J, 33, she/her, bi trans mess in black lipstick. An absolute mess of amalgamous fandoms and random thoughts. I champion the complexity of women while endlessly criticizing the complexity of men, just for the fun of seeing the tables turned. Minors do not interact please!
I'm curious! It seems like most of my friends never use the tadpole abilities/skill tree in their playthroughs, and I always convince every origin character to eat them now, just to get everyone the Luck of the Far Realms skill. I've avoided using the astral tadpole at all because i'm vain and don't like how it makes my character or the others look.
However in my most recent run, I gave the astral tadpole to Minthara and have been enjoying her flying all over the map during combat smiting everything in sight. I think I will give her all my tadpoles for this run and fully max out the illithid skill tree for the first time.
Israel is setting up a complex system of checkpoints that will prevent men of “military age” from fleeing Rafah in preparation for its offensive on the southern Gaza border city, a senior western official familiar with Israel’s plans has told Middle East Eye on condition of anonymity.
The checkpoints are designed to allow some women and children to leave Rafah ahead of an expected Israeli offensive, but unarmed, civilian Palestinian men will likely be separated from their families and remain trapped in Rafah during an expected Israeli assault.
The previously unreported disclosure of Israel’s construction of a ring of checkpoints around Rafah underscores how Israel is pushing ahead with plans to attack the city where over one million displaced Palestinians are sheltering in tents and makeshift camps.
The creation of gender-based checkpoints around Rafah would put a spotlight back on Israel’s practice of stripping and forcibly detaining male Palestinian men and children, as it faces rising scrutiny in the West of its conduct in the war.
The rounding up of Palestinian males in Gaza and photographing them stripped to their underwear drew condemnation in December, with the US calling the images “deeply disturbing”.
Relatives of many of the men photographed recognised them and said they had nothing to do with Hamas. Israel's military was later accused of staging footage of men surrounding weapons.
“Israel considers every male a Hamas fighter until proven otherwise,” Abbas Dahouk, a former senior military advisor at the State Department and military attache in the Middle East told Middle East Eye.
“It’s not a sound move. Cordoning Rafah is a daunting task and good luck separating fathers and sons from their families.”