apnews.com/article/gaza... After brief return home, a family in Gaza is forced by war to flee again

apnews.com/article/isra... Israeli use of human shields in Gaza was systematic, soldiers and former detainees tell the AP

The sound of hunger apnews.com/article/maln... Gaza's main hospital is overwhelmed with children in pain from malnutrition

It’s been a while

Witnesses say hundreds are still unable, afraid to go back home #Syria coast apnews.com/article/syri... - our report - with Bassem Mroue

AP roundup of the violence and massacres on the Syrian coast, by Bassem Mroue and Sarah el Deeb. @seldeeb.bsky.social @bmroue.bsky.social @apnews.com apnews.com/article/syri...

Arab leaders in Cairo endorse #Gaza recovery and reconstruction plan put together by #Egypt, call for UN peacekeeping mission, support an essential #UNRWA role, prioritize Ceasefire implementation and a Palestinian-led technocratic committee to administer #Gaza.

@roba-hus.bsky.social digs into Maher #Assad fourth division going thru documents tunnels and speaking to witnesses to reveal the state with a state and the what it left behind #Syria www.al-monitor.com/originals/20...

What a day to return to #Beirut apnews.com/article/leba... Masses of mourners attend the funeral of Hezbollah leader Nasrallah, 5 months after his killing

Do you have #electriccars charging stations in #Syria? Yes, we also have many types of #electric cars and electric charging stations. These stations are located in #Idlib and #Hama. Soon it will be in #Damascus and all #Syrian provinces.

apnews.com/article/syri... Inside Bashar Assad's detention centers, where 'death was the least bad thing'

apnews.com/article/gaza... In Gaza's crowded tent camps, women wrestle with a life stripped of privacy

apnews.com/article/syri... Now Syria's long-ruling Baath party is collapsing, too

Azan of Damascus

Merry Xmas - Bab sharqi

2nd Friday in the square- #syria post #Assad

More city lights #Damascus

City lights #Damascus

apnews.com/article/syri... Alone and broke against a renewed insurgency, is #Assad's rule in #Syria about to collapse?

Who is the man leading the shock offensive that has revived #Syria’s insurgency apnews.com/article/syri... #al-Golani @chehayebk.bsky.social

Drone back in Beirut.

apnews.com/article/leba... Displaced families in Lebanon who return home are faced with piles of rubble - Bassem Mroue and Lujain Jo

apnews.com/article/syri... Syrian insurgents launch large-scale attack on government forces in the country's northwest

How the city has emptied #Beirut

Meanwhile, syrian opposition fighters launched a wide scale offensive on government and allied troops in northwestern Syria. 🧐

So good to wake up to no drones in the skies and no threats of attacks #Beirut

Ceasefire went into effect. So many feelings but first and foremost: tired. People are tired. Thousands of cars heading south from displacement to check on their homes. #Lebanon

Another massive explosion heard all over #Beirut. Not in suburbs. Location to be determined. One single loud blast. No prior warning

apnews.com/article/leba... #Lebanon's Shiite Muslims pay high price in war between #Israel and #Hezbollah @chehayebk.bsky.social and Bassem Mroue

Interested in learning/teaching a/b the media environment w/ regards to MENA/SWANA may I recommend (as a start): Zahra Hankir's "Our Women on the Ground" Noah Amir Arjomand's "Fixing Stories" Marc Owen Jones "Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East" Anita Gohdes "Repression in the Digital Age"

Massive airstrikes rock Beirut - smell everywhere. Ambulances heard all over city.

“There is nothing more just than the war that Israel has been waging in Gaza.” #Israel PM says after the ICC arrest warrant against him

Israeli Airstrikes resume in #Beirut suburbs - at 3am in the morning. Explosions heard across the city. (Hours after US envoy leaves #Lebanon)

In last 10 days, at least 26 children were killed in #Lebanon. Here is a report from last week apnews.com/article/92c8...

Some Hamas officials have arrived in Turkey but "not clear if permanent or temporary" A Turkish official denies that the Hamas office was to relocate to Turkey and that "Hamas officials occasionally visit Turkey" www.ft.com/content/66a2...

2 Huge explosions in Beirut - location to be determined

"According to some experts, what is happening in Gaza has the characteristics of a genocide. It should be carefully investigated to determine whether it fits into the technical definition formulated by jurists and international bodies." -Pope Francis www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...

Today, Egypt's House of Representatives approved, in principle, the country's first-ever law to govern asylum seekers and refugees. The draft is highly problematic and is being rushed through a process lacking transparency and consultation. More in this 🧵.

After a day of widening air strikes in #Lebanon’s Beirut and Dahieh, we wake up to much anticipation and talk of (US envoy) Hochestein’s expected visit and a cease fire proposal #israel. We also expect more rain and schools that were still open will close for the day.

Hezbollah spokesman killed in rare Israeli strike on central Beirut, official says

While Israel’s highly regarded security and intelligence services were clearly caught flatfooted by Hamas’ ability to breach its Gaza defenses, the group appears to have hidden its extensive preparations for the deadly assault in plain sight apnews.com/article/aa0b...

Since Feb this year, scenes of death, destruction, and despair; images of destroyed homes, flooded and bombed cities and orphaned children and broken families are so recurrent in the Middle East that- they are starting to fade into one another. Heartbreaking and hopeless reality

How and why? The Hamas assault on Israel. (By Mouin Rabbani) www.jadaliyya.com/Details/45375

MAJOR!! Where is this heading? How far will it spread? What’s the end game?

Tomorrow, opposition leader @hishamkassem stands in front of court for his first appeal on the 6-month verdict he received on false charges. His imprisonment during the presidential race highlights Egyptian regime's disregard for human rights and democracy. #FreeHishamKassem

Narges Mohammadi wins Nobel while in prison. Farnaz Fassihi of the NYT spoke to her while behind bars www.nytimes.com/2023/06/02/w... apnews.com/article/776c...