I searched a Gaza war crimes archive for my family.
I quickly realized I wasn’t using it the way most people would. I wasn’t browsing it as an activist, researcher or journalist.
I was looking for my family.
My heart sank as I filtered the archive by the dates we lost them and searched for someone I loved.
I found footage I hadn’t seen before of the bombing of the Church of St. Porphyrius, where my cousin Soliman was killed.
I searched for the day my great aunt Elham was murdered, and the day Nahida and Samar Anton were killed by Israeli snipers at the Holy Family Catholic Church.
Eyewitnesses told us Elham was crushed by an Israeli tank. I have graphic photographs of her body that were sent to me by church workers in Gaza, but I found no footage of what happened.
It made me wonder how many people died without leaving behind any visual record.
The realization stayed with me.
Here was a digital graveyard where pieces of my own family history are preserved for journalists, historians, truth seekers and, undoubtedly, those seeking to exploit or consume human suffering.
I know I won’t be the only person to experience this. Other Palestinians searching for loved ones almost certainly will too. But it struck me that this is a form of grief that could scarcely have existed before our time.
It’s a form of grief I never imagined could exist.
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❗️NEW: Imam Khamenei’s funeral is the BIGGEST recorded funeral in history
According to official estimates, 41 to 43 million people attended the funeral ceremony in total over 6 days in 5 cities: Tehran, Qom, Najaf, Karbala, and Mashhad.
The ceremonies in Tehran lasted 3 days, while in Qom, Najaf-Karbala, and Mashhad, they lasted 1 day each.
41 to 43 million number is based on a combination of field data and official sources: It includes the number of people using public transportation to reach the ceremony, the number of active mobile phones in the Mosalla and along the procession route, the average time each person spent at the ceremony (approximately 2,5 hours), the estimated population density along the Tehran march route, the distance from the Jamkaran Mosque to the Lady Masoumeh Shrine in Qom, and the distance from the airport to the Imam Reza Shrine in Mashhad.
All of these factors were considered as supporting data in the calculations.
In addition, official figures from Iraqi authorities, provided by the Prime Minister's Office, confirm the presence of approximately 10 million people at the ceremonies in Najaf and Karbala.
Heartbreaking news from Los Gallardos in Spain today, where a devastating wildfire has killed at least 12 people.
Many more people have been injured and at least 19 are still missing.
Regardless of how this fire started, the conditions that allow disasters like this to spread are being made worse by our warming planet. Climate change is driving more extreme heat and prolonged droughts, turning already vulnerable landscapes into tinderboxes.