Mariya Petkova

Bulgarian journalist and editor working on the Middle East, Eastern Europe and the Balkans. Currently with Al Jazeera English.

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2024-12-08 19:38:54

This man, Ragheed Al-Tatari, was released today after more than 40 years in prison, according to reports by activists.
He was imprisoned for refusing to bomb Hama during the uprising against Hafez al-Assad's rule in 1982.
https://www.aljazeera.net/news/2024/12/8/%D8%AA%D8%AD%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B1-%D8%B7%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B1-%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A-%D8%A3%D9%85%D8%B6%D9%89-43-%D8%B9%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%A7-%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B9%D8%AA%D9%82%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA
#Syria
https://s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com/mastodonworld/media_attachments/files/113/618/860/632/847/578/original/77b460155ca323c5.jpg

2024-11-20 21:03:35

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Fadi's mother who has cancer has gone on hunger strike, refusing food, water and medicine.
She is demanding her son gets evacuated from Gaza immediately.
#journalismisnotacrime
https://youtu.be/JS-gT8jAmjM?feature=shared

2024-11-20 20:59:14

Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent Hossam Shabat was injured when Israel bombed a building where he was covering rescue efforts.
Hossam is one of the 6 colleagues working in northern Gaza that Israel has officially threatened.
Meanwhile, colleagues Fadi Al Wahidi and Ali Al-Attar are still being denied medical evacuation that could save their lives.
#Gaza #journalism #press
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/11/20/video-al-jazeera-journalist-injured-while-reporting-on-israeli-attack

2024-11-17 18:05:18

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Israeli media is also reporting that a deal would not include Israeli "freedom of action" clause.
Per this Haaretz report, Netanyahu put that condition in order to remove it.
Netanyahu is reportedly desperate to end the war with #Lebanon so he can reintroduce a law allowing Orthodox Jews to dodge draft and thus preserve his coalition.
Currenrly, per the report, Israel does not have enough soldiers to sustain fighting on both fronts given high number of casualties.
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-11-17/ty-article/.premium/iran-is-preparing-diplomatic-invoice-for-breaking-linkage-between-lebanon-and-gaza/00000193-36b2-dcd3-a3b7-b7bf9d2d0000

2024-11-17 17:59:47

As Israel is carrying industrial scale of killing in #Gaza , there is increasing talk about a ceasefire in #Lebanon .
Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, who negotiates on behalf of Hezbollah, has said he is "optimistic" about the prospects for a ceasefire.
He's also claimed that Trump has blessed a ceasefire initiative.
He has also said the deal being negotiated will not include a provision allowing Israel to strike Lebanon whenever it wants.
https://www.newarab.com/news/us-stopped-israeli-plan-expand-gaza-war-lebanon-berri

2024-11-17 17:08:42

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Al Jazeera Arabic was able to obtain footage from the location of the massacre.
Beit Lahia has been reduced to an apocalyptic landscape.
#Gaza #genocide
https://youtu.be/QyvkkPt29aE?feature=shared

2024-11-17 17:01:46

Another horrific massacre carried out by the Israeli army in Beit Lahia in northern Gaza.
The death toll has now reached 72 with dozens still under the rubble as Israel is not allowing rescue teams to reach the area.
The total death toll across the strip since dawn is 111 Palestinians.
#Gaza #genocide #Palestine
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11/17/israel-bombs-residential-building-in-north-gazas-beit-lahiya-killing-50

2024-11-17 13:53:52

Democratic organiser Jonathan Smucker predicted back in 2019 that the Democratic Party's pursuit of "moderates" will cost them.
Below are his reflections on how the collapse happened. A sober read amid the ongoing blame game and hysteria.
#USpolitics
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/11/17/democrats-next-time-try-fighting-for-the-working-class

2024-11-16 12:20:28

Dutch Photographer Annet de Graaf talks to Mehdi Hasan about how her footage of Israeli football hooligans going on a rampage in #Amsterdam was purposefully misused and misrepresented by Sky News and #BBC
#journalism #press #Israel #Palestine
https://youtu.be/ZjoQkPXA_us?feature=shared

2024-11-10 16:40:38

Horrific details are also emerging about another Israeli massacre in #Jabalia :
"In Jabalia as dawn broke, “there was a very huge explosion… When we arrived here, all the bodies were torn apart”, said Abdullah al-Najjar, a relative of the victims
The Alloush family home was being used as “a shelter for people during intensified bombing, but they all died”, he said."
13 children were among those massacred.
#Gaza #Palestine #genocide
https://aje.io/zfmzci?update=3315340

2024-11-10 16:30:04

Something horrific is happening in Jazira state in eastern #Sudan. A government official told Al Jazeera that 300 people have died from suspected poisoning in Al-Hilaliya, besieged by the RSF for 2 weeks.
Yesterday, local media reported the victims of poisoning were 150.
The source said the deaths were not from cholera, which is also raging in the town.
The RSF besieged Al-Hilaliya after a local commander from its ranks deserted to the army.
https://www.aljazeera.net/news/2024/11/10/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86-77

2024-11-10 15:19:27

Al Jazeera's Step Vassen on the situation in #Amsterdam :
"What happened is that the Maccabi fans – hooligans – came to Amsterdam. They had racist songs glorifying the genocide in #Gaza ...
More and more pictures are emerging, with these fans with iron poles and sticks also attacking people. And that side of the story is just simply not being told. And that’s why people here are very angry.
This is a protest ban which we also don’t know any history of in Amsterdam."
https://aje.io/zfmzci?update=3314919

2024-11-09 15:26:57

This is so heartbreaking.
A journalist saw a young boy sleeping in the graveyard at night. The boy told him he was sleeping at his mother's grave because he wanted to sleep in her lap again.
There are at least 17,000 Palestinian children like little Zein who wish they could sleep again on their mother or father's lap.
I doubt we'll ever be able to comprehend the scale of trauma among Gaza's children.
#Gaza #Palestine #genocide
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/11/9/boy-who-sleeps-on-his-mothers-grave-in-gaza

2024-11-09 10:12:34

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We are 3 days from the supposed deadline the Biden administration gave Israel to restore aid to Gaza at needed levels.
North Gaza is in full-scale starvation, the south is also struggling and yet Lloyd Austin claims "some progress" has been made.
Judging by his and Blinken's reactions, nothing will happen after Nov 12, except more words. I hope I am wrong.
#Gaza #genocide #Palestine

2024-11-09 10:04:40

The Israeli extermination op in north #Gaza has entered its 36th day.
Al Jazeera's Anas Al Sharif is reporting that there are dead that no one can recover bc rescue teams have stopped working. The wounded can't get to hospitals. Those who manage to don't receive treatment because hospitals are not functioning. No aid has entered the north and no meals have been distributed.
You don't have to understand Arabic to hear the desperation in Anas's voice.
#Palestine
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VuUBwjPgCOE

2024-11-08 07:59:32

The Israeli army has been attacking Palestinian fishermen who have dared try to get whatever little fish is left in the shallow waters of Gaza.
In the latest attack, the Israeli army killed one fisherman and injured three others by shelling their boats.
#Gaza #genocide #Palestine
https://aje.io/bo4df6?update=3309749

2024-11-08 07:55:30

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Previous "victims" of the Israeli Film Review Council include "Lyd" by Rami Younis and Sarah Ema Friedland about the expulsion of Palestinians from the city and Muhammad Bakri's "Jenin, Jenin".
#censorship #Palestine

2024-11-08 07:52:30

In between the drama in the US with the elections and in Israel with the firing of Gallant, an important development has passed under the radar: that the Israeli Film Review Council under the culture ministry is now officially exercising vetting and censorship of all films screened in Israel.
Its latest "victim" is "1948 – Remember, Remember Not", an Israeli documentary about 1948 produced by an Israeli director and funded by public broadcaster KAN11 TV.
#Israel
https://www.haaretz.com/life/2024-11-06/ty-article/.premium/another-film-ban-in-israel-film-council-forbids-screenings-of-documentary-on-1948-war/00000193-0212-de2c-a3bf-bf12a9630000

2024-11-07 17:45:00

Apartheid in #Israel is deepening:
"The Israeli parliament, the Knesset, has passed a law that allows the deportation of relatives of Palestinians who carry out attacks against Israelis, including those with Israeli citizenship.
According to the new bill approved on Wednesday, the minister of the interior can deport people for a period of up to 20 years to the besieged #Gaza Strip or another location based on the "circumstances". "
#Palestine #apartheid
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-passes-law-allows-deportation-relatives-palestinians

2024-11-07 06:03:11

UNRWA staffer Louise Wateridge:
Across northern #Gaza, there is no way of telling where the destruction starts or ends. No matter from what direction you enter #Gaza City, homes, hospitals, schools, health clinics, mosques, apartments, restaurants - all completely flattened.
An entire society now a graveyard."
https://x.com/UNWateridge/status/1854242727480934704

2024-11-05 07:12:41

"Solidarity volunteers describe threatening interrogations, false charges, and swift expulsion orders by a new police unit established by Ben Gvir."
#Palestine #Israel
https://www.972mag.com/solidarity-activists-explusions-ben-gvir-task-force/

2024-11-04 09:49:06

What a horror.
A 4-day-old baby is the only ICU survivor of Israel's attack on Kamal Adwan hospital, which cut off electricity from a generator to the ICU unit where a number of gravely wounded children and adults were on respirators/oxygen keeping them alive.
4-day-old Mohammed is an orphan, the Israeli army having killed his family.
#Gaza #genocide #Palestine
https://aje.io/air81j?update=3295855

2024-11-03 12:48:52

"Salma, at just 11 years old, has been hoarding food cans, water bottles, and dry beans in her bedroom. She has said she is “preparing for genocide” in the West Bank."
"Riham, a 15-year-old girl, has developed repetitive involuntary vomiting... She attributes [it] to the images of blood and dismemberment of people in #Gaza that she has seen. Over time, her aversion has extended to flour-based foods, driven by the fear that they might be mixed with animal fodder."
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/11/2/how-israels-starvation-of-gaza-is-affecting-palestinians-elsewhere

2024-11-03 07:06:04

"The BBC has been accused by more than 100 of its staff of giving Israel favourable coverage in its reporting of the war on Gaza and criticised for its lack of “accurate evidence-based journalism”."
#Gaza #genocide #Palestine
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11/2/over-100-staff-accuse-bbc-of-bias-in-its-coverage-of-israels-war-in-gaza

2024-11-02 05:21:00

The death toll from the Israeli massacre in Nusseirat regugee camp, which the Israeli army did not stop bombarding for 24 hours, has reached 84 people, including 50 children.
#Gaza #genocide
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/11/2/live-israel-massacres-84-in-gaza-air-strikes-kill-dozens-across-lebanon

2024-10-29 19:23:53

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The death toll of this massacre has reached 109,
with 40 people still missing under the rubble.
Photo: AFP
#Gaza #genocide #Palestine
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2024-10-29 07:38:47

Israel has not only been systematically targeting school shelters in northern Gaza but also residential buildings full of families.
It bombed a 5-storey building in Beit Lahia today that had sheltered around 100 people. As of this hour, 62 are confirmed dead, per the reporting of our correspondent Hani Mahmoud.
#Gaza #Palestine #genocide
https://aje.io/bbgms9?update=3281825

2024-10-29 06:09:45

The three men that beat up with wooden poles activist Nadia Ahmad for daring to call for an arms embargo on #Israel at the DNC are Adam Lapino, Scott Gustafson, and Brent Booker, all high-level officials from Laborers' International Union of North America.
The Washingo Post would have named them in an article about the subject which was killed last minute.
#Palestine
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/scoop-washington-post-brass-spiked

2024-10-27 16:15:46

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For years, the ICC has been accused of just chasing after African war criminals.
As former UN official Moncef Khane writes below, if it does not move on the Netanyahu-Gallant arrest warrants, its credibility and legitimacy will collapse completely.
#Palestine #justice
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/10/13/the-iccs-credibility-is-hanging-by-a-thread

2024-10-27 16:11:42

It was inevitable that #ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan will be attacked. I guess it's hardly surprising that WSJ is leading the media assault.
The three ICC judges who are supposed to approve the arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant are taking their sweet time.
One of them quit and had to be replaced two days ago, delaying further the process.
By contrast, it took ICC judges just 24 days to issue the arrest warrant for Putin after Khan requested it in 2023.
#Gaza
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/international-criminal-court-karim-ahmad-khan-whistleblower-israel-4934bf60

2024-10-25 07:20:30

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The Israeli attack on Kamal Adwan hospita yesterday apparently resulted in the damage of the oxygen supply which has killed a number of children in the ICU.
150 patients and medical staff remain besieged in the hospital by the Israeli army.
#genocide #Gaza
https://aje.io/zs30s7?update=3272122

2024-10-25 07:17:23

An Israeli strike on a hotel used by journalists (including Al Jazeera) killed 3 journalists.
Cameraman Ghassan Najjar and engineer Mohamed Reda from Al-Mayadeen and cameraman Wissam Qassem from Al-Manar.
The Lebanese information ministry called it a "war crime".
#journalism #Lebanon
https://www.rte.ie/news/middle-east/2024/1025/1477367-middle-east/

2024-10-24 19:19:09

Al Jazeera has footage of an Israeli tank firing at Kamal Adwan hospital in northern #Gaza, damaging its ICU.
Israeli troops have also fired machine guns at the hospital full of wounded Palestinians, including children and newborns in neonatal care.
Some of the doctors and medical staff have been forcedully disappeared.
Absolute horror and madness and complete silence from the rest of the world.
#genocide #Palestine
https://aje.io/51g8en?update=3271075

2024-10-23 19:04:08

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Israel has already killed two journalists in northern Gaza over the past few weeks. One of them, Hassan Hamad, was documented receiving death threats from Israeli intelligence officers on his phone.
An Israeli missile targeting his home in Jabalia tore him into pieces on October 6, when Israel launched its bloody assault there.
Israel does not want anyone documenting its war crimes and so it has now officially come after Al Jazeera's crew.

2024-10-23 18:58:39

Today, the Israeli army made false claims that out colleagues Anas al-Sharif, Alaa Salameh, Hossam Shabat, Ashraf al-Sarraj, Ismail Abu Omar, and Talal al-Arrouqi are Hamas and PIJ members.
This basically is an official death threat to all of them. Israel wants then all dead.
To illustrate how absurd Israeli claims are: Anas, who files packages on a daily basis and does lives is accused of simuktanously being head of a Hamas rocket launching unit and fighting with the Nukhba.
#Gaza

2024-10-23 08:26:54

Al Jazeera Arabic colleague Anas Al Sharif is reporting that Israeli aircraft have started dropping barrel bombs in north #Gaza .
These were widely used by the Syrian regime in its extermination campaigns against civilians in opposition-held territory.
Haaretz was reporting a week ago that Israel is low on ammunition. So perhaps this is the result.
These barrel bombs are full of tnt and shrapnel and cause horrific destruction and mass slaughter.
#genocide #Palestine
https://www.aljazeera.net/news/2024/10/23/%d8%a5%d8%b3%d8%b1%d8%a7%d8%a6%d9%8a%d9%84-%d8%aa%d9%82%d8%b5%d9%81-%d8%b4%d9%85%d8%a7%d9%84-%d8%ba%d8%b2%d8%a9-%d8%a8%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a8%d8%b1%d8%a7%d9%85%d9%8a%d9%84

2024-10-23 08:21:14

In the past 3 days, the Israeli army has set on fire 3 schools-turned-shelters in Jabalia, expelling whoever has taken shelter there as part of its campaign of forced expulsion of the Palestinian population from #Jabalia and northern #Gaza as a whole.
https://www.aljazeera.net/news/2024/10/22/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AD%D8%AA%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%84-%D9%8A%D8%AD%D8%B1%D9%82-%D9%85%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%B3%D8%A9-%D8%AC%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%AF%D8%A9-%D9%81%D9%8A-%D8%AC%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7
#genocide #Palestine

2024-10-21 19:16:30

How is Israel forcing out Palestinian civilians from Jabalia? By systematically bombing school shelters.
This is shocking footage of an Israeli massacre at one of these schools. The bodies of children covered in blood still wearing their backpacks can be seen.
What a horror. And what despicable silence.
#Gaza #genocide #Palestine
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/10/21/israeli-strikes-hit-school-in-gazas-jabalia-amid-intensifying-siege

2024-10-21 19:11:46

Israel is forcefully expelling Palestinian civilians from their homes in Jabalia at the threat of death and there is not a word about this war crime from Western leaders.
#genocide #Gaza #Jabalia #Palestine #disgrace
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/10/21/video-forcibly-displaced-palestinians-filmed-at-north-gaza-checkpoint

2024-10-19 14:33:44

Al Jazeera has obtained footage from Jabalia showing an injured child calling for help. When a crowd gathers trying to help, the Israeli army bombs them, killing and injuring an unknown number of people.
Triestino Mariniello, Professor of Law at Liverpool John Moores University in the UK, told Al Jazeera that the footage constitutes evidence of a war crime.
#Gaza #genocide
https://youtu.be/j8Rw29EY7mc?feature=shared

2024-10-19 14:19:13

In 15 days, Israel has slaughtered 400 Palestinians in Jabalia alone.
#Gaza #genocide
https://aje.io/dxobk5?update=3258436

2024-10-18 07:14:48

Israel continues to ignore requests to allow the evacuation of our colleagues Fadi al-Wahidi and Ali al-Attar as well as other wounded journalists from Gaza. Fadi and Ali are both in critical condition and will likely die without urgent medical interventions.
CPJ and other press freedom organisations have gotten involved but their pleas have not been answered.
#Gaza #journalism #genocide
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/17/al-jazeera-cameraman-in-a-coma-after-being-shot-by-israeli-forces

2024-10-14 18:35:34

"Israeli Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant told U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin in a phone call on Sunday that the Israel Defense Forces is not carrying out a plan proposed by former Israeli generals to seal off aid to northern Gaza, Israeli officials said. "
Of course it's not.
#Gaza #Palestine #genocide
https://www.axios.com/2024/10/14/israel-wont-impose-starvation-plan-gaza-defense-minister-says

2024-10-14 11:54:14

There's a shocking video of a young man burning to death in a tent set on fire by the Israeli attack on Al Aqsa Hospital, which I will not share.
I will share the words of a doctor treating the many victims with 60-80% burns who will not survive:
“It’s a horror show here. Honestly, sometimes I feel like this is not real life – that this can go on and this degree of suffering is allowed to happen in this world.”
#Gaza #genocide
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/10/14/live-22-dead-80-wounded-as-israeli-army-shells-gaza-school-shelter

2024-10-14 07:30:04

By now, I am no longer shocked at anything that the BBC publishes, not even when it normalises the ethnic cleansing, mass slaughter, and starvation of northern Gaza by letting the main architect of this speak as if it is a normal military plan and not a war crime.
I do wonder if international editor Jeremy Bowen goes to bed in peace at night, knowing he's done his job well for Israel's Radio Rwanda.
#Gaza #genocide #journalism #press
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1e82yy0wxno

2024-10-14 07:13:17

Israel has been so successful in normalising brutal violence and slaughter of civilians that its attacks on hospitals and schools no longer even get an international reaction, let alone media coverage.
Overnight the grounds of Al Aqsa hospital in Deir al-Balah were targetted again, likely with incidiary weapons that killed at least four people and started a massive fire, burning dozens of tents - or what displaced families now call home.
#Gaza #genocide #Palestine
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/10/14/live-22-dead-80-wounded-as-israeli-army-shells-gaza-school-shelter
https://s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com/mastodonworld/media_attachments/files/113/304/527/183/781/181/original/1c5b8c2f5518e222.jpg

2024-10-13 09:17:53

100,000s continue to be trapped in northern #Gaza bc the Israeli army is NOT letting anyone leave. Israeli soldiers & drones are shooting at whoever tries.
Colleague Hani Mahmoud reports:
"About 400,000 people, are trapped, with the Israeli military not allowing anyone to leave the area despite issuing an evacuation order.
People are stuck in their homes and not getting any food, water supplies or other essentials....
This is a systematic mass slaughter."
https://aje.io/epfyox?update=3243193

2024-10-13 06:16:48

"Fifty-five percent of Jews under 35 have an unfavorable view of the Israeli government. Jews ages 50 to 64 are the only age group in which a majority express a favorable opinion of the Israeli government (64%).
....
In another study, when presented with a definition of Zionism that asserts the belief in “privileging Jewish rights over non-Jewish rights in Israel,” a full 69% of Jewish American respondents said that they were probably or definitely not Zionist."
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/american-jewish-divisions-zionism/

2024-10-12 05:25:56

Our colleague Fadi Al Wadidi, whom an Israeli sniper shot in the neck, is likely permanently paralysed. Our correspondent Anas Al Sharif who works with him will now have to carry on reporting woth this unbearable pain in his heart.
#Gaza #genocide #Palestine #press #journalism
https://s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com/mastodonworld/media_attachments/files/113/292/775/498/564/152/original/4460f561f6cf0f0b.jpg
https://s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com/mastodonworld/media_attachments/files/113/292/775/555/356/699/original/1849e99375a04b5d.jpg

2024-10-12 05:18:58

"The Israeli military claims it has killed dozens of militants in Jabalia, without providing any evidence. Photos published from the area by news wires have shown many children among the dead. It is not possible to independently verify death tolls from the camp as Israel does not allow foreign journalists in.
...[MSF] said thousands of people remained trapped in the camp while one staff member said people trying to leave... are being shot.
#Gaza #Palestine #genocide
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/12/israeli-strikes-kill-dozens-in-gazas-jabalia-refugee-camp-officials-say-as-thousands-remain-trapped?utm_source=press.coop

2024-10-09 07:52:05

"Hussam Abu Safia, the hospital’s director, told Al Jazeera he feared a repeat of the violence and destruction Israeli forces inflicted on Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital earlier in the war.
“We have babies and newborns that are in the ICU,” Abu Safia said.
“Even if we can evacuate a few patients. We cannot leave the hospital because there is no other hospital that is providing services and treatments to children, except Kamal Adwan Hospital,” he said."
#Gaza #genocide
https://aje.io/2mv3eg?update=3232425

2024-10-07 08:43:39

Israel assassinated journalist Hassan Hamad in Jabalia refugee camp in northern #Gaza after threatening him days earlier that they "will come for" him unless he stopped filming and documenting Israeli war crimes.
The airstrike tore Hassan to pieces. He was brought to a hospital by his colleagues in plastic bags.
This is the 175th Palestinian journalist killed by Israel since Oct 7. Israel is by fat the biggest killer of journalists in the world.
#Palestine #press
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/6/palestinian-journalist-19-killed-in-israeli-raid-after-receiving-threats

2024-10-06 06:32:49

Israel has issued new evacuation orders for most of northern Gaza. This has nothing to do with Hamas, of course. It is likely the first stage of the so-called "General's plan" - yet another genocidal act of collective punishment:
#Gaza #Palestine #genocide
https://www.newarab.com/news/why-israel-planning-isolate-northern-gaza

2024-10-06 06:02:42

"Just 8% of British people believe the UK should “support” Israel in the conflict"
#Gaza #Palestine #genocide
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/05/faith-leaders-unite-to-reject-prejudice-on-eve-of-7-october-anniversary?utm_source=press.coop

2024-10-02 19:51:08

Israel killed 110 people in Gaza over the past 24 hrs, bombarding an orphanage, a school and residential buildings.
In one case, 19 members of a single family were killed.
Not a week passes without an Israeli massacre at a Gaza school.
The Israeli army claims Hamas "no longer exists as a military formation" but keeps "finding" Hamas command centres at schools to justify its wonton massacres of civilians.
#Gaza #Palestine #genocide

2024-09-28 19:07:58

В програмата на София Документал е включен документалния филм "Единствена земя", продуциран от палестинския активист Басел Адра и израелския журналист Ювал Абрахам.
Филмът е отличен с награда на фестивала Берлинале. При получаването и, Басел и Ювал говорят за случващото се в Палестина. Басел и заклеймен от германски политици, а Ювал получава смъртни заплахи от израелци.
Прожекции:
29.09, 18.15ч, Кино Одеон
01.10, 18:30ч, Дом на киното
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2024-09-28 04:46:52

This is rather disingenuous from Josip Borrell:
"“What we do is to put all diplomatic pressure to a ceasefire, but nobody seems to be able to stop Netanyahu, neither in Gaza nor in the West Bank,” Borrell said."
Clearly, the EU can stop Netanyahu if it breaks ranks with his enablers.
https://aje.io/mycvl0?update=3207242

2024-09-27 11:02:29

I have just found out that the Rory Peck Crisis Fund, which supports freelance journalists in danger, has run out of money after a year of helping #Gaza journalists.
I have donated. Please consider doing so as well.
Rory Peck has helped Arab journalists I know in the past and their work really does make a difference in the precarious lives of freelancers in conflict zones.
#journalism #press #Palestine
https://rorypecktrust.org/

2024-09-27 07:02:46

Nothing surprising about this meeting and Serbia's wholehearted support for Israel.
#Palestine #Gaza
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/meeting-netanyahu-serbias-president-highlights-hamas-hostage-with-serbian-citizenship/

2024-09-24 08:33:26

This is a plan the Israeli gov is considering for #Gaza :
"We have to tell the residents of north Gaza that they have one week to evacuate the territory, which then becomes a military zone... in which every figure is a target and, most importantly, no supplies enter this territory.... What matters to Sinwar is land and dignity, and with this manoeuvre, you take away both land and dignity."
https://www.newarab.com/news/why-israel-planning-isolate-northern-gaza

2024-09-18 18:28:28

"It’s not just Hezbollah using walkie-talkies. The medical services use them on a regular basis. Doctors have been telling us that they carry pagers like the ones that exploded yesterday and they’ve dumped those now."
#Lebanon
https://aje.io/mcioby?update=3187312

2024-09-18 18:24:26

"The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has overwhelmingly adopted a resolution calling on Israel to end its illegal occupation of the Palestinian territories within a year, a move that Palestine hailed as “historic”.
The nonbinding measure passed a 124-12 vote on Wednesday, with 43 countries abstaining."
#Palestine
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/18/un-general-assembly-overwhelmingly-calls-for-end-of-israeli-occupation

2024-09-18 18:21:47

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"Such disproportionate attacks, which seem illegal, are not only unprecedented but may also become normalised. If that is the case, the door is opened for other states to lethally test the laws of war."
#Lebanon

2024-09-08 17:38:45

While som3 EU countires hope to portray Syria as a "safe country" to deport refugees to, this is the reality:
"The fate of around 200 Syrians, mostly women and children, remains unknown after they were detained at a checkpoint run by Syrian regime forces while travelling to Damascus from opposition-held areas in north Syria."
These are women and children, not even draft-age men.
#Syria
https://www.newarab.com/news/200-syrians-missing-after-arrest-regime-forces-near-damascus

2024-09-08 08:43:13

By now, it is clear that the dehumanisation of Palestinians not only lessens the value of Palestinian life, but also of the lives of other people who stand up in their defence.
#aysenurezgieygi #Palestine #genocide
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=X6R9NrcwGyA

2024-09-08 07:45:30

"An autopsy report of Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, a Turkish-American activist, has confirmed she was killed by an Israeli sniper’s bullet to the head, Nablus governor Ghassan Daghlas said on Saturday."
#Palestine #genocide
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240907-autopsy-of-turkish-american-activist-shows-she-was-killed-by-snipers-bullet-to-the-head-nablus-governor/

2024-09-05 09:07:51

The parents of the little girl killed by Israeli bombardment while she was trying to rollerskate in Gaza City.
#Gaza #genocide #Palestine
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2024-09-05 09:03:11

"Medical workers at a hospital near the besieged city of Jenin in the occupied West Bank told Al Jazeera they are keeping the windows of the emergency room closed to prevent snipers from shooting inside the facility.
During a previous Israeli raid, they said an Israeli bullet penetrated the window and got lodged in the doors of the lift, without wounding anyone.
#Jenin #Palestine #genocide
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/9/5/israels-war-on-gaza-live-thousands-flee-jenin-homes-at-gunpoint?update=3158110

2024-09-05 08:29:56

Genocidal honesty:
"In an episode of Two Nice Jewish Boys, which aired three weeks ago, host Weinstein said: “If you gave me a button to just erase Gaza, every single living being in Gaza would no longer be living tomorrow. I would press it in a second.”
He claimed that “most Israelis” would do the same."
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-podcast-hosts-call-erase-every-living-being-gaza-and-west-bank

2024-09-04 12:04:37

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One little girl was killed while trying to skate amid the rubble in northern Gaza strip.
#Gaza #Palestine #genocide
https://aje.io/d9p3e5?update=3157069

2024-09-04 12:00:34

"Polio vaccines do not protect children from bombs"
42 Palestinians, including children, have been killed by Isreaeli bombardment in the last 24 hours.
#Gaza #Palestine #genocide
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/9/3/polio-vaccines-do-not-protect-children-from-bombs-says-gaza-mother

2024-09-03 14:06:47

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Full article here:
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/9/3/tragic-childhood-gaza-children-vaccinated-against-polio-war-continues

2024-09-03 09:46:57

#Polio vaccination is ongoing in Deir al-Balah in central Gaza strip. The "humanitarian pause" Israel announced does not cover Maghazi and Albureij camps which means parents who try to bring their children to vaccination points risk getting killed on the way.
#Gaza #Palestine #genocide
https://youtu.be/j1LmWRFegDo?feature=shared

2024-09-03 08:43:56

The Israeli army attacked Palestinians queuing for bread in Jabaliya, killing 8 people.
Between Aug 29 and Sept 2, Israel killed 184 across Gaza.
#Gaza #Palestine #genocide
https://youtu.be/RJv_c3mz8bw?feature=shared

2024-08-30 08:03:13

A very illuminating conversation with former US diplomat Hala Rharrit and Biden admin employee Maryam Hassanein who quit over #Gaza. They talk about an atmosphere of fear within the administration and diplomatic corp, Islamophobia, anti-Arab racism and dehumanisation.
According to Rharrit, when she included a photo of an emaciated Palestinian child in an internal presentation, she was attacked for it and reprimanded bc her colleagues didn't want to see it.
https://youtu.be/gLdFpPiR12E?feature=shared

2024-08-29 13:50:59

Apparently, before Farhan al-Qadi was kidnapped by Hamas, the Israeli authorities planned on demolishing his home in a Palestinian Bedouin village in the Naqab desert. Now they are generously allowing his family to stay but not his neighbours...
#Gaza #Palestine #genocide
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/israel-land-authority-says-it-wont-serve-demolition-notice-to-rescued-hostage/

2024-08-25 08:49:49

Biden doubles down on weapons for Israel:
Assigning [Resnick] ... reflects a doubling down on the administration’s determination to continue to provide unconditional material support for Israel’s genocidal campaign against civilians in Gaza,” argued Annelle Sheline, a former State Department official who quit the agency in protest over Biden’s approach earlier this year.
#Gaza #genocide #Palestine
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/joe-biden-hawkish-official-israel-policy-mira-resnick_n_66c8b125e4b0f75c7c160fad

2024-08-20 10:38:55

Haaretz is reporting:
"Hostage's mother says Mossad chief told her that there's no chance for a deal with current political leadership. "
Mossad has denied that.
#Gaza #Palestine #genocide
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2024-08-19 19:34:18

Israeli precision strikes in Gaza are so precise that they are killing Israeli soldiers as well.
#Gaza #Palestine #gencide
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2024-08-19 17:06:11

Just as with any previous negotiation, #Israel again is intensifying attacks on Palestinians in #Gaza , hoping to force Hamas into concessions by massacring more civilians.
Below is a tweet from an UNWRA official about what it is like to be on Gaza right now.
#Palestine #genocide
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2024-08-13 15:49:34

The New York Times trying hard not to say that Israel is sabotaging ceasefire talks.
#Gaza #Palestine #genocide
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2024-08-13 15:40:52

Israelis rally for the "right to rape" Palestinians:
#Gaza #Palestine #genocide
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/8/13/israeli-protesters-rally-for-the-right-to-rape-prisoners

2024-08-05 11:19:07

A man right behind Al Jazeera's Tanvir Chowdhury can be seen waving a Palestinian flag along with a Bangladeshi one. Bangladeshi youth managed to topple their repressive government today.
#Bangladesh #Palestine
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2024-08-05 08:45:10

Israel massacred 30 people, the majority of them children, by bombing two schools sheltering displaced Palestinians in Gaza on Sunday. Witnesses say there were "torn bodies everywhere"
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HzFMAa6IOTo

2024-08-05 07:39:19

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More details about her case here:
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-released-palestinian-prisoner-amputated-legs-evade-her-treatment-says-family
#Palestine #Gaza #OccupiedWestBank

2024-08-03 14:25:38

You can watch Israeli historian Benny Morris humiliate himself in an interview with Mehdi Hasan here:
(Apart from the expected genocide apologia, he also indulges in overt racism, mourning the low birth rate of Ashkenazi Jews and high birth rate of Saphardic Jews, which according to him, has resulted in the fascist turn of Israeli politics)
#Gaza #Palestine #genocide
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/head-to-head/2024/8/2/history-genocide-and-israels-war-on-gaza-mehdi-hasan-and-benny-morris

2024-07-31 17:01:42

The Israeli army killed today two colleagues, Ismail Al Ghoul and Rami Al Rafee. May they rest in peace and their killers face justice.
#Palestine #Gaza #Genocide
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/7/31/al-jazeera-journalist-cameraman-killed-in-gaza-attack

2024-07-28 19:29:48

"The video—which is captioned in Hebrew, “Destruction of the Tal Sultan water reservoir in honor of Shabbat”—ends with footage of the water facility being blown up. The soundtrack is a song produced by soldiers of the 51st Golani Brigade with lyrics like, “We will burn Gaza… shake all of Gaza… for every house you destroy we will destroy ten.”
#Gaza #Palestine #genocide
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/idf-canada-well-rachel-corrie-rafah-water

2024-07-25 17:43:02

According to the Washington Post, Hamas committed war crimes against Israeli civilians, but Israel didn't. And the ICJ "condemned" the Israeli "response", but did not refer to Israel plausibly committing genocidal activities.
#Gaza #Palestine #genocide #genocidewhitewash
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2024-07-24 15:11:06

"Summary child executions are happening in Gaza’
Dr Tanya Haj-Hassan, an American-Jordanian paediatric physician who has been to #Gaza several times since October, says children in Gaza are being deliberately shot by Israeli soldiers.
“If I hadn’t been there and witnessed children shot by Israeli forces, I would struggle to believe that summary child executions are happening in Gaza. See [the] full CBS report and then mobilise to stop this,” she said in a post on X."
https://aje.io/bo0wuu?update=3067608

2024-07-22 09:22:54

As the world is all engulfed by the Biden drama, Israel is pushing forward with its genocide in Gaza.
91 killed in a week in a single refugee camp constantly shelled and bombarded
#Gaza #Palestine #Genocide
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/7/22/israels-war-on-gaza-live-israel-to-vaccinate-troops-as-polio-seen-in-gaza

2024-07-17 18:36:07

This is another Palestinian man who was released by the Israelis. This is how he looks and acts after a month in a nightmare Israeli detention centre.
#Palestine #Gaza #genocide
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/6/23/traumatised-palestinian-detainee-describes-torture-in-israeli-custody

2024-07-17 18:28:02

This is what Israeli Guantanamo-style jails do to Palestinians. Below is a video of how a Palestinian bodybuilder was reduced to skin and bones and an anxious, panicked look in the span of 9 months.
#genocide #Gaza #Palestine
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/7/10/freed-former-palestinian-bodybuilder-alleges-abuse-by-israeli-jailers

2024-07-17 18:21:38

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The age of this woman was not provided but she was likely much older than the state of Israel that told her she is a "squatter" on her own land.

2024-07-17 06:29:39

Israel has effectively normalised attacks on UN facilities and UN schools used as shelters by IDPs. The world does not seem to care any more about these almost daily attacks.
"In the past 10 days, we’ve seen at least six schools being targeted by Israeli air attacks killing close to 100 people."
#Palestine #Gaza #genocide
https://aje.io/8oegsh?update=3052667

2024-07-13 11:15:01

"Local media outlets in Gaza are quoting witnesses of the Israeli bombing in al-Mawasi as saying that a series of violent raids by Israeli fighter jets targeted the camp for displaced people.
They said this was followed by squadrons of quadcopter aircraft that waited for the ambulance and civil defence teams and opened fire with their machine guns on the cars as soon as they arrived."
#Gaza #Palestine #genocide #AlMawasi
https://aje.io/cc08zy?update=3043883

2024-07-13 10:57:19

The Israeli army forced Palestinians into an uninhabitable place with no infrastructure, told them it is safe, and then repeatedly bombed them.
The piece below was written before the latest Israeli carnage in Al Mawasi.
"Israeli commanders would later claim that they considered [Al Mawasi] a “permanent safe zone”."
#Gaza #Palestine #genocide
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/7/8/gazas-safe-zone-of-horror

2024-07-10 12:31:34

The horror stories from Gaza are never-ending:
A three-month-old girl, Asmaa Ajour, lies in Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza after Israeli forces killed all her immediate family members in Gaza City [...]
Asmaa remained in her dead mother’s lap for 12 hours until her grandfather managed to save her as Israeli forces fired bullets for hours.
#Gaza #Palestine #genocide
https://aje.io/h3b006?update=3037923

2024-07-09 19:10:23

Israel launches fourth attack on school in four days
Dozens were killed in an attack on a school turned shelter for displaced Palestinians...
The attack hit the gate at the al-Awda school in Abasan, near the southern city of Khan Younis.
#Gaza #Palestine #genocide
https://aje.io/7euc3b?update=3036279

2024-06-22 08:17:50

An interesting piece by Ilan Pappé
"I believe that, sooner or later, an explosive fusion of these indicators will result in the destruction of the Zionist project in Palestine. When it does, we must hope that a robust liberation movement is there to fill the void."
#Gaza #Palestine
https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/the-collapse-of-zionism