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Oct 27 29 tweets 15 min read
“The entire population of Gaza is at risk of dying in a genocide that has been announced and executed under our watch”, says Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories.

🔴 Follow our LIVE coverage: aje.io/0jag7aImage US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has told Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant a Gaza ceasefire would ‘dial down tensions’ with Iran.

Austin again reaffirmed the US’s “ironclad” for Israel.

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Oct 25 18 tweets 9 min read
Israeli forces have committed a 'major massacre' in which hundreds of Palestinians were killed in the Jabalia refugee camp, according to Gaza’s civil defence, while intense Israeli attacks continue across Lebanon.

🔴 Follow our LIVE coverage: aje.io/zs30s7Image Around 150 Palestinians have been killed and injured in an Israeli attack on Gaza's Jabalia refugee camp, which has levelled at least 10 residential buildings, reports the Wafa news agency.

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Oct 19 23 tweets 11 min read
Israeli forces are targeting hospitals in northern Gaza, while they continue the stifling siege on Jabalia and deadly attacks across the besieged enclave.

🔴 Follow our LIVE coverage: aje.io/dxobk5Image Israeli forces have laid siege to the al-Awda Hospital in Jabalia and the Indonesian Hospital in Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza, where hospital staff say tanks have surrounded the facilities and are shelling the buildings.

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Oct 14 20 tweets 12 min read
Hezbollah said it launched a "complex" attack to overwhelm Israel’s air defences, as Israel's nine-day siege of northern Gaza's Jabalia camp traps tens of thousands of Palestinians without food or water.

🔴 Follow our LIVE coverage: aje.io/nxct33Image Israeli fighter jets bombed tents housing forcibly displaced Palestinians inside the grounds of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah, central Gaza, reports the Wafa news agency.

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Oct 13 8 tweets 4 min read
At least 200 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces as the military siege of north Gaza enters a ninth day, says the enclave's health ministry, as Israel continues air attacks on the besieged territory and Lebanon.

🔴 Follow our LIVE coverage: aje.io/ec2nwtImage The US has expressed concern to Israel after reports Israeli troops fired on UN peacekeeper positions in Lebanon, in at least two incidents since Thursday.

40 nations have signed a joint statement calling for peacekeeper protection.

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Oct 10 6 tweets 2 min read
🧵 THREAD

On #WorldMentalHealthDay, we highlight the mental health crisis facing Palestinian children due to the war on Gaza, years of Israeli occupation, and forced displacement. Image Around 80% of children in the Gaza Strip experience depression, sadness, and fear due to over a decade of the Israeli blockade on the territory, according to Save the Children. Image
Oct 7 6 tweets 3 min read
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Israel has killed more children in Gaza over the past year than in the equivalent period of any other war in the last two decades, according to Oxfam.

Many have called it a 'war on children.' We look at the impact Israel’s war has had on Palestinian children. Image Israel's attacks on Gaza have left at least 19,000 unaccompanied children, who may be orphans or separated from their parents, says the UN.

The UN accused Israel of severe breaches of a child's rights treaty, saying its actions in Gaza have had a horrific impact on children.
Sep 30 7 tweets 3 min read
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#OnThisDay 24 years ago, Israeli forces shot and killed 12-year-old Palestinian boy Muhammad al-Durrah in Gaza as his father attempted to shield him from bullets.

The moment shook the world and turned Al-Durrah into a symbol of the second Palestinian Intifada ⤵️ Image The fatal shooting by Israeli forces of Muhammad and his father, Jaber al-Durrah, was captured by Palestinian cameraman Talal Abu Rahma, who was filming for TV channel 'France 2' during the Second Intifada in 2000.

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Sep 29 21 tweets 12 min read
Lebanon declares three days of mourning for Hassan Nasrallah after the Hezbollah leader was killed in an Israeli air attack on Beirut, as Israel’s warplanes continue their nonstop bombardment.

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Image Nasser Yassin, the minister coordinating Lebanon’s crisis response, says about 1 million people have been displaced by Israeli air attacks, including hundreds of thousands forced to flee their homes since Friday, reports Reuters.

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Sep 20 11 tweets 6 min read
An Israel-Hamas Gaza ceasefire deal is not expected before President Joe Biden’s term ends in January, says US media report, as Israel continues its deadly bombardment of the besieged enclave.

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Image 12 Palestinians have been killed in two Israeli attacks on Gaza City after Israeli bombardment leaves at least 28 people dead across the Gaza Strip on Thursday.

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Sep 19 10 tweets 6 min read
The UN General Assembly adopts a resolution calling on Israel to end its illegal occupation of the Palestinian territories within a year, as Israel continues its deadly war on the besieged and bombarded Gaza Strip.

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Image More communication devices exploded in coordinated attacks across Lebanon on Wednesday, killing at least 20 people, said officials, a day after simultaneous explosions of pagers used by Hezbollah killed 12 people and wounded thousands.

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Sep 17 4 tweets 3 min read
Russian forces attacked energy infrastructure in Ukraine's northeastern Sumy region, cutting power in some districts and forcing the use of backup power systems, say local authorities.

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Image Medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) says it is leaving Russia after 32 years following a Justice Ministry decision to remove it from a list of approved foreign organisations.

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Sep 17 30 tweets 15 min read
UNRWA has warned that sanitary conditions in Gaza are quickly deteriorating, with disease-spreading insects and rodents threatening Palestinians’ health.

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Image Two Palestinians were killed and others injured when Israeli aircraft bombed tents housing forcibly displaced people in Deir el-Balah, central Gaza, reports Al Jazeera Arabic.

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Sep 15 12 tweets 7 min read
Israeli forces order Palestinians to leave parts of Gaza's Beit Lahiya as the Palestinian Foreign Ministry warns that the evacuations were a “prelude to the annexation of Gaza” for “settlement purposes”.

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Image Hezbollah’s second-in-command, Naim Qassem, warned Israel that a full-scale war would incur large losses on both sides as Israeli media reported that PM Netanyahu was planning to launch a major attack on the Lebanese group soon.

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Sep 14 20 tweets 11 min read
The Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza says that 83% of the medical supplies needed for hospitals in Gaza are not available, as Israel continues its relentless attacks on the besieged enclave.

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Image At least 10 Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli attack on a home in Gaza City’s Tuffah neighbourhood, the Wafa news agency reports.

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Aug 27 25 tweets 14 min read
Israeli forces have expanded their ground offensive in Deir el-Balah, issuing more evacuation orders and forcibly displacing Palestinians in Gaza.

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Image The UN has said it is unable to conduct aid operations in Gaza due to Israel’s latest forced evacuation orders for Deir el-Balah but clarified that it is not withdrawing from the Gaza Strip.

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Aug 10 23 tweets 12 min read
UNRWA says Israeli forces have forced between 60,000 and 70,000 Palestinians to evacuate from Khan Younis in southern Gaza to the already densely crowded al-Mawasi area.

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Image Israeli forces have bombed a home in the Jabalia area of northern Gaza, killing at least two Palestinians and wounding others, according to the report.

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Aug 4 10 tweets 6 min read
Paramedics and witnesses reported finding children 'torn to pieces' and 'body parts everywhere' after Israeli attacks hit a school sheltering forcibly displaced Palestinians.

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Image At least 17 Palestinians were killed and 60 injured, including paramedics, as Israeli warplanes repeatedly targeted the Hamama and al-Huda school complex sheltering Palestinian families.

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Jul 25 13 tweets 7 min read
Israeli forces are targeting "everything that moves" in Khan Younis, with medical teams under quadcopter attack while rescuing the wounded.

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Image As of July 22, 83% of the Gaza Strip has been placed under evacuation orders or designated as "no-go zones" by the Israeli military.

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Jun 25 23 tweets 12 min read
Save the Children reports that thousands of missing Palestinian children are trapped under rubble, buried in unmarked graves, harmed by explosives, detained by Israeli forces, or lost in the chaos of the war on Gaza.

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Image Israel’s top court has ordered the government to provide information about conditions inside the military facility Sde Teiman, where Palestinians from Gaza are detained.

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Jun 12 11 tweets 6 min read
Deadly Israeli air attacks have continued across the Gaza Strip, with northern Gaza City experiencing several deadly strikes over the past 24 hours.

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Image The Israeli military has bombed a house in Rafah City in southern Gaza, killing a child, reports the Wafa news agency.

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