The UN estimates that approx 30,000 people have left
#Rafah
each day since the
#IDF
issued sweeping evacuation orders in south
#Gaza
on May 6.
Residents of Tal as Sultan share pictures of empty courtyards as neighbors dismantle their tents and flee.
May 7 / May 9 ⛺️
Israeli
#airstrikes
cause structural damages and heavy smoke at
#AlQuds
hospital.
@PalestineRCS
warns that patients are at risk of suffocation - including children in intensive care.
The
@nytimes
homepage is headlining "Israeli evacuees planning for long hotel stays" as hundreds of thousands move south without food, water or fuel in
#Gaza
.
What a choice.
Video evidence of a rare daylight raid by the Israeli military shows
#IDF
forces firing 14 times into a group of civilians sheltering alongside a mosque in
#Nablus
.
A team of Post reporters used 1000 photos, video & interviews to reconstruct the event:
The number of people facing “catastrophic” levels of food hunger in Gaza is 4 times higher than observed in “the rest of the world”, according to the latest IPC
@WFP
report.
WFP predicts a famine if conditions persist:
The
@PalestineRCS
has announced that it will be forced to shut down its ambulance services in
#Gaza
within 24 hours due to a lack of fuel.
“We are packing ambulances with tens of people now, trying to save as many as we can,” says spox Nebal Farsakh.
US public opinion on
#Israel
is changing: A majority of Democrats no longer sympathize with a state who's governing system is akin to
#apartheid
.
Via gallup:
Photojournalist Mustafa Al-Kharouf is repeated kicked in the face while restrained under the knee of
#Israeli
border police in East Jerusalem on Friday.
Kharouf was taking photos of worshippers praying in the street as
#AlAqsaMosque
remains closed
@aa_arabic
@cnnturk
📸
“The first quarter of 2023 was the deadliest in the central Mediterranean since 2017…” How can we show Med migrants the dignity we all deserve?
@leloveluck
and
@ClaireParkerDC
on the activists, gravediggers and forensic scientists who try:
At least 1,100 Palestinians were forced to leave their communities between January and the first week of October. In just the past month, more than 900 people have fled -
An astonishing look at the exponential rise in
#SettlerViolence
by
@leloveluck
A Scottish charity said today that all its attempts to evacuate their staff from
#Afghanistan
have been unsuccessful.
@LindaFoundation
said the two women and their families - including a 9 month old baby - were "just inches away" from being able to leave the country.
The wall separating Occupied
#WesternSahara
from Morocco is like no other: “It is 2700km long with 7000 landmines along its side,”
@SidiOmarNY
- next week,
@UN
policy makers should rule in favor of the
#Saharawi
people’s right to self-determination.
In my evening call with the
@PalestineRCS
, we talked about how to calculate the number of children who will die tomorrow when their respirators lose power.
Two more PRCS hospitals will cease operations when fuel runs out.
And 12/35 hospitals in
#Gaza
are already closed.
Videos released by
@PalestineRCS
show shattered windows and chaotic corridors as
#airstrikes
continue at
#AlQuds
.
When the
#IDF
issues evacuation warnings, but continues to bomb outside, where are 12,000 people supposed to go?
Although medical transport is protected under
#IHL
, Israeli airstrikes continue to hit
#ambulances
in
#Gaza
. Fuel shortages threaten to bring the entire fleet to a halt.
Karim and his colleagues do not belong behind bars. They are honest, hardworking professionals who have dedicated their lives to making Egypt a more just and equitable place for all. Free human rights defender Karim Ennarah,
#freeEIPRstaff
: via
@Change
According to a recent WFP survey, half the population of
#Gaza
is starving. And 9/10 families in specific areas have spent a day and night without food.
WFP’s
@CarlSkau
believes the famine conditions can be addressed, only if a ceasefire is guaranteed.
Gasser’s portrait was originally taken by platon amidst the hopeful swell of the 2011 revolution. Since that time, Gasser— and so many others— have fought daily to realize and preserve the rights that Egyptians dreamed of. Now it’s our turn to speak up.
#freeEIPRstaff
@EIPR
“Unlawful killings have become the norm," according to experts who reviewed the piece. "Israeli military rules of engagement have shifted in the past few years to permit live fire where no threat is posed to
#IDF
forces.”
The
@PalestineRCS
also expects to shut down
#AlQuds
Hospital and Al Amal hospital within 24 hours due to lack of fuel.
This will leave 14/35 hospitals in
#Gaza
inoperable due to airstrike damages or shortages under
#Israel
siege.
Israel controls
#Gaza
's access to electricity, and on Oct 9 they switched it off: Now "hospitals are collapsing, people are drinking dirty water, and sewage plants cannot operate."
Fantastic work on the siege by
@RubyMellen
@dataviz_szuyu
ed
@reemakkad
First video of the incident was geolocated by
@GFLocating
and
@ChrisOsieck
- and audio analysis of the gunshots by Steven Beck and
@LAbuHamdan
. Local onlookers confirmed: “It was a black Wednesday” in Nablus and “it was clear that it was shoot to kill”.
Meticulous reporting by
@MiriamABerger
@evanhill
@mmkelly22
and
@imogen_piper
to map the complete perspective visible from the armored tank's side windows - confirming that civilian targets were in view as shots continued.
The
@WHO
predicts that the death toll from sickness and starvation in
#Gaza
could eclipse the total number killed in the war so far — 24,000+ — unless something changes in the coming months -
@cairo_claire1
on the hurdles of delivering humanitarian aid:
@nowthisnews
@bouldercounty
every police officer in this video should immediately be fired. This treatment is completely reprehensible and should not be tolerated in any position, especially one funded by tax payer money.
“I wish that the blood of my son Hamza is the last of journalists and the last of people here in Gaza and for this massacre to stop.”
@WaelDahdouh
A tribute to Hamza, and the 79 journalists killed by Israeli strikes in
#Gaza
since Oct 7,
@leloveluck
🎁
#COVID19
cases have surged by 668% in
#Nepal
this week. Help one of Kathmandu's largest public hospitals stay afloat while they prepare to intake 10 patients per 1 ICU bed. This is direct action and they need our support now.
Allstar reporting by
@KristaKBrown
@OliviaWebbC
@econliberties
on the proposed merger between
@UHC
+ Change Healthcare. The social costs of privatized, discriminatory healthcare have been on display all year: rapacious market consolidation must be stopped.
Members of Israel’s elite
#Yamam
unit shot 14-year old Omar Awadin in the back, in broad daylight, on a crowded street. He’s one of 19 children killed in the
#WestBank
this year.
Experts call it unlawful: 🎁 —>
When
#PRC
officials outlined their “Made in China 2025” strategic plan, leading biotech innovation was a clear goal - and more
#DNA
was a key commodity to achieve it.
Was
#COVID19
an unexpected opportunity to extend their global reach?
@JobyWarrick
🧵—>
A very happy publication day to
#ThePoisonLine
by
@cjmcgoogan
!
This is the full and shocking account of one of the biggest medical disasters in history – and the lengths that big pharma, the NHS and governments worldwide took to cover it up.
‘Let’s make a thriller out of this movie,” suggests
@navalny
to director,
@DanielRoher
. “And then, if I am killed, you can make a boring movie of memory.”
Watch this film and let's keep
#Navalny
free and alive:
The
@WFP
warns of 'a high risk of famine' 8-weeks into the war in Gaza.
75 percent of their shops are closed due to a lack of supplies and little connectivity.
Not every day that a Senator tweets your sister's article!? Go
@KristaKBrown
💪
Read up on
@UHC
- it's the largest employer of doctors in the country, they insure more people than the pop. of Spain and its a racket 🚨--->
Giant health insurers like UnitedHealth have bought up every part of our health care system — pressuring doctors to put profits before patients and costing American taxpayers billions each year. It’s long past time to crack down on their abuses.
"Republican lawmakers have seemingly yoked their agenda to the far-right
#Israeli
settler movement" ... and that strategy may no longer win broad-based support.
More from
@ishaantharoor
on the public debate:
Today marks one year since the fall of
#Kabul
and the Taliban takeover of
#Afghanistan
.
We share
#AdiIssue10
which strives to center Afghan women in their multiplicity and complexity, whose politics resist simple binaries, and who refuse to forget.
If anyone has updates on the well-being of the Saifi Institute in
#Beirut
- would love to hear. Sending thoughts and prayers to all staff and students 🙏❤️
The Israeli strike outside
#alShifa
hospital killed 15 people and injured 60, the Gaza Health Ministry said Friday, damaging a
@PalestineRCS
ambulance.
“This wasn’t normal waterlogging. It was water being discharged. We live in a flood storage zone so we are expendable if it means protecting Beijing and Xiong’an.”
Outstanding analysis of
#Chinaflooding
🇨🇳by
@ntabrizy
@mmkelly22
@lilkuo
@coreymaps
🎁—>
Beijing has embarked on a major expansion of the country’s biotechnology sector, and the labs aren’t always safe -
@JobyWarrick
and David Willman on the 2019 lab leak in Lanzhou, and how research ambitions can (and do) go wrong.
#pandemics
🎁 link —>
#Hebron
settlers parading the streets, celebrating
#ShireenAbuAqla
’s death and the United State’s implicit affirmation of their power.
@POTUS
@SecBlinken
have only signaled that their rapacious occupation can continue. Unfettered support for
#IsraeliApartheid
must stop.
Israeli settlers celebrating in Hebron, they occupied a new Palestinian house in the city today , they are happy about the killing of
@ShireenNasri
, they are happy that the whole world is silent about their occupation and apartheid.
All credit due to the amazing Fault Lines team:
@KaviChek
@LailaAlarian
@singeli
,
@AdiHaspel
Ayman Abu Ramouz; Shireen’s incredible family:
@LinaAbuAkleh
& Anton Abu Akleh; and all the brave journalists and eyewitnesses in Palestine.
Watch the film here:
"Israeli forces killed more Palestinians in the West Bank in 2022 than in any year on UN records. More than half were under age 25."
Thank you
@MiriamABerger
for this piece. If the
#IDF
's near daily raids continue, so will the losses.
Today,I left my house in
#Hebron
to stay in Bethlehem for security reasons, I followed my friends security advices, the settlers raided my house and our community center in Tal Rumieda.
@YASHebron
activists took them out . It is because of settlers violence during
#ChayeiSarah
Last fall, Eritrea soldiers stormed into
#Tigray
, burning over 60 homes and massacring more than 300 villagers... The survivors in
#MariamShewito
haven't felt safe enough to speak up until now. Powerful reporting by
@mmkelly22
@stefanie_wp
and
@khoureld
An anti-racist
#development
sector could offer scholarships to black Americans, whose families’ average net worth is nearly 10x less than white American families. The sector should not run on unpaid internships - Great piece
@LaurenAReese
@newhumanitarian
Post-Roe America is not safe for women.
@CAKitchener
has sat next to so many - crying, bleeding and birthing - and still brave enough to tell this story.
I couldn’t think of anyone better to win a
#PulitzerPrize
this year.
Her latest from Florida 🎁
#GeorgeFloydFuneral
- “We all begin in obscurity. We don’t know where we’ll land in history.”
#GeorgeFloyd
's final words have become a rallying cry that will define his place in history and offer a new call for justice in our generation
1/ BIG NEWS:
#100andChange
produced nearly 800 compelling proposals, and we’re honored to share that our solution is one of just six in the running for $100 million in
@macfound
’s competition! Learn more about our solution and watch our video:
This month: "Palestinian activism has been 100 percent nonviolent. And it has been met with 110 percent police violence - Just standing in front of your house can get you shot."
#EastJerusalem
activist
@nivine_S
speaking
@UNISPAL
about what's left to
#SaveSheikhJarrah
✊
The ICC has finally ruled that "Palestine is a state" it has jurisdiction to investigate
#IsraeliWarCrimes
committed on its soil. Why is this not being reported in American news?
We saw Gasser just now taken out of the prosecution office in a police transport van. The only thing he shouted from the narrow, barred van window was, 'Mariam! Say hello to the boys. I love you!'. Mariam wasn't allowed to see him.
His hair was shaven. He had a smile on his face
Can't be in New York for the 2019
#HRWFFNY
but excited that the
@metropolislb
is hosting
#AlmostThere
- A film festival on Human Rights and Migration - Tickets are free -- Full line up here: - Great weekend for film +
#humanrights
It cannot get anymore dystopian that this.
The Israeli army is now using an AI-powered automatic weapon, called Smart Shooter, at a military checkpoint in the old city of Hebron.
(video via
@abierkhatib
)
Ever since I started working with
@strengthandsol
I've looked up to Innocent Chukwuma - he had the insight and grace of a seasoned activist, but the buoyancy of someone fresh to a cause. His warmth put an entire room at ease. My generation will be standing on his shoulders 🙏
Last week, the US green-lighted the
#Turkish
invasion of
#NortheastSyria
. "It is now mushrooming into a strategic disaster for the United States, which appears weak, powerless, and isolated." -- Great piece by
@JohnCassidy
at
@NewYorker
--
@CarlSkau
Without a
#ceasefire
,
@CarlSkau
warned me that
@WFP
operations may be on the brink of collapse, especially as people move south.
"I can't pretend that this is a functioning, meaningful humanitarian operation. We need to get to scale and we need to move in a different way."
“The tight grouping of rounds indicate Shireen was intentionally targeted with aimed shots and not the victim of random or stray fire," - fantastic reporting by
@elizamackintosh
@cnn
on the targeted killing of
#ShireenAbuAkleh
I'm standing with the people of Israel who are coming under bombardment attacks, and condemn the Hamas terrorists. The people of NYC will always stand with our brothers and sisters in Israel who face down terrorism and persevere.
Israel's destruction of Palestinian-owned properties in the West Bank is accelerating: According to the UN, over 1,000 homes have been demolished since Biden’s inauguration
More from
@austinahlman
@theintercept
Thread incoming, but here's my latest for
@TheProspect
on Thrasio, the company that's been haunting me throughout covid.
As I explain, it's essentially a "euthanizer of Amazon independent sellers, providing a less painful path to their inevitable death."
British-Egyptian activist, blogger, and software developer
@alaa
is in his third month of hunger strike.Locked up in Egypt to silence his activism, he faces the risk of death unless the
@FCDOGovUK
immediately intervenes for his protection.
#FreeAlaa