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In-depth and uncompromising journalism in the public interest | إعلام مكرَّس لإنتاج صحافة معمّقة وغير مساوِمة لخدمة المصلحة العامّة
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Netanyahu has offered military escorts to foreign journalists for guided tours of Gaza that sanitize and legitimize genocide. We call on our peers to refuse to embed with these Israeli propaganda tours. #BoycottIDFEmbeds Read our statement: https://t.co/b9oAeUAG1E
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When southerners reclaimed their lands in February, the first thing I saw were farmers rushing back to revive their fields. Despite toxins, destruction, and no compensation, they remain determined to rebuild their lives. Read their stories here:
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This story has been updated to reflect @Phosphor_Abyad's research on Israel's use of white phosphorus across south Lebanon. They were able to geolocate and verify 248 incidents between October 2023 and November 2024. https://t.co/H0tBRg91Ob
In South Lebanon, farmers continue to face Zionist aggression on their lands. Dana Hourany (@DanaHourany) spoke with four farmers from Houla, Chebaa, Mays al-Jabal, and Kfar Kila who returned to scorched land, spoiled crops, and dead livestock. 🔗 https://t.co/AtpmVYBub9
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Even less reported on is its systematic war on fishermen: https://t.co/jPKrhttEPg And farmers: https://t.co/VZQ16oQW0c Read these two pieces to learn more about what's happening across southern Lebanon's front lines.
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Israel's war on Lebanon has been out of international headlines since the cessation of hostilities agreement in Nov 2024. Since then, Israel has violated the agreement 100s of times and killed 100s of people.
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“The Israelis are dangerously close,” Khodor Zahra said. “They shoot anyone who approaches. If we die today, no one will ask about us.” 🔗 Read the full story by Dana Hourany (@DanaHourany): https://t.co/AtpmVYBub9
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Meanwhile, Israel and the U.S. pushed to end UNIFIL’s mission in southern Lebanon. The UN Security Council voted to phase out the mandate over the next two years. Without the peacekeeping mission, even limited safety measures available to southerners will cease to exist.
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On June 10, an Israeli drone strike killed Mohammad Kanaan and his son Wael while they herded cattle near Chebaa. The area was well-known grazing land... Now, shepherds no longer go there, fearing they might meet the same fate.
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Khalil Hamdan’s 10 dunums of tobacco fields, which once earned him $10,000 a year, had dried up, and an Israeli airstrike reduced the home he built for his family to rubble. “We can’t keep watching our hard work wither away every 10 to 15 years because of Israel,” he said.
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In Chebaa, Khodor Zahra’s cactus farm dried out, his goats died from toxic fumes or starvation, and his orchard yielded nothing. He sold a small piece of land to buy a few new goats, and his mother sold her gold to repair their small dairy plant.
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Ghaleb Hajj returned to Houla to find his wheat flattened, animals gone, and his home destroyed. Israel used white phosphorus to burn his olive groves. He now hers other people’s livestock — afraid to walk beyond 500 meters from his house.
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In South Lebanon, farmers continue to face Zionist aggression on their lands. Dana Hourany (@DanaHourany) spoke with four farmers from Houla, Chebaa, Mays al-Jabal, and Kfar Kila who returned to scorched land, spoiled crops, and dead livestock. 🔗 https://t.co/AtpmVYBub9
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"Third Worldism views the Western metropole, including its working class, as an imperialist formation where workers lose sight of revolution because they are predefined by imperial rent, which sustains them through a wasteful process of exploitation in the periphery, reinforcing
In this interview with Khalil Kawtharany (@KhalilKawthrany) and Karim al-Amine, Arab academic Ali Kadri offers a searing indictment of imperialism’s logic in the Global South: war, waste, and the commodification of death. 🔗 https://t.co/rNbCryqm2z
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@breadandnet @laylayammine9 @almodononline The list hasn’t been published yet. Each name undergoes a rigorous multi-source review under a “data correction” policy to ensure accuracy and protect the victims and their families. “It’s the first step toward protecting the truth from being lost,” says Layla Yammine
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@breadandnet @laylayammine9 @almodononline In the absence of a national public effort to record and memorialize these lives, this project reaffirms that the martyrs are not just numbers; it seeks to establish a precise record, building a foundation to pursue justice.
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@breadandnet @laylayammine9 @almodononline To compile this information, the team tapped into every open source: WhatsApp groups supplied by journalists on the ground, village Facebook groups, field reports, and visuals from bombed areas.
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@breadandnet @laylayammine9 @almodononline Over 4000 names have been compiled, but the list of martyrs remains incomplete. Each entry goes through a multi-stage verification process before being listed. Classifications, such as ‘civilian,’ ‘child,’ ‘journalist,’ were drafted yet may be withheld to protect privacy and
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At Bread&Net (@breadandnet) last week, our journalist Layla Yammine (@laylayammine9) presented a database documenting names, locations, & dates of death of martyrs killed by Israel since October 2023. 🔗 Coverage in Almodon (@almodononline):
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عُقِدَت جلسة "الأدلة في مواجهات السرديات: توثيق الجرائم خلال الحرب"، ضمن مؤتمر "خبز ونت" الذي نظمته مؤسسة "سميكس" في بيروت.
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"Simply put, if people want to live better lives, they must resist. Effective resistance shifts the burden of production costs...back onto capital itself. In doing so, resistance forces capital to absorb the real costs of production, thereby deepening its crisis."
In this interview with Khalil Kawtharany (@KhalilKawthrany) and Karim al-Amine, Arab academic Ali Kadri offers a searing indictment of imperialism’s logic in the Global South: war, waste, and the commodification of death. 🔗 https://t.co/rNbCryqm2z
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This interview was originally published in Al-Akhbar (@AlakhbarNews) on the first anniversary of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood; it is translated into English by Fátima Fouad el-Samman (@sittelhozon). Read the full interview:
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Kadri argues that capital sustains itself by dividing the working class into competing identities. This is foundational to how capital reproduces itself. He insists, however, that only effective resistance can disrupt this process, forcing capital to absorb the true costs of
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