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"What is your take on this action overnight?" Gideon Levy: "Expected and terrible... Its very clear in recent months that Israel & Netanyahu wants to resume the war & today we got the proof"

“Israel has just killed around 400 people in Gaza.” “This is not the acceleration of a war—it is the acceleration of a genocide happening in real time.” “We have failed to prevent genocide.” —UN Special Rapporteur, Francesca Albanese

We share 3nd article in a series on #conflict #analysis in #Iraq by @emeininghaus, part of #LUGARIT’s network. Although Tal Afar appears stable, power dynamics shape #HumanitarianAid & #governance, reinforcing exclusion. What can break patronage? link.lugarit.com/sa9o 🌍

"The average age of the children pronounced dead at Nasser hospital after this week’s new wave of attacks was between six and eight years old and about 35% of all casualties were under 14" theguardian.com/world/2025/mar…

Israel has launched the ‘Iron Wall’ military operation in the northern West Bank, Palestine, forcibly displacing thousands of people. Israel must halt this forcible displacement and allow for the humanitarian response to be scaled up. Read more 👇 msf.org/mass-displacem…

Palestinian journalists hold pictures of حسام شبات to try to convey to a blind world that they are being targeted and murdered, one by one. 208 journalists have now been targeted and killed in the last 17 months by the occupation.

In 6 weeks, #Israel has launched 70 ground incursions & 31 sets of airstrikes in #Syria. Since #Assad fell, no attacks from #Syria have targeted #Israel & #Syria's gov't has intercepted 18 weapons shipments to #Hezbollah. My latest: foreignpolicy.com/2025/03/27/isr…

The academic leadership of Harvard University’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies has been dismissed following a pressure campaign by the Trump administration over alleged anti-Israel bias. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/7xd759

The UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Tom Fletcher called for “justice and answers” after Israeli forces killed eight Palestinian medics, six civil defense first responders and a UN staff member in an attack in southern Gaza. news.un.org/en/story/2025/…

⚫️ Gaza: We are deeply saddened and appalled by the killing of our colleague Hussam Al Loulou. Hussam was killed, along with his wife and daughter, on 1 April in an airstrike on Deir Al-Balah. Hussam is the 11th MSF colleague killed since the war started and the second in two

An average of 30 Syrians have been killed *every week* in 2025 by unexploded ordinance (UXO). Why? Because #Assad’s regime laid 10,000s across #Syria — like here in Deir ez Zour. Extraordinary video.

Sami Zubaida was an intellectual giant, a kind man, an amazing cook and a true bon vivant. He also defied the racialising compartmentalisation of imperial Middle East at every turn. He shall be missed.

What seems apparent from these soldiers' testimonies is that the IDF has mostly not been fighting Hamas in Gaza, but rather making it an uninhabitable kill zone. theguardian.com/world/2025/apr…

Humanitarian aid has not entered #Gaza for a month. 2.1 million people are besieged as food, medicine and fuel pile up at blocked crossings. Call for action from across the UN humanitarian leadership.⬇ UNICEF UNOPS UNRWA World Food Programme World Health Organization (WHO) unocha.org/news/world-mus…

Books make a comeback in Damascus libraries after being banned under Assad english.enabbaladi.net/archives/2025/…

"The opportunity for stability in #Syria is being threatened by continued violence... by Israeli strikes & incursions into #Syria, and reports of civilian deaths. These actions risk destabilizing #Syria & the wider region." - #UK rep to the UNSC, just now:

“No government—regardless of which party is in power—should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue.” - President Alan Garber hrvd.me/GarberRespond3…

Hard to describe how monumental this is. For 14 years Syrians were abandoned languishing in tents, drowning in the Mediterranean, trekking through forests in freezing temperatures, with no indication their misery and suffering would come to an end. To see Syrians going back home

We share 4th article in a series on #conflict #analysis in #Iraq by Esther Meininghaus , part of #LUGARIT’s network. Discrimination starts in the classroom, religious segregation in Baʿshiqa fuels mistrust. What does peace from the ground up look like? link.lugarit.com/pqJ2 🌍