Serena Bilanceri

Journalist and author, foreign correspondent for the Middle East. Half of the year based in Germany, half of the year in Jordan. Currently in Jerusalem.

[Serena Bilanceri @Serenab9]

Rockets in the sky and sirens on the ground, once again... #amman #IranWar‌ #jordan

[Serena Bilanceri @Serenab9]

Here we go again... Jets heard in the sky and a couple of explosions in the distance from Amman. #Iran #usa #israel #jordan

[Dominic Johnson @kongoecho]

TAZ @tazgezwitscher reporter @Serenab9, currently based in Israel, flew to Vienna to receive a journalism award - and was forced to surrender her laptop at Ben Gurion airport. TAZ editor @BarbaraJunge describes what happened next:
https://t.co/JYc0JPv1WS

[Serena Bilanceri @Serenab9]

My laptop is back. Destroyed. The screen remains black. All the data on it, work data, the last reportage I thought I had saved somewhere else, but it turns out I didn't - lost. They broke it even physically. Big financial damage. I am incredibly angry. #Israel #pressfreedom

[Serena Bilanceri @Serenab9]

Oh, and my still valid visa was no longer inside my passport, way before the official passport control. So, even if I wanted to give back the boarding card (no checked-in baggage), renounce to fly, reclaim my laptop and go back to Jerusalem, it would have not been possible.

[Serena Bilanceri @Serenab9]

One week ago, I was supposed to collect a #journalistic #award in Vienna. That joy was troubled by having my laptop, my work laptop, confiscated by #Israeli security at #BenGurion airport in #TelAviv.🧵 #PressFreedom #Israel #Palestine

[Serena Bilanceri @Serenab9]

...when a colleague wanted to go collect it in Wien yesterday, nobody seemed to know where it was.
Today I was told that it will arrive in Jerusalem tomorrow morning. Let's see.

[Timo Dorsch @TiD00r]

Über Inhalt und Intention des Briefs, generell über die ganze Kritik an diesem falschen Hilfsmechanismus, sprach mein Kollege @othman_riad mit @Serenab9. 3/3 https://t.co/QezbNreFd0

[RESILIENCE @resilienceRI]

@Serenab9, a free journalist covering news in among others the Middle East, was awarded today the Piazza Grande Journalism Award @RJournalists during @eu_are's General Assembly at the University of Vienna.
Congratulations, Serena!

What does the award mean to her personally and for her work as a journalist?

[Serena Bilanceri @Serenab9]

Interesting interview, particularly now, in light of what's happening https://t.co/dHz9CAIxPk

[Charles Lister @Charles_Lister]

When your intel is precise enough that you don’t just know what room he’s in, you know where in the room.

This strike killed a senior #Iran leader, in #Tehran.

(Puts #Gaza into some perspective…)

[Serena Bilanceri @Serenab9]

Several #missiles intercepted over #Jerusalem just minutes ago, we heard the #explosions... #Israel #Iran

[Serena Bilanceri @Serenab9]

While #Israel strikes commanders and nuclear facilities in #Iran, the #Westbank is under internal closure, with freedom of movement in-between towns completely prevented, according to sources.

[Charles Lister @Charles_Lister]

NEW -- #Israel has launched major airstrikes in #Syria tonight.

- x11 strikes at #Hama military airport
- x2 strikes at T4 Airbase
- x1 strike at the Barzeh Scientific Research Center in #Damascus.

[Warfare Analysis @warfareanalysis]

⚡ An Israeli airstrike targeted the Scientific Research Building in the Barzeh Housing neighborhood of the Syrian capital, Damascus.

[Serena Bilanceri @Serenab9]

Anfang März wurden bei einem #Massaker in #Syrien hunderte vorwiegend #alawitische Zivilisten getötet. Ich habe mit mehr als ein Dutzend Menschen aus der Region gesprochen. Eine Rekonstruktion des Geschehens. https://t.co/exp2oqfkuO

[Daniel Gerlach @DanielGerlach1]

Syria's Alawites are not 'remnants' of the Assad regime. Having worked and engaged with representatives of this community for more than 10 years, I am quite sure that, for the exception of a tiny minority, Alawites do not wish the return of the Assads. 1/4