OVERVIEW: ISRAEL INVASION, BOMBING OF SYRIA 🧵👇

(1/4) For the first time in 50 years, Israel has invaded & occupied new Syrian territory past the Golan Heights (a Syrian territory occupied since 1967 & annexed in 1981). Netanyahu declared that the fall of Assad and withdrawal of his forces from the border nullified the 1974

(2/4) Israel occupied 9+ new Syrian towns/villages & ordered residents not to go outside. Israel also occupied the strategic Mount Hermon, the highest point in the region. Israel said it’d build fences & trenches at the “border” & gave soldiers more freedom to shoot and kidnap

(3/4) IOF tanks were seen advancing on the outskirts of the Damascus countryside, just ~25km from the capital. Israel now occupies Syrian land equal to TWICE Gaza's size.

(4/4) Israel has also bombed Syria ~310 times since Assad’s fall. The strikes are considered “the heaviest in the history of Syria” & Israel's largest aerial operation EVER. It aims to obliterate Syria’s defensive and military capabilities to prevent their fall into the hands of

Years of war under al-Assad’s regime and ongoing sanctions have devastated Syria, leaving it in urgent need of reconstruction. 🔴 Follow our LIVE coverage: aje.io/ast99m

Israeli forces have launched 480 strikes in Syria in 48 hours to prevent “strategic weapons stockpiles” from reaching “terrorist elements.” 🔴 LIVE updates ⤵️ aje.io/ast99m

IRC places Syria fourth in its Emergency Watchlist of 20 countries most likely to face an escalating humanitarian crisis in 2025. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/ast99m

The UN’s humanitarian agency (OCHA) says its partners in Syria have identified 52 minefields across the country since the beginning of December. 🔴 LIVE updates ⤵️ aje.io/ast99m

Israel's action in Syria violates a treaty between Israel and Syria that ended the 1974 war, known to Israelis as the Yom Kippur War and to Arabs as the October War, says the Russian Foreign Ministry. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/clajzj

Join us at our weekly pickets outside of the SLT’s offices at 1pm every Monday, starting tomorrow, Monday the 27th of January. Location: The Foundation Building, Brownlow Hill, L69 7ZX

Our statement of solidarity with student actionists at the Uni of Oxford and the Uni of Leicester. THE STUDENTS UNITED WILL NEVER BE DEFEATED 🇵🇸

Our next RAD teach-in on Music as Resistance: Palestinian Singing and Culture with Reem Kalani. It will be on Thursday the 6th of February at 3.30pm in the first floor seminar room in Waterhouse Block J. See you there 🇵🇸🇵🇸

Refaat’s body is buried in the place he loved, Shujayia.

Here is an updated post, based on new findings, on LJMU’s complicity and exactly why we are taking action against them. BOYCOTT, DIVEST! WE WILL NOT STOP, WE WILL NOT REST 🇵🇸

On Wednesday the 26th of February, the Students of Alareer Square disrupted the launch of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Sustainability Research opening up with the Uni of Liverpool, which hosted Tim Jones and the Director of IBM Research Europe. Read our statement on it below

Join us on Monday the 10th of March at 1pm for our next Reflection & Dialogue teach-in, in Rendall Seminar Room 10. This teach-in is called Cops, Crackdowns, and Smear Campaigns: In Conversation with SOAS Encampment Activists. See you there 🇵🇸🇵🇸