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[SAREL 🌼 @Sarel_x]

Emily beeeen in Paris, I want her to go to Lagos or something. Let’s spice it up.

[Pop Base @PopBase]

The biggest mass funeral in Gaza was held this week for 112 people (including 44 children) that were killed in an Israeli strike on a residential block in 2023.

Their bodies were only recently recovered from the rubble in an operation that spanned across two weeks.

[Aaron @_AaronRyan]

Another banger, I’m afraid

[غزة 24 | التغطية مستمرة @Gaza24Live]

Al Jazeera Ends Contracts of 24 Gaza Journalists After Job-Security Assurances

Exclusive | Gaza24Live

GAZA — Al Jazeera has ended the contracts of 24 journalists and media workers in the Gaza Strip, according to members of the team, despite earlier assurances that they would be offered greater job security and future opportunities within the network.

The affected journalists said Al Jazeera director Asef Hamidi had reassured them in an email that they would not be abandoned and pledged to support their professional development and provide suitable positions across the network.

Instead, they said, their salaries were stopped and they were referred to a private company identified as “Media,” where they would be paid on a piecework basis without permanent contracts, insurance or clear employment protections.

The decision affected correspondents, camera operators and producers who covered the war in Gaza. Those named by the group include Mohammed Shaheen, Mohammed al-Sharif, Ayman al-Hissi, Hassan al-Zaanin and Ashraf al-Sarraj from northern Gaza, as well as Jamal Adwan, Alaa Salama, Ola Abu Muammar, Moaz al-Amour, Abdullah Abu Kamil and Talal al-Arouqi from southern Gaza.

Many of the journalists had previously worked for local and regional media organisations before Al Jazeera recruited them at the start of the war. They said they joined the network to bring Gaza’s story to a wider international audience and because they believed their relationship with the broadcaster was based on mutual professional commitments.

Some worked with the network for two to three years under bombardment and direct threats. Several were injured or suffered professional and personal losses, while others lost homes or family members but continued reporting.

In social media posts, the journalists accused the network of retreating from what they described as its moral and professional obligations. They said the transfer to an unstable piecework arrangement did not represent a fair alternative to their previous contracts or reflect the risks they had taken.

Some also raised concerns about a potential conflict of interest, alleging ties between officials at the private company and individuals with professional interests involving Al Jazeera. They said the head of a Gaza-based committee concerned with journalists’ protection also manages the company to which they were referred, and called for an independent review of the arrangement.

The journalists urged Al Jazeera to reverse the decision, honour its previous commitments and give them priority for future positions and projects.

They also called on the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate, rights groups and international media organisations to review their contracts and correspondence with the network and ensure that they are not compelled to accept work without legal protection, insurance or minimum job security.

The group said it was prepared to pursue legal action before Palestinian and international bodies, stressing that it was seeking fair treatment rather than exceptional privileges.

“We are asking for treatment that reflects the risks and sacrifices we endured during the war and protects our dignity and professional rights,” the journalists said.

[kira 👾 @kirawontmiss]

Thank you for your service Rihanna

[aba @user2419001]

Coming back to support England after tweeting that Ghana should obliterate them and send them back to the slums of Europe a few weeks ago

[Antonia Juelich @AntoniaJuelich]

In a hotel room in northeast Nigeria, I opened a leading AI chatbot, turned my laptop toward a former Boko Haram commander, and asked if he'd used it. He nodded.

"You type in the question… like 'How can I build a bomb?', and then it tells you how. It is like a human robot. We used it a lot."

My new study on how the jihadist terrorist group Boko Haram uses frontier AI with @CamAISciPolicy, covered today in @nytimes 🧵/9

[Biggest Mack @Big_Mck]

Once again, a reminder that this company now controls a flagship defense tech company in Nigeria.

[Pop Base @PopBase]

Palestinian goalkeeper Salim Al-Ashqar has been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza.

He leaves behind his wife of 5 months who is expecting their first child.

[Mohammad @MargBarAmerica]

This guy has sermons before he was senator where he says Israel is a colonial apartheid state. I look down on the character of someone like this even more than a lifelong Zionist.

[Aydin Dikerdem @AydinDikerdem]

It’s wild how Gaza is being erased from the narrative surrounding Starmer’s unpopularity. Over 50% of Labour switchers at the locals said it influenced them. It came up on the doorstep over & over again. It’s one of the greatest moral stains of our era. And yet media silence.

[Brooklyn @bklynb4by]

the job of uk prime minister being the irl equivalent of the defence against the dark arts teacher

[Sophia Benoit @1followernodad]

I think they should let the goalie wear the same jersey as his friends :(

[Lazzyyyyyy @em_Lazzy]

FIFA rejecting Haiti’s jersey’s for being “too political” while allowing Israel to play, & the US to host World Cup (while denying visas, restricting entrance, banning Iranian players from staying in country) is a selective, targeted invocation of their “neutrality” policies.

[First Lady @mayfred__]

I will tell my kids about tonight. And that last goal was for Kwame Nkrumah, you traitors of Pan-Africanism.

[zak🪡 @ZakKnowsBall]

so instead of showing the world cup opening ceremony i expect the bbc crew to give everyone watching a lecture about ethics and human rights like they did in 2022

[Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده @RamAbdu]

BREAKING: First image from the ongoing hearing of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya before the Israeli Supreme Court in occupied Jerusalem. The image shows signs of severe exhaustion, as well as apparent marks of torture and ill-treatment.

[nico 🏁 @bombdiggy__]

When it was Qatar 2022 BBC, Sky News and ITV News were doing segments for 40 days and 40 nights about human rights abuse and campaigning for alcohol to be allowed during the World Cup. But USA is refusing to allow a referee and Iran’s team in and they’ve gone quiet. Cowards