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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

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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 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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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 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 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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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 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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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 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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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 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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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 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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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 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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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 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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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 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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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 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 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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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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Oct 27 6 tweets 3 min read
🔴 LIVE DAY 387 #Israel #Palestine #Lebanon

- 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

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At least three people have been killed in an Israeli air strike on Zawtar al-Sharqiya in southern Lebanon, the Lebanese health ministry reported

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Oct 24 35 tweets 11 min read
🔴 LIVE DAY 384 #Israel #Palestine #Lebanon

- 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

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Israeli forces have been heavily shelling and firing at areas across the central Gaza Strip on Thursday morning.

At least one Palestinian has been killed and others wounded
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Oct 20 6 tweets 2 min read
🔴 LIVE DAY 380 #Israel #Palestine

- 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

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The Israeli military has said it hit the Hezbollah "command centre" and weapons facility in southern Beirut.

It added that it killed three "key" officials. Hezbollah has not confirmed this
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Oct 19 12 tweets 4 min read
🧵: 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”

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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

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The Israeli army said there were no casusalties after a drone launched from Lebanon hit Benjamin Netanyahu's house in Caesarea in northern Israel
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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

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The Israeli army says it killed Mohammad Hussein Ramal, a Hezbollah commander, in an air strike on Taybeh, southern Lebanon
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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? ⤵️ Image ◾️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 Image
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

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US officials believe Israel has focused on attacking military and energy infrastructure in Iran, rather than its nuclear facilities, NBC reports.

Iran has warned it will respond forcefully to any further Israeli attacks.

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