Taavi Sundell

Researcher @ProjectMIGDIA (funded by @KoneenSaatio, hosted by Finnish Institute in the Middle East and @helsinkiuni) #PoliticalEconomy #Education #Lebanon

[Visualizing Palestine @visualizingpal]

As students at 500+ U.S. universities protested Israel’s genocide in Gaza, a surge of Title VI antisemitism investigations & lawsuits overwhelmingly targeted speech critical of Israel or Zionism.

Our latest visual with @MESA_1966 examines the weaponization of Title VI.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Remember when targeting medics was a big deal?

Israel doesn’t even have to make excuses anymore because Western media mostly ignores it.

[Ali Hashem علي هاشم @Alihashem]

Israeli attack on Beirut’s southern suburb, more details to come.

[Zeina Khodr @ZeinakhodrAljaz]

Israel drones flying low altitude over central #Beirut and its southern suburbs ... strikes continue in multiple locations across southern #Lebanon

[Salah Hijazi @shijazi_tweets]

Woke up to the news of a ceasefire, two Israeli strikes and one operation by Hezbollah.
Nothing means anything anymore in this country

[Will Christou @will_christou]

The city of Tyre today after Israeli airstrikes.

[UNICEF Lebanon @UNICEFLebanon]

In just one week, 77 children were reportedly killed or injured in #Lebanon. That is 11 children every day.

Children should never pay the price of conflict.

They must be protected at all times. 

Hostilities must end.

[Rosemary Kelanic @RKelanic]

New reporting from Reuters indicates that Israel has issued evacuation orders covering 20% of Lebanon, far beyond the "buffer zone" it previously announced to the Litani River.

More than half of the evacuation orders were *north* of Litani.

Gaza tactics in Lebanon.

[Taavi Sundell @TaaviS]

'The Israeli army’s Arabic-language spokesperson has called on residents of all villages in South Lebanon located south of the #Zahrani River to evacuate northward, stating that all areas south of the river are now considered “combat zones.”' https://t.co/cVGJbIL31w

[Ali Hashem علي هاشم @Alihashem]

Two of southern Lebanon’s main cities, Tyre and Nabatieh, now face the direct threat of Israeli occupation. Israeli forces have advanced to within 5 km of Nabatieh, reaching Zawtar Al-Sharqieh, while residents of Tyre have already received evacuation orders.
The Lebanese government has no intention of mounting a military defense, leaving negotiations as its only recourse. Which is quite awkward. Hezbollah’s FPV drones can inflict costs on advancing Israeli forces, but cannot halt an invasion. Iran’s condition, that Israel refrain from attacking Beirut and the southern suburbs, carries no real operational weight, as Netanyahu is clearly pursuing a new facts-on-the-ground strategy regardless.
More Israeli soldiers will be killed as more Lebanese land will be taken. Our villages have been systematically razed over these past months, and now the cities themselves are in the crosshairs.
Anyone waiting for a quick resolution should abandon that hope. I don’t see this as a crisis that could be measured in weeks or months, it is a transformation, total transformation that’s could last for years. And they will not be years of quiet suffering, they will be long, grinding, destructive years, with no clear end and no promise of anything resembling normalcy.

[Zeina Khodr @ZeinakhodrAljaz]

The Israeli army has ordered the evacuation of the entire city of Tyre, nearby Palestinian refugee camps and villages - a day after ordering the evacuation of entire city of Nabatieh in southern #Lebanon

[Oliver Marsden @OliverGMarsden]

Over 3000 people have been killed in Lebanon by Israel since 2nd March, according to Lebanon’s ministry of health. A grim milestone, despite a so called “ceasefire” being in place for the last month.

[Taavi Sundell @TaaviS]

”The humanitarian relief system, decimated by cuts, faces a grave challenge as the Middle East war causes soaring costs for food, fuel and fertilizer.”

https://t.co/UcDDEEtU4c

[Taavi Sundell @TaaviS]

” #Israel has destroyed schools across southern #Lebanon and displaced hundreds of thousands of students. Hundreds of educational institutions have turned into makeshift shelters for thousands of displaced people” #Education #RightToEducation https://t.co/eLWLkNMvFJ

[Zeina Khodr @ZeinakhodrAljaz]

Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam says before the latest war, Israel occupied five positions, “Israel now controls 68 villages.”The area under Israeli control amounts to nearly half of the territory south of the Litani River

[Zeina Khodr @ZeinakhodrAljaz]

Lebanon health ministry statistics show 51 people were killed in Israeli strikes in the past 24 hours ... among the dead entire families ... there is no ceasefire ... #Lebanon

[Taavi Sundell @TaaviS]

The New York Times: #Israel Said It’s Applying the #Gaza Model in #Lebanon. This Is What the Devastation Looks Like.

https://t.co/epd1JqMaHl

[Zeina Khodr @ZeinakhodrAljaz]

More than 50 Israeli airstrikes and drone attacks across southern #Lebanon since this morning … preliminary reports 16 people killed and multiple injuries … as well as widespread damage …

[MERIP @meriponline]

NEW ISSUE: Campus Politics--Palestine and the New University Order is out today!

The issue features articles reflecting on two years of student protests & struggles for academic freedom & against authoritarianism in the US, Europe and the Middle East.

https://t.co/ZZuwjZ3IUi

[Ramzi Kaiss / رمزي قيس @kaiss_ramzi]

While demolishing thousands of homes in Lebanon, the IDF is also destroying infrastructure that is critical for people’s survival

Deliberately & extensively destroying civilian objects without military necessity is wanton destruction, a war crime