
Louisa Loveluck
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@WashingtonPost reporter covering the Israel-Gaza war and other global crises. Previously: Baghdad, Beirut, Cairo. DM for Signal. [email protected].
London, England
Joined May 2009
The IDF account of its strike on Nasser Hospital doesn't add up 🧵
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An extraordinary story, quoting doctors and parents, with harrowing photographs. Extremely detailed, giving a full picture of each child's brief life, their medical conditions, and the effect of starvation on their young bodies. Link below:
Here is the story Maryam Dagga published for the @AP 10 days ago on starving children in #Gaza w/o prior health issues. "Malnourished kids arrive daily at a Gaza hospital as Netanyahu denies hunger": https://t.co/5KIVqEdu9W
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Here is the story Maryam Dagga published for the @AP 10 days ago on starving children in #Gaza w/o prior health issues. "Malnourished kids arrive daily at a Gaza hospital as Netanyahu denies hunger": https://t.co/5KIVqEdu9W
apnews.com
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claims there is no hunger in Gaza, but malnourished children are regularly arriving at Nasser Hospital.
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Israel has just killed 4 more journalists in Gaza. A stain on our industry. We're witnessing the systematic annihilation of Palestinian journalists in real time: a consequence of relentless dehumanization enabled by the amplification of false narratives justifying their targeting
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One of the journalists murdered live on air by Israel at Nasser hospital today was Maryam Abu Dagga. She reported extensively on the starvation for AP in the last few weeks.
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Mariam abu Dagga, the brave journalist and beautiful friend. A mother, a kind lady with a beautiful soul and smile. She was killed today with Mohamed Salama and Hussam Al Masri and Moath Taha in a strike on Nasser medical complex in Khanyounis. I kept searching the news and
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Four journalists were killed by an Israeli strike on a Gaza hospital today, including Mariam Dagga, a freelancer with the @AP. She has a 12-year-old son, who was evacuated from Gaza earlier in the war. She was a true hero, like all of our Palestinian colleagues in Gaza.
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This group sounds like a remarkable lifeline, but just imagine the anguish of having to search for your loved ones like this after bombings or comms blackouts. https://t.co/pK9wzwHMiv
@yabutaleb7.
washingtonpost.com
The group chat provides a place for members to share their grief as tragedy after tragedy unfolds in the tiny enclave.
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Famine officially confirmed in the Gaza City region and is projected to spread within weeks to two more population centers in the wider Gaza Strip, the global authority on hunger said Friday.
washingtonpost.com
More than half a million people in and around Gaza City are facing catastrophic conditions “characterized by starvation, destitution and death,” the IPC said.
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In video calls from Gaza's clinics, doctors walked @YardenMichaeli and @nirhasson through ward after ward of starving and malnourished patients. A deeply painful and important read.
haaretz.com
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The Trump administration is planning to vet all 55 million foreigners who currently hold visas for travel to the United States.
washingtonpost.com
The Trump administration plans to vet all 55 million U.S. visa holders for signs of potential ineligibility, including overstays and terrorist activity
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State Dept fired top press officer for Israeli-Palestinian affairs, after vetoing his use of the line: “We do not support forced displacement of Palestinians in Gaza.” Also rejected his suggested condolences after Israel's killing of an Al Jazeera crew.
washingtonpost.com
Shahed Ghoreishi recommended expressing condolences for slain journalists in Gaza and opposing the forced displacement of Palestinians. He was fired days later.
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“Since 8 August, the UN has recorded 54 attacks on residential buildings and entire blocks in Gaza City, killing 87 Palestinians, including at least 25 children and entire families.”
news.un.org
The Israeli military has escalated attacks across Gaza City, reportedly deciding to press ahead with plans to take full control which will only lead to further “mass killings of civilians” and...
Only yesterday, the IDF’s public messaging to journalists about the Gaza City offensive was: "The IDF does not have a goal to create damage to buildings. That's not our goal.”
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Figures from a classified Israeli military intelligence database indicate five out of six Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza have been civilians, a rate of slaughter rarely matched in recent decades of warfare. https://t.co/fwi2DPJLd7
@yuval_abraham @_EmmaGH.
theguardian.com
Figures from classified IDF database listed 8,900 named fighters as dead or probably dead in May, as overall death toll reached 53,000
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Only yesterday, the IDF’s public messaging to journalists about the Gaza City offensive was: "The IDF does not have a goal to create damage to buildings. That's not our goal.”
They’re saying it openly: the city will be wiped off the map. Israeli Defense Minister Katz: "Gaza City will look like Beit Hanoun" What they did in Beit Hanoun 👇
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#BREAKING ICC says it “deplores” today's US sanctions against two of its judges and two deputy prosecutors, the sanctions are “flagrant attack against the independence of an impartial judicial institution which operates under the mandate from 125 States Parties from all regions.”
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"This truck has been rejected four times... It's carrying ICU beds coming from the W.H.O." Amal Emam, Executive Director of the Egyptian Red Crescent, shows @BeckyCNN a warehouse full of medical supplies at the Rafah border crossing that Israel has turned back.
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The sense of failure is strong among many journos. @NesrineMalik is right Israeli authorities rely on ‘western media to treat its claims as somehow plausible, despite the fact that time and again, it has made claims that turn out not to be true’
theguardian.com
Recent killings have dazed the world and provoked condemnation. But little is said about the calibre of Palestinian journalism, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
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