🚨THREAD: DAY 2 of Gaza Uprising Against Israel❗️❗️
Yesterday's surprise attack by Palestinian resistance fighters was a catastrophic intelligence and military failure on Israel's part
This morning Hezbollah supported Hamas and PIJ by firing mortars from South Lebanon
The death toll so far:
600 Israelis
300 Palestinians
Not only was the surprise attack unprecedented, but you also have most casualties now who are israeli, instead of hundreds, or thousands of Palestinians, the majority of them civilians.
Israelis have completely overloaded the airports trying to flee. Once again, a stark contrast to the usual scenes of Palestinians, Lebanese and Syrians being forced to flee Israel's warplanes:
I'm accredited to cover the #BRICSSummit2023 🇧🇷🇷🇺🇮🇳🇨🇳🇿🇦
HUGE developments today. All news and updates below. Bookmark and share the thread!
BRICS has just added six new countries! They shall become formal members in January 2024. The list includes major oil producers, as well as other large, emerging economies:
Egypt 🇪🇬
Ethiopia 🇪🇹
Argentina 🇦🇷
UAE 🇦🇪
Iran 🇮🇷
Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦
🇧🇷 President Lula: ''In few years, we went back from a benign multi-polarity juncture to going back to an absolute mindset of cold war and geopolitical competition. [...] The world needs to understand the risks that are [...] unacceptable for humanity.'' #BRICSSummit2023
I'm accredited to cover the summit. Will have updates and breaking news below. Bookmark it and retweet!
BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) is a collective of the world's largest emerging economies.
Together BRICS countries make up over 41% of the world population, a quarter of the global economy, and almost 30% of global trade.
The BRICS countries meet annually, but this year's summit is especially important in the context of the Ukraine war, blow-back from Western sanctions, and the rush to ditch the US Dollar, particularly after $300b was stolen from Russia's foreign exchange reserves.