Yanis Mhamdi

Saif Abu Keshek, a leading member of the PCPA - an organization designated and sanctioned by the United States as a Hamas front - and Thiago Ávila, who operates with the PCPA and is suspected of illegal activity, have arrived in Israel. They will be transferred for questioning by law enforcement authorities.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Both will receive a consular visit from the representatives of their respective countries in Israel.

כל הכבוד לחיל הים שלנו! הנחיתי אותם למנוע ממשט תומכי החמאס מלהגיע לחופי עזה. המשימה בוצעה בהצלחה מלאה. אף ספינה ואף תומך חמאס לא הגיעו לשטחנו, ואפילו לא למים הטריטוריאליים שלנו. הם הוסבו לאחור ויחזרו לארצות מוצאם. הם ימשיכו לראות את עזה ביוטיוב.

Today, for the third time in my mother's life and for the second in my own life, we lost a home due to it being bombed by the Israeli army. This home was in a building constructed by my uncle, the Lebanese historian Ahmad Beydoun, after my family was able to return to our ancestral hometown, Bint Jbeil, in the year 2000 when Israel ended its decades-long occupation there, during which they destroyed my mother's childhood home. In 2006, they would destroy both her and my home in Beirut, rendering us both temporarily homeless. Uncle Ahmad's building was a costly joint effort financed by himself as well as my mother and his other siblings. Each owned an apartment in the building, which also housed medical practices, a baby toys shop (owned and run by my cousin Jamal) and a branch for Bank Audi. Upon hearing this news, Uncle Ahmad wrote: "in our hearts, this is the least of our losses." We can all only be thankful that our family is unharmed: when I told this story to a distant cousin, she replied that her friend had lost both her mother and father in Israel's bombing of Beirut two days ago, which killed more than 300 civilians in the space of ten minutes. For reasons that are difficult to understand, the Israeli army posted a video of their crime, which I share here.