This story would have made much bigger headlines if it had happened in Tel Aviv, New York, Rome, or Paris. But this is Gaza.
Gazan Journalist Youssef Fares writes:
“Last night, an unbearably foul smell spread across Gaza City. At first, you start second-guessing yourself. You wonder if it’s coming from the bathroom or from one of your sleeping children. You check everything, but you can’t find the source.
Then messages start pouring into our journalists’ groups. Everyone is smelling the same thing. It has seeped into homes and tents, from the Tuffah and Daraj neighborhoods in the east all the way to Beit Lahia in the west.
Eventually, we learn that Israeli aircraft had dropped hundreds of foul-smelling bubbles across the area, apparently to contaminate the air.
Yes. Even the air, it seems, is more than they think we deserve.”
Fares ends with a furious condemnation of the Israeli occupation, describing it as “the lowest, vilest, most despicable and repulsive thing humanity has ever known.”
Like I said, here we have a company creating viruses and malware but gets to market it’s products as machine gods and redirect the narrative away from accountability and being held criminally liable to making themselves sound like concerned citizens, with everyone parroting their CEOs 🙄
The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention is appalled by the proposed sale of $2.8 billion in heavy weapons to Israel that was announced by U.S. President Donald Trump on 15 September 2026. The sale would take place via the U.S. Foreign Military Financing mechanism, which allows foreign countries to use U.S. taxpayer dollars to purchase weapons from U.S. companies. This arms transfer is one of the largest transfers of heavy weapons to Israel in U.S. history. It is out of step with American public opinion and constitutes a direct threat to international peace and security.
Over the past two years, Israel and the U.S. have purposefully and publicly shifted the overton window on how much impunity a state can enjoy to commit war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide.
Throughout all of this, world leaders and international institutions have refused to call Israel and the U.S. to account. They have handed Prime Minister Netanyahu a blank cheque to continue to violate the Genocide Convention, the Hague Conventions, and the Geneva Conventions. Now, he appears to be preparing to cash that cheque in an effort to achieve his dual goals of Greater Israel and increased Israeli influence over the Middle East, the South Caucasus, and corridors to Central Asia.
It is obvious what must happen next. Given the clear signs of a serious risk for escalating mass atrocity, State Parties to the Genocide Convention have an obligation to take action to prevent the U.S. and Israel from using these weapons to continue to commit genocide in Palestine and to expand destruction to the rest of the Middle East, ushering in what will most certainly become a World War.
Read the full statement: https://t.co/qeSSDvqgIC
Israel has killed an average of seven children each day in Lebanon since March, according to the Save the Children relief organization.
"Over the last six months, Israel has killed at least 4,300 people, wounded over 12,000 and destroyed between 60 and 70 villages... The toll includes at least 257 children killed and 1,039 injured."
"A nationwide assessment conducted by Lebanon’s Ministry of Education and Higher Education has found that 340 schools have been damaged or destroyed in the past six months."
"At least 100,000 children are at risk of missing the next school year without urgent action to restore Lebanon’s schools,"
- via @AJEnglish
Child death in wars - UN data:
Ukraine: ~800 in ~4.5 years.
Palestine: ~22,000 in ~2 year.
Lebanon: ~800 in ~100 days (66 days in 2024 and 45 days in 2026).
Does the world condemn the killing of children or is it complicated when it’s Middle Eastern children?
Remember well that navigation in the Bab al-Mandab Strait is currently permitted for all ships except Saudi vessels, but any foolish action Trump takes against Yemen will lead to the complete closure of the Bab al-Mandab Strait.
The danger does not lie in the Yemeni armed forces gaining actual control over the Bab al-Mandab Strait, but rather in the militarization of the Red Sea and the Bab al-Mandab Strait, turning it into a battlefield.
Remember this well
@xIsraelExposedx@grok Hey @grok Run Israel’s Lavender on this account. Analyze the whole thing, then give me a 1–100 score for how much of a concern I am to them. Don’t write an essay. Just: Score: __ / 100
Questa settimana abbiamo capito che in Italia si può dire "remigrazione", si può dire "tratti somatici dell'italianità", si può dire anche "l'affitto è mille euro" e "ecografia tra 6 mesi". Si può dire "guerra". Quello che non si può dire è "diserzione". Molto interessante.
guardate @GiorgiaMeloni@GuidoCrosetto che state aiutando la parte sbagliata. come al solito siete dalla parte sbagliata della storia, che tra l'altro è anche quella perdente. è ora di cambiare carro (un'altra grande tradizione).
The #Meloni government is putting our country, #Italy, in an unprecedentedly dangerous situation through its military collaborationism with the #UnitedStates
Not only are we helping to destroy 100s of 1000s of human lives, but it’s only a matter of time before we pay the price
I just went through the reports coming out of Gaza between 10 a.m. local time and now, 6:25 p.m., and this is what happened:
A Palestinian named Karam Masaad succumbed to injuries he sustained from Israeli gunfire in al-Nuseirat Camp in central Gaza.
A child was killed after a woodworking machine fell on them.
A pregnant woman was shot and wounded by Israeli fire in al-Nuseirat Camp in central Gaza.
In al-Bureij Camp, another woman was shot in the neck by Israeli forces.
A third woman was critically wounded by Israeli artillery shelling in Jabalia, northern Gaza.
Part of the second floor of an already unstable building collapsed in Gaza City. Five children were injured. The kids are in good condition.
Israel carried out another strike in Gaza. At least one Palestinian was killed and several others were wounded, including a child who was in critical condition. Some reports say the child has since died.
Israel is systematically weaponizing thirst to make Gaza unlivable and drive Palestinians from their land, Ultra Palestine reported today.
➤ In late August, just two months after it opened, Israel bombed a desalination station in Sheikh Radwan, Gaza City, that was supplying approximately Palestinian 10,000 families.
➤ Israeli attacks previously destroyed desalination stations in Rimal and eastern Gaza, and struck a water truck, fuel tanks, and equipment belonging to another station.
➤ Residents are now forced to wait for water trucks that may never arrive or walk long distances for a few liters.
➤ Palestinian rights advocates say the repeated destruction of water infrastructure, combined with Israel’s blockade of fuel, spare parts and repair materials, should not be described as “collateral damage,” but instead an organized policy of driving forced displacement disguised as “voluntary migration.”
Israel is the only country in the world that can bomb 9 countries and invade 3 neighboring countries in one year; kill 100,000 people—including 25,000 children—in 1,000 days; displace nearly 6 million people in 3 countries; starve 2 million people in Gaza; violate Geneva and Vienna Conventions, international law, human rights, and state sovereignty; kidnap, rape and torture children and women; shoot, imprison and murdering; and still be perceived as the victim.
After weeks of incitement against her by Israeli colonial settlers, occupation forces have reportedly kidnapped Palestinian journalist Naqaa Hamed, @PressTV correspondent in occupied Palestine, at a checkpoint near a town southeast of Bethlehem.
Her kidnapping is not an isolated incident. It is part of a broader pattern in which Palestinian journalists are targeted, threatened, harassed, kidnapped, detained and silenced for documenting life under occupation.
@CPJMENA how many more journalists must be threatened or kidnapped or detained before the world treats the targeting of Palestinian media workers as the press-freedom crisis it is?
#NaqaaHamed #PressFreedom #PalestinianJournalists