LevantX

We’re an independent, non-profit online publication covering geopolitics, human rights and social justice issues in SWANA. #Journalism4Activism

[LevantX @levant_x]

#Transgender #Refugees from #Afghanistan seek safe haven in #Pakistan - find out more here: https://t.co/D4nwjAGHVD article by our journalist @OliverGMarsden

[Lina Zhaim ~ لينا @LinaZhaim]

This is what the Lebanese Corporate Registry Records in Beirut looks like and this is how archives are preserved… in travel luggage. This is what our politicians have turned the public administration into, and this is how they manage the affairs of the 🇱🇧 people.

[Lina Abu Akleh @LinaAbuAkleh]

It's been 100 days since my beloved aunt Shireen Abu Akleh was killed by an Israeli soldier. It’s been 100 days without meaningful action from the US government. My family’s demands remain the same: launch a US investigation that leads to accountability. #JusticeForShireen

[Najla Shawa @WhateverInGaza]

Got back finally. We are home. Promising my kids it’s over and good night kisses will be real now.Worried how many times we appear as the genuine liars. It’s not easy to see your entire life being paused thankfully we were not harmed nor our neighboring building. We are v lucky.

[Lina Abu Akleh @LinaAbuAkleh]

This morning, our family sent this letter to @POTUS demanding that he meet with us during his upcoming trip to the region. We deserve accountability. #JusticeForShireen

[Rushan Abbas @RushanAbbas]

By exploiting its comparative advantage, #China's fashion industry has manipulated Arab influencers into buying & promoting their products. Little do they know these products are often linked to #Uyghurs imprisoned in concentration camps.

#UyghurGenocide https://t.co/k4kbYqNN2Z

[TIMES OF GAZA @Timesofgaza]

Israeli occupation forces assault Palestinian journalists and prevent them from covering their brutalities in Masafer Yatta, Hebron.

[PALESTINE ONLINE 🇵🇸 @OnlinePalEng]

The painful daily scene in Palestine!

Palestinians mourn Ali Harb, 27-year-old, who was stabbed to death by a colonial Israeli settler in Iskaka village in the occupied West Bank.

[Basel Adra @basel_adra]

My voice shakes in this video. Tons of Israeli soldiers just started "training" in Masafer Yatta. They're driving war tanks near a school, as children watch, terrified, they're placing targets on cars and windows, they're doing this to evict us in the most brutal way possible.

[Lina Abu Akleh @LinaAbuAkleh]

Today in The Washington Post-thank you @pressfreedom
Demand #JusticeForShireen ‼️

[Ronnie Chatah @thebeirutbanyan]

Even if his desires - especially regarding judicial reform - would be severely restricted given Hzb’s detrimental role, the three ‘Change’ MPs that consider Nawaf Salam problematic for having served in the regime are either arrogant in their puritanism or ignorant in politics.

[Maya Gebeily @GebeilyM]

#BREAKING: Lebanese banks disavow banking group's objection to IMF plan, telling @reuters they weren't aware that a June 21 letter was being sent on behalf of ABL

[Oliver Marsden @OliverGMarsden]

Lebanon’s caretaker PM Najib Mikati, one of the richest men in the country and the region, secures just enough votes to become PM Designate. He secured 54 votes, down from 74 last time and the lowest vote count for a PM in years. Groundhog Day in Lebanon continues.

[Oliver Marsden @OliverGMarsden]

On the way to Zhytomyr I went to the loo in an outhouse at the end of a garden. When I walked out it was surrounded by Ukrainian soldiers. We stared in awkward silence at each other for a minute. This soldier let me take his portrait on my medium format 📷 with 120mm @ILFORDPhoto

[Timour Azhari @timourazhari]

Newcomer opposition MP Firas Hamadan vocally opposes seats being designated for religious sects in Lebanon’s parliament.

(There is no text saying it must be this way but it is done out of custom).

[Timour Azhari @timourazhari]

Nothing to see here, just MP Ali Hasan Khalil — a #BeirutBlast suspect with a warrant out for his arrest — casting a vote in parliament.

Oh and that’s the interior minister, who is in charge of security forces, sitting a few meters from him.

[Mark MacKinnon @markmackinnon]

Here’s one problem with all those “give Putin part of Ukraine in exchange for peace” plans - Ukrainians (currently) aren’t willing to make that trade. No Ukrainian leader can make that deal and hope to remain in power.

[Oliver Marsden @OliverGMarsden]

How many children have to die!? How many will it take before the right decision is made!? They say “guns don’t kill people, people kill people,” but a person without a “handgun, possibly a rifle” isn’t the same murderous threat than someone with one. https://t.co/WeEjsDO70A

[+972 Magazine @972mag]

"Within almost every Israeli town inside the Green Line, or at the very least next to them, lies a Palestinian village that was erased by Israel"

https://t.co/DNa1NzKsJU

[Sarit Michaeli @saritm0]

No one knows what Israel plans for Masafer Yatta, but it might be a slow, incremental displacement, rather than a large single action. This has already started on the ground:
In the firing zone: evictions begin in West Bank villages after court ruling https://t.co/Kg0JUNxMsw