Layal El Abdallah

Manager of Output @AJEnglish. Former Senior Producer @CBC. Hopeless news junkie! Chocolate lover! Passionate traveller!

[יריב אופנהיימר @yarivop]

תראו את המספרים של הציוץ הזה.
אתם לא לבד.
יש עוד מאות אלפים שלא הפכו קהים מול הזוועה.
בטלוויזיה מפחדים להרגיז את הצופים, להעכיר את האווירה, את התמונות הקשות יחסכו מאיתנו.
אבל אנחנו פה.
לא מוותרים על המצפון שלנו, על האנושיות שלנו.
על צלם אנוש.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

The UN says Israeli forces routinely accompany settlers and act as a shield for their violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.

Israeli officials rejected the report's findings, saying it relied on unsubstantiated allegations.

[Hamidreza Azizi @HamidRezaAz]

Told @Newsweek that hardliners in #Iran see the recent exchange as part of a continuous pattern by the U.S. to erode Iran's dominance over the Strait of Hormuz, resorting to whatever justification they can find to target Iran's defensive and offensive infrastructure. The longer this takes, the more risks there are of unwanted escalation and the return to full scale war.
https://t.co/FOw1PtBRkw

[Danny (Dennis) Citrinowicz ,داني سيترينوفيتش @citrinowicz]

A year after Operation Rising Lion and the subsequent Operation Roaring Lion, it is becoming clear that the impressive operational achievements in Iran created a strategic situation more challenging and complex than ever.

The arrogance and mistaken assumptions of Israel's security establishment did not lead to regime change in Tehran, but helped entrench an extremist, self-confident regime that is not deterred and continues to strengthen its nuclear project and missile stockpiles.

Now, as the US administration pushes for a deal and limits Jerusalem's freedom of action, Israel appears to be left with only problematic options.

My Article @IsraelHayomEng
https://t.co/dW0A4ZFaDQ

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Amnesty International has accused Israel’s government of carrying out a campaign of “ethnic cleansing” of Palestinians from the occupied West Bank and annexing their territory.

🔴 LIVE updates: https://t.co/PfpDpSthUf

[B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم @btselem]

New footage obtained by B’Tselem uncovers the moments when the Abu Haikal family was shot. Seven-month-old Sam Abu Haikal was killed in the shooting, and both his parents were injured. The footage clearly shows that the Israeli soldier fired at the car as it was slowing to a stop. The car was far from the soldiers and posed no danger to them whatsoever.

Moments later, in another video obtained by B’Tselem, seven-month-old Sam’s father, Fahed, is seen just after his son was shot. Fahed is holding baby Sam in his arms, trying to stop the bleeding from his head with his hands, while Sam’s mother, Daniyah, who was also injured by the gunfire while holding her son, is seen sitting on the ground, next to the car.

Last Friday, 5 June, an Israeli soldier fired at a Palestinian family driving home from a family visit, as they sat in their car in the Tel Rumeidah neighborhood in Hebron. The family was shot as the car was slowing to a stop at the soldier’s command. Sam, a seven‑month‑old baby who was in his mother’s arms in the back seat, was struck in the head and pronounced dead shortly afterward. Sam’s parents were also injured by the gunfire; his mother is still in the hospital. After the shooting, the soldier who fired and another soldier who was with him left the scene without checking the car or offering any assistance to the critically wounded baby or to his mother.

In the past two and a half years, Israel has killed tens of thousands of children in Gaza and the West Bank. The immunity it gets from the international community has led to a reality where, under Israeli rule, Palestinian lives are entirely disposable – even a seven‑month‑old baby.

[Muhammad Shehada @muhammadshehad2]

Fun fact: Israel didn't get a McDonald's until 1993 because of a strict Arab boycott campaign against any non-Israeli companies that did business with Israel or firms that did business with other companies that did business with Israel

Israelis didn't get Pepsi, Pizza Hut & other Western World products until the 1990s

This is in part how Israel was dragged into the Oslo peace talks with Palestinian. After the Oslo accords were signed in 1993, companies like Dell began to open in Israel.

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

The magnitude of what just happened may take some time to sink in.

This is the first time Iran has struck Israel after Israel struck another country's territory (that is, not Iran).

This means that the battle lines have been moved.

Iran's deterrence had already been restored in the sense that Israel knew that any strike on it would be responded to.

But now, Iran has proven that it will also respond to Israeli strikes on Lebanon.

This is the first time in decades that a regional power has the means, capacity, and willingness to put hard power against Israeli military maneuvers or aggression against a third party.

Read full analysis here: https://t.co/CPawJ4TYdr

[Dr Andreas Krieg @andreas_krieg]

“Over decades, Israel has sought to penetrate US policymaking circles through both formal and informal networks, including intelligence and lobbying channels, in order to gain insight into American strategic thinking and decision-making,” @andreas_krieg added.

“From the Israeli perspective, the recent conflict with Iran was effectively a joint US-Israeli war, yet the United States is now in a position to shape the diplomatic endgame,” Krieg told Al Jazeera.

“The principal Israeli concern is that Washington could agree to a deal that establishes an enduring diplomatic framework, potentially lasting years or even decades, which would constrain Israeli freedom of military manoeuvre against Iran in the future. Israeli policymakers therefore have a strong incentive to stay ahead of US deliberations and understand negotiations in real time.”
https://t.co/auk7bIiXTH

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

From grandfather to grandson, the Nakba cuts through generations. Al Jazeera's @TareqAzzom hears from Palestinians in Gaza who are still being forced from their homes after 78 years.

[B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم @btselem]

Israel operates a network of torture camps for Palestinians. Our reports, Welcome to Hell and Living Hell, exposed a reality of severe violence, starvation and torture inside detention facilities.

The testimony of Muhammad Khader, a father of five who was arrested at a school in Jabalya and held at the Sde Teiman detention facility, is a shocking reminder of Israel’s methods.

Sleep deprivation, systematic starvation and denial of medical treatment are part of a deliberate practice implemented in all detention facilities where Palestinians are held. Some detainees suffer sexual assaults. At least 88 Palestinians have died in these facilities since October 2023 as a result of inhuman conditions and severe violence.

These practices have the full support of Israel’s political leadership, which takes pride in violating Palestinian prisoners’ rights and the dire detention conditions they are subjected to. Despite mounting evidence of war crimes and crimes against humanity, the international community continues to stand by and allow Israel to run torture camps with impunity.

Links to the full report “Welcome to Hell” >> https://t.co/wRTUxCPP0f “Living Hell” >> https://t.co/G4mAJtFoXv

[Quds News Network @QudsNen]

Palestinian girl Suheila breaks down in tears as she calls for help for her father, Yousef Abu Alhosny, who is fighting cancer and living with deep psychological trauma after his detention in Israeli prisons.

Since his release, his health has deteriorated, and the Israeli blockade has left him without the medical care he urgently needs.

[Tamer Nahed @Tamer_Alnoaizy]

One of the most shocking videos ever shared on the internet..

Moments documenting hundreds of thousands of people in Gaza being forced at gunpoint to leave their homes during the war, before their houses were destroyed before their eyes.

Painful scenes the world should never forget, no matter how much time passes.

[Lina Abu Akleh @LinaAbuAkleh]

Today marks four years since my aunt, Shireen Abu Akleh, was killed by an Israeli sniper in Jenin.
An iconic journalist, and one of the most empathetic and sweetest people. This is who they killed. She loved life, but they stole hers from her.

[Alex Crawford @AlexCrawfordSky]

What’s happened to these two women who disappeared in Gaza after last being seen with Israeli troops. They’re just two of hundreds of Palestinians who’ve vanished in the Strip with no credible explanation and the families desperately want answers

[New York Times Opinion @nytopinion]

“In wrenching interviews, Palestinians have recounted to me a pattern of widespread Israeli sexual violence against men, women and even children,” our columnist Nicholas Kristof writes.
https://t.co/Q1DYudXMfc

[B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم @btselem]

Israel is running a network of torture camps for Palestinians. Our reports, Welcome to Hell and Hell on Earth, extensively documented a reality of extreme violence, starvation, and torture.

Now, in a major @nytimes investigation, journalist @NickKristof published terrible testimonies concerning sexual violence and the use of sodomy as a tool of interrogation and humiliation by Israeli forces.

Palestinian prisoners are subjected to severe violence, deliberate humiliation, starvation, sleep deprivation, denial of medical care, and abuse in every facility where they are held.

These abusive practices are fully backed by the political leadership, which openly boasts about the harsh prison conditions. Some inmates are subjected to severe sexual assaults.

At least 88 Palestinians have died in Israeli detention facilities since October 2023 as a result of inhumane conditions, violence, starvation, and the denial of medical treatment.

Despite the extensive evidence, media investigations, and reports issued by Israeli and international organizations documenting torture in Israeli prisons, the international community continues to stand by and allow Israel to commit crimes against the Palestinian people.

Links to the full report “Welcome to Hell” >> https://t.co/zwhJHHHEUA
and “Living Hell” >> https://t.co/yL4BmOKl4y

[Gaza Notifications @gazanotice]

🚨Israel assassinated Imad Miqdad yesterday in a drone strike, targeting his solar-powered phone charging station in Gaza yesterday.

Miqdad had been providing civilians with a rare means of communication amid ongoing electricity cuts.

The strike killed him and destroyed the facility, further limiting access to basic services and connectivity for residents.

[Mohamad Bazzi @BazziNYU]

“This Gaza playbook will repeat itself, constituting a new normal where the eradication of infrastructure, agriculture, cities and towns fit for habitation and entire cultures, is acceptable to much of the world as a method of war” — my latest @guardian

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Israel killed every single person in this photo in Lebanon.

Every. Single. One.

All journalists.

Targeted and assassinated intentionally.

For reporting the truth from the frontlines.