Some stories are too small to appear in the news, but they reveal the true cost of war. It was the end of a long day. The waiting room, usually full of noise and movement, had fallen into an unusual silence. Only one woman remained, sitting quietly on a chair with her small

I’m not sure how we became accustomed to this. How it doesn’t shake us to the bone. It’s surreal how numb we became. We are slowly becoming dehumanized! Besides the reconstruction of our cities we need the rehabilitation of our lost souls.

✈️ Just landed back in #Brussels after seeing situation on ground in #Beirut. 🇮🇱 Israel are now collapsing residential buildings in central #Beirut, a city of over 2m people. This is the Gaza playbook. Again, Ursula von der Leyen is silent.

Eylon Levy 700,000 of the people who lived in what is now Israel fled in 1946, mostly from fear or advice that they were in danger. When people flee from their homes in these conditions, they expect to be able to go home. These people were not able to go home.

💔 70% of ALL people killed by the U.S.-Israel have been civilian. 40% in Iran and 97% in Lebanon In comparison, civilians make up 3% of deaths in Ukraine.

Lebanese cellist Mahdi Saheli playing Armenian composer Aram Khachaturian's Andantino in the ruins of southern Beirut.

US intelligence concluded that Iran was not rebuilding nuclear enrichment capacities destroyed last year by the United States and Israel, contradicting a key justification by President Donald Trump for his ongoing war. u.afp.com/SL8j

A reminder that evacuation orders do not give carte blanch to Israel to bomb civilians or their homes. If civilians cannot or choose not to leave, they still cannot be targeted. Doing so is a war crime.

In the only Sde Teiman case investigated, with video evidence and a Palestinian detainee left with severe injuries, including rectal damage, the charges were dropped. It’s only that Sde Teiman is a torture camp. We know this from the soldier testimonies we have collected 🧵

Fixed it for you Reuters.

Hanna’s World 🌍 Just insanely dangerous nonsense. Bacterial Meningitis has an INCREDIBLY high mortality and morbidity rate. The vaccines are very safe and very protective. Honestly, imagine using your time on earth to endanger children? Astonishing.

BOMBSHELL: Iran offered to give away ALL of its enriched uranium during peace talks in Geneva. The British thought it was a credible offer. Hours later, Trump started bombing Iran anyway. The US didn't want peace, they wanted war.

🗣️ "Preventive wars are illegal wars. Those are wars of aggression... There is no pretence of legality here." Former executive director of Human Rights Watch Kenneth Roth tells ＠SkyYaldaHakim the U.S. needed either a UN Security Council resolution authorising force or an actual

As 4 Palestinians were tragically killed by an Iranian missile, thousands of Israelis celebrate on social media.

Just imagine that an occupying entity in our region called Israel with less than 80 years old, is destroying the historic city of Beirut, whose civilization spans 5,000 years. Some men in Beirut were born before there was anything called Israel!

Settlers reportedly tied up his arms and legs, cut off his underwear, zip-tied his penis, then paraded him around his family while beating him. Corroborated by multiple witnesses.

I don’t get it. If Hezbollah had flats in this block (unlikely in central Beirut but not impossible) why did the Israelis give everyone inside an hour to get out — including those they wanted to kill? And if there weren’t any Hezbollah people there, why destroy a building with

📰 READ: my opinion piece in Irish Independent today on the bravery of humanitarian workers and journalists working today in #Beirut and south Lebanon 🇱🇧, and my own brief encounter with Hezbollah. The world cannot allow Beirut to become another Gaza.

Did Qatar come looking for their jumbo 747 back?

Blowing up apartment blocks in Beirut ... it's very hard not to see Israel as a rogue terrorist state.