Carmen Alvarez

You know, the killing is so relentless that you almost get used to it. A classroom of children killed every single day. You write about it, you read about it. Someone’s mother digs herself up from the rubble. Someone’s father is split in half. There was a video of wounded man using his arms to crawl across the road. Another man is so hungry he weeps. You read the stories. Each one is more brutal than the next and somehow the brutality is banal. You are numb, for better or for worse. But there are moments in the day, maybe just a singular moment, when you actually contend with the magnitude of the tragedy, when you are able to quantify the loss and in those moments you feel crushed—there are no adjectives. There are people mourning their lovers. Students missing their teachers. Orphans. Widowers. Grandmothers who look just like your own. I cry when I think about the people who were martyred just hours before they could apologize for something, or confess to something, or have something to eat. Or the slain who believed they would survive. And as the rancid rotten people of the world pontificate and debate the definition of genocide, you are at war with yourself, trying desperately to ignore the material meaning of the word. You read the news and you read the news and it is so hard to accept that the dead, the thousands of people they are slaughtering, they are your loved ones and your loved ones’ loved ones. This isn’t just a bad dream.

Canada is appalled by the Iranian Government’s execution of a Swedish citizen in Iran. We offer our deepest condolences to the family and express our full solidarity with Sweden. Canada continues to call on the Iranian regime to respect human rights and uphold their responsibilities under international law.

🚨 Lebanon death toll surpasses 1,000 as strikes continue nationwide Lebanon’s Health Ministry said at least 1,001 people have been killed and 2,584 wounded since the start of Israeli attacks, according to official figures released March 19. At least 33 people were killed and 152 injured in the past 24 hours alone. ➤ 804 men, 79 women, and 118 children are among those killed ➤ 1,805 men, 414 women, and 365 children have been wounded ➤ 5 hospitals and 42 ambulances have been hit, along with 18 civil defense centers and 68 health facilities ➤ 40 healthcare workers have been killed and 107 injured, according to the ministry

Canada is appalled by the Iranian Government’s execution of a Swedish citizen in Iran. We offer our deepest condolences to the family and express our full solidarity with Sweden. Canada continues to call on the Iranian regime to respect human rights and uphold their responsibilities under international law.

🚨 Lebanon death toll surpasses 1,000 as strikes continue nationwide Lebanon’s Health Ministry said at least 1,001 people have been killed and 2,584 wounded since the start of Israeli attacks, according to official figures released March 19. At least 33 people were killed and 152 injured in the past 24 hours alone. ➤ 804 men, 79 women, and 118 children are among those killed ➤ 1,805 men, 414 women, and 365 children have been wounded ➤ 5 hospitals and 42 ambulances have been hit, along with 18 civil defense centers and 68 health facilities ➤ 40 healthcare workers have been killed and 107 injured, according to the ministry

The moment Israel targeted British journalist Steve Sweeney in southern Lebanon.

This hasn't hit the news yet, which is not surprising.

This hasn't hit the news yet, which is not surprising.