Deliberate targeting. Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant - “What the Wounds Tell” documents 114 children in Gaza under 15 who were struck by a single bullet to the head or chest.
https://t.co/3q2i18wTKy
Crazy that this is getting barely any coverage. This year’s European Press Prize was just awarded to an investigative report by the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant. It is entitled “What the Wounds Tell” and in it the journalists Maud Effting and Willem Feenstra document the cases of 114 children in Gaza under the age of 15 who were struck by a single bullet to the head or chest. Almost all of them died or were left severely disabled. They chose to document only the cases of boys and girls under the age of 15 (though often much younger: aged 3, 4 or 7) because these are children who can be immediately identified as such. “A single bullet in these parts of the body is a clear indication that these children were deliberately targeted“, the two journalists write.
This is the article: https://t.co/YkZrpqBWBQ
To Whom it May Concern:
Ali Hassan Abdullah...
Was one of those students who remained steadfast in his home in the town of Marwaniyeh, South Lebanon. He was diligently studying for his official exams.
Around midnight, he was martyred as a result of a treacherous Israeli enemy airstrike on his home.
We will not offer condolences to his parents, as they too were martyred along with his brothers and sisters. His younger brother remains wounded, fighting for his life.
Students in Lebanon are already suffering the hardship of displacement or enduring danger. Perhaps some of them have lost a loved one, or their home, or...
There are many students like Ali who have been martyred. And there are many more classmates like Ali's, whose suffering has been compounded by the pain of losing a classmate.
The pain of these victims is not a matter of numbers; it is an emotion that must be lived and understood.
Martyrs of the Marwaniyah Massacre
Hassan Abdullah (Father)
Hanan Shehab (Mother)
Lin Abdullah (Engineering Student)
Ali Abdullah (Distinguished High School Student)
Ibrahim Abdullah
Julia Abdullah
😔😢
#LebanonGenocide
TODAY— Photos were smuggled out of Ecuador’s prisons and published by the brave Karol Noroña. Under the current U.S.-backed military dictatorship, inmates are starved and 1 dies every 7 hours— an alarming rate for the 2nd smallest nation in South America. NOBOA IS A MURDERER.
Statement from Bishop Dr. Imad Haddad on the Israeli Detainment of Natalie Abudayyeh
This morning a beloved youth from our church community, Natalie Abuddayeh, was taken at gunpoint by Israeli forces from her student apartment in Birzeit alongside three other women. We are deeply shocked and horrified by this news, as well as by the news that her family does not yet know where she has been taken. Natalie is a member of Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Reformation in Beit Jala, a graduate of Talitha Kumi Lutheran School, and a Media and Journalism student at Birzeit University.
As Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land, I unequivocally call for Natalie’s immediate release. The entire ELCJHL stands in solidarity with the Abudayyeh family and the Beit Jala and Birzeit communities, and we join them in earnest prayer for Natalie’s safety and freedom.
We are incredibly disturbed by the reality that Natalie now joins the thousands of Palestinians in Israeli detention without charge or trial. Palestinian civilians, including women and children, suffer deep injustice in Israeli military detention and are often held for months or years with no explanation.
We call on our friends, partners, and siblings in Christ around the world to advocate for Natalie’s freedom using whatever channels are available to them, and to demand an end to this unjust and unequal system of detainment and detention that paralyzes and destroys Palestinian communities.
Bishop Dr. Imad Haddad
Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land
For those who don’t know:
Israel doesn’t allowing the entry of prescription lenses or eyeglass frames into Gaza.
Not weapons.
Not military equipment. Glasses.
When civilians are denied even the most basic tools needed to see, it raises serious questions about the human cost of these restrictions.
🚨REVEALED🚨 Secret night-time shipments are happening of High Explosives manufactured by a foreign arms company in an Australian government-owned facility — approved for export and headed ultimately to Israel to kill Palestinians.
Excellent reporting from @DaveMilbo for @shot_au:
“Australia is manufacturing the raw explosive that ends up inside the bombs falling on Gaza, on Lebanon, and on Iran.
“Not the entirety of the bombs. Just the explosive bits. And even Penny Wong wouldn’t have the gall to argue that nitroglycerin, nitrocellulose, and RDX (known as cyclonite) are the “non-lethal parts” of a bomb.
“Two factories, one in NSW, at Mulwala, and one in Victoria, in Benalla, manufacture the munitions that end up inside the shells, bullets, missiles and bombs used by the US-Israeli death machine in its expansionist, genocidal campaigns.”
https://t.co/jfccmy697Q
Israel executed Theodosia today in Qlayaa, South Lebanon.
She was on her way to take her exams.
Israel dropped a bomb on her car, killing her and her parents.
This Australian airbase at Katherine in the Northern Territory is being extended and expanded for $2.8 billion — as a base for six of America’s nuclear-capable long-range bombers.
Farewell sovereignty.
https://t.co/3nwbmCJ7Jg
Pro-Palestine prisoner Umer Khalid, a 22-year-old with muscular dystrophy, has been dragging himself across his prison cell floor because he has been denied a wheelchair.
He hasn't had access to a shower for over 20 weeks.
He has been waiting for a neurology appointment for over 12 weeks while experiencing chest pain and breathlessness.
This is happening in a British prison right now.
I've written to David Lammy to demand answers:
Ayyoub Junaid, a child living in a displacement camp in Gaza, lost his medical eyeglasses after they were broken in a fall. He suffers from severe vision problems and urgently needs a replacement pair, amid the ongoing shortage of medical supplies and limited access to essential healthcare.
His glasses broke, and his heart shattered💔🥲
Ayoub Junaid weeps inside the displacement camps in the Gaza Strip, clutching the shattered pieces of his medical glasses which broke after he fell.
He suffers from severe visual impairment and urgently needs these specialized, custom-designed medical glasses, as he cannot manage his daily life or see clearly without them.
I sit here with my friends almost every day. I love looking at the sea—sometimes it is calm, and other times it rages. It is deeply affected by us; it loves us just as we love it.
Today, I called my friend so we could go and sit in that spot. I don’t know what made us decide to change the place we were going to. Perhaps it was the love of someone out there that stopped fate from leading us there, because the Israeli occupation aircraft bombed the exact spot where we usually sit.
Between death and us is a very simple decision; between death and us is a single word.
This has happened to me more than 20 times, and I do not know why God chooses, every single time, for me to remain in this harsh life.
Alhamdulillah for everything
Israel bars Palestinian footballers from Italy trip, continues destroying football facilities in Gaza and the West Bank, and still kills footballers in Gaza and Lebanon.
For 3 years, this has dragged on.
Yet, Israel still competes & FIFA doesn't care. Ireland must ban them.
People often think that leaving Gaza is a simple decision, as if we are walking away from an ordinary life. But no one truly understands what it means to leave behind your family, your memories, your streets, your suffering, and the people you love the most in this world.
Our lives here have not been normal for a very long time. Every day feels heavy. Fear has become part of our routine, and survival itself feels like a full-time job. We wake up not knowing if the day will end safely, if there will be food, electricity, internet, water, or even a home still standing tomorrow. We have seen things no human being should ever see. We have lost friends, neighbors, dreams, and parts of ourselves.
This opportunity did not come easily.
I did not wake up one day and suddenly find a scholarship waiting for me. For more than seven months, @SorchaBrazil and I worked endlessly to reach this stage. We fought through stress, paperwork, endless waiting, fear, uncertainty, and disappointment. There were many moments when we felt hopeless, moments when we thought everything had collapsed and that this dream would never happen. But somehow, we kept going. We held onto hope because hope was the only thing we had left.
And now, after all this struggle, after the acceptance, the scholarship, the approvals, and all the sacrifices… I find myself facing a moment I was never emotionally prepared for.
I was not prepared to see my mother crying because her son is leaving.
I was not prepared to see the silence in my father’s eyes.
I was not prepared to feel my younger siblings holding onto me as if I might disappear forever.
My family is not just part of my life.
They are my life.
Everything I ever dreamed of was connected to helping them survive, protecting them, supporting them, and giving them a better future. Even during the war, while trying to survive myself, I carried responsibilities bigger than my age. I tried to help my family, my relatives, and other families around me in any way I could. And now I am terrified that if I leave, I will no longer be able to do the things that kept them alive here — raising donations, helping with daily needs, handling responsibilities, and simply being present beside them.
This is the part nobody sees when they hear about scholarships or opportunities abroad.
People see success, but they do not see the heartbreak behind it.
I am exhausted emotionally.
Part of me wants to go, study, survive, and build a future so I can come back stronger for my family and my country.
And another part of me feels guilty for even thinking about leaving while everyone I love remains trapped inside this suffering.
I swear I never wanted to leave Gaza forever.
I only wanted a chance to breathe, to learn, to heal, and one day return with enough knowledge and strength to help rebuild what war destroyed.
But tonight, seeing my family cry because of my departure made me realize how cruel this reality truly is.
War does not only destroy homes.
Sometimes it forces people to choose between their future and the people they love most.
The couple in this video are Wesam Mekdad, a Palestinian from Gaza, and his heavily pregnant German wife.
Police were called after Wesam broke his TV — he had just learned that 'israel' murdered his brother. The couple were cooperative. They explained the situation. The wife wanted to ask the police if she can accompany her husband.
The police responded with brutality.
People from Nationaal Protest (an anti‑immigration group) are so outraged by how a pregnant woman was treated that they have offered to help the couple file a complaint against the police.
The wife gave birth earlier than expected. A baby girl. Healthy, thank God. Her name is Reem. 🤍
🎥 Juliet Lamont, an Australian documentary filmmaker and Gaza flotilla activist, speaks to Double Down News about being raped by Israeli soldiers after the aid vessel she was aboard was intercepted earlier this month.
Lamont says soldiers pulled down her trousers and underwear and that an Israeli soldier forcibly penetrated her vagina while she was in detention. She was among more than 450 activists seized when Israeli forces intercepted the Global Sumud flotilla in international waters. Organizers say at least 15 detainees reported sexual assault or rape while in Israeli custody.
Full interview is linked below.