
Raja Abdulrahim
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Middle East correspondent covering the Levant for @NYTimes. Formerly @WSJ and @LATimes. News tips: [email protected]
Joined April 2011
Covering the Israeli assault and siege on #Gaza from afar. Not since covering the Syrian regime assault and siege on Aleppo in 2016 does it feel like whenever I speak to someone on the ground it could be the last time.
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RT @leloveluck: Israel's military campaign in Gaza has killed 60,000 people. 18,500 were children. Here are their names. .
washingtonpost.com
Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one per hour since the war began.
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RT @leloveluck: In the @washingtonpost today, we have published every one of the 18,500 known names of children killed by Israel’s military….
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RT @AricToler: On one of the most unbelievable satellite images I've ever seen, showing hundreds of Palestinians surrounding aid trucks nor….
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RT @NickKristof: Israel starves civilians in Gaza partly on the basis that Hamas steals food from UN distributions. But the @nytimes report….
nytimes.com
Israel has long restricted aid to Gaza on the argument that Hamas steals it to use as a weapon of control over the population. On Saturday, the Israeli military announced new airdrops of aid.
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RT @evanhill: Senior Israeli military officials tell the NYT they never found evidence Hamas systematically stole UN aid and that the UN ai….
nytimes.com
Israel has long restricted or completely blocked aid to Gaza on the argument that Hamas steals it to use as a weapon of control over the population.
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RT @asmamk: If you didn’t hear this story from Anas Baba on NPR today, you should take a listen. He walked 3 hours to find a working inte….
npr.org
Hunger and disease continue to stalk Palestinians in Gaza, and aid organizations are warning that children are at greatest risk of starvation. A U.N. worker has described people as "walking corpses."
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RT @leloveluck: Israel's foreign ministry confirms that the non-renewal of visas for the UN's @_jwhittall was directly linked to his public….
israelhayom.co.il
השר סער הורה על אי הארכת אשרת השהייה של הממונה על זרוע האו״ם לתיאום עניינים הומניטריים (OCHA) • המשמעות: יהיה עליו לעזוב את הארץ עד סוף חודש אוגוסט • במשרד החוץ טוענים כי אנשי OCHA מציירים מצג שמכפיש...
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RT @haaretzcom: After a month in Gaza, historian Jean-Pierre Filiu warns Israel's media restrictions are hiding unprecedented devastation a….
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They said colleagues regularly lobbed stun grenades and pepper spray in the direction of Palestinians. One contractor said bullets were fired in all directions — in the air, ground and toward Palestinians. “There are innocent people being hurt. Badly. Needlessly.".
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RT @KenRoth: "The Israeli military used a 500lb bomb – a powerful and indiscriminate weapon… – when it attacked a target in a crowded beach….
theguardian.com
Exclusive: Experts say use of heavy munition in Monday’s strike that killed dozens may constitute a war crime
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RT @KenRoth: A U.N. expert has named over 60 companies, including major arms manufacturers and technology firms, in a report alleging their….
reuters.com
A U.N. expert has named over 60 companies, including major arms manufacturers and technology firms, in a report alleging their involvement in supporting Israeli settlements and military actions in...
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Dusk was settling over a quiet Palestinian village in the occupied West Bank. A mother was putting her newborn to sleep. Another relative was pulling up outside with her four young children in the car. That calm was shattered when scores of Israelis descended on the village.
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RT @AJEnglish: Video shows a Palestinian on a bicycle trying to escape falling debris caused by an Israeli air strike on a residential buil….
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RT @AJEnglish: Since May 27, at least 583 Palestinians have been killed while waiting for food at aid distribution sites operated by the co….
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RT @leloveluck: "If people arrive early and approach the checkpoints, they get shot. If they arrive on time, but there is an overflow. th….
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RT @leloveluck: IDF soldiers in Gaza are being ordered by their commanders to shoot at crowds of Palestinian aid seekers, even when it is c….
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RT @evanhill: Israeli forces and drones opened fire toward hundreds of Palestinians waiting for aid in separate incidents in southern and c….
apnews.com
Palestinian witnesses and hospitals say Israeli forces and drones have opened fire toward hundreds of people waiting for aid in southern and central Gaza, killing at least 44 people.
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RT @AJEnglish: Israel again included in UN blacklist for grave violations against children
aljazeera.com
Violence against children in conflicts hit ‘unprecedented levels’ in 2024, with most abuses committed in Gaza, UN says.
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RT @farnazfassihi: Israeli Strikes Kill Civilians Across Iran- hundreds have been killed, among them a poet and her family, an equestrian n….
nytimes.com
Israel has said it does not target Iranian civilians, but hundreds have died in the violence, among them a poet and her family, an equestrian and a graphic designer.
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