Maya Gebeily

Our investigation into the Oct. 13 strike that killed our beloved Issam Abdallah, & wounded 6 other journalists, has found an Israeli tank fired 2x at them, with munition produced by Israel, from within Israel. The Israeli military killed Issam Abdallah. reuters.com/graphics/ISRAE…

I’m back on here strictly to share my work. For y’all who don’t know, I’m a journalist covering Arabic music and the emerging wave of artists in the Middle East, North Africa, and its global diaspora communities. Here are some stories I’ve worked on to give y’all an idea:

Israeli strikes kill six Lebanese medics in 24 hours, health ministry says - reuters.com/world/middle-e…

Lebanon's finance minister tells @NazihOsseiran & @BassamLail economy is projected to shrink by 7-10% & could lose $20bln due to the devastating war b/w Israel & Hezbollah. Worries that usual lifelines of tourism & Gulf remittances won't suffice this time reuters.com/world/middle-e…

Excited to join @TimepDC as a Nonresident Fellow focusing on Surveillance & Technology in the MENA region. My work will focus on surveillance technologies, spyware ecosystems, governance dynamics shaping civic space, security practices, and human rights across Egypt and region.

The sources said Saudi Arabia made Iran aware of the strikes and this was followed by intensive diplomatic engagement and Saudi threats to retaliate further, which led to an understanding between the two countries to de-escalate. Full story here: reuters.com/world/asia-pac…

EXCLUSIVE — Saudi Arabia launched numerous, unpublicized strikes on Iran in retaliation for attacks carried out in the kingdom during the Middle East war, two Western officials briefed on the matter and two Iranian officials said. W/@PHREUTERS

Over 100 strikes on Lebanon in 24 hours. Civilians killed. Families displaced. We are doing everything to get support to those who need it. But what people need most is a genuine ceasefire.

Come work with me! A really cool job just opened up on our international investigations team at The New York Times for a reporter specializing in OSINT, with lots of room for different skillsets  job-boards.greenhouse.io/thenewyorktime…

Evolving drone war in southern Lebanon clouds Iran peace prospects @GebeilyM @MaayanLubell reuters.com/world/middle-e…

🔍🇱🇧 Après toute cette polémique, les preuves de la destruction du couvent des sœurs salvatoriennes de Yaroun sont désormais établies, à travers deux enquêtes conjointes que nous avons publiées dans Libération. Au-delà des campagnes de désinformation et des menaces entourant la couverture médiatique de ce bâtiment des religieuses, c’est avant toute chose le village de Yaroun qui a été en grande partie rasé. Un sort qui rejoint celui de nombreuses autres localités frontalières du sud du Liban.

Inside #Israel's #AI targeting system: How data from a phone become a death sentence latimes.com/world-nation/s…

Congrats to @Reuters photojournalists for being named a @pulitzerprizes finalist for Breaking News Photography for their coverage of the immigration crackdown in the U.S.

I will never forget this moment in Lebanon's war. I was 12 years old and it pierced my heart when I read about it in local news and I think also in Paris Match. A quote that stuck to me from that magazine report is an anguished woman imploring the Christian militiamen to shoot the moon which was full and lighting up the sky as people were trying to get on boats under the cover of darkness and flee Syrian army shelling.

Israeli forces have carried out over 100 events of property destruction targeting critical infrastructure across southern #Lebanon since the 17 April ceasefire. Our latest map shows damage concentrated within the Yellow Line: acleddata.com/expert-comment…

"Hezbollah has paid a heavy price for going to war with Israel on March 2: Israel has occupied a chunk of southern Lebanon, displaced hundreds of thousands of its Shi'ite Muslim constituents and killed as many as several thousand of its fighters, ​according to previously unreported casualty estimates from within the group." Amazing details in this story by colleagues @GebeilyM @BassamLail and Tom Perry reuters.com/world/asia-pac…

As war nears two months, displaced Lebanese family sinks into despair - reuters.com/world/middle-e…

While demolishing thousands of homes in Lebanon, the IDF is also destroying infrastructure that is critical for people’s survival Deliberately & extensively destroying civilian objects without military necessity is wanton destruction, a war crime

#Lebanon: The Israeli military’s obstruction of medical crews from rescuing wounded civilians is a brutal and recurring crime we have already witnessed in Gaza and now again in Lebanon. Amal Khalil, an unarmed journalist, remained trapped under the rubble for more than seven hours while the Red Cross and Lebanese military was prevented from reaching her. This murder must be a wake-up call for the international community to enforce international law, urgently investigate Israel’s 262 killings of journalists and media workers across the region, and hold all those responsible to account.

A destroyed school, water station, playground and mosque. This is some of the destruction we saw in Debinne , a village that has been completely flattened by Israel, like many villages across the deep south. We’ve been working on a full package on Israel’s “buffer zone” doctrine in Lebanon for @TheNationalNews , based on several reporting trips near the so-called “yellow line” - a belt of dozens of villages stretching roughly 5–7 kilometres from the border with Israel. More to come.