Margarida Santos Lopes

Portuguese journalist and translator / RTs/links not endorsements

[B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم @btselem]

Husband and wife, Muhammad and ‘Abir Jaber, were on their way to get groceries in the neighborhood of Jabal Johar in Hebron when they were attacked by soldiers who hurled a stun grenade into their car.
"I heard my wife shout, “Grenade! Grenade!” I turned my head to see what she meant, and the grenade exploded right by my face. I felt something hit the back of my head, and then I passed out."

Muhammad's full testimony is available in our latest report "Unleashed: Abuse of Palestinians by Israeli soldiers in the center of Hebron" on our site >> https://t.co/lj8lsymAub

[Andrew Stroehlein @astroehlein]

#Iran: "Execution, long jail terms and big fines for 'promoting' nudity, unveiling or improper dressing come into force"

Seriously?

Any penalty for completely invented "crimes" involving "bad dressing" are abusively absurd, but the death penalty??

https://t.co/7z2AqhZ5pr

[Andrew Stroehlein @astroehlein]

The only thing faster than the Syrian opposition forces' toppling of Assad in recent days has been European politicians promoting hate against Syrian refugees...
https://t.co/eOXnnEH348

[New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag]

“I sat down and started to tell him — 'There was this bird —,' He interrupted me. ‘What is a bird?”

Watch this short video interview — about a child discovered in a notorious Syrian prison — from beginning to end.

[Charles Lister @Charles_Lister]

#HTS-led coalition announces a 100% amnesty for all #Syria soldiers, conscripts & reservists.

They have also declared all borders with #Turkey, #Lebanon, #Jordan & #Iraq to be open for refugee returns.

Quite extraordinary steps.

[Leila Al-Shami @LeilaShami]

Assad is gone. Sednaya is liberated. The Syrian people have once again given an incredible lesson to the world.

[The Associated Press @AP]

BREAKING: The Syrian government appears to have fallen in a stunning end to the 50-year rule of the Assad family after a lightning rebel offensive. https://t.co/KB3VRcAMXw

[Khalil Sayegh @KhalilJeries]

Assad has fallen. He will be remembered as the tyrant and criminal who massacred his people for over 13 years.

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[Charles Lister @Charles_Lister]

He’s done. #Assad fled. #Syria is free, after 54 years of brutal tyranny.

Extraordinary!

[Ziad Majed @ziadmajed]

L'un des plus beaux moments d'une vie : la chute du régime qui a massacré des centaines de milliers de personnes en Syrie, au Liban et dans les camps de réfugiés palestiniens de ces deux pays...

[Haaretz.com @haaretzcom]

A database of thousands of videos, photos, testimonies, reports and investigations documents the horrors committed by Israel in Gaza
https://t.co/hdqxWGTeLv

[Haaretz.com @haaretzcom]

Entire families were crushed in Gaza by Israeli airstrikes. Not even memories remain / @FalahSaab https://t.co/vIVHSL9b7y

[Karim Emile Bitar @karimbitar]

🇮🇱 🇱🇧 Exclusive: Satellite imagery shows Israeli evacuation warnings during the war may have been used to ‘terrorize’ rather than protect civilians
https://t.co/wHkDS4xpwc
Very solid journalistic work by @lorienttoday with four International Law experts and @hrw

@LOrientLeJour

[Hanan Ashrawi @DrHananAshrawi]

The annihilation of a nation

[Heather Barr @heatherbarr1]

"The new decree will result in unnecessary pain, misery, sickness, and death for the women forced to go without healthcare, as there will not be female healthcare workers to treat them." https://t.co/M5OukgaCUD

[Mairav Zonszein מרב זונשיין @MairavZ]

50 Palestinian communities in the West Bank have been wiped out by settler violence since October 7.
https://t.co/CE6wheqLgv

[Golnaz Esfandiari @GEsfandiari]

First photo of Iranian Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Narges Mohammadi following her release from prison on medical leave. She’s holding a photo of Masa Amini while saying no to “gender apartheid.”

[B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم @btselem]

For over a year, Israel has been waging an unrestrained war on the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and within the State of Israel. The indiscriminate violence that has always marked the Israeli apartheid regime’s approach to Palestinians living in the area under its control is now appearing in its most direct and exposed form.
While Israel wreaked death and destruction on Gaza in unimaginable proportions, a record number of Palestinians were killed by Israeli fire in the West Bank in 2024, and the number of detentions and administrative detainees also reached a historic high. Since the war began, many attacks on Palestinians by soldiers and settlers have been documented throughout the West Bank. These attacks are aimed at Palestinians suspected of no wrongdoing and are often carried out in plain sight, in full view of officers and commanders.
The rise in both scale and frequency of such attacks, while law enforcement regarding injury to Palestinians and their property is virtually nonexistent, indicates that these are not isolated incidents. They are the outcome of an explicit, deliberate and systemic policy to further the oppression of the entire civilian Palestinian population.
The scope of violence against innocent Palestinians, revealed in testimonies in our latest report, “Unleashed,” is a case in point. This reality leaves Palestinians with two options: uproot themselves from their homes, land and communities, or live in constant fear of violence.
The full report >> https://t.co/adbZzqhdh1

[Ihab Hassan @IhabHassane]

Gaza now has the largest population of child amputees per capita in the world.

[Index on Censorship @IndexCensorship]

We welcome the news that Iranian rapper #ToomajSalehi has been released from prison. Toomaj is a brave and brilliant person who should never have been imprisoned to begin with. We’ve been proud to support him since his arrest: https://t.co/ns58AAVXbz @OfficialToomaj