Our governments are supporting a state that shut down a major broadcaster hours before unleashing bombs on a city packed with refugees who have been repeatedly displaced and are sheltering in tents as famine hits.

I just watched another boy take his last breath. His head wrapped. His face bloody. His eyes wide open staring into an oblivion. He is still there but not really. A last breath and then he’s no longer there. His father crying kissing his face. This war completely changed me.

This is such an inhumane thing to do to people who have lost everything over and over again for 7 months. Monstrous is the only word that comes to mind. “Some aren’t moving” - imagine being so broken by cruelty that you can’t even bother saving your life because nowhere is safe

Israel's portrayal of Hamas rejectionism is factually incorrect at this point. It looks like Netanyahu saw that Egypt/US pressure was working and decided to back out. /3

...indo nascer amanhã

I wonder why I keep scrolling and with my head bowed and eyes open, it feels like prayer, desperately seeking hope.

“In all mourning there is the deepest inclination to speechlessness, which is infinitely more than the inability or disinclination to communicate. That which mourns feels itself thoroughly known by the unknowable.”

— Walter Benjamin

'Netanyahu hoped Hamas would reject the cease-fire offer. When it didn't, he turned to sabotage' by saying he would invade Rafah whether or not there was a deal with Hamas, 'torpedo[ing] Israel's last and best chance at bringing the hostages home.'
haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

Today a Palestinian MA student from the destroyed Al Azhar University successfully defended his MA thesis in a tent in Rafah. The student now plans to do a PhD in Education.

How is this the context sentence for northern Gaza from the New York Times (in a piece about 'full-blown famine' in the north)? Really?

British-Palestinian surgeon Ghassan Abu Sitta, banned in Germany because of its mad policy on pro-Palestinian speech, is apparently now banned throughout the Schengen area and can’t speak at a conference at the French senate. theguardian.com/world/article/…

Some of those defending the failure of leadership at PEN America — and condemning PEN America’s critics as enemies of free speech — cannot even bring themselves to say the word Palestine. As if the word alone burns their tongues.

I am refreshing this GoFundMe quest

Thinking of our inimitable, generous colleague Issam Abdullah this World Press Freedom Day, and all other journalists who were killed in this conflict.

There is too much to say, and not enough.

May you never know the pain of reporting on the killing of a dear friend & colleague

I spoke with Dartmouth history prof Annelise Orleck about getting manhandled by cops, barred from campus and singing 'Solidarity Forever' in the paddy wagon.

'This is a moment where we need to go back to thinking that protest is a part of campus life.'
huffpost.com/entry/annelise…

📄Addameer – الضمير , Al-Mezan الميزان , Al-Haq الحق , and the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) express deep dismay at the news of the killing of 50-year-old orthopedic surgeon, Dr. Adnan Al-Bursh, while he was being held in Israeli custody.
 
♦️Dr. Al-Bursh was the Head of…

I am at Charles De Gaule airport. O was supposed to speak in tge French parliament. They are preventing me from entering France. They say the Germans put a 1 year ban on my entry to Europe

🚨 Ghassan a witness on record to war crimes has had his phone taken by French airport authorities while I was speaking to him and is now unable to speak to his lawyers.
We are trying to get access. This is outrageous.
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office French Government Int'l Criminal Court Metropolitan Police

George Packer is going to have to explain to me what part of this is ‘infected by an authoritarian spirit’

What possible explanation could there be for the fact that this prominent surgeon — 50 years old and working at the time he was swept up by the IDF in Gaza — died in an Israeli prison?

amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/05/03…