They knew exactly who Mona Khalil was.
They knew the bright orange house in Mansouri, south Lebanon. They knew it was not a military site, not a command center, not a battlefield position. It was one of the most recognizable symbols of environmental conservation on Lebanon's southern coast; a sanctuary dedicated to protecting endangered sea turtles and preserving life.
Mona spent her years defending the most vulnerable creatures of the Mediterranean, teaching generations that every life matters, that nature is not a casualty to be discarded, and that humanity has a duty to protect what cannot protect itself.
Yet the same orange house that stood as a beacon of conservation became a target for terrorist Israel.
This was an assault on a woman whose life's work was devoted to safeguarding life itself. A woman known internationally for her environmental activism, whose name had become synonymous with the protection of Lebanon's coastline and its endangered sea turtles.
The murder of Mona Khalil sends a chilling message: even those whose only weapon is compassion, whose only mission is preservation, are not spared.
If you can face it, these words written by Sarah Everard’s mother have never left me.
Kidnapped, raped and murdered by a Met Police Officer whose work nickname was ‘The Rapist’.
If you don’t call this stuff out, you’re part of it 💔
Look at all the grey haired fossils in the background clapping like seals.
Their entire ideology is wanting to make life as hard as possible for the younger people who pay their pensions, whilst turning the country into a weird moribund shrine to their childhoods.
The fact that people need multiple POVs of a shooting to decide if someone “deserved” to be shot 10x at point blank range for protesting the masked strangers who are abducting/murdering their neighbors is INSANE.
Sikh woman raped, nine year old black girl shot in Bristol, but we shouldn’t worry about racism fuelled by the antics of the far right Forgive me if I ignore people who deny it.
Two months ago Odeh Hadalin came to the US at the invitation of Jewish groups—he was detained at SFO and deported without explanation.
Today, he was murdered by a settler Trump let off US sanctions list. This is what their policy protects. https://t.co/d8gjhRAoGN
“One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.” — Omar El Akkad