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MENA. Humanitarian development assistance. Regional conflict. Intelligence. Urban warfare.

[Random Analyst @sayagainall]

@S1Lesil5 @JenGriffinFNC He didn’t pose for or set up that pic. It was taken in the moment by a PAO using his phone and NVG.

[Shaiel Ben-Ephraim @academic_la]

I have been reading the new UN report about how Israel has been targeting children in Gaza. There are no words to describe how awful it is. Here are some of the worst examples:

1) Hind Rajab and family, Tel al-Hawa, Gaza City, 29 Jan 2024. Named. A family of seven plus two paramedics killed. Hind Rajab, 5 to 6, stayed on the phone with rescuers for hours, trapped in a car among her dead relatives. Her cousin Layan Hamadeh, 15, was killed mid-call. The rescue ambulance, dispatched with COGAT clearance, was shelled.

2) The 15-year-old with the white flag, Khan Younis, 24 Jan 2024. Anonymous. Shot in the foot during an ordered evacuation while holding a white cloth, then shot twice more in the back and neck as he tried to rise. His 20-year-old brother killed running to him; their mother shot signaling for an ambulance. Assessed as DAN .338 sniper fire from about 200m.

3) The 10-day-old baby, Nuseirat camp, 12 Apr 2024. Anonymous. Shot in the head by a quadcopter-mounted rifle while being breastfed inside a tent. Survived with brain damage and seizures.

4) The 14-year-old killed with fragmenting pellets, Aug 2024. Anonymous. Cube-shaped pellets that fragmented internally like cluster munitions, destroying multiple organs. The report flags the munition itself as a possible war crime.

5) Jadallah "Jad" Jadallah, Al-Far'a camp, Tubas, 16 Nov 2025. Named. Jadallah Jihad Jouma Jadallah, 14, shot at close range and left bleeding for roughly 45 minutes while about 14 soldiers stood around him. One kicked his cap back when he threw it for attention, one filmed him, one placed a stone beside him to stage a stone-throwing pretext. Soldiers fired at his approaching mother and blocked two ambulances. Body withheld.

6) Layla al-Khatib, Muthallath al-Shuhada, 25 Jan 2025. Named. Layla (Laila) Muhammad Ayman al-Khatib, 2, shot in the back of the head during dinner at home, four bullets fired through the living room window. Youngest West Bank child killed in the reporting period. B'Tselem found the only man in the building was her grandfather, contradicting the "wanted terrorist" claim.

7) Saddam Rajab, Tulkarem, shot 28 Jan 2025, died 7 Feb 2025. Named. Saddam (Sadam) Rajab, 10, shot during an incursion. A soldier told the father, "I am the one who shot your son. God willing, he will die." Medical care obstructed; the boy died of his wounds days later.

8) Walid Ahmad, Megiddo Prison, died 22 Mar 2025. Named. Walid Khalid Abdullah Ahmad, 17, from Silwad. Healthy at arrest in Sept 2024; dead six months later of starvation, muscle wasting, untreated colitis and scabies. First Palestinian minor to die in Israeli custody since Oct 2023. Family learned of his death from a news article; body withheld.

9) The Sde Teiman 15-year-old, detention. Anonymous. Held among 70 adults, shackled until his hands bled, dogs released on prone detainees; described as "the worst days of my life." A separate 15-year-old reported being electrocuted via a needle in his shoulder over 54 days.

10) The four newborns at Al-Nasr Pediatric Hospital, Nov 2023. Anonymous. Found decomposing, still attached to defunct life-support machines, after staff were forced to evacuate without being able to move them. Independently verified by the Commission, Washington Post, and CNN.

11) Newborn hypothermia deaths, Dec 2024 to Feb 2025. Anonymous. At least 15 newborns, including a one-day-old girl, died of cold linked to lack of shelter, fuel, and incubators. UNICEF called the deaths preventable.

12) Sexual violence in detention. Anonymous. Forced public stripping and filming of boys during mass arrests; two cousins aged 7 and 13 stripped at gunpoint in Jenin; new reports of boys raped in custody, one on multiple occasions.

The Commission documents at least 20,179 Palestinian children killed and 44,143 wounded in two years, 30 percent of all the dead in Gaza, alongside 213 more killed in the West Bank. Thirteen times the Commission asked Israel to respond, and thirteen times it heard nothing back. Israel doesn't care enough to even respond. It kills children as a matter of policy.

[Random Analyst @sayagainall]

@20committee FVEY liason colleague texted me “OMG” the day she was confirmed. This (and her wacky positions on issues) were well known.

[Random Analyst @sayagainall]

@gov_fails

[Random Analyst @sayagainall]

@vol212320 What a weird post. Canadians are so aware that Americans “don’t think about them” that it’s a standing joke.

[Random Analyst @sayagainall]

@connyb @nexta_tv CO2 is a very strong attractor. Lactic acid and some other skin chemistry things are moderate attractors.

[Random Analyst @sayagainall]

There is zero chance—literally none at all—that Iran will ever receive $300b in reconstruction investment. It’s an entirely meaningless “commitment” in the reported MOU.

[Random Analyst @sayagainall]

@gregbagwell Indeed. It may not be funny haha, but it’s definitely funny peculiar….

[Barak Ravid @BarakRavid]

במהלך 24 השעות האחרונות:
1. חייל צה"ל ירה והרג תינוק פלסטיני בן שבעה חודשים בחברון
2. צה"ל הרג קצין בכיר בצבא לבנון ושני חיילים לבנונים נוספים בתקיפה אווירית בדרום לבנון
3. מתנחלים, בסיוע של לפחות חייל צה"ל אחד (ראו סרטון), ביצעו פוגרום בכפר הפלסטיני חווארה. תשעה פלסטינים נפצעו

[Greg Bagwell @gregbagwell]

@shashj is a British National born in London. This thread (like others) attacks his journalism through thinly disguised racist undertones, and is doing so solely because they reject his contrary views. They don’t counter his arguments, they are just seeking to cancel him.

[Edward Luce @EdwardGLuce]

The vanity of a realist who can't acknowledge reality. Mearsheimer's account of how this war started and why Ukraine is fighting is shockingly bad.

[Greg Bagwell @gregbagwell]

The comments to Shashank in this thread are shocking. In the UK we largely see the subjugation of the US media through outbursts in the Oval Office. So it’s rare that we see the vitriol of others behind the “curtain”, and especially from the US military/veteran community.

[Random Analyst @sayagainall]

@cshasky2 @bdquinn Strawperson argument, since I’m not defending bigotry. But the PM cites the MS St Louis in his next breath, and I think had those desperate refugees been permitted entry they should not have been asked to surrender their “animosity” to Nazi Germany.

[Random Analyst @sayagainall]

@cshasky2 @bdquinn You’re might read my comment more carefully. I wasn’t speaking about violence, nor did the PM frame it terms of violence or illegal activities, he broadened it to “animosities”.

[Random Analyst @sayagainall]

@bdquinn Entirely agreed, but that’s not what Carney said: he said “leave aside your animosities,” thus blurring the line between illegal activities and simply being angry at groups that support the oppression of your family and friends (or mobilizing support for oppressed groups abroad).

[Jeffrey Sachs @JeffreyASachs]

@rupasubramanya No, Palestinian students are trying to come to Canada because the entire higher ed infrastructure in Gaza was annihilated and what remains in the West Bank and Jerusalem is either unsafe, unaffordable, or inaccessible.

[Ryan Evans @EvansRyan202]

If you're wondering why the Middle East looks the way it does, it is in part because of people like McGurk. This guy should never have a job in government again.

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

Truly morally sickening: that anyone should wish all of Ukraine to suffer the fate of Mariupol or Bucha. Russian occupation of Ukraine means random arrests, executions, concentration camps; the destruction of language and culture; mass kidnapping of children. All of these things have been documented in the occupied territories and continue to go on.