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This is deeply offensive to Syrians and should be deleted. It is both completely inaccurate and unnecessarily pits civilian victims in different contexts against each other.
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Christians slaughter turkeys, pigs and parsnips in bloody sacrifice to celebrate birth of Jesus Christ
Muslims slaughter cattle, camels and sheep in bloody sacrifice to celebrate Eid al-Adha
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#Israeli
rightwingers cook barbecue outside prison where
#Palestinians
are on hunger strike, saying the smell will increase their suffering
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Breaking: NATO chief
@jensstoltenberg
announces expansion of force in Iraq from 500 to around 4,000
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At Gaza hospital where journalist Yasser Murtaja died from Israeli fire, body brought out covered in Palestinian flag and press flak jacket
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Today my brilliant photographer colleague Mohammed Abed al-Baba was shot in the leg by Israeli fire in northern Gaza.
He was around 200 metres from the border fence, wearing a press vest, he says.
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We literally have a recording where the first person they called in the tower, an hour before the strikes, told them AP and Jazeera were there
Israeli army only discovered foreign media was based in Gaza tower after strike begun
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Breaking: Palestinians reject new Trump criticism, won't meet US administration until they withdraw recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital
"Not meeting your oppressor is not a sign of disrespect; it is a sign of self-respect," top official Hanan Ashrawi tells me
@afp
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BREAKING: US ambassador says Israel free to annex settlements at any time
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In recent days, I have seen many asking ‘how does Israel justify killing so many civilians to kill one man?’
I want to explain the concept of non-civilian cutoff values (NCVs) - essentially the number of civilians a military deems acceptable 'collateral damage' when striking.
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This morning in Jerusalem this elderly Palestinian family were evicted and replaced by Israeli settlers, despite international condemnation
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Four years ago I was in Gaza for the funeral of Yasser Murtaja, a Palestinian journalist killed by Israel.
Israel first claimed, without publishing evidence, he was a Hamas militant, then said it would investigate his death.
As far as I know, it never published any findings.
At Gaza hospital where journalist Yasser Murtaja died from Israeli fire, body brought out covered in Palestinian flag and press flak jacket
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Breaking: Palestinian baby killed in Israeli airstrike in Gaza today, according to Gazan authorities
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Today after 6 years Mohammed Al-Halabi will face a verdict.
The former head of World Vision in Gaza is accused by Israel of working for Hamas in a trial criticised by the UN.
I am not there sadly but this thread will outline the case and stakes and update later with the verdict
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The top trend in Bahraini Twitter right now is "Bahrainis against normalisation" (of relations with Israel) Also "normalisation is a betrayal" (#بحرينيون_ضد_التطبيع)
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My former colleague Anas Baba stayed out on the roof of AFP’s offices in Gaza all night to capture stunning images like this. Truly the most incredible and brave team
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A fully interactive map of every reported civilian death in the Libya 2011 war is available here.
Maybe some deaths went unreported but as
@oimho
found NATO civilian harm was far better tracked than incidents involved Gaddafi forces or rebels
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“I love ice-cream. In summer I would avoid food - I would only eat ice cream for breakfast, lunch and dinner”
Worth remembering Ahed Tamimi is also a child, as well as a symbol. My interview
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Also for those that are keen to label me a NATO stooge, here is the article we wrote upon completing our research.
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Breaking: Palestinian shot dead by Israeli troops during clashes near the border fence in Gaza. First death since Trump sparked protests by announcing embassy move
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Also the photo isn't in Libya and isn't real but apart from that everything was accurate...
h/t
@uriber_
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As has been fairly pointed out to me the wording of the tweet says "casualties" so that would include those injured as well as killed.
Even including injured the number of victims is less than 1% of the number quoted
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Breaking: Mohammed Al-Halabi, head of World Vision in Gaza accused by Israel of aiding Hamas, is given a 12 year sentence by an Israeli court. He will announce an appeal immediately
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On Friday an explosion on a designated safe route killed at least 12 civilians fleeing Gaza.
Palestinians accused Israel, which denied the strike and suggested Hamas was responsible.
Our visual analysis finds an Israeli strike the most likely scenario.
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The more you read the Trump deal the more you realise all the losses for Palestinians (right of return, settlement recognition, Jerusalem, UNRWA ending) are immediate and all the gains ($50 billion, some form of statehood) are years away and dependent on a bunch of hypotheticals
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Can someone please get an American taxi driver to explain the country’s factional hatreds?
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The Israeli police chose to release this…
Israeli police release video showing their officers ripping Palestinian flags off the hearse carrying
@ShireenNasri
coffin.
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The genius that is
@obretix
has a possible location match for the building that Zawahiri was allegedly killed in.
If true, he was in one of the swankiest parts of Kabul - 250 metres from the former UK embassy.
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Breaking: Palestinian health ministry confirms first seven cases of coronavirus in West Bank
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MBS’s right hand man allegedly pretended to be a pilot to kidnap a dissident prince
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Today Chelsea play their first home game since Russian owner Roman Abramovich’s assets were frozen in response to Putin’s Ukraine invasion.
Their opponents? Newcastle - owned by Saudi Arabia. As well as continuing to bomb Yemen, the country just executed 81 people in one day.
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And now for something completely different (and happier!)
I met the first woman truck driver in Hebron in years on the day she had her final examination
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Trump wants "all the churches full" on Easter Sunday, 18 days away. The US crisis won't even be peaking by then
Trump on why he picked Easter as the day he wants to end strict social distancing and reopen American businesses: "Easter is a very special day for me ... Easter Sunday, and you'll have packed churches all over our country."
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Here is the neighbour’s testimony. Please flag if I have missed or mistranslated anything
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Freed Palestinian teenager Ahed Tamimi stares at Israeli soldiers on the hill during a protest against new settlement building in the West Bank
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Residents of Umm al-Hiran in front of what until just an hour ago was a home. Israeli police demolished it
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In May images of Israel destroying tower blocks in the Gaza Strip shocked the world. But what was it like for residents given only a few minutes to leave their homes forever?
@KaamilAhmed
, Anas and I spent weeks piecing together the terrifying evacuation
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New: Human Rights Watch calls on Israel to immediately release Mohammed Al-Halabi, a Palestinian aid worker accused 6 years ago of diverting millions in donations to Hamas. Who is Halabi? A brief thread
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Horrific scenes as Israeli police assaulted mourners holding the coffin of Shireen Abu Aqleh
Everyone switch on to Al Jazeera right now. This is one of the most horrifying things I’ve seen.
IOF is attacking mourners carrying Shireen’s body from the hospital right now. They’re using stun grenades and tear gas and charging at them with horses and batons.
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@DavidKeyesPMO
Hi David, will you be publishing evidence supporting this statement? If so where can I find it?
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Exclusive: In April 2011 Norway brought Gaddafi and rebel forces together to agree a deal to end the Libyan civil war.
For the first time, Norway's foreign minister accuses France and Britain of effectively blocking a negotiated end
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After five years of reporting, dozens and dozens of interviews, multiple trips to Gaza and Israeli courtrooms, my
@gdnlongread
piece on the Palestinian aid worker accused of siphoning $50 million to Hamas
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Israel arrested a top aid worker and accused him of diverting millions of dollars meant for desperate Palestinians to Hamas.
Four and a half years later he is still fighting and the UN says the Israeli trial "is not worthy of a democratic state"
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The Israeli government is trying to ban a football tournament in Jerusalem between Palestinian families. A football tournament.
My story from last year on the event
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In Gaza’s Shifa Hospital, dozens of young men form some of the 100s shot by Israeli troops during Friday’s deadly border protest. Most said they would go protest again when healthy
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Spent so many hours in this office over five years.
Thankfully the amazing AFP team are all safe
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For this
@haaretzcom
piece to be true you have to somehow believe the IDF had good enough intelligence to discover a secret Hamas research entity in a tower block but not enough intelligence to find the openly declared AP and Al-Jazeera offices in the same building...
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He is a brilliant and incredibly brave photographer. This powerful photo taken in the 2008/9 war was recognised at the World Press Awards
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Thread on what we know so far about the US special forces raid that killed at least 12 people in northern Syria last night.
Will update as we learn more
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Thrilled to be joining
@airwars
in a few weeks. An amazing team with an unparalleled track record of highlighting the human impact of war and foreign intervention in the Middle East
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I recently reported on a 9-year-old shot Palestinian shot in the head by Israeli soldiers during clashes
The army denied it was live ammunition, witnesses said it was
New
@ForensicArchi
analysis brings strong evidence it was
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Reminder: In two hours the US embassy is to open in Jerusalem. TV networks could be doing live split screen between the ceremony and the chaos on the border, where 12 Palestinians protesting the move have now been killed by Israeli fire
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An incredibly powerful picture of the eight-month old baby Leila al-Ghandour, who died of tear gas inhalation on the Israeli border. From
@AFP
's
@ThomasCOEX
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New poll finds 90% of Palestinians distrust the Trump admin, 75% want leaders to reject US peace plan
- Asked to pick between economic prosperity and independence, 83% said independence, with just 15% picking wealth
I do wonder what 'regular' Palestinians Kushner talks to
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A Palestinian toddler and her pregnant mother have been killed by Israeli strikes in Gaza, health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said
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Difficult to overstate how offensive the image is for Palestinians. Implies demolition of Dome of the Rock - one of holiest places.
US Ambassador Friedman poses with photo of Temple Mount in which Jewish Third Temple is superimposed on Muslim Holy Mosque. Cause what’s a holy jihad between friends. Believe it or not.
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Around 50 Palestinian protesters gathered in Jerusalem peacefully chanting. Police decided to violently disperse it with sound grenades. Definition of unnecessary
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Netanyahu tweets footage of the demolition of the building that contained AP and Al-Jazeera. Says served as headquarters of terrorist organisations. No evidence has yet been published.
אני אומר לראשי הטרור: אתם לא יכולים להתחבא. לא מעל הקרקע ולא מתחת לקרקע. אף אחד אינו חסין.
אנחנו מקריסים את מגדלי הטרור. אלה מגדלים שמשמשים כמפקדות ומשרדים לארגוני הטרור.
המבצע הזה יימשך ככל שנדרש עד שנשיג את היעדים שלנו ונביא שקט וביטחון לכל אזרחי ישראל.
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This suggests that Israel sees its decision to tell one million Palestinians to flee to the south of the strip has some bearing on the civilian status of those who remain.
Most IHL lawyers would totally reject this.
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“Israel is not a state for all its citizens. According to the Nation-State Law that we passed, Israel is the State of the Jewish People – and belongs to them alone.” Netanyahu on Instagram (translation Haaretz)
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A colleague in Gaza has confirmed the baby's sad death. Also visited the house which has significant damage, seems explosion was in land next to the house
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My
@AFP
colleagues spent weeks interviewing Holocaust survivors, taking beautiful portrait pictures that capture their identities
The result is a remarkable retelling of one of the world's darkest moments
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If this strike was signed off by Israeli military lawyers despite the expectation it would kill up to 100 civilians it indicates a major loosening of the rules of engagement.
In effect the NCV - or Israeli equivalent - has radically changed since Oct 7.
What seems clear is that the tolerance for CIVCAS in Israel's proportionality calculus is now several orders of magnitude greater than that used by the US over decades of counter-terrorism ops ('non-combatant casualty cut-off value' in the jargon).
@BCFinucane
@LarryLewis_
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Head of Reporters Without Borders says death of Gaza journalist shot by Israel was “deliberate”
Palestinian photographer Yasser Mourtaja wore a vest marked "Press": he was obviously the victim of an intentional shot. RSF condemns with indignation the deliberate shootings of the Israeli army against journalists.
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Palestinian official gives me his two-word reaction to the Trump plan: "Apartheid 2.0"
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For more please see my Guardian longread highlighting the many flaws in the Israeli charge sheet - not least that he was supposed to have stolen $50 million, but World Vision's budget in Gaza was less than half that...
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On Israeli wall through West Bank, push back to increased 'graffiti tourism' and art not related to conflict. Many artists staying at Banksy hotel. In Arabic says "Palestine is not a drawing board."
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The launch of
@airwars
and
@Arms_Research
's joint project - the Open Source Munitions Portal - is today.
More than a year in the making, come join our online launch event tonight at 5.30 GMT!
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For the past year, Airwars and ARES have been building the Open Source Munitions Portal - a tool to make basic facts about explosive weapons accessible.
Depressingly, I can hardly think of a more relevant moment for it to launch.
Join us next Wednesday.
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This video shows more conclusively that Abu Akleh was not near any Palestinian militants when she was killed (see still image below - three clearly identified journalists at least 10 metres from anyone else)
New video emerges of moment
#ShireenAbuAkleh
was shot dead. Significantly, the group is relaxed and no gunfire is apparent as they prepare to work. There are two instances of repeat single shots, not bursts, that appear to come towards them. Warning : distressing content
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Yasser Murtaja, a young photographer with a Palestinian media agency, has died after being shot on the Gaza border. Was apparently wearing press vest. Photographer colleagues here say he was always smiling
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If you are wondering why myself and other journalists who focus on this conflict are not inside Gaza yet, Israel has closed the border due to the level of violence. Likely to stay closed at least for tomorrow as well
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The UK says its airstrikes against ISIS killed more than 4,000 militants and only one civilian.
But it refuses to reveal even basic details about how it decides whether the dead are fighters or not
So we are taking it to tribunal
For years, Airwars asked the UK government to reveal basic details of the one civilian it accepts killing in 8 years of bombing Iraq and Syria. It refused.
Today we announce we are taking the government to a tribunal.
The British public deserves answers.
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UK FOI process is broken, exhibit 25,327:
- Six months ago I asked
@DefenceHQ
for details of 5 airstrikes in which civilians were allegedly killed. It was rejected on account of size.
- I reduced it to 3 airstrikes. Same again
- So I asked about just ONE strike. The response:
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NATO said the training mission will expand "to support Iraqi forces as they fight terrorism and ensure that ISIS does not return"
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Compulsory “look it’s snowing in the Middle East” video. @ Palestinian city of Ramallah
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Jeremy Corbyn, favourite to be next British Prime Minister, says Palestinian teenager arrested by Israel after video row was "standing up for (her) rights".
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. Baba has been working for AFP in Gaza since 2000, covered three wars and has won multiple awards.
Hopefully his leg will be ok and he can return to work soon.
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In June my wonderful colleague Mohammed Abed was shot by Israeli fire on the Gaza border. 9 months on, and with him close to a return, he was kind enough to let me write down his struggle to heal physically and mentally
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A 17-year-old Palestinian has died after being shot in the chest during today's clashes, bringing to three the number killed today
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@ofirgendelman
Do you have any evidence these women are ISIS? Or just the outfit? Do you consider any woman who wears a niqab an ISIS supporter?
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The scene outside Al Aqsa as Palestinians again pray outside in protest at Israeli measures
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Anyone wondering why I am not tweeting the latest negotiations over a new Israeli government, in all honesty I don't have a clue and neither, it seems, does basically anyone
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Face uncovered as funeral procession reaches his home near Gaza City. Friends who were with him fight back tears
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For six months Israel has not given any visas to UN human rights monitors, forcing the organisation’s top staff to leave
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Let me start with caveats. NCVs is an American term. There isn’t any public evidence the Israelis use the exact same system, Israeli war lawyers I have spoken say they aren't as explicit.
But their system is based on the US/UK one and so something similar likely exists.
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