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Middle East correspondent for the @washingtonpost / @ameja member / [email protected]

Istanbul, Turkey
Joined August 2009
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@John_Hudson
John Hudson
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SCOOP: A classified US report has found that Israeli military units committed “many hundreds” of potential violations human rights violations in Gaza that will take “multiple years” to review -The findings mark the first time a US government report has acknowledged the scale of
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"Bloodstains so large they could be seen from space." UAE-backed RSF fighters are carrying out mass ethnic killings in the recently captured city of El Fashir, by @khoureld @hafiz54472061 @mmkelly22
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RSF paramilitary fighters are carrying out mass ethnic killings in the recently captured city of El Fashir, according to videos, aerial images and interviews.
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@clauirizarry
claudia irizarry aponte
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Staggering early voting turnout. More than 164,000 New Yorkers voted this weekend. For contrast, the total amount of people who voted early in 2021 -- the entire week -- was 169,486.
@BOENYC
NYC Board of Elections
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2025 General Election- Early Voting Day 2 Complete! Manhattan: 49,191 Bronx: 14,225 Brooklyn: 49,432 Queens: 38,791 Staten Island: 12,551 Total # Early Voting Check-Ins: 164,190* *Unofficial & cumulative as of close of polls
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@DionNissenbaum
Dion Nissenbaum
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The US Army Col. who carried out the only on-the-ground US investigation of Shireen Abu Akleh's shooting concluded that the Israeli soldier deliberately shot Shireen, but his boss rejected his conclusions and released a report saying exactly the opposite - that it was accidental.
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@MauriceChammah
Maurice Chammah🍹🎻
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Tonight would be the 40th execution of the year. That's the most in one year since the Obama era. Is it all Trump? Not exactly. Here's an explainer: https://t.co/YCrW2Xuijr
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themarshallproject.org
States have executed 30 people this year — already the highest annual total in more than a decade.
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@catebrown12
Cate Brown
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@ChrisVanHollen @DCIPalestine The Ibrahim family said they hope for government action. “If you were the President of the United States and you see an American citizen imprisoned in an Israeli jail known for torture and starvation, what would you do?” Mohammed's mother said. Story🎁->
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washingtonpost.com
As Rubio visits Israel, family members and lawmakers push Trump to demand the return of 16-year-old Mohammed Ibrahim of Florida, detained eight months without trial.
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@asliaydintasbas
asli aydintasbas
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My piece⬇️⬇️ Mamdani's Grocery Stores Might Be More Realistic Than You Think - POLITICO
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politico.com
Politicians on both the right and the left have used urban subsidies to rise to power in countries around the world.
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@zwideservesbass
Zwide
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D’Angelo singing Mothership Connection by Parliament. 1996. 22 years old.
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@GebeilyM
Maya Gebeily
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It’s been 2 years since Israel killed our Issam Abdallah, wounded AFP’s Christina Assi & 5 more colleagues from Al Jazeera, AFP & Reuters. Neither the IDF nor the Israeli govt have answered repeated questions on who was responsible & why reporters were hit.
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@catebrown12
Cate Brown
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U.S. chemist Omar Yaghi became the first Palestinian scientist to win a Nobel Prize today. The son of refugees, Yaghi's parents were forced out of Gaza in 1948 and raised him in Amman. “We were a dozen of us in one room, sharing it with the cattle..." https://t.co/yFfgeBMtiI
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Omar Yaghi, 60, a U.S. citizen born in Jordan, said he was raised with a dozen others in one room.
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@nausjcaa
Nausicaa Renner 🍷🌑🌊
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Huda Skaik on living in Gaza City as the world abandons them (in @DropSiteNews )
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@humeyra_pamuk
Hümeyra Pamuk
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Many American Jews sharply disapprove of Israel’s conduct of the war in Gaza, with 61 percent saying Israel has committed war crimes and about 4 in 10 saying the country is guilty of genocide against the Palestinians, according to a Washington Post poll.
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washingtonpost.com
Most Jews say Israel is committing war crimes — and 39 percent say genocide — while often distinguishing between the country and its leadership.
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@washingtonpost
The Washington Post
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Breaking news: The Trump administration’s push to arrest and deport international students for their pro-Palestinian activism was illegal, a federal judge ruled, calling the crackdown a “truly scandalous and unconstitutional suppression of free speech.”
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The efforts to detain and deport noncitizen activists earlier this year represented an unconstitutional infringement on the First Amendment, the ruling says. 
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susannah george
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“We’ve been under British colonialism already,” said Mustafa Barghouti, general secretary of the Palestinian National Initiative. “He has a negative reputation here. If you mention Tony Blair, the first thing people mention is the Iraq War.” https://t.co/EV36eTbuQp
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washingtonpost.com
Blair is a key player in planning for the rebuilding and governance of the Gaza Strip if a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas is finally signed.
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@maryam_dh
Maryam Aldossari
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Civilians in Gaza have sustained injuries of a type and on a scale more usually seen among professional soldiers involved in intense combat operations, research has found.
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theguardian.com
Wounds such as burns or leg injuries are more common in Gaza than among US soldiers who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan
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Kareem Fahim
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“We wish his mother didn’t come close to death for this to happen, and that the mothers of thousands of other political prisoners didn’t have to wait to be reunited with their loved ones as well." Egypt’s president pardons Alaa Abdel Fattah
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washingtonpost.com
Abdel Fattah was a symbol of the 2011 uprising but was arrested two years later. He has since spent almost all of the past 12 years behind bars.
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@ScottNover
Scott Nover
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NEW: The Pentagon told journalists it will require them to pledge they won’t gather any information — even unclassified — that hasn’t been expressly authorized for release, and will revoke the press credentials of those who do not obey. @washingtonpost https://t.co/8lmPMb553G
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is imposing strict new rules that would severely limit the ability of journalists to report on the Pentagon.
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@PostGuild
Washington Post Guild
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A statement from Post Guild leadership: The Washington Post Guild condemns the unjust firing of columnist Karen Attiah The Washington Post wrongly fired Opinions columnist Karen Attiah over her social media posts.
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@evanhill
Evan Hill
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Yesterday evening the Washington Baltimore News Guild unanimously approved a resolution condemning Israel’s continued killing and harassment of journalists in Gaza and calling for an international independent investigation into the Nasser Hospital attack:
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wbng.org
More than 195 journalists and media workers have been killed in Gaza, the West Bank, Israel and Lebanon since Oct. 7, 2023.
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