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Ben Reiff

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Senior editor @972mag | sometimes @_VashtiMedia | words in @guardian, @thenation, @haaretzcom

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Just so we’re clear: Israel encouraged and armed an ISIS-affiliated gang to loot aid in order to spin a narrative that Hamas was stealing aid in order to shut down the UN’s aid missions in Gaza in order to create their own aid apparatus that serves as a tool for ethnic cleansing

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INVESTIGATION: The Israeli army is using Chinese-made drones affixed with grenade launchers to enforce expulsion orders across Gaza, with soldiers saying they deliberately target civilians so others will ‘learn’ not to return. By Yuval Abraham יובל אברהם שיחה מקומית 972mag.com/drones-grenade…

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“It’s like a video game. You’re hundreds of meters away, you play with the joystick, see the target, and drop [a grenade].” In interviews with +972 Magazine, Israeli soldiers admit to targeting civilians — including children — with drone strikes in Gaza. 972mag.com/drones-grenade…

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Extraordinary paragraph in today’s Observer starkly revealing the influence of the Israel lobby over decisionmaking at the BBC observer.co.uk/news/national/…

Extraordinary paragraph in today’s Observer starkly revealing the influence of the Israel lobby over decisionmaking at the BBC

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Britain’s The Jewish Chronicle too, btw. And they still haven’t come clean as to how exactly they hired a fake journalist and published fake Israeli intelligence as part of an influence op by Netanyahu’s own office

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People need to get their head around the fact that most of Gaza literally doesn’t exist anymore. Israel has systematically razed it to the ground so that even if it can’t find countries to expel Palestinians to, they’ll have to leave anyway because Gaza can no longer sustain life

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Read this desperate plea by my colleague Ruwaida Amer, written with what little energy she has left, then do something — anything in your power — to make this stop. 972mag.com/hunger-gaza-fo…

Read this desperate plea by my colleague <a href="/ruwaidaamer8/">Ruwaida Amer</a>, written with what little energy she has left, then do something — anything in your power — to make this stop. 

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This is one of those images you instantly know will appear in history books of the future. And people will wonder how we allowed this to happen.

This is one of those images you instantly know will appear in history books of the future. And people will wonder how we allowed this to happen.
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As a longtime humanitarian who has battled famines and hunger crises, I fear that starvation in Gaza has now passed the tipping point and we are going to see mass-scale starvation mortality. A thread on famine momentum, famine response, and what it means for Gaza today.

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‘The most peaceful person’: Umm Al-Khair mourns activist slain by Israeli settler Contrary to the settler’s account, eyewitness testimony and video footage shows that Awdah Hathaleen was gunned down in cold blood. By Basel Adra Oren Ziv Yuval Abraham יובל אברהם 972mag.com/awdah-hathalee…

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They promote the “largest” airdrop operation for Gaza with the participation of 5 countries, while what’s actually delivered equals only 6 trucks and the daily need of the strip is 600 trucks!

They promote the “largest” airdrop operation for Gaza with the participation of 5 countries,
while what’s actually delivered equals only 6 trucks 
and the daily need of the strip is 600 trucks!
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“This landscape of destruction looks otherworldly. Yet it’s not. It is this world. And what is happening may yet come to define one of its darkest eras. One that casts a stain on humanity that will endure for generations.” — ITV News, with aerial footage of Gaza.

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Revealed: Microsoft storing Israeli intelligence trove used to attack Palestinians The tech giant developed a customized version of its cloud platform for Israel’s Unit 8200, which is housing audio files of millions of calls by Palestinians. 972mag.com/microsoft-8200…