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Apr 18 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
🔴 LIVE DAY 559 #Israel #Palestine
-13 people in same family killed in Israeli attack on house in Khan Younis
-Israel intercepted a missile launched from Yemen
-38 people killed in US attack on Ras Isa’s port in Yemen
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Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir said on Friday that no ceasefire deal will be reached with Hamas and no humanitarian aid will be allowed into Gaza until the Palestinian group is defeated middleeasteye.net/live/israel-wa…
Apr 16 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
🔴 LIVE DAY 557 #Israel #Palestine
- Gaza death toll reaches 51,000
- Israeli forces arrest 14 Palestinians in West Bank raids
- Health workers and Nobel laureates issue joint letter demanding end to Gaza war
Here are some of the latest updates from Israel’s war on Gaza:
• Israeli air strikes killed at least 23 Palestinians across Gaza since early Tuesday, Al Jazeera reported. In separate incidents, the outlet cited medical sources saying three were killed in Jabalia camp and six in Gaza City’s Tuffah neighbourhood. Separately, Wafa reported Israeli forces killed a Palestinian sheltering in a tent near Gaza City.
• Israeli forces have shot a Palestinian youth at the Qalandiya checkpoint, located north of occupied East Jerusalem, amid raids across the occupied West Bank.
• The New York Times reported that 14 of the 15 paramedics and rescue workers who were killed in Gaza last month were "executed" by Israeli forces as they were shot in the head or chest.
• WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has again urged the protection of health care and called for immediate humanitarian access to deliver health supplies into and across Gaza.
• Jordan’s Prime Minister and Minister of Defence Jafar Hassan discussed "the situation in Gaza and the West Bank" with the US Secretary of State Marco Rubio at the State Department in Washington, DC.
- EU to boost financial support to PA
- Israeli forces continue raids in occupied West Bank
- Hamas says it is approaching truce talks in Cairo in 'responsible and positive' manner
Here are some of the latest updates from Israel’s war on Gaza:
- Ireland said it was “appalled” by the Israeli air strike on al-Ahli hospital in Gaza, which led to the death of a Palestinian child, and the forced evacuation of wounded people. Irish Prime Minister Micheal Martin described the assault as part of a “wider and deeper unacceptable development in modern warfare”
- A meeting is being held in Cairo between Hamas, Egyptian and Qatari mediators to discuss a ceasefire deal in Gaza, after Israel had broken it in March. The Hamas delegation described its approach to the talks as “responsible and positive”, and said that it was “open to any new proposals so long as they were based on ending the war and ensuring a complete Israeli withdrawal from Gaza”
- At least three Palestinians have been wounded as Israeli troops raided the Jalazone refugee camp and forced a number of Palestinians from their homes in the Nur Shams refugee camp, according to al-Jazeera Arabic
- The Washington Post reported that the US State Department had decided that there were no proof that links Rumeysa Ozturk, a student who was detained in March by masked immigration agents on the street, to antisemitic activities or support for a “terrorist” organisation, and that there were no sufficient evidence to revoke her visa
- At least six people were killed and 26 others were wounded in suspected US airstrikes around Sanaa, according to the Yemeni Houthi militant group. The Houthis also claimed shooting down an American MQ-9 Reaper drone
-Israeli forces storm Unrwa schools in occupied East Jerusalem
-Israel bombs Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley and Baalbek
-US air strikes slaughter Yemeni civilians, including three children and two women
- Israeli strikes in Lebanon, killed at least three people
- At least 10 people killed in air strike on a home in of Khan Younis
- Israel killed a Palestinian man during a raid on Jenin
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A Tufts University student from Turkey, who was arrested last week in Massachusetts by masked US immigration officials after advocating for Palestinians amid Israel's war in Gaza, said on Thursday that she would not be deterred
- Israeli attacks across Gaza have killed at least 24 Palestinians
- The Israeli military’s latest attacks on Daraa have killed at least 11 people
- US fighter jets have killed one person in Yemen
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The Israeli military has carried out more attacks on the town of Naqoura in southern Lebanon, including a strike on a home in the town centre, and a second on the town’s outskirts middleeasteye.net/live/live-isra…
Apr 1 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
🔴 LIVE DAY 542 #Israel #Palestine
- At least 34 Palestinians killed in relentless Israeli strikes across Gaza
- Unicef reports 322 children killed and 609 wounded since March 18
- Israel ordered a full evacuation from Rafah
Israeli forces have killed Palestinian journalist Mohammed Saleh al-Bardawil, along with his wife and three children, in an attack on their home in Khan Younis middleeasteye.net/live/live-isra…
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