Catherine Cornet

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Catherine Cornet

Catherine Cornet

@catherinecornet

Italy, Middle East - Journalist and researcher- prof at @Life_at_AUR

Rome Katılım Ekim 2009
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Golineh Atai
Golineh Atai@GolinehAtai·
Knowing about the world is not a luxury. It is a necessity. After layoffs at @washingtonpost now AFP wants to reduce expatriate positions by 2/3. Don’t be surprised: Soon activists and lobbyists, living comfortably in the West, will replace foreign correspondents reporting from crisis regions. It’s already happening. lemonde.fr/en/opinion/art…
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Frances 'Cassandra' Coppola
Frances 'Cassandra' Coppola@Frances_Coppola·
Read this. All of it.
Paolo Mossetti@paolomossetti

💥 If you read one thing today, make it this story by Italian journalist Lorenzo D’Agostino — captured aboard the Global Sumud Flotilla: beaten, blindfolded, mocked with homophobic slurs, and held half-naked in freezing vans and scorching cells. According to D’Agostino and multiple accounts, Israeli forces subjected Greta to severe cruelty, forcing her to crawl and kiss the Israeli flag. “They did exactly what the Nazis did,” said Ersin Çelik, a member of the Global Sumud Flotilla. They publicly humiliated her and targeted her specifically because she’s a well-known figure. It appears that the Italian state, government, and parts of the Church tried to stop the Flotilla not to prevent an armed clash with Netanyahu, but to avoid the media exposure of a country increasingly radicalized and indefensible — except through repressive laws — and to suppress reports of egregious human rights violations. "We were intercepted at 1:58 a.m. on Thursday. On my boat, the Hio, part of the Global Sumud Flotilla mission, five Israeli soldiers boarded with rifles pointed at us, lasers aimed. Exactly one month after our departure from Barcelona. On board, the soldiers allowed us to go to the bathroom, eat, drink, and smoke. Then they redirected the boat toward the port of Ashdod. We stayed moored for a couple of hours. Before letting us disembark, one soldier wanted to speak to our captain: “My friend, my friend, listen to me, you’ll like this one: when dwarfs cast long shadows, it means the sun is low.” That was the last thing he said. As we disembarked, someone from the other boats shouted, “The police will be worse.” As soon as I stepped onto land, an officer grabbed my arm, twisting it behind my back to cause maximum pain. They made us sit on the ground, on a concrete esplanade. Greta Thunberg was wrapped in the Israeli flag like a war trophy. They sat her in a corner; officers surrounded her, taking selfies. Then they turned on another girl, Hanan, forcing her to sit in front of the flag so she’d have to look at it. They kicked people, ordered us to lower our heads and look at the ground — anyone who looked up was forced to kneel. An older activist wet himself. Anything associated with Palestine was ripped away, thrown to the ground, and trampled. They tore bracelets off everyone’s wrists; one girl was dragged because hers wouldn’t break. It wasn’t even the Palestinian flag — it was Somali. We stayed on the concrete for hours. They asked for Italian passports and took us through immigration control. There they opened our bags: anything linked to Palestine was thrown in the trash. When they found a copy of the Quran in my bag, they went berserk — convinced I was Muslim. For two hours, every officer passing by mocked me. In my toiletry bag they found pink wet wipes and laughed, saying “you’re a woman.” They slapped each other’s backs, amused. After border control, they forced us to strip down to our underwear. We went through two interrogations — only one with a lawyer present. They asked if we wanted to be deported. Then came the announcement: we were going to jail. That’s when Itamar Ben Gvir, Israel’s Minister of National Security, arrived. He came to Ashdod to make sure we were treated as terrorists. He screamed it at us — that we were terrorists. Right in front of him, the police wanted to show their zeal: they blindfolded us and tightened plastic handcuffs around our wrists until they cut into the skin. They loaded us into an armored vehicle wearing only light shirts. The air conditioning was blasting; it was freezing. A Scottish boy managed to loosen his cuffs and, with help from an Italian named Marco, released the others. When we saw the others getting off, their hands were purple. Some had been tied since the interception — traveling to prison with their hands bound from 2 a.m. to 4 p.m. (1/2)

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susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى
nearly 30% of the population of Amsterdam, an estimated quarter of a million people, flood the streets of the city wearing red in solidarity with Palestine.
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Suppressed News.
Suppressed News.@SuppressedNws1·
⚡️🇫🇷JUST IN: Massive ongoing protests right now in Place de la République in Paris, France, in support of the Global Sumud Flotilla and Palestine.
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Ounka
Ounka@OunkaOnX·
Solidarity is surging as people globally rally in support of the Global Sumud Flotilla following the illegal Israeli interception.
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Fonsi Loaiza
Fonsi Loaiza@FonsiLoaiza·
El pueblo de Nápoles en Italia se acaba de echar a la calle ahora mismo en defensa de la Flotilla en solidaridad con el pueblo de Palestina.
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Ounka
Ounka@OunkaOnX·
URGENT — Brussels: A spontaneous protest has erupted in support of the Global Sumud Flotilla as Israeli forces begin interception. After gathering at Place de la Bourse, demonstrators are now marching toward the Foreign Ministry.
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Tamer | تامر
Tamer | تامر@tamerqdh·
“ارفعوا أيديكم” لحظة وثقها صحفي جريء عند صعود قراصنة الجيش الإسرائيلي على أحد سفن الصمود، والاستيلاء علي السفينة واختطاف من عليه . تم الاستيلاء على أربع سفن واختطاف من عليها من أصل 44 سفينة.
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عربي بوست
عربي بوست@arabic_post·
📷 تظاهرة في مدينة قيصري بتركيا، تنديدًا بقرصنة الاحتلال لسفن أسطول الصمود.
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Free Alaa
Free Alaa@FreedomForAlaa·
Sanaa Seif updates Press outside St Thomas’ Hospital in London as her mother, Laila is fighting to stay alive for the freedom of Alaa. You can take action to support the campaign by writing to your MP at freealaa.net or organising an action where you are now. We are calling on @DavidLammy and @Keir_Starmer to act NOW as there are no more days left.
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Hamdah Salhut
Hamdah Salhut@hamdahsalhut·
The agreement.
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Sylvain Mercadier
Sylvain Mercadier@Sylv_Mercadier·
Hi Everyone, Today, alongside my fixer Mohammed al Fayyad, I was arrested by the Israeli army in the village of Hamidiye . We were handcuffed and blindfolded, brought to the governorate's house (muhafaza) and misstreated for more than 4 hours. We were threatened and humiliated
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