Huge thanks to the incredible medical team at Jabal Amel Hospital in Tyre for patching me up after yesterday’s I$raeli airstrike.
Paramedics, doctors, nurses and support staff here are true heroes — working under relentless pressure, with more than 30 emergency workers killed by I$rael since March 2.
Even after the hospital itself was badly damaged in a recent strike, they refuse to abandon their patients and courageously remain in the field.
Today I$rael tried to kill me in a targeted airstrike in southern Lebanon as I was reporting on was the targeting of bridges and the forced displacement of 1 million people, an ethnic cleansing operation on a larger scale than the Nakba
I have absolutely no doubt that this was deliberate. Despite claims there were no warnings ahead of the strike and no notifications sent to the Lebanese Army who allowed us to film
As we have seen in Gaza they want to silence journalists who document and report their war crimes
It is the western powers who provide political and military support for I$rael, arming it to the teeth to carry out genocide in Gaza and ethnic cleansing here in Lebanon. They are not simply complicit, but active participants and should be held accountable for their actions.
But if I$rael thinks today’s strike will silence us and keep us out of the field they are very, very mistaken
I went to meet some friends out at a local bar in Costa Mesa. The bar was packed shoulder to shoulder. Trying to get through the crowd to my friends, I walked passed a group of young women. Not paying much attention I felt someone grab my chest. Thinking WTF I looked over to see one of the young women grabbing me saying “Nice muscles, but how big’s your d*ck?”. Before I could even say a word to her she reached down and grabbed my crotch. I froze and just stared at her. I was literally speechless. I didn’t know what to do. If that was a man I would have immediately defended myself and hit him, but I would never hit a woman. Completely shocked I just kept on pushing my way through people. I thought to myself, I should call the cops and have her arrested, but in all honesty, they would just laugh and not believe me, a 230 lbs guy with muscles, was sexually assaulted by a 110 lbs woman? No way. When I got to my friends (guys and girls) I told them what happened and they all just laughed at me and dismissed it going back.