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I continue to follow the situation in the Middle East with dismay. Like other regions of the world, it is torn apart by war and violence. We cannot remain silent in the face of the suffering of so many defenseless victims of these conflicts. What wounds them wounds all of humanity. The death and pain caused by these wars is a scandal for the entire human family and a cry that rises to God!

🇨🇺 Cuba’s second nationwide blackout this week as U.S. blocks fuel for over 3 months Cuba’s 11 million people were plunged into a second nationwide blackout this week after the U.S. blocked nearly all oil shipments to the island since January, leaving the country without fuel for more than three months. Tanker traffic has nearly stopped under Washington’s “maximum pressure” campaign, with all major shipments intercepted, delayed, or forced to reroute. The last confirmed delivery was January 9: ~85,000 barrels from Mexico. ➤ Fuel shipments blocked or diverted: 🔹 Ocean Mariner (mid-Feb): carrying Colombian fuel oil; intercepted by the U.S. Coast Guard roughly 70 miles off Cuba, preventing delivery 🔹 Gas Exelero (Feb): spent five days attempting to secure fuel in Curaçao but failed to obtain cargo and left empty 🔹 Sea Horse (March): Hong Kong-flagged tanker carrying ~190,000–200,000 barrels of Russian-origin diesel loaded via ship-to-ship transfer in the Mediterranean; idled in the Atlantic for weeks before diverting toward Trinidad 🔹 LNG tanker: carrying ~27,000 metric tons of gas; rerouted away from Cuba to Venezuela to avoid U.S. sanctions ➤ Vessels now attempting to reach Cuba: 🔹 Anatoly Kolodkin: sanctioned Russian tanker carrying ~730,000 barrels of crude; currently ~3,000 nautical miles out in the Atlantic; expected early April; could provide only short-term relief if delivered 🔹 Escort presence: the tanker is accompanied by a Russian naval destroyer, underscoring the geopolitical stakes as Moscow tests U.S. enforcement 🔹 Russian naval oiler: traveling with the flotilla; U.S. officials say its cargo is too limited to significantly ease shortages ➤ Impact of fuel collapse: 🔹 Multiple nationwide blackouts in March, including the second this week 🔹 A 29-hour grid collapse earlier this week left millions without power 🔹 Airports ran out of jet fuel by mid-February, grounding most international flights 🔹 Trash collection has largely stopped in Havana as diesel supplies ran out

A friend in Cuba just notified me that every single patient in that hospital that was on ventilators died tonight. I don’t have words.

Recently, Israeli forces subjected a one-year-old child to abuse to pressure his father into giving confessions east of Al-Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza, according to local and family sources. The child's father, Osama Abu Nassar, suffered psychological trauma after the death of a horse he used for income. While taking his child to buy supplies a few days ago, he was caught in gunfire near his home and forced by soldiers to leave his 18-month-old son on the ground and approach the Israeli checkpoint, where he was stripped of his clothes. According to witnesses, the army then took the child and interrogated the father at the checkpoint. The forces tortured the child in front of his father, including burning with cigarettes on his leg, pricking, and inserting a metal nail into his leg, as confirmed by a medical report. The child, Karim, was released after 10 hours and handed over to his family through the International Red Cross, while the father remains in detention. 📷 Osama Al-Kahlout

There’s something supremely saddening and enraging about seeing a hospital running on bare minimum power. Thinking about dialysis patients, babies in NICU, and others tonight in Cuba. This is a blockade of death.

Right now, 1:45am local time, settler militias are raiding more than 9 Palestinian villages in the occupied West Bank. From Bethlehem all the way to Nablus, settler pograms are happening everywhere. This began at 12am local time and has not yet stopped 1:45am 3/22/26.