An AUB doctor told me he hasn’t seen anything like this since the 2020 port explosion. “It’s chaos inside. It isn’t just men. Women and children too. A woman has had her whole face disfigured”.

Amnesty: Tunisian authorities have stepped up their clampdown on the rights to freedom of expression and association ahead of elections, arresting 97 members of the opposition Ennahda party: amnesty.org/en/latest/news… #Tunisia

PSA: If you don't trust an arms recipient with 2,000-pound bombs you shouldn't trust them with smaller bombs either.

EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs condemned the pager attacks on Lebanon, which he said had "heavy, indiscriminate collateral damages among civilians, including children among the victims." eeas.europa.eu/eeas/lebanon-s…

Unlike for genocide and war crimes, there's no specific international treaty to prevent and punish crimes against humanity. This leaves a stark gap in international law protections. Read more on why action is needed for a crimes against humanity treaty: trib.al/muNZlyj

.@HRW's @LamaMFakih on the pager attacks on Lebanon: “Customary international humanitarian law prohibits the use of booby traps...precisely to avoid putting civilians at grave risk and produce the devastating scenes that continue to unfold across Lebanon." hrw.org/news/2024/09/1…

Another round of blasts in different areas around south Lebanon and Beirut southern suburb. Devices in cars, motorcycles, and people’s hand are exploding.

Aljazeera Arabic and Israeli media reporting an explosion in Dahiyeh, a suburb of Beirut

Glad Volker Türk articulated this. You can't target 1000s of devices, with no knowledge of who is holding them or where they are at that moment, and then argue it is a precise attack. Even if you know these devices were issued to Hezb members

Lebanese inundated with visuals of fire, smoke and explosions for a second day. Video below apparently shows moment of new explosion at funeral for Hezbollah fighters killed yesterday.

🚨 #BREAKING - UN General Assembly overwhelmingly adopts resolution urging #Israel to fully comply with World Court's CIJ_ICJ historic ruling on its occupation of Palestinian territory: 124 votes in favor, 14 against, 43 abstentions. Human Rights Watch's reaction follows in a short 🧵 1/x

BREAKING - Nine people killed and more than 300 wounded on Wednesday in latest device explosions in Lebanon. — Lebanese health ministry That brings the two-day toll to at least 21 killed and more than 3,100 wounded. Unbelievable.

It says a lot that reps Rashida Tlaib Ilhan Omar face scrutiny and even censure for every word, but King can spew racist Islamophobic hatred in a Senate hearing with no absolutely consequences:

Germany has put a hold on new exports of weapons of war to Israel, follows announcements from the UK and Canada: reuters.com/world/germany-…

Gaza’s health ministry has published details identifying 34,344 Palestinians killed by Israeli attacks: 11,355 children, 6,297 women, and 2,955 older people, 169 babies born after Oct 7, and a man born in 1922 who survived more than a century of war theguardian.com/world/2024/sep…

LEBANON UPDATE: 14 people killed and more than 450 wounded on Wednesday in latest device explosions. — Lebanese health ministry That brings the two-day toll to at least 26 killed and more than 3,250 wounded.

"Both politicians and the public need to confront the racism that colors US immigration and asylum policies and to respect Haitians' and other Black migrants' fundamental rights to life and to be free from persecution and discrimination."