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Feb 23 17 tweets 6 min read
🔴LIVE DAY 505 #Israel #Palestine

- 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

Live coverage ⤵️ middleeasteye.net/live/live-hama… 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

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Feb 11 12 tweets 3 min read
🧵: 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 ⤵️ Image @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 AFP / Saudi royal palace / Bandar al-Jaloud
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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middleeasteye.net/live/live-wave… Live video footage has revealed buses carrying released Palestinian prisoners from Israeli prisons arrived on Saturday in Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank

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Jan 23 20 tweets 7 min read
🔴 LIVE DAY 474 #Israel #Palestine

- 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

Follow our live coverage ⤵️ middleeasteye.net/live/live-wave… 🔴 UPDATE #Israel #Palestine

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 ⤵️ Palestinian woman mourns next to the bodies of loved ones killed in overnight Israeli air strikes on Gaza City at Al-Ahli Arab hospital on 12 December 2024 (AFP/Omar al-Qattaa) 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

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middleeasteye.net/live/live-five… 🔴 UPDATE #Israel #Palestine

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.

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Dec 30, 2024 7 tweets 3 min read
🔴 LIVE DAY 451 #Israel #Palestine

- Gaza death toll tops 45,500
- Israeli forces "sexually assaulted women" in Gaza hospital raid
- Israeli forces conducted "large-scale" bombings in southern Lebanon

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middleeasteye.net/live/live-isra… 🔴 UPDATE #Israel #Palestine

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.”

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Dec 26, 2024 4 tweets 2 min read
🔴 LIVE DAY 446 #Israel #Palestine

- 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

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middleeasteye.net/live/live-isra… 🔴UPDATE #Israel #Palestine

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."

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Dec 24, 2024 15 tweets 6 min read
🔴 LIVE DAY 444 #Israel #Palestine

- 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

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middleeasteye.net/live/live-isra… 🔴 UPDATE #Israel #Palestine

The ICJ has announced that it will issue an advisory opinion on Israel’s obligations to ensure the delivery of aid to Palestinians.

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Dec 22, 2024 4 tweets 2 min read
🔴LIVE DAY 442 #Israel #Palestine

- The death toll of Palestinians killed by Israel's war on Gaza has risen to at least 45,259 since 7 October last year

- Israeli strikes killed at least 17 Palestinians overnight in Gaza, eight of whom were at a school sheltering displaced families

- Israeli forces have detained at least six Palestinians, including a child, during overnight raids across the occupied West Bank

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middleeasteye.net/live/gaza-live… 🔴Update #Israel #Palestine

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

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Dec 20, 2024 12 tweets 2 min read
🧵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
Dec 11, 2024 6 tweets 3 min read
🔴LIVE DAY 431 #Israel #Palestine

- 18 people killed in an Israeli airstrike
- UN reported that humanitarian aid to northern Gaza has been largely inaccessible for the past 66 days
- Israeli forces imposed a security cordon around the Abu Obeida Mosque

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middleeasteye.net/live/gaza-live… 🔴 UPDATE #Israel #Palestine

At least 28 people were killed, with several others still missing beneath the rubble, following an Israeli air strike on a building near Kamal Adwan Hospital
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Dec 11, 2024 7 tweets 3 min read
🔴 LIVE UPDATES #SyriaWar

- UN report highlights severe food shortages, price surges in Syria
- Gulf monarchies scramble in Syria as ghosts of the Arab Spring return
- Austria begins preparations to deport Syrian refugees

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middleeasteye.net/live/live-syri… 🔴 UPDATE #SyriaWar

The Austrian government has announced the start of preparations for a deportation program targeting Syrian refugees, following its decision to suspend asylum applications for Syrians
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Dec 6, 2024 10 tweets 4 min read
🔴 LIVE DAY 427 #Israel #Palestine #Lebanon

- Gaza now has the highest number of child amputees
- Israel attacked Kamal Adwan Hospital overnight
- Israeli fighter jets have hit the Jousiya crossing on the Syria-Lebanon border

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middleeasteye.net/live/live-isra… 🔴 UPDATE #Israel #Palestine

Attacks on health care are becoming the “new normal” of conflicts in Afghanistan, Gaza, Haiti, Lebanon, Myanmar, Sudan, Ukraine, and elsewhere, World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said
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Dec 5, 2024 29 tweets 10 min read
🔴 LIVE DAY 426 #Israel #Palestine #Lebanon

- 20 victims were 'incinerated' in Israel's bombing of al-Mawasi
- Israeli military launched three additional raids into southern Lebanon
- MSF Condemns Israeli Raid on West Bank Hospital

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middleeasteye.net/live/live-isra… 🔴 UPDATE #Israel #Palestine

Doctors Without Borders condemned the Israeli raid on the Specialised Arab Hospital in Nablus, where special forces arrested a wounded Palestinian man linked to an attack on the village of Aqqaba
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Nov 17, 2024 7 tweets 3 min read
🔴 LIVE DAY 408 #Israel #Palestine #Lebanon

- Israeli air strikes kill medics in southern Lebanon
- Hezbollah said it bombed several military bases in northern Israel on Saturday
- Number of known dead in Gaza nearing 44,000

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pulse.ly/yra3bmr4sh 🔴UPDATE #Israel #Palestine

An Israeli soldier in the Nachshon Batallion of the Kfir Brigade was killed during fighting in northern Gaza on Saturday, the Israeli army has said

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Nov 12, 2024 6 tweets 3 min read
🔴 LIVE DAY 402 #Israel #Palestine

- Gaza death toll reaches 43,600
- Israeli bombing raid kills 8 in northern Lebanon
- US military bombs what it calls Iran-aligned platforms in Syria, Yemen

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middleeasteye.net/live/live-isra… 🔴 UPDATE #Israel #Palestine #Amsterdam

Youth claiming solidarity with Palestinians attacked a tram in Amsterdam's suburb, setting it on fire, smashing windows and yelling abusive language.

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Nov 9, 2024 18 tweets 8 min read
🔴 LIVE DAY 399 #Israel #Palestine

- Israeli forces kill at least 19 Palestinians in Gaza since dawn
- Global food security experts say famine 'imminent' in northern Gaza
- At least nine people killed in Israeli strikes on Lebanon's Tyre
- Soldiers injured in Israeli strike on Aleppo

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middleeasteye.net/live/live-isra…Image 🔴 UPDATE

Israeli forces reportedly shot and killed a Palestinian man after raiding his family home in al-Aqaba in the occupied West Bank.

Security sources identified the man as Adham Zayed Ezzat al-Masry, adding that his body remains in Israeli custody
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Nov 4, 2024 4 tweets 2 min read
🔴 LIVE DAY 395 #Israel #Palestine

- Fatah and Hamas hold post-war Gaza talks
- US warns Iran against attacking Israel
- US deploys B-52 bombers in the Middle East

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middleeasteye.net/live/live-isra… 🔴 UPDATE #Israel #Palestine

Kamala Harris pledged her commitment to a ceasefire in Gaza as she appealed to 200,000 Arab American voters in Michigan ahead of the 2024 US presidential election on Sunday.

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Nov 1, 2024 12 tweets 4 min read
🧵: Historically, Israel has tried to control Palestinians by isolating insurgents from their communities.

After the humiliation of 7 October, the aim is now to eliminate them both, argues Palestinian researcher Raja Abdulhaq in his column ⤵️
middleeasteye.net/opinion/jabali… "Since the 7 October attack, Israel has adopted genocide as a population-centric counterinsurgency strategy," writes Abdulhaq.

"While this follows Israel’s historical perpetration of ethnic cleansing during the Nakba in 1948, the objectives of these two events are distinct" Image
Oct 28, 2024 7 tweets 3 min read
🔴 LIVE DAY 388 #Israel #Palestine #Lebanon

- Israeli strikes kill five Palestinian journalists
- Lebanon death toll approaches 2,700
- Egypt proposes two-day truce

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middleeasteye.net/live/live-isra… 🔴 UPDATE #Israel #Palestine

Iraq has submitted a complaint to the United Nations over Israel's use of its airspace to strike Iran on Saturday, an Iraqi government spokesperson said.

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