Alex Crawford
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Travelling foreign correspondent based in Istanbul. Sky News Special Correspondent. Wrote Colonel Gadaffi's Hat in ptsd haze.
Joined October 2009
Lebanese eye surgeon tells @SkyNews many patients he’s treating following the pager explosions have ‘life-changing injuries’ and added:’it’s a massacre. Whoever did this is a criminal’.
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Here’s our report from #Gaza when our camera crew filmed Israeli snipers shooting into crowd of Gazans trying to return to homes in the north - it was the first day of the #ceasefire It’s happened again today
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IDF posted this saying Hez had a ‘command centre’ in the mosque next to the hosp but @SkyNews has spoken to surgeon from the hosp who said that’s ‘categorically untrue’, they bombed both mosque and hospital, with no Hez positions or weapons in either
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UN experts :’Over 390 bodies have been discovered at Nasser and Al Shifa hospitals, including of women and children, with many reportedly showing signs of torture and summary executions, and potential instances of people buried alive,’
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These journalists are incredible. They literally are the world’s eyes in #Gaza right now and they’re being deliberately targeted. They’re mothers, daughters and sisters - just trying to stay alive to tell us what’s going on inside @IMSforfreemedia.
This is what it’s like for women journalists to work inside #Gaza. "We die a million times because we see and live the pain of all the people, and we have seen things that might take years to forget,” says Mona Okal, journalist at Palestine TV. Support the journalists in Gaza.
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In case you missed it, this is what Israeli bombing of one of the few remaining hospitals in Gaza looks like whilst apparently hunting ‘terrorists’ as the UN says Israeli restrictions on aid may amount to “starvation as a method of war”.
Footage filmed near the al Shifa hospital in Gaza shows people in distress following a raid by Israel. Palestinian authorities described the raid as a "war crime" and said it had resulted in multiple casualties. Latest:
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Doctors inside Al Shifa hospital in #Gaza have been sending desperate texts to fellow doctors in UK saying they fear they’ll be ‘dead in the morning’ along with patients and families inside. They’re pleading for help from British Parliamentarians.
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Palestinian emergency crews say they’re uncovering several mass graves - this, inside the Nasser Medical Complex in Gaza’s Khan Younis on top of several at Al Shifa hospital.
Many victims have been executed, shot at close range. Horrific scenes of carnage with numbers expected to reach 700. Following the mass graves at Al—Shifa hospital, it looks like Israel is a voracious death machine turning hospitals in Gaza into graveyards. Wake up world!.
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The notion that foreign journalists are either not trying hard enough or don’t want to or are scared of the risk is utterly ridiculous. There’s a queue of foreign journalists from every country on the planet wanting to get in. We are being blocked.
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Meanwhile every single Gazan journalist is being hounded and hunted and struggling to stay alive, eat, clean themselves whilst seeing family, friends and colleagues killed, lose their homes or suffer terrible deprivation. Embeds with IDF simply do not count imo 🧵.
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The utter destruction of #Gaza’s Al Shifa hospital after the withdrawal of Israeli soldiers is extensive. Hundreds returned to the area after a two-week long Israeli bombardment - and found bodies inside and outside the hospital
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Just seen 42 ambulances outside one crematorium in #delhi. Bodies stacked up waiting inside for cremation. Many still in the ambulances waiting to be delivered. Carnage #coronavirus #india.
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And yet I’m a fully accredited independent bone fide journalist. Imagine how Gaza journalists feel as Israeli warplanes piloted by those with views like this circle above apparently (by the writers own admission) wanting to kill all Palestinians ?
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Do you really think taking sneaky pix of myself and my children wd intimidate me @Husker_Ju along with death threats passed off as jokes? Dont hide next time altho I get your cowardice in the land leading the prosecution for crimes against humanity in Gaza.
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‘This is a dark day for the media. This is a dark day for democracy’ - Foreign Press Association.
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The picture which many will see as emblematic of what’s happening in Gaza
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Three journalists have been killed in southern Lebanon after an Israeli strike on housing well-known to be used by several media outlets. The area is not under Israeli ‘evacuation orders’ and was chosen by journos because it was viewed as relatively safe.
BREAKING: Lebanon's state-run news agency says three TV news staffers were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a compound housing journalists in the country's southeast.
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‘Nothing that has been reported braces you for the true scale of the horror in Gaza. We’re simply not getting accurate information about the levels of destruction and brutality.’ .- UK Parliament group report on #Gaza
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15 months of foreign journalists being denied unfettered access to Gaza - while those inside showed us just how to report under one of the world’s most violent sieges and in the most horrifying conditions. Bravo Palestinian journalists.
Western journalists will soon flood into Gaza. Many will report the appalling conditions they find there as a revelation. Don’t be fooled. At Al Jazeera we have been laying bare the full horror all along. “Nobody can say they didn’t know.”.
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Journalists frequently use drones. My team has for years. The IDF has denied it’s targeting journalists but the Dahdouh family’s been hit three times and at least 70 other journos killed in #Gaza An independent inquiry is being called for @jodieginsberg.
Israel first said it lethally targeted a car carrying journalists in Gaza because there was a terrorist in the car. Now it says that the use by a journalist of a drone made it "look like" they were terrorists. Targeting of civilians is illegal. 1/2.
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One of Gaza’s best known academics and poets has been killed with his family in an #Israeli air strike. Refaat Alareer’s words: ‘We are hopeless. We have nothing to lose’ are haunting.
Professor Refaat Alareer was killed by Israeli forces, his friend announced on Thursday. Alareer was a co-founder of the ‘We Are Not Numbers’ project, a professor at the Islamic University of Gaza, and one of Gaza's most prominent writers, poets & activists
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Aided and abetted by #Egypt who refuse to let them enter through Rafah Crossing plus every other country with influence such as USA and UK who’re not kicking up an almighty fuss about the denial of independent access 🧵.
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Nothing here is verifiable. As int journos are denied unfettered access to Gaza, it’s striking these Israeli allegations about the only journos in N Gaza, come as the IDF is accused by multiple human rights groups of committing grave violations of int law.
Hamas directs Al Jazeera's media coverage to serve its own interests, preventing the public in Gaza and around the world from discovering the truth about its crimes against Gazan civilians. Think twice before using Al Jazeera as a “reliable” source.
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Israeli media is showing images of large groups of men they say are Gazans who’ve (according to the reports) surrendered to the IDF. The men are blindfolded, stripped to their underwear with hands tied behind their backs and lined up in rows. 🧵.
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Difficult to feel anything but shame listening to this. ‘Because we are Palestinian (journalists), we have only one right which is to die and be maimed’ @AbubakerAbedW speaks about how let down all the Gaza journalists feel by the int media organisations.
I had a word to say against the lack of international support for Palestinian journalists
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The team was in a ‘deconflicted zone in two armored cars branded with the WCK logo and a soft skin vehicle.’ They had shared their co-ordinates and route with the Israeli military and had just left the Deir al-Bala warehouse loaded with aid
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President Erdoğan has sent a TurkishArmed Forces aircraft full of medical aid supplies to the UK this morning. The plane is transporting:.100ksurgical masks.59k N95 masks.100k hazmat suits #turkey #coronavirus.
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There’re devastating ongoing attacks by Israeli forces in Gaza killing more than 70 in Al Marwasi, an area civilians were ordered to go to, with follow-up attacks on rescue services who went to help - and strikes on Gaza City beach camp with at least 15 dead.
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Brit-Palestinian doctor Ghassan Abu-Sitta is in Beirut helping with the mountain of surgeries needed after two days of deadly attacks via communication devices which killed dozens, injured 1000’s includ women and children
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British diplomat resigns accusing Britain of ‘complicity in war crimes’ saying ‘Israeli soldiers take videos deliberately burning, destroying and looting civilian property and openly admits to the rape and torture of prisoners’ (from @HindHassanNews ).
BREAKING: British FCDO diplomat Mark Smith resigns from his position with a letter titled "FCDO complicity in War Crimes". He accuses Israel of war crimes & genocidal intent & says there's "no justification for the UK's continued arms sales to Israel".
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Just seen the most horrific pictures of the aftermath of the Israeli drone strike on two more Al Jazeera journalists in #Gaza The network has urged the int community and media orgs to help protect #Gaza journos and ‘hold the Israeli army accountable’.
Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent Ismail Abu Omar and cameraman Ahmad Matar have been seriously wounded in a "targeted" Israeli drone strike north of Rafah. Abu Omar has had his right leg amputated and doctors are attempting to save his left leg
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Actually it’s the doctors who were actually there not only questioning the IDF version but directly contradicting it.
@AlexCrawfordSky @SkyNews It's quite incredible to watch Alex. When the IDF make a statement (and one backed by intelligence), you question it with all your veracity. Yet when Hezbollah, a genocidal terrorist organization put out a press release, you blindly repost it, without so much as a second glance.
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The ‘dossier’ circulating doesn’t include any evidence - and none has been given to the organisation the allegations are levelled against. Q’s mounting over why several Govts rushed to suspend funding to the agency so critical to #Gaza civilians.
Did the UK Government end UNRWA funding on the basis of ‘flimsy evidence’? . My letter to the Foreign Secretary:
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This is from a British #Palestinian writer who is wondering what the level of threat a graveyard and his dead father poses to the #Israeli military @masoud_ahmed.
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Two orphaned siblings who’ve already had limbs amputated are trapped in Gaza’s Al Shifa hospital say @MedicalAidPal The organisation says hundreds of people are trapped inside Shifa Hospital with little food and water.
We are urgently working to evacuate siblings Rafif, 13 and Rafiq, 15 from Shifa Hospital where they are trapped. They have severe injuries from an Israeli military airstrike, which also killed their mother and ten other family members, and had to have their limbs amputated. (1/4)
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‘It raises questions about what Israel doesn’t want international journalists to see’ says the Foreign Press Association in Israel… it’s an unprecedented nine month long lock-out for foreign reporters to Gaza
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Doctors are telling @SkyNews that the Ghandour Hosp in Bint Jbeil on the Lebanese border has been hit by Israeli artillery shells. Three drs are wounded, one critically, about a dozen nurses injured. They’re trying to evac the hospital but can’t right now.
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This is an historically valid perspective particularly strong in #SouthAfrica where much of the population see horrifying parallels with the daily lives of #Palestinians and what they endured under the SA #apartheid regime.
"When you impose tremendous violence on people, you are going to bring violence upon yourself. That doesn't mean I justify Palestinian acts of violence. but that's what happens. That's why the IRA was blowing up department stores in London, it's why the ANC [African National
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I’m not sure - but can only hope the journalists in #Gaza realise how very important their work is. Incredible bravery. Vital testimony.
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Palestinian journalist Salma Al Qadoumi lies injured after being shot in the back by Israeli snipers in Gaza. The Committee to Protect Journalists @pressfreedom estimates around 113 have been killed during the Israeli bombardment of Gaza since Oct 7
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The constant ‘warnings’ to Lebanese civilians to evacuate ‘for your own safety’ by the Israeli forces (another 26 towns ordered to just now) is causing widespread panic, denounced by one Leb Govt minister as ‘professionalised genocide’.
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For the first time ever the UN Chief is invoking the rarely used Article 99 of the UN Charter to urgently address Israel’s war on #Gaza - aimed at trying to avert the growing humanitarian catastrophe and to break logjam on #ceasefire.
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This hounding of people who question official claims, ask uncomfortable q’s or make difficult documentaries is pretty disgusting. This is our job and exactly what journalists should do #coronavirus #journalism #uk.
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No foreign journalists have been allowed unfettered access to #Gaza since Oct 7 - whilst many of those inside (the Committee for the Protection of Journalists say) have been targeted by the Israeli military @CPJMENA @jodieginsberg.
At least 97 reporters, 92 of them Palestinian, have been killed since the start of the war in Gaza. "They are bearing the brunt of the reporting. They are reporting the war and living the war," @jodieginsberg tells @AliRogin.
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Another Palestinian journalist killed in Israeli bombing. Hassan Hamad was 20. He got threatening messages like this:’Listen, If you continue spreading lies about Israel, we'll come for you next and turn your family into [. ] This is your last warning’.
For nearly 12 months, CPJ has painstakingly documented the ways in which Israel's conduct of the war has exacted an unprecedented toll on Palestinian journalists and the region’s media landscape. One year on, the impact is devastating. Read more:
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Shocking shocking shocking. ‘In 2023, more journalists were killed in the first three months of the Israel-Gaza war than have ever been killed in a single country over an entire year’ @pressfreedom.
Three out of four journalists killed globally in 2023 were killed during the Israel-Gaza war between October 7 and December 31. ➡️ In Gaza, Israel, and Lebanon, 77 journalists and media workers were killed. ➡️ Outside the war, 22 journalists and media workers were killed
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This is Gaza’s Palace of Justice. A civilian structure. Israeli troops appeared to have posed in it before blowing it up. There’ve been multiple documented attacks on hospitals, shelters, journalists - all whilst Israeli hostages are being held somewhere in the area. 🧵
Another @SkyNews journalist destroys her credibility. Note that despite not actually being in Gaza (the topic of her thread), she nonetheless 'knows' that Israel - and, evidently, NOT Hamas - is committing war crimes there.
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Damning rundown of Israeli attacks in Gaza by UN Relief chief: ‘Children have been killed, starved and frozen to death. They’ve been maimed, orphaned, separated from their family. Conservative estimates indicate over 17,000 children are without families’
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Helen M, what number of dead journalists would be horrifying to you? Correct - foreign journalists are being blocked from entering but our Palestinian colleagues are inside and being killed at a rate and numbers that far exceeds any war ever.
@AlexCrawfordSky @gnuseibeh 90+ journalists? Would that be a HAMAs guestimate or a Crawford Guestimate as no foreign journalists are in Gaza to report accurately on anything. P.S. Doctors /medics /journalists are not impartial we have many HAMAs supporting marching in UK every week calling for jihad.
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A UCLA professor described the attack as ‘pure anarchy in which violent thugs were given free rein, seemingly with the tacit support of law enforcement. It placed scores of anti-war demonstrators in the encampment in direct and serious danger’
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IDF spokesman had earlier encouraged journalists to go to the building and even gave directions for entry.
#Hezbollah spox was due to give a press conference at 2pm. 10 mins before the @IDF issued a strike alert for #Beirut buildings >300m away from where scores of journalists were gathering. Hezb spox was rushed away on a bike, media orgs frantically trying to warn colleagues to.
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The Israeli military has told those in north Gaza to leave in advance of more bombing and while they’re also bombing the south. There’s no exit for anyone, no place to reach safety, nowhere to go.
This morning, we were informed to evacuate Jabalia refugee camp in Beit Lahia, along with all of North Gaza. Most people in these areas have already been displaced three or four times. North Gaza is mostly displaced people, who have survived 216 days of genocide and famine. Once.
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Journalism in #Gaza today. Staggeringly brave and utterly determined to report on what’s going on inside #Gaza whilst still being undermined by those who refuse to believe them despite them being killed in record numbers.
To the left, funeral procession of journalist Samir Abu Daqqa, . to the right, his grieving colleague Wael Dahdouh, vows to continue Gaza coverage till his last breath.
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The Israeli PM is portraying the whole of Lebanon as ‘Hezbollah’ saying ‘every kitchen, every garage, every kitchen’ hosts a Hezbollah rocket or missile. One hundred per cent false. Many are staunchly anti-Hezbollah and don’t host any Hezbollah arms.
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The International Criminal Court will include crimes against journalists in his investigation into the situation in #Palestine. Reporters San Frontiers has been lobbying for this and it’s an important first step 🧵.
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If reporting these facts is ‘losing credibility’ then that credibility wasn’t worth having in the first place.
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Just to put in context the warnings given by Israeli forces before attacking places in Lebanon. These are vague and blanket large areas. Its led to the biggest displacement of people in the country’s history - about a million - causing an humanitarian crisis.
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‘Medical scissors are now added to a long list of banned items the #Israeli Authorities classify as “for dual use”’ says @UNRWA Chief - and this is why vital medical aid is not getting through @UNLazzarini.
#Gaza: an entire population depends on humanitarian assistance for survival. Very little comes in & restrictions increase. A truck loaded with aid has just been turned back because it had scissors used in children’s medical kits. Medical scissors are now added to a long list of
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It’s two years since the Israeli military killing of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, a US citizen. Yet, still no accountability for her death. Human rights activists say Israel’s been killing journalists with impunity long before the current war
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All in a day: witnesses say medics were prevented by Israelis from reaching Sameer Abu Daqqa as he bled to death; reporter Wael al-Dahdouh also injured; 3 Israeli hostages killed by IDF and Israeli troops beat up a cameraman as it was broadcast live.
#Gaza: @pressfreedom is deeply saddened by a drone strike that killed @AJArabic cameraperson Samer Abu Daqqa and injured Gaza bureau chief Wael Al Dahdouh, and calls for an independent investigation into the attack. .
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Fear among Hong Kongers #coronarovirus.
@AlexCrawfordSky Citizens support medical workers strike. We are afraid that 200,000 people enter Hong Kong from China every day. They all concealed their illness and falsely reported health applications until the onset of #coronavirus .
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Pics of people in N Gaza killed in Israeli strikes are horribly normalised and testimony from orgs like @WHO ignored: ‘It’s appalling hospitals in #Gaza continue to be attacked and patients continue to be harmed….’
Shortly after the @WHO-led mission to Kamal Adwan Hospital yesterday, the facility's third floor was reportedly hit again, injuring six children who are patients there. One child sustained a critical injury. Water tanks were damaged. Heavy bombardment persisted very close to the
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Ceasefire announcement and amid the scramble to take ‘credit’, there’re reports of intense Israeli bombings in Gaza City with at least 20 killed plus another journo massacred in a direct Israeli strike on his vehicle.
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Israel-Hamas war: Our first mission as journalists is to tell the full story, denied access to Gaza we cannot do that | World News | Sky News
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UN says Lebanon’s ‘health system is on the brink of collapsing’ amid ‘alarming’ attacks on facilities and emergency workers over the past few days.
Throughout the past days we have been witnessing an alarming increase in attacks against healthcare in #Lebaon. Health workers are paying the heaviest price with their lives. The health system is on the brink of collapsing. Latest Update #NotATarget
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Here are two Gaza journalists, recognised for their work @rorypecktrust awards last night …for attention of those who think there’re none inside the Strip - and they deserve our respect and recognition as @josephwillits eloquently explains in his 🧵below
“There are no journalists in Gaza.”. Palestinian journalists deserve our respect, solidarity & love, not erasure (even if unintentional) from @DavidLammy. Killed, maimed, denied their trade, working with execution targets on their backs to show the horrors of Israeli genocide.
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Israeli PM urges UN to withdraw its ‘peacekeepers’ from ‘blue line’ Lebanese border, appearing to dismiss all prev int agreements. Reminder he called UN ‘this once-respected institution contemptible’ and a ‘swamp of antisemitic bile’ about 2 weeks ago.
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‘The four men were killed on their way to conduct repairs to water infrastructure in Khuzaa, east of Khan Younis. Despite prior coordination with Israeli authorities their clearly-marked vehicle was bombed’ | Oxfam International
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Catching up after being in internet black hole for days…horrific videos from Rafah; media outlets includ @SkyNews show US weapons appear to have been used in the Israeli strike on a so-called ‘safe zone’ which decapitated children and burned others, then this:.
Nikki Hailey in Israel scribbling "FINISH THEM"on the shells that the IDF is about to fire into Rafah in defiance of the International Court of Justice. Biden provided the shells, Republicans autograph them. The US political class is united in its complicity with this genocide.
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We haven’t. Not nearly enough. Neither the world’s editors, politicians or all the Governments claiming any interest in free media, open journalism and any form of democracy. It’s a shameful disgrace no international journalist has had proper access to Gaza.
"International journalists have not fought for the right to enter the Gaza Strip and to cover the war. They have abandoned the right" @YoumnaElSayed17 @ajenglish #sirharrysummit.
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From one of the accused journalists @HossamShabat ‘…after murdering our colleague Ismail Al Ghoul, Israel released a document that claimed he supposedly received a military ranking on July 1, 2007, when he would have been a 10 year old child’.
Israel’s army has released fabricated dossiers framing us, the last remaining journalists in North Gaza reporting on Israel’s extermination and ethnic-cleansing campaign, as “terrorists”. This blatant and belligerent attempt to transform us, the last witnesses in the north, into.
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Talking to a doctor inside Nasser Hospital, he said, no-one could get in or out because of Israeli snipers positioned around the hospital #Gaza.
🚨Due to presence of an Israeli sniper, citizens are resorting to transporting water from Nasser Hospital to schools packed with thousands of displaced!. Bloodstains by school gate mark where an Israeli army sniper shot a girl attempting to reach hospital!.
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Another medic who kept people alive in #Gaza at great risk to himself is arrested - and there’s news of another Gazan journalist killed bringing est number to 90+ while #UN security council convenes to discuss a ceasefire after #US vetoed last call.
The great Dr Ahmad Muhanna, Medical Director of Al Awda hospital arrested yesturday by the Israeli army and taken to an unknown location. We worked together in the 2nd Intifada, the 2012 and 2021 wars, the Great Marches of Return in 2018 . An outstanding anaesthetist.
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One year on, there’s still no unfettered access to Gaza for the international media. ‘This is shocking behaviour for a country that professes its commitment to the democratic ideals of a free press’ says the FPA
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Shocking amount of disinformation going around about Gaza journalists to try to justify them being killed in Israeli strikes, while tents of displaced civilians are bombed in Al Aqsa hospital yard and Hezbollah launches volley of rockets into Israel.
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Illuminating speech from the SA Foreign minister which explains perfectly why South Africa is pursuing its genocide case in the ICJ and the Govt’s empathy with #Gaza ( courtesy @heatherbarr1 ).
This clip of South Africa’s foreign minister Naledi Pandor is well worth watching to.understand how the SA govt sees the ICJ case.
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#HongKong health workers demanding closure of all borders with mainland China saying current measures still not enough to protect the city from #WuhanCoronovirus Hundreds step up strike action
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Ashamed to hear how let down journalists inside Gaza feel by their journalist peers worldwide and how they believe we’ve done v little to fight for them; to protect them and to get unfettered access inside Gaza to help them cover what’s happening @RSF_inter.
#UK: At an event in parliament this week led by @RSF_inter, @englishpen & @Caabu and chaired by @jessphillips, MPs heard first-hand testimony of the horrific situation for journalists in Gaza. The UK govt must do more to stop Israel targeting journalists and secure access to
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Ty @NevMab Others are suffering far worse, our colleagues in Gaza and Lebanon have been killed and/or their families wiped out in Israeli attacks. None of this is acceptable - and yet to point this out is castigated as anti-Semitic or bias. It’s neither.
@AlexCrawfordSky is an award winning correspondent who is being targeted & harassed & threatened for asking Israel to open Gaza to the international press and for showing solidarity with Palestinian journalists who have been killed in record numbers by the Israeli military.
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The lengths Republican senators went to in order to prevent possible Israel arrest warrants revealed by @mehdirhasan ‘You Have Been Warned’
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Just in case it’s been missed by those incandescent with rage at the mere mention that journalists doing their jobs shouldn’t be bombed, tortured, jailed or intimidated, a little reminder of int law.
Under International Humanitarian Law (IHL), media professionals working in armed conflicts enjoy the same rights and protections as any other civilian, as long as they are not part of the fight. They must be protected, and we decry attacks against them.
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1400 people have been killed in the past fortnight in Lebanon - that exceeds the entire death toll in 34 days of war in 2006 when Israel and Hezbollah were last at war.
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The details from the IDF about the hostages’ rescue have yet to be released but the news comes as graphic pictures emerge of what’s being called an ‘horrific massacre’ by the Israeli army in the Nseirat market.
The Israeli army committed a horrific massacre in the Nseirat market in the middle of Gaza.
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Witnesses in the Gaza hospital say those detained by the Israelis soldiers were beaten, stripped naked and blindfolded. There were a number of journalists and medical workers among about 70 people detained.
The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed by reports that Israeli soldiers assaulted @AJArabic reporter Ismail Al-Ghoul @ismail_gh2, detained him and other journalists at Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, and calls for their immediate release.
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As soon as the US announcement was made, many in Gaza feared the worst. Less than 24 hrs it came. ‘My father @fnaim65 Director of Baptist Al-Ahli Hospital in #Gaza, describes today as one of the hardest days. The situation at the hospital is catastrophic…’.
🚨BREAKING: A HORRIFIC MASSACRE, with over 100 Palestinians killed in the Israeli bombing of a #Gaza school, occurred in less than 24 hours after Biden’s announcement ‼️.#GazaGenocide
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Desperate letter from head of @UNRWA saying the org has reached ‘breaking point’ after a campaign against it by Israeli Govt ‘I fear we are on the edge of a monumental disaster with grave implications for regional peace, security, and human rights’,.
In just over four months in #Gaza, there have been more #children, more journalists, more medical personnel, and more @UN staff killed than anywhere in the world during a conflict. It is with profound regret that I must now inform you that @UNRWA has reached a breaking point,
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UNIFIL has confirmed to @SkyNews that Israeli forces asked them to move their troops from certain positions along the Blue line (at the Lebanon border) but they declined and have remained in their positions.
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