide what they are doing. The Israelis boast about it. It's demonically evil.'
- Jewish actor Wallace Shawn doesn't mince words.
ft @kthalps@KatieHalperShow
What Ed Sheeran did wrong tonight:
- Started with Oct 7th
- Called it a conflict
- Pretended that he didn't know enough
- Both Sides it
- Didn't apologise to Macklemore
- Didn't call it a genocide
- Didn't say FREE PALESTINE
- Used a teleprompter
- Didn't blame Israel
Don’t ever forget that by October 8th, Israel had already killed 413 Palestinians, including 78 children (more than twice the number of Israeli kids killed on October 7th). But for Joe these Palestinian lives don’t matter, they have no value. It is the very definition of racism.
As a 14-year-old boy, Abdus Salam, gained the highest marks ever recorded for the Matriculation Examination at University of the Punjab.
In 1979, he was awarded the #NobelPrize in Physics.