The Somali referee Omar Abdulkadir Artan, selected by @FIFAWorldCup and distinguished by CAF as the best African referee of 2025, was rejected upon arriving in the United States at Miami airport and deported back to Istanbul.
This World Cup is the worst.
الله يرحمه شهدت له لقاءً مرّة تحدّث فيه عن البدايات كيف اكتشفت قطر الغاز وكيف أصبحت رائدة في تصدير الغاز المسال وكانت عيونه تلمع مع الذكريات. كان جميلاً أن ترى فخر الانجاز في ابتسامته مع كلّ نقطة تحوّل تذكّرها من تاريخ قطر الحديث.
Israel just killed these people in South Lebanon, claiming they were ‘Hezbollah targets’:
Child Ali Hassan Ahmad, killed in Kafra
Ramadan Ajami, his wife, & their four children killed in Adloun.
This is what Israel keeps calling ‘precision strikes.’
Liverpool FC remembers the 39 football fans who lost their lives in Heysel Stadium, 41 years ago today.
As always, our thoughts are with everyone affected by the disaster.
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3324 شهيداً وأكثر من 10 آلاف مصاب في لبنان منذ بداية مارس، جراء العدوان الإسرائيلي المتواصل على الأراضي اللبنانية.
أرقام موجعة تختزل حجم المأساة الإنسانية التي يعيشها الشعب اللبناني، وسط دمار واسع ومعاناة متفاقمة يدفع ثمنها المدنيون الأبرياء، في ظل صمت عربي ودولي يثير الكثير من علامات الاستفهام.
رحم الله الشهداء، وشفى الجرحى، وحفظ لبنان وأهله من كل سوء.
Let’s talk about Rania Mallah, killed yesterday in an Israeli strike on Bourj al-Shamali in Tyre.
For 12 hours, Rania was buried beneath the rubble & known to still be alive.
Her family kept calling her mobile phone.
She would switch it on to let them know she was still there. Still breathing. Still waiting to be rescued.
To let Lebanese Civil Defence rescuers know where she was trapped.
Rescue teams pulled others out & kept digging with their bare hands in search of her, until orders came to halt all rescue operations until the following morning.
But they had Rania’s number.
They kept calling her.
And she kept answering.
She never spoke.
But they could hear her breathing.
For 12 hours, Rania lay there alone beneath broken concrete, stones, darkness, dust & fear. Most likely injured. Listening to voices above her, knowing people were trying to reach her but were being prevented from continuing.
Just like in Maarakeh, rescuers were forced to stop searching overnight.
Still, they kept calling her phone to give her hope. To let her know she had not been abandoned.
By around 1:00 a.m., roughly 12 hours after the strike, her phone finally went dead.
The battery had most likely run out.
This morning, rescuers resumed the search.
They found Rania.
Next to her was her mobile phone.
She had died.
Israel killed her twice.
The first time with a bomb.
The second time when rescuers were prevented from saving her.
Among those killed tonight were Ali al-Anqouni & his wife.
An elderly couple.
Tell us again how these two were a “military target.”
This is what Israel keeps calling “precision strikes.”
Tonight, entire families were wiped out in Israel’s bombardment of Mashghara in the Bekaa.
Among the dead:
Samir Rizk.
Hamza Rizk & his two children.
Hassan Mansour, his wife, & their two daughters.
Killed inside their homes, late at night, as Israeli warplanes unleashed wave after wave of heavy strikes on the town.
The footage from the scene is hellish. Homes burning. Entire buildings torn open. Families buried beneath the rubble in their sleep.
Israel killed 9 paramedics in roughly 72 hours.
Let that sink in.
These are some of their faces.
According to Lebanon’s latest health sector figures, now updated after the killing of additional paramedics in the last 48 hours:
• 125 healthcare workers killed
• 273 wounded
• 149 attacks on the healthcare sector
• 142 ambulances targeted
• 32 medical centres destroyed
• 16 hospitals forced out of service
• 221 ambulance crews attacked
Lebanon’s emergency sector is not collapsing accidentally.
It is being systematically dismantled.
Israel is committing war crimes against Lebanon’s medical services.