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“The unmistakable smell of death is everywhere a grisly reminder that the ruins lining the streets hide the remains of mothers, fathers, children.” ... #NZ “When Gaza burned, and children starved, and hospitals collapsed – did you act?” @MFATNZ @NewZealandMFA @chrisluxonmp

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Over 1,000 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank since October 2023. Almost a quarter of the victims were children. Rising violence by Israeli settlers & armed forces is accompanied and fueled by impunity. Meanwhile, de facto annexation continues to accelerate as settlements expand. The International Court of Justice has ruled that the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, is illegal & must cease. International law applies to everyone, everywhere. There can be no exceptions.

Israel is preparing to deploy the “Gaza model” in Lebanon in plain sight — mass ethnic cleansing, annihilation of entire cities and villages, long-term occupation, and perhaps eventually Israeli settlements and annexation. My latest in the Guardian. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

How is the conflict in the Middle East affecting health care in Gaza? The latest escalation is placing growing strain on health systems across the region, continued attacks on healthcare, and increasing public health risks. news.un.org/en/story/2026/…

In Gaza, Palestinians are still living under conditions of precarity and dehumanization, even five months after the ceasefire. 🔹673 Palestinians killed in Israeli military operations since the ceasefire — near deployment lines and far away, in homes, tents, and streets. 🔹Thousands remain missing, buried under rubble or forcibly disappeared. 🔹Aid flow remains unreliable. Many essential goods still blocked. Crossings not dependably open.

BREAKING: The UAE’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has condemned Israel’s attack on Iran’s South Pars gasfield in a rare rebuke since the US-Israeli war on Iran began. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/aoyn5o

BREAKING: Qatar condemns Israeli targeting of natural gas facilities linked to Iran's South Pars field 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/b8762y?update=…

🚨 BREAKING: Israel has struck Iran’s South Pars gas field, the world’s largest natural gas field and a core pillar of Iran’s energy supply. The major escalation comes alongside reported impacts on other oil and petrochemical facilities in the Assaluyeh area of Bushehr province, according to multiple reports. IRGC-linked Tasnim News issued an urgent warning urging people to immediately leave major oil and gas sites in Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar, saying they had become “direct and legitimate targets” that could be struck within hours. They listed: ➤ Samref Refinery — Saudi Arabia ➤ Al Hosn Gas Field — UAE ➤ Jubail Petrochemical Complex — Saudi Arabia ➤ Mesaieed Petrochemical Complex — Qatar ➤ Ras Laffan Refinery — Qatar The report added: “Previously, clear and repeated warnings were given to your rulers about entering this dangerous path and gambling with the fate of their nations.”

A reminder that evacuation orders do not give carte blanch to Israel to bomb civilians or their homes. If civilians cannot or choose not to leave, they still cannot be targeted. Doing so is a war crime.

It's now unarguable that the war on Iran is one of the most blatant crimes of aggression in history. You now have not 1 but 2 external participants of the US-Iran talks (Oman’s foreign minister and the UK's National Security Advisor) who confirm that the US and Israel attacked despite Iran effectively meeting US conditions for a deal - ensuring it could never build a nuclear weapon, permanently. As per The Guardian article (theguardian.com/world/2026/mar…), Jonathan Powell "believed the path remained open to a negotiated solution to the long-running issue of how Iran could reassure the US that it was not seeking a nuclear weapon," and "UK officials [...] were impressed that Iran was prepared for the deal to be permanent." Concretely, this means the war wasn't a failure of diplomacy but a deliberate destruction of it. And it also means that the US and Israel have irresponsibly plunged the entire world in an unprecedented energy crisis, affecting the livelihoods of billions of people worldwide, when it was completely avoidable. It's beyond me how you can look at this and not conclude that the real threat all along wasn't Iran but the US-Israeli axis - they're the only parties at the table who wanted war and are making every person on the planet pay the price for it. Extraordinarily, even the UK National Security Advisor is now basically saying this.

In Beirut, Lebanon, Maryam Srour, our field communication manager, returned to her home in Beirut’s southern suburbs 13 days after Israel’s forced displacement orders. 🎥 Watch as Maryam shows the current situation for displaced people, and describes how our teams are responding.

Read the research, “Profits of War: Top Beneficiaries of Pentagon Spending, 2020 – 2024.” watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/pap…

Between 2020-2024, the U.S. government invested over twice as much money in five weapons companies as it did in diplomacy and international assistance.

Selling weapons of war is such good experience for running a news media organisation. “Christine Zeitz, Deputy Chair of SBS, has over 35 years’ global experience previously holding roles as CEO of Northrop Grumman Australia, CEO of Leidos Australia, Vice President and Managing Director for Australia and Asia Pacific at Lockheed Martin, and President North East Asia of BAE Systems Australia.”

Defence Minister admits that Australia’s Wedgetail aircraft in the UAE is sending information direct to the US Combined Air Operations Centre that controls US airpower across the Middle East. This is not defensive, it’s critical to US attacks across Iran. abc.net.au/news/2026-03-1…

Nearly one in five people in Lebanon have been forced from their homes as Israel launches new ‘ground operations’. aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/17…

After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, effective today. I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby. It has been an honor serving under @POTUS and @DNIGabbard and leading the professionals at NCTC. May God bless America.

📍 Iran | Lives lost, homes destroyed, and daily routines shattered. At a time when families should be preparing for Nowruz, many are instead mourning loved ones. Vincent Cassard, ICRC head of delegation in Tehran, shares. Read more 👉🏽 ms.spr.ly/6013QorMX

"The largest AI firms are not neutral infrastructure providers who happened to find a military customer. They are being integrated into the targeting architecture of modern warfare." share.google/YuxFxPpGQbjBLY…

In @NBCNews, @HeidyKhlaaf underscored that the use of AI speeds up the pace of warfare in ways that undermine accountability for mistakes. Speed "is really a cover for indiscriminate targeting when you consider how inaccurate these models are,” she says. shorturl.at/bVdtn