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Journalist & Newsreader @BBC5Live on Middle East | Prev @UNRWA | MPhil @Cambridge_Uni | Chapter in @Bloomsbury ‘Cultures of London: Legacies of Migration’ 2024
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THREAD// I’m a BBC Journalist and wanted to highlight an important interview. Earlier we heard from
@maynard_nick
– surgeon at Oxford University Hospital – who was recently in central
#Gaza
’s Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital for 2 weeks, with the charity
@MedicalAidPal
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THREAD// I’m a BBC Journalist and wanted to highlight a few interviews I’ve set up with high profile resignees over what’s happening in
#Gaza
- former US State Dept Director Josh Paul & former UN Human Rights Director Craig Mokhiber. Fear they’ve been lost in the news cycle 1/12
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Excited to announce that I’ll be presenting the news on
@BBCTwo
and
@BBCNews
as part of the brand new TV version of
@NickyAACampbell
’s
@BBC5Live
show - which started this week. Look out for me on Thursday! 📺
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THREAD// I’m a BBC Journalist and wanted to highlight an interview I set up today, on how many journalists have been killed in
#Gaza
over the past few months. For this, we spoke to
@jodieginsberg
from The Committee to Protect Journalists
@pressfreedom
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Dr Maynard called this "the most difficult medical situation" he's ever worked in, saying the capacity for Al-Aqsa is about 150 but there were nearly 700 patients there + est 20k people in the hospital or its immediate grounds: "The traumas that we saw - the burn victims 3/9
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Excited to announce that I'll now be a regular newsreader (!) on
@BBC5Live
and am moving over to the Drive show—listen out for my news bulletins this Friday 🥳
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@MSF
,
@RESCUEorg
and
@MedicalAidPal
have all withdrawn from Al-Aqsa due to safety concerns. It’s reportedly the last functioning hospital in central Gaza.
@WHO
says only 15 of Gaza’s 36 hospitals remain “partially functional". 2/9
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the shooting victims - were non-stop throughout the whole 2 weeks." He called triage "impossible": "The amount of admissions was totally overwhelming for the small number of docs there & the whole concept of triage...collapsed. There were hundreds of patients coming 4/9
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killing civilians and attacking the hospital. I didn't witness those but I did see patients who had been shot later that afternoon, and I did see the results of the damage of the missile attack…a big hole in the wall of the ICU". Hospitals are protected under intl law. 7/9
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in & at times only one doctor in the emergency room."
@MSF
says a bullet penetrated a wall in ICU. Dr Maynard says he saw damage there: "Our last day working...was last Friday & I was operating all day on a terrible blast explosion injury 5/9
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to a patient with multiple abdominal internal injuries. I finished operating at about 14:45 and came out of theatre to hear that there had been a missile attack on the intensive care unit...there were rumours that on top there were snipers near the hospital 6/9
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@HarbourSeal
I'm so sorry to hear this, I'm with the BBC, based in Manchester - would you be willing to speak to me about this? I'll DM you
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Israel says it’s “not aware of an air strike regarding the incident in question.”
@MSF
Gaza coordinator Carolina Lopez said "drone attacks & sniper fire were just a few hundred metres from the hospital.” The Israeli military says its closest forces were 0.9 miles away and 8/9
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there was no activity there. Full interview 1h29 in:
More on this story here: 9/9
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Proud to have made my TV debut on
@BBCTwo
and the
@BBCNews
Channel this morning, reading the news for
@NickyAACampbell
's
@BBC5Live
show. 3 years ago, when I started out at the BBC, I couldn't have imagined this! Have a listen - everything from strikes to WH Smith profits...
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On the Genocide Convention, he said: “this is what is most unique here - the explicit expressions of genocidal intent by senior political & military leaders in Israel…normally one has to dig through dusty govt archives to find comms that would prove genocidal intent.” 9/12
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Paul called US policy around this “broken”: “We see today over 18k civilians dead mostly due to US arms, the types of arms I was being asked to approve in the State Dept. In that context, I felt I could not be a part of that…US policy towards the Israeli-Palestinian 3/12
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I was the newsreader on
@bbc5live
yesterday --- my 13:00 bulletin ends with some big support from
@TherealNihal
!
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As Miss Hertfordshire 2021, I'm fundraising for both the
@Khalsa_Aid
Covid-19 relief in India appeal and the
@MissWorldLtd
charity.
Donate if you can and share widely!
@missenglandnews
#IndiaCovidCrisis
#IndiaNeedsOxygen
#fundraising
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In birthday green—26 brought me some gorgeous new friends, a Newsreader job
@BBC5Live
, and a novel excerpt shortlisted for a book deal. Excited for 27 🎉
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2.
@CraigMokhiber
. He stepped down from his role as a UN Human Rights Director, citing the UN’s failure to prevent what he called a “textbook genocide”. We spoke to him on the first day of the temporary truce & he drew on his experience as a human rights lawyer. 8/12
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1. JOSH PAUL. Been quite a day to speak to him. He was a Director in the bureau approving US arms transfers. A US State Dept spox had earlier called on Israel to “put a premium on civilian lives”, and later Biden said Israel is “starting to lose support” around the world. 2/12
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“On the contrary, our provision of security to Israel has led it to become more unwilling...to take the steps to yield peace.” Responding to US calls for Israel to protect civilians, he said: “Of course Israel hasn't rolled back. We've asked nicely 5/12
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responsibilities to protect the civilian population of Gaza. So certainly Israel has a right to self defence if a state were to attack it and to defend its people inside its borders, but it does not have a right to go to war against Gaza.” He reiterated that both 11/12
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and now we're all out of options? That's not the case. It's good to ask but we have leverage we are not using. As long as we refuse to consider conditioning military aid to Israel, as long as we refuse to consider absenting from a UN vote, this conflict will carry on." 6/12
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conflict has been broken for many years. We've been providing military assistance to Israel on the theory that the more secure Israel feels, the more willing it will be to provide the concessions needed to achieve a solution, a peace process, and Palestinian statehood.” 4/12
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Responding to Israel’s claim to self-defence: “The problem with self defence is it’s used as a shorthand to mean the right to go to war against a particular population…under intl law [Israel] is the occupying power and its duties there are principally based upon its 10/12
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Israel and Hamas must be held to account under intl law. Full interview 1h24 in: 12/12
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Got some high praise from
@CraigDavid
—apparently I have "dulcet tones" reading the news on
@BBC5Live
. Have a listen to his interview with
@TherealNihal
from 13:15 on BBC Sounds 🎶
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disturbing pattern in which journalists clearly wearing press insignia - in spaces well known for being areas journalists report from - being killed…Ultimately, targeting journalists never makes the story go away. You can kill the messenger but you don’t kill the message.” 6/7
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Excited to have been offered a place on the
@NewsAssociates
NCTJ course, part-time while I continue at the BBC 🎉
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Palestinian journalists…they're trying to document the horrors of war while being in the war itself. There's nowhere to go where they can possibly be safe.” The Israeli military has said it doesn’t target civilians, including journos. On this, she said: "There is certainly a 5/7
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We spoke to her a few hours after a joint US-Israel presser in Tel Aviv, in which Yoav Gallant said Israel was “defending [its] values” & operating in adherence with intl law in Gaza, and a few days after Al Jazeera said its cameraman Samer Abu Daqqa was killed by an Israeli 2/7
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worldwide over 12 months. So you're looking at a similar amount to the number of journalists killed everywhere last year over 12 months...in just a 10 week period." She said that, due to lack of access, “the only people who are able to document what's happening are 4/7
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drone strike in Khan Younis. Jodie talked through the committee’s findings: “It’s a record number. To put it in context, 64 journalists have been killed since Oct 7 in the Israel-Gaza war. Last year the committee documented the deaths of 68 journalists and media workers 3/7
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My little niece watching me read the news for
@NickyAACampbell
’s
@BBC5Live
show on
@BBCTwo
this morning 🥺
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NEW: My BBC piece on the network of Hindu nationalist trolls mock auctioning left-wing women and making rape threats on the live-audio app Clubhouse. This has become a method for silencing women in India, as with the 'Bulli Bai' and 'Sulli Deals' apps.
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My last day as a News Reporter for
@bbcasiannetwork
- I started in Feb 2020, fresh out of an English master's, with no journalism experience. I'm lucky to have had a team of brilliant and supportive journalists/editors around me. Now off to
@bbc5live
in the new year 😊
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My first BBC investigation on herbal pills being sold as fake
#Covid_19
"immunity boosters" just went up on the BBC News website and is in the top 10 most-read!
Covid-19: Fake 'immunity booster' found on sale in London shops
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In my element: caught reading Annie Ernaux on the Bakerloo Line
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THREAD// I’m a BBC Journalist and wanted to highlight an interview I set up today - on the number of children killed, injured, and at risk of disease and starvation in
#Gaza
. For this, we spoke to
@TessIngram
from
@UNICEF
1/7
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My last TV bulletin across
@BBCTwo
@BBCNews
@BBC5Live
for
@NickyAACampbell
's show until the end of next month---I'm off to work with File on 4 for a few weeks. Ready to get stuck into long form audio and investigations.
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I hear that there are better ways to spend a day off—I’ve not found them? Mini victoria sponge, oat latte, and Nora Ephron making me laugh about heartbreak
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I've been shortlisted for the
@PenguinUKBooks
@MerkyBooks
New Writers' Prize—what an absolute dream! It's been so fulfilling to spend these last few months writing in little coffee shops on my days off.
⭐ Introducing the shortlist for the 2022/23 New Writers' Prize! ⭐
#Merky
Books is pleased to announce the names of the 20 talented individuals who have progressed to the next stage of the prize!
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One of my last days reporting for
@bbcasiannetwork
before I move over to
@bbc5live
- sad to leave but excited about what comes next!
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We've just been told hundreds of
@BBC
jobs will be moved to new locations—a reminder for all journalists out there to
#JoinAUnion
@NUJofficial
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It's been 2 months since I started presenting the news on
@BBCTwo
and
@BBCNews
Channel, as part of
@NickyAACampbell
's rather brilliant
@BBC5Live
show - I've covered everything from party politics to greener surfing. Here are a few of the top stories...
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This is so important, there are many ways into the BBC - I started as a freelance researcher. Not to dimish the hard work journalists do, but the industry is so competitive that we all need a lucky break early on. You aren't lacking in ability because it didn't happen this time!
Although trainee schemes and apprenticeships are an incredible way to get into the BBC and the journalism industry as a whole, they aren't the only way in. Please don't be discouraged if you are rejected, keep trying and look for other ways to get your amazing work in the door!
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Reminds me of the the 24hrs in which the dangerous disinformation that Patanjali's herbal tablet had been WHO-approved for Covid treatment went viral on Indian Twitter—bad information is free and travels fast. Thank goodness for places like
@AltNews
, constantly tackling this.
Overnight, reports began circulating in Israeli media attempting to discredit
#PegasusProject
by twisting the words of an
@amnesty
statement.
The twisted version caught fire online and is now being parroted by Indian politicians.
A small
#thread
on
#misinformation
:
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Some of today's headlines on
@NickyAACampbell
's
@BBC5Live
show, which you can watch on
@BBCTwo
and the
@BBCNews
Channel: everything from new employment figures to greener surfing🏄
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I booked Sukhjeen & Kavita
@ChronicBrown
for
@bbcasiannetwork
to discuss the
#desiabled
campaign—all about disability awareness & tackling taboos in the South Asian community. Both remarkable women. Definitely a high point in my time as a
@BBCNews
producer.
#DisabilityPrideMonth
“The South Asian community doesn’t talk about disability.”
@AnkurDesai_
spoke to a university student behind a new campaign called
#Desiabled
. The aim is to get people openly talking about disability.
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The moment
@TherealNihal
introduced me to Zadie Smith just before my 14:30 bulletin on
@BBC5Live
- you'll see me smile with barely contained glee...
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Happy New Year 🥂
Always liked this from T. S. Eliot: "For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice."
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What message is the BJP sending with its changes to
#JallianwalaBagh
memorial? Reported on this for
@bbcasiannetwork
, with History Professor
@KimAtiWagner
and actress
@Monica_Gill1
on to discuss. Listen in full on
@BBCSounds
(timestamp: 2h12) here:
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Al Jazeera journalist Hamza al-Dahdouh - eldest son of AJ bureau chief Wael al-Dahdouh - has been killed in an Israeli strike in southern
#Gaza
. 4 other members of Wael al-Dahdouh's family were also killed in Oct, including his 7 year old daughter.
Al Jazeera Journalist Hamza Dahdouh has been killed in
#Gaza
. This is his final tweet posted yesterday morning with an image of his father the journalist Wael Dahdouh. Various other members of the Dahdouh family were killed in a separate strike just weeks ago.
From the tweet
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A little "behind the scenes" TikTok on our recent
@BBC5Live
broadcast out of Northern Ireland...
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Spending my day away from the news cycle with a chai latte and this utter gift of a book by bell hooks
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RIP Raquel Welch. I’m a writer alongside being a
@BBCNews
newsreader. Listening to news coverage around her career, I wrote this poem exploring the concept of the “sex symbol” - with reference to
@emrata
@theirishayk
and The Shawshank Redemption:
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Learned everything I know about journalism from this BBC News team - our show has been on air
@bbcasiannetwork
for about 20 years (I've been involved for only 1.5 years of it!) Yesterday it wrapped up. Now onto our new show: drive time slot and lots of changes. Stay tuned...
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Responding to the death toll, Tess said: “We're in the thousands & thousands now. This war has had a disproportionate impact on children because they make up about half of the Gazan population…40% of the casualties are children. The latest number there, of 20k, is staggering 3/7
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Pleased to announce I'm co-writing a chapter on Windrush writer Sam Selvon in a book on London literary culture published by
@BloomsburyBooks
! BBC News has drummed academic language out of me, so let's hope I can still manage this...
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Spent yesterday blissfully reading on the banks of the River Cam 📚
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Need to amplify discussions around women's pain—it isn't taken seriously enough and medical research historically focused on men, resulting in fewer effective treatments & pain relief options for women. Why does it take an average of 7.5 years to get an
#endometriosis
diagnosis?!
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Loving the word *equilux*
So today is the equilux! The point at which there’s equal amount of day and night. From here on in the days become longer! Thank goodness!
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The theme is: women exploring solitude. Excited to get stuck into these 👌🏽
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Glad I got this story into one of my
@BBC5Live
news bulletins yesterday—in the Australian town of Mildura, an eerie pink glow in the sky turns out to be a cannabis farm...
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More of this please! Cannot over stress the importance of having aesthetically pleasing, accessible, well-furnished communal spaces—they help everyone thrive. Imagine how many books read, new skills learned, in a space that's a refuge even if you can't afford to buy anything.
This is Oslo’s new PUBLIC LIBRARY. It’s unbelievable. Completely free, open to everyone until 10pm every day. There is a wine bar. Views to die for. All the books.
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And for anyone interested, a BBC article on how the dead are counted in Gaza (the figs are trusted by various intl organisations, including the World Health Organisation):
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Excited to be a speaking on this panel for the
@SPAJournalism
National Conference—I'll be talking about my route into
@BBCNews
and why I chose to do an NCTJ with
@NewsAssociates
. Get your free
#SPANC2021
tickets!
Masters, or NCTJ? Which qualification matters most to journalists? Is a qualification even necessary? Join
@LiterateElf
,
@KarishmaPatel99
and
@lauragrb
as they discuss the many paths journalists can travel!
Sign up for your favourite
#SPANC21
events here:
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Glad to have produced this important discussion for
@TVNaga01
@bbc5live
on the NHS England glucose monitor rollout - this month it becomes available to everyone with Type 1 Diabetes
Thank you
@TVNaga01
@BBC5live
from
@NHSEngland
@NHSDiabetesProg
for a chat about recent
@NICEComms
update re
#GlucoseMonitors
& availability for ALL with
#T1Diabetes
It's been a great pleasure to be part of this journey and ensuring this device is widely available on the
#NHS
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We spoke to her soon after Gaza’s health ministry said over 20k people have been killed in the Gaza war - “one of the highest concentrations of civilian deaths in a conflict proportionately in modern times”, according to former Deputy UN Secretary General Mark Malloch Brown. 2/7
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The
#FarmersProtest
is gaining a lot of traction now due to
@rihanna
, but why is it so important to people? Here's a BBC video I co-produced on why people in the UK came out in solidarity at a London protest late last year—it's a quick explainer.
As farmers in India continue their protests against the government’s new farm reforms, supporters in the UK gathered in London to show solidarity.
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