Textbook propaganda from the Lebanese army. A day after shooting and killing an unarmed protester in #Tripoli the military is posting a video of soldiers handing out aid mixed with footage of riots.
In the end the question is asked "Is this how you repay us?" #لبنان_ينتفض
#Lebanon 🇱🇧: riots are taking place all over #Tripoli today following the death of Fawwaz Fouad.
Months of building tensions ate suddenly bursting out in the open. #لبنان_ينتفض
#Lebanon 🇱🇧: soldiers in Naameh (south of #Beirut) can be seen throwing stones at protesters from the top of a house. #لبنان_ينتفض
#Lebanon 🇱🇧: #Tripoli last night, an armored vehicle crushes a random car on its path as it races down the streets to crush ongoing riots. #لبنان_ينتفض
#Lebanon 🇱🇧: footage from #Tripoli yesterday, soldiers are spraying bullets into the air, trying to disperse protesters. #لبنان_يتنفض
#Lebanon 🇱🇧: another video shows soldiers on a highway firing live ammunition over the heads of a couple of protesters. This behaviour is extremely dangerous. #لبنان_يتنفض
#Lebanon 🇱🇧: for the 4th night in a row riots are taking place in the city of #Tripoli.
The combination of economic collapse, government repression, corruption and #coronavirus lockdowns have made life unbearable for many Lebanese. #لبنان_يتنفض
#Lebanon 🇱🇧: anti-government protesters marching through the streets of the southern town of Nabatiyeh this afternoon. #لبنان_ينتفض
#Lebanon 🇱🇧: protesters have gathered in front of the family home of Fawwaz Fouad in #Tripoli, the 26 year old protester who was killed by security forces.
His sister greets the crowd from the balcony, chanting "the people want the fall of the regime". #لبنان_ينتفض
#Lebanon 🇱🇧: these illustrations are based on the testimonies of protesters who were captured by security forces and tortured in detention. Torture methods included electrick shocks and savage beatings.
In case you were wondering while the Lebanese are still protesting.
#Lebanon 🇱🇧: the military has denied the accusations of its men beating and electrocuting detained protesters.
The allegations of torture by the military come just days after soldiers shot and killed 26 year old Fawwaz Fouad in #Tripoli. aje.io/a2ge6
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I've just come back from #Venezuela 🇻🇪 where I spent 2.5 weeks, witnessing the run-up to the presidential vote, and what was arguably the most outrageous election steal in the modern history of Latin America.
I'll share some thoughts below 🧵
First off before going into the political situation I just wanted to stress how great it was to be reminded how easy it is to fall in love with Caracas, and how amazing the Venezuelan people are.
Someone I'd met briefly 7 years ago, would greet me again as if we were family.
I was never big about celebrating my birthday, so I figured I'll just arrive in Venezuela that day, do some work and let the day pass quietly, no big deal.
Well that wouldn't fly when I told my Venezuelan friends there. They insisted on celebrating, and even brought friends.
I just came back a trip around the resistance territories of southern Karenni state (Myanmar).
During my time I went to the frontlines, visited IDP camps in the jungles, stayed the night at an abandoned junta base, met resistance fighters, refugees and community leaders.
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Karenni state (also known as Kayah state) as around the size of Qatar, which makes it the smallest of Myanmar's different states and regions.
Yet because of its proximity to the capital Naypyidaw (120 km) it is still a very strategic region.
After three years of anti-coup resistance and armed struggle around 90% of Karenni is under resistance control.
Karenni is divided into 7 townships: Loikaw (capital), Demoso, Hpruso, Bawlakhe, Hpasawng, Shadaw, Mese.
Seriously watch the original IDF video (re-uploaded minutes ago). At 1:48 the IDF spokesman literally said they found a single gun "just minutes ago", same room as where @TreyYingst walks through in his report. Yet Trey's report shows two extra guns placed in the exact spot
Although it doesn't disprove that the guns are from Hamas or that there are any guns in the hospital. It is a very clear sign that the IDF is moving guns around the hospital and places them in suspicious locations.
This puts everything they show about the hospital into question.
#Palestine 🇵🇸 BREAKING: AJE reports that Israeli forces have informed the staff of al-Shifa that they will storm the #Gaza hospital tonight.
#Palestine 🇵🇸: multiple reports now that Israeli forces are INSIDE al-Shifa hospital in #Gaza city and are "carrying out operations" within the facility.
#Palestine 🇵🇸: the #IDF has released footage of their troops supposedly dropping off medical supplies at al-Shifa hospital.
But everything that's important is missing here. Where are the patients? Where are they alleged #Hamas tunnels?
The dry season is starting in #Myanmar 🇲🇲. The drier weather and more accessible roads will mean an intensification of fighting between the junta and resistance across the country.
#Myanmar 🇲🇲: junta warplanes have repeatedly targeted the village of Nyaung Kone in the Mogok Township (#Mandalay region) as fighting between junta forces and #TNLA & #PDF resistance groups is ongoing in the region.
#Myanmar 🇲🇲: junta forces clashed with local #PDF resistance in the Tabayin Township of #Sagaing region, after the soldiers ventured out into the countryside and tried to enter a resistance-controlled village.