Mariam Dagga, killed by Israel today, was an incredibly talented photographer. She relentlessly and courageously documented the genocide. I'm going to share some of her images. Graphic content included.
[Caption: Palestinians climb on a truck loaded with food and humanitarian aid as it moves along the Morag corridor near Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip]
[Caption: Palestinians injured near a Gaza Humanitarian Foundation food distribution center receive treatment on the floor of Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza, on July 19, 2025]
[Caption: Ata Qasas, center left, mourns over the body of his son Rashad Qasas, who was killed while heading to an aid distribution hub, during his funeral in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, June 11, 2025.]
[Caption: Palestinians evacuate patients from the European hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza, after it was hit by an Israeli army airstrike, Tuesday, May 13, 2025.]
[Caption: Islam Qudeih holds her severely malnourished shirtless, 2-year-old daughter, Shamm, at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Saturday, Aug. 9, 2025.]
[Caption: Nour al-Hams cares for her 3-year-old nephew, Amr al-Hams, who lies in a hospital bed with brain damage caused by an Israeli strike on his family’s tent in April, at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Wednesday, June 25, 2025.]
[The body of 5-year-old Jamal al-Najjar is placed on the ground atop bricks before a funeral prayer after he died at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, Tuesday, Aug. 12. The head of Nasser’s pediatrics unit said Jamal, who was born with rickets, died from severe malnutrition.]
[Caption: Rescue workers and volunteers attempt to pull the body of a man from the rubble following an Israeli army airstrike in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Thursday, March 20, 2025.]
There are many more. RIP Mariam 💔 ✊
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This is huge. BBC ignored a request from its Global News division that it walk back its claim that Anas Al-Sharif worked for a "Hamas media team." novaramedia.com/2025/09/10/bbc…
Here is the content of the email that was ignored.
What I'm reading from this is that the BBC Arabic correspondent wasn't trusted in the way that its Jerusalem bureau was, which judging by where the claim first appeared and how it was bylined, reported it.
It's a thread about a likely genocide somewhere else: Ethiopia. But please don't scroll on and ignore it. This story deserves amplification.
There was a war in Ethiopia's Tigray region from 2020 - 2022. It was one of the most egregiously under-reported conflicts in modern history. Yes, there was a comms blackout. Yes, access was difficult. But I think racism also played a part. Just another African war. Who cares?
A new report now says that the brutal sexual violence carried out against women and (often extremely young) girls by Ethiopian and Eritrean troops may amount to genocide. The evidence is horribly compelling.
Personal news: I've decided to leave my job as Deputy Editor-in-Chief at the Thomson Reuters Foundation to go independent. It's a scary move but I want to concentrate on amplifying under-reported stories.
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Al Jazeera's @YoumnaElSayed17 live on air from Gaza as an Israeli missile hits what appears to be a high-rise residential/office tower. Her reporting has been outstanding today.
Per AP: "The 14-story Palestine Tower is home to dozens of families."
Per Al Jazeera: Media offices also located in building.
A claim that BBC deliberately edited out the booing of Boris Johnson yesterday is gaining massive traction. To debunk: there is nothing sinister going on. They're replaying the earlier footage with the natural sound dipped so as not to drown out the live interview. That's it.
As someone who's worked at a news channel, I can confirm it's standard practice. The overlaid footage is known as b-roll or cover and the nat sound on it is always dipped when interviews are being conducted.
There are of course many fair criticisms that can be made of the wider British media's coverage of the jubilee in general. This isn't one of them.