🚨BREAKING:🚨 Another massacre by Israel.
At least 8 people, including two children, were killed after three Israeli airstrikes targeted cars along the Jiyeh-Saadiyat highway (Beirut-Sidon road) today.
Not “Hezbollah targets.” Civilians, most likely displaced families moving on a main route.
Will update with confirmed names/photos of victims as they become available.
🇵🇸 Today marks the fourth anniversary of the killing of Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh by an Israeli sniper in Jenin in the occupied West Bank.
On May 11, 2022, Abu Akleh was shot by the Israeli military in broad daylight, while wearing a helmet and flak jacket emblazoned with the word “Press” on it, walking on a street near the entrance of the Jenin refugee camp, with no crossfire in the area. While the incident was captured on video and supported by the eyewitness testimony of her colleagues, no one was held accountable in her death.
Despite Abu Akleh being a U.S. citizen, President Biden refused to meet with her family and the U.S. adopted Israel’s narrative of her death. An FBI investigation into her killing has stalled.
On Thursday, the Committee to Protect Journalists sent a letter to the Justice Department urging “transparency on the status and timeline for a seemingly languishing investigation into the killing of Abu Akleh.”
CPJ Regional Director Sara Qudah said in a statement that, “The killing of Shireen Abu Akleh and the subsequent failure to hold anyone responsible is not an isolated tragedy; it is a symptom of a systematic failure to protect journalists that has now reached a breaking point.”
She added, “The prevailing culture of complete impunity enjoyed by Israel is a direct factor in the continued targeting of journalists without deterrence.”
Watch an in-depth investigation of Abu Akleh’s killing and her family’s fight for accountability by Drop Site’s Middle East North Africa editor Sharif Abdel Kouddous with Laila al-Arian and Kavitha Chekuru for Fault Lines at the link below.
If you think you’re on the right side of the Civil Rights Movement, if you quote MLK Jr., if you have to clarify “I’m not racist,” and you are out here twiddling your thumbs right now...
Silence still isn’t neutral. The right side isn’t the side you choose when you do nothing.
“When the rape began, they forced our hands behind our backs, stripped us naked, and threw us onto the floor. Dogs were unleashed on us and viciously attacked us. One of them was extremely large. Some soldiers also used sexual objects during the assault.” — Gaza resident Mohammed El-Bakri
🔸Two Palestinians released from Israeli detention have given Al Jazeera harrowing testimony of sexual violence and torture inside Israeli facilities.
🔸Mohammed El-Bakri, arrested during Israeli military operations in Gaza in 2024, says he was held blindfolded and handcuffed for months before soldiers stripped him naked, unleashed trained dogs on him, and sexually assaulted him with a penetrating object. After his release, he returned to Gaza to find his wife had been killed.
🔸A 17-year-old identified as Ahmed — detained near a food distribution point in Rafah while trying to feed his family — described being stripped, restrained with metal, and sexually abused by Israeli female soldiers who filmed the assault and forced detainees to repeat degrading phrases. His family requested anonymity due to fear of social stigma.
🔸The Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said the testimonies are part of a broader systematic pattern, documenting seven forms of sexual violence against Palestinian detainees in a report titled “Another Genocide Behind Walls.”
HELP! The Supreme Court just gutted the voting rights act and the president is threatening innocent countries with mass murder!!!
Diet MAGA AIPAC Dems:
@JCR1392@DiPie17@mushycrouton They have the green/purple/white hearts, so more than being a cishet pushing to divide and conquer, they're a pedophile protector as well.
@JohnCleese Opposing an illegal war is not the same as supporting the target of that illegal war.
"Supporting" the regime would be removing sanctions against them. Remind me, again, who did that?
Was it a "progressive" world leader, or a fascist?
@Papsterterf@mushycrouton Unsurprising in the extreme that you're so quick to reject reality.
Transphobia really does poison the brain.
Grow the fuck up.