Carolyn Andre

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[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

💢 Hezbollah said Israel’s 300+ attacks since Friday included fighter jet and drone strikes, artillery shelling and phosphorus rounds targeting more than 25 towns and villages, including Nabatieh.

🔸 The group also said Israel had used cluster munitions, which are banned under international law.

🔸 “These attacks are not only violations of the ceasefire agreements but clearly constitute aggression and a continuation of the war,” Hezbollah said.

[Carolyn Andre @ChiMusicNut]

Concerning. So much of this since COVID/ Long COVID

[Envidreamz @envidreamz]

Last night, Tropical Storm Arthur hammered my Gulf South state.
(This post is about Long Term cognitive/behavioral shifts since 2020)

Massive flooding in some areas, 40-50 mph wind gusts, tornadoes ripping through, and the Cajun Navy out rescuing people from rising floodwaters.
Rivers still have not crested, so more flooding is to come.

This morning I taught my workout class and asked how they handled the storm.
The blank faces hit me hard. “What storm?” one said.
Another slept straight through it. When I mentioned the flooding still yet to come, they just shrugged.
“It’s over now so nothing to worry about.”
Another lady added, “So many threats of death and destruction everywhere we go that at this point I’m like whatever man. I’m not holding back my entire life living in fear.”

This is not how people used to react here. Before 2020, people respected real danger. The reckless ones were the minority and we gently laughed at them for it.
Now it feels like 98% of folks have lost all sense of danger.
Nothing is a big deal. Everything is fine.
Even the older ladies powered through class tonight like it was just another sunny day.

People have changed. Their brains seem wired differently now. No caution, no healthy fear of consequences or risk.

Is this mass Covid brain damage playing out?
Because the weather is not the only thing that feels permanently shifted…

[Carolyn Andre @ChiMusicNut]

🚨🚨
A surveillance product that can easily be added to license plate reader infrastructure - or mounted in shopping malls - that can hoover up *all* device signals, even for pedestrians. With no info on retention limits. And consolidate profiles.

[0️⃣BlackBetty ⚓️ @BabyD1111229]

If you thought Flock cameras were concerning, meet what comes next.

A company called Leonardo has developed a system called ELSAG SignalTrace. It broke into public awareness just days ago and is already being marketed to law enforcement agencies across the country. It makes Flock Safety look modest by comparison.

Here is what SignalTrace does:

It clips sensors directly onto existing license plate reader cameras — the same poles, the same hardware already installed in your community. No new infrastructure required. A software and sensor upgrade is all it takes.

Every time you drive past one of these upgraded cameras, the sensor sweeps up the unique electronic identifiers of every device in your vehicle. Your cell phone. Your smartwatch. Your wireless headphones. Your fitness tracker. Your laptop. Your tablet. Your car's own infotainment system. Your tire pressure sensors. Your vehicle's Bluetooth hotspot.

And your pet's microchip.

Every one of those devices emits a signal. SignalTrace captures those signals, timestamps them, ties them to your license plate, and stores them in a searchable database for future investigative use. The result is what Leonardo calls an electronic fingerprint — a unique profile built not from your face or your name, but from the constellation of devices you carry with you every day.

Leonardo announced the ELSAG EOC Plus patent as early as May 2024, describing it as an electronic detection system for identifying people of interest through electronic device signatures. SignalTrace is the commercial product built on that foundation. The patent came first. The marketing came after. The sales calls are happening now.

Here is where it gets worse.

SignalTrace is explicitly designed to track vehicles even when the license plate cannot be read. If your plate is obscured, dirty, or misread — it does not matter. The system identifies your vehicle by the electronic fingerprint of the devices inside it instead. The plate reader becomes optional. The surveillance does not.

The strategic advantage for police agencies is adoption friction. SignalTrace can be pitched as an extension of an existing ALPR ecosystem rather than a wholly separate surveillance buildout. That is exactly what happened with Flock. License plate readers went in first. Video came later through a software update. Nobody voted on the expansion. Nobody was told. SignalTrace follows the same playbook — attach to existing infrastructure and expand what it captures without requiring a new procurement process, a new vote, or a new public conversation.

Who is Leonardo and why does their background matter?

Leonardo US Cyber and Security Solutions is not a Silicon Valley startup. It is the American subsidiary of Leonardo S.p.A. — one of the largest aerospace, defense, and security conglomerates in the world, headquartered in Rome, Italy. Recent public market estimates place Leonardo S.p.A.'s market capitalization at approximately €29.76 billion — roughly $32 billion USD. For context that is nearly four times Flock Safety's valuation.

Leonardo's US operations trace back to a joint venture with Remington Arms in 2004, became a wholly owned subsidiary in 2008, and in 2024 rebranded from Selex ES Inc. to Leonardo US Cyber and Security Solutions — a change the company said better reflects the synergy between its brand and the cutting-edge products it offers. Leonardo US has manufacturing facilities in Greensboro, North Carolina and software engineering in Brewster, New York. Its US arm holds contracts with US Special Operations Command and the General Services Administration. This is a major international defense contractor with a direct pipeline from special operations military applications to local American law enforcement.

The Italian government holds a significant ownership stake in Leonardo S.p.A. That means a foreign government — through a defense contractor — is selling surveillance technology to American law enforcement. If the Flock Safety story involves a CIA-seeded venture capital network, the Leonardo story involves a partially state-owned Italian defense conglomerate with US Special Operations Command contracts. Neither of these companies is what most Americans picture when their city council votes to upgrade the cameras on a street pole.

What is ELSAG — and why SignalTrace is more dangerous than it sounds.

ELSAG is Leonardo's license plate recognition product line — the company's core law enforcement technology that has been deployed across American communities for over two decades. ELSAG cameras are what you think of when you picture a standard license plate reader. Fixed cameras on poles. Mobile units mounted on patrol vehicles. Solar powered. Cellular connected. Reading plates and logging vehicle data.

ELSAG is already deployed in all fifty states. Virginia State Police is a documented customer. Leonardo holds statewide procurement contracts in New York, Maryland, New Mexico, Ohio, and Pennsylvania among others, and is listed on the federal GSA schedule available to agencies nationwide. Their cameras are already on street poles and patrol vehicles across the country — quietly, routinely, and largely without public awareness.

SignalTrace is not a new camera. It is not a new company. It is an upgrade — a sensor that clips directly onto ELSAG cameras already in the field and adds a new layer of data collection on top of the license plate reading that was already happening. The same pole. The same hardware. A new sensor attached to it that now also sweeps up every electronic device signal in every passing vehicle.

That is precisely what makes it so significant. The deployment barrier is almost zero. Any law enforcement agency that already has Leonardo ELSAG cameras can add SignalTrace capability without purchasing new infrastructure, without a new procurement process, and — depending on how their existing contract is written — potentially without returning to their city council for approval. Sound familiar? It should. It is the exact same function creep mechanism that allowed Flock Safety to add video streaming, vehicle fingerprinting, and AI people search to cameras that were originally sold as simple plate readers.

The infrastructure goes in first. The capabilities expand later. The public finds out last — if at all.

Leonardo's defense of the system sounds very familiar.

They say SignalTrace captures device signals but does not read the contents of communications. They say it stores data until a specific investigative request is made of the system by an investigator. They say it was designed to ensure it does not infringe on the rights of individuals.

That is the exact same argument Flock Safety makes about license plate readers. It captures plate numbers but not driver information. It stores data until law enforcement queries it. It was designed with privacy in mind.

Courts are still debating whether Flock's version of that argument is constitutionally sound after eight years of deployment and 80 plus cities canceling contracts. SignalTrace captures exponentially more data about exponentially more people — not just the vehicle but every person inside it and every device they carry. If the argument barely holds for plate readers, it almost certainly does not hold for a system that vacuums up every electronic signal emitted by every device in every vehicle passing a sensor.

The data retention problem.

With Flock we at least know the default data retention period is 30 days — though the contract language grants Flock a perpetual license to use that data regardless. With SignalTrace the situation is more opaque. Leonardo's product materials state that all data collected may be uploaded to the EOC server and archived for future queries and analysis — with no published retention limit. How long does Leonardo store your electronic fingerprint? Who has access to it? Can it be shared with other agencies or federal entities? Can it be purchased by data brokers? Leonardo's materials do not answer these questions. That silence is itself an answer.

The retail and private deployment problem.

Leonardo is actively marketing SignalTrace to shopping malls, retail centers, and private businesses — not just law enforcement. Their materials describe deploying SignalTrace in parking lots and inside shopping centers to track individuals involved in organized retail crime. By identifying and correlating electronic devices carried by suspects, retailers can gain critical insights into criminal patterns.

That means SignalTrace sensors could be on private property you visit every day — your grocery store parking lot, your shopping mall, your workplace — operated by a private company with no law enforcement oversight, no warrant requirement, no public accountability, and no notification to you. Your electronic fingerprint captured every time you park your car. Stored indefinitely. Shared with whoever the private operator decides to share it with.

The no-plate-needed problem — and what it means for pedestrians.

The implication of being able to track a vehicle by its electronic fingerprint without reading the plate goes further than most people realize. Deliberately obscuring your plate — which some people do to avoid surveillance — provides zero protection against SignalTrace. The sensor does not need the plate. It reads your phone.

More critically — the sensor does not know or care whether the device it is reading is inside a vehicle or in the pocket of a pedestrian walking past the pole. A person walking down the sidewalk past a SignalTrace-equipped camera is emitting the same Bluetooth and Wi-Fi signals as a person driving past in a car. The system's sensors capture signals from whatever passes within range. Whether that includes pedestrian device capture is not addressed in Leonardo's public materials. The fact that it is not addressed is worth noting.

Does Flock plan to integrate or copy this technology?

No confirmed partnership between Flock and Leonardo has been announced. But four things are worth noting.

Flock already expanded into audio detection in October 2025 — their Raven devices now listen for human distress and alert officers when they detect screaming. Device signal detection is the next logical step in exactly the same direction. Flock's product roadmap has consistently expanded from vehicle data toward person data. Vehicle fingerprinting. FreeForm people search by physical description. Audio detection of human behavior. Electronic device fingerprinting would complete that progression.

Flock's Wing platform is specifically designed to pull third-party camera infrastructure into its ecosystem. If Leonardo's SignalTrace cameras are deployed in a city that also uses Flock, the data from both systems could flow into the same FlockOS platform without any formal partnership between the two companies.

Flock's Nova platform already combines license plate data with court records, jail records, CAD records, and commercially available personal data. Adding device signal intelligence to that profile would be consistent with what Nova is already designed to do.

And Flock's entire business model is built on continuous software-defined capability expansion through over-the-air updates. No new hardware. No public vote. Whether Flock is currently developing device signal detection capability is something we do not know. Whether the competitive pressure from Leonardo creates a powerful financial incentive for them to do so is not in question.

The constitutional problem is worse than anything we have discussed before.

The Fourth Amendment arguments against Flock center on the aggregation of license plate reads into a comprehensive record of your vehicle's movements. Courts are divided on whether that crosses the constitutional line.

SignalTrace does not aggregate your vehicle's movements. It aggregates your personal electronic identity — every device you carry, every signal you emit — and ties it permanently to a location, a timestamp, and a plate number. It does not track your car. It tracks you. Personally. Individually. Every time you pass a sensor, whether you are suspected of anything or not.

The legal issue is that public policy often treats each input separately — a plate image, a device signal, a timestamp, a location record. SignalTrace's purpose is to combine recurring signals into a searchable investigative profile. The Mosaic Theory argument we have made against Flock says that aggregated location data eventually reveals the whole of a person's life. SignalTrace is designed from the ground up to reveal exactly that — not as a byproduct but as the product.

The Supreme Court has not ruled on whether device signal collection at this scale requires a warrant. The courts have not yet caught up to Flock. They are further still from catching up to what Leonardo is now selling to law enforcement agencies in all fifty states.

Why this matters right now.

We are currently waiting on the City of Texarkana to respond to our public records requests about Flock Safety cameras already operating on our streets. We do not yet know how many cameras exist here, which features are active, or what data sharing agreements are in place.

What we do know is that the surveillance infrastructure being built across America — of which Flock Safety is the most visible example — is expanding faster than public awareness, faster than legislation, and faster than the courts can rule on it.

The cameras in our area are one node. SignalTrace shows you what the next node looks like. And the one after that. Each addition is sold as a modest upgrade to existing infrastructure. Each addition captures something your government previously could not capture without a warrant. Each addition happens without a public vote.

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SOURCES

1. Leonardo US — ELSAG SignalTrace Product Page

https://t.co/HmnXStfH3V

2. Leonardo US — SignalTrace Product Sheet

https://t.co/DH3VLIpuOg

3. Leonardo US — Procurement Contracts

https://t.co/D4pBW7clAQ

4. CarBuzz — "Don't Like Car License Plate Readers Invading Your Privacy? It's About To Get A Lot Worse" (June 2026)

https://t.co/hd7j97eqHl

5. The Deep Dive — "Leonardo's SignalTrace Could Let Police Plate Readers Track Your Devices" (June 2026)

https://t.co/HvGl2xbkK2

6. Security Industry Association — Leonardo/ELSAG Member Profile

https://t.co/EzRYrc4MTH

7. DHS — Automated License Plate Readers Market Survey Report (June 2025)

https://t.co/XfJf84A3hA

8. Senator Ron Wyden / Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi — Letter to FTC regarding Flock Safety cybersecurity (November 2025)

https://t.co/etluNhx9np

🎩 Deflocking Texarkana

[BreakThrough News @BTnewsroom]

BREAKING: United Auto Workers today passed a resolution at its convention, 321-287, to divest from Israeli bonds.

With nearly 400,000 members, UAW becomes the largest US union to officially divest from Israel.

The vote received support from a range of sectors, including a large number of Michigan auto delegates, in addition to legal services and higher education.

The original call for divestment came from a wildcat strike of 2,000 mainly Arab American workers at Chrysler’s Dodge Main in 1973. Amid the genocide in Gaza, pro-Palestinian labor groups and UAW locals renewed and intensified their campaign.

Speakers motivated for the resolution by citing the union’s legacy of divesting from South African apartheid in 1978.

[Carolyn Andre @ChiMusicNut]

Good news for science! & the oceans.

[Dr Tom Montgomery @DrTOMontgomery]

#Ocean

I thought I must be dreaming when I heard this WONDERFUL news:

The National Science Foundation has reversed its decision to dismantle the OOI—the vitally important ocean monitoring network—after outcry from scientists and lawmakers.

And it doesn't stop there: the NSF said they're developing plans to redeploy the Endurance Array off the coasts of Oregon and Washington, which they have just removed.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🇵🇸 Oxfam’s Global Humanitarian Policy Lead Bushra Khalidi told the UN Security Council that Israel has deliberately dismantled the humanitarian systems needed for Gaza’s recovery, blocked organizations including UNRWA and Oxfam, destroyed civilian infrastructure, and left Palestinians “denied even the basic conditions to survive.”

Khalidi said the ceasefire is failing as Israeli forces continue killing Palestinians and confining Gaza’s population to ever-shrinking areas of the Strip.

She said aid deliveries and truck counts are being used to create the appearance of progress while hospitals lack medicine and fuel, water and sewage systems remain in ruins, and families struggle to access food, clean water, shelter, and healthcare.

Khalidi says that Gaza’s humanitarian catastrophe is the result of deliberate political decisions, including ongoing siege, denial of movement, obstruction of aid, destruction of civilian infrastructure, annexation, and dispossession.

She urged governments to stop enabling these policies through political, economic, trade, and military ties, warning that Palestinians in Gaza are being denied not only self-determination, but even the bare minimum needed to survive.

[Lakota Man @LakotaMan1]

Happy Juneteenth

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

The condemnation is universal. Republicans, Democrats, independents, world leaders... With the lasting ramifications being likely worse than Vietnam, everyone is accurately stating that this is the biggest geopolitical fuck-up in US history.

Not only did Trump LOSE his war of choice against Iran, but he has made billionaires of Iranian regime officials. What Iran now knows that they did not know before is that they can shut down the Strait of Hormuz whenever they feel like it — and there's not a fucking thing Trump can do about it.

Everything Trump did was ass-backwards. From being conned by Netanyahu, to not even bothering to consult with America's allies, this was a catastrophe and exercise in dumbfuckery from the very beginning.

Billions of tax dollars wasted, over a dozen American soldiers dead, hundreds of soldiers maimed and mutilated — and for what? So a pedophile president could change the divert attention away from the Epstein files? Un-fucking-believable!

Trump's incompetence is no longer debatable, nor is his place in history. The sick fuck is America's worst president.

[Carolyn Andre @ChiMusicNut]

Revolting & evil. The delight in his words. (The extreme glee goes beyond any rational concept of self-defense)

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

⭕️ Israel’s far right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir responds to Vice President JD Vance: “For every tear shed by an Israeli mother, a thousand Lebanese mothers should cry. All of Lebanon should burn.”

He writes:

“With all due respect to the Americans, Israel must make it clear to the entire world that the blood of our sons and the security of our citizens are not up for grabs. All of Lebanon should burn. Our highest duty is to protect Israel’s citizens and IDF soldiers, and that commitment comes before any other consideration.

I tell the Prime Minister, including in our meetings: for every tear shed by an Israeli mother, a thousand Lebanese mothers should cry.

Enough with the ping-pong. In the Middle East, you do not win through measured responses and restraint. You have to go crazy. Erase. Defeat terrorism.”

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

A brand new bridge between Detroit and Canada is finished and ready to open. It would speed up traffic for millions of trucks, cut delays for American businesses, and help the auto industry that employs people in every state. There is just one problem.

Donald Trump won’t let it open.

Here is why.

The family that owns the old bridge stands to lose business when the new one opens. So in January, they gave one million dollars to a pro-Trump super PAC.

Weeks later they met with Trump’s Commerce Secretary.

He called Trump.

Hours after that, Trump announced he would block the new bridge. The opening was set for June 12. It got canceled the day before. The bridge sits there finished and empty.

Now here is the part that should make every taxpayer angry.

Canada paid for the entire bridge.

Every dollar. And the United States already owns half of it for free. Trump is holding up a bridge we got for nothing, to protect a donor who wrote him a check, while picking a fight with our closest ally and biggest trading partner.

This is corruption in plain sight.

A billionaire pays, and the President delivers. American workers and businesses pay the price.

Open the bridge. A government should work for the people, not for whoever writes the biggest check.
https://t.co/9o9Gz9UrBo

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

BREAKING: Iran Suspends Entire 60-Day Negotiation Process With the U.S.

Iran has halted its entire 60-day negotiation framework with the United States after accusing Washington of violating the very first clause of the recently signed MOU.

According to Fars and Al-Mayadeen, Iranian officials argue Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon less than 24 hours after the agreement was electronically signed constituted a direct breach of U.S. obligations under the deal.

Iran’s delegation was reportedly preparing to depart for Switzerland for the first round of talks when Tehran abruptly canceled the trip. Iranian officials now say they will not fulfill their own commitments until they are fully assured Israeli attacks on Lebanon have stopped and the U.S. has adhered to the agreement’s first-clause requirements.

The first round of U.S.-Iran talks is now effectively off the table.

Follow @AllenAnalysis to stay ahead of the curve.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

here is Mamdani's entire speech at the Knicks parade, which is easily the best speech I've ever heard at an event of this sort

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

here's Michelle Obama's entire speech commemorating the opening of the Obama Presidential Center, which in part served as an extended (tacit) rebuke of Trumpism

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

here's Barack Obama's entire speech commemorating the Obama Presidential Center. He reflected on his administration's successes and failures, critiqued the moral rot of contemporary America, and outlined a positive vision of the future -- all without ever mentioning Trump

[Carolyn Andre @ChiMusicNut]

No filters. So reassuring.

[X @Xking332]

Some of the things Trump said in the last 48 hours:

- Hamas is behaving very well these days.

- Iran should have missiles. Why not?

- We're going to unfreeze Iran's money. It's their money. Why should we steal their money?

- If the war kept going there would have been an economic catastrophe. So we had to end it.

- Some of the guys in the Islamic regime are really nice.

- If Iran didn't open the Strait of Hormuz our oil reserves would have run out in 4 weeks. We had to make a deal.

- Netanyahu is crazy. They keep killing innocent civilians. He needs to be more responsible.

- Without me and America, Israel wouldn't exist.

[Dr. Sean Mullen @drseanmullen]

Doctors are wiring athletes up with sensors, running every test imaginable, trying to explain why elite performers can’t do the things they used to do.

Meanwhile, the answer is standing right in front of them, bare-faced.

“Diabetes after COVID?”

Gee, I wonder where we’ve heard that before.

It’s almost like there are thousands of published studies showing COVID can affect metabolism, insulin regulation, cardiovascular function, cognition, and physical performance.

They’ve spent years pretending a virus linked to hundreds of long-term complications is “just a cold.”

The experiment is ending. The data are arriving.

Reality doesn’t care about the narrative.

[MintPress News @MintPressNews]

The Guardian Reveals Which Companies Supply Israel With The Equipment Destroying Lebanon

A new investigation conducted by rights groups with the aid of The Guardian’s geolocation work, confirms that Caterpillar, Volvo, Hyundai, Doosan, Hitachi and Komatsu have been providing Israel with construction equipment to destroy entire villages in south Lebanon.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

Dear Joe,
I wish I could sit down with you face to face and explain why so many of us were offended by the UFC fight on the South Lawn of the White House.
For me, it had nothing to do with the UFC or who showed up for the fights. The brand you and Dana have built is a bona fide American success story. More power to you. As for the fighters, in my book, anyone brave enough to put it all on the line in the arena is remarkable to witness. Their dedication and discipline inspire me. I don’t understand anyone who can’t admire that.
And as for the people who attended, I, for one, love Shane Gillis. I think he’s hilarious and brilliant. It was a show. A once-in-a-lifetime spectacle. I can’t blame anyone for wanting to witness it firsthand.
My problem is that I believe some of our public spaces are sacred. And unlike many of the great powers that came before us, these American monuments belong to all of us. Not to whoever happens to hold power at the moment.
The White House does not belong to Donald Trump. It does not belong to any President. It belongs to the people. To treat it as Caesar treated the Colosseum is antithetical to everything our founding fathers fought for.
This is not Rome. Presidents are not emperors doling out bread and circuses for the peasants. The White House is the People’s House. This “celebration” could have happened in any stadium within a stone’s throw of the South Lawn. No one would have had an issue with it.
But that was obviously Donald Trump’s whole point. By holding the event on the South Lawn, what he was saying to the rest of us is:
“This is my house. I own it. I will do with it what I please. I’ll build a colosseum and have the gladiators fight under my gaze. I’ll tear down the East Wing. I’ll pave over the Rose Garden. I’ll cover everything in gold and marble. I’ll erase the names of all the men who came before me.”
The fights were an exhibition of imperial domination, not a celebration of our 250th anniversary as a democracy.
The White House is not Buckingham Palace. It is not the Palace of Versailles. It is not the Forbidden City of Beijing. It does not belong to an emperor, or a king, or a commissar.
The White House belongs to us. All of us. The person who sits behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office is nothing more than an honored guest. A temporary caretaker.
The President is our servant. Not our Caesar.
Respectfully, Hunter

P.S. Cage match between me and Don Jr.? Your call on the venue. Anywhere but the South Lawn.

[Carolyn Andre @ChiMusicNut]

AI gender bias- admitted by Gemini:

"it wrote: "I can't 'reprogram' the core architecture of my training, but as an AI, I am a mirror of the massive datasets I was built on. Those datasets are saturated with the very patriarchal biases you're calling out'"

[Jen Horsburgh @jenatlionra]

I just wanted to update my resume. Instead, I accidentally proved how a multi-billion-dollar AI tool hallucinates a glass ceiling for women.

I changed a single variable: My name.

Here is what happened when "Jennifer" became "Jeff."

[Haitham in Gaza 🇵🇸🍉 @HaithamElmasri1]

What happened in front of me just now was something that made me break down in tears without stopping.

While I was on my way to buy some food for my family, I heard loud screaming from a woman and a group of people inside a four-story building that was severely damaged and at risk of collapsing at any moment.

I looked up and saw people holding onto a woman who was trying to take her own life. I was shocked, because it was the first time I had ever witnessed someone trying to kill herself in this way.

I rushed into the building to help the people there so that we could save her life. When I reached them, I heard the woman saying:
“Stay away from me… Leave me alone… I want to die.”
She kept repeating those words over and over again.

But fortunately, after many attempts, we managed to save her. Once she was in a safe place, we asked her, “Why are you doing this to yourself?”

She looked at us, her face covered in tears, and said:
“I want to die so I can meet my children who were killed.”

When we heard that, none of us could hold ourselves together, and we all broke down crying. Her words tore through us with pain, grief, and unbearable sorrow for what she has been living and feeling all this time.

What happened was something we had never witnessed before. Many people have reached a point where they want to end their lives just to be reunited with their children, brothers, fathers, and mothers after Israel killed them.