There is a nondescript, rundown complex of concrete buildings in Beirut's Sabra neighborhood, steps beyond the Shatila Palestinian refugee camp. It is one among hundreds of such buildings there, slowly decaying amid piles of garbage and a spiderweb of side streets.

Inside, little cats scurry through dark halls blackened by mold. Water drips from tiny white ceiling stalactites of salt hardened by time. It pools on the floor. In one nook above an ancient stairwell sits, inexplicably, a fully functioning corner-shop fridge shilling juice and Pepsi.

The hallways are said to hold ghosts, too.

They lurk among the living. Hundreds of people, most of them Palestinian refugees, call these four conjoined buildings home, squatting informally in rooms that line the damp hallways.

This was once the Gaza Hospital, a Palestinian Red Crescent-run facility and a former beacon of healthcare for Palestinians and Lebanese alike.

Fifty years since the start of Lebanon's civil war, we revisit one of its haunts.

Words by Madeline Edwards with my photography for Inkstick Media.

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On State's "legal" intimidation, bullying & thuggery
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If you take a look at the persecution of Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian Colombia university graduate, being kidnapped by Empire's goons (at the instigation of Zionist & Imperial scum), you see that he was detained on a Saturday at 8:30PM.

Tho the time would not be as relevant in other cases & when compared to the rest of the bullying & cruelty by Empire & its goons would look like its nothing, but the timing is relevant in the sense that, they picked that late Saturday night because they wanted to ensure his lawyers will not have time to stop them from throwing him under the bus pretty quickly as its a weekend late evening/night.

This is from the application submitted by his lawyers to court:

> On the evening of Saturday, March 8, 2025, at approximately 8:30 p.m., Mr. Khalil and his wife were returning to their Columbia University apartment from a friend's home. When they arrived at their apartment building, Mr. Khalil and his wife were approached by approximately four people who were dressed in plain clothes. All of them entered the lobby of the apartment building, which is owned and operated by Columbia University.

> When the people approached Mr. Khalil and his wife, they asked: "Are you Mahmoud Khalil?" When Mr. Khalil answered in the affirmative, the men identified themselves as being with the Department of Homeland Security and stated that they had to take Mr. Khalil into custody. The agents told Mr. Khalil's wife to go up to her apartment, and that if she would not leave Mr. Khalil, they threatened to arrest her, too.

> Mr. Khalil's wife retrieved his immigration documents to show the DHS agents that Mr. Khalil is a lawful permanent resident. She handed the documents to an agent, who was talking to someone on the phone. The agent looked confused when he saw the documents and said: "He has a green card." Mr. Khalil's wife heard the agent repeat that they were ordered to bring Mr. Khalil in anyway.

> … [Khalil's lawyer] Attorney Greer advised Agent Hernandez that Mr. Khalil is a lawful permanent resident and has the right to due process. … Agent Hernandez responded that the Department of State had revoked Mr. Khalil's green card, too, and that he would be brought in front of an immigration judge and hung up the phone.

> Hours after the petition challenging its detention authority was filed, however, ICE began efforts to transfer Mr. Khalil out of the region and to a Louisiana detention facility a thousand miles away, without providing him any access to his counsel, and without providing counsel of record on his pending habeas petition any advance notice of this transfer or any information with respect to any justification for his detention.

Since most in society (including lawyers) will have weekend plans, courts might be closed (I am not sure how courts work in Empire for immigration related cases, but I am assuming they will be closed too) & might not be available till Monday, they picked that exact moment (Saturday late evening) to kidnap him, to make him most vulnerable to the harm they wanted to inflict on him. Even if a lawyer is available who is willing to go the extra mile (only privileged sections of society have this access), they have to prepare applications/petitions to be submitted & they take time, so weekend is a hurdle, so State goons picked late saturday night for this exact purpose.

They also moved him within Empire to a distant place, so he will have no support system in that distant place. They denied his access to lawyers as long as possible, in the hopes of simply kidnapping him & to throw him outside the border as quickly as possible, to try & deny him even the farcical "legal" protections Empire claim to provide.

These are pretty common tactics of every State & its goons — all around the world. In our shithole too, State goons does the kidnapping at the exact moment when they know courts will be closed over weekend/long holidays, so they can throw the political enemies in jail for the longest possible period or inflict maximum damage they can to serve bosses — political/bureaucratic.

Thanks to the rotten systems (whether these are so called "Democracies" or some other similar shit) we all are forced to live under, a fucking piece of paper determines what your intrinsic value is/lack there of. These systems are intrinsically anti-human, anti-justice, anti-fairness, but call themselves so called "systems of justice".

Every fucking system we currently have are machines geared to strip peasants of agency & transfer power away from peasants as much as possible, that have their own force (so called "process"), sweeping everyone in its current. Yet we are told we need to respect these rotten systems (even worse in our shithole).

PS: In our shithole, we have 1984 laws, so they dont have to put as much effort to terrorize people, but State goons do it anyways as they are used to this sort of intimidation for a long time in all high profile cases — to intimidate & harm political enemies & show them who the real boss is. Its a classic gangster move by State & its goons.

Source: s3.documentcloud.org/documents…

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Mr Fake "revolution" strikes again
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This Zionist fuck (closeted Nazi flavor of Zionism), have his natural instinct tilted in a specific direction (who aided & abetted Gaza Genocide while pretending he is doing the opposite) & then his political operators who are working with him told him he will lose lot of support with his public behavior, so his PR team released this statement 🤦‍♂️

All the so called "Bills" (ones that are half-hearted measures) he introduced are all those he knew would fail anyways, which he did after so much public shaming by peasants, but they allows him to pretend did "something" (while standing behind his genocidal thuggish friends till they lost power), which allows him to present himself as the so called "radical" within the logic of establishment (being a "radical" within establishment is a contradiction in terms, but that never stopped piedpipers like him from gaining legitimacy amongst radicals & radically inclined peasant population).

This behavior of him is aligned his board support for Empire & it's crimes in foreign lands, his support for USAID (Empire's unconventional warfare division), him posing himself as so called "Socialist" while being Capitalist & a tool of Capitalism, …. All those contradictions are meant to have the PR face as without the PR face he wont be seen by indoctrinated segment of population as "radical".

Without those "radical" credentials, he will have no credibility to continue with his "resistance tours", to bring disillusioned peasants in Empire back into the fold of the closeted fascist political wing & back into electorialism.

This is a rule of thumb that I found useful for myself:

Those who claim to be on your side publicly with their words, while aiding the enemies actively behind the scenes (or) aiding with their deeds, is far more dangerous, than those who tell you they hate you & you are their enemy openly.

With later, you can take precautions, but the former kind is far harder to deal with because now you are not sure when they are going to betray you.

Video source: Hellsite

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