Richard Hall
@_RichardHall
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Senior Correspondent with @Independent writing about foreign policy, politics, extremism, Americana, and everything in between. Former MidEast correspondent.
New York
Joined December 2008
I humbly submit these 1,600 words on the Four Seasons Total Landscaping event to the historical record. This is my eyewitness account of a day that will forever live in infamy.
independent.co.uk
The Trump presidency ended in the parking lot of a landscaping company next to an adult bookstore. Richard Hall was there
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RT @zeteo_news: “What is the liberal establishment more focused on: the cancellation of a late show, or 2 million starving Palestinians?”….
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RT @alastairjam: The extraordinary and powerful pictures from Gaza that have featured on front pages over the past few days - including our….
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Keri Starmer, meanwhile, has released a statement.
The suffering and starvation unfolding in Gaza is unspeakable and indefensible.
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Macron announces France will recognize a Palestinian state.
Fidèle à son engagement historique pour une paix juste et durable au Proche-Orient, j’ai décidé que la France reconnaîtra l’État de Palestine. J’en ferai l’annonce solennelle à l’Assemblée générale des Nations unies, au mois de septembre prochain.
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RT @JDiamond1: Gaza's reality: Palestinians aren't just being starved. They're being shot while seeking aid. More than 1,000 have been kill….
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RT @JStein_WaPo: 🚨 🚨🚨 “Nearly one in three people are going multiple days without eating, according to the United Nations”. “In a video fil….
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Read this sentence: . "When victims of Israeli strikes, shelling or gunfire reach the hospitals, photographs show, their bodies are often visibly emaciated.".
washingtonpost.com
Aid agencies warned for months that Israel’s harsh limits on food aid would bring acute malnutrition and widespread suffering to Gaza’s 2.1 million people.
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The starvation of Gaza leads the front pages of four UK national newspapers today: The Guardian, The Independent, The Daily Express, and The Herald. Didn't make the front of any American nationals.
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Western countries have not adjusted their relationship with Israel in any meaningful way as it has imposed a siege on Gaza that is causing widespread starvation and death.
After 4 months of a near-total Israeli siege, Gaza’s hospitals now have wards for the malnourished children whose tiny bodies are just the width of their bones. Aid groups had warned of this for more than a year. Now a worst case scenario is upon us.
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RT @JeremyKonyndyk: As a longtime humanitarian who has battled famines and hunger crises, I fear that starvation in Gaza has now passed the….
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It's the people in media companies who are the furthest away from the work of journalism that are the most likely to push AI as the savior/future of journalism.
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RT @AlexCrawfordSky: Shocking statement about how the journalists the world has been relying on for images and reports about what’s going o….
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It’s entirely possibly that she’s not smart enough to know the difference.
Reporter: An Obama spokesperson said nothing in the documents issued last week undercuts the widely accepted conclusion that Russia worked to influence the 2016 election…. Gabbard: They are doing a disservice to the American people in trying to deflect away from their
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This baby’s name is Muhammad Zakariya al-Matouq. He is one and a half years old and lives in a tent in Gaza City. He weighs 6kg. The photo was taken on Monday by Ahmed Jihad Ibrahim Al-Arini. At least 10 people have died of starvation, and 34 seeking aid, in the last 24 hours.
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