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August 1, 2026 - Every morning in Gaza, the search for water begins.

Video journalist Bisan Owda follows children carrying heavy water containers, families waiting for water trucks, and the people working to keep one of the few desalination plants still running.

Along the way, Bisan reveals what has been destroyed, why clean water has become so hard to find, and what it now takes to provide water for millions of people in Gaza. [video]

Don’t ignore me, my friend😞

I am a mother who lost my first child in this devastating war. After two long years of waiting, I am finally pregnant again, and I am now in the final months of my pregnancy.

Every day is filled with fear and uncertainty. I desperately need medications, vitamins, and nutritional supplements to protect my health and give my unborn baby the best chance to survive. But because of the border closures and the severe shortage of medicine, the prices have become unbearably expensive.

I need $30 every day just to afford the medicine and supplements that my baby and I urgently need.

Please, if you can, help me with whatever you are able to give. Your kindness could make the difference between hope and despair, and help me keep my baby safe. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

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“I was born in 1960. I lived in Konstantinovka on Polznova Street with my family. My family consisted of my wife, Alla Ivanovna, my daughter… My wife, daughter and son-in-law. They all died from Ukrainian strikes.

On 21 May, my son-in-law died from a penetrating shrapnel wound. Slobodniuk Roman Vladimirovich, 45 years old. They could have been firing from over there in this direction, and they could have been firing from the other side as well. They turn around and shell the city. They don't care where they fire from.

When they [The Ukrainians] set the house on fire the next day. My wife and daughter were sitting in the cellar. I didn't manage to save them. They suffocated. A mine set the house on fire. 22 May 2026. My wife was 67, and my daughter was 41. They suffocated; I couldn't save them. The fire was so intense that there was simply no way. Only afterwards was I able to get there, reach them and pull out the bodies.

Ukrainian crimes were widespread. To be honest, they shelled us mercilessly.

There were people living in our church. I went to them. Where else could I go? I walked around the house; it was burning. Well, what was I supposed to do there? I went to them. They had already been living there since the autumn. I joined them. And after some time, yes, they began heavily shelling and burning us there. They could see that the whole church… And they were obviously tracking us very well, as I understand it. We stayed there anyway; they bombed us and threw mines at us, it was terrifying, horrible.

You could actually see that large drone, the ‘witch’, as they called it, dropping mines on us, right onto our heads. Right onto the church, yes, yes, yes. We lived there, and they showered us with mines. The church was on Lomonosov Avenue.

We started leaving because we realised they were going to kill us there. We left, and the people who were still there said: ‘They completely demolished the church. They finished off everything else.’

And I was left alone with my dog, a German shepherd. The two of us remained together. Well, I felt sorry for the dog, so I took him with me.

Then Ukrainian drones began hunting us: one would arrive, descend, hover over me and [come] into the doorway. It flew in and attacked. Luckily, we managed to dodge it. One, two, three, they don't stop after just one.

Several of them come after the same person. Then, apparently, the second one missed and flew in through the nearby window, but it didn't explode there. Well, it remained there with the explosives.

We were enemies to them. They considered us ‘zhduns’. Zhduns are people who support the Russians, who want and are waiting for the Russian world. And since we are the Russian world, that means we are enemies.

There were cases where people saw Ukrainians turning their guns around and firing at the city. Women would approach them: ‘What are you doing?’ ‘Old woman, shut up, or you'll get it now.’ They would turn the guns around and fire at the city. Specifically at the city. Ukrainian soldiers would at the civilian population.

They did this so that people would leave, so that they wouldn't stay in the city. They did it deliberately. So that people would start evacuating. People didn't want to leave. Those who wanted to went straight to Ukraine.

But we wanted to remain in our homeland, where we live. My family didn't want to go there. We wanted to go to Donetsk [City], or to stay.

Ukraine has no future. That's what I think. They'll bury themselves. But that’s just my opinion.”

The police ruled it a suicide. The family and local community demanded an investigation. The police refused to change their ruling.

Juliana Nzita, A 16 year old Black girl, was just found hanging from a tree on church grounds in Charlotte, NC. Police have ruled it a suicide, despite hanging ourselves from trees being like the one communally agreed way Black folks ain’t killing ourselves.

Every time I go on Twitter or Facebook I learn about another recent lynching or missing Black person going mostly unreported. Half the reason I keep an active account on either of those sites is because they’re the only place I can find out about the violence happening to Black and Trans people reasonably quickly.

To’Nea Nicole Miller, Justice Kai James, and Jerard “Jay” Jackson have all been found hanging from trees this year alone, and have all had their cases ruled a suicide by the police. Just a few days ago another (unidentified) Black woman was found hanging from a tree in Jackson Mississippi, although the police havent ruled it a suicide yet.

My friends, my grandmother wants to live. Please, your support can save her. Every donation or share can make a real difference in her life.💔🆘-

For the past 3 days, support has been almost nonexistent and very slow💔. We urgently need $180 to cover 3 days of IV treatment. Otherwise, her condition could become critical.She has been in the hospital for the past two weeks due to her deteriorating condition.💔😭

Please... I love my grandmother, and I don't want to lose her. 💔🙏

This is exactly what I feared, my friends—it has now become headline news.💔

Please, my grandmother is exhausted because of the lack of donations. Don't let her suffer any longer.😭

Ousmane Sembène, Senegalese director and father of African cinema

"It is good to be at Cannes, but I wish Africa would create something of its own. We should not be eternal guests. It is up to us to create our own values. To recognize them and to carry them throughout the world." —Sembene! (2015)