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Dec 24 • 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
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
Dec 11 • 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
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 middleeasteye.net/live/gaza-live…
Dec 11 • 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
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 middleeasteye.net/live/live-syri…
Dec 6 • 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
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 middleeasteye.net/live/live-isra…
Dec 5 • 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
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 middleeasteye.net/live/live-isra…
Nov 17 • 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
- 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
- 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
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.
🧵: 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"
Oct 28 • 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
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.
- At least 50 people were injured when a truck or bus rammed into a bus stop in Ramat Hasharon, central Israel, in a suspected terrorist attack. A drone attack in Karmiel in the north is also reported to have wounded two people
- An Israeli air strike on Beit Lahia in Gaza’s besieged north killed at least 45 people on Saturday, including several entire families. Emergency crews and hospitals in the area are almost entirely non-functional
- The son of the director of northern Gaza's Kamal Adwan Hospital was killed in the latest Israeli attack on the facility, health officials reported
- Israeli forces continue to set homes and schools on fire
- Israeli strikes killed three Lebanese soldiers
- Israeli bombing was reported in Syria's Damascus and Homs
- Israeli strike on Beit Lahiya kills at least 73 people
- US apologised to Israel after alleged documents on plans for attacking Iran were leaked
- UN says Gaza reconstruction could take 80 years
🧵: It is only a matter of time before war involves every country threatened by Israel’s punishment raids and its ever-expanding borders, argues MEE’s editor-in-chief @davidahearst in his latest column ⤵️ middleeasteye.net/opinion/israel…
“Today in Gaza and Lebanon, there are so many pictures of burning people, burning tents, bodies piled up on the strets of the Jabalia refugee camp, but no one even bothers to publish them”
✍️ David Hearst
Oct 19 • 27 tweets • 9 min read
🔴 LIVE DAY 379 #Israel #Palestine
- Drone hits Netanyahu's home as Israel kills over 30 in Gaza
- Palestinians die of hunger and thirst in Jabalia as Israeli maintains weekslong siege of northern Gaza
The Israeli army said there were no casusalties after a drone launched from Lebanon hit Benjamin Netanyahu's house in Caesarea in northern Israel middleeasteye.net/live/live-isra…
Oct 18 • 32 tweets • 10 min read
🔴 LIVE DAY 378 #Israel #Palestine
- Several Palestinians were killed in an Israeli attack on al-Shati refugee camp
- 15 rockets were fired from Lebanon into Israel
- WHO accused Israel of barring medical specialists from entering Gaza
The Israeli army says it killed Mohammad Hussein Ramal, a Hezbollah commander, in an air strike on Taybeh, southern Lebanon middleeasteye.net/live/live-isra…
Oct 17 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
🧵: The Israeli military is now looking to the "Generals' Plan" to defeat Hamas.
It involves ethnically cleansing northern Gaza of people and besieging the region to stop the entry of humanitarian supplies.
So what is it, and what does it mean for the war on Gaza? ⤵️
◾️Who wrote the Generals’ Plan?
The Forum of Commanders and Soldiers in the Reserves, an Israeli NGO that defines itself as a professional body with over 1,500 army officers, published the plan in September 2024 in response to the military's failure to achieve its aims in Gaza
Oct 13 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
🔴 LIVE DAY 372 #Israel #Palestine
- Israel pounds Jabalia, leaving 22 dead
- US unveils new sanctions on Iran's oil sector
- Lebanese death toll at 2,229