🚨The heads of the security and intelligence services have been urging Netanyahu for months to reach a deal to secure the release of the hostages. "We warned Netanyahu & the cabinet ministers about this exact scenario but they wouldn't listen," a senior Israeli official told me

Can’t begin to imagine what Hersh’s parents are going through now… for nearly a year, they held on to the hope they would have their boy back… devastating.

Day 3 of #polio vaccination here in middle #Gaza Around this health facility, there’s a moat of sewage. Families sleeping on the ground in tents nearby Trying to vaccinate one disease, while many others continue to spread & inhumane conditions worsen each day. People need more.

B'Tselem's Executive Director, Yuli Novak, addressed the UN Security Council this evening by invitation of the Slovenian President of the Security Council to provide an expert review of the state of human rights in Israel/Palestine following the war.

It is a standard for international journalists to cover conflicts & wars. Not in #Gaza. For nearly 11 months now, international media crews have been banned from freely entering + reporting on the humanitarian crisis + impact of the war. Palestinian journalists have my

We really need to enter Gaza to support our Palestinian journalist colleagues and to report. But neither Israel nor Egypt will allow us.

Biden Sunday: On the "verge of having an agreement” Sr Biden official Weds: ceasefire deal 90% completed Netanyahu Thurs: “There’s not a deal in the making...Unfortunately, it’s not close.”

Human rights group Amnesty International says that the Israeli military’s campaign to significantly expand a “buffer zone” along the eastern perimeter of the Gaza Strip should be investigated as war crimes of “wanton destruction and of collective punishment.”

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"There is so much suffering. These are not statistics, these are mothers, daughters, kids... Children are already dying" Amina J Mohammed Powerful reporting by Nawal Al-maghafi نوال المقحفي on the desperate crisis in #Sudan youtube.com/watch?v=ptckDw…

Video reconstruction of how Israeli troops killed a young Palestinian boy in Gaza for no reason, then killed six of his family members as they returned from a cemetery to bury him, holding a white flag. Their remains were bulldozed into a pile of garbage. trib.al/9wf8crj

Philadelphi, says Eli Bahar, a lawyer who is a former legal adviser to the Shin Bet security service, is code for remaining in Gaza as an occupying power indefinitely / Amos Harel haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

If you're a journalist in the U.S., and planning on interviewing Bibi Benjamin Netanyahu - בנימין נתניהו, and if you care about journalism and democracy, I hope you read this tweet (translated from The Seventh Eye, an Israeli media watchdog):

Weapons experts say 2,000-pound bombs were likely used in Al-Mawasi strike cnn.com/world/live-new…

The killing of American activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi by Israeli forces “apparently…was an accident,” Biden said. The bullet “ricocheted off the ground,” he said. He did not question why the IDF was using live rounds against protesters.

“When #Israel prevents foreign journalists from covering what is happening in #Gaza we must ask: What does the state have to hide? How does it benefit from journalists not entering Gaza?”

“These Western powers that have provided the arms have their fingers all over the crime scene”, tells me Jan Egeland , who has written a letter to Foreign Mins of Israel’s allies to “remind them of their failure to prevent repeated grave violations of Intl Humanitarian law”.

No shit. A ceasefire/hostage deal looks very much out of reach, despite the hot air about how it was "90% done" and "inside the ten-yard line". But it's incredible to see the Biden team discuss this as if they're passive bystanders analyzing the situation. wsj.com/world/middle-e…

In #Hezbollah leader’s speech are signs of a group driven deeper underground Really important analysis from the brilliant Tamara Qiblawi تمارا قبلاوي cnn.com/2024/09/19/mid…

With apologies to my followers for the language below but I had to RT, it's that kind of day...