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🧵 EXCLUSIVE: Gaza boy seen with US soldier still missing, family pleads for answers
The family of Abdulrahim Mohammed al-Jarabe’a — nicknamed Amir — has called for an international investigation after the child disappeared shortly after being filmed receiving aid from a US soldier in Gaza. ⬇️
How Andy Burnham stood up to Starmer over Israel and could now reshape UK foreign policy - my analysis on the likely next prime minister's record on the Middle East:
https://t.co/EpJyDG7NSX
We travelled to a Sunni Muslim village just on the edge of Israel's "yellow line" of control in southern Lebanon
And uncovered shocking CCTV showing the moment Israeli soldiers shot dead an unarmed 17 year old boy on a street near his home during a raid
Muhammad had been due to graduate this year
The Israeli military told us it's looking into the incident
Mohammed Amin has won One World Media’s prestigious Journalist of the Year award for his reporting as a freelance correspondent for MEE from Sudan.
Amin was unable to attend the London ceremony in person on Wednesday after the Home Office refused to grant him a visa to the UK.
Last night Tommy Robinson was hosted at the Oxford Union by a Palestinian student from Gaza who said she was upholding his right to free speech, before roundly defeating him in a debate on Islam.
Here's how it unfolded:
https://t.co/Lx6kgcKOJF
"Everyone now pays an Israel impunity tax."
Former Israeli negotiator Daniel Levy speaks to @mhashem_ about Israel's project of expulsion and domination.
Watch it full on Real Talk ➡: https://t.co/NNwVp1VVSi
MEE correspondent Mohammed Amin, refused UK visa, wins One World Media Award
Reporter named as Journalist of the Year for his reports on the war in Sudan, including the bloody siege of el-Fasher
Not only is Israel banning foreign journalists from entering Gaza to report independently, there’s a growing number refused entry to Israel and Palestinian territories, says @CPJ_Eurasia Journalists legitimately reporting on widespread Israeli killings and bombardment of Gaza, West Bank and Lebanon are smeared as non-partisan and antisemitic. ‘For two-thirds of the journalists, officials directly cited their reporting or public statements as grounds for the decisions, including their use of terms such as “apartheid” or “genocide” to describe Israeli policies, according to documents seen by CPJ and news reports’ https://t.co/DS3iFs4RbL via @CPJ_Eurasia
NEW: Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper says in Parliament that the government has asked the advertising standards agency to investigate the Great Israeli Real Estate Event.
This is in response to Green Party MP Ellie Chowns saying the event promoted illegal settlement properties
From blocked maintenance crews to revoked permits to emptied landmarks, Israel is systematically sidelining the Waqf at Al-Aqsa.
Sources tell us the plan goes much further than anyone has officially admitted.
A leaked document shows the EU was legally entitled to suspend a trade deal with Israel since 2017 due to its violations of international law in the occupied West Bank.
The memo says freezing the EU-Israel Association Agreement would be in compliance with international law.
EXCLUSIVE: London's Metropolitan Police are not investigating the Great Israeli Real Estate Event which took place on Sunday, we have learnt.
Yesterday we reported details of how the event promoted properties in illegal Israeli settlements
https://t.co/9iz04T00Mi
THREAD: Yesterday we revealed details of how the Great Israeli Real Estate event in London marketed properties in occupied Palestinian territory, including illegal settlements.
Below I am posting photos from the event which serve as evidence of this:
EXCLUSIVE: A Middle East Eye investigation can reveal details of properties advertised in occupied Palestinian territory, including illegal Israeli settlements, at the Great Israeli Real Estate Event on Sunday:
https://t.co/oojSGmwMYL
Protesters gathered outside Edgware United Synagogue in London on Sunday to demonstrate against the "Great Israeli Real Estate Event" being held inside, where companies advertise land for sale in illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank.
Rights groups, activists and more than 100 British MPs have been calling on the UK government to cancel the event due to its connection to illegal Israeli settlements in occupied Palestine.
Paul, a Jewish protester told Middle East Eye: "I'm a practicing, very proud Jew, who sees what's going on between Israel and the Palestinians as an abomination of Judaism."
MEE's Lucy Anais reports from Belfast, where rioters have set several buildings on fire after a Sudanese man committed a stabbing attempt on Tuesday evening, igniting anti-immigration racist protests.
MEE’s Imran Mulla says the suspension of ICC chief prosecutor Karim Khan is something that “has never happened before”.
Khan was suspended by the court’s executive body even after he was cleared of misconduct allegations.
Moroccan-American actor and singer Ali Louis Bourzgui dedicated his Tony Award win to “immigrant families” in the US, “the queer and trans communities” and “the people of Palestine”.
He won a prize for his role in The Lost Boys, a stage adaptation of the 1987 cult vampire film.
Fawaz Gerges, Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science, explains why he believes Israel has not learned its lesson after 40 years of military engagement with Lebanon