MiddleEastInFocus
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The US escalated its military campaign in Iran, striking deeper inside the country as local media reported that infrastructure including bridges, a railway and an airport had been hit by American forces. ft.trib.al/M6xH8An
⭕️ NEW: Palestinian journalist and Drop Site contributor Mujahed al-Saadi has been freed after nearly two years in Israeli prison without charge or trial. Israeli special forces arrested al-Saadi at his Jenin home on Sept. 19, 2024, breaking down the door and beating him before taking him away from his wife and three young children. He was repeatedly held under administrative detention. A veteran reporter who has covered Jenin since 2012, al-Saadi was standing near Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh when an Israeli sniper killed her in 2022. 🎥 al-Saadi gets his children and ailing father after being released.
I’ve written a book about my time as President. It’s called PROMISE ME, AMERICA. It’s coming out November 17th and is available for preorder now. promisemeamerica.com @littlebrown
Ro Khanna said he was detained by Israeli settlers armed with US-made rifles during a West Bank visit this week that the Democratic lawmaker cast as an unfiltered look at the toll of Israeli occupation as he weighs a 2028 presidential run reut.rs/4fc1vXG
A doctor who saved lives in #Gaza is now fighting for his own. Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya - detained without charges for over 500 days- is reportedly being tortured & at an imminent risk of death in Israeli detention. Abu Safiya is among 14 Gaza doctors (pediatricians, surgeons & other specialists) who remain detained without charge, many for more than a year. Their continued detention deprives patients of vital care & further undermines Gaza’s shattered healthcare system. Their release is essential to saving lives + restoring Gaza’s shattered healthcare system. @DrTedros
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President Trump's financial disclosures yesterday showed that one big reason for his soaring income was a big payout from a UAE company. I hope that's not the reason he has been quiet about the UAE backing the RSF militia in Sudan as it engages in mass murder and mass rape. The RSF is now poised to overrun the city of El Obeid and massacre many thousands more people. Trump could avert these mass atrocities by insisting that the UAE tell its pet militia to back off. Will he?
Israeli forces have killed over 20,000 children & injured 44,000 more since 7 Oct. 2023, Srinivasan Muralidhar, chair of the @UN Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory & Israel, told reporters today. #HRC62 More on their new report ➡️ bit.ly/4uXq9kD
Breaking: Palestinian journalist Ahmed Wishah has just been killed in an Israeli airstrike on the central Gaza Strip. Ahmed's Wishah, Muhammed, was also killed in an Israeli strike on Gaza around two months ago.
If you were to write this headline or article in a variety of US, UK, German or French media outlets, your career might be on the line and you’d probably be accused of antisemitism. And yet the author of this piece is a former prime minister for Israel. haaretz.com/opinion/2026-0…
Palestinian Center for Prisoners Advocacy: Israeli Supreme Court Decision Marks a Dangerous Continuation of Arbitrary Detention Against Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya The Palestinian Center for Prisoners Advocacy condemns the Israeli Supreme Court’s decision to reject the appeal submitted regarding the detention of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya and to approve the continuation of his detention under the so-called “Unlawful Combatants Law,” without presenting any charges against him or filing an indictment. The Center affirms that this decision constitutes a clear violation of international humanitarian law and the Geneva Conventions, which provide special protection for medical personnel during armed conflicts and prohibit their targeting or arbitrary detention for carrying out their humanitarian and professional duties. The Center notes that Dr. Abu Safiya remains held in solitary confinement at Nafha Prison under harsh and degrading detention conditions, while being denied necessary medical treatment and the most basic fundamental rights guaranteed to prisoners and detainees. The Center holds the Israeli occupation authorities fully responsible for the life and safety of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, and calls for his immediate release, the provision of urgent medical care, and an end to the policy of arbitrary detention against medical and humanitarian personnel. The Center also calls on international human rights institutions, foremost among them the International Committee of the Red Cross, the World Health Organization, and the United Nations Special Rapporteurs, to urgently intervene and pressure the Israeli authorities to end his unlawful detention and ensure respect for the protections granted to medical personnel under international law.
