Kerry Buttram

Self-inflicted wounds. I’m surprised anyone is surprised at this avoidable disaster.

Vintage portrait of a girl, featuring her face looking directly at the camera with a neutral expression. She wears a textured coat and her mid-length hair is styled around her face.

11 August 1927 | Belgian Jewish girl, Anna Rozenblum, was born in Charleroi.

In April 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz from Kazerne Dossin in Mechelen. She did not survive.

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We can be better than this. I know we can.

Hardly any reporting these days on a war which goes on and on killing, maiming and displacing millions.

How to Prevent More Starvation Deaths in Gaza As Israel refuses to let in sufficient humanitarian aid, a leading expert on famine explains why even “flooding the zone” with food won’t be enough.

“If Netanyahu wanted every child in Gaza to be fed tomorrow, he could just give that instruction and it would happen.” One of the world’s leading experts on famine discusses the starvation in Gaza.

#BirdoftheDay today is a Goldfinch. Trying to match Alan's very handsome image below with my own.
The goldfinches do love sunflower hearts, but absolutely adore any seeds they can find naturally in your garden and I love to watch them gathering them. #birds #photography #photo #wildlife

This is a young Kittiwake which has just recently fledged from its nest on the Isle of May… stunning birds :)

35 rabbis arrested in NYC and DC protests for Gaza food aid - Jewish Telegraphic Agency The arrests come as reports of mass starvation in Gaza draw global outcry.

Let Gaza live. Let a surge of food and other aid in NOW.

This is what moral leadership looks like. This is what rabbis do.

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Ethiopia: "Many pregnant women have died due to lack of medicine and health services" The ongoing conflict in the Oromia region is having a devastating effect on many communities, particularly those in remote areas.

📍 Ethiopia | Armed conflict in the Oromia region is affecting many communities, particularly in remote areas.

“Many pregnant women have died in our village due to a lack of medicine and healthcare services,” says Asiya.

New footage for journalists here 👇🏽 ms.spr.ly/6182sJn4r

A World of Misery, From 200 Miles Up

On one of the most unbelievable satellite images I've ever seen, showing hundreds of Palestinians surrounding aid trucks north of Rafah.
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Awdah Hathaleen in front of Al-Aqsa Mosque, Jerusalem

Zichro L'MAAPACHA
May his memory be for the revolution ❤️‍🔥

The activist & writer Awdah Hathaleen-- who worked on the film NO OTHER LAND, & brought so many Jews, Israelis & others to Umm Al-Khair to teach abt the realities of settler violence,

was murdered by a West Bank settler w/terrorist record. +

He has cast down the mighty from their thrones

Gaza's malnourished children cannot wait. They need food now | Editorial ***

Gaza's malnourished children cannot wait. They need food now | Haaretz Editorial

ADF in DR Congo: IS-linked rebels accused of killing Christian worshippers in Komanda Around 20 of the dead were taking part in a night vigil which was stormed by armed men, officials say.

Be in prayer for our brothers and sisters in the DRC.

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Gaza: 'I witnessed war crimes,' former worker at GHF aid site tells BBC A retired US soldier reveals why he quit working at Israel and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid hubs.

"I witnessed the Israeli Defense Forces shooting at the crowds of Palestinians," a retired US special forces officer told the BBC when asked he resigned from his work with US- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid distribution centres. www.bbc.com/news/videos/...

Israeli military says airdrops of aid into Gaza set to begin tonight amid increased starvation deaths For months, the U.N. and experts have warned that Palestinians in Gaza are at risk of famine, with reports of increasing numbers of people dying from causes related to malnutrition.

"Airdrops will not reverse the deepening starvation," UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini wrote on X on Saturday. "They are expensive, inefficient & can even kill starving civilians. It is a distraction & screensmoke."

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No Proof Hamas Routinely Stole U.N. Aid, Israeli Military Officials Say

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There is no Christian theology or eschatology that can justify man-made starvation.

Even if people are viewed as enemies, the Scriptures still tell us what to do:

“If your enemies are hungry, feed them.”

The baptized have pledged their allegiance to Jesus Christ, not the Pentagon or the IDF.

"There is no excuse for what’s happening in Gaza. This tragedy must end now, immediately and decisively. Every political hesitation, every attempt at justification of the horrors being committed under international watch, will forever be judged as a collective failure to preserve humanity in war.”

Gaza | The scale of human suffering and the stripping of human dignity have long exceeded every acceptable standard, both legal and moral.

This tragedy must end now.

Mirjana Spoljaric, ICRC President: ms.spr.ly/63327sGyPt

Severe malnutrition among under-5s in Gaza City has tripled in two weeks, charity says MSF says number of people needing care for malnutrition has quadrupled since May and blames Israeli ‘policy of starvation’ * Middle East crisis – live updates The medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has said that rates of severe malnutrition among children under five at its Gaza City clinic have tripled in the last two weeks as starvation in the Israeli-besieged strip worsens. The global aid community has sounded the alarm as Gaza descends deeper into mass starvation, with daily deaths from starvation reported as Israel allows only a trickle of aid into the territory. Continue reading...

Severe malnutrition among under-5s in Gaza City has tripled in two weeks, charity says

Gazans Are Dying of Starvation

"Food is unaffordable. There is nothing": In Gaza, a third of the population has not eaten for multiple days in a row, according to the World Food Program. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/w...

79 people shot in Gaza over the weekend: There is no excuse for starving people and then opening fire on civilians desperately lining up for food. None.

Congress must not give Netanyahu another penny of unconditional military aid.

We must not look the other way.

A child rides a toy horse on wheels

21 July 1941 | A French Jewish boy, Albert Cogan, was born in Vichy.

In December 1943 he was deported to #Auschwitz and after the selection he was murdered in a gas chamber.

😕

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Nature’s masterpiece! Behold the beautiful Mandarin duck (Aix galericulata)

This is amazing.

UN finds rising child malnutrition in Gaza, where officials say Israeli strikes kill 93 people DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Hunger has been rising among Gaza’s more than 2 million Palestinians since Israel broke a ceasefire in March to resume the war and banned all food and other supplies…

Israel has killed more than 58,400 Palestinians and wounded more than 139,000 others in its retaliation campaign since Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.
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