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Mar 31 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
🔴 LIVE DAY 541 #Israel #Palestine
- At least 64 Palestinians slaughtered on the first day of Eid al-Fitr
- Hamas fires back accusing Israel of "fascism"
- Red Crescent recovers 14 murdered paramedics killed by Israeli strikes last week
- Israeli strikes kill at least nine Palestinians in Gaza
- US strikes on Yemen kill at least two near Sanaa
- Protests erupt in the US after detention of Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk
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Israeli forces have killed 830 Palestinians and wounded 1,787 in Gaza since restarting their offensive on 18 March, according to the Geneva-based Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor
- Israeli attacks kill at least 11 Palestinians in Gaza
- Israeli forces stop ambulance in West Bank and assault medics
- Israeli court extends detention of Dr Hussam Abu Safia for another six months
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Israeli police released Oscar-winning Palestinian filmmaker Hamdan Ballal on Tuesday, after detaining him a day earlier following what activists described as an attack by settlers in the occupied West Bank
- Israeli attacks overnight killed 71 Palestinians
- Yemen's Houthi rebels launched a hypersonic missile at Israel's Ben Gurion airport
- Israel carried out arrests across the occupied West Bank
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US President Donald Trump's administration has detained an Indian man studying at Washington's Georgetown University and is seeking to deport him after deeming him a harm to US foreign policy, the student's lawyer said middleeasteye.net/live/live-isra…
Mar 15 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
🔴 LIVE DAY 525 #Israel #Palestine
- At least 98 Palestinians killed by Israeli attacks since start of ceasefire
- Gaza death toll tops 48,524
- Somalia and Somaliland deny holding talks on Palestinian resettlement
Here are some of key developments from the last few hours:
- Hamas said that it has accepted a proposal from mediators to release one living American-Israeli captive and the bodies of four dual nationals who had died in captivity.
- The UN says Gaza needs fuel, oxygen and electricity generators after almost two weeks of Israeli blockade on aid.
- An Israeli drone strike on Gaza City killed four people, while gunboat fire killed a fifth Palestinian.
- The US and Israel have contacted officials of three East African countries to discuss using their territories for resettling Palestinians from Gaza, according to a report by the Associated Press.
- Dozens of Syrian Druze clerics crossed the armistice line in the Golan Heights into Israel, marking their community’s first pilgrimage to a revered shrine in decades.
- Israel storms West Bank village, arresting 4 Palestinian men
- Judge extends order blocking deportation of Mahmoud Khalil
- Israel storms Hebron, arrests 3 Palestinian men
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The Council on American Islamic Relations criticised US President Donald Trump for referring to Senator Chuck Schumer as a Palestinian, saying the president used the term as a slur middleeasteye.net/live/trump-thr…
Mar 12 • 16 tweets • 3 min read
🧵: Israel’s prosecution of a war that regularly involves war crimes would be impossible without the silence of the mainstream media.
This period will be looked back on as Israel’s, and the western media’s, darkest hour, writes MEE’s editor-in-chief David Hearst in his column ⤵️
In the row over the BBC documentary 'Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone', not one word was written about what this film told us about the way Palestinians are surviving a war that has spanned a year and a half, writes Hearst
Mar 11 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
🔴 LIVE DAY 521 #Israel #Palestine
- Gaza death toll tops 48,467
- At least 97 Palestinians killed by the Israeli army and settler attacks this year
- Israeli officials to arrive in Doha as part of the Gaza ceasefire talks
- Gaza death toll tops 48,450
- Israeli forces assault and arrest two young men in the West Bank's Jenin
- Israeli officials to arrive in Doha today as part of the Gaza ceasefire talks
Tania Hary, executive director of Israeli rights group Gisha, has condemned Israel's decision to cut off the electricity supply to Gaza, calling it a war crime.
- Israel postponed scheduled release of over 600 Palestinians
- Israeli military deploying tank division to the occupied West Bank city of Jenin for first time since second Palestinian Intifada
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The Israeli army will stay in some occupied West Bank refugee camps for the "coming year" and deny the return of some 40,000 forcibly expelled Palestinians from returning to their homes, Defence Minister Israel Katz said on Sunday
🧵: Statements by the US and Israel endorsing ethnic cleansing plans in Palestine have forced Saudi foreign policy to revert back to the Arab nationalist days of King Faisal, argues MEE’s editor-in-chief @davidahearst in his latest column ⤵️
@davidahearst A covert relationship claimed by the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with Saudi Arabia, one that was years in the making, has been unravelling in a matter of days, Hearst writes.
Netanyahu had boasted about covert Israeli-Saudi relations in an interview last week
Feb 1 • 23 tweets • 8 min read
🔴 LIVE DAY 483 #Israel #Palestine
- Three Israeli captives - Keith Siegel, Ofer Kalderon and Yarden Bibas - have been released in two separate locations in Gaza City and Khan Younis
- Israel is set to release 183 Palestinian detainees from Israeli prisons later today in the fourth hostage-prisoner exchange under the ceasefire agreement
- Fifty sick and wounded Palestinians are scheduled to cross the Rafah border for treatment outside Gaza in the first medical evacuation since Israel seized the crossing almost nine months ago
- WHO director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said "12,000 to 14,000" Palestinians in Gaza require "urgent specialised care" that they can only receive outside the strip
- Israeli forces stormed Tulkarm camp in the occupied West Bank as part of its days-long raid. Soldiers raided homes, forcing families out at gunpoint, Wafa news agency is reporting. The agency said the raids were tantamount to "forced displacement"
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Live video footage has revealed buses carrying released Palestinian prisoners from Israeli prisons arrived on Saturday in Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank
- Israeli forces have arrested 22 Palestinians across the occupied West Bank
-Gaza’s Civil Defence said 162 bodies have been recovered in the enclave since Sunday
Israel has carried out 520 attacks on hospitals in Gaza, according to a statement from Al-Awda Hospital in the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza middleeasteye.net/live/live-wave…
Jan 14 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
🧵: "They forced us to undress, then dragged us back outside by our hair”
Dozens of Palestinian women and girls reported sexual abuses committed against them by Israeli forces during the storming of Kamal Adwan hospital in Gaza last month.
Here are some of their stories ⤵️
The Israeli incursion was preceded by nearly three months of a blockade preventing the entry of aid, medicine and food, as well as heavy bombardment in the hospital’s complex and vicinity
Dec 31, 2024 • 21 tweets • 8 min read
🔴 LIVE DAY 452 #Israel #Palestine
- Gaza death toll reaches 45,541
- Kamal Adwan Hospital director held in notorious Israeli military detention centre
- Gaza braces for more storms amid worsening humanitarian crisis
The Israeli rehabilitation department is managing approximately 1,000 new cases each month of individuals “wounded from the war,” according to the Israeli Broadcasting Corporation.
The UN Special Rapporteur for the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Francesca Albanese, said, “All of us must do all we can to save the Kamal Adwan Hospital’s director.”
- Five journalists for "Al-Quds Today" were killed Thursday in an Israeli strike on their vehicle
- Israeli forces detonated an explosives-laden robot near the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, wounding a nurse
- At least three Palestinian infants have died of hypothermia in the past two days while sheltering in tents in southern Khan Younis
The Israeli army has confirmed that it carried out "a precise strike " on a press vehicle in Gaza that killed five al-Quds journalists, claiming it targeted a "terrorist cell inside in the area of Nuseirat."
- ICJ to decide on Israel’s aid obligations to Palestinians
- Israeli forces abduct over 100 Palestinians in West Bank raids
- PA forces clash with resistance fighters in Jenin
Israel has ordered the closure and evacuation of one of the last hospitals partly functioning in besieged northern Gaza.
The director of the Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahiya, Husam Abu Safiya, told Reuters that it was "next to impossible" to get patients and wounded people out to safety
🧵Israel planned to establish military, strategic ties with Kurds in the northeast and Druze in the south. This would have also served to limit Turkey’s influence in Syria to Idlib and the northwest, MEE’s editor-in-chief David Hearst writes ⤵️
The Israeli plan to divide Syria was hinted at in a speech by Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar a month ago