Death toll from Israeli attacks today at #Lebanon reached 21
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Journalist with focus on Arab world, including Palestine for @therightsforum.bsky.social. Previously lived in Cairo, now Netherlands. Author of two books on Egypt ('Nu de wereld niet meer kijkt' en 'Alexandrië').
Death toll from Israeli attacks today at #Lebanon reached 21
Massale gedwongen evacuaties, inzet van herbiciden en witte fosfor, en plannen voor een etnisch gezuiverde grenszone: Israël past #Gaza-doctrine van totale vernietiging toe op #Libanon @therightsforum.bsky.social rightsforum.org/israel-past-...
And Lebanon’s Ministry of Social Affairs said about 780,000 people have registered as displaced since the escalation began
Seven killed, 11 injured in more Israeli attacks on southern #Lebanon, health ministry says aje.news/apjw94?updat...
Massale gedwongen evacuaties, inzet van herbiciden en witte fosfor, en plannen voor een etnisch gezuiverde grenszone: Israël dreigt van Libanon een volgend Gaza te maken. https://rightsforum.org/israel-past-gaza-doctrine-van-totale-vernietiging-toe-op-libanon/
Israeli air strikes in central #Gaza killed three people on March 8, including two children, says Doctors without Borders #MSF aje.news/4oungf?updat...
Four Iranian diplomats killed in Israeli attack in #Lebanon on Sunday in 'terrorist attack', says #Iran's #UN ambassador. And indeed, the deliberate killing of diplomats would in basically any other case widely be regarded as terrorism aje.news/4oungf?updat...
‘Door solidair te zijn met Palestina leren we hoe we moeten vechten voor het leven op aarde’, zei schrijver Sally Rooney in een van de toespraken op het Volkscongres voor The Hague Group, zaterdag in Amsterdam.
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Schrijver Sally Rooney moedigde medeschrijvers en artiesten aan zich uit te blijven spreken tegen #genocide, ‘om deel te nemen aan iets dat groter is dan onszelf, om mee te strijden voor de bevrijding van de mensheid’. rightsforum.org/mondiale-sol...
Israeli shelling at #GazaCity and #KhanYounis killed three Palestinian children, Hind Khoudary reports aje.news/4oungf?updat...
Egypt raises fuel prices by up to 30 percent, blaming “exceptional” global energy pressures caused by the Middle East war aje.news/4oungf?updat...
And in order to mitigate effects on population, gov is expected to announce a raise of the minimum wage. For more info: enterpriseam.com/egypt/2026/0...
'canceling government events, reducing official travel, and curtailing training courses. The committee also agreed to review fuel consumption, implement plans to govern street and billboard lighting, and work to reduce the imported volume of non-essential finished goods.'
Egypt's currency, the EGP continued weakening against the greenback yesterday, inching closer to 53 per USD, hitting a fresh low just days after sliding past the 52 mark for the very first time, while PM Madbouly announced gov budget cuts, such as ->
Reverberations of US/Israeli - #Iran war: #Egypt hiked fuel prices overnight citing the “exceptional situation resulting from the geopolitical developments in the #MiddleEast region and their direct effects on global energy markets.”
Lebanon’s Health Ministry reports that since Israeli attacks began on the country on March 2, at least 486 people have been killed and 1,313 wounded aje.news/a49wlz?updat...
Today, one Palestinian was killed and others were injured after an Israeli quadcopter drone dropped a bomb on a group of civilians near Kashkoush Street in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, southeast of #GazaCity, Wafa reports english.wafa.ps/Pages/Detail...
It never stopped: Journalist Amal Shamali, working for Qatar Radio, was on of six people killed in an Israeli airstrike at tents for displaced people in central #Gaza overnight english.palinfo.com/news/2026/03...
At least 83 children killed (by #Israel) in #Lebanon in past 7 days: UNICEF aje.news/a49wlz?updat...
To never forget the atrocities Israel committed in #Gaza (and beyond): Israeli snipers shot and killed three brothers as they crawled towards a hospital in Gaza seeking medical help, a harrowing new investigation has found www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m...
This too is a war crime
The American public overwhelmingly opposes Trump and Israel's war on Iran.
Among IR scholars, the opposition is even stronger:
86% oppose, of which 70% expressing strong opposition.
Only 10 % support the attack on Iran.
foreignpolicy.com/2026/03/06/i...
Human Rights Watch investigation found that #Israel unlawfully used artillery-fired white phoshorus munitions over homes in southern #Lebanon last week www.hrw.org/news/2026/03...
Israel killed at least 12 people in overnight strikes on southern #Lebanon, L'Orient LeJour reports today.lorientlejour.com/article/1498...
‘Vermoedelijk’
Two Palestinians were killed and others wounded Sunday evening in an Israeli airstrike that targeted a group of civilians in the al-Katiba area, west of #Gaza City, Wafa reports english.wafa.ps/Pages/Detail...
‘Een fijne samenleving? Pas als de autochtone bevolking weer in de meerderheid is.’
Racistische creep.
Death toll from Israeli attacks in #Lebanon today reached 45, and stands at 339 since Monday aje.news/ozn6u2?updat...
A 27-year-old Palestinian man shot dead by Israeli settler in occupied #WestBank, the third murder of a Palestinian by settlers in less than a week aje.news/ozn6u2?updat...
Yesterday, a 13-year-old Palestinian child was shot and killed by Israeli army fire in the northern #GazaStrip, and a man was killed by Israeli army gunfire in Shujaya, east of #GazaCity english.wafa.ps/Pages/Detail...