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A video shows an Israeli soldier shooting a Palestinian child while children were running away from them in the town of Biddu, northwest of Jerusalem, yesterday morning.

The US ambassador in Beirut today stated that the US government asked the Israelis to “spare Christian villages” in South Lebanon.

You’re probably seeing the phrase “Eid Mubarak” today. You may know it has something to do with Islam, but not exactly what it means. It simply means: “Blessed Eid” or “Have a blessed festival.” This day comes at the end of a long period of fasting from dawn to sunset. For weeks, Muslims have been stepping back from food, drink, and other comforts during the day, not as punishment, but as discipline. It’s about learning restraint, remembering God, and becoming more aware of how humans live and treat others. So today is not just a holiday. It’s a moment of relief, gratitude, and return. People gather for prayer, often early in the morning. Families come together. There’s food, especially sweets. You may see neighbors sharing meals, giving gifts, or reaching out in kindness. There is also a strong emphasis on charity, making sure the poor are not left out of the celebration. If someone says “Eid Mubarak” to you, they’re offering goodwill. You don’t have to share the faith to understand the gesture. It’s simply a way of saying, “I wish you well on this day.” In a world that often pushes us apart, it’s not a bad thing to understand what your neighbor is doing, why there’s joy in their home today, or why they might knock on your door with something sweet to share. You don’t have to observe it. But you can recognize it. And sometimes, that’s where respect begins.

Trump’s ultimatum to Europe: Send your navies on a suicide mission into the Strait of Hormuz, or the U.S. will annex Greenland.

Trump’s ultimatum to Europe: Send your navies on a suicide mission into the Strait of Hormuz, or the U.S. will annex Greenland.

Israel is detaining children without charge in record numbers, a rights group has said, subjecting them to hellish conditions that include beatings, the denial of food and water and other forms of torture. New figures from the Israel Prison Service show that of 351 child detainees, 51% are held in so-called “administrative detention”, where people are imprisoned indefinitely without having committed a crime on the grounds that they intend to break the law. The rights group Defense for Children International – Palestine (DCIP) said on Wednesday that this is both the highest number and the highest percentage on record since it began monitoring these figures in 2008. “These numbers come at a time when Palestinian children consistently report appalling and debilitating conditions within Israeli detention facilities,” the group said. This includes being denied “adequate food and water, being subjected to beatings and verbal harassment, lacking access to medical care, and being subjected to torture, including the use of solitary confinement.” The IPS figures for child detainees do not include those who are held in military detention or interrogation centres, which are separate from the prison service. “There is no available data for the number of children or adults detained at these sites,” the group said, “though DCIP has gathered firsthand testimonies from previously detained children describing systematic torture and dehumanising conditions.” For those held in the prison system, their lawyers are “forbidden from passing on simple messages from families, and children who wish to pass along messages to their families”. Under Israel’s apartheid system, being charged is not a reliable indicator that a Palestinian has committed a crime. In 2024, a UN agency said Palestinians had been coerced into falsely confessing to links to Hamas. The Israeli rights group B’Tselem said in January that Israel runs a network of torture camps where thousands of Palestinians are subjected to a “living hell” – and that the country’s political, media and legal institutions are complicit in maintaining them.