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Italian magazine L’Espresso’s cover featuring a photo of an Israeli man mocking a Palestinian woman sparks controversy

➔ The photo, taken during the October 2025 olive harvest, shows an Israeli in military uniform—who had seized Palestinian land—mocking a Palestinian woman, and has drawn global attention

➔ Some pro-Israel social media accounts claimed the image was AI-generated

➔ However, journalist Pietro Masturzo released footage from the day, confirming the authenticity of the story

➔ Masturzo: Israeli soldier addressed Palestinians as if they were his own animals

➔ Israel has sought to prevent the spread of the image, accusing those who share it of being “antisemitic”

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXHNeTOlpoY/

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While not about Gaza the same CUNT is responsible

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Before the timer reaches zero, 100 bombs have dropped

WARNING: This story contains distressing details and imagery.

By ABC NEWS Verify's Maryanne Taouk

The Israel Defense Forces called it Operation Eternal Darkness. In Lebanon, it’s now called Black Wednesday.

Bombs began falling a little before 2.15pm on April 8, local time.

Four minutes later, the Lebanese National News Agency (NNA) posted a one-sentence article:

غارات تستهدف بيروت | Air strikes target Beirut

^{04/08/2026, 02:19 PM}

Over 10 minutes, more than 100 bombs fell from a reported 50 Israeli aircraft.

By 2.26pm the official IDF accounts on Telegram stated they had hit “approximately 100 military headquarters and infrastructure of the terrorist organization Hezbollah”.

The air strikes came hours after Iran and the United States agreed to a two-week ceasefire while negotiations for a permanent peace agreement were carried out.

The IDF said Lebanon was not included in that ceasefire. Fresh hostilities had broken out between Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed militant group, and Israel at the start of March.

ABC NEWS Verify has geolocated the sites that were hit in the 10 minutes of the IDF’s April 8 operation to map the intensity and scale of the bombardment.

We have identified many of the people who were killed and used videos posted online, testimonies from survivors and local media reporting to document one of the largest mass-casualty events since Lebanon’s civil war ended in 1990.

From Corniche to the airport

Dahiyeh, south of Beirut’s centre, is notorious for being a Hezbollah stronghold and is no stranger to Israeli attack.

It has been subject to constant bombardment during the latest wave of violence between Israel and Hezbollah.

On March 10, Israel issued evacuation warnings for the areas within Dahiyeh before it was hit.

It was struck again on April 1, with at least five people killed and 21 injured.

On April 8, Ghida Fakih was at work and receiving Snapchats from her 13-year-old daughter, Naya, who was on her way home from basketball practice.

Her mother said Naya was walking along Corniche al-Mazraa when bombs began to fall.

At first, she was not concerned.

“I heard one boom, but we disregarded it because we thought it was either a sonic boom or a strike somewhere in Dahiyeh. It never crossed my mind it was near my house,” Ms Fakih told ABC NEWS Verify.

In a video, Naya hears a loud noise overhead and turns to her father Mohamad.

There are six explosions as Naya and Mr Fakih run for cover.

“She calls me, crying. I can’t understand what she’s saying,” Mrs Fakih said.

Then the line cut out.

The mother of three said a building with a nut roastery called Rifai was targeted as her daughter and husband walked in front of it.

Nader Khalil, a veteran mixed nuts seller, was killed in the explosion.

At 2.15pm, CCTV from inside the Habibona Snack Restaurant in Corniche al-Mazraa, close to Rifai, showed panic as bombs fell.

The video time stamp shows 1.15pm — an echo of Lebanon’s daylight saving which ended 10 days earlier.

In the video you can hear at least five explosions before the restaurant is filled with smoke and dust.

Mrs Fakih’s two sons, aged 11 and four, were at home in Salim Salam, about 400 metres from the nut roastery.

With her sons at home and her daughter hiding in the streets, Mrs Fakih was torn.

“I just wanted to hold them. All of them. And make it stop. No mother should have to choose between which child to reach first.”

It wasn’t just central Beirut that was hit.

Near the Rafik Hariri International Airport, south of the city, Hayy al-Salloum, one of Beirut’s poorest areas, was also struck.

In this video, which ABC NEWS Verify geolocated, the Nassereddine market in Hayy al-Salloum can be seen completely destroyed.

According to local media, Salim Salam, Talet El Khayat and Corniche al-Mazraa were the first to be hit by the IDF in the 10-minute strike, along with the suburbs of Borj Abi Haidar and Bashoura.

L’Orient reported these areas were not given prior warning.

Laura Sidaoui’s aunt Afaf and cousin Hassan were in their apartment building in Talet El Khayat when it was hit.

They both died.

“It broke me,” she said in an Instagram post.

“The pain is unbearable. So unfair.”

The next strikes hit the villages of Kaifoun and Bshamoun east of Beirut, and further out in Aitat.

The IDF, via its Arabic-speaking spokesperson Avichay Adraee on X, had earlier that morning told residents to evacuate seven southern Beirut suburbs: Haret Hreik, Ghobeiri, Laylaki, Hadath, Burj al-Barajneh, Tahwitat al-Ghadir and Chiyah.

A funeral in Bekaa and the southern strikes

As IDF planes were flying overhead, residents of the village of Chmistar in the Bekaa Valley were holding a funeral for one of their own.

The cemetery, on the south-west of the village, was reportedly bombed in the first wave of air strikes, with the earliest reports coming through local news agencies at 2:18pm.

In a local television news segment a man identified himself as a witness to the bombing.

“We were burying my grandfather … a natural death,” he said.

“They hit a mass for the funeral procession.”

Hezbollah, a group that Australia has proscribed as a terrorist organisation, identified at least six members killed in the air strike.

The Lebanese Army said four soldiers were also killed.

Also in the Bekaa Valley, local media reported Israeli strikes on the villages of Hermel, Karak, Ferzol, Boudai and Sohmor.

In the southern Nabatieh district of Lebanon, a local resident Telegram channel monitored by ABC NEWS Verify saw strikes reported in the villages of Zifta, Qseibeh, Bediass, Sir al-Gharbieh, Ansar, Sharqieh, Baissariyeh, Houmin and Qaaqaaiyet al-Jisr.

An Israeli strike on an al-Zahraa compound in the southern city of Sidon reportedly killed and injured at least 15 people.

Lebanese media said Sheikh Sadek Naboulsi, a professor and commentator well documented as being affiliated with Hezbollah, was killed.

Further south, the exact timing and location of the April 8 strikes have been harder to geolocate.

Hezbollah and the IDF have exchanged fire in the areas south of the Litani River for years and the damage is widespread and difficult to attribute to a single strike.

The IDF released a map showing its April 8 strikes, with multiple areas south of the Litani River among the places targeted.

At 2.25pm, multiple local media listed confirmed strikes on eight locations within or near the city of Tyre including Bazourieh, Abbasieh, Bedias, Ain Baal, Batoulieh and Deir Qanoun al-Nahr.

The toll

The Lebanese Ministry of Health’s latest update has the death toll from the April 8 strikes at 357, with 1,223 people wounded.

Social media has been flooded with tributes.

Restaurant workers, a mother, a poet, a pharmacist, a radio presenter and a journalist, families, a schoolteacher, a politician, soldiers, and children still in kindergarten are among the dead.

Israel maintains the bombardment was targeting Hezbollah.

In a Hebrew post on the official IDF war diary page, the 10 minutes was described as “based on accurate intelligence information”, which it claims was “carefully planned over many weeks”.

In a statement to Lebanese broadcaster Ennahar, Brigadier General Imad Khreich said the death toll would likely increase.

While direct and in-direct negotiations are ongoing, US President Donald Trump said Israel and Lebanon had agreed to a 10-day ceasefire.

For Ghida Fakih, whose daughter and husband were metres from death, she still has hope they will be able to return to their lives.

“My family and I left Beirut,” she said.

“Naya is a strong girl … My four-year-old is refusing to go back home.

“I hope for peace everywhere, not just in Lebanon.”

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-17/ten-minutes-black-wednesday-lebanon-verify/106564594

 

[Old Hippie]

My plan for world peace:

1) become energy independent, very easy for the USA and other countries to do this.

2) tell the Arabs to choke on their oil’

3) stop ALL military aid to this region, ALL countries.

4) Cut off all communication with that region

5)Let them all kill

6) come back in 5 years and see who is left and ask if they have had enough, if yes then we establish ties if not then they resume killing each other and not bothering the rest of the world…

 

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The activists were aboard a flotilla that was intercepted by Israeli forces in international waters on Tuesday (May 19) and later taken to an Israeli port.

 

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Trump’s Board of Peace bank account to rebuild Gaza is empty - 

- more than four months later, the World Bank fund established for the project, remains empty and has not spent a single dollar on rebuilding Gaza, according to the Financial Times.

One source told the publication: “Zero dollars have been deposited.”

Sources familiar with the arrangements said contributions had instead been channelled through accounts the board controls directly.  LINK

:: Who controls the Board? Trump.

... in entirely related news, Trump and family's wealth has surged to approximately $7.5 billion.

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Meanwhile, Israel’s military campaign against the Hamas leadership continues. The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) announced this week that it had killed Mohammed Odeh, head of Hamas’ military wing in Gaza, 10 days after the death of his predecessor, Izz al-Din al-Haddad.

 

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11 hours ago, Coss said:

Trump’s Board of Peace bank account to rebuild Gaza is empty -

Anyone surprised is part of the problem

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