Huge step towards accountability, big kudos to Ramzi Kaiss / رمزي قيس and HRW for pushing this forward

Map of #protests on US campuses against the #GazaGenocides

Source: The New Arab

🚨Lebanese authorities have detained, tortured, & deported Syrians to Syria in recent months, including opposition activists & army defectors.

Others are fighting to remain, despite deportation orders & an increasingly hostile environment.

New from @HRW
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Another Syrian detainee, Wael Ashi, also faces imminent deportation. His and Atia's unlawful deportations would violate Jordan's international law obligations, which forbid govts from returning people to places where they have a well-founded fear of persecution. #SyriaIsNotSafe

.The Associated Press's Bassem Mroue باسم مروه and Kareem Chehayeb | كريم شهيب detail professional-seeming killing of Iran-/Hizb-/Hamas-linked money man: apnews.com/article/lebano…

Hearing disturbing news that Lebanese human rights lawyer Mohammad Sablouh is allegedly being subjected to intimidation apparently in relation to his defence of Syrian refugee rights. This comes at a time of a generally deteriorating environment for HRDs in #Lebanon .
Mofa Lebanon

Remnants of Iranian missiles fired at Israel spotted in the Jordanian capital Amman.

Leaked financial docs expose $8B FRAUD at Lebanon's central bank, 15% of the GDP at the time, which was described to me as unprecedented by experts. How did it happen? 1/
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The anti-corruption NGO Sherpa, which prompted a judicial probe into Riad Salameh in France, resulting in his arrest warrant and EU property seizure, has now lodged a money laundering complaint against Lebanon's Prime Minister Mikati and his family
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Over 4 years into Lebanon's eco crisis with $70+ billion of financial losses. Not only the elite has done nothing to fix it, but they've sabotaged the recovery plan for the 3rd time. Deputy PM Chami told me the plan's adoption is now 'highly unlikely'.
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The US should suspend military aid to Israel.

OxfamAmerica & Human Rights Watch have submitted a memo to US government showing how Israel is using US weapons in violation of international law, including through the use of white phosphorus in south #Lebanon .

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The unbeatable Dylan Collins boarded a US aircraft in Jordan that airdropped aid into Gaza, documenting in photo, video & text the destruction wrought by months of war.

Read his dispatch below👇and see some of his pics in this thread.
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Following its documentation of apparent war crimes committed by Israeli forces in Lebanon @HRW has met with various members of Lebanon’s government, calling on them to provide the International Criminal Court with jurisdiction to investigate serious crimes nna-leb.gov.lb/en/security-la…

بعد استشارة قانونية، وزيارة للمركز اللبناني لحقوق الإنسان، قرار الترحيل نهائي، ولايمكن ايقافه إلا بتدخل سريع المفوضية السامية للاجئين في لبنان.

Sheikh Jumaa Lehib, a Syrian opposition activist and refugee, faces deportation from Lebanon despite the danger he and his family face upon return to Syria

Lebanese authorities have threatened to deport at least three Syrian refugees over the past month

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Initial reports of at least 4 dead, 10 injured in an Israeli airstrike in the town of Khirbet Salem, south Lebanon.

Rescue workers are still trying to locate 4 people under the rubble.

The four killed were reportedly displaced by Israeli strikes earlier in the conflict.

As police crack down on Syrians in Lebanon, they face fines, extortion and—as seen in the recent killing of a young man at a checkpoint in Beirut—violence.

My latest with Syria Direct Thanks Ramzi Kaiss / رمزي قيس Dounia Salamé and others.

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.The National' Nada Maucourant Atallah reports from south Lebanon towns whose residents are unwilling or – because of their limited means, amid Lebanon's economic crisis – unable to leave: thenationalnews.com/mena/palestine…

the first part of BLACK BOX - our series on the collision between AI and people - is out now theguardian.com/technology/aud… new episodes every Mon and Thurs // wherever you listen to podcasts

This week's momentous Int'l Court of Justice hearings on legal consequences of Israel's 57-year occupation highlight the growing global consensus that Israel's repression of Palestinians amounts to apartheid. A🧵of excerpts from the proceedings (to be updated as statements go up)