| How was your day? 18:17 - Aug 5 with 1452 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/05/torture-abuse-and-humiliat
'In Ketziot, jailers hung a sign with with “welcome to hell” written in Arabic and Hebrew outside one wing. Another comparison occurred to Sari Huriye when he was ordered to strip by prison guards as he entered the jail. “They made me get completely naked and that’s when I realised I was entering Abu Ghraib,” he said, referring to the US jail in Iraq that became a byword for abuse two decades ago.
He is an Israeli citizen from Haifa and a property lawyer, and was arrested over Facebook posts about the war, he believes to set an example. “I ticked all the boxes – middle class, Christian, political,” he said. “Everyone told me they stopped posting on Facebook after that. That was the point.”
He spent 10 days in prison, enough to hear Abdul Rahman al-Maari die in agony in the neighbouring cell after a beating. “I feel so guilty that I couldn’t help him,” he said, breaking into tears. “Maari didn’t stop screaming the whole time. He kept saying: ‘I’m dying, I need a doctor.’
“Then he went quiet. In the morning the guards went in and kicked him, said: ‘Wake up, get up.’ After an hour they brought the medic and they put him in a bag, like trash, and took him away.”
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| Not bad.... on 18:25 - Aug 5 with 1393 views | Bloots |
....I painted my pergola.
And before you ask Keno, no it's not. |  |
| "The sooner he comes back the better, this place has been a disaster without him" - TWTD User (July 2025) |
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| Not bad.... on 20:41 - Aug 5 with 1279 views | GlasgowBlue |
| Not bad.... on 18:25 - Aug 5 by Bloots |
....I painted my pergola.
And before you ask Keno, no it's not. |
Nice one Bloots. I’m on the train on the way back from the Fringe. Caught three shows of varying quality.
Much alcohol consumed. |  |
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| Get home safe mate! (n/t) on 20:44 - Aug 5 with 1249 views | Bloots |
| Not bad.... on 20:41 - Aug 5 by GlasgowBlue |
Nice one Bloots. I’m on the train on the way back from the Fringe. Caught three shows of varying quality.
Much alcohol consumed. |
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| "The sooner he comes back the better, this place has been a disaster without him" - TWTD User (July 2025) |
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| How was your day? on 17:43 - Aug 14 with 935 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/14/twin-babies-killed-gaza-is
'The strike that killed the newborns – a boy, Asser, and a girl, Ayssel – also killed their mother, Arafa, as well as her mother, the twins’ grandmother. Abuel-Qomasan and his wife had heeded orders to evacuate Gaza City in the opening weeks of the war. They sought shelter in central Gaza, as the army had instructed.
The Israeli military did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the strikes, AP reported.
Elsewhere, a three-month-old baby was the only member of her immediate family to survive an Israeli airstrike near the southern city of Khan Younis in which 10 people were killed including her five siblings, aged five to 12.'
Blessed be the peace makers. | |
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| How was your day? on 17:49 - Aug 14 with 893 views | DJR |
| How was your day? on 17:43 - Aug 14 by BanksterDebtSlave |
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/14/twin-babies-killed-gaza-is
'The strike that killed the newborns – a boy, Asser, and a girl, Ayssel – also killed their mother, Arafa, as well as her mother, the twins’ grandmother. Abuel-Qomasan and his wife had heeded orders to evacuate Gaza City in the opening weeks of the war. They sought shelter in central Gaza, as the army had instructed.
The Israeli military did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the strikes, AP reported.
Elsewhere, a three-month-old baby was the only member of her immediate family to survive an Israeli airstrike near the southern city of Khan Younis in which 10 people were killed including her five siblings, aged five to 12.'
Blessed be the peace makers. |
Sadly, we've all become inured to what is going. |  | | |
| How was your day? on 17:53 - Aug 14 with 860 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
| How was your day? on 17:49 - Aug 14 by DJR |
Sadly, we've all become inured to what is going. |
Well yeah but thank goodness for the fringe at Edinburgh to keep it all in perspective. | |
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| How was your day? on 19:04 - Aug 14 with 816 views | Churchman |
| How was your day? on 17:49 - Aug 14 by DJR |
Sadly, we've all become inured to what is going. |
I’m afraid you are right. Sadly man’s inhumanity knows no depths of depravity and that doesn’t change over time. For example, see Goya’s images and the history of the early 19c Peninsula War and the cruelty France and Spain exacted on each other. 200+ years on, what has been learned?
My day? Thames walk, Victoria to Hammersmith and a nice lunch by the river. What a world of contrasts we live in. |  | | |
| How was your day? on 09:02 - Aug 15 with 618 views | DJR |
| How was your day? on 19:04 - Aug 14 by Churchman |
I’m afraid you are right. Sadly man’s inhumanity knows no depths of depravity and that doesn’t change over time. For example, see Goya’s images and the history of the early 19c Peninsula War and the cruelty France and Spain exacted on each other. 200+ years on, what has been learned?
My day? Thames walk, Victoria to Hammersmith and a nice lunch by the river. What a world of contrasts we live in. |
Hearing on the World Service last night that 700,000 Afghan refugees have been sent back to the basket case that is Afghanistan, with no hope of jobs or education for girls . And apparently 1 million are to follow.
The suffering in large parts of this world is unimaginable. | | | |
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