This is the “Happiness Building” before it collapsed in Gaza overnight, killing and injuring nearly 80 people.
Displaced families were living in this severely bomb-damaged building because they had nowhere else to go.
More than 1.5 million Palestinians remain displaced in makeshift tents and damaged homes across Gaza, while Israel continues to block the entry of caravans, reconstruction materials, and the equipment needed to clear rubble and search for around 8,000 people still missing, most of them believed to be buried under the rubble.
Part of the reason the Ed Sheeran thing blew up in his face is because while he was releasing his statement defending himself caving to Robert Kraft, this was happening, as it has for 3 years now: a child murdered on camera in a double tap strike.
Double-tap strike on a child trying to rescue a rescue worker. During a “cease fire.”
This comes as Israeli media and politicians are calling a documentary about this sort of attack a “blood libel.”
pls help me. Y’all will never experience cancer. Tears because of health issues will never be your portion. You will never walk this painful path that I have walked. Hospitals will not become a place of regular visit for you. 8146203234 moniepoint
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I have been battling cancer for awhile now and please I need your support
We have been looking for what we is called an integrative oncology hospital
Because nhs has always been promising only to control the cancer (1/5)
I want everyone on X to hear this, my mum is sick, and needs ur assistance & support. Stroke wants to take her away from me.
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the lady that said “if we agree to lock all the men in the world in one room, one woman will steal the keys and open the door from them” did not lie at all
C’est la première fois de ma vie que je vois un fleuve de sang sous mes yeux… Et pourtant, on continue à scroll comme si ce génocide était devenu légitime
Roughly 60 days of food is sitting on your body right now. About 131,000 calories of fat, packed and waiting. Your stomach still growls four hours after lunch, and your body treats that fat like a savings account it refuses to spend.
Take the hunger hormone, ghrelin. Its job goes way beyond saying "eat now." Ghrelin spikes when the stomach is empty, makes food taste better, and quietly tells fat cells to hold on tighter. Researchers at the French health institute INSERM showed in 2016 that ghrelin pushes the body to store more fat and burn what is already there more slowly, even when appetite stays the same. So the same hormone that yells "I'm hungry" is whispering "but keep the fat just in case."
The body burns fuels in a strict order. It keeps about 2,000 calories of fast-access fuel in the liver and muscles, a stored sugar called glycogen. That stash empties in 12 to 24 hours of skipping meals. Only after that does the body get serious about pulling from fat. A 2018 paper in the journal Obesity calls this changeover the metabolic switch, and it does not really flip until 12 to 36 hours into a fast. Four hours after lunch, the fat is barely on the menu.
The growling itself is mostly housekeeping. Every 90 to 120 minutes between meals, a hormone called motilin sets off a wave of contractions that sweep leftover food bits, mucus, and stray bacteria through the gut. The noise is that sweeping. Doctors call it the migrating motor complex. It runs on a clock, no matter how much fat is sitting in storage.
And the brain raises the alarm first. The brain is only 2% of body weight, but it burns about 20% of all daily energy, and it prefers sugar as fuel. When blood sugar dips even a little, the brain panics long before the body has touched the fat downstairs.
For 200,000 years, missing a few meals could mean food was gone for weeks. The body still acts like that famine is one bad day away. The growl is an old security system protecting a savings account the body does not know you want to spend.
I'm sorry, but people have been making excuses for selling their daughters into sexual slavery throughout history, and all of them make the same excuses, but it does not change the fact that they did it because they simply do not value their daughters properly.
How do I know? Note that they always consign their daughters to this before their sons or themselves. Note that their entire society normalizes it. Note that even Western outlets covering this find the fathers' "impossible choices" sympathetic and more worthy of coverage than what his daughter must think, being raped on a daily basis and knowing that her very own flesh and blood are responsible for dooming her to that fate. Note that the news stories do not ask why it is fathers making this decision, and not the mothers.
From ancient China to modern Afghanistan, feeding yourself off the underage sexual exploitation of your own daughters is morally reprehensible, and I would simply rather die myself than ever consign any child to such suffering. The fact that these fathers do not feel the same when it comes to their own daughters is proof of their monstrosity, and the moral depravity of the BBC for asking us to identify with them rather than their daughters.