Samir Beharić

PhD Candidate @uni_bamberg_of | @BiEPAG Programme Manager @Balkan_Fund | PEYR Member @eucoeyouth | VP @OCEANS_Network | EU - WB, Migration, Human Rights

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

Palestinian baby killed by Israeli gunfire in West Bank, health ministry says https://t.co/ajPzM7n4PF

[Tamer Nahed @Tamer_Alnoaizy]

One of the most horrifying scenes in human history has been revealed.

When Israel forced thousands in Gaza to collect flour mixed with sand due to severe famine.

A moment the world must never forget.

[The Saviour @TheSaviour]

🇵🇸💔A father bids farewell to his 7-month-old infant, Sam, who was killed by Israeli forces after being shot in the head.

[aleksandre @blentostamin_]

srbija poslednjih 26 godina

[Nataša Pirc Musar @nmusar]

Genocid nad Palestinci ni ustavljen in ljudje v Gazi in na Zahodnem bregu ne živijo v miru in dostojanstvu. Danes izobešena zastava Palestine na pročelju Predsedniške palače, ki bo tu ostala en teden, potem pa bo, kot opomin vsem, ki obiščejo moj urad, stala v notranjih prostorih, pa pomeni še mnogo več. Je simbol grobih kršitev mednarodnega humanitarnega prava in človekovih pravic ne samo v Palestini, pač pa tudi drugod po svetu. Je preprost klic k spoštovanju temeljnega civilizacijskega načela: človekovega dostojanstva - za vse.

[Anna Sauerbrey @annakatrein]

This wasn't just a vote on whether Germany should be a non-permanent member of the Security Council. It was a vote on Germany's standing in the world.

https://t.co/HDXznkUlZW

[Samir Beharić @SamBeharic]

@mprelec Without engaging with your assessment, sharing inaccurate maps does not strengthen the argument being made here. Quite the contrary.

This ethnic map of BiH contains numerous mistakes and was made to be, either intentionally or unintentionally, clearly misleading.

[Jasmin Mujanović @JasminMuj]

Lengthy, detailed reporting from @InsiderEng re: Bosnian Serb secessionist Dodik’s sharp uptick in contacts with Russia - twice visiting Moscow in May - and the increasingly incomprehensible US decision to lift sanctions vs. him and his regime. https://t.co/hYSAFl65ch

[Dylan Williams @dylanotes]

So @NYCMayor Mamdani was absolutely right about the Israel Day parade.

https://t.co/UnF4FDfffV

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

Now that Gaza lies in ruins—shattered, like a beloved face after a long brutality—Israel moves with a terrible confidence to the next act: The act of leaving every soul there not merely wounded, but permanently disabled. Injured, sick, hungry, homeless, without work, without hope. This is not war’s collateral damage. This is design.

As my friend Gideon Levy writes—and he knows, he knows—this is the prelude to expulsion. Think of it: a society without teachers, without doctors, without social workers, without engineers, without clerks. That is not a society. That is a holding pen. A slow erasure. And when nothing functions—no school, no hospital, no office, no heart—then it becomes ‘easy,’ they tell themselves, to scatter the people to the four corners of the earth. Like seeds from a broken pod, except no soil will take them.

We must name this. Not with rage alone, though rage is honest. But with the cold, clear tears of recognition: they are making life impossible so that departure becomes the only ‘choice.’ And the world watches, adjusts its spectacles, and calls for restraint. Restraint! There is no restraint in a slow drowning.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Israel just carried out another horrific massacre in South Lebanon.

Dropping massive bombs near Jabal Amel Hospital in Tyre — wiping out 3 apartment blocks full of civilians.

People are still buried under the rubble.

This is an American-backed, American-funded genocide.

[Hadi @HadiNasrallah]

Israel completely destroyed Hussein’s restaurant and resort in southern Lebanon. One of the most beautiful places in the south is now ashes

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🔴 NEW: An Israeli drone strike on a motorcycle in Adoussiyeh, south Lebanon, killed a couple and left their young child wounded and bloodied, and crying beside their bodies, according to local reports and footage from the scene.

Journalist Hadi Hoteit said the strike hit near Ghaziyeh, between Sidon and Tyre, in an area many residents believed was safe.

[Rafael Shimunov 🍉 🕎 @rafaelshimunov]

Come with me as I learn about each person at the official Israeli delegation at today's Israel Day Parade in New York City.

These are the people some of my fellow Jewish and other New Yorkers demanded Mayor Mamdani stand with today.

🧵

[Nedad Memić @NedadMemic]

Today, we commemorate the #WhiteArmbandDay remembering the beginning of an unprecedented ethnic cleansing campaign against the Bosniak and Croat population of Bosnia's Prijedor perpetrated by local Serb nationalist authorities. 3,176 persons were killed, among them 102 children.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Who is killing children in Lebanon @Reuters?

[Alex Crawford @AlexCrawfordSky]

One of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world - the ancient city of Tyre - designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site for its incredible historical sites. This is what it looks like today following multiple Israeli airstrikes.

[Jonathan Guyer @mideastXmidwest]

Samantha Power, at last, addresses Gaza's Problem from Hell

"I don't just get up and decide today what US foreign policy is," she told the University of Notre Dame this week. "That is the price of being in government."

The comments were perhaps the most in-depth to date on why the Pulitzer-winning author of A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide stayed on in the Biden administration throughout the Gaza catastrophe, which many have documented as a genocide.

Biden's former USAID administrator spoke at the 32nd Annual Hesburgh Lecture in Ethics and Public Policy, hosted by the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. Notably she did not discuss Gaza or Palestine during her prepared remarks, but a student posed a question to her in the Q&A.

Here is my quick transcription of this remarkable exchange.

Student: In your book, A Problem from Hell, you criticize US's passivity in watching genocide unfold. You also recognize the power of using the word genocide, the G-word, in recognizing genocide. Yet, as you yourself held a position of power in government, you failed to call out the genocide in Gaza, referring to it more as a humanitarian crisis. Given the importance of recognizing genocide and acting on genocide, I'm wondering why you did not name the genocide in Gaza and when you were in a position of power and if you continue to hold that.

SAMANTHA POWER: Thank you. Yeah, I mean, Gaza was the most difficult humanitarian crisis I worked in, certainly at USAID and probably my whole career.

My job was to get food and medicine to the people who were living in Gaza, who were not getting access to clean water, to electricity, to adequate medicine, and of course, were suffering in many cases from acute severe malnutrition.

While I know that there's an impulse on the outside for any official, especially a senior official who has the privilege that I had, to make my own foreign policy, that's not what happens when you go into the government. I don't just get up and decide today what US foreign policy is.

I certainly as somebody who wasn't then, and I'm not now, looking at evidence as a lawyer, and I'm trying to get food from Point A to Point B with my men, and above all I'm supporting my teams, who are doing God's work 24-7 to do that, and failing by the way a lot of the time, because of the obstruction by the Israeli government. But when you are in government, that is the price of being in government.

It was a very different, analogous circumstance, but on Syria, I had lots of debates and discussions with President Obama on the "red line" and what to do, and this and that. Once I have failed to convince someone within the Situation Room about a course of action that I might favor, then I'm out there representing the administration's position. And for some of you, that is just going to be too big a price to pay.

For me to have the opportunity every day to get food from Point A to Point B, it was worth all of the understandable criticism that comes from outside. Like I totally respect your position, your frustration… But for me to have resigned and not be doing that work, also not be doing energy repair—not that I was doing it personally—but supporting energy repair in Ukraine when Putin's taking out the energy, not supporting girls education online for the Afghan girls and women who'd been taken out of classrooms by the Taliban. We were doing so much every day that seemed really significant and impactful.

The price of being part of a team that can do that great work, an administration that can do that great work, is you are going to be part of what the president ultimately decides the policies and the positions are. So other people might have handled it differently, could have decided that it was better to be back in academia and criticizing from outside, or again mustering evidence as a lawyer even to judge intent and whether the intent rose to the level of genocide.

My view was I had the greatest job in the world to try to do as much good as I could in the fleeting time that I had in that position.

[The Associated Press @AP]

BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV makes historic apology for Holy See's own role in legitimizing slavery and for failing to condemn it for centuries. https://t.co/cQz8oU5Wkh

[Al Jazeera Breaking News @AJENews]

BREAKING: Flotilla activists report rape and torture after Israeli abduction at sea

🔴 LIVE updates: https://t.co/EXtzKdvYl0