Here you can see how both the young and the old alike are struggling. Doing whatever it takes to bring water home to their families. Translating Falasteen (@translatingpal) x The Sameer Project is being asked to provide more water, but while the situation in Gaza is not changing our donations are and we cannot keep up. We supplied 328,000 liters on July 6 to areas in the North that need this support. Assist Gaza during this time when the occupation is imposing calculated water shortages. Donate for Food and Water. Other ways to donate include: (Paypal option, please make sure to add a message saying "WATER") (Venmo option, please make sure to add a message saying "WATER")

Spanish war crimes in the Rif War in northern Morocco. This is why Ceuta remains under Spanish occupation. Spain and France plundered Morocco's resources for decades. The people of the Rif continue to suffer from this catastrophe. Until now, most of the Rif population has cancer and many diseases, akin to Chernobyl but with chemical weapons. لماذا لم تحرروا سبتة ومليلية الاسبان تحالفوا مع فرنسا وضربوا المقاومة بالكيماوي الذي جاؤوا به من عند الالمان يعني تحالف من ثلات دول استعمارية ضد مقاومين حفاة ببنادق #Ceuta# #Melilla# #Immigrants#

Some critics of Islam frequently claim that it is uniquely violent while Christianity has spread only through peaceful means and missionary work. Historical records, however, document numerous instances of Christian violence, including wars, massacres, and forced conversions by the sword against both non-Christians and other Christians. This article examines the major well-documented cases of such violence throughout history. Major historical episodes of Christian-led violence against non-Christians and other Christians (often labeled heretics), including forced conversions by the sword, are well-documented. These mixed religious, political, and economic motives after Christianity gained state power. Early doctrine often rejected coercion, but practice differed. Focus is on key cases; numbers are estimates from chronicles. Against non-Christians Saxon Wars (Charlemagne, 772–804)**: Campaigns forced conversion of pagan Saxons. Massacre of Verden (782) beheaded ~4,500 captives. Laws imposed death for refusing baptism or pagan practices; mass baptisms followed conquest. Northern (Baltic) Crusades (12th–15th c.)**: Papally backed campaigns by German/Danish forces and orders (Teutonic Knights) against pagan Slavs, Balts, and Finns. Goal: convert or eliminate. Involved massacres, forced baptisms, and land devastation; largely ended independent pagan societies. Rhineland massacres (First Crusade, 1096)**: Crusader bands killed thousands of Jews in Mainz, Worms, and elsewhere; survivors faced convert-or-die choices. Spanish Reconquista aftermath (late 14th–17th c.)**: 1391 pogroms forced many Jews to convert. 1492 Alhambra Decree: convert or leave. Muslims in Granada faced forced conversion (1499–1502) under Cisneros; later Morisco baptisms, bans, revolts, and expulsions. Inquisition targeted crypto-Jews/Muslims. Christians against other Christians Albigensian Crusade (1209–1229)**: Against Cathars in southern France. Béziers massacre (1209) killed ~15,000–20,000 (Cathars and Catholics); legate reportedly said “Kill them all; God will know his own.” Followed by burnings and sieges that destroyed organized Catharism. Waldensian persecutions**: Multiple campaigns, including 1488 crusade and 1655 Piedmont massacre (thousands killed by Catholic forces). Reformation Wars of Religion (16th–17th c.)**: St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre (1572) killed thousands of Huguenots in France. Mutual violence in Netherlands, England (e.g., Mary I’s burnings), and against Anabaptists. Thirty Years’ War (1618–1648) caused 4.5–8 million deaths amid Catholic-Protestant fighting. Additional cases include the Fourth Crusade’s 1204 sack of Constantinople (Western vs. Eastern Christians). These appear in contemporary records and modern histories. Forced conversion was never universal Christian policy; many missionaries preferred persuasion, and later societies abandoned legal coercion of belief. Similar patterns occurred in other religions and empires of the era.

Everyone is just trying to survive today. Because how do you plan for the future when tomorrow is also another uncertainty? Support Gaza now: This family was forced off the land where they had been sheltering. After already losing their home, they now lives on a flat stretch of exposed dirt because there is nowhere else to go. Even in the middle of summer, this father is already terrified of winter, knowing that when the rains come, the ground beneath the tent will turn to mud and the shelter keeping his family alive could sink beneath them. There is no rest. No stability. These tents were never meant to become permanent, yet families have spent years moving from one temporary place to another. The Sameer Project met this family while distributing 30 fresh fruit parcels to Al Amer Camp in Nuseirat. Each parcel contained 1 kilogram each of apples, oranges, apricots, bananas, and plums - fresh fruit is rare for many families in Gaza! The total was $598 including 11% banking commission fees. Fruit is momentary normalcy but there must be a longer term plan, hope, something to cling on to for tomorrow to make today more bearable. Help support families in Gaza and give to our Food and Water Campaign: Other ways to donate include: (Paypal option, please make sure to add a message saying "FOOD") (Venmo option, please make sure to add a message saying "FOOD")

Mo is already attempting to build the future while living in a tent. He’s a software engineer coding an online education platform so kids in Gaza aged 5 - 17 can still access real learning materials even as everything around them is no more. Getting him and his family to Italy doesn’t just save one software engineer, but it keeps that platform (and the next generation’s chance at education) alive. If your circle is different from the usual Palestine accounts, this is the post that needs your quote or RT the most. $5–$20 or a simple share from new eyes can finish the first goal and open the door. Link in the quoted post. Let’s push it past the usual networks tonight. 🇮🇹 🇵🇸

SAUDI ARABIA SPENT 5 MONTHS BUILDING AN ESCAPE ROUTE FROM IRAN. THE HOUTHIS JUST CLOSED IT. When Iran shut the Strait of Hormuz, Saudi Arabia didn't panic. It rerouted oil 1,200 kilometers overland through the East-West Pipeline to the Red Sea port of Yanbu, sacrificing natural-gas-liquids revenue to push capacity from 5 million to 7 million barrels a day. It’s actually a genuine engineering and economic achievement, built in months, designed to make the kingdom's oil exports untouchable by Iran. This week, the Houthis put a spanner in the works. THE SQUEEZE On July 20, Yemen's Houthi movement declared a full naval blockade of Saudi Arabia and struck two Saudi tankers in the Red Sea. By Friday, they hit the source directly: missiles and drones on Aramco's Jizan refinery, and a simultaneous strike on the Yanbu export terminal, the exact port the kingdom built its Hormuz workaround around. NASA's satellite fire-detection system confirmed multiple thermal anomalies at Jizan at 1:17am UTC. Brent crude broke back above $100 a barrel within hours. Here's the part that makes this more than another rocket over the Red Sea: every barrel Yanbu loads still has to exit through the Bab al-Mandeb strait to reach open water. Iran controls the door on one side of the peninsula. The Houthis, backed by Iran, now threaten the only other one. WHO SAYS WHAT Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree framed it as retaliation, not initiation, accusing Saudi of "escalation" after Saudi strikes on Hodeidah, and vowing to answer "escalation with escalation." Yemen's government says the Houthis are using the strait "to serve Iran's regional agenda and strengthen Tehran's negotiating position" The Houthis have a real grievance, a blockade Riyadh has enforced on Yemen for over a decade, and Iran has a real interest in every additional lever it can pull on Saudi Arabia while its own war with Washington grinds on. FLIP THE SEATS Picture the Saudi energy ministry official who spent five months and real money solving the Hormuz problem, converting NGL infrastructure, pushing throughput past design limits, briefing the world that the kingdom had insulated itself from Iranian leverage. Now picture that same person watching satellite footage of Yanbu-bound crude burning at the refinery gate, in a port they specifically chose because it wasn't supposed to be anyone's chokepoint. The lesson isn't that the pipeline was badly planned. It's that in a region with this many armed, motivated actors, there is no single fix. THE BIGGER PATTERN This isn't the tidy version of multipolarity, a single rising bloc calmly displacing a single declining hegemon. It's messier than that, and more honest: when no one power can fully guarantee the safety of the world's oil, the number of actors who can threaten it doesn't shrink to two. It grows. Iran doesn't need to personally close both routes. It just needs an ally willing to close the second one for its own reasons, at the moment that reinforces Iran's position most. The Unipolar Order is discovering it never had as many fronts covered as it thought. Saudi Arabia will likely find a third route eventually. The question worth sitting with is how long the kingdom, the world and the price of gas everywhere can survive the search.

I can’t get my head around the Israeli Ambassador to the United Kingdom saying it’s “irrelevant” how many children Israel has killed in Gaza. I don’t understand how anyone can think like this. Demons.

Please don’t scroll past Mo. 🇵🇸✈️🇮🇹🧑‍🎓 Mohammed aka Mo is a 23-year-old Palestinian software engineer from Beit Hanoun, Gaza. He should be finishing his studies and building a future in technology. Instead, the past three years of his life have been consumed by genocide, bombs, displacement, loss and the daily struggle to keep his family alive. They are now living in a tent in Khan Younis. We have a real opportunity to help get Mo and his family out of Gaza and give him the chance to continue his education in Italy, but we need to move quickly. First, we’re raising $2,000 to cover the family’s immediate living expenses for the next few weeks. We’re currently at just $250. Once their urgent needs are covered, we can focus on raising the money needed for Mo’s university fees and visa while working to secure the necessary approvals from his university and the Italian government. I have 32,000 followers. If even a small number of you donate $5, $10 or $20, or simply repost this, we can reach the first goal quickly and move one step closer to getting this young man and his family to safety. Please help us give Mo a future beyond survival.