Seas of people in what can only be described as astounding scenes, as the funeral procession of the martyred leader, Sayyed Ali Khamenei, makes its way toward Azadi Square.
What an honour to be reporting this historic moment in Iran.
Can you even see the beginning and the end?
I’ve never seen so many people in Tehran. It’s actually mind boggling. The respect people have shown for the martyred leader Ayatollah Khamenei is exceptional.
MILLIONS of grieving Iranians showed up in Tehran’s prayer hall to bid farewell to their martyred leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Not only is the prayer hall ‘Mosala’ packed, all the surrounding areas are FILLED with people.
This is the Iranian nation that Trump thought it could surrender… like we say in Farsi: “Dream on, may it at least be a good dream.”
1/ With the competence he is known for, failed propagandist Eylon Levy chose me to ask fro evidence.
Thread of evidence that Israel murders babies with flying death robots.
New footage obtained by B’Tselem uncovers the moments when the Abu Haikal family was shot. Seven-month-old Sam Abu Haikal was killed in the shooting, and both his parents were injured. The footage clearly shows that the Israeli soldier fired at the car as it was slowing to a stop. The car was far from the soldiers and posed no danger to them whatsoever.
Moments later, in another video obtained by B’Tselem, seven-month-old Sam’s father, Fahed, is seen just after his son was shot. Fahed is holding baby Sam in his arms, trying to stop the bleeding from his head with his hands, while Sam’s mother, Daniyah, who was also injured by the gunfire while holding her son, is seen sitting on the ground, next to the car.
Last Friday, 5 June, an Israeli soldier fired at a Palestinian family driving home from a family visit, as they sat in their car in the Tel Rumeidah neighborhood in Hebron. The family was shot as the car was slowing to a stop at the soldier’s command. Sam, a seven‑month‑old baby who was in his mother’s arms in the back seat, was struck in the head and pronounced dead shortly afterward. Sam’s parents were also injured by the gunfire; his mother is still in the hospital. After the shooting, the soldier who fired and another soldier who was with him left the scene without checking the car or offering any assistance to the critically wounded baby or to his mother.
In the past two and a half years, Israel has killed tens of thousands of children in Gaza and the West Bank. The immunity it gets from the international community has led to a reality where, under Israeli rule, Palestinian lives are entirely disposable – even a seven‑month‑old baby.
Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed.
Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us — one of home, tradition and memory over generations.
An absolutely astonishing account of Israel's AI-assisted targeting in the @latimes
They called 62-year-old Ahmad Turmus and asked: “Ahmad, you want to die with those around you or alone?” His response, below, is chilling.
Story by @nabihbulos
https://t.co/sBVBNxOMnA
What Gaza taught me about human beings is that people can remain profoundly beautiful even inside unimaginable suffering.
I was working in resuscitation bays so hot that sweat would drip off my arms while we worked on children torn apart by bombs.
And still, families would tap me on the shoulder to hand me water.
The cook at the hospital learned that I loved fried eggplant. Whenever he made it, he would come find me somewhere in the hospital, sometimes in the middle of chaos, just to hand me one small piece because he knew it made me happy.
People who had lost almost everything still wanted to take care of someone else.
Sometimes a person would simply take my hand and quietly walk with me to sit down for a moment so we could just exist together as human beings for a minute before going back into the horror.
And one moment will stay with me forever.
I told a father that I was American. That my country had paid for the bombs that killed his child.
And instead of anger, he hugged me.
He rejected the idea that I carried personal blame for what had happened to him. He gave me kindness at the exact moment when I felt least deserving of it.
I went to Gaza thinking I was going there to help people survive genocide.
Instead, they helped me survive it too.
Gaza showed me something devastating and beautiful about humanity itself.
That even surrounded by death, grief, fear, hunger, destruction, people still reached toward each other.
Still shared food.Still offered comfort.Still protected tenderness.
And to walk away from that was much harder than I ever imagined.
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I'm reluctantly posting on X again because the world needs to read this.
My daughter Zoe Rogers gave her own closing speech at the Filton trial, as did 4 other defendants, while their barristers looked on.
This is what she said 🧵 1/