Mark McGuinness

Beirut-based person working for a nonprofit

[Zeina Khodr @ZeinakhodrAljaz]

Israel warplanes carried out a number of strikes in Naquora- Labouneh region close to the border #Lebanon

[Abby Sewell @sewella]

UNRWA says 93% of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon are now living in poverty, fueling increased migration by sea, @bmroue reports https://t.co/kv76rnalzI

[Nafiseh Kohnavard @nafisehkBBC]

Forced confession on another level!

This is 17-year old #NikaShakarami uncle. He was forced to sit in front of the camera to deny that her niece was killed by security forces.

A voice on the background can be heard whispering & telling him: “Begou lajan” (say it! you f shit)

[Aya Iskandarani @Aya_Isk]

UPDATE: 94 bodies were recovered after a boat carrying migrants from Lebanon sank off Syria's coast, Syrian state television said, in one of the eastern Mediterranean's deadliest such episodes, via @AFP.

[Mark McGuinness @MarkLMcGuinness]

You know things are getting wild when no one agrees on the number of bank holdups that have happened today. Is it 5, 7 or 9? #Lebanon

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

Feels like a big deal if, in a year when industrial action is ramping up, leaders of blue collar unions are catapulted to the front of the public conversation and say that anyone is welcome in U.K. if they want to work. And that nobody is illegal.

[Melissa Bamo Abdalla @MelissaBamo]

A few months back @ThisIsLebanonLB shared Sajita’s story. Sajita was enslaved for 10 years by some sick excuses of human beings. Sajita was freed and is back in Nepal but she was given peanuts for her 10 years if slavery, in yet another unfair settlement.

[Bel Trew @Beltrew]

This disabled Syrian refugee boy promised resettlement in UK in 2018 has died waiting to be transferred while living in awful conditions in Lebanon. I raised his case with @ukhomeoffice multiple times as did his UK lawyers. His case is not unique (THREAD) https://t.co/K9uVJ4LybB

[Bel Trew @Beltrew]

British citizen @Alaa AbdelFattah, a prominent activist jailed and tortured in a maximum security prison in #Egypt, has bid goodbye to his family as he enters the 2nd month of a hunger strike demanding a consular visit.His family fear for his life (THREAD) https://t.co/3aefz8c9fK

[Mark McGuinness @MarkLMcGuinness]

Problems with internet via both @OgeroTelecom and @touchLebanon in Beirut today?

[Julia Ioffe @juliaioffe]

This is the full segment. As you can see, I'm describing *NATO's* logic, not my own. From the very beginning of this war, I have been calling out the racist, Islamophobic double standards in the coverage and will continue to do so. cc: @Ilhan

https://t.co/pClJwicZHL

[Mark Dummett @MarkDummett]

This is a wake up call from @wfp

Globally, fuel costs are spiking
Food costs are spiking
Shipping costs are spiking

The world has been hit by a perfect storm of "Covid, conflict, climate," and the poorest are going hungry.

[Louisa Loveluck @leloveluck]

Early days of Ukraine war contain haunting echoes of Russia’s conduct in Syria:
- Sieges, evacuation convoys allegedly attacked.
- Hospitals bombed.
- Online efforts to discredit idea that those facilities = hospitals.
- US alleging possibility of ‘false flag’ chemical attacks.

[Matthieu Aikins @mattaikins]

This is a photograph of a US-made cluster bomb, dropped by the Saudis, that I took in northern Yemen in 2015.

[Mike Azar @AzarsTweets]

Lebanon is in big trouble and those in charge have no solutions.

When diesel/electric generator costs go up another 20-40%, what will people do?

Delays in solving the financial crisis and absence of any planning makes us vulnerable with no ability to deal with the global crisis

[Omar Tamo @OmarTamo19]

BREAKING: Lebanon raises fuel prices for the third time in one week. Diesel, used to generate electricity, hiked by 38% in one week, while gasoline prices are up by about 20%.

Oil prices are soaring after Russia invaded Ukraine, while the Lebanese lira is now sinking. Alarming.

[Mark McGuinness @MarkLMcGuinness]

What a mess

[Omar Tamo @OmarTamo19]

BREAKING: the Lebanese lira sinks to 23,500 per US dollar in the parallel market, widening the gap with the exchange rate at which the central bank injects dollars

Individuals can buy dollars from commercial banks at LBP20,200 and then sell them for LBP23,500 - making 16% profit

[Mark McGuinness @MarkLMcGuinness]

So we’re not dehumanising refugees in Calais now? #Ukraine️ #UK

[Mark McGuinness @MarkLMcGuinness]

Evacuation route out of Mariupol was mined, Red Cross says https://t.co/d6nCMAxsIx via @BBCNews