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I am at the airport in Toronto and I just watched a video that broke me. Even now I am holding back tears. I’ve seen it all. I’ve reported on police murders, on war zones, on starvation, on mass graves, on genocide. But this? Everything about this video is just awful and I am feel horrible for wondering if this sweet boy would be better off dead.
The video was filmed by the heroic Palestinian journalist Nahed Hajjaj — one of the few still alive and still documenting this horror from inside Gaza.
It shows the aftermath of an Israeli airstrike on a residential apartment. Not a military base. Not a weapons cache. A family’s home. A place where people lived. Ate. Slept. Loved. And now they’re all gone.
The victims are:
Suad Al-Basous
Fathi Al-Basous
Mona Al-Basous
Mohammed Al-Basous
They are dead.
The only survivor is a 6-year-old boy. And what’s left of him is... I don’t even know how to describe it.
⚠️ The Child Who Survived Might Not Live for Long
In the video, the boy is laying on the floor of a hospital. He’s conscious. Barely. And his intestines are hanging outside of his abdomen.
He’s screaming in agony. He’s in such shock, such trauma, that it’s like his body doesn’t even know how to process what’s happening. You can hear the panic around him — doctors and nurses scrambling trying to fix this broken boy.
His belly is wide open. He’s bleeding. He’s alone.
And he is the only one left in his family.
🤬 This is not a war. It’s the annihilation of families.
You cannot call this a war and expect me to nod in agreement.
You cannot tell me this is self-defense.
You cannot tell me this is about Hamas.
You cannot justify dropping bombs on apartments and blowing open the body of a 6-year-old boy.
What crime did he commit?
What was he guilty of?
Why is no one being held responsible for this?
And why in the hell are we — the United States — funding this?
🏴 They weren’t on the front lines. They were at home.
Do you understand what that means?
They weren’t in a tunnel.
They weren’t in a combat zone.
They weren’t armed.
They weren’t fighting.
They were at home.
They were in an apartment in Gaza City. And Israel bombed it. Just like they’ve bombed hundreds of thousands of other homes.
What happened to the Al-Basous family is not unique. That’s the worst part. It’s part of a system, a strategy — a deliberate campaign to wipe out as many Palestinians as possible, destroy their families, and then claim it was all necessary.
📉 We’ve shown you the starvation. Now look at the bombs.
This week, we’ve shown you:
A baby named Zainab, who was starved to death — her ribs poking through her skin
A 4-year-old boy named Abdul, who weighed less than 20 pounds before he died
A girl named Rahaf, who dropped from 55 pounds to 11 and is still clinging to life
A man with special needs, Mohammed Al-Sawafiri, who died with nothing in his stomach
A Green Beret whistleblower who told the BBC: “I witnessed war crimes”
A New York Times report saying Israel has no evidence Hamas stole aid
A Reuters analysis confirming the U.S. also found zero evidence of Hamas theft
So they can’t starve these children anymore and say “Hamas stole the food.”
And they can’t bomb apartments anymore and say “It was a weapons depot.”
Because now the evidence is too clear.
And so is the evil.
🤲🏽 Say their names. Carry their story.
They were a family.
Suad.
Fathi.
Mona.
Mohammed.
And now the boy.
His body trying to hold on.
His family already gone.
And I’m sitting here in Toronto. Angry. Grieving. Furious. Exhausted. Wondering why the hell more people aren’t saying anything.
🛡️ If we don’t tell these stories, who will?
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If this story wrecked you, say something.
If this video gutted you, say something.
If you can’t sleep tonight, say something.
Because the bombs are still falling.
The children are still dying.
And if we don’t raise hell, no one will.
With grief and fury,
Shaun
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