On my way to the funeral of a young Brazilian woman murdered at the music festival. A message went out urging strangers to attend, because she has barely any family here. There’s a 2km line snaking out of the entrance of the cemetery and I doubt we’ll make it.
The funeral was scheduled for 20min ago. We thought we were early. Still 1.4km just to reach the entrance of the cemetery. Israelis are amazing at responding to calls to attend funerals. Such strong social solidarity here in the absolute darkest of circumstances.
Parked by the side of the highway and we’ll leg it. There’s a whole column of incredible citizens walking down the hard shoulder, past a kilometer of parked cars, to attend the funeral of a total stranger murdered in cold blood.
People have abandoned their cars on the highway and are just legging it, to the funeral of a total stranger because they want to give her family a hug.
All under threat of rockets.
Humanity can be despicably evil, but it can also be wonderful.
The whole country is here.
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🧵 The UN-backed IPC just declared “famine” in Gaza City.
Here’s why that claim is WRONG — and why it matters.
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The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) is the gold-standard system for declaring famine.
Its word carries huge political and legal weight — cited in the UN Security Council, ICJ, and the media.
But in Gaza, the IPC broke its own rules.
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A famine declaration is supposed to be exceptional — only when extreme benchmarks are indisputably met:
✅Malnutrition rates above 15%
✅Crude death rates far above normal
✅Clear evidence of food collapse
🧵Netanyahu is giving his first international press conference since the Security Cabinet decided to expand the military operation in Gaza:
Netanyahu says Hamas still has 1000s of armed terrorists and is threatening more October 7s "again and again". Gazans are begging to be freed. No country can tolerate such a regime a stone's throw from its citizens. Israel's goal is to free Gaza from Hamas.
Netanyahu: War ends tomorrow if Hamas lays down its arms and releases all the remaining hostages. Gaza demilitarized, security perimeter established with overall Israeli security control, and a non-Israeli civilian administration that seeks to live at peace with Israel.
🧵 What's the truth about the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation? Its mission is to deliver aid straight to civilians and bypass a broken UN system and Hamas interception. But it's experiencing pushback.
British military expert @Mr_Andrew_Fox went into Gaza himself to investigate 🔽
1/ First, a history of aid since Hamas launched the war. After a brief shutdown, Israel let in aid trucks, and within a month lifted restrictions on quantities. During the "second ceasefire", Gaza was flooded with enough aid to last till late July 2025 based on @WFP figures.
2/ So why is there hunger in Gaza, if Israel let in more than enough food?
✅"Gaza's crisis is mainly a result of distribution collapse and governance issues, worsened by Hamas’s tactics and the paralysis of traditional aid channels."
🧵 Hamas feels completely vindicated by the decision to launch this war with the October 7 Massacre. Ghazi Hamad gave an explosive interview, revealing Hamas' twisted thinking. World leaders should understand how they're emboldening Hamas:
Key points ⬇️
1/ Hamas thinks the world's response to October 7 proved it was the right decision. Instead of revulsion, it led to support for the Palestinians and recognition of statehood. The global reaction emboldened Hamas.
They're looking back at October 7 as Independence Day.
2/ Hamas feels tarnishing Israel's image was a major victory. It sees hostile media coverage, protests, and ICC warrants as a VINDICATION of its decision to launch this war. It was worth sacrificing so many civilians to make Israel look bad and get it accused of genocide.
🧵The Iranian regime is openly committed to Israel's annihilation, and is actively pursuing the weapons to do it. Here's a short thread just of tweets by @khamenei_ir expressing genocidal intent toward the Jewish state.
This is from last month:
1⃣October 3, 2023
Just four days before Iranian proxy army Hamas launched the October 7 War. Khamenei called Israel a "cancer" that would "definitely be eradicated."
2⃣ October 7, 2023
During the October 7 Massacre, Khamenei tweeted a video of Israelis fleeing a massacre at a music festival and wrote, "God willing" Israel would be "eradicated" by the Palestinians and other Iranian proxy forces.
💥 British Foreign Secretary David Lammy misled Parliament by making up a Netanyahu quote
Lammy addressed Parliament last week about Gaza aid. He quoted Netanyahu saying Israel would let in “just enough to prevent hunger.”
There's only one problem:
❌ Netanyahu never said it.
So where did this made-up quote come from?
I Googled “just enough to prevent hunger."
It appears in a BBC story, which quotes a video from Netanyahu, explaining to his domestic audience why Israel was letting aid into Gaza again.
So naturally, I went to the video...
In a video, Netanyahu explained Israel was setting up a new aid distribution system to bypass Hamas, which is hijacking aid to fund its war. This will take time. So Israel will let in aid through the current mechanism "so that there will not be hunger". Hebrew: כדי שלא יהיה רעב.