It's staggeringly offensive of Greta Thunberg to claim she's been 'kidnapped' when we know what real kidnap looks like: JAKE WALLIS SIMONS
She was aboard a boat, the Madleen, with 11 other activists taking a tiny shipment of aid to Gaza – much of which they had already eaten, according to Israeli authorities.
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Daily Mail
2 hours ago
- Daily Mail
Ranting tycoon's wife taunts Jewish neighbor about his daughter's death while serving with Israeli army
A woman has hurled anti-Semitic slurs at her Jewish neighbor in a rant taunting him over the death of his daughter while serving in the Israeli border police force. Anna Bouzyk was caught on camera shouting derogatory abuse at David Lubin, whose American daughter was killed by a 'teenage terrorist' in November 2023. Sgt. Elisheva Rose Ida Lubin, 20, was stabbed to death by a 16-year-old as she patrolled Jerusalem's Old City with two other officers, the Israeli Army said. The soldier grew up in Georgia with her family, who currently reside in the north Atlanta suburb of Dunwoody. She immigrated to Israel in August 2021 and began her mandated army duty in March 2022. David was posting stickers about his daughter's death around the neighborhood when Anna reportedly launched her verbal attack. Anna, who allegedly displays pro- Palestine signs and flags on her property, called David a 'k**e', 'corrupt Israeli' and said his 'daughter deserved to die', WANF reports. She allegedly admitted to calling David the slur and accused him of calling her a 'Jew hater' and further 'provoking' the situation. Anna's husband Mark Bouzyk, co-founder of bought-out genetics firm AKESOgen, stood by her side as she argued with David. Tension between the two families began to heat up last year when the Bouzyks allegedly hung a sign on their home that featured a derogatory word about Jews. David told the news outlet the couple have the right to display any signs they want, but was upset when Anna tried to confront him last month about his stickers honoring Rose. He appears to have placed the stickers on public property. He alleges Anna started shouting abuse at him from across the street, even saying that Rose 'deserved' to be murdered. That's when he walked across the street and addressed Anna directly, as seen in the now viral video. 'You are calling yourself a k**e, you know what you are. You know what you are better than me,' Anna is heard telling David. 'You are a corrupt politician with a daughter in the IDF that went there to kill, and has killed maybe in friendly fire because the Israeli soldiers kill each other all the time, and you know very well.' She and Mark then went on to claim that Rose's death was justified because 'she was fighting' for the Israeli army. David hurled back: 'Do you realize when you say that how disgusting you are? You are disgusting. You are disgusting. You are the most disgusting person I've ever met. "Because you're a Jew, you don't understand?" You are so confused.' The grieving father told WANF that he was 'not shocked' by Anna's behavior and said that he decided to film the incident so others could be aware of how she acted. 'In that moment, I felt like there was a level of me that needed to get this woman on tape so people could hear how much hate was in her and how much hate is in people that are out there,' he explained. Anna, who spoke to WANF on the phone, admitted that she called David a 'k**e' and said 'I don't regret what I said', noting she would 'say it a million times again'. She also alleged that she had intended to tell David he was vandalizing public property by placing his daughter's stickers around the community. She claims things got heated after he branded her a 'Jew hater', which she said 'made my blood boil'. 'He was provoking me. He was putting his phone in my face. He didn't have the right to do that, because I went to talk to him about vandalizing,' she said. 'He made me very angry. I called him the first word that came to my head, what's wrong with that?' Mark was terminated from his position as Chief Scientific Officer at AllaiHealth, an AI-driven patient medical history platform, on Monday in wake of the incident. 'We are deeply disturbed and disheartened by the video circulating involving Dr. Mark Bouzyk,' CEO Robert Boisjoli wrote in a statement, confirming Mark had been fired. 'The behavior displayed in that footage is reprehensible, completely inconsistent with our values, and has no place in our organization or society.' Boisjoli continued: 'We hold ourselves and all those who represent AllaiHealth to the highest standards of integrity and accountability. To our employees, partners, and the broader community - we remain committed to maintaining a culture of respect.' Mark, a co-founder of AllaiHealth, previously served Chief Scientific Officer at genetics firm Akesogen, which he also co-founded. The firm was acquired by AI-drive biotechnology company Tempus in 2019 for $1.5million, Securities and Exchange Commission filings show. He previously earned his PhD in human molecular genetics from University of Hertfordshire and studied biochemistry during undergrad at University College London. It is unclear when the couple moved to America. Little is known about Anna, although she appears to have run a hobby jewelry business in the Atlanta area. Her Spider Blue Designs Etsy page has not received a customer review since July 2010 and states: 'SpiderBlue is taking a short break.' David is running for Georgia state senate. He grew up in Tennessee but moved to Atlanta after graduating from the University of Georgia in 1999. He is running for state senate on a platform focused on combating gun violence, providing high-quality education, building resilient and sustainable infrastructure, and protecting women's health and reproductive rights. David is a father of five, including Rose, and lives in Dunwoody with his second wife Stephanie, who is also the mother of his youngest child. He also runs a commercial construction company that primarily works on municipal community projects.
The Independent
2 hours ago
- The Independent
Lebanon releases Israeli citizen held in detention for a year
An Israeli citizen detained in Lebanon has been returned to Israel after more than a year in detention, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said on Thursday. There was little information given about the man, identified as Salah Abu-Hussein, an Arab citizen of Israel. His imprisonment had not garnered public attention in Israel or Lebanon. Israeli media reported that the man's family had reported him missing around a year ago and was unaware he was in Lebanon. Four Lebanese security and judicial officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the case, said the man had entered the country illegally by crossing the land border between the two countries and was then caught by Lebanese security officials. At the time of his crossing, Israeli forces and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah were engaged in ongoing low-level clashes in the border region, which escalated into a full-scale war in September 2024. It was halted by a U.S.-brokered ceasefire two months later. Abu-Hussein's release was negotiated in secret over the past few months in cooperation with the Red Cross, according to Gal Hirsch, Netanyahu's coordinator for the Hostages and the Missing, who is also Israel's point of contact for the hostages in Gaza. On Thursday, Lebanese Authorities handed Abu-Hussein to Hirsch at the Rosh Hanikra crossing between Lebanon and Israel, which is not open to the public. Lebanon and Israel do not have diplomatic relations and Israeli citizens are prohibited from entering Lebanon under Lebanese law, with rare exceptions for Palestinians holding Israeli citizenship. Netanyahu hailed the return of Abu-Hussein. 'This is a positive step and a sign of things to come,' he said after Abu-Hussein returned. There was no official comment from the Lebanese government on his release. A group advocating for Lebanese citizens held in Israeli prisons denounced the move. The Representative Committee of Lebanese Prisoners and Freed Prisoners said in a statement that 19 Lebanese citizens are imprisoned in Israel and called the release of the Israeli citizen by Lebanon 'blatant betrayal.' ————— Sewell reported from Beirut.
The Guardian
5 hours ago
- The Guardian
Revealed: Israeli military's own data indicates civilian death rate of 83% in Gaza war
Figures from a classified Israeli military intelligence database indicate five out of six Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza have been civilians, an extreme rate of slaughter rarely matched in recent decades of warfare. As of May, 19 months into the war, Israeli intelligence officials listed 8,900 named fighters from Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad as dead or 'probably dead', a joint investigation by the Guardian, the Israeli-Palestinian publication +972 Magazine and the Hebrew-language outlet Local Call has found. At that time 53,000 Palestinians had been killed by Israeli attacks, according to health authorities in Gaza, a toll that included combatants and civilians. Fighters named in the Israeli military intelligence database accounted for just 17% of the total. That apparent ratio of civilians to combatants among the dead is extremely high for modern warfare, even compared with conflicts notorious for indiscriminate killing, including the Syrian and Sudanese civil wars. 'That proportion of civilians among those killed would be unusually high, particularly as it has been going on for such a long time,' said Therése Pettersson from the Uppsala Conflict Data Program, which tracks civilian casualties worldwide. 'If you single out a particular city or battle in another conflict, you could find similar rates, but very rarely overall.' 8,900 Named fighters listed as dead or 'probably dead' in Israeli database as of May 2025 In global conflicts tracked by UCDP since 1989, civilians made up a greater proportion of the dead only in Srebenica – although not the Bosnian war overall – in the Rwandan genocide, and during the Russian siege of Mariupol in 2022, Pettersson said. Many genocide scholars, lawyers and human rights activists, including Israeli academics and campaign groups, say Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, citing the mass killing of civilians and imposed starvation. The Israeli military did not dispute the existence of the database or dispute the data on Hamas and PIJ deaths when approached for comment by Local Call and +972 Magazine. When the Guardian asked for comment on the same data, a spokesperson said they had decided to 'rephrase' their response. A brief statement sent to the Guardian did not directly address questions about the military intelligence database. It said 'figures presented in the article are incorrect', without specifying which data the Israeli military disputed. It also said the numbers 'do not reflect the data available in the IDF's systems', without detailing which systems. A spokesperson did not immediately respond when asked why the military had given different responses to questions about a single set of data. The database names 47,653 Palestinians considered active in the military wings of Hamas and PIJ. It is based on apparent internal documents from the groups seized in Gaza, which have not been viewed or verified by the Guardian. Multiple intelligence sources familiar with the database said the military viewed it as the only authoritative tally of militant casualties. The military also considers the Gaza health ministry toll reliable, Local Call has reported, and the former head of military intelligence appeared to cite it recently, even though Israeli politicians regularly dismiss the numbers as propaganda. 52,928 Gaza health ministry's overall death toll as of 14 May 2025 Both databases may underestimate casualty numbers. The Gaza ministry of health lists only people whose bodies have been recovered, not the thousands buried under rubble. Israeli military intelligence are not aware of all militant deaths or all new recruits. But the databases are the ones used by Israeli officers for war planning. Israeli politicians and generals have variously put the number of militants killed as high as 20,000, or claimed a civilian-to-combatant ratio as low as 1:1. The higher totals cited by Israeli officials may include civilians with Hamas links, such as government administrators and police, even though international law prohibits targeting people not engaged in combat. They probably also include Palestinians with no Hamas connections. Israel's southern command allowed soldiers to report people killed in Gaza as militant casualties without identification or verification. 'People are promoted to the rank of terrorist after their death,' said one intelligence source who accompanied forces on the ground. 'If I had listened to the brigade, I would have come to the conclusion that we had killed 200% of Hamas operatives in the area.' Itzhak Brik, a retired general, said serving Israeli soldiers were aware that politicians exaggerated the Hamas toll. Brik advised the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, at the start of the war and is now among his most strident critics. 'There is absolutely no connection between the numbers that are announced and what is actually happening. It is just one big bluff,' he said. Brik commanded Israel's military colleges, and said he kept in touch with serving officers. He described meeting soldiers from a unit identifying Palestinians killed in Gaza, who told him 'most of them' were civilians. Even though much of Gaza has been reduced to ruins and tens of thousands of people killed, the classified database lists nearly 40,000 people considered by the army to be militants and still alive. Casualty estimates from Hamas and PIJ members also indicated Israeli officials were inflating the militant toll in public statements, said Muhammad Shehada, a Palestinian analyst. By December 2024 an estimated 6,500 people from the military and political wings of both groups had been killed, members told him. 'Israel expands the boundaries so they can define every single person in Gaza as Hamas,' he said. 'All of it is killing in the moment for tactical purposes that have nothing to do with extinguishing a threat.' The ratio of civilian casualties among the dead may have increased further since May, when Israel tried to replace UN and humanitarian organisations that had fed Palestinians throughout the war. Israeli forces have killed hundreds of people trying to get food from distribution centres in military exclusion zones. Now starving survivors, already forced into just 20% of the territory, have been ordered to leave the north as Israel prepares for another ground operation that is likely to have catastrophic consequences for civilians. The scale of the killing was partly owing to the nature of the conflict, said Mary Kaldor, professor emeritus at the LSE, director of the Conflict Research Programme and author of New Wars, an influential book about warfare in the post-cold-war era. International humanitarian law was developed to protect civilians in conventional wars, in which states deploy troops to face each other on the battlefield. This is still largely the model for Russia's war in Ukraine. In Gaza Israel is fighting Hamas militants in densely populated cities, and has set rules of engagement that allow its forces to kill large numbers of civilians in strikes on even low-ranking militants. 'In Gaza we are talking about a campaign of targeted assassinations, really, rather than battles, and they are carried out with no concern for civilians,' Kaldor said. The ratio of civilians among the dead in Gaza was more comparable to recent wars in Sudan, Yemen, Uganda and Syria, where much of the violence had been directed against civilians, she said. 'These are wars where the armed groups tend to avoid battle. They don't want to fight each other, they want to control territory and they do that by killing civilians,. 'Maybe that is the same with Israel, and this is a model of war [in Gaza] that is about dominating a population and controlling land. Maybe the objective always was forced displacement.' Israel's government says the war is one of self-defence after the Hamas-led attacks on 7 October 2023, which killed 1,200 people. But political and military leaders regularly use genocidal rhetoric. The general who led military intelligence when the war began has said 50 Palestinians must die for every person killed that day, adding that 'it does not matter now if they are children'. Aharon Haliva, who stepped down in April 2024, said mass killing in Gaza was 'necessary' as a 'message to future generations' of Palestinians, in recordings broadcast on Israeli TV this month. Many Israeli soldiers have testified that all Palestinians are treated as targets in Gaza. One stationed in Rafah this year said his unit had created an 'imaginary line' in the sand and fired at anyone who crossed it, including twice at children and once at a woman. They shot to kill, not to warn, he said. 'Nobody aimed for their legs'. Neta Crawford, a professor of international relations at Oxford University and co-founder of the Costs of War project, said Israeli tactics marked a 'worrisome' abandonment of decades of practices developed to protect civilians. In the 1970s public revulsion about American massacres in Vietnam forced western militaries to shift how they fought. New policies were imperfectly implemented but reflected a focus on limiting harm to civilians that no longer appeared to be part of Israel's military calculus, she said. 'They say they're using the same kinds of procedures for civilian casualty estimation and mitigation as states like the United States. But if you look at these casualty rates, and their practices with the bombing and the destruction of civilian infrastructure, it is clear that they are not.'
