Lina Khalaf

News Producer in Washington DC.

[Lina Khalaf @Linakhalaf4]

@lizziejohnsonnn I am so sorry this happened to you. I’m a news producer in DC. Please let me know if you would like to talk about your experience on-camera.

[Lina Khalaf @Linakhalaf4]

@akjohnson1922 I am so sorry this happened to you. Please let me know if you would like to talk about your experience on-camera.

[Mariam Barghouti مريم البرغوثي @MariamBarghouti]

Israel just bombed an murdered the entire Aljazeera staff in Gaza city:

Correspondents Anas Al Sharif @AnasAlSharif0 and Mohammad Qreiqei, killed.
Cameramen Ibrahim Dhaher and Mo’men Aleiwa, killed.

Crew driver, Mohammad Nofal, killed.

All murdered in an Israeli bombing of their TENT stationed by Al-Shifa hospital.

This means, a commander gave the order, and others executed it. This should be tracked and made public, who killed the journalists.

It wasn’t just a bomb. It was its manufacturer, and the Israeli commanders that are giving the order, and the soldiers saying yes and conducting the strike.

All of these murderers need to be made public by name. Israeli state violence is made by people.

[Middle East Eye @MiddleEastEye]

An illegal Israeli settler shot and critically wounded Odeh Hadalin, a prominent Palestinian activist featured in the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, in Masafer Yatta, in the occupied West Bank.
Odeh was rushed to hospital and later died, according to his friends.

Residents identified the shooter as Yinon Levi, who is sanctioned by both the EU and the US

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

John Kirby: The IDF is more careful with civilians than even the U.S. military!

Green Beret sees the IDF in action, recoils in horror:

[Katie Halper @kthalps]

There is a video of a Palestinian child with his arms blown off and if you can’t bring yourself to see this is wrong you have no soul and you would have either been or supported the Nazis. Nothing you can say will ever justify this. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing.

[Matt Duss @mattduss]

They never did. Just as they never had evidence that “UNRWA=Hamas.” It’s all part of an ongoing disinformation campaign to provide cover for a mass atrocity.

And the Biden and Trump administrations have gone along with it.

[Sana Saeed @SanaSaeed]

According to the Gaza Government Media Office, 100,000 Palestinian children under the age of two - including 40,000 infants under the age of one- are on the brink of mass death within days due to the absence of infant formula and nutritional supplements.

100,000 babies.

[Remi Kanazi @Remroum]

There is no two sides

There’s occupier & occupied

Genocide enforcer & genocide victims

Only one side is mass starving refugees in concentration camps

Only one side is enforcing apartheid & blockade

Only one side is demolishing homes & torturing prisoners

That side is Israel

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

I have never felt so shaken.

Children are dying of hunger. Falling one after another, like petals of a dying flower. Under our watch.

How do you sleep, Presidents, Foreign Ministers, political leaders, diplomats, civil servants - doing nothing to stop Israel’s starvation campaign?

PS: Talking politics while dodging genocide perfectly meets the definition of doing nothing.

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

The most Israeli headline ever.

[Mondoweiss @Mondoweiss]

🧵 Let’s talk about the lie that “the aid is there, but the UN won’t distribute it.”

Here’s what’s actually happening at the Gaza border — and why Palestinians are still starving.

[MO @Abu_Salah9]

الصمت جريمة، الصمت خيانة

[jeremy scahill @jeremyscahill]

A few notes on the state of the Gaza "ceasefire" negotiations. Hamas has now submitted its response to the Israeli-crafted framework and Netanyahu responded by announcing he would recall his negotiating team from Doha.

Israel has been pushing a narrative via leaks to mostly Hebrew media that Hamas is taking a hard line and obstructing a deal. This is totally false.

Israel put forward a proposal to effectively occupy huge swaths of Gaza indefinitely, including building a large concentration camp in Gaza. Hamas, of course, rejected this because this is not a negotiation, it is a declaration of intent to continue the mass extermination and expulsion campaign. In response, Hamas showed a willingness to agree to Israeli troop withdrawal and redeployment "maps" that would still allow significant Israeli imposed "buffer zones" encircling Gaza.

On the issue of aid, Israel has demanded that its lethal aid scheme, the so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, remain in Gaza. More than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed trying to obtain meager food rations from these pitiful sites. Hamas proposed that the UN resume control of the distribution to its 400 sites in Gaza, the only effective program that has ever existed.

There are more than 10,000 Palestinians held captive by Israel. There are also an estimated 2,000 snatched since October 7 for the explicit purpose of "exchanging" them for Israeli captives in Gaza. Hamas proposed a framework that would free these 2,000 Palestinian hostages as well as hundreds of other Palestinians, including those serving life sentences, in return for Israeli soldiers held captive in Gaza.

Finally, Hamas has asked for a clear guarantee from the U.S. that Israel will not resume the genocide after an initial 60 day truce, so that negotiations for a permanent end to the war and occupation can be reached.

Israel has promoted a false narrative that it has been reasonable and Hamas has been obstructionist. The reality is that Netanyahu has repeatedly sabotaged deals throughout the past 22 months. And Israel unilaterally crushed the January ceasefire endorsed by both Trump and Biden and resumed the genocide and forced starvation campaign. He has boasted that he will get a "side letter" from Trump allowing him to resume the war regardless of any deal that he signs.

This is the context in which the Palestinians are forced to operate in these "negotiations" with an Israeli side that daily makes clear—in public—that it wants to wipe Palestinians off the map of Gaza. The Palestinian negotiators are left with only one actual hope: that Donald Trump will decide to stop Israel's war of annihilation. That is a huge gamble regardless of what the actual signed deal states.

[Sana Saeed @SanaSaeed]

While the American political and media class eat up the theatrics of a crashout, Israel - backed by the Trump administration - is bombing Beirut on the night before Eid Al Adha.

“On Eid night, beloved Beirut was subjected to the most devastating Israeli airstrikes since the ceasefire in Lebanon.
Israel chose the timing carefully, in a deliberate show of force and provocation.”

[Lina Khalaf @Linakhalaf4]

Deadliest year on record for journalists; 70% killed by Israel https://t.co/wHHPvSjRdu

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

My final words for Tony Blinken, Secretary of Genocide, and his smirking press secretary, Matt Miller

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Reporter @samhusseini was just physically dragged from Blinken’s briefing. “Why aren’t you at The Hague?” he asked.

[Sharif Kouddous شريف عبد القدوس @sharifkouddous]

The unprecedented killing of journalists by the Israeli military continues with impunity

[Tariq Kenney-Shawa @tksshawa]

When we hear about quadcopter/drone attacks, people tend to assume the killing is automated - a dystopian nightmare in its own right. But an Israeli drone operator saw a child in a wheel chair outside a hospital and opened fire. The act of pulling the trigger was a human one.