Riyaad Minty

people+technology+media. previously director of digital @trt / founded AJ+ @ajplus / @aljazeera social media.

[Riyaad Minty @Riy]

“Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation. Let your greatness blossom.” - Nelson Mandela

Today South Africa 🇿🇦 proudly carries the pursuit of justice for all to the ICJ.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

⭕️ The Government Media Office in Gaza: Israel is intensifying the “engineering of starvation” in the Gaza Strip by choking off flour supplies, amid alarming international silence.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Lebanon has declared a day of national mourning.

Thousands of people's lives have been upended after Israeli air strikes, which came without warning, tore through neighbourhoods across the capital and cities across the country.

Al Jazeera’s @heidipett reports from Beirut.

[TRT World @trtworld]

Israeli soldiers torture a one-year-old child in Gaza, including burning his leg with a cigarette and inserting a nail into his leg, according to a report, to pressure his father to make confessions
https://t.co/v0be37LwpV

[Mohammad Alsaafin @malsaafin]

6 months into the Gaza ‘ceasefire’:

[Zeina Khodr @ZeinakhodrAljaz]

Katz orders army to “accelerate destruction of homes in line-of-contact villages,” to eliminate threats to Israeli communities near border.He said approach follows model used in Beit Hanoun &Rafah,referring to widespread demolitions during ground operations against Hamas in Gaza

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🇵🇸🚨Settlers torch 15 Palestinian villages across West Bank in seemingly coordinated retaliation

Dozens of Israeli settlers carried out coordinated raids across many Palestinian villages, setting homes and vehicles on fire and assaulting residents, according to The Times of Israel.

➤ Attacks were recorded in Jalud, Fandaqumiya, Silat ad-Dhahr, and Qaryut, with footage showing buildings on fire as residents rushed to evacuate

➤ At least 9 Palestinians have been confirmed injured in a preliminary toll, including 3 in Jalud and 6 in the Jenin area, after being beaten by settlers. Many more are feared to have been come under attack.

➤ No arrests have been reported, consistent with a pattern of impunity in settler violence cases

➤ The raids come amid near-daily attacks in recent weeks and rising fears of retaliation after a settler was killed in a separate incident under investigation

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🚨LEQAA KORDIA RELEASED: Palestinian activist Leqaa Kordia, detained by ICE for nearly a year after the Columbia Gaza protest crackdown, has been released on $100,000 bond, according to the New York Times.

🔹 An immigration judge granted the bond March 13, 2026, the third time a court has ordered her release after the government previously blocked earlier rulings. She was released today (Monday).

🔹 NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani raised Kordia’s case with the White House during a Feb. 26 meeting with President Trump, asking that immigration cases against four Columbia-linked activists be dropped.

🔹Kordia, a Palestinian from East Jerusalem, was arrested by ICE on March 13, 2025 after attending Gaza solidarity protests at Columbia University; her protest-related charges were later dropped.

[Azad Essa @azadessa]

The derision directed at Priyanka Chopra at the Oscars may be one of the clearest signs of the erosion of Indian soft power on the global stage.

Here is a former Miss World Bollywood star who 'successfully' crossed over into Hollywood - breaking into roles in big TV shows - and using her identity to soften American empire.

All the while, she has refused to shed her casteist, militaristic, and liberal Hindutva habitus.

The days of Indians thinking they can cheerlead or deflect from Muslims being lynched, Muslim homes being demolished, support an occupation in Kashmir only to go abroad and represent children at UNICEF, stretch out on a yoga mat, eat plant-based food for the environment and meditate at wellness clinics and think the world doesn't know what a front all of this is, is becoming harder to sustain.

[Riyaad Minty @Riy]

Heartbreaking to hear the news of his passing. He launched Al Jazeera back in 1996 and has been consistently advocating for justice throughout his life. So many of us have benefited from his contributions to the media world. May Allah have mercy on him and may his work continue to have an impact in the world.

[Al Jazeera Breaking News @AJENews]

BREAKING: Veteran Al Jazeera journalist Jamal Rayan has passed at the age of 73. Born on August 23, 1953, Jamal was the first news anchor to appear on Al Jazeera, reading the channel’s debut bulletin in November 1996.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

BREAKING: Authorities in Lebanon say the number of people forced from their homes by the Israeli war on Lebanon has reached 831,000, as attacks on the country continue.

🔴 LIVE updates: https://t.co/jeDfx279K2

[Riyaad Minty @Riy]

Maybe they should release more Epstein files to distract us from the war.

[TRT World Now @TRTWorldNow]

Lebanon says death toll from Israeli strikes across the country rises to at least 687

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

US-Israeli strikes on four oil facilities in Iran released oil and toxic fumes into the air, leading to hazardous rain. Residents have been told to stay indoors.

#Infograph

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Israel has killed tens of thousands of Palestinian women and girls in its genocidal war on Gaza.

On International Women's Day, we look at the number of women and girls Israel killed in Gaza in 2025.

#Infograph

[Riyaad Minty @Riy]

Türkiye’s defence system.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Turkiye says NATO defences have intercepted a ballistic missile launched from Iran before it entered Turkish airspace.

🔴 LIVE updates: https://t.co/2woHtPUcPc

[TRT World Now @TRTWorldNow]

Trump administration officials acknowledge in closed-door briefings with congressional staff that there was no intelligence suggesting Iran planned to attack US forces first, two people familiar with matter say. Jon Brain has more

[Chef José Andrés 🕊️🥘🍳 @chefjoseandres]

We have been told that Gaza’s borders are closed indefinitely. If they stay closed, @wckitchen will run out of food this week. We are cooking 1M hot meals every day. We need food deliveries every single day to feed hungry families who are not part of this war. All the NGOs in Gaza need more food, medicine, medical equipment, fuel, tents, personal care every day. We cannot wait...let the humanitarian trucks go through today! #ChefsForGaza

[Hamza Yusuf @Hamza_a96]

Side by side on the BBC website.

When Iranians are the victims, the perpetrator is not named and it’s reduced to a “reported” strike.

But when Israelis are the victims, the headline is unambiguous and it’s clearly attributed to an Iranian “missile attack”.

[Al Jazeera Breaking News @AJENews]

BREAKING: Iran's Khamenei has been killed, Iranian media say

🔴 LIVE updates: https://t.co/M560ZeKX8L

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🚨 The final number of dead at the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ school in Minab, southern Iran, is 108 school girls, a spokesperson for the Iranian Red Crescent Society said — more than half of the roughly 170 students who attend the school.

It remains unclear whether the strike was carried out by the U.S. or Israel. A CENTCOM spokesperson said they were “looking into” the reports.

Drop Site reported from the site of the massacre, speaking with families who lost their daughters. The school was reduced to rubble, and dozens of girls were trapped beneath collapsed concrete, with residents digging with their bare hands. Parents wandered through the debris in shock, calling out their children’s names. The full report is below.