🚨 Look what they did to this poor boy. I am going to force you to see what Israel and America are doing to children in Gaza. And we are paying for this.

Daylight revealed not rubble but the shadow of a child, burned alive and fused to his own home. Israel calls it defense. America calls it aid. I call it genocide.

🚨 Family, this may be the hardest thing I have ever sent you. I know many of you will struggle to read this, but I refuse to let Israel and the United States do what they are doing in Gaza — burning children alive, erasing families, reducing homes to ash — and do it in silence.

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What the Video Shows

Just about an hour ago, when I first say the video that I have posted above, my brain couldn’t quite process what I was seeing. At first, you see only rubble — the kind of destruction that’s become tragically familiar. But then the camera shifts, and what it shows next is almost beyond comprehension.

You probably wouldn’t even be allowed to show something like this in the worst horror movie.

Against the wreckage of what used to be a home, you see the outline of a child. At first, it looks like it could be the face of a little boy. But it isn’t a boy anymore. It is what’s left of a boy who was literally incinerated — his body evaporated by the blast so strong and so heinous that it made everything but the outer layer of this child disappear. What remains is only his skin, fused into the window frame of his home. His mouth is wide open, as if still frozen in a scream.

There is no blood. No bones. Just ash-covered flesh clinging to what used to be a house. A rescue worker reaches for him, but there is nothing to reach for. He is no longer a body that can be carried, only a shadow of skin bound and fused to the ruins.

This is not war. This is not “collateral damage.” This is the deliberate incineration of a child.

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The Lowest Point of Leadership

I’ve spent my adult life writing about violence, about injustice, about the worst things people do to one another. But family, I have to tell you: seeing this video and witnessing this daily devastation may very well be the lowest moment of my life as a leader. It’s not OK. I’m not OK. You should not be OK.

If the world is willing to see this video, and still do nothing to stop this genocide, I don’t know what else to say.

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Paid For by Us

And here is the brutal truth that Americans must face: we paid for this bomb.

It was purchased with U.S. taxpayer dollars. It was dropped with U.S. approval. And when the rescue worker bent down to pull away the child’s remains, what he was touching was not just Israel’s crime — it was America’s crime.

The United States has not simply looked away. It has armed, funded, and defended this genocide at every turn.

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Part of a Pattern

Some people will want to look at this single video and say, “That’s tragic, but it’s just one case.” No. It is not one case. It is part of a pattern that stretches back decades. And Israel has slaughtered at least 30,000 kids in the past 700 days - a number I can hardly believe I am typing to you.

But they’ve always done this. In 1948, whole Palestinian villages were bombed and burned, their people expelled to make way for a new state. In 1982, in Beirut, Israel lit the skies with flares so that its allied militia could massacre thousands of refugees in Sabra and Shatila. Again and again, Israel has used overwhelming force not to defend itself, but to erase Palestinian life.

This boy — turned to ash against the frame of his home — is not an exception. He is the rule.

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What Islam Teaches

As a Muslim, I cannot see this without remembering what our Prophet Muhammad ﷺ taught about war: “Do not betray. Do not act treacherously. Do not mutilate. And do not kill children.” (Sunan Ibn Majah).

Fourteen centuries ago, these rules were made clear: even in the harshest times, innocence is sacred. Children are sacred.

Israel has done the opposite. It has turned the killing of children into strategy. It has turned their bodies into messages, their deaths into tools of terror. And America has blessed it.

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Why I Show You This

I know many of you will recoil from this story. Some of you will be angry at me for sending it. But family, I need you to understand something: silence is what allows this to happen.

Israel and the United States count on silence. They count on people looking away. They count on editors at the New York Times putting this in the back pages or behind a paywall. They count on social media deleting the videos.

But I refuse. We must look. We must not look away.

Because that boy — turned to ash, mouth frozen in a scream — he was a human being. He had a name. He had a mother and father. And he deserved the chance to grow up, to live, to laugh, to love.

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The Turning Point

Family, this is not just my lowest point as a leader. It can also be a turning point for all of us.

Because if the world continues to allow this, then we have lost all moral authority, all claim to justice. But if we refuse silence — if we stare this horror in the face and name it for what it is: genocide — then we have a chance to honor that boy’s life.

We must find a way to stop this. We must. Otherwise I am afraid my own soul. And yours.

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Love and appreciate each of you.
Your friend and brother,
Shaun

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