KateSeelye

Termination day. A lay-off is a funny thing. 10 years of your life and then someone just cuts the bungee cord, without a thank you, goodbye, or even a chance to bid farewell to the constellation of colleagues who inhabited your world all that time. I’m grateful for all the opportunities the Washington Post gave me, and for the friends I made along the way. Onwards.

🇮🇱🇱🇧 Israel demolished a monastery and a nuns' school in the Lebanese village of Yaroun. Soldiers were filmed manually laying explosives inside religious buildings. At least 9 religious sites gone across the border villages. Churches. Mosques. Roman-era shrines on UNESCO's protected list. Israel's own defense minister called it the "Rafah model." Nobody's hiding what this is. The question is why almost nobody's covering it. Source: Lebanon's National News Agency, The New Arab

"Khalil was trapped alive under rubble for hours, having made a phone call to her family and the Lebanese military for help, Qudah told CNN on Thursday. 'The Red Cross was blocked for seven hours and when they reached her after seven hours, she was already dead,” she said. 'This kind of obstruction of rescue efforts may really amount to war crime.'"

"Khalil was trapped alive under rubble for hours, having made a phone call to her family and the Lebanese military for help, Qudah told CNN on Thursday. 'The Red Cross was blocked for seven hours and when they reached her after seven hours, she was already dead,” she said. 'This kind of obstruction of rescue efforts may really amount to war crime.'"

Teachers. Nurses. Children.