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British surgeon in Gaza has claimed medical workers are seeing “clear patterns of injury”, suggesting IDF soldiers are deliberately shooting Gazan children in different body parts depending on the day of the week. Professor Nick Maynard told BBC Radio 4 he and his colleagues have experienced unusually high instances of gunshot victims targeted at aid distribution sites - mainly teenage boys - needing treatment for similar injuries. “On one day they’ll all be abdominal gunshot wounds, on another they’ll all be head gunshot wounds or neck gunshot wounds, on another they’ll be arm or leg gunshot wounds,” he said. IDF soldiers deliberately wounding children in Gaza ‘like a game’, says British doctor
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Blast from the Past - 60's, 70's, 80's,90's Music (2025)
bannork replied to CharlieH's topic in Entertainment
3 NUMBAS thanks for the invaluable advice about DuckDuckGo. YouTube were starting to send me nuts on my laptop with the number of adverts per song For my phone I downloaded CleanTube app- wonderful, no ads! -
Come on boys! Donald enjoyed dinner with Nick last November. HHRG-118-ED00-20240417-SD005.pdf And he refused to criticise him, afraid of upsetting the Maga base, lol. Donald Trump repeatedly refused to disavow the outspoken antisemite and white supremacist Nick Fuentes after they spoke over dinner at his Mar-a-Lago resort, rejecting the advice from advisers over fears he might alienate a section of his base, two people familiar with the situation said. The former US president was urged publicly and privately to denounce Fuentes in the aftermath of the dinner, which included the performer Ye, previously known as Kanye West, who has also recently been propagating antisemitic remarks. But Trump eschewed making outright disavowals of Fuentes, the people said, and none of the statements from the campaign or on his Truth Social account included criticism of Fuentes, despite efforts from advisers who reached Trump over the Thanksgiving holiday. Donald Trump ‘shied away from criticising Nick Fuentes’ | Donald Trump | The Guardian Perhaps Donald will criticise him now, or more likely he'll give Nick 50 days to recant his words.
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White supremacist and antisemitic podcaster and Donald Trump supporter Nick Fuentes went on an epic rant attacking the president as "fat" and "a joke." Speaking on his Thursday podcast, Fuentes questioned, "And now he says if you're not on board with the Epstein coverup — oh, I don't want your support. You're a weakling." “F--- you. F--- you," Fuentes blasted. "You suck. You’re fat. You’re a joke. You’re stupid. You’re not funny. You're not as smart as you think you are. And, honestly, if you watch my show, you know I've been very critical; I've never been this far. This just goes to show this entire thing has been a scam. When we look back on the history of populism in America, we are going to look back on the MAGA movement as the biggest scam in history, and the liberals were right. The MAGA supporters were had. They were." 'Liberals were right': Far-right Trump ally calls MAGA 'biggest scam in history'
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Israel has demolished thousands of buildings across Gaza since it withdrew from a ceasefire with Hamas in March, with entire towns and suburbs - once home to tens of thousands of people - levelled in the past few weeks. Satellite images show massive amounts of destruction in several areas which Israel's military command claims to have under "operational control". Large swathes of it have been caused by planned demolitions, both to already damaged buildings and ones that appeared largely intact. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-33fccfbe-abcc-4af1-bdd2-632b2787cf59 The Geneva Convention largely prohibits the destruction of infrastructure by an occupying power, it is in fact a war crime.
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Nobody on here supports Hamas, that's why they don't reply to your anti Hamas comments. The point is Israel would like to be thought of as a civilised nation but its behaviour over the last 21 months belies that. I suggest you watch the CNN video by Professor Nick Maynard, a British surgeon currently working in Gaza, describing the deliberate shooting by IDF of teenage Gazans going to collect food from the American/Israeli food collection points.
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A surgeon working in southern Gaza says babies are arriving at hospital so malnourished that “skin and bones doesn’t do it justice.” He also describes what appears to be a disturbing pattern in the gunshot wounds of children arriving from food distribution sites. CNN’s Nada Bashir reports. Surgeon shows humanitarian crisis in Gaza’s hospitals | CNN
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Accident India Orders Urgent Boeing Fuel Switch Checks After Deadly Crash
bannork replied to webfact's topic in World News
Glad you spent your time fruitfully, no need to be sorry 1. Did the software have a known bug? US aviation expert Mary Schiavo refers to a similar Boeing 787 incident involving All Nippon Airways in 2019, where both engines failed due to a software glitch — the aircraft's system falsely believed it was on the ground and cut fuel accordingly. The Japanese airline could fortunately be towed whilst Air India had no chance- no altitude or time to recover. 2. Poor cockpit design Even if one of the pilots operated the switch mid-take off, it may not have been deliberate. The stabilizer control switches — which the crew reported issues with earlier — are located next to the fuel cut-off switches. In the chaos of a stabilizer failure, a pilot could reach for one switch and hit the other. 3. Regulators were warned yet no inspections Less than a month before the crash, the UK Civil Aviation Authority issued a warning over fuel shutoff valve issues on Boeing aircraft, including the 787. The fuel control system had shown signs of potential failure across multiple models, however Air India didn't check the locking mechanism of the AI171’s fuel switch because a 2018 FAA advisory about the component was only that -advisory, not compulsory. -
Israel Hamas War the Widening Middle East Conflict
bannork replied to Social Media's topic in The War in Israel
Pope Leo XIV has renewed his call for a Gaza ceasefire after three people sheltering in the Catholic church in Gaza City were killed in an Israeli strike. A telegram said the Pope was "deeply saddened to learn of the loss of life and injury caused by the military attack" on the Holy Family Church. The Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, which oversees the church, said it was "struck by the Israeli army". Nine other people were wounded, one of whom is in a critical condition in hospital. The parish priest was lightly injured. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8xvnlpx2dxo -
Updates and events in the War in Ukraine 2025
bannork replied to cdnvic's topic in The War in Ukraine
A pair of Ukraine-supporting hacktivist groups have reportedly claimed responsibility for a cyberattack on a major supplier of drones to Russia's military called Gaskar Group. The group stated that the attack was a joint effort among its members, another group known as the Ukrainian Cyber Alliance, and Ukraine's military intelligence agency. This collaborative effort allowed the groups "to capture the entire network and server infrastructure of Gaskar Group," BO Team said, and "collect valuable information about manufactured and prospective UAVs with the subsequent destruction of information and disabling this infrastructure." Ukrainian hackers say they compromised a major Russian drone company, destroying data, backups, and systems -
EU review indicates Israel breached human rights in Gaza
bannork replied to bannork's topic in The War in Israel
SARAJEVO (Reuters) -Slovenia declared two far-right Israeli cabinet ministers, Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, persona non grata on Thursday, the first European Union country to do so, Foreign Minister Tanja Fajon said. The government accused Israel's national security minister Ben-Gvir and finance minister Smotrich - both West Bank settlers - of making "genocidal statements" and inciting violence against Palestinians. There was no immediate reaction from Israel's government which has regularly rejected accusations of genocide in Gaza, and says it is acting in self-defence following the deadly October 7, 2023, attack led by Hamas militants. Slovenia declares two Israeli ministers persona non grata