Eighty years have passed since Nazi Germany surrendered and the war in Europe ended. But standing at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin this morning, it didn’t feel far away. The silence in that space speaks with force. It pulls you into the past, and makes you experience it as something still unfolding in the present. The stone is cold and unyielding, stretching out in every direction, disorienting by design. It evokes grief and loss, certainly. But also the systems that made the carnage possible. The hatred that was nurtured, the policies shaped by cruelty, the gradual unraveling of human solidarity. It reminds you how easily society can be led down that path when prejudice is tolerated, when people look away.
Yesterday, Israeli warplanes struck Abu Hamisa School in al-Bureij—a UN shelter packed with displaced families.
33 people were killed. Over 70 wounded. Most were women and children.
I’m sharing photos from the aftermath—of people digging through the ruins, not for justice, but for a blanket, a shoe, anything.
They’ll sleep on the street tonight, because the last building that promised safety was turned to dust.
33 people were killed. Over 70 wounded. Most were women and children.
I’m sharing photos from the aftermath—of people digging through the ruins, not for justice, but for a blanket, a shoe, anything.
They’ll sleep on the street tonight, because the last building that promised safety was turned to dust.
These two images, taken just months apart, show Gaza’s complete erasure. July 2023 to December 2024: whole cities, entire neighborhoods, vanished. This is not war; this is an apocalyptic wipeout.
"Gaza as it (barely) stands is a place with no political name. Not formally reoccupied, but increasingly under Israeli military control. Not liberated, but with no real governing authority. Not entirely destroyed, but profoundly uninhabitable. A purgatory engineered by policy, perpetuated by design.
Gaza cannot be allowed to remain in permanent suspension, in a war that does not end. The U.S. must demand either a timeline for Israeli withdrawal—or that its ally accept its international legal obligations as an occupying force.
Without this, Gaza will remain unliveable and unfree; a place with no sovereignty, no peace, no place in the world".
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Gaza cannot be allowed to remain in permanent suspension, in a war that does not end. The U.S. must demand either a timeline for Israeli withdrawal—or that its ally accept its international legal obligations as an occupying force.
Without this, Gaza will remain unliveable and unfree; a place with no sovereignty, no peace, no place in the world".
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Islamist groups have unleashed their propaganda machines against the Jordanian government, accusing it of profiteering from the humanitarian aid delivered to Gaza. These attacks come in the wake of Jordan’s crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood, including the arrest of several of its operatives and the official ban on the organization. Like the UAE, Jordan has been able to facilitate the delivery of aid—precisely because of its stable relations with Israel, something these groups can neither accept nor replicate.
Day 68. Israel's government blocks aid. Gaza starves.
Children are dying from hunger. Others lie still, too weak to cry. Their mothers can do nothing but watch. Food isn’t scarce — it’s blocked.
Israel's government closed the crossings and turned starvation into a strategy. While aid is stuck in planning and promises, children are buried instead of fed.
Children are dying from hunger. Others lie still, too weak to cry. Their mothers can do nothing but watch. Food isn’t scarce — it’s blocked.
Israel's government closed the crossings and turned starvation into a strategy. While aid is stuck in planning and promises, children are buried instead of fed.
For the second day, Hamas-linked Telegram channels are urging civilians in Gaza to ignore evacuation orders and stay in areas under heavy fire.
They offer no safe routes, no protection, no alternatives—just instructions to remain in the line of fire. After dragging people into a war they didn’t choose, Hamas now insists they stay and die in it.
They offer no safe routes, no protection, no alternatives—just instructions to remain in the line of fire. After dragging people into a war they didn’t choose, Hamas now insists they stay and die in it.