Sylvène Gilchrist

I'm a news and documentary producer/director at the CBC. She/Her

[Kim Ghattas @KimGhattas]

What this means is that Israel's goal is to make sure no one is going back to these villages... for a long time... Unbearably painful. Mhaibib is home to a historical site.

[Sylvène Gilchrist @Sylvene_G]

RT @annie_sparrow: "...because somebody shot you and we couldn't save you, Mom... "

Every day, Israel forces violently target medical pers…

[Kenneth Roth @KenRoth]

Back to Israel's starvation strategy: "In August, approximately 700 hundred aid trucks entered northern Gaza. In September, only 400 aid trucks entered....No food trucks have entered northern Gaza in October," says @WFP. https://t.co/V6R7Dv3liE

[The Walrus @thewalrus]

Part personal reflection and part analysis, @Pacinthe muses on the complex duty of being a journalist covering the Gaza conflict: reporting the truth and challenging the sterilized narratives that silence Palestinian voices.

https://t.co/2xGcxXXCni

[Rania Abouzeid @Raniaab]

He rescued two women, but he said that “otherwise I didn’t remove anybody alive. They were mainly body parts. There was a child of about seven we retrieved in pieces. I put him in a bag.” The war in #Lebanon escalates. My dispatch for
@NewYorker https://t.co/Hkkgtg3IoY

[Sylvène Gilchrist @Sylvene_G]

Laughter as Healing in Times of Crisis https://t.co/1cxpfZfqsm

[The Paris Review @parisreview]

The Paris Review mourns the loss of Edna O’Brien (1930–2024). In celebration of her life and work, we’ve unlocked her Art of Fiction interview from our archive.

https://t.co/RjQnKtdpro

[davidrieff @davidrieff]

Words fail:
We Volunteered at a Gaza Hospital. What We Saw Was Unspeakable. - POLITICO https://t.co/hfKmyVW3LE

[Selina Cheng @selina_cheng]

Today I was fired from the Wall Street Journal.

This is my statement:

[Lindsey Hilsum @lindseyhilsum]

Nine months on, Israel still doesn’t allow foreign journalists independent access to #Gaza. The Foreign Press Association in Israel says ‘It raises questions about what Israel doesn’t want us to see.’ Indeed it does.

[Declan Walsh @declanwalsh]

Gift link to the story: https://t.co/FUEmxWKkH6

[Geoffrey York @geoffreyyork]

Benjamin Zalman-Polun, reportedly an American cannabis entrepreneur, was among about 20 men captured by Congo’s military today in Kinshasa after a failed rebellion led by Christian Malanga, head of a small political party in the DRC diaspora in the United States.

[RSF @RSF_inter]

#Gambia🇬🇲: In a landmark verdict, a Swiss court has sentenced former Jammeh’s Interior Minister to 20 years in prison for crimes against humanity, including torture of 2 journalists. RSF recalls the next important step for justice is to hold Jammeh accountable.
https://t.co/NPuUjnjmqQ

[Granta @GrantaMag]

We are saddened to hear of Alice Munro’s death. In memory of her life and work, four of her stories have been unlocked from behind the paywall and are free for all to read.

[The Paris Review @parisreview]

We at the Review mourn the loss of Alice Munro (1931–2024). In memory of her life and work, we’ve unlocked her Art of Fiction interview from our archive.

https://t.co/1G1Qgtss2C

[Mark Critch @markcritch]

RIP Rex Murphy. Long before I played him on 22, he worked with my dad at VOCM. When Rex came on, dad would shush the house. You might not always agree with what he had to say but oh, could he say it. I hope he makes it home to Gooseberry Cove. https://t.co/Wx8CTOzPSk

[Committee to Protect Journalists @pressfreedom]

Three out of four journalists killed globally in 2023 were killed during the Israel-Gaza war between October 7 and December 31.

The majority of these journalists were Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza.

https://t.co/OvAnSdt8qC

[Foreign Press Assoc. @FPAIsPal]

FPA Statement regarding Al Jazeera closure

[Ghassan Abu Sitta, Chair of Conflict Medicine AUB @GhassanAbuSitt1]

I am at Charles De Gaule airport. O was supposed to speak in tge French parliament. They are preventing me from entering France. They say the Germans put a 1 year ban on my entry to Europe

[بسنت عماد الدين عبدالمنعم محمود مطر @Pacinthe]

Listen live to @Columbia’s student-run radio @WKCRFM as they report on the arrests of fellow anti-war protestors, the presence of police dogs on campus, confusing shelter in place instructions, including barricading students indoors which is a fire hazard. https://t.co/puWGKCgMBK