BREAKING:
Israeli settlers are burning Taybeh in occupied Palestine.
A village that has stood for thousands of years.
A place where Jesus once walked.
Home to the oldest living Christian community in the world.
And not a peep from Western mainstream media.
Veteran war correspondent
#JanineDiGiovanni says that after covering 18 wars over 35 years, surviving gunfire, kidnapping, threats & witnessing immense loss, nothing compares to the devastation in #Gaza or the global complicity that allows it.
#DontStopTalkingAboutPalestine
'Under the plan, NHS England has agreed to create an “admin” role, which the briefing acknowledges “permits unlimited access to non-NHSE staff” to the NDIT and the identifiable patient information held within it.' 🧐 https://t.co/BA6CeFrKLj
This is a hard article to read, but I hope you'll do so. I've spent some time reporting on widespread rape and other sexual violence of Palestinian male and female prisoners by Israeli authorities, and the article is now published. The assault victims were warned not to give speak of what they endured -- they were sometimes told they would be killed or raped if they gave interviews -- but they found the courage to do so. One man described being raped three times in a single day in Israeli prison, the third time after he tried to protest. A young woman said the guards would come in at the beginning of each shift and strip her naked and abuse her. Another reported that she was shown photos of herself being raped and warned they would be released unless she cooperated with Israeli intelligence. Even three children who had been detained told me they had been sexually abused. Look, whatever our position on the Middle East, we should be able to agree on being anti-rape. Sexual assaults were horrific when Israeli women were targeted on Oct. 7, and they're equally horrific when Israeli authorities use them against Palestinians day after day after day. We should be able to find common ground in opposing rape. Here's a gift link to the article: https://t.co/aMMHId49OO
Here are the photos that won the @nytimesphoto Gaza photographer Saher Alghorra a 2026 @PulitzerPrizes -- taken under impossible, dangerous conditions even as he lacked supplies and even food. The world is in his debt for chronicling conditions in Gaza. https://t.co/TDp2x3vkOE
INCREDIBLE!
Washington Post journalist Hannah Natanson who had Trump’s FBI raid her home and take her phones and laptops, just won the Pulitzer Prize with the Washington Post.
Congrats!!
Glad to start my day with a good chat with Lizzy Burden on Bloomberg News Daybreak to discuss the Strait of Hormuz, the law of the sea, and the impact that the Iran war is having on Gulf security strategies.
15 mins in on this link:
https://t.co/DFIYEBI8Fa
Termination day. A lay-off is a funny thing. 10 years of your life and then someone just cuts the bungee cord, without a thank you, goodbye, or even a chance to bid farewell to the constellation of colleagues who inhabited your world all that time. I’m grateful for all the opportunities the Washington Post gave me, and for the friends I made along the way. Onwards.
The UK Foreign Office unit tracking breaches of international law by Israel in Gaza and Lebanon has been closed because of cuts. https://t.co/ZznrwKIdTS
Iraq tried for years to resist being sucked into regional war. Now it’s finally arrived, with the long tail of the first Trump administration’s decision to assassinate Soleimani making it even harder to rein in the violence. https://t.co/934Y1gue3W a must-read, by @renadmansour.
The unlearned lesson of previous ‘decapitation strikes’: ripple effects of targeting individuals without full picture of impact. When Trump ordered assassination of Soleimani in 2020, the strike also killed Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis, unravelling centralised control of Iraqi militias.
https://t.co/JyN4bLOym7
3 more Palestinians killed in the West Bank, activists report, as settlers expand attacks under cover of war. Masked men arrived to Khirbet Abu Falah at 2am, soldiers came after. Thaer (24) & Fares Hamayel (57) shot dead. Mohammed Hassan (55) suffered heart attack after tear gas.
Two Palestinians were killed overnight by settler gunfire in Khirbet Abu Falah. Local sources say a third person died of cardiac arrest after inhaling tear gas. Seven others were injured, four by live fire, @MatanGolanPhoto reports