Tom Bateman
@tombateman
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BBC State Department Correspondent. Former Middle East. Bluesky https://t.co/TMj6PQJiVh Email tom.b.dc@proton.me Signal tom.6441
Washington, DC
Joined January 2009
1. Civilians who escaped Mariupol in recent days have described the growing desperation in the besieged city, including accounts of bodies buried in shallow graves, looting by Chechen fighters, and starving residents being killed when they venture out of shelters to find water.
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RT @moawady: Today, we lost two brave voices of Gaza. Anas and Mohamed were not just correspondents, they were the voice and the eyes of Ga….
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RT @MiddleEastEye: The names of the five Al Jazeera journalists assassinated by Israel in a strike on their tent in Gaza on Sunday night:….
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RT @hamdahsalhut: Not even an hour before his death, Anas was telling the world about the relentless attacks surrounding him in Gaza. Ana….
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RT @tombateman: “There is every reason to believe that the Israeli army is seeking to establish a total silence about what is happening in….
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Over this year and a half of conflict, nearly 200 Palestinian journalists have been killed by the Israeli army, including at least 43 killed whilst carrying out their duties. It is one of the largest...
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RT @SangitaMyska: A week ago the Committee to Protect Journalists warned that Al Jazeera’s Anas Al-Sharif was being smeared by the IDF & th….
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New York, July 24, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists is gravely worried about the safety of Al Jazeera Arabic’s Gaza correspondent Anas Al-Sharif, who is being targeted by an Israeli military...
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RT @lindseyhilsum: Story of a death foretold: a few weeks before Israeli forces killed him, @CPJMENA called for Anas Al-Sharif’s protecti….
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New York, July 24, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists is gravely worried about the safety of Al Jazeera Arabic’s Gaza correspondent Anas Al-Sharif, who is being targeted by an Israeli military...
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RT @AdHaque110: The IDF says "Prior to the attack, steps were taken to reduce the chance of harming civilians". They bombed a tent full of….
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RT @AlexCrawfordSky: IDF says it’s killed Al Jazeera journalist Anas Al-Sharif @pressfreedom and others warned of his death a few weeks a….
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New York, July 24, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists is gravely worried about the safety of Al Jazeera Arabic’s Gaza correspondent Anas Al-Sharif, who is being targeted by an Israeli military...
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RT @MishalHusain: CPJ on July 24: “We are deeply alarmed by the repeated threats made by Israeli army spokesperson Avichay Adraee against A….
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RT @krishgm: Israel says it killed these Palestinian Al Jazeera journalists, claiming - without providing any evidence - that Al Sharif was….
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RT @tombateman: Journalists and media workers are protected persons under the Geneva Conventions and deliberately killing them is a war cri….
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"A systematic attempt by Israel to control the narrative and to censor information about what is happening inside Gaza to the outside world" - Committee to Protect Journalists.
Journalists and media workers are protected persons under the Geneva Conventions and deliberately killing them is a war crime. Arguments about political or state affiliations of broadcasters they work can’t be used as a death sentence under international law - they are civilians
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RT @hamdahsalhut: Israeli forces have targeted and killed two more of our colleagues at Al Jazeera. Anas Al Sharif & Mohammed Qraiqea hav….
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RT @IhabHassane: This photo has been circulating since this morning as supposed “proof” of staged hunger in Gaza. But where exactly is the….
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RT @evanhill: This absurd story from @BILD seems to have caused the below image to go viral: BILD reporters alleg….
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Aktivisten als „Reporter“: BILD-Recherchen zeigen fragwürdige Inszenierungen der Hunger-Fotos aus Gaza
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‘Europe has been trying to rekindle a long term solution. But diplomacy… is being punished not pursued by Washington. In the United Nations, seats are empty and those still talking are left on the sidelines.’ My #fooc .With @serenatarling @farhanahaider.
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Jeremy Bowen reflects on the prospects for Palestinian statehood in the light of history.
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The CPB … provides funds to 1,500 local public radio and television stations as well as PBS and NPR.
BREAKING: The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funds NPR and PBS, says it will close down after federal cuts.
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RT @AP: BREAKING: Judge extends the protected status ended by the Trump administration for 60,000 people from Central America and Nepal. ht….
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A California judge is extending migrant status protections ended by the Trump administration for more than 60,000 people from Central America and Nepal.
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“One man said he knew a teenage boy who was killed”. "There is no food or water. People go to get food from the Zikim area, where they are targeted. He went to bring flour but came back carried in the flour bag’. "They sniped him in the middle of his head”.
bbc.co.uk
US special envoy Steve Witkoff will visit Gaza on Friday to inspect food distribution sites, the White House said.
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