Donatella Rovera

Senior Crisis Adviser @Amnesty International - Investigating War Crimes & Human Rights Abuses ⚖️ in Conflicts/Crisis - Views r my own - RT not endorsement

[Donatella Rovera @DRovera]

I spent the past few weeks investigating bombardments of residential buildings & extrajudicial executions by #Russia’s forces north of #Kyiv in #Ukraine. Prima facile evidence of #WarCrimes .

[Democracy Now! @democracynow]

A major new report by the Israeli human rights group B’Tselem titled “The Elimination Project” accuses Israel of “dramatically intensifying its attacks on every aspect of Palestinian life in the West Bank.”

Ori Givati, director of international relations at B’Tselem, says tactics against Palestinians intensified with Israel’s 2022 election and again after October 7, 2023, adding that “we are definitely seeing a lot of the mechanisms, the tools that were used and are used still … in Gaza, being implemented in the West Bank.”

We also speak with Mohammad Sha’ban, a Palestinian farmer from Halhul in the Hebron area of the occupied West Bank, says 11 gates and seven settler outposts have been installed around Halhul since 2025. “We cannot reach our lands. We cannot go outside Halhul. They open only one gate from 8 o’clock until 5 o’clock every day,” says Sha’ban. Settlers “attack farmers, beat farmers … damaging our cars, also damaging our fields, uprooting our trees.”

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[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Not only did Netanyahu commit genocide in Gaza. Now he's threatening Israeli filmmakers who exposed it with criminal charges and attempting to strip citizenship from anyone who "defames" soldiers.

NO MORE U.S. TAXPAYER FUNDING FOR THE EXTREMIST NETANYAHU GOVERNMENT IN ISRAEL

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

Did Benjamin Netanyahu’s aides peddle influence to a foreign power? Ruth Margalit reports on the Qatargate scandal roiling Israel just weeks ahead of the general election. https://t.co/BazAfHCWsN

[Michael Young @BeirutCalling]

Must read by Marc Lynch, on how the conflicts of the Middle East are being transregionalized. I would expand this view outside the region to say that Pakistani-Indian tensions have now also been integrated into Arab-Turkish-Israeli tensions, with Pakistan aligning with Saudi Arabia and Turkey, and India aligning with Israel. We also saw a similar trend in Central Asia, with the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict representing one dimension of Turkey’s and Israel’s rivalry with Iran. What this means is that, in the midst of an emerging multipolar global order, resolution of these conflicts and the risks associated with them have become that much more complex: https://t.co/IAD2O4Q8y3

[Christiane Amanpour @amanpour]

Saudi Arabia's plea for support from the US in combating the Houthis fell on deaf ears this week. From my archives, recalling when the US did come to Saudi Arabia’s aid in the 1990s and trained their defence forces to face future threats.

[Gideon Levy @gideonle]

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[Reuters @Reuters]

Israeli troops remain in south Lebanon as Hezbollah refuses to disarm fully, leaving local farmers and tradespeople struggling to rebuild their livelihoods

[Michael Sfard מיכאל ספרד @sfardm]

New Yorkers:
A reminder that this Wednesday a book launch event will be held for my book "Occupation From Within: How Israel’s Oppression of Palestinians Turned Inwards".
Cosponsored by @NewIsraelFund and the The Taub at @nyuniversity.
Below link for reservations
See you!

[Alice Rothchild, MD @AliceRothchild]

I believe that full expulsion has been the Israeli intent from the beginning. It's the responsibility of the US & the int'l community to prevent this from happening. https://t.co/jfs0OYmD7F

[Ihab Hassan @IhabHassane]

A horrific video shows Israeli settler children attacking Palestinian children in the village of Sinjil in the West Bank today.

Israeli settlers sending their children to attack Palestinians is disgusting child abuse.

[Helen Clark @HelenClarkNZ]

“Last 4 years have seen sustained assault on machinery of liberal democracy by most rightwing govt since Israel’s establishment in 1948: committed… attempt to remove checks & restraints on its power, installing instead a kind of elective dictatorship” https://t.co/3Ttw4sKXni

[Gideon Levy @gideonle]

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[Shaiel Ben-Ephraim @academic_la]

After the Israeli police decided not to prosecute Channel 14 for incitement to violence, they aired this segment where popular "analyst" Shimon Riklin goes full genocidal to celebrate. Even by Israeli media standards, this one is shocking.

[Alon-Lee Green - ألون-لي جرين - אלון-לי גרין 🟣 @AlonLeeGreen]

ככה נראה רצח. עלאא מחאמיד, בן 35 מאום אל פאחם, נורה על ידי השוטר פעמיים בחזה כשכבר שכב על הרצפה ולא היווה איום. אם הוא היה יהודי אין סיכוי בעולם שזה היה נגמר ברצח משטרתי. אבל בגלל שעלאא הוא אזרח ערבי דמו מותר. אסור לוותר על הצדק ועל הזכות לחיים. ניפגש ב-17 להפגין באום אל פאחם.

[Katrina vandenHeuvel @KatrinaNation]

Nan Goldin on the War in Gaza: “It’s the Holocaust on Our Phones” | https://t.co/a1RGulLwYc

[Ben Bartenstein @BenBartenstein]

INVESTIGATION: Inside the US military “kill chain” that destroyed a school and killed 123 children in Iran.

Pentagon investigators discovered that flawed intelligence, outdated imagery and an overreliance on AI contributed to the disaster.

https://t.co/lwzbRo4uqd @business

[Haaretz.com @haaretzcom]

Report: Israeli strike killed Gaza teen as he approached wounded paramedic https://t.co/1wQxN2etk1

[Barak Ravid @BarakRavid]

עמוס הראל כותב: סערת נז"א לא שינתה את השורה התחתונה - ישראל ביצעה בעזה פשעי מלחמה
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[Joshua Landis @joshua_landis]

The main stream press claims Israel is getting a 2.8 billion arms "sale." But it isn't a sale.

The U.S. taxpayer is footing the entire purchase. Israel uses U.S. aid money to pay for it.

Last year, the Trump administration approved a nearly $3 billion sale to Israel that included more than 35,500 of the bombs. The administration then approved a new series of arms sales to Israel totaling $6.67 billion in January. And now the extra $2.8 billion.

"Trump administration plans to send powerful bombs to Israel in $2.8 billion weapons "sale"

The billions required to fulfill the $6.67 billion January order—including the procurement of Apache attack helicopters and tactical vehicles—are drawn from the U.S. Foreign Military Financing (FMF) program. FMF consists of grants Congressionally appropriated using American tax revenue, effectively meaning the money moves from the U.S. Treasury straight to American defense manufacturers on Israel's behalf.

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[+972 Magazine @972mag]

“Faced with an unending flood of images of dead Palestinians, the paradoxical response of much of the Israeli public is: ‘There are no dead children in Gaza, and it’s good that we killed them.’”

By Ron Dudai, from August 2025.

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