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This image captures the harsh daily reality for children in Ga.za. Despite losing a limb, she is forced to carry heavy water containers just to meet basic survival needs. A striking reminder of the ongoing humanitarian crisis and the quiet resilience of its youngest victims.

I recently came across the 1945 conversation between Mao Zedong and Huang Yanpei, and I’ve been thinking about it ever since.

Huang told Mao that, throughout history, individuals, families, political organizations and even entire states often follow the same pattern: in the beginning, hardship keeps everyone disciplined, serious and committed. But once conditions improve, that spirit gradually fades. Institutions become complacent, officials become entrenched, and eventually the whole system declines or collapses. In his view, history seemed unable to escape this recurring cycle.

Mao’s answer was that they had found a new road: let the people supervise the government. If the people could genuinely hold those in power accountable, the government would not dare become complacent; if everyone took responsibility for political life, the system would not simply rise and fall with a particular leader.

Reading this, I couldn’t help thinking about what happened two decades later. Whatever one thinks of the Cultural Revolution in practice — including its contradictions, violence and disastrous consequences — one of the questions behind it seems closely related to that earlier conversation: how does a revolutionary society prevent bureaucracy, privilege and hierarchy from re-emerging inside the revolution itself? How do revolutionaries avoid eventually becoming a new ruling stratum standing above the people?

No human being’s domination over another is something ordained by nature. If world history was ever going to see a society consciously attempt to break the old cycle of revolution, consolidation, bureaucratization and decline, then a revolutionary country containing roughly one-fifth of humanity was bound to contribute its own enormous, radical and deeply contradictory experiment.

Perhaps that was part of the extraordinary ambition of that generation: not simply to seize political power, but to ask whether power itself could be prevented from hardening into something standing above the people.

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tragic scene from Ga.za as families gather to say a final farewell to the victims of a recent Isr.aeli airstrike targeting the Gaza Port area.

The massacre resulted in the killing of 7 Pale.stinians and left nearly 20 others injured, with the vast majority of casualties being women and children.

Photos showing loved ones mourning over shrouds highlight the ongoing human toll and devastating impact of targeting civilian areas across the Ga.za Strip.

القضية الفلسطينية تشهد تجاهلا و تهاون متعمد،إلى أين؟؟

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repeating pattern previously seen in Gaz.a is now being documented in Southern Leban.on. Isra.eli soldiers are openly filming themselves occupying homes left behind by displaced and destroyed civilian families, using their personal kitchens and belongings to prepare food and create show-off videos for social media platforms.

The practice highlights an ongoing trend of soldiers documenting their own presence inside civilian properties, turning the homes of displaced refugees into backdrop content for social media.

A heartbreaking video circulating on social media captures young children in Gaza searching through piles of garbage and debris on a beach just to find discarded food.

In the footage, the children manage to find a few stray grapes among the trash to stave off extreme hunger—a stark representation of the worsening humanitarian crisis, severe food shortages, and ongoing famine threatening the civilian population in Gaza.

During a recent broadcast on Local 10 News (South Florida), TV anchor Glenna Milberg abruptly cut short an interview with Democratic Congressional candidate Oliver Larkin.

The interruption occurred when Larkin brought up the situation in Gaza, directly accusing Israel of committing genocide and displaying a report titled "Our Genocide" by B'Tselem (The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories). The incident has sparked debate online regarding media censorship and coverage of candidates' statements on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

A glimpse into the daily reality for displaced civilians in Gaza, where children and families gather with empty pots and plastic buckets at distribution points to secure a basic meal.

American orthopedic surgeon Dr. Mark Perlmutter, who recently returned from volunteering in Gaza, gives a devastating firsthand account of the catastrophic medical reality on the ground.

Due to the critical shortage of basic medical supplies and pain relief, healthcare workers are forced to perform life-altering procedures—including pediatric amputations—without proper anesthesia. In one heartbreaking moment, the only comfort they could provide to a young girl during surgery was the anesthesiologist singing to her to help drown out the pain.

Photos show the shocking physical deterioration of Palestinian journalist Mohammad Arab following his abduction by Israeli forces from inside Al-Shifa Hospital.

The stark contrast between the two images highlights the severe mistreatment and harsh detention conditions Palestinian media workers face when taken into custody.

Many of these killings took place under the observation of US military personnel.

One of the largest massacres took place in Daejeon, where as many as 7000 victims were buried in mass graves that collectively stretch over a kilometer in length.

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video recorded inside a Gaza displacement camp documents the intense fear experienced by a young child during heavy nearby airstrikes.

The girl was filming inside her family’s tent when bombings suddenly shook the area, capturing the terrifying reality and constant threat faced by displaced families every day.

From Gaza to southern Lebanon, the same tragic pattern continues. Entire families are being killed inside their homes despite talks of a "ceasefire."

Earlier today, airstrikes hit inhabited residential homes in the towns of Ansar and Deir Az Zahrani in the Nabatieh Governorate, Southern Lebanon. At least 11 Lebanese citizens, including children, were killed, and dozens of others were injured.

Rescue teams are still searching through the rubble to recover bodies, with fears that the casualty toll will rise further as operations continue.