"I’ve been in this House 20 years, I have supported Israel pretty much at all costs quite frankly."
“But today I want to say that I got it wrong and I condemn Israel for what it is doing to the Palestinian people in Gaza"
- Tory MP Mark Pritchard
As a human rights scholar, I've read countless reports where both Western media + prominent human rights organizations term this as an "enforced disappearance" when this happens in other countries. Wild (and completely unsurprising) how the same terminology is missing when it's happening in the US
NEW: Egypt Pushes Alternative to Trump’s Riviera Plan For Gaza Reconstruction
Led by Egypt and the World Bank, the Guardian has details on a new plan being formulated to reconstruct Gaza without Hamas’ involvement in governance. Key details:
2/2 *Separate from above, the IOF has forcibly disappeared at least 18,000 Palestinians in Ga za alone since Oct 2023. "For 15 months now, we haven’t known if they’re dead or alive or their locations" he tells me english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/...
1/2 Raji Sourani breaks down the staggering population of Pales tinians in Israeli captivity (total of approx 30,000!)
*At the time of 7 October, 3,307 Palestinians were held in Israeli prisons.
*Since then the number has increased to 11,000 under administrative detention.
🧵 THREAD: Our reporter spent the past year reporting inside the State Department, trying to answer the central question of Biden’s foreign policy:
How did the U.S. let Israel get away with widespread horrors in Gaza?
A mammoth investigation by Declan Walsh into the gold rush fueling Sudan's civil war. The paramilitary RSF has extracted $860m worth from mines it seized in Darfur this year alone. Who's profiting? The UAE.
Gift link and 🧵 of some visual reporting. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/11/w...
Ukrainian intelligence sent about 20 experienced drone operators and about 150 first-person-view drones to the rebel headquarters in Idlib, Syria, four to five weeks ago to help Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the leading rebel group based there, the knowledgeable sources said. The aid from Kyiv played only a modest role in overthrowing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Western intelligence sources believe. But it was notable as part of a broader Ukrainian effort to strike covertly at Russian operations in the Middle East, Africa and inside Russia itself. Ukraine’s covert assistance program in Syria has been an open secret, though senior Biden administration officials said repeatedly in answer to my questions that they weren’t aware of it. Ukraine’s motivation is obvious: Facing a Russian onslaught inside their country, Ukrainian intelligence has looked for other fronts where it can bloody Russia’s nose and undermine its clients.
David Ignatius in the Washington Post: "Ukrainian intelligence sent about 20 experienced drone operators and about 150 first-person-view drones to the rebel headquarters in Idlib, Syria, four to five weeks ago to help Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS)."
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One of the biggest myths of the genocide in Gaza is that if Hamas release hostages there will be a ceasefire. Israel don't want a ceasefire. If the levelling of Gaza and massacre of Palestinians in both Gaza AND the West Bank isn't evidence of that then you're delulu.
Three days after the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and former defence minister Yoav Gallant, Israel’s top general flew to London.
www.declassifieduk.org/israeli-army...
و يشاء ربك ان السنوار ينال الشهادة فى مشهد اسطورى و نتنياهو ينال لقب مجرم حرب مطلوب للعدالة الدولية
Egyptian-Palestinian actor May Calamawy's female lead role has been entirely removed from Gladiator II. The official excuses will likely be the usual: 'unintentional', 'necessary for pacing', and so on. It happened before with Bassem Youssef, a pattern that speaks louder than the blah blah excuses.
THREAD ECO-APARTHEID Gaza is currently experiencing the largest slaughter of men, women and children in decades and a destruction rate that has produced over 40 million tonnes of rubble that will take over a decade to clear.👇
تحس ان البيان الصادر عن الخارجية المصرية بيان طالع من منظمة مجتمع مدني أو من حزب التجمع مثلا، مش بيان من حكومة دولة على وشك ان يكون في عملية عسكرية ضخمة ومفزعة على بعد امتار من حدودها، دولة المفروض انها تمتلك جيش لا بأس به
#قد_الدنيا
فكرتنى بزمان لما نورت تويتر😇
