‘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...

“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

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/...

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

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...

@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'

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

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...

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 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 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

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”

While many Syrians are celebrating the fall of a dictator, searching for loved ones in prisons, Israel has invaded #Syria and snatched more land, said it wont return the Israeli-occupied Syrian Golan Heights, and undertaken 100s of attacks on Syrian military infrastructure in the past few days

My quick look at the momentous news from #Syria, for @newyorker.com www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

oh, that was my TIME story. I remember that IED workshop #syria

Q&A with Aron Lund & Sam Heller about #Syria-n opposition factions' rapid advance into Aleppo, Hama and their push toward Damascus

CNN’s Jomana Karadsheh Scott interviews HTS leader Abu Mohammad al-Jolani about his push toward Damascus & plans #syria edition.cnn.com/2024/12/06/m...

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Israel is responding to Hezbollah’s response with reported strikes on areas in south Lebanon. A drone is also back in Beirut’s skies for the first time since Saturday.

Israel has violated the ceasefire numerous times since Nov. 27, and now Hezbollah fires what it calls a warning shot targeting an Israeli military post that resulted in no casualties. The days-old truce is in danger of collapsing. #Lebanon

Seeing Syrian armed groups being called ‘rebels.’ HTS, its leader Jolani (fmr Al-Qaeda) & its allies inc fighters from Turkistan are the guys who defeated most rebels in yrs of intra-opposition fighting. They're anti-Assad, opposition, but not ‘the rebels' which was always a problematic term #syria

Israeli drone is back over #Beirut.

Lebanon’s Ministry of Public Health releases latest casualty figures of the war: Almost 4,000 people killed, more than 16,500 wounded. On Tuesday, the day before the fragile ceasefire came into effect, 78 people were killed. #lebanon

Ceasefire, the view from #Lebanon soon after it came into effect at 4am

And another airstrike on #Beirut moments after Biden ends his speech announcing a ceasefire that will take effect at 4am local time. Airstrikes in other parts of the country, too. It’s going to be a long night #Lebanon.

Traffic jams on roads leading out of #Beirut as Israel bombs targets across country after >20 strikes already. The hours before a possible ceasefire are among most dangerous. In 2006 war, UN said 90% of Israeli cluster bombs dropped in last 72 hours, an act it called ‘immoral’ #lebanon

The #Beirut skyline at the moment following multiple Israeli airstrikes #lebanon

Aftermath of #Israel -i strikes on #Beirut #Lebanon overnight

It’s 4am in Beirut. Multiple huge Israeli airstrikes on something #lebanon

This morning, Israeli evacuation threats have targeted two residential buildings in #Beirut that are near a supermarket, a sweets store, a shop selling clothes, and a mall. #Lebanon

My latest for @newyorkermag presents a kaleidoscope of views & experiences portraying the price many Lebanese are paying in this war,from steadfast Hezbollah supporters to others in heavily targeted areas who question the group’s actions, to those caught in-between www.newyorker.com/news/dispatc...

Fairuz, #Lebanon’s icon, turns 90 on a day that the skies again taste of fire & smoke.“From my heart a greeting of peace to Beirut. She is wine from the spirit of the people, she is bread & jasmine from their sweat, so how did she come to taste of fire and smoke?” youtu.be/Qp_Z0PyrDzI?...