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This news section represents content primarily generated from 8 December 2023 onwards (some posts were created before that date). Month One is here. Month Two is here
It’s depressing that we’ve got to the point where this is the third (monthly) collection of content related to the Israel-Hamas situation and its repercussions. I will continue to update this page. Many of these posts feature on my X page (@garybunt), and are usually posted there first, along with related materials (there’s often a time lag between posting on X and posting here!). The intention here is to keep a record of these posts (X posts disappear from time to time). This relates to my interest in digital archiving as well.
There are thousands of potential posts, so what follows is only a snapshot of activities. Warning: there are images of violence and injuries in some posts. Sequencing is date-related. The pages (from various months) link back to the earliest days of this crisis. Scrolling and loading the page can take some time (depending on net access/bandwidth).
As with all other posts here and elsewhere, reposting and retweeting is for recording, information and research purposes – and does not necessarily imply endorsement.
It's a specific brand of racism called Orientalism, a term coined by Edward Said who showed how since the 1700s Western journalists, fiction writers & scholars painted people of the East as stagnant, inferior & degenerate in order to justify their crimes against them@JuliaHB1 https://t.co/yQSQu1IfIm pic.twitter.com/GYvAtRmBOM
— Maria (@real1maria) January 5, 2024
This is beyond unprofessional, @TalkTV. No matter who is being interviewed, presenters shouldn’t get hysterical like this. On this occasion, you also have added racism masked as feminism. This merits mass complaints to @Ofcom. Shameful to see such standards on a British channel. https://t.co/G6pfHJZLH2
— Lina Khatib (@LinaKhatibUK) January 5, 2024
This is one of the craziest statistics I’ve seen so far. Gaza’s doctors have operated in a superhuman capacity throughout this catastrophe, only to be murdered in the hundreds. https://t.co/MFCB4GMgvM
— Omar H. Rahman (@omarrahman) January 4, 2024
The Israeli Ambassador, Tzipi Hotovely, has encouraged the full destruction of Gaza. This is a clear call for the genocide of Palestinians.
— Afzal Khan MP (@AfzalKhanMCR) January 4, 2024
I've written to the Foreign Secretary, calling on him to condemn this and to take the strongest possible action against the Ambassador 👇 pic.twitter.com/qksXFkC4JM
🇱🇧🇵🇸 The leader of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, tells the Israelis they will never be welcome in the region.
— Censored Men (@CensoredMen) January 3, 2024
"Here you don't have a future, from the river to the sea the land of Palestine is for the Palestinian people, and the Palestinian people only."
"You want to stay here?… pic.twitter.com/roBn0iN1rA
"I went to visit a hospital in Khan Younis.. it had been hit by a strike this afternoon.. the strike killed at least 5 people, including baby Zakaria, who was just 5 days old"
— Saul Staniforth (@SaulStaniforth) January 2, 2024
Gemma Connell from @UNOCHA speaking from Gaza a few minutes ago. pic.twitter.com/rMUdh5PwJj
🚨 Senior Hamas official Saleh al-Arouri killed in reported Israeli drone strike
— DOAM (@doamuslims) January 2, 2024
Senior Hamas official Saleh al-Arouri was killed on Tuesday night in an Israeli drone strike on #Beirut's southern suburbs of Dahiyeh. #Lebanon #Palestine #Israel #Gaza pic.twitter.com/bShX3TWrto
BREAKING: Malaysia endorses South Africa’s application before the International Court of Justice against Israel for genocide in the Gaza Strip pic.twitter.com/oL8CZeHDDT
— ashok kumar 🇵🇸 (@broseph_stalin) January 2, 2024
South Africa has filed a case at the International Court of Justice in the Hague, accusing Israel of committing genocide in Gaza. International law expert Francis Boyle, who has argued successfully at the ICJ, says he believes "South Africa will win an order against Israel." pic.twitter.com/4Ebz02vxVc
— Democracy Now! (@democracynow) January 2, 2024
Girl loses her entire family in an Israeli air strike in Khan Yunis
— Middle East Monitor (@MiddleEastMnt) January 2, 2024
A girl, Amira Al-Qara, has lost all her family members in an Israeli bombing of their house in Khan Yunis in Gaza.
Al Jazeera's bureau chief Wael Al-Dahdouh is seen speaking to the girl after she lost her… pic.twitter.com/ewJvgVa5Pa
Israeli soldiers are systematically kidnapping pets of Gazan families they killed, detained or expelled!
— Muhammad Shehada (@muhammadshehad2) January 2, 2024
They give the pets new Israeli names & call it "rescue"
Israeli mainstream media is celebrating this as "feel-good" news
"I'll bring a donkey next time I'm in Gaza" he says pic.twitter.com/9V277f99Fx
Since October 7th not only has Israel banned Palestinians from visiting family members in Israeli prisons, they've also banned lawyers from visiting too. And in that time 7 Palestinian prisoners have died in Israeli prisons. pic.twitter.com/qr5ysa2gpK
— Saul Staniforth (@SaulStaniforth) January 2, 2024
Palestinian men are not ‘terrorists in the making’ — #AJOpinion by Yousef Al Helou, Meena Masood and Leah de Haan https://t.co/bjDmcB8scP pic.twitter.com/NBWiCbWZBz
— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) January 1, 2024
When I teach about the Gaza genocide, students will be asked to read the South Africa case. It's 84 pages of public facts and clear legal arguments which outline precisely how Israel is committing genocide. As clear a case as any of the last few decades. https://t.co/ptnrIlInK5
— Richard Jackson (@RJacksonterror) January 2, 2024
🚨Haaretz now acknowledges a "SEVERE FAMINE is spreading rapidly throughout Gaza"
— Muhammad Shehada (@muhammadshehad2) January 2, 2024
A deliberate outcome of Israel's assault!
Per the UN IPC scale, The proportion of households in Gaza affected by high levels of acute food insecurity is the LARGEST EVER RECORDED GLOBALLY… pic.twitter.com/CtX5Wc9jV1
An enormous joy in a shelter in Gaza as the displaced managed to get electricity for the first time in 86 days. pic.twitter.com/2bEwjRc0fH
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) January 1, 2024
"We all hope that this is the last war ever."
— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) January 1, 2024
Here's Israel's war on Gaza through the eyes of a Palestinian child, as the daughter of Al Jazeera's @MaramGaza shares her wishes for 2024 ⤵️ pic.twitter.com/2bR2vyPpuA
Worrying trends across various police forces with rises in attacks on Muslim and Jewish communities.
— Tell MAMA UK (@TellMamaUK) January 2, 2024
Our Director Iman Atta is quoted in this article. https://t.co/BswFZslFOE
A blatant distortion of history in @TimesofIsrael:
— Mustafa Akyol (@AkyolinEnglish) January 2, 2024
"Islam conquered the Middle East & North Africa by the sword, slaughtering anyone who would not convert to Islam. The slogan was: 'Islam or the sword'."
In reality, Jews & Christians kept their religion.https://t.co/AYSdlbf0Ql
Don’t pick a fight with a Rabbi#Israel pic.twitter.com/gmw7kWHnTE
— Abier (@abierkhatib) January 1, 2024
This Palestinian mother has given birth to quadruplets in the besieged Gaza Strip amid Israel's war after fleeing with her family from the north ⤵️ pic.twitter.com/As6DOTpweq
— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) January 1, 2024
Israeli settlers blew a horn and performed ‘Talmudic rituals’ at the Bab al-Qattanin entrance to the Al-Aqsa Mosque complex this morning, an act considered as desecration of the Muslim holy site.
— 5Pillars (@5Pillarsuk) January 1, 2024
It comes amid repeated provocative incursions into the mosque complex by thousands… pic.twitter.com/ua1ythvHmJ
Heal your timeline
— Abier (@abierkhatib) January 1, 2024
St. Gallen- Switzerland, Saturday. She was born in Palestine in 1936.#Gaza pic.twitter.com/R9OOAFAD5f
The crack between #Israel and the young generation of Jews is widening and deepening.
— Abier (@abierkhatib) January 1, 2024
Listen to the kind of questions this girl is asking #Gaza pic.twitter.com/Vb9GdVz2CF
🚨An Israeli officer kidnapped a BABY girl from Gaza & brought her to Israel (parents likely killed) per a friend of his
— Muhammad Shehada (@muhammadshehad2) January 1, 2024
Capt. Harel Itach was killed & the identity & whereabouts of the kidnapped baby are unknown
Israel’s Army Radio deleted the tweet that mentioned the incident pic.twitter.com/m5FKcL84ZJ
Definitely worth watching again … https://t.co/6FqV3CVVzs
— Gary Bunt (@garybunt) December 31, 2023
“Last night, Israel killed him and his entire family in their home. He was a dialogue oriented and peace-seeking religious figure” https://t.co/6oMBkMveFX
— Meral Hussein-Ece (@meralhece) December 31, 2023
As an academic and a human being, I condemn Israel’s targeting of Palestinian academia, teachers, educational institutions, libraries and archives. Israel is attacking Gaza’s future. @ucu @WarwickUCU https://t.co/f5drC84i0N
— Nicola Pratt (@ncpratt) December 31, 2023
Starving a population while you bomb them and blockade them is a war crime. How dare you do this to a population of over 2 million and claim a shred of morality. https://t.co/2Fs67Z0dEr
— Dr. Omar Suleiman (@omarsuleiman504) December 30, 2023
When a pro-Palestinian demonstration is preemptively forbidden in Germany, such as the one scheduled for New Year's Eve in Neukolln tomorrow, local media rush to call it a "Jew-hate Demo". Just full-on corrosion of public discourse. @bzberlin pic.twitter.com/VyJgnutSgZ
— Hanno Hauenstein (@hahauenstein) December 30, 2023
When Jews NOT Zionists tell you Zionism isn’t Judaism, u listen to them #Israel pic.twitter.com/jpsAgU5X5c
— Abier (@abierkhatib) December 30, 2023
I've been scanning through this South African submission and honestly, it's such an impressive piece of work. It's meticulous, very well crafted and hard to argue against. The legal case seems unassailable. Kudos to South Africa's lawyers. https://t.co/svuR9iFnRk
— Abu Bakr Hussain (@KintsugiMuslim) December 30, 2023
Remember al-Quds hospital that sheltered 14,000 refugees?
— Muhammad Shehada (@muhammadshehad2) December 30, 2023
Israel burned much of it & crushed, burned & bombed its entire fleet of ambulances to render it completely out of service!
This footage came out on Christmas after the IDF left the area.
Not a single word from the US/EU pic.twitter.com/4wUIjEwqS1
South Africa has launched a case at the International Court of Justice under the Genocide Convention.
— Pelham (@Resist_05) December 29, 2023
South Africa will use the United Nations top court to prosecute Israel for the Genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.
They are asking the court to call an immediate ceasefire…🇿🇦🇵🇸 pic.twitter.com/B4XShXArap
Twitter is removing likes from this beautiful poem. Even in death they seek to silence Palestinians. https://t.co/Qnq6lX1wuL
— Abu Bakr Hussain (@KintsugiMuslim) December 29, 2023
Jubilant Israeli soldiers, posing in front of one of the tens of thousands of buildings they’ve destroyed in Gaza, raising their middle fingers to the world.
— Owen Jones (@OwenJones84) December 30, 2023
The cliché is that a picture is worth a thousand worlds: this one is worth rather more than that. pic.twitter.com/QFTzHKhFQI
Israel destroyed/damaged 296 schools, 23 hospitals, 162 mosques, 4 churches, 1,459 businesses & 70% of all homes in Gaza in 80 days
— Muhammad Shehada (@muhammadshehad2) December 30, 2023
Can you point to a single EU statement calling this "barbaric", "cowardly", "indiscriminate", "war crime"? or even mentioning any of these figures? pic.twitter.com/pBTGQ3jYpG
Who did the killing out of interest? Aliens? https://t.co/JqoKHruMAM
— Chris Doyle (@Doylech) December 30, 2023
For writers, artists. Load up for Palestine.
— Shareefa Energy (@ShareefaEnergy) December 29, 2023
Artwork by @iganagrellet in Shoreditch, London pic.twitter.com/ZVaRAKM1zY
🇵🇸🇮🇱 This Israeli activist was arrested by the IDF and was called a "slut" for protesting against Israel's war on Gaza.
— Censored Men (@CensoredMen) December 29, 2023
Only democracy in the Middle East btw. pic.twitter.com/rVnE6TY7A7
Billboard truck driving around hospitals in Michigan
— Huwaida Arraf (@huwaidaarraf) December 30, 2023
“Can’t afford healthcare, sorry gotta give Israel billions to bomb children” #ceasefirenowhttps://t.co/Hiv4xuSVPD pic.twitter.com/jIzeaJiiNS
🚨Depraved! 155mm shells are indiscriminate, unguided & have a high error radius, often landing 25 meters away from the intended target.
— Muhammad Shehada (@muhammadshehad2) December 29, 2023
They expel 2,000 sharp metal fragments in every direction, risking injury, death & permanent disability to civilians within 300 METERS… pic.twitter.com/iYfKmvg4PN
“ I feel disgust, I don’t know how to live here”
— Abier (@abierkhatib) December 29, 2023
The way #Israel treats its citizens who object to the genocide in #Gaza. Watch pic.twitter.com/GgQf3IwMHJ
Palestine delivers the greatest speech in modern history at the UN Security Council…🔥 pic.twitter.com/wA6iA5PBW9
— Pelham (@Resist_05) December 30, 2023
World central kitchen teams worked with engineers and local manufacturers to design a pellet stove that uses wooden pellets for clean & efficient cooking to help Palestinians prepare decent meals
— Abier (@abierkhatib) December 29, 2023
Thank you guys 😭😭😭#Gaza pic.twitter.com/hMslIJaPPV
Israeli officials talk about this bombing of another refugee camp, a massacre, claiming the wrong munitions were used as if they had put diesel in a petrol car. Just one of those things. Shit happens. https://t.co/zeBg1WNK8p
— Chris Doyle (@Doylech) December 29, 2023
Police record rise in religious hate crimes after Israel-Gaza war https://t.co/frymRKh8HZ
— Gary Bunt (@garybunt) December 29, 2023
Lebanon—a society with incredible religious diversity despite its small population—knows well the trauma of violent sectarianism & religious supremacy, so it affirms pluralism. Meanwhile some Muslims in London, one of the world’s most pluralistic & cosmopolitan cities, reject it. https://t.co/hp6sAT4rx9
— Asad أسد 🗽🍎 (@AsadFromNYC) December 28, 2023
If this was a Muslim soldier every single Western journalist/ broadcaster would be sharing & demanding we all condemn this. He knows no repercussions, & why he feels so relaxed in sharing his monstrous crimes. https://t.co/ymSGA6uphu
— Meral Hussein-Ece (@meralhece) December 28, 2023
While “defending themselves” of course.
— Abier (@abierkhatib) December 28, 2023
Simply the worst of humankind #Israel https://t.co/FI53P8fzJ0
Comprehensive discussion, based on detailed research… https://t.co/Gqtx8YBvkd
— Gary Bunt (@garybunt) December 28, 2023
David Cronin, Electronic Intifada, Meta’s Nick Clegg assures EU that Palestinians are being censored, 27 December 2023. Opinion/analysis “The concept of “dangerous organizations” is mainly limited to what are called “non-state actors.””
A must-read by Oxford’s Avi Shlaim, who pulls precisely zero punches.
— Monica Marks (@MonicaLMarks) December 27, 2023
“The Palestinian people,” he writes, “are the only people living under military occupation who are expected to ensure the security of their occupier.”
“What is happening in Gaza is… Israeli state terrorism.” https://t.co/lF6Colhaqs pic.twitter.com/2ewFNJE91a
So all you cheerleaders for "the most moral army in the world" with your claims of "pinpoint accuracy." Take a look at what you enabled. This is the Genghis Khan model of warfare: total destruction, mass slaughter of civilians, complete eradication. Netanyahu says he has barely… https://t.co/jdU0fy14j2
— William Dalrymple (@DalrympleWill) December 27, 2023
Medan, Indonesia pic.twitter.com/PGFvDQbd7v
— Johann Spischak (@SDGMasterglass) December 27, 2023
Appalling images, and a ‘justification‘ from the ‘IDF’ of this being allowed through ‘international law‘ – quite which law they have in mind is open to question. https://t.co/BnPhAx4Jzn
— Gary Bunt (@garybunt) December 26, 2023
Nothing to see here. Just the President of Israel , former leader of the Labor Party,close allies of UK Labour Friends of Israel, writing personal messages on bombs Israel prepares to drop on the children of Gaza. This is the opposition to Netanyahu. https://t.co/68CChMzsaP
— Ben Jamal (@BenJamalpsc) December 27, 2023
Hey @intel
— Abier (@abierkhatib) December 27, 2023
Are you building that factory on top of mass graveyards? #Israel pic.twitter.com/WsoR4QNYca
Magnificent from Alexei Sayle … https://t.co/zo1GC6PEq0
— Gary Bunt (@garybunt) December 26, 2023
Harry Davies and Manisha Ganguly, The Guardian, Gaza war puts US’s extensive weapons stockpile in Israel under scrutiny, 27 Dec 2023. “Their precise location is classified, but somewhere in Israel there are multiple closely guarded warehouses that contain billions of dollars’ worth of weapons owned by the US government.”
Simons is no expert as he states – but does not take an expert to know the term Palestine was not introduced by the Romans. Palestine was even mentioned in writing by Herodotus in the 5th century BC ( Before Christ). The non-existence historically and actually of Palestine and… https://t.co/8XUTUuuhvz
— Chris Doyle (@Doylech) December 26, 2023
18 years old conscientious objector in Israel, who refuses to join the army and will go to prison because of this:
— Arnaud Bertrand (@RnaudBertrand) December 26, 2023
"My refusal is an attempt to influence Israeli society, and is intended to avoid taking part in the occupation and the massacre happening in Gaza. I am trying to… https://t.co/OX1mW9NUO0
I know that Yoseph Haddad is lying or misinformed because I’m a Christian from Gaza.
— Hammam Farah (@hammam_therapy) December 26, 2023
My family is sheltering in the Holy Family church, not from Hamas, but from Israeli airstrikes that murdered my cousin at St. Porphyrius.
It wasn’t Hamas that murdered my great aunt Elham who… https://t.co/SZdDFKbfRH
Quadcopters look like this btw. Deeply, deeply dystopian https://t.co/s31DOD8Afm pic.twitter.com/JIwoqDhlZg
— La #FreeDrAbuSalmiya 🍉 (@proletkult__) December 25, 2023
I don’t know that I’ve ever admired anyone as much as I admire this man. I don’t know that I’ve ever seen a more lionhearted example of human dignity, courage, decency or the power of witness and words. He is both the story & its teller, the event & its witness ❤️ https://t.co/2R2RMGSf6o
— Lina Mounzer (@warghetti) December 25, 2023
A Christmas message from Rev.@MuntherIsaac.
— Dr. Yara Hawari د. يارا هواري (@yarahawari) December 24, 2023
“If you are not appalled by what is happening in Gaza…there is something wrong with your humanity… we, the Palestinian people, will recover… but for those who are complicit, I feel sorry for you. Will you ever recover from this?” pic.twitter.com/oNdhg1YLgL
Who knew how the #Christmas parade used to take place in #Bethlehem? Children playing, music and joy. But how could we celebrate while our people are under attack? This is the Christmas parade in Bethlehem this year. #Palestine 🇵🇸 pic.twitter.com/RFzTMObiwS
— Xavier Abu Eid (@xabueid) December 24, 2023
I lost both of my parents on the 7th of October. I still believe that peace with the Palestinians is the only way.
— מעוז معوز Maoz (@maozinon) December 24, 2023
My loss is no luxury.
We need a resolution, to prevent others suffering in the way we have – Palestinians and Israelis deserve peace, equality and dignity.@PCFFIP https://t.co/bp65MHgTVq
Awni Eldous: The Palestinian boy who found YouTube fame after death https://t.co/uPR8WY7Lw4
— Gary Bunt (@garybunt) December 24, 2023
MoTaz has one of the world's largest platforms right now: 17 million followers on Instagram, more than Joe Biden.
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) December 22, 2023
He's been one of the most important and reliable sources of information about what's happening in Gaza. He and others doing this are incredibly brave. https://t.co/DiVbf4ZQZK
I never thought I’d be documenting my people’s Genocide. Ceasefire now pic.twitter.com/TnkYtvKdxS
— MoTaz (@azaizamotaz9) December 21, 2023
"A child is not supposed to witness his family being killed."
— AJ+ (@ajplus) December 22, 2023
Palestinian humanitarian worker Awni Farhat returned home to occupied Gaza to support children through their trauma amid Israel's deadly assault. pic.twitter.com/XhEJCfYBOG
I’ve no end of year roundup, except to share the words of Palestinian reporters who remain in Gaza. Journalism is not a crime pic.twitter.com/bPQdj0fAX4
— Aisha S Gani (@aishagani) December 22, 2023
Clearly this damage was caused by tank shells, Hermes drones, Hellfire missiles — Hamas has nothing like that in its arsenal.
— Asa Winstanley (@AsaWinstanley) December 21, 2023
Israel does, and has acknowledged “friendly fire” and “Hannibal” incidents against its own citizens.
Media needs to stop ignoring the obvious. https://t.co/sUbpQyraCu
"Young Americans increasingly get their news from TikTok—and it’s filled with intense, polarized and hard-to-verify videos about the Israel-Hamas war" https://t.co/WctmGdK4jv via @WSJ
— Gary Bunt (@garybunt) December 21, 2023
"Ad-sharing revenue on X fuels misleading Israel-Hamas war narratives"
— Gary Bunt (@garybunt) December 21, 2023
Significant report from NewsGuard (@Newsweek) https://t.co/udIuKb5BXc
Opinion from @MABOnline1 … https://t.co/sqRmzI04Fo
— Gary Bunt (@garybunt) December 21, 2023
She’s the Minister of the Advancement of the Status of Women. With no hesitation, she states that women of Gaza (all civilians to be exact) can die for all she cares, while working to protect the women of Israel. When we say apartheid, we mean genocidal apartheid. https://t.co/8Jew4fS4EL
— Hend Amry (@LibyaLiberty) December 20, 2023
🚨Israel just bombed the very "humanitarian" crossing it was widely celebrated for opening last Friday
— Muhammad Shehada (@muhammadshehad2) December 21, 2023
An Israeli drone targeted the Palestinian side of the Kerem Shalom crossing, killing 3 workers & the crossing's director, Bassam Ghabin, who were there in coordination with UN! pic.twitter.com/JVF8dN8lIY
Al Jazeera, Meta ‘stifling’ pro-Palestine voices on social media, rights group says, 21 Dec 2023 “On Tuesday, Meta’s independent oversight board criticised the company for removing posts that showed human suffering in the ongoing Gaza war. It restored two such posts, including an Instagram video of the aftermath of a strike on or near al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.”
And here’s the report link: Human Rights Watch, Meta: Systemic Censorship of Palestine Content, 20 Dec 2023. It’s available in Arabic, German, French, and English.
The full English language PDF is here.
Dr. Amira Qadeeh speaks about the most difficult situation she's faced while working in the emergency department of Nasser Hospital. pic.twitter.com/90aUUPkMZQ
— TIMES OF GAZA (@Timesofgaza) December 20, 2023
This morning, Israel's military detonated over 50 houses in Shejaiya, Gaza.
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) December 20, 2023
In this video, cries of civilians can be heard while being annihilated. Israeli media quoted the military as saying that the main reason behind the filmed crime was that it wanted "those who stand in… pic.twitter.com/pGqIDv0wPG
During Al-Jazeera English's live coverage, Israeli airstrikes targeted residential buildings close to the Kuwaiti Hospital in Rafah, Gaza. pic.twitter.com/ftdR3E8rgI
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) December 20, 2023
I speak Hebrew. The translation on this clip is accurate.
— Rabbi David Mivasair🔥 (@Mivasair) December 20, 2023
This woman is deeply pathological. https://t.co/B6LCjsPeMv
Hamas rockets do NOT run on liquid fuel
— Muhammad Shehada (@muhammadshehad2) December 20, 2023
The very extremely limited & heavily monitored fuel entering Gaza goes ONLY & directly to the UN for its trucks to distribute aid & for some vital uses; though it’s only an infinitely tiny fraction of what is needed
THIS IS NOT JOURNALISM https://t.co/C7IofIlfuz
A former employee of the Israeli Prime Minister's office, Edy Cohen, holds a poll on the killing of heroic Al Jazeera journalist Wael Dahdouh.
— Lowkey (@Lowkey0nline) December 20, 2023
Israel has already killed several of his family members. pic.twitter.com/fhgdW6CJ78
Artist-made portraits of murdered Palestinian journalists plastered to the ABC offices to shed light on the media silence of their fallen colleagues in Gaza. 40 portraits of killed journalists were stuck to the entrance at about 4:30am this morning in Naarm/Melbourne. pic.twitter.com/Gc4rlKcI3A
— Scheherazade Bloul (@scherrybloul) December 19, 2023
James Elder from UNICEF says that “Israel’s so called 'safe zones' are actually death zones, and those who tell Palestinians to go there are aware of that”
— Abier (@abierkhatib) December 20, 2023
You are arming psychopaths. #Israel #Gaza pic.twitter.com/FjpfICpxYH
Francesca Vawdrey, ‘We must reject this censorship of grief over Gaza‘
— Gary Bunt (@garybunt) December 19, 2023
Interesting reflections on observation of the Gaza crisis from a distance https://t.co/RJUDDRNbmF
Ahead of today’s ceasefire vote in the UN Security Council, I told @BBCr4today that the world has failed the Palestinian people. Today is an opportunity to start restoring international law and order. pic.twitter.com/k3YKZDYYtj
— Husam Zomlot (@hzomlot) December 19, 2023
A return to radio 📻 for news in #Gaza
— Gary Bunt (@garybunt) December 19, 2023
AFP, Radio sets make a comeback in war-torn Gaza https://t.co/CPJaN7EztC via @FRANCE24
Robbed of their childhood, children in Gaza play different games. pic.twitter.com/d1HgM7KO5T
— TIMES OF GAZA (@Timesofgaza) December 19, 2023
A Palestinian woman leaving a church shelter to go to the toilet was shot dead by an Israeli sniper & her daughter who went to help her was killed as well
— Saul Staniforth (@SaulStaniforth) December 19, 2023
UK govt minister Lee Rowley is asked about this and says Israel has a right to defend itself against murderers pic.twitter.com/llqZqJ2tpH
“voluntary immigration” is a euphemism for depopulating Gaza.
— Marwa Fatafta مروة فطافطة (@marwasf) December 18, 2023
In 1948, when over 750,000 Palestinians were forcibly expelled from their towns and cities at the hands of Zionist militias, Israel maintained the lie that those who fled their massacres and terror did so voluntarily. https://t.co/iLi6tpiJp5
The IDF statement says the letter they received from the Patriarchy was about a different incident in the area of Rimal. The Church is in Zeitoun. In fact the same statement says they’re still investigating the church. He’s muddling the two incidents and needs challenging. https://t.co/QN8qALsH7I
— Layla Moran 🔶🕊️ (@LaylaMoran) December 18, 2023
Israeli soldiers write the names of public figures from social media on missiles to be dropped on Gaza. pic.twitter.com/cmdCnE7z3A
— Lowkey (@Lowkey0nline) December 16, 2023
An entire neighborhood destroyed in an instant. This kind of barbarism knows no bounds. pic.twitter.com/I6aAdumzGO
— Alan MacLeod (@AlanRMacLeod) December 16, 2023
🇵🇸🇮🇱 "We hardly have anyone left.
— Censored Men (@CensoredMen) December 16, 2023
What is it they want from us?
What do they want?
Why are we involved?
As citizens, as civilians what do we have to do with all that's happening?" pic.twitter.com/B2QDUax4k3
I’m trying to reach the 3G or 4G with the esim, sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t
— MoTaz (@azaizamotaz9) December 17, 2023
You can hear the sound of drones and jet fighters
I’m trying not to fall down if they strike near here
And I don’t want no one to ask about my mental health. It’s gone. pic.twitter.com/4Gdl4OETEr
Just when you think they can’t sink any lower…
— Hanan Ashrawi (@DrHananAshrawi) December 17, 2023
Horrific videos are being aired on Arabic-speaking TV stations. The Israeli public should see the cold-blooded slaughter & unimaginable atrocities that their “army” is committing against helpless civilians in Gaza. https://t.co/xxdKst3I0m
Palestinian health officials have come under fire while holding a press conference outside Gaza's Kamal Adwan Hospital, a day after Israeli forces are accused of using bulldozers to crush Palestinian patients in the hospital's courtyard ⤵️ pic.twitter.com/EwNArEvVwj
— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) December 17, 2023
Christmas is supposed to be a time of joy and celebration. But for Christians in Gaza—whose family members have been killed or maimed, whose homes and churches have been destroyed or badly damaged, and who suffer through sleepless nights of bombings—this Christmas will be one of… pic.twitter.com/NINLRNSZdg
— Justin Amash (@justinamash) December 17, 2023
Update: a tank has taken position outside the church and the building opposite has been taken. The people inside have died. There are snipers at every window pointing into the church. Still shooting anyone emerging from buildings to use eg toilets. Still no food or water. https://t.co/4YOSUIxcMx
— Layla Moran 🔶🕊️ (@LaylaMoran) December 17, 2023
I am desperately worried for my extended family in Gaza City.
— Layla Moran 🔶🕊️ (@LaylaMoran) December 17, 2023
They have no electricity, no water, no food, and now a sniper is inside the Church compound where they are sheltering.
My family are not collateral damage. We need an immediate bilateral ceasefire now. pic.twitter.com/zQVpLSdtgN
Razan and Nouran Allouh, sisters from #Gaza, were fatally shot by Israeli tanks as they tried to fill a bucket with water inside their home.
— Nour Naim| نُور (@NourNaim88) December 17, 2023
Their father, Ahmad went to lie beside their lifeless bodies, and while lying down next to them,he was also shot and killed❗️
NOT NUMBERS pic.twitter.com/hmrxxpxQWh
No more universities in Gaza. They have been destroyed and our academic colleagues and students killed. Epistemicide and genocide.
— Aaron Winter (@aaronzwinter) December 18, 2023
Where are the statements and protests from universities, academic associations and education ministers in the UK and internationally?@socispal https://t.co/N4hve0f6xv
It’s “ cold blooded murder”says @CardinalNichols
— Sayeeda Warsi (@SayeedaWarsi) December 18, 2023
“ it’s terrorism” says @Pontifex
How long will we stand by and allow Gazans to be slaughtered?
This is a shame on all of us that had the power to stop this killing.
By failing to condemn we simply emboldened Netanyahu and his far… https://t.co/dZCVFIybQQ
Here is Wael Al-Dahdouh, talking about the strike that wounded him and killed his cameraman, joining the program from his hospital bed: pic.twitter.com/L8cQi2AEn8
— Ryan Grim (@ryangrim) December 15, 2023
Initial and brief scepticism is cast aside … https://t.co/fjshzNJAlZ
— Gary Bunt (@garybunt) December 16, 2023
The Israeli army will investigate the killing of these three Israeli hostages. Rightly. But will it investigate properly the killing of thousands of Palestinian civilians? https://t.co/bd3QuuB7WS
— Chris Doyle (@Doylech) December 16, 2023
Peter Beaumont, The Guardian, IDF says Israeli hostages it killed in Gaza were bare chested and waving white flag, 16 Dec 2023 “While two of the hostages fell to the ground immediately, the third fled into a nearby building. When a commander arrived on the scene, the unit was ordered into the building where it killed the third hostage despite his pleas for help in Hebrew.” Incredible, but revealing episode.
Andrew Mitchell refuses to answer question about genocidal comments from Israeli leaders. This is a disgrace. A failure to condemn this is indicative of widespread anti-Palestinian racism, where genocidal comments against Palestinians are condoned. https://t.co/7vI30NRRnl
— Chris Doyle (@Doylech) December 16, 2023
Chris McGreal, The Guardian, How American citizens are leading rise of ‘settler violence’ on Palestinian lands, 15 Dec 2023 “The Biden administration instituted a travel ban on extremist Jewish settlers who attack Palestinians but there is a glaring loophole for US citizens”
#BREAKING| The Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor calls for an international investigation into reports that Israel's military buried patients alive in the courtyard of Kamal Idwan Hospital north of #Gaza. pic.twitter.com/g0QGc7AttO
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) December 16, 2023
This is beyond unconscionable, pure barbarism. Bodies of wounded Palestinians and patients crushed by Israeli bulldozers at the Kamal Adwan Hospital. Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif films the scene after the Israeli army has withdrawn, says stench of death is indescribable. https://t.co/SvMLQIjUbW
— Marwa Fatafta مروة فطافطة (@marwasf) December 16, 2023
Profile from @Independent of some of the 7,000 children that have been killed in Gaza. Read this & ask yourself how we allowed humanity to sink this low.
— Humza Yousaf (@HumzaYousaf) December 15, 2023
Their deaths should haunt us all.
Shame on those who have not stopped this madness.#CeasefireNowhttps://t.co/ZSMZ1FXNmY
“A house on the beach is not a dream”: An Israeli real estate company specialising in Jewish settlements in the West Bank is planning for the day after. This is beyond aspirational, their staff is already working on plans. pic.twitter.com/YtBJ3VYbgE
— Lana Tatour (@Lana_Tatour) December 15, 2023
Yesterday in Istanbul, thousands gathered for a Dua session for the people of Gaza. pic.twitter.com/gyV0hUeExw
— Faqir (@thefaqiir) December 15, 2023
Gaza is sunny with no snow in recorded history.
— Dr. Eli David (@DrEliDavid) December 15, 2023
But this is @SkyNews' footage 👇
Legacy media is getting more embarrassing every day…
pic.twitter.com/wWIdOVu3hr
Palestinian journalist Plestia Alaqad shares the importance of covering the israeli genocide of Gaza & reporting it to the world | via @AJEnglish pic.twitter.com/bRK97XlEUT
— Sarah Wilkinson (@swilkinsonbc) December 15, 2023
Pro-Palestine activists stage a die-in outside Google's headquarters with a white sheet reading "genocide" to protest the company's powering Israeli atrocities in Gaza. #WeAreAllGaza #GazaGenocide pic.twitter.com/N3IbpXLcHv
— Palestine Highlights (@PalHighlight) December 15, 2023
24 hours without internet or telecommunications.
— Hind Khoudary (@Hind_Gaza) December 15, 2023
Day 70’s sunset. pic.twitter.com/1n6W5rEUvR
We asked 10 people in Gaza to record moments of their day. What they sent us was inspiring and heartbreaking. The most mundane of tasks has become impossibly hard and the fear of being killed is constant and palpable.
— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) December 15, 2023
Watch our latest #AJCloseUp episode, 'One Day in Gaza' ⤵️ pic.twitter.com/LgzGdNV2OU
Thousands of Palestinians brave the Israeli airstrikes and perform Friday prayer at a mosque in Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip. pic.twitter.com/0GdL9oJXsV
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) December 15, 2023
Shereen Fernandez and Waqas Tufail, Palestine, Islamophobia and the policing of solidarity, Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, 14 Dec 2023. “Our focus is on the way in which counter-terror legislation in the UK, primarily the Prevent Duty, has been used to securitize and silence activists in recent weeks, and permitted the spread of Islamophobia. As we seek to show, the selective usage of counter-terror legislation on pro-Palestinian protestors and activists is part of a much wider trend of criminalizing dissent, felt significantly by racialized Muslims and Arabs in the post-9/11 era.”
Journalists Under Attack (cont/d)
Al Jazeera journalist Samer Abudaqa laid to rest in southern Gaza https://t.co/5he73d084B via @AJEnglish
— Gary Bunt (@garybunt) December 16, 2023
Journalists are being killed at such a rate in Gaza that it's difficult to stay on top of the story.
— The Listening Post (@AJListeningPost) December 16, 2023
When we recorded our story, the death toll was 89.
Within hours it was 90 journalists killed – including @AJEnglish cameraman Samer Abudaqa.@TariqNafi reports. pic.twitter.com/iAinFYEX2o
If this world didn’t have contempt for Palestinians, Wael Dahdouh would win ever journalism award for his commitment, strength and resilience. https://t.co/1kWlDWacs4
— Laila Al-Arian (@LailaAlarian) December 16, 2023
Here is Wael Al-Dahdouh, talking about the strike that wounded him and killed his cameraman, joining the program from his hospital bed: pic.twitter.com/L8cQi2AEn8
— Ryan Grim (@ryangrim) December 15, 2023
Reports that Al Jazeera Samer Abu Daqqa has died. Samer was injured in an Israeli attack and couldn’t walk. As he lay bleeding, Israeli forces refused to allow paramedics to reach him. This is a war crime. Israel has waged a war on the journalists bravely documenting its crimes. pic.twitter.com/a3WmkSbaYk
— Laila Al-Arian (@LailaAlarian) December 15, 2023
After bleeding for FIVE hours, no one was allowed to rescue him. #Gaza https://t.co/EYzqpWO3rm
— Muhammad Smiry 🇵🇸 (@MuhammadSmiry) December 15, 2023
Among the many criminal actions being undertaken in this conflict situation, attacking and killing journalists and media staff appears to be a strategic aim. Numerous examples have been recorded. This is simply today’s toll:
BREAKING: Israel just murdered another Palestinian journalist, Khamis Hussain.
— sarah (@sahouraxo) December 15, 2023
Israel has now killed 90 journalists in Gaza in 10 weeks. pic.twitter.com/kyIx9vDIVF
The protective vest worn by fellow journalist Wael Al-Dahdouh the moment he was targeted in Khan Yunis. pic.twitter.com/kYftdt7gxU
— Gaza Notifications (@gazanotice) December 15, 2023
Samer Abu Daqqa is Al Jazeera cameraman and editor in Gaza since 20years. One of the best. Very funny, very generous. Samer is laying on the ground of a school in south Gaza, wounded, since more than an hour! Israel is preventing his evacuation by medics!#IsraelKillsJournalists pic.twitter.com/67fVyLrl4u
— Rawaa Augé روعة أوجيه (@Rawaak) December 15, 2023
Israeli soldiers assault Palestinian journalist Mustafa Haruf in occupied al-Quds.
— Lowkey (@Lowkey0nline) December 15, 2023
He was repeatedly kicked in the head and has now been hospitalised with serious injuries.https://t.co/jRRcBXsmuX
The targeting of journalists in this conflict continues. Every day, there are updates on a further victim … https://t.co/HJ6A1SSBrk
— Gary Bunt (@garybunt) December 15, 2023
Have there ever been more targeted killings of journalists in any war in human history? I can tell you I’ve never seen it before in all the Middle East wars I’ve covered since 1991… https://t.co/VMN6549Bs5
— Sarah Leah Whitson (@sarahleah1) December 15, 2023
Just yesterday I watched this touching video of Al Jazeera’s Wael Dahdouh comforting an 8th grade girl who lost her legs. Today, Israel shot him. https://t.co/0k4oqWWehB
— Laila Al-Arian (@LailaAlarian) December 15, 2023
Propaganda under Construction
The supposedly arrested Hamas fighter is a doctor !!!
— Angelo Giuliano 🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻 安德龙 (@angeloinchina) December 15, 2023
His name is Nasr Imad Al-Madhoun
All those arrests are staged, they are a joke. They take random civilians for their propaganda videos pic.twitter.com/VsklCUQN8c
This is horrific https://t.co/WD3L665FkC
— Jake Shields (@jakeshieldsajj) December 15, 2023
This sweet baby boy is so precious🥹 he came to get some food but there was none left, luckily some other children shared with him. Habibi, he was so excited to tell his mama he finally found something to eat pic.twitter.com/WLiU7B3ox9
— ➳❥ (@VintageVault8) December 15, 2023
Michael Robbins, MaryClare Roche, Amaney A. Jamal, Salma Al-Shami, and Mark Tessler, Foreign Affairs, How the Israel-Hamas War in Gaza Is Changing Arab Views, 14 Dec 2023 “Tunisia is geographically remote from Israel, and its population’s growing appetite for an armed resistance is unlikely to directly affect the war. But if other Arab states have had similar shifts in opinion, fighting on Israel’s borders could flare further. And in all likelihood, anger at Israel has grown even more in countries closer to the conflict or in those housing more Palestinian refugees, such as Jordan and Lebanon. The potential for greater violence is, therefore, serious. The Middle East and North Africa, after all, are plagued by more ongoing conflicts than any other part of the world.”
Holocaust survivor Marione Ingram calls for an end to the genocide in Palestine, and says Joe Biden should defund Israel…🇮🇱🇵🇸 pic.twitter.com/fWxRZAv0UA
— Pelham (@Resist_05) December 15, 2023
The Israeli occupation army fabricated this picture, claiming they have abducted resistance fighters from inside the Kamal Edwan Hospital in northern Gaza and forced "to raise their arms and surrender".
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) December 14, 2023
After scrutiny, a trainee doctor, Nasr Imad Al-Madhoun, and a nurse working… pic.twitter.com/jISSmtx0IX
This broke me. Who will care for him? 💔💔 https://t.co/48ClbQDXis
— Meral Hussein-Ece (@meralhece) December 14, 2023
Here’s Zionism for u… on national TV
— Abier (@abierkhatib) December 14, 2023
“ all of #Gaza is terrorists, no exception. Son of dogs”#Israel pic.twitter.com/2Xgs1lFGNn
The New Arab, Israel army website ‘compromised by Jordanian hackers’ amid Gaza war, 14 Dec 2023 “The Israeli army’s website was reportedly compromised by Jordanian hackers amid the Gaza war on Wednesday.”
Gaza's port was once a beacon of life. pic.twitter.com/YXbdSN0PEq
— TIMES OF GAZA (@Timesofgaza) December 14, 2023
After ten weeks of nearly non-stop bombardment, the few international journalists Israel let into Gaza were only on their terms and very tightly controlled. This is the first, albeit brief, independent glimpse into what’s being described as “hell” https://t.co/CXXL4wxKJj
— Imtiaz Tyab (@ImtiazTyab) December 14, 2023
Jenin, West Bank |
— Younis Tirawi | يونس (@ytirawi) December 14, 2023
Israeli soldiers film themselves humiliating Palestinian civilians taken hostage today during their military invasion, most of them were released. pic.twitter.com/RbJQJDBJGh
"What is the fault of this child who was born in a tent in war? There are no clothes for her, no food or drink. The children here cry for a morsel of bread. I appeal to the world, those who have a conscience to save us from what we are in" pic.twitter.com/5QIvY90gEF
— Saul Staniforth (@SaulStaniforth) December 14, 2023
Question; what does this extremist Islamophobic act have to do with security operations in the West Bank? https://t.co/0juNCapuUC
— Naks Bilal (@NaksBilal) December 14, 2023
Every entrance at BP Headquarters blocked right now. No one is going in.
— ashok kumar 🇵🇸 (@broseph_stalin) December 14, 2023
Israel just granted BP a natural gas licence off the Gaza coast. BP cannot be allowed to continue this climate colonialism. pic.twitter.com/1z6SEHEG1R
The US State Department acknowledges reports that IDF forced nurses to abandon babies in hospital, starving them, who were later found decomposed when staff were allowed to return. Yet refuses to say it’s a war crime. No words left to describe what’s been done to the Palestinians pic.twitter.com/GW45xNB4UN
— ashok kumar 🇵🇸 (@broseph_stalin) December 14, 2023
These people are superhuman. I’ve never seen such dignity and resilience in my life. It is impossible to defeat a people with this spirit. https://t.co/Sn9sT3WmUJ
— Fahad Ansari 🇵🇸 (Stop the Gaza genocide) (@fahadansari) December 14, 2023
A very interesting 🧵 about threads 🌟 https://t.co/K0jTTrCghx
— Gary Bunt (@garybunt) December 13, 2023
This is an awful interview from this appalling Israeli ambassador to the UK.
— Sayeeda Warsi (@SayeedaWarsi) December 13, 2023
She has a long and well documented history of denying the right of Palestine to exist and is a clear example of why this Israeli government is not a partner for peace.
Netanyahu and his far right… https://t.co/8t2JsGAlEw
Yesterday, I was privileged to join MPs in a meeting with the heroic Professor Ghassan Abu Sitta.
— Andy McDonald MP (@AndyMcDonaldMP) December 13, 2023
He provided a harrowing account of his experience working as a surgeon in Gaza over recent weeks.
WARNING: the following thread contains very distressing details. 1/8 pic.twitter.com/D3sigIkOZB
Gazan refugee clings to pet cat for comfort
— Middle East Monitor (@MiddleEastMnt) December 13, 2023
A displaced Gazan shares the profound connection with his cat, highlighting its significance as a source of livelihood and emotional sustenance for him. pic.twitter.com/8wh0RP3sSY
Reports emerging of another potential Israeli war crime. Bodies of civilians have been found in a school in northern Gaza that was used as a shelter near the Jabalia refugee camp. Witnesses say they were all killed execution-style. The bodies included children. https://t.co/UWUfgROflD
— İyad el-Baghdadi | إياد البغدادي (@iyad_elbaghdadi) December 13, 2023
Digital tools for Egyptians in #Gaza seeking exit https://t.co/UGdKfofXbP
— Gary Bunt (@garybunt) December 13, 2023
How Middle East Muslim scholars are struggling to show support for #Gaza
— Gary Bunt (@garybunt) December 13, 2023

Important discussion/analysis from Usaama al-Azami https://t.co/RHyFi29LCk
Brian Cox reads If I Must Die, by beloved Palestinian poet, teacher and martyr Refaat Alareer.
— Palestine Festival of Literature (@PalFest) December 12, 2023
Refaat was killed on December 7th by an Israeli airstrike.
This was the last poem he published. pic.twitter.com/sMVocn3nGA
I’m Khaled Nabhan owner of famous videos ‘soul of my soul’ expressing his heartfelt gratitude to everyone who shared in his grief and wished God’s good grace upon them. Quoting the Quran ‘surely after every hard time a time of ease will come’. pic.twitter.com/UJRQuLCfLg
— Mohsan Khan (@MohsanWKhan) December 12, 2023
Ha'aretz reports that the Israeli military's Operations Directorate operates a Telegram channel called "72 Virgins – Uncensored" that posts sadistic images of Israelis murdering Palestinians, mutilating their bodies: https://t.co/AvlVo0zzEV
— jeremy scahill (@jeremyscahill) December 12, 2023
Dr. Hussam’s message from #KamalAdwan hospital @NickKristof
— Dr. Zaher Sahloul (@sahloul) December 12, 2023
“Our doctor, the IDF has just entered the hospital and took all the men and medical staff. I asked to speak with the officer, introduced myself, and informed him that I also work with MedGlobal. I requested the return… pic.twitter.com/9k4HBR1zE1
German mainstream media is worse than Israel’s far-Right demagogues
— Dr Andreas Krieg (@andreas_krieg) December 12, 2023
“Free Palestine is the new Heil Hitler”
The long-term damage for Germans in the Arab and Islamic world will last generations https://t.co/j9iNQTXv8i
"The world’s conscience is dead, no humanity or any kind of morals."
— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) December 12, 2023
Israel bombards starving Palestinians in southern Gaza.
— in pictures https://t.co/nGAIfr7DLw pic.twitter.com/k1kL4l9sWY
Here's the source of the earlier infographic from @EuroMedHR https://t.co/Fj0aGfCoV7
— Gary Bunt (@garybunt) December 11, 2023
Israeli journalist says Israel’s actions in Gaza are ‘appalling beyond words’
— Middle East Monitor (@MiddleEastMnt) December 11, 2023
Israeli journalist Amira Hass, usually based in Ramallah, shares her experience at an anti-occupation protest in Washington, DC last month, organised by American Jewish peace groups.
Representing her… pic.twitter.com/V2aH5cM14N
Al Jazeera's Zein Basravi reports on the killing of the father of Al Jazeera's Anas al-Sharif by an Israeli strike on Jabalia in north Gaza ⤵️ pic.twitter.com/gRDphlfMNx
— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) December 11, 2023
The @Telegraph conflates Anti-semitism with the Palestinian flag and support for the Palestinian people, not for the first time. pic.twitter.com/SVQr2cgZF9
— Centre for Media Monitoring (CfMM) (@cfmmuk) December 10, 2023
Palestinians rounded up by Israeli forces in Gaza City have described being stripped, blindfolded, numbered and tortured while detained.
— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) December 10, 2023
This group of detainees have now been released and are receiving medical treatment ⤵️ pic.twitter.com/XFqZJQOfKb
A growing number of activists across the globe also posted on social media, calling on people to join the strike on Monday https://t.co/EOBqks2vmy pic.twitter.com/PEozJIb4Tk
— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) December 11, 2023
Rory Jones, Summer Said, Dov Lieber and Saleh Al-Batati, Wall Street Journal, The Hamas Leader Who Studied Israel’s Psyche—and Is Betting His Life on What He Learned, 10 Dec 2023. “Yahya Sinwar drove a strategy to exploit Israel’s willingness to trade Palestinian prisoners for hostages; Gaza leader spent two decades in prison in Israel.” Paywalled article. Well worth seeking out.
Israel-Gaza war: Video shows Gaza detainees allegedly 'surrendering guns' – what we know https://t.co/RWWAeKcCfq
— Gary Bunt (@garybunt) December 11, 2023
“Today, as the world watches Israel’s mass murder in Gaza, the wholesale destruction of entire areas, town and cities, the mass displacement of nearly 2 million people, the global rules-based order has never looked more impotent or imperilled.”
Not sure where they could possibly have been “hiding” their guns in this episode. The “legality” is questionable (see earlier posts) – IDF soldiers are wearing Go Pro type cameras. https://t.co/PtiTyY6nUu
— Gary Bunt (@garybunt) December 9, 2023
Nailed it. @SkyNews https://t.co/4iWoiILzcf
— Gary Bunt (@garybunt) December 9, 2023
Let it be a tale, for Refaat. @itranslate123 pic.twitter.com/2f79uYK77J
— بثينة العيسى (@Bothayna_AlEssa) December 9, 2023
U.S. policymakers "don't have the guts and the moral courage" to stand up to the Israeli govt, says top Middle East watcher @FawazGerges. “I really have no trust in American foreign policy anymore,” he tells me. pic.twitter.com/KjvqMeglLl
— Christiane Amanpour (@amanpour) December 9, 2023
Hadiya Nassar, Palestinian woman born in 1944, was killed in Gaza during recent attacks on the strip.
— In Context (@incontextmedia) December 9, 2023
Hadiya went viral last month for saying that she was “older than Israel” in a video by @S_Aljafarawi that's still circulating online.
According to a Palestinian activist Abi… pic.twitter.com/VnpyuN8sJo
Israel killed the activist Yafa. This was her last post on X.
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) December 9, 2023
"My name is Yafa. What scares me the most is mentioning my death as a number among the increasing numbers that are difficult to count every day. They would say: “A young woman and others were killed in a Zionist… pic.twitter.com/48EBF3MkUQ
When people talk about ‘inter-faith dialogue‘, maybe they should refer to this video clip from #Gaza … https://t.co/1KznL6wcLl
— Gary Bunt (@garybunt) December 9, 2023
Communication breakdown in #Gaza @AJEnglish https://t.co/LGkU75Z4K5
— Gary Bunt (@garybunt) December 9, 2023
Jeremy Bowen, Israel-Gaza: The status quo is smashed. The future is messy and dangerous https://t.co/Z2n197ONdC
— Gary Bunt (@garybunt) December 9, 2023
Sky News, Israel-Hamas war: US vetoes UN resolution calling for ceasefire in Gaza – as UK explains why it abstained, 9 Dec 2023 “The US indicated it would veto the motion at the United Nations Security Council, arguing a ceasefire could leave Hamas in charge of the territory while still holding more than 100 hostages.”
Global demand for new Israeli weapons spikes after Israel uses occupied Gaza as a testing ground.
— AJ+ (@ajplus) December 8, 2023
Author Antony Loewenstein (@antloewenstein) explains how the "Palestine Laboratory" helps Israel escape accountability for its atrocities. pic.twitter.com/zHBJ5UpTPC
The IOF have targeted a UNRWA school in Jabalia, north of Gaza, using smoke and white phosphorus bombs. pic.twitter.com/oCzVBJf78d
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) December 8, 2023
Interesting discussion between @ImranMuneerTMM and @DrShadeeElmasry on online posting (or not) of condemnation of Israel … https://t.co/nuXpnQMT4K
— Gary Bunt (@garybunt) December 8, 2023
In case you’re keeping track pic.twitter.com/POupAjFkF1
— Tulika Bose (@TulikaBose_) December 8, 2023
This is the al-Umari Mosque, the oldest mosque in the Gaza Strip. It’s around 1400 years older than Israel.
— Maha Hussaini (@MahaGaza) December 8, 2023
Israel bombed it.
Since the beginning of its genocide of the Gaza Strip, Israel has knocked down mosques, churches, schools, universities, restaurants & hotels. pic.twitter.com/10BAC3VAq4
An important thread 🧵 from @FactualNarrator unpacking the prevailing propaganda … #Gaza https://t.co/ROBhsqOW50
— Gary Bunt (@garybunt) December 8, 2023
Among those detained today in the Beit Lahiya identified so far: 3 elderly including Khalil, Rafiq, and Mohammad Al-Kahlout (65, 60, 57); UNRWA school director Darwish Al-Gharbawi, 48; UN employee Ahmad Akram Labad, 56; & two children 15-year-olds, Mohammad and Yousuf. pic.twitter.com/Z7UNlqs424
— Lema (@Lemapal) December 7, 2023
Children, UN workers and a journalist are believed to be seen in a video showing dozens of Palestinians stripped and detained by Israeli forces in Gaza. pic.twitter.com/MECCmCgnMI
— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) December 8, 2023
Abigail from China now has a RIGHT to move into the villages my grandparents were expelled from or in a settlement on stolen land in the West Bank with total ease.
— Muhammad Shehada (@muhammadshehad2) December 8, 2023
I cannot even visit either!
If I magically get to the West Bank, Abigail can arrest me for being an "illegal alien" pic.twitter.com/ZqrdYrRIeH
"One of the captives, Diaa Al-Kahlot, is a journalist. He was forced to leave his disabled daughter…"
— Saul Staniforth (@SaulStaniforth) December 8, 2023
Jeremy Bowen reporting on Palestinian men being bound, blindfolded, stripped & filmed by Israeli forces, before being taken away pic.twitter.com/nIDf9f2AJj
The Israeli military blowing up the Faculty of Medicine at the Islamic University of Gaza pic.twitter.com/5HJaM82VBq
— Nicola Perugini (@PeruginiNic) December 8, 2023
Important information on Refaat’s assassination:
— شهداء غزّة Gaza martyrs (@Gaza_Shaheed) December 8, 2023
The day before yesterday, Refaat received a phone call from the Israeli intelligence about locating him in the school where he took refuge. They informed him that they were going to kill him. He left the school not wanting to… pic.twitter.com/t9cnFqcHOh
What’s the policy on writing such headlines, @BBCNews ? https://t.co/d2uN1K0YTp
— Gary Bunt (@garybunt) December 8, 2023
In memory of the Palestinian author, poet and academic Refaat Al-Ar’eer, killed by Israel in Gaza yesterday, please read some of his writings. @ucu https://t.co/fLrF7yMOqt
— Nicola Pratt (@ncpratt) December 8, 2023
Israel's Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem calls for burying detained Palestinian civilians ALIVE with D-9 military bulldozers, calling Palestinians "Nazis", "Subhuman" & "Ants".
— Muhammad Shehada (@muhammadshehad2) December 8, 2023
"They are not human beings & not human animals, they are subhuman and that is how they should be treated." pic.twitter.com/7fApzbMRPf