🚨 The US has imposed sanctions on the Israeli settler organisation 'Amana'. It's the most significant action against settlers in the West Bank since the start of the Gaza war - a move that will send shockwaves throughout the settler movement 🧵 Since the start of the war in Gaza, extremist settlers have used violence to seize huge areas of land in the West Bank and drive Palestinians out - the UN says 1,600+ Palestinians have been forced from their homes.

One year of work came to an end this week with the publication of our BBC investigation into Syria drug trafficking - starting to recover my energy so thought would share some top-lines. (a very short 🧵) Captagon is an amphetamine-like 💊, recreational and very addictive. It's flooded the Middle East in the past 5 or so years, finding a market everywhere between manual labourers to the burgeoning Saudi party-scene. Best estimates put trade at whopping 💰5 billion

RWANDA DEPORTATIONS:
On Tuesday, Priti Patel announced the first deportation flights to 🇷🇼 will depart 14 June.

The following day, detained asylum seekers, inc Syrians, received letters notifying they'll be on first flight.

We managed to speak with them & see their letters... We've been able to call 4 asylum seekers who recently arrived by boat from France and are detained in Brook House, near Gatwick.

They were among 17 who'd just come off a 5-day hunger strike after guards began denying them the sugar they were mixing with water to drink.

Groundbreaking hack of Chinese government computers blows apart its narrative on the mass “re-education” of Uyghur Muslims.

The files passed to @BBCNews contain 250,000 IDs and “paint a picture of relentless internment”, arbitrary detention, and imprisonment without trial. One Uyghur Muslim was jailed for 10 years on terrorism charges as “he doesn’t drink alcohol or smoke”.
His mum (below) is then detained, one of thousands under suspicion of guilt by association charges.

Horrible scenes as Israeli security forces beat the funeral procession for slain journalist Shireen Abu Akleh and the crowd momentarily lose control of her casket From what I can tell following the live feed the security forces didn’t want her procession to leave on foot from the French Hospital and become a walking demonstration, with a hearse subsequently coming to take her body