"I’ve been in this House 20 years, I have supported Israel pretty much at all costs quite frankly."

“But today I want to say that I got it wrong and I condemn Israel for what it is doing to the Palestinian people in Gaza"

- Tory MP Mark Pritchard

As a human rights scholar, I've read countless reports where both Western media + prominent human rights organizations term this as an "enforced disappearance" when this happens in other countries. Wild (and completely unsurprising) how the same terminology is missing when it's happening in the US

NEW: Egypt Pushes Alternative to Trump’s Riviera Plan For Gaza Reconstruction

Led by Egypt and the World Bank, the Guardian has details on a new plan being formulated to reconstruct Gaza without Hamas’ involvement in governance. Key details:

1/2 Raji Sourani breaks down the staggering population of Pales tinians in Israeli captivity (total of approx 30,000!)
*At the time of 7 October, 3,307 Palestinians were held in Israeli prisons.
*Since then the number has increased to 11,000 under administrative detention.

🧵 THREAD: Our reporter spent the past year reporting inside the State Department, trying to answer the central question of Biden’s foreign policy:

How did the U.S. let Israel get away with widespread horrors in Gaza?

A mammoth investigation by Declan Walsh into the gold rush fueling Sudan's civil war. The paramilitary RSF has extracted $860m worth from mines it seized in Darfur this year alone. Who's profiting? The UAE.

Gift link and 🧵 of some visual reporting. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/11/w...

David Ignatius in the Washington Post: "Ukrainian intelligence sent about 20 experienced drone operators and about 150 first-person-view drones to the rebel headquarters in Idlib, Syria, four to five weeks ago to help Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS)."

archive.ph/O4MVG#select...

One of the biggest myths of the genocide in Gaza is that if Hamas release hostages there will be a ceasefire. Israel don't want a ceasefire. If the levelling of Gaza and massacre of Palestinians in both Gaza AND the West Bank isn't evidence of that then you're delulu.

Three days after the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and former defence minister Yoav Gallant, Israel’s top general flew to London.

www.declassifieduk.org/israeli-army...

و يشاء ربك ان السنوار ينال الشهادة فى مشهد اسطورى و نتنياهو ينال لقب مجرم حرب مطلوب للعدالة الدولية

Egyptian-Palestinian actor May Calamawy's female lead role has been entirely removed from Gladiator II. The official excuses will likely be the usual: 'unintentional', 'necessary for pacing', and so on. It happened before with Bassem Youssef, a pattern that speaks louder than the blah blah excuses.

THREAD ECO-APARTHEID Gaza is currently experiencing the largest slaughter of men, women and children in decades and a destruction rate that has produced over 40 million tonnes of rubble that will take over a decade to clear.👇

‏تحس ان البيان الصادر عن الخارجية المصرية بيان طالع من منظمة مجتمع مدني أو من حزب التجمع مثلا، مش بيان من حكومة دولة على وشك ان يكون في عملية عسكرية ضخمة ومفزعة على بعد امتار من حدودها، دولة المفروض انها تمتلك جيش لا بأس به
‎#قد_الدنيا

Egypt's Middle Class Cuts Costs As IMF-backed Reforms Take Hold