Ben Reiff

Deputy Editor-in-Chief @972mag | sometimes @_VashtiMedia | words in @guardian, @AJEnglish, @newstatesman, @thenation, @prospect_uk, @haaretzcom

[Ben Reiff @bentreyf]

Ok this might be the weirdest story I’ve ever reported on, involving:

• A totally fabricated “exclusive”
• A suspected pro-Netanyahu influence campaign
• An author whose biography is entirely made up

What on earth is going on at @JewishChron ?

https://t.co/aJeYacOsWt

[James J. Zogby @jjz1600]

Israel’s land-grab in Lebanon. 81 towns demolished & now evacuation of major cities: Tyre & Nabatieh. 3,200 Lebanese dead, over 1,000,000 displaced.

Why is the world silent? Don’t Lebanese lives matter? Why can Israel act w/impunity?

https://t.co/nUo9eA6WXq

[Alex Crawford @AlexCrawfordSky]

Urgent calls for restraint as the ancient city of Tyre is hit by multiple Israeli airstrikes following orders to leave from the Israeli military. The Israeli military has now declared the entire south of Lebanon a combat zone - covering 250-300 towns and villages. ‘We urge you to act now to stop this escalation’ - UN Peace ambassador appeals to global leaders @ambdanialachkar

[Andrew Feinstein @andrewfeinstein]

Nobody better represents Israeli politics today than Itamar Ben-Gvir: He may be the most brazen of the nation’s leaders, but his ideological spirit is found throughout its government, and beyond | Ben Reiff https://t.co/IlmvJIY3ju

[Ben Reiff @bentreyf]

@_LFI @gidonsaar https://t.co/mZihQ6AeOu

[Ben Reiff @bentreyf]

The Israeli government’s response to global outrage over Ben Gvir’s taunting of flotilla activists was to claim he’s “not the face of Israel.”

Except, he very much is – and it is high time the international community woke up to that reality.

My latest.

https://t.co/Dixe5dtMhD

[Ben Reiff @bentreyf]

The Israeli government’s response to global outrage over Ben Gvir’s taunting of flotilla activists was to claim he’s “not the face of Israel.”

Except, he very much is – and it is high time the international community woke up to that reality.

My latest.

https://t.co/Dixe5dtMhD

[+972 Magazine @972mag]

We’re publishing Sally Rooney in Hebrew, in line with BDS. Here’s how and why

By @Ha_Matar.

https://t.co/KP9mROLe4w

[The Listening Post @AJListeningPost]

Israel’s powerful settler movement is normalising the idea that the country should conquer new territory. And the media are helping them do it.

Maya Rosen and @bentreyf spoke with us about how the notion of a ‘Greater Israel’ went mainstream.

▶️ Full report https://t.co/RBAWcugb4Q

[Muhammad Shehada @muhammadshehad2]

🚨Exclusive: The Trump admin created this road map for the first 100 days of the new Gaza technocratic committee (NCAG) last Jan

112 days have passed & 0.00% of this plan was achieved. Not a single item progressed even 1%

NCAG remains a gov on paper b/c Israel wants it that way

Multiple NCAG members expressed intent to resign, but were asked to stay

Israel is conditioning any progress on NCAG's entry into Gaza or reconstruction on Hamas & all Palestinian factions accepting absolute surrender & total disarmament of every single weapon they have down to pistols & tasers (all without Israeli withdrawal from Gaza)

Trump's High Representative to Gaza, Nickolay Mladenov, fully embraced this Israeli condition & told Palestinian factions to accept the proposal or else Israel would be absolved of all its obligations under the Trump plan & would get a free hand to resume its full-scale assault on Gaza

This maximalist proposal is deliberately designed to get Palestinians to reject it, in order for Israel to get its way

Here, I reveal the full details of Mladenov's proposal & why it's deliberately unworkable: https://t.co/Pv1u93jGCR

[Shayan Sardarizadeh @Shayan86]

In the Gaza Strip, left devastated by war, the daily battles are now with rats, urban weasels and other pests spreading diseases.

Social media footage show newborn babies and the sick and elderly after being attacked by rodents.

https://t.co/W8DZQmEEoI

[Reuters @Reuters]

Israel quietly issued new maps that show its forces now control nearly two-thirds of Gaza, with a new orange line extending beyond the area agreed to in the October ceasefire https://t.co/GFfiVoGhbg

[Evan Hill @evanhill]

"Much of what they do now isn't directly fighting Hezbollah, but systematically destroying buildings in southern Lebanon.

'The only mission is to continue the destruction,' one officer said. 'There is no other mission.' The IDF believes this systematic destruction of Shi'ite villages will prevent villagers from returning home."

https://t.co/lq0SlhGlNW

[Ben Reiff @bentreyf]

Join @_VashtiMedia and @Equatormag on May 7 for a webinar on Israel’s accelerating policies of erasure amid the Iran war, from brilliant Palestinian journalists on the front lines: @mrmhawish, @MariamBarghouti, @basel_adra, and @Hamza_a96.

Tickets below.

https://t.co/ef8U95ohsC

[Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian @manniefabian]

Dozens of Israeli settler activists breached the border into Syria a short while ago, before being escorted out by the army.

The activists, who called themselves the Bashan Pioneers, say they barricaded themselves in a building on the outskirts of the Syrian town of Hader until the Israeli government approves settlements in Syria.

According to the IDF, some 30 activists entered Syria by around half a kilometre. Troops then took the activists back to Israel and handed them over to the police.

[Ben Reiff @bentreyf]

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[Shayan Sardarizadeh @Shayan86]

Newly released aerial footage shows the extent of damage and destruction in the town of Bint Jbeil in southern Lebanon as a result of the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah.

Video: @AmitSegal

Location: 33.116790, 35.436409

@GeoConfirmed

[Ben Reiff @bentreyf]

Israel is now effectively annexing territory in southern Lebanon as it did in Gaza, and is busy destroying the villages inside it despite the ceasefire

[افيخاي ادرعي @AvichayAdraee]

#عاجل ينشر جيش الدفاع نطاق خط الدفاع الأمامي الذي تعمل فيه قواته في جنوب لبنان لمنع تهديد مباشر على بلدات الشمال

🔸في هذه الأيام تعمل خمس فرق عسكرية إلى جانب قوات سلاح البحرية بشكل متزامن جنوب خط الدفاع الأمامي في جنوب لبنان لتدمير البنى التحتية التابعة لحزب الله في المنطقة ومنع تهديد مباشر على بلدات الشمال.

[Ben Reiff @bentreyf]

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[Ahmad Baydoun @weatherwar]

Mapped the IDF's newly declared "Forward Defense Zone" in south Lebanon. Its maritime boundary fully absorbs Lebanon's Qana gas field, whose exploration rights were explicitly guaranteed under the 2022 US-brokered maritime border agreement.

More maps in this thread 🧵

[Mona Fawaz @mona_fawaz]

IDF Setting Up More Outposts in Southern Lebanon:
"We're behaving just like we did in Gaza," one army source said. "There's a list of homes to be demolished, and we measure success based on the number of buildings destroyed in a day.”

https://t.co/AVKD6jzmXK

[Channel 4 Dispatches @C4Dispatches]

‘There was permission to kill 300 people as collateral damage.’

Israeli intelligence whistleblowers expose the ‘non-human’ targeting system in Gaza, where strikes are approved in minutes, as more than 70,000 have been killed in Gaza since October 7th.

[Ben Reiff @bentreyf]

To be absolutely clear: At no point did the article ever claim your research as my own. Raising awareness of such stories is our role as journalists, and I tried to do so with respect and clear acknowledgment of your own work.

[Ben Reiff @bentreyf]

Hi Hadeel, all the personal photos we received from the podcast producers have been removed — we understood from them that you and Talal had consented to their use, but evidently there was a miscommunication along the way, for which we again apologize. 🧵

[Hadeel @gazawia]

two years ago i gave an interview to a podcast. i trusted them with my story and access to my archives as background. they worked hard to get the story out, and in the process, 972 picked up the story. however 🧵

[Ben Reiff @bentreyf]

It is regrettable that you felt the need to accuse us publicly of stealing your work and misusing the photos when we agreed to all of your reasonable requests promptly and tried repeatedly to resolve further misunderstandings privately, with no response.