jerome Matagne

Entrepreneur, engineer and dad. Travelling the world and trying to make it fairer, more compassionate, and more tolerant.

[Tamer Nahed @Tamer_Alnoaizy]

One of the most brutal scenes in human history has been leaked.

An Israeli soldier filmed this clip using a drone camera while proudly boasting about the destruction of all homes in Gaza.

A moment the world must never forget.

[Richard Sanders @PulaRJS]

- @AlexCrawfordSky is doing something fascinating and it is drawing a lot of heat.

She is reporting on Arabs as if they were white people.

[Anderson Cooper 360° @AC360]

In the occupied West Bank, Israeli settler violence is surging again as the Iran war takes much of the world's focus. After one attack, Israeli soldiers who echo settler ideology assaulted a CNN photojournalist and detained the rest of the CNN team. Jeremy Diamond reports.

[Sarah Wilkinson @swilkinsonbc]

CNN team in Palestine are brutally detained by israeli troops aiding & abetting to steal land & enable attacks on locals | via @WarFrontIntel

[Dr. Ezzideen @ezzingaza]

🚨 A famine is beginning to form in Gaza.

Not suddenly and not with a dramatic proclamation, but slowly and almost invisibly, in the ordinary places where life once continued without thought.

In the markets, for example. Only a few days ago the stalls were still crowded with the small evidence of daily life: tomatoes piled in red heaps, cucumbers laid carefully beside them, onions hanging in bundles, frozen foods stacked in quiet rows. Nothing abundant and nothing luxurious, but enough for people to pass through the market with the familiar question of every household: What shall we cook today?

Now that question has begun to disappear.

Over the past days the number of trucks permitted to enter Gaza has declined sharply. Each truck that does not arrive leaves behind an absence that is immediately felt. First the variety of goods diminishes, then the quantity, and soon even the simplest foods begin to vanish.

For three days vegetables and fruits have become rare. Frozen foods, once ordinary and unremarkable, have almost disappeared. The vendors remain behind their stalls, but many of them now stand beside tables that are nearly empty.

It is a strange sight and a painful one. The habit of selling remains, but the goods themselves are gone.

Yesterday traders received another piece of news. The coordination fees required for trucks entering Gaza will rise again.

To those outside this system, the word coordination may sound administrative and harmless. In practice it means that intermediaries in Israel and Egypt demand enormous sums of money in order for trucks to pass. The cost for a single truck can reach a quarter of a million dollars.

Thus a situation emerges in which food may exist just beyond the borders of Gaza and yet remain inaccessible to those who need it.

Gas is also becoming scarce.

Since the beginning of the war between Iran and Israel, only ten gas trucks have entered Gaza.

Ten trucks for a population of more than two million people. Under normal circumstances this quantity would sustain life for less than a day.

At the same time the World Food Programme has begun reducing its operations in community kitchens across the territory because supplies are running dangerously low.

These kitchens have become the final thread holding together the daily survival of many families. Tens of thousands of people depend entirely on these meals. During the war they lost their work, their businesses, their farms, or the small incomes that once allowed them to buy food in the markets.

Even when food appears in the market, many can no longer afford it.

For them these prepared meals are not assistance. They are life itself.

When the markets empty, when gas disappears, and when humanitarian kitchens begin to reduce their work, a pattern begins to reveal itself.

These are not simply shortages. They are the first quiet movements of famine.

Famine rarely announces itself loudly. It does not arrive with a declaration that the world can easily recognize. Instead it approaches gradually through the accumulation of small and seemingly ordinary changes.

A truck that does not come. A stall that stands empty. A meal that cannot be cooked.

Only later, when the suffering becomes undeniable does the world understand that famine had already begun long before anyone spoke its name.

For this reason it is necessary to watch Gaza carefully now.

Because famine never begins with death.
It begins with silence. And that silence has already begun.

#WoundedGaza

[sarah @sahouraxo]

BREAKING

Belgium’s MEP Marc Botenga:

“You claim to stand with the people of Iran while you offer European bases to US killing machines.

While you support Israel’s chemical warfare as they poison the air of Tehran with toxic fires and black rain, spreading cancers for decades.

From Iran, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria and Iraq — your bombs never brought democracy and never will.

They bring chaos. Death. Destruction. And the unbearable silence of children who will never come home.”

[MSF International @MSF]

“We were all targeted. As long as you work in the medical field, you are a target..”

In Gaza City, Suhail describes what it was like working for a medical organisation but being trapped as Israeli forces bombed and besieged Al-Shifa hospital. 

Watch the documentary: https://t.co/1OHEGvdk3R

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: The U.S. was responsible for a missile strike on an Iranian school, an ongoing military investigation found. The inquiry said the strike — which Iranian officials said killed at least 175 people — was the result of a targeting mistake. https://t.co/88FIdIJOQi

[Amnesty International @amnesty]

Over the past 29 months the devastating, multilayered impact of Israel’s ongoing genocide has pushed Palestinian women and girls in the occupied Gaza Strip to the brink.

Women in Gaza are being denied the conditions needed to live and to give life safely.

Read more 👇 https://t.co/AD2A0YDJ9o

[sarah @sahouraxo]

BREAKING:

France’s former PM Dominique de Villepin calls for sanctions against Israel and the US over their attacks on Iran:

“We say clearly to the United States that their war against Iran is illegal, illegitimate, and dangerous.”

🇫🇷

[Shaiel Ben-Ephraim @academic_la]

The mission last night is a window into Zionism. The IDF went into Lebanon to try to find the remains of Ron Arad, who died decades ago. They did so even though his widow, Tami Arad did not want to put lives at risk to do so. 41 Lebanese were killed in the mission which failed. It is an example of how Israel prioritizes the remains of a Jew over dozens of Arab lives and how Netanyahu will kill as many people as it takes, and ignore the wishes of the bereaved in order to get his photo-op.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨THIS IS CRAZZYYY: The United States Secretary of Defense just said this out loud:

“Flying over their capital. Death and destruction from the sky all day long. We’re playing for keeps.”

Tehran has a population denser than New York City.

“Death and destruction from the sky all day long.”

Those are human beings. Families. Children.

And the man controlling the most powerful military on earth is describing their deaths like a movie trailer.

Six soldiers dead. An illegal war built on lies.

No congressional vote. No plan.

And this is who’s running it.

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

This is such a such an important video that the mainstream media CNN FOX News etc can never ever stream it

I truly wish all the Americans had watched this video

See how these sold out traitors shows 0 respect and gives 0 value to Marine Sgt. Brian McGuinness for sake of Israel

[Pedro Sánchez @sanchezcastejon]

The world, Europe, and Spain have faced this critical moment before. In 2003, a few irresponsible leaders dragged us into an illegal war in the Middle East that brought nothing but insecurity and pain.

Our response then must be our response now:

NO to violations of international law.

NO to the illusion that we can solve the world’s problems with bombs.

NO to repeating the mistakes of the past.

NO TO WAR.
https://t.co/KpRjBfwY4B

[MSF International @MSF]

“They made you feel like you committed a crime just for continuing to serve patients.”

🎥 Our staff in Gaza recount how they've seen first-hand how Israeli forces have systematically attacked healthcare, including killing MSF colleagues.   

https://t.co/F1bUikDL7e

[DD Geopolitics @DD_Geopolitics]

🇺🇸 Awkward moment for Narco Rubio

Reporter: You told us Israel was going to strike Iran and that’s why we needed to get involved.

Rubio: No. Your statement is false. Were you there yesterday?

Reporter: YES, I asked you the question. 💀

[B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم @btselem]

Under cover of the Israeli-American attack on Iran, Israel imposed a blanket closure on Palestinians in the West Bank, while military-backed settler militias continue to carry out violent, organized attacks against the Palestinian population in an attempt to expand ethnic cleansing in the West Bank.

Today (Monday), armed settler militias and Israeli military forces raided the village of Qaryut, in Nablus District, and killed two Palestinians, brothers Muhammad ‘Azem, 51, and Fahim ‘Azem, 47. Three otherswere wounded by the gunfire, including a third brother. Eyewitnesses reported the military arrested more than 20 Palestinians in the village. Because of the closure Israel has imposed on the West Bank, ambulances were unable to reach and evacuate the wounded for over an hour.

In Qusrah, in Nablus District, settlers invaded the yard of a Palestinian home, after on Saturday, settlers assaulted and wounded a community resident in the head. On Friday, settlers assaulted Israeli activists in the village, inflicting injuries that required hospitalization.

Also today, in Ramallah District, settlers blocked the entrance to the village of al-Mughayir and assaulted Palestinians. Military forces that arrived at the scene fired tear gas at the residents. In Kafr Malik, settlers assaulted shepherds and tried to steal sheep from pastureland near the village. Near the village of Duma. settlers assaulted two Palestinian communities (Shakara yesterday and Zuhara today),causing several injuries, including a head injury.

In Rujum ‘Ali in Masafer Yatta, South Hebron Hills, settlers riding several Rangers assaulted shepherds today.

[Kenneth Roth @KenRoth]

As Trump and Netanyahu bomb Iran, Israel closed crossings into the Gaza Strip, which are vital for the delivery of humanitarian aid and the movement of patients in need of medical evacuation. https://t.co/nPYqOyNK0n

[Andrey X @the_andrey_x]

Pause your Israel-Iran war doomscrolling for a minute, and read this thread.

Settlers are using the war as a distraction to launch a series of attacks across the West Bank. Don't let them do it quietly.

[jerome Matagne @jeromeMatagne]

@PahlaviReza And no words for the 150 girls killed at school by a Israeli&US attack! We know who is your master!