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jane arraf
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Journalist. happily back reporting for NPR, former NYT, Christian Science Monitor, Jazeera English, CNN, Reuters in lots of places. Currently based in Mideast
Katılım Mayıs 2009
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💢 After Israel massacred 357 people in a single day in Lebanon, and amid escalating European backlash, pro-Israel accounts have begun “discovering” copies of Adolf Hitler’s autobiography in Lebanon, like they did in Gaza at the height of Israel’s genocide and starvation campaign.
Lebanon’s Health Ministry said Wednesday’s strikes killed 357 and wounded 1,223, part of a wave of attacks that hit around 100 sites across the country within ten minutes, including central Beirut. Since March 2, at least 1,953 people have been killed, more than 6,300 wounded, and roughly 1.2 million displaced.
The strikes came just hours after a U.S.-Iran ceasefire announcement, that was stated to include Lebanon. European leaders have also said the truce should extend to Lebanon. The European Commission condemned the attacks as an “unacceptable threat to civilian lives,” while EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said it is “hard to argue that such heavy-handed actions fall within self-defense.” French officials have called the strikes “disproportionate” and are pushing to reopen discussions on suspending or revising the EU-Israel Association Agreement, with Spain backing calls to suspend the pact outright.
Mossad Commentary@MOSSADil
🚨 FOUND IN A LEBANESE HOME: MEIN KAMPF — IN ARABIC IDF troops discovered a copy of Hitler’s Mein Kampf in Arabic inside a home in Lebanon. ‼️For anyone still asking why Israel is operating there, this your answer.
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Absolute bombshell. Dr Éveline Hitti, chair of the emergency department at the American University of Beirut completely shatters Israel's fake narrative of targeting combatants. She reveals that while less than 1% of casualties in Ukraine are children, in Lebanon it is 14%, and in Gaza a staggering 30%. Pure evil exposed.
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Dear CNN,
In the English language, we start sentences/titles w a subject, then a verb, then an object.
As in, "Israel shot Palestinian child."
If your editors need further help with the English language, i'm here for you.
Sincerely, a native speaker of the English language.
Falastin Flip@TOliveFern
when you can’t just say that Israeli forces shot a child
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It took Israel only 10 minutes to carry out one of the worst mass-killings in Lebanon since the end of the country’s civil war in 1990.
Lebanese are still searching for loved ones under rubble and in hospital morgues.
Hospitals are overwhelmed with patients, many of them children. “I thought they bombed a school at first,” the head of a hospital in Beirut said.
theguardian.com/world/2026/apr…?
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In the last 3 (!) negotiations with Iran, the U.S.-Israel have killed the negotiators, including Kamal Kharrazi, 81, who died from his injuries today. His wife was almost killed.
Israel also killed Hamas negotiators every chance they got. We are the least self aware people to ever live.
Ari Fleischer@AriFleischer
There is good reason to worry about the safety of our negotiators in Pakistan. The country is armed and dangerous and the government is not fully in control. Previous high level visits were short and they involved decoy aircraft, as when then-President Clinton surreptitiously changed airplanes so no one would know which one he was on. The USSS did not like President Bush going there in 2006. The Secret Service will be tested this trip. So too will the military that supports this mission. Pray for the safety of our negotiators, including the VP, and for their success.
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BREAKING: More details come into view. #Israel’s Security Cabinet has reportedly approved 34 new settlements, further entrenching its unlawful presence deep within the occupied State of #Palestine. The secrecy surrounding the decree appears calibrated, not for domestic necessity, but to spare discomfort among allies in the region, Europe and the United States.
The ICJ Advisory Opinion on the Legal Consequences of the Occupation of Palestinian Territory (2024) was unambiguous. Israel is under an obligation to bring its unlawful presence to an end, unconditionally and without delay. Third States are under a corresponding duty not to aid or assist in maintaining that situation, and to cooperate to bring it to an end.
Yet the response has been one of studied inaction. The Court spoke with clarity; the world replied with silence. Israel, reading that silence for what it is, has chosen not restraint, but acceleration of its colonization efforts.
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Aljazeera is an international broadcaster, with bureaus in London, Asia, Qatar, Washington, EU, Kenya, Johannesburg, like you. Nobody ever says "France-based AFP News" because you are international. Or "US-based CNN" or "UK-based BBC," or "Toronto-based Reuters." So weird.
AFP News Agency@AFP
Qatar-based Al Jazeera condemned the Sunday killing of one of its journalists in an Israeli strike on Gaza, calling the death a "targeted killing" in a statement. u.afp.com/Sbv5
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If they relay the facts, accurately and objectively, there is a deluge of pressure from the Israel lobby. Phone calls, emails - it’s extraordinary. And organised.
This is the ‘electric fence’ approach to media monitoring and management, as Nick Davies calls it. You disincentivise accuracy, or even just covering stories. Even the smallest thing gets a response (like a small shock from a fence). Producers know there are costs for covering Israel, so they calculate ‘let’s leave it this time’.
It’s not excusable, but it’s explicable. For the BBC, however, which is public service journalism, and which we all pay for, it’s unacceptable.
Hamza Yusuf@Hamza_a96
Israel ruthlessly carpet bombed Lebanon today, killing at least 180 people and injuring more than 800. How does the BBC report it? “Israel says it hit more than 100 command centres and military sites in 10 minutes…” This is how war crimes are laundered.
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They've killed nearly every journalist in Gaza but it's not enough. They relentlessly hunt down those that remain and those that take their place.
RIP Mohammad.
Mustafa Barghouti @Mustafa_Barghouti@MustafaBarghou1
The Israeli army killed the Palestinian journalist Mohammad Samir Washah, a correspondent for Al Jazeera Mubasher, in an Israeli strike that targeted a vehicle west of Gaza City.
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It's impossible to overstate the insane hubris required to believe that God is intervening in human history to protect the bombing runs you order.
Acyn@Acyn
Hegseth: God deserves all the glory. Tens of thousands of strikes carried out under the protection of divine providence. A massive effort with miraculous protection. God is good.
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“He struck her with his weapon; her head hit the wall. I told him, ‘She’s dead,’ and he said, ‘Take her to the hospital,’ and they left.”
— Hajj Walid Shamasneh, mourning his wife Sabriya, recounts how Israeli forces killed her in Qalqilya last night.
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This is the largest number of Israeli airstrikes at once on Beirut since the beginning of the war. #Lebanon
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Lebanese circulating pictures of children found in rubble of buildings struck by Israel without warning, asking if anyone recognizes them to please get in contact.
The wave of Israeli strikes has plunged the country into chaos in scenes reminiscent of the pager attacks in 2024.
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The ceasefire applies to Lebanon and the Israel-Hezbollah war. Iranian officials, Pakistani mediators, and even Israeli officials have confirmed this.
Rogue state Israel is simply violating the ceasefire.
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When you feel stupid, remember that María Corina Machado gave her Nobel Peace Prize to the guy who today threatens to destroy an entire civilization with nuclear bombs..
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It's absolutely unethical what some #Kurdish media outlets do with the grieving children of the couple who died in last night's drone strike. Showing them constantly & asking them about "Daya & Baba" will deepen their trauma.
These are children, not content. Have some decency.
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