Hugh Lovatt
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Senior Policy Fellow @ecfr. Middle East analysis and European foreign policy, with focus on Israel/Palestine and Western Sahara. Mountain runner. Usual caveats.
London
Joined March 2012
Along with a lot of in depth research and interviews, our new @ECFRMena report includes this custom made map showing Israel's deliberate strategy of fragmenting and cleansing Gaza https://t.co/pm3DPIs3Wj
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It’s true that the translate button has done substantial damage to Israel’s image globally, just as their own soldiers did by posting their own videos of war crimes. So of course the button must go, so the genocidal rhetoric can flow freely
@DavidSmuts @MrUsiuFenix @RedPillMediaX To my knowledge, X has not disabled translations for Arabic or other languages in the same way. The Hebrew-specific measure addressed a documented surge in untranslated inflammatory content that translations inadvertently amplified globally, per platform reports on hate speech
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The new UN Security Council resolution on Gaza sets several dangerous precedents in the history of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. It effectively strips Gaza of its political context and places the territory under Trump’s exclusive control for two years. He will govern through
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🧵 Ahead of MbS White House visit, future Saudi nuclear policy likely on agenda. For @WarOnTheRocks, @ecfr's Ellie Geranmayeh, @CamilleLons & @Cinzia_Bianco unpack how 12-day war, backfiring of Iran's nuclear threshold status & Israel's Doha strikes impact Saudi nuclear calculus
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This morning an outpost near the settlement Metzad was evacuated. Rest assured, it had nothing to do with the rule of law or the rights of Palestinians, but because @bezalelsm is planning thousands of housing units on the lands this outpost sits on.
אנחנו מפתחים את ההתיישבות, בונים בכל מקום, מתכננים בכל מקום בהיקפים אדירים, מכריזים על אדמות מדינה. כל יום עולות חוות חדשות לשטח ששומרות על מאות אלפי דונמים. לא צריך ללמד אותנו לא איך עושים ציונות, ולא איך עושים התיישבות. המינהל האזרחי ביצע הבוקר לבקשת המועצה האזורית גוש עציון
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This morning, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) fired on UNIFIL peacekeepers from a Merkava tank from near a position Israel has established in Lebanese territory.
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New data reveals 98 Palestinian deaths in Israeli custody since Oct. 7 Post-mortems & testimonies suggest many died from torture, medical neglect & food deprivation. According to leaked Israeli intelligence database, dozens were civilians. @yuval_abraham
https://t.co/Bm7P0LV2Md
972mag.com
Post-mortems of the deceased and testimonies from former detainees suggest many died from torture, medical neglect, and food deprivation. According to a leaked Israeli intelligence database, dozens...
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A somewhat popular opinion: tonight's UN Security Council resolution improves the situation regarding the delusional idea of a Palestinian state, rather than worsening it. It does not include Judea and Samaria, and certainly does not link the territory with Gaza. For the first
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Turkeys endorsing Christmas. As the draft US-sponsored UNSC resolution stands, there is no way the PA will be coming back to Gaza any time soon. The US is demanding PA "reforms" & "de-radicalisation" tantamount to giving up the Palestinian struggle for independence.
بيان صادر عن دولة فلسطين ترحب دولة فلسطين بالبيان الصادر بتاريخ 14 نوفمبر عن الولايات المتحدة وقطر ومصر والإمارات العربية المتحدة والمملكة العربية السعودية وإندونيسيا وباكستان والأردن وتركيا، بشأن مشروع قرار مجلس الأمن والخطة الشاملة لإنهاء الصراع في غزة، والتي جرى الإعلان عنها
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Speaking to UNSC member diplomats in NY, not a single country (save the UK) appears pleased with the American draft and the Board of Peace concept. But they also don't want the US to fail, and as a result, go it alone outside of the UN. But by going it alone, Trump would
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Full details of the detention of international law professor (and former UN special rapporteur) Richard Falk and his wife Hilal Elver in Canada, on their way to contribute to the tribunal on Canada’s complicity in Israel’s genocide.
aljazeera.com
Falk, who is in Canada for Palestine Tribunal, says questioning reflects push to silence truth of Israel's war on Gaza.
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The BBC’s silly and unnecessary editing mistake does not change the FACT that Trump encouraged and inspired the violence that led to death and devastation on Jan 6 after he LOST the election. That should be made clear in all communications to his Mafia style lawyers and to the
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Russia had engaged with US draft and indicated that it should focus on the ISF and relegate BoP aspect to an SC Presidential Statement. US opposed that so yesterday Russia circulated draft resolution below that has a much narrower focus.
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Israel knows the names of the Palestinians who died in its prisons but isn't identifying the bodies that it returns.
Israel is returning hundreds of Palestinian bodies to Gaza without names, leaving people like Rasmia Khalil to inspect unrecognisable, often tortured remains in search of loved ones.
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More than a dozen Israeli soldiers spoke to ITV for their new documentary Breaking Ranks: Inside Israel’s War, about how their army’s two-year campaign in Gaza involved shooting unarmed Palestinians en masse, using teenagers as human shields, and flattening entire neighborhoods
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IDF soldiers recount using Palestinians as human shields, killing aid seekers, firing a tank shell at a man doing laundry. “The brigade rabbi sat down and spent half an hour explaining [...] that we must take revenge on all of them, including civilians."
theguardian.com
IDF soldiers tell documentary of opening fire unprovoked and arbitrary designations of who was an enemy
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Houthis officially announced that they have paused maritime attacks on Israel and lifted their so-called naval blockade on Israeli ports. This announcement appeared at the end of a letter sent to Hamas’s military wing, Kata’ib al-Qassam, by the newly appointed Houthi Chief of
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L'annulation sur demande du ministre de l'Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche, Philippe Baptiste, de la conférence au Collège de France sur la Palestine suscite un certain émoi chez des professeurs de cette ancienne et noble institution. Voici le communiqué conjoint publié
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📹 Israeli Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir handed out desserts to lawmakers after the Knesset approved the first reading of a bill that would legalize the execution of Palestinian detainees ➡️ The draft law states that 'the death penalty shall be imposed on any person who
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Italian journalist Gabriele Nunziati was fired after asking the European Commission whether Israel should pay to rebuild Gaza, just as the EU says Russia must rebuild Ukraine. His outlet, Agenzia Nova, dismissed him weeks later, calling the question “out of place.” Today,
Italian journalist Gabriele Nunziati was fired after asking EU officials whether Israel should pay to rebuild Gaza. Euronews’ Vincenzo Genovese asked the European Commission both for its comment on the dismissal and repeated the question that led to Nunziati’s firing.
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