Omar Kurdi

[B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم @btselem]

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.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

If this happened in the U.S. there would be riots.

The only riots that might result from this in Israel will come if this soldier is arrested.

Would love to be proven wrong.

[Sana Saeed @SanaSaeed]

Remember how everyone rushed to use his photo, of his walking toward an IDF tank to advocate for the lives of his patients? Rushed to plaster it everywhere, rushed to make AI edits, art, whatever. That was in December 2024.

How often is he mentioned today? He is alive, he is being tortured and slowly killed - he, alongside every Palestinian hostage, must be freed.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Congratulations to Dr. Adam Hamawy on his landslide victory tonight in the New Jersey 12th district Democratic primary.

Dr. Hamawy will be a strong progressive voice in the House and, as a physician, he understands our healthcare system is broken and we need Medicare for All.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Hamawy has won — meaning a doctor who treated the victims of the U.S.-Israeli genocide in Gaza is headed to Congress.

He refused to leave his rotation, even as Israel surrounded the hospital and cut off the water supply, until a new rotation of doctors was allowed in

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

The Minab massacre was the worst crime of many by the Trump administration and the most deadly slaughter of civilians by the US regime since My Lai

A devastating report by @wyattreed13

[Mouin Rabbani @MouinRabbani]

Christian Zionists, and particularly Arab Muslims who convert to Zionism under the guise of embracing Christianity, have a particular loathing for Arab Christians.

These fanatics, who absurdly claim to be the authentic representatives of Christianity in the Middle East while espousing an ideology that is entirely foreign to the region, do make an exception for the Lebanese Phalangists who perpetrated the 1982 Sabra-Shatila massacre at Israel’s behest, but compensate for this with an antipathy toward Palestinian Christians that rivals that of Bachir Gemayel.

I suspect the reason for their antagonism is that Muslim-Christian coexistence and partnership in the Arab world not only forms an affront to their ideology, but negates it outright. In their fantasy such co-existence does not exist and has never existed because it cannot and should not exist.

More to the point, Arab Christian opposition to Israel, and resistance to its indiscriminate policies of dispossession, invalidates their sales pitch.

Rather than defending Arab Christians confronting the Israeli juggernaut, these ideological mercenaries denounce them as dhimmis, mock them as useful idiots, and incite against them. They are nothing but the mirror image of fanatic jihadis.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

A Palestinian grandmother took her grandson to Egypt for urgent heart surgery after Israel granted a rare medical evacuation, but he died during treatment. Returning to Gaza, she found her husband and children killed in an air strike. Now she is alone and shares her story.

[شنشون @humanprovince]

As part of the 1956 invasion of Egypt. Ben-Gurion wanted to topple Abdel Nasser, take the Sinai, dissolve Jordan, and conquer and settle the south of Lebanon up to the Litani. This was 8 years before the founding of the PLO and a quarter century before Hezbollah existed.

[Maher Arar @ArarMaher]

أنا أتفهم تماماً غضب أنصار أحمد الشرع والشعب السوري بشكل عام على إيران و على حزب الله لأنهم وقفوا مع بشار الأسد و ربما شاركوا في مجازر. الذي لا أفهمه لماذا لا يوجد عندهم حقد بنفس الدرجة على روسيا التي قتلت منهم أكثر مما قتلت إيران؟ الذي كان يمتلك الطائرات هي روسيا وليس إيران. ومع هذا الروس مسموح لهم بالبقاء في سوريا. لماذا ليس عندهم حتى أدنى ذرة من حقد على الأمريكي الذي قصف سوريا (ولا يزال يقصفها) وقتل كثيراً من الأبرياء؟ زد على هذا أنه أطال في عمر الأسد بعدم السماح للثوار باقتناء أسلحة نوعية مما زاد في أمد المعركة. طيب ليش ما منكره دول الخليج صحابنا السنة يلي كان فيهم يرسلوا جيش موحد لأنقاذ السوريين؟ هل نسينا خيانتهم بتعويم بشار أم ماذا؟ الجواب الوحيد على هذا الأمر من وجهة نظري هو: الطائفية الطائفية الطائفية. لا أريد أيضاً التقليل من دور الإعلام العفن والمرتزقة. يا شبيحة احمد الشرع اقنعوني بدل ما تسبوني وتغيروا الموضوع.

[Seyed Abbas Araghchi @araghchi]

These are graves being dug for more than 160 innocent young girls who were killed in the US-Israeli bombing of a primary school. Their bodies were torn to shreds.

This is how "rescue" promised by Mr. Trump looks in reality.

From Gaza to Minab, innocents murdered in cold blood.

[Laila Al-Arian @LailaAlarian]

Two years ago, @nytimes published the journalistic disaster “Screams Without Words.”

Its sources were discredited and key claims debunked, yet the Times never retracted it or apologized.

The piece caused immense harm and was used to justify the Gaza genocide.

[Mosab Abu Toha @MosabAbuToha]

Just got the names of the 7 civilians Israel murdered in a school shelter yesterday.
(Please let me know if any Western MSM writes or says their names)

The victims of the Israeli terrorist attack were from two related families, including mothers and fathers:

▪︎ Atef Ahmed Al-Niddir (father)
▪︎ Fatima Al-Najjar (mother)
▪︎ Ahmed Atef Al-Niddir (son, 4 months old)

▪︎ Fawzi Abdullah Al-Niddir (father)
▪︎ Arwa Omar Al-Niddir (mother)
▪︎ Samira Fawzi Al-Niddir (daughter)
▪︎ Sama Fawzi Al-Niddir (daughter)

I’m attaching a photo of the 4-month-old baby, one victim of Israel’s terrorism.
He’s on the floor next to his slaughtered father.

[Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده @RamAbdu]

The child Zaher Nasser Shamia, from Jabalia camp in northern Gaza, was shot by Israeli forces, left bleeding on the ground, and then run over and torn in half by an Israeli bulldozer.

Any post that mentions him — even one showing his smiling photo — is hidden or restricted.

Tell the whole world his story, and the story of the 22,000 other children like him whom Israel has killed in cold blood.

[Muhammad Shehada @muhammadshehad2]

Al-Sharaa walked past me after saying this at the Doha Forum, I spontaneously extended my hand & muttered "I'm from Gaza," his eyes widened, smiled & said "GAZA!" then grabbed my arm with both hands to shake hands despite being surrounded by an ocean of bodyguards rushing him outside the room

His session was the one with the most audience, way more than Hillary or Trump Jr

Wishing our Syrian sisters & brothers the best

[Omar Kurdi @omarkurdi]

@NadimKoteich You're such a cunt

[Omar Kurdi @omarkurdi]

@Reem_mbc Go home you're drunk

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

A version of this deal has been available every day since November 2023, when many more people were alive.

[Omar Kurdi @omarkurdi]

@yashar Glad someone's out here making sure people like Smotrich are defended. Thank you for your for standing up for the little guy!! Smotrich needs more defenders like you in the western press!!

[Omar Kurdi @omarkurdi]

@VanJones68 Take your apology and shove it deep up your asshole. We don't forgive and we won't forget that you're just a liberal mouthpiece for genocide.