هاشم بهبهاني
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Hashim K. Behbehani | Occasional Rebel | Co-founder @joincoded @barmej | Finance @uofillinois | MBA @cambridge_uni
Imagine this. In just hours, Israel has unleashed more than 110 airstrikes across over 20 towns &villages in south Lebanon & the Western Bekaa, alongside relentless artillery shelling. Entire residential blocks flattened. Families buried alive. Children pulled bloodied from rubble. Rescue workers ordered to halt searches while survivors are reportedly still trapped underneath collapsed homes. And all this unfolding on the eve of Eid al-Adha. There is nothing “limited” or “defensive” about these strikes. We are witnessing collective devastation unleashed by a depraved entity at full force & with full impunity.
Two-year-old girl sleeps after undergoing treatment at Gaza City's Al-Shifa hospital following an Israeli bombing
A French aid worker: “We found a mass grave in Gaza containing 300 bodies. Small children were killed with their hands tied behind their backs"
This is a hard article to read, but I hope you'll do so. I've spent some time reporting on widespread rape and other sexual violence of Palestinian male and female prisoners by Israeli authorities, and the article is now published. The assault victims were warned not to give speak of what they endured -- they were sometimes told they would be killed or raped if they gave interviews -- but they found the courage to do so. One man described being raped three times in a single day in Israeli prison, the third time after he tried to protest. A young woman said the guards would come in at the beginning of each shift and strip her naked and abuse her. Another reported that she was shown photos of herself being raped and warned they would be released unless she cooperated with Israeli intelligence. Even three children who had been detained told me they had been sexually abused. Look, whatever our position on the Middle East, we should be able to agree on being anti-rape. Sexual assaults were horrific when Israeli women were targeted on Oct. 7, and they're equally horrific when Israeli authorities use them against Palestinians day after day after day. We should be able to find common ground in opposing rape. Here's a gift link to the article: nytimes.com/2026/05/11/opi…
An Israeli man ran over a 6-year-old Palestinian girl with his car in the occupied West Bank as she played outside her home ⤵️
