Rania Abouzeid

Stefan Tarnowski | Plausible Deniability From the sieges within the siege, Palestinian journalists are smeared as terrorists and assassinated by airstrike. Even...

‘Thanks to journalists such as Anas al-Sharif and his colleagues who risked their lives, for over six hundred days the genocide has been live-streamed for the world to see. And yet we are told we must wait for the experts.’

Stefan Tarnowski on Gaza and the media: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/au...

Western journalists are failing to stand up for their colleagues in Gaza | Mohamad Bazzi This hypocrisy of western media has been laid bare by Israel’s targeting of journalists since the 7 October 2023 Hamas attack

“Palestinian journalists like Anas al-Sharif have been able to tell their own people’s story directly to the world. And Israel is methodically killing them for it, while many of their Western colleagues and international journalistic institutions remain shamefully silent”— my latest @theguardian.com

Anas al-Sharif among five Al Jazeera journalists killed by Israel in Gaza Al Jazeera staff killed in targeted Israeli attack on a tent housing journalists near al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza City.

AL JAZEERA: "The order to assassinate Anas Al Sharif, one of Gaza’s bravest journalists, and his colleagues, is a desperate attempt to silence the voices exposing the impending seizure and occupation of Gaza.”

www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/...

How to Prevent More Starvation Deaths in Gaza As Israel refuses to let in sufficient humanitarian aid, a leading expert on famine explains why even “flooding the zone” with food won’t be enough.

Alex de Waal tells @IChotiner that even if humanitarian aid now reaches Gaza, probably thousands of Palestinian children "have got to that stage of severe acute malnutrition where their bodies just can’t digest food."

All happening on the world's watch.

www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

My latest for @ecfr looks at efforts to find 100s of 1000s of Iraqis who are missing.Many are believed to be in mass graves. #Iraq has so many mass graves it has a specialized directorate. It even has a Mass Graves Day.Every number is a person who was part of a family that is integral to a community

Syria’s Alawite communities assembled lists of the dead from three days of killing in March. Pro-government forces looted, burned or vandalized homes, leaving behind menacing graffiti such as this message in the village of Sonobar: 'You were a minority and now you are a rarity' reut.rs/44rr1Tc

EXCLUSIVE: watch the trailer for "Gaza: Doctors Under Attack", the film the BBC didn't want to air. The trailer features, among others, Dr Adnan al Bursh, later killed by Israel.

Zeteo is proud to be airing this documentary to paid subscribers across the world on 2 July at: gazadoctors.film

Opinion: The Iraq war may have ended, but its lingering impact – on the Middle East and beyond – has not America’s invasion of Iraq on March 20, 2003 and the lies underpinning it are perhaps the single most significant development in the Middle East this century

Canada’s Globe and Mail asked me to contribute to their Quarter Mark series, to choose a date from the past 25 years that significantly impacted the Mideast. It wasn’t hard to pinpoint an event - the 2003 US invasion of #Iraq.

www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Who Gets the Guns in Lebanon? As the Lebanese Army tries to assert its authority in the war-torn south, calls to disarm Hezbollah are rising.

@raniaab.bsky.social for @newyorker.com on the latest turn of the Lebanese debate over Hizbullah's arms, as, meanwhile, Israel continues to attack: www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

My latest for The New Yorker looks at the capabilities of the Lebanese army, and how and why they have historically been limited, amid rising calls to disarm Hezbollah #lebanon

This is what passes as a ‘ceasefire’ in sth #Lebanon, where there are near daily Israeli attacks without a word from US & French ceasefire monitors. UN peacekeepers have clocked more than 2,600 Israeli airspace violations, 1,400 military activities & more than 60 airstrikes during the ‘ceasefire'

"Events of the past 12 months – not least Israel’s livestreamed but unheeded genocide of Palestinians in Gaza – have laid bare just how hellish the world can be for so many when the most powerful states jettison international law and disregard multilateral institutions." - Agnès Callamard, Amnesty International’s Secretary General.

Amnesty has long warned of double standards undermining the rules-based order, and the impact of this reached new depths in 2024.

YouTube video by BBC World Service The Forbidden Zone: Why Is Turkey building military bases inside Iraq? - BBC World Service Docs

An important investigation into Turkish military bases inside #Iraq and a hidden war that has killed 100s of people and designated a large swath of northern Iraq a ‘forbidden zone’ - with the Kurdish KDP’s help www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgVU...

The Other Side of Signalgate The Trump Administration’s extraordinary security breach has elicited shock, amusement, and anger. An eyewitness in Yemen describes what happened when the bombs started to fall.

What happened on the other side of Signalgate? An eyewitness says that the U.S.’s attack in Yemen killed women and children, including a newborn baby.

"We are witnessing acts of war in #Gaza that show an utter disregard for human life.”
No aid in over a month. Over 1,000 children killed or injured in a week. Starvation.
Protect civilians. Facilitate aid.
Release hostages. Renew a ceasefire.

Read the joint statement: www.unrwa.org/newsroom/off...

Israeli strike on a school in Gaza kills at least 27 people, Palestinian health officials say Gaza's Health Ministry says an Israeli airstrike has killed at least 27 Palestinians sheltering at a school in northern Gaza and wounded 70 more.

Israeli airstrikes killed at least 100 Palestinians on Thursday, including at least 27 sheltering at a school, Gaza's Health Ministry said.

He was an amateur compared to Matthew Miller et al.

*correction: targets a building near schools. Here’s the aftermath. Strike comes after two crude projectiles were fired from Lebanon, one fell in Lebanese territory, other was intercepted. Hezbollah denied

*correction: targets a building near schools. Here’s the aftermath. Strike comes after two crude projectiles were fired from Lebanon, one fell in Lebanese territory, other was intercepted. Hezbollah denied involvement.

#Israel targets a school in #Beirut, when students are in class during a ceasefire it has violated ~1000 times & killed abt 100 ppl without a peep from US & French-led truce monitoring mechanism. Israeli threat today has ppl scrambling to get kids from school, leave work, traffic jams

*figure of more than 100 dead is from Lebanese media

Witkoff, who told Tucker Carlson he’s pretty sure Lebanon will normalize with an Israel that is still occupying Lebanese territory and has killed more than 100 Lebanese during the ‘ceasefire,’ basically because Trump wants it to. An Israeli drone is over Beirut today….

These are just ppl who have been ID'ed by rescue & health workers who are also being killed in unprecedented numbers despite their targeting being a war crime. UN says 1000s more are dead under the rubble. As UN’s Tom Fletcher noted, in Gaza dogs are “fat” b/c they feed on corpses. Min. 50,000 dead

Netanyahu again orders a complete ban on food, medicine, and other emergency humanitarian aid for people in the Gaza Strip.

This is not only an openly acknowledged war crime, it is the exact same one that made the ICC issue an arrest warrant for him and Gallant last year.

jpost.com/breaking-new...

Israel is tonight threatening to invade the outskirts of the Syrian capital, Damascus

Israeli drones again over #Beirut today, violating Lebanese sovereignty & the ceasefire pact 'monitored' by a silent US & France, after overnight Israeli military strikes on southern #Syria & an Israeli drone strike y'day that killed 2 in #Lebanon, adding to ~50 Lebanese killed since 'ceasefire'

Rules for thee, not for me. The "rules-based" order

US apparently only has 2 diplomats on Gaza. One quit. “I got so tired of writing about dead kids. Just constantly having to prove to Washington that these children actually died & then watching nothing happen ... We don’t have a policy on Palestine. We just do what the Israelis want us to do”