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"Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him" - Dwight D. Eisenhower

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

Today, I introduced a resolution to honor the crew of the USS Liberty. 59 years ago, Israel attacked the ship, killing 34 Americans and wounding 174.

The President should declassify and publicly release all files related to Israel’s unprovoked attack on the USS Liberty.

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

An independent U.N. commission said that the Israeli military had deliberately targeted children in Gaza, amounting to genocide.

The commission said it found a pattern of behavior that reflected a strategy to destroy the future of Palestinians. https://t.co/SndPKA1jDL

[Shaiel Ben-Ephraim @academic_la]

I have been reading the new UN report about how Israel has been targeting children in Gaza. There are no words to describe how awful it is. Here are some of the worst examples:

1) Hind Rajab and family, Tel al-Hawa, Gaza City, 29 Jan 2024. Named. A family of seven plus two paramedics killed. Hind Rajab, 5 to 6, stayed on the phone with rescuers for hours, trapped in a car among her dead relatives. Her cousin Layan Hamadeh, 15, was killed mid-call. The rescue ambulance, dispatched with COGAT clearance, was shelled.

2) The 15-year-old with the white flag, Khan Younis, 24 Jan 2024. Anonymous. Shot in the foot during an ordered evacuation while holding a white cloth, then shot twice more in the back and neck as he tried to rise. His 20-year-old brother killed running to him; their mother shot signaling for an ambulance. Assessed as DAN .338 sniper fire from about 200m.

3) The 10-day-old baby, Nuseirat camp, 12 Apr 2024. Anonymous. Shot in the head by a quadcopter-mounted rifle while being breastfed inside a tent. Survived with brain damage and seizures.

4) The 14-year-old killed with fragmenting pellets, Aug 2024. Anonymous. Cube-shaped pellets that fragmented internally like cluster munitions, destroying multiple organs. The report flags the munition itself as a possible war crime.

5) Jadallah "Jad" Jadallah, Al-Far'a camp, Tubas, 16 Nov 2025. Named. Jadallah Jihad Jouma Jadallah, 14, shot at close range and left bleeding for roughly 45 minutes while about 14 soldiers stood around him. One kicked his cap back when he threw it for attention, one filmed him, one placed a stone beside him to stage a stone-throwing pretext. Soldiers fired at his approaching mother and blocked two ambulances. Body withheld.

6) Layla al-Khatib, Muthallath al-Shuhada, 25 Jan 2025. Named. Layla (Laila) Muhammad Ayman al-Khatib, 2, shot in the back of the head during dinner at home, four bullets fired through the living room window. Youngest West Bank child killed in the reporting period. B'Tselem found the only man in the building was her grandfather, contradicting the "wanted terrorist" claim.

7) Saddam Rajab, Tulkarem, shot 28 Jan 2025, died 7 Feb 2025. Named. Saddam (Sadam) Rajab, 10, shot during an incursion. A soldier told the father, "I am the one who shot your son. God willing, he will die." Medical care obstructed; the boy died of his wounds days later.

8) Walid Ahmad, Megiddo Prison, died 22 Mar 2025. Named. Walid Khalid Abdullah Ahmad, 17, from Silwad. Healthy at arrest in Sept 2024; dead six months later of starvation, muscle wasting, untreated colitis and scabies. First Palestinian minor to die in Israeli custody since Oct 2023. Family learned of his death from a news article; body withheld.

9) The Sde Teiman 15-year-old, detention. Anonymous. Held among 70 adults, shackled until his hands bled, dogs released on prone detainees; described as "the worst days of my life." A separate 15-year-old reported being electrocuted via a needle in his shoulder over 54 days.

10) The four newborns at Al-Nasr Pediatric Hospital, Nov 2023. Anonymous. Found decomposing, still attached to defunct life-support machines, after staff were forced to evacuate without being able to move them. Independently verified by the Commission, Washington Post, and CNN.

11) Newborn hypothermia deaths, Dec 2024 to Feb 2025. Anonymous. At least 15 newborns, including a one-day-old girl, died of cold linked to lack of shelter, fuel, and incubators. UNICEF called the deaths preventable.

12) Sexual violence in detention. Anonymous. Forced public stripping and filming of boys during mass arrests; two cousins aged 7 and 13 stripped at gunpoint in Jenin; new reports of boys raped in custody, one on multiple occasions.

The Commission documents at least 20,179 Palestinian children killed and 44,143 wounded in two years, 30 percent of all the dead in Gaza, alongside 213 more killed in the West Bank. Thirteen times the Commission asked Israel to respond, and thirteen times it heard nothing back. Israel doesn't care enough to even respond. It kills children as a matter of policy.

[Reuters @Reuters]

Israeli authorities and security forces deliberately targeted Palestinian children, resulting in genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Gaza, and war crimes in the occupied West Bank, an independent UN inquiry said https://t.co/61poVhRzmR

[Ihab Hassan @IhabHassane]

This is the unpaved dirt road Palestinians from the western Ramallah area must use to reach the city, because the main road is closed to them by the Israeli army and open only to Israeli settlers.

It's a daily humiliation designed to make Palestinian life harder at every turn.

[First Name, Last Name @alphaishard]

@wolfejosh You made a spelling mistake. I think you meant Genocidal Zionists.

Amalek brother. All the way.

[Forbidden HQ 🐇 @WearForbidden]

Netanyahu wanted to share something this Father’s Day. It’s the ending that stays with you.

[First Name, Last Name @alphaishard]

@GovMikeHuckabee Have you spoken out against the 9+ Americans killed by Israeli terrorists in the last few years?

Or do you just spew Zionist propaganda.

You are a weak man with no soul, no heart, and no courage.

[Husam Zomlot @hzomlot]

Meet Abeer and Shaban Zomlot, mourning the murder of their mother, Taghreed Zomlot, in northern Gaza yesterday. Abeer is heard asking how she will break the news to her youngest sister, Leen, who is 14 years old.

Taghreed was 51, a mother of six, and my cousin. She was hanging clothes to dry in a yard of her semi-destroyed home in Beit Lahia when an Israeli drone shot her in the back and killed her instantly.

Taghreed is one of dozens of my family killed— cousins I grew up with, lives erased for refusing to leave their homes.

Taghreed was among 10 people killed yesterday, and among more than 1,000 Palestinians killed by Israel since President Trump’s ceasefire and peace plan announcement last October.

There is no ceasefire. There is no peace. While millions mobilise around the world to stop the genocide and end the occupation, governments choose empty statements over action. The killings continue with impunity.

#Gaza‌ #Palestine

[First Name, Last Name @alphaishard]

Prove me wrong:

Pew found that in 2024 only 4% of Israeli Jews thought Israel’s military response in Gaza had gone too far.

IDI found in July 2025 that 79% of Israeli Jews were not very troubled, or not troubled at all, by reports of famine and suffering in Gaza.

JPPI found in 2025 that 52% of Israeli Jews said Trump’s Gaza relocation plan was practical and should be advanced, another 30% said they wished it were possible, and only 3% called it immoral.

[First Name, Last Name @alphaishard]

Sorry this isn’t enough. You have terrorists running your government, and terrorists running the streets of Israel and the West Bank murdering Palestinians by the thousands.

It’s obvious that the majority of Israelis and Jews worldwide are Zionists, and Zionism is Terrorism. The worst form of terrorism on this planet.

[First Name, Last Name @alphaishard]

@SenRickScott So does that mean Muslims are ok to kill?

[First Name, Last Name @alphaishard]

@kinsellawarren What were they doing in Lebanon?

[First Name, Last Name @alphaishard]

@NeumanYiftach @amasad @jaketapper I don’t buy this. I think the majority of Israelis support this rhetoric. If you didn’t, you’d do something about the settler terrorists in the West Bank. The majority of 18 year olds wouldn’t join the IDF. You instead decide to turn the other way.

[First Name, Last Name @alphaishard]

@piersmorgan This is what Hamas has been trying to tell the world for decades. And no one listened. The Palestinians have been experiencing what Lebanon is experiencing today for the last 78 years, but with far more violence, killing, discrimination, and inhumane suffering.

[First Name, Last Name @alphaishard]

Why would a Palestinian child in Gaza require Israeli approval to seek medical treatment? I thought Israel did not control Gaza.

[Rep. Jim McGovern @RepMcGovern]

A six-year-old Palestinian boy with leukemia died while waiting for the Netanyahu government to approve his medical evacuation request. His name was Ghazal.

In Gaza, no hospital is fully functional and Israeli approval is required to leave. A cancer diagnosis is a death sentence.

That’s why I led 61 of my colleagues in demanding that the Trump Administration reestablish a medical evacuation corridor so patients have a chance to survive—a chance that was never afforded to Ghazal.

Read more about how @ChrisVanHollen, @SenMarkey, @RepDean, @RepDexterOR, & I are demanding immediate action to alleviate this horrific humanitarian crisis:

https://t.co/u66mdlOzQQ

[Rep. Jim McGovern @RepMcGovern]

A six-year-old Palestinian boy with leukemia died while waiting for the Netanyahu government to approve his medical evacuation request. His name was Ghazal.

In Gaza, no hospital is fully functional and Israeli approval is required to leave. A cancer diagnosis is a death sentence.

That’s why I led 61 of my colleagues in demanding that the Trump Administration reestablish a medical evacuation corridor so patients have a chance to survive—a chance that was never afforded to Ghazal.

Read more about how @ChrisVanHollen, @SenMarkey, @RepDean, @RepDexterOR, & I are demanding immediate action to alleviate this horrific humanitarian crisis:

https://t.co/u66mdlOzQQ

[Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib @RepRashida]

Sama Safi is a 20-year old U.S. citizen and student who was kidnapped by Israeli soldiers from her family home at 3am last week and remains in Israeli prison. She has a chronic health condition and requires daily medication. Her life is at risk—our government must free her now!

[Barak Ravid @BarakRavid]

Over the last 24 hours:
1. IDF soldier shot an killed a 7 months old Palestinian baby in Hebron
2. IDF kills a senior Lebanese military officer and two other Lebanese soldiers in an air strike in southern Lebanon
3. Israeli Settlers aided by at least one IDF soldier (see video) conduct a Pogrom in the Palestinian village of Huwara. 9 Palestinians wounded

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

A video of a Dutch policeman throwing a heavily pregnant woman to the ground has caused outrage. The woman says police attacked her at a migration centre where authorities had detained her Palestinian husband.