"The Israeli airstrike collapsed the two-storey building instantly, killing all eight members of the Hamdan family: grandparents Ahmad and Najib, their children, including Batoul, and grandchildren Fatima and Jihad – three generations wiped out in a moment." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

At the end of Louis Theroux's documentary he has to hide from the IDF as they are hunting Palestinians and he suspects they might kill him too. Theroux says, "Can we ring the Police." And the Palestinian laughs, there is no one who will protect them from Israel.

I hope no one thinks there were tunnels under this hospital. No matter how Israel tries to spin it, this is a war crime. Israel has equivalent clinics run by religious groups that rely on the IDF for security and rescue civilians. See the problem? www.haaretz.com/middle-east-...

Do people even know in which country this photo was taken? Are people going to continue to pretend that it's not being done deliberately?

The Academy is remaining completely silent on the fact that the star of ‘The Voice of Hind Rajab’ Motaz Malhees is unable to attend the ceremony because he's banned from entering the US due to his Palestinian passport

Gideon Levy, from the Israeli publication Ha'Aretz, reports on conditions in the West Bank: www.democracynow.org/2026/3/13/gi...

"If you'd like to witness human evil at its worst, come with me any day to the West Bank." -- David Shulman www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

The ever-spreading genocide "One leaflet, styled like the front page of a newspaper, with the headline “The New Reality in Lebanon,” asked where the country was headed and referenced what it called the “great success in Gaza.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/w...

Utterly predictable www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

✋ Former USG war crimes lawyer here. Apropos of SecDef's remarks this morning: Denial of quarter—even the declaration of no quarter—is a war crime. And recognized as such by the US Government. From DoD's Manual for Military Commissions.

The US military is powerless to open the Strait of Hormuz. Iran controls the territorial waters and has undersea tunnels. They don't need to sink every ship, they just need to create enough chaos so insurance companies refuse to cover Western tankers.

My guess is that he reflects the views of much of the Arab world, include many of those who remain suspicious of Iran.

#BREAKING | Netherlands and Iceland filed declarations of intervention under Article 63 of the ICJ Statute in the case South Africa v. Israel At the International Criminal Court of Justice

After clicking on the below link, assuming you have access to X, click on the recap of Sde Theiman, one of Israel’s rape dungeons, at the bottom of the post. x.com/ireallyhatey...

Israel has so far ordered around 14.25% of the entirety of Lebanon to be forcibly evacuated. That’s in less than 2 weeks

In related news to Israel's total and comprehensive lack of anything resembling the ability or willingness to hold itself and its soldiers to account, the Netherlands and Iceland are both joining the ICJ case against Israel on the issue of the Genocide Convention.

Mercifully these devastated children will get hospital care and pain killers, and anaesthesia if they need surgery. Israel has no way to block these essentials inside Lebanon as it has been able to do in Gaza, where children are left in agony despite everything needed being only 30 minutes away.

A hospital in Central Beirut is treating children that have been wounded by Israeli strikes. NBC News' Daniele Daniele Hamamdjian speaks to some of the families and doctors in the hospital being impacted by the war.

He would say that, wouldn't he....?

This is an important thread as to why no one should automatically assume the bombing the girls' school was a "mistake" or "error" or due to AI and not human choice. It is also important to keep in mind that US and Israeli officials have every incentive to lie about war crimes, and often have.

Surprise, surprise

A colonial, expansionist logic is always also a genocidal logic, see the Americas, Australia, New Zealand and or course Palestine.

FT: “As the US and Israel sought to degrade regime institutions, they have hit more than 20,000 non-military buildings, according to Iran's Red Crescent, including 17,353 that were residential.” (www.ft.com/content/fedb...)

The most moral army in the world right?

I don't hear out Zionists for the same reason I don't hear out flat earthers, creationists, forced birthers, or anti-vaxxers, and for the same reason I don't hear out Klansmen, Nazis, transphobes, anti-Black racists, eugenicists, or xenophobes.

I'm feeling a need to share realities this morning. Here's one, in case you didn't see it yesterday.

Sodomizing a Palestinian prisoner with a knife on camera is apparently legal in Israel

The *apists were caught on camera and defended their actions. The Israeli public filled the streets to defend their right to *ape. This is Israel. This is Zionism. And it is irredeemable.

The protests worked. They won the right to rape.

"The detainee underwent surgery for a perforated rectum and was released back to Sde Teiman days later. The military’s top legal official acknowledged authorizing the leak of the video to the TV station, and she resigned."

I'm sure a few more attacks on Zohran Mamdani for once saying, "Globalize the Intifada" will rehabilitate Israel's reputation among young Americans.

A dangerous doctrine - For the whole essay search in your Browser for Juan Cole's Informed Comment http://dlvr.it/TRS4Tp

Damage was inflicted after coordinates of the sites were circulated among the warring parties and blue shield signs – denoting historical treasures under the 1954 Hague convention protecting cultural objects in war – were put on the roofs of important buildings. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

British tourist faces Dubai prison sentence for 'filming Iranian missiles' - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/british-tourist-faces-dubai-prison-sentence-allegedly-filming-iranian-missiles

Court rules in favour of Owen Jones calling BBC's coverage on the Middle East biased.

🚨 Island schließt sich dem Genozid-Verfahren gegen Israel vor dem Internationalen Gerichtshof an! Bravo Island 👏🏼 www.ruv.is/english/2026...

Israeli settlers in the West Bank harass, terrorise, destroy, burn, injure and kill Palestinians, their properties and livestock every day, while the IDF is aiding and abetting them. Every. Day. www.972mag.com/israeli-sett...

Apart from the USA, · the only other countries using Tomahawks are Japan, the United Kingdom, Australia and the Netherlands. Source: www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

Those of us who have been watching the genocide in Gaza closely can't forget how US bombs and AI were used in Gaza in 2023 by Israel to create mass death of civilians, now being replicated in Iran. www.972mag.com/mass-assassi...

Targeting for regime-change-bombing has a precedent: "The bombing of power targets is mainly intended to harm Palestinian civil society: to “create a shock” that, among other things, will reverberate powerfully and “lead civilians to put pressure on Hamas." www.972mag.com/mass-assassi...

“Not a single one of the kids we pulled out was alive. Their bodies were torn apart and burned,” he said. His older son’s body was intact, but he identified the younger boy only by the shoes he had been wearing. His body was unrecognizable." www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

"Israel said it did not have a role in the strike. Two Israeli officials told The Washington Post this specific targeting was not cross-checked or discussed with the IDF before it took place." That doesn't mean Israel didn't supply the target, plus Israel is not a credible source. wapo.st/4llWy0R

Sánchez: “You may have heard that Spain is alone. They’re the same people who said that when we recognized the State of Palestine, and then others followed. “We are not alone — we are the first. Those who will end up alone are the ones defending the indefensible.” www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...