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Harvard Law Review editors vote to kill article about genocide in Gaza interc.pt/3RbPhUa by Natasha Lennard interc.pt/3RbPhUa

i am among 600+ journalists urging an end to the killing of gaza journalists and their families. we are also calling on western newsrooms to immediately address failures in coverage of israeli atrocities against palestinians. read and sign our statement: protect-journalists.com

Exonerated “Central Park Five” member Yusef Salaam has won a seat on the New York City Council, more than three decades after he was wrongfully accused and convicted as a teenager in the rape case. bit.ly/49qXavJ

CNN's Fareed Zakaria on journalists who have embedded with the IDF in Gaza:

'As a condition to enter Gaza under IDF air support, outlets have to submit all materials and footage to the Israeli military for review prior to publication. CNN has agreed to these terms....'

We can’t take it anymore, we’re exhausted… We’re gonna get killed, it’s just a matter of when. There’s no protection, no impunity. These PPEs don’t protect us. Nothing protects journalists. We lose lives, one by one… Mohammed Abu Hatab was here, half an hour ago.

“What I see unfolding in Gaza and beyond is genocide”

There’s more truth in these 52 seconds from Craig Mokhiber (who just resigned from the UN Human Rights Office) than weeks and weeks of mainstream media coverage.

We are shocked and disturbed to learn that a landlord in Chicago expressing anti-Muslim and anti-Palestinian views broke into a Muslim family's apartment and attacked them with a knife, injuring the mother and killing her 6-year-old son, Wadea Al-Fayoume. CAIR-Chicago will hold a…

After posting an Instagram story about the war in Gaza yesterday, my account was shadowbanned. Many colleagues and journalists friends have reported the same. It’s an extraordinary threat to the flow of information and credible journalism about an unprecedented war…

It’s just such a profound betrayal of our profession - on so many levels - to describe the murder of one of our own in the passive voice

SCOOP– Hours after Israel ordered an exodus in Gaza, State Department officials circulated internal warnings against 3 phrases:
'de-escalation/ceasefire'
'end to violence/bloodshed'
'restoring calm'
It's the latest sign the US won't urge Israeli restraint
huffpost.com/entry/state-de…

My latest. I had to say this.

We cannot stand by and watch Israel commit atrocities wapo.st/45ubvVc

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT
Issam Abdallah, a Reuters videographer, was killed while working in southern Lebanon. Issam was part of a Reuters crew providing a live video signal reut.rs/3M1N0Ia

'There is an ethnic cleanser and a people being ethnically cleansed. Here’s to hoping that mainstream western journalism someday gets it right. Palestinian humanity is depending on it'

✍️ Opinion by Mohamad Elmasry
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War reporting is more dangerous than ever. Reuters Institute say six Palestinian reporters in Gaza have died. Israelis & other foreign corrs may follow. For those that escape with their lives the psychological trauma of a brutal war zone lasts long after the bombs stop falling.

This would amount to displacing 1 million+ Palestinians—displacement on a scale we have not seen since the Nakba. The international community must act to prevent a calamity. History will not be kind to those who remain silent.

Amnesty's Crisis Evidence Lab has verified that Israeli military units striking Gaza are equipped with white phosphorus artillery rounds. We are investigating what appears to be the use of white phosphorus in Gaza, including in a strike near a hotel on the beach in Gaza City.

BREAKING: Israel’s military has directed the evacuation of northern Gaza, a region that is home to 1.1 million people, within 24 hours, according to a U.N. spokesman. apnews.com/article/israel…

Under international humanitarian law, war crimes by one side do not justify war crimes by the other. The duty to spare civilians as much as possible the hazards of war is absolute, not contingent on the behavior of opponents. I explain in the @Guardian: theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

BBC team reporting from Gaza find dozens of neighbours & friends among the injured & dead in Al-Shifa Hospital. Exceptional reporting - at a huge personal cost - from adnanelbursh Rushdi Abualouf & many others in Gaza.