Ameen Meddaoui

[Brenden Deeg @BrendenDeeg_]

"If we score, it's over. Just call it."

Sirianni pushed Kellen Moore to call the deep bomb to DeVonta.

[Philadelphia Eagles @Eagles]

Two-time NFC Champion, Jalen Hurts ‼️

[NFL @NFL]

How about your quarterback, Philly?! #FlyEaglesFly

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Jordan's FM Ayman Safadi on Friday responded to Netanyahu's claim Israel was surrounded by enemies by saying '57 Muslim-Arab countries want peace; within the context of Israel ending its occupation and a Palestinian state.'

[HalalFlow @halalflow]

"My daughter made the right decision. If she...be arrested fighting for Palestine. I would be the happiest daddy. I am doing the right thing fighting against the genocide...I imagine being a father in Palestine...to see my kid be assassinated by Israel."

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

There is a historical example that shows that the Iranian retaliation against Israel could perhaps have been evaded.

The US, UK, and France prevented the UN Security Council from condemning the Israeli attack on the Iranian consulate in Damascus despite it being a flagrant violation of international law. The Iranians have hinted that had the UNSC strongly condemned Israel, Iran might have refrained from retaliating against it. Most observers have dismissed the Iranian claim, assessing that Tehran would have acted anyway.

But there is a historical example involving Iran and an attack on an Iranian consulate in which the UNSC acted swiftly and prevented an Iranian retaliation.

It was September 1998. The Taliban had just taken Mazar-e Sharif in Afghanistan and attacked the Iranian consulate there, executing several Iranian diplomats. I was working for the Swedish Permanent UN Mission at the time and Sweden was not only in the UNSC, it held the presidency of the Council that month.

The Iranian demand on Sweden was clear: Although Iran had mobilized on the border to Afghanistan and was ready to attack, a strong condemnation by the UNSC and its presidency could provide Iran with a face-saving exit and the larger war could be avoided. 
Sweden ensured that the attack on the consulate - a flagrant violation of the Vienna Convention - was appropriately condemned, and Iran never retaliated against the Taliban militarily, despite the Taliban's clear aggression. 

In both cases, an Iranian consulate had been attacked and several Iranian officials had been killed. In both cases, Iran did not want to go to war. But in one case, the UNSC condemned the aggression and Iranian retaliation was evaded. On the other, the US, UK, and France put their support for Israel above international law and prevented the UNSC from condemning the attack, and we are now in the middle of the Iranian retaliation.

Certainly, the 1998 episode does not prove that Iran's retaliation against Israel today could have been prevented. But it does suggest that there was an opportunity to de-escalate that the US/UK/FR ignored or dismissed. 

Then again, that fits perfectly with Biden's record of the past 7 months as opportunity after opportunity to de-escalate and end the war in Gaza has been actively dismissed by him.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Iran says its first-ever direct attack on Israel was revenge for Israel’s targeting of the Iranian consulate in Syria.

Tehran says its retaliatory attack has ‘concluded’ but warns of a harsher response next time if Israel strikes again ⤵️

[Christiane Amanpour @amanpour]

Starvation. The unacceptable face of Israel’s war on Gaza.

A doctor from an international aid agency took these pictures 10th April at Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza.

The desperate parents gave permission to publish these.

[Edward Snowden @Snowden]

Everyone in the world needs to see this.

Note that this footage permits no room for "it was a mistake," showing repeated, specifically-targeted strikes on the unarmed and even wounded. The sort of behavior the ICJ explicitly forbid in the genocide ruling against Israel.

[Ameen Meddaoui @AMeddaoui]

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[Ameen Meddaoui @AMeddaoui]

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[Ameen Meddaoui @AMeddaoui]

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[Ameen Meddaoui @AMeddaoui]

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[Ameen Meddaoui @AMeddaoui]

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[Muhammad Shehada @muhammadshehad2]

Israel killed Prof. Refaat al-Areer, one of Gaza's most prominent writers, poets & activists who spent his life trying to get Gaza's voice to the outside world.

He was killed in a targeted airstrike on his sister's home that also killed his brother, sister & her 4 kids...

[Lowkey @Lowkey0nline]

"What should we do? drown? commit mass suicide, is that what Israel wants?"

The haunting words of Dr. Refaat al-Areer, who has now been killed by Israel in Gaza.

[MoTaz @motazazaiza9]

Israeli army arrested Palestinian civilians from a school in Beit Lahia in the north of Gaza Strip, and forced them to take off their cloths and left them in the cold street before detaining them They were all civilians

[Cedar Salvo 🇱🇧🇵🇸 @cedarsalvo]

CNN agreed to submit all footage to the IOF for review before publication. Fox News has been caught collaborating with IOF to fake a story where they capture a pretend fighter. The entire U.S. media & political class are unified in their oppression of Palestinians.

[Lowkey @Lowkey0nline]

Sky News reports on Israel killing an unarmed Palestinian child and then shooting his father as he came to help him in the West Bank.

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

As Abu Ahmad, waving a white flag, follows Israeli instructions and flees their house, his son is shot in the head.

"I told you, let’s stay at home, my son! Let’s stay at home!"

His son didn't make it.

A neighbor's son, no more than 4 years old, watches the whole scene. Damaged for life.