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vincent-lemire.bsky.social
⚠️ Regardez bien cette photo @afp.com et diffusez-là.
• Ce que vous voyez c'est la route côtière al-Rashid, une des deux seules routes ouvertes pour l'évacuation des civils de Gaza.
• Il reste 700.000 civils à Gaza-ville, soit + que la totalité des habitants de Toulouse.
September 17, 2025 at 7:32 AM
keavo.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Revealed: Israeli military’s own data indicates civilian death rate of 83% in Gaza war
Figures from classified IDF database listed 8,900 named fighters as dead or probably dead in May, as overall death toll reached 53,000
www.theguardian.com
August 22, 2025 at 9:17 AM
keavo.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Israeli unit tasked with smearing Gaza journalists as Hamas fighters – report
Israeli-Palestinian magazine says IDF ‘legitimisation cell’ set up to blunt global outrage over killing of media staff
www.theguardian.com
August 15, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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pressfreedom.bsky.social
An entire news crew working for Al Jazeera was killed by Israel as they sought to bring the world firsthand reporting from #Gaza.

Among them was prominent journalist Anas Al-Sharif, who had been previously smeared and threatened by the IDF.

#NotATarget

Full statement: cpj.org/2025/08/isra...
Israel kills Al Jazeera journalists in targeted Gaza City airstrike - Committee to Protect Journalists
New York, August 10, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists is appalled to learn of the killing today of Al Jazeera journalist Anas Al-Sharif, Mohammed Qreiqeh, camera operators Ibrahim Zaher and M...
cpj.org
August 11, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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vincent-lemire.bsky.social
⚠️Sur @RTL ce matin j'ai essayé de décrire les nouveaux crans dans l'horreur franchis à #Gaza ces derniers jours: une famine qui se généralise, des journalistes de l'AFP qui meurent de faim (…) www.rtl.fr/programmes/l...
GAZA- Vincent Lemire, historien, spécialiste du Proche-Orient est l'invité de RTL Matin
www.rtl.fr
July 22, 2025 at 8:57 AM
keavo.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...
Opinion | I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.
www.nytimes.com
July 15, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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vincent-lemire.bsky.social
⚠️ "100.000 morts à Gaza". Le journal israélien
@haaretzcom s'appuie sur l'analyse du Prof. Michael Spagat (Univ. de Londres @royalholloway.bsky.social, spécialiste des statistiques de morts violentes, Kosovo, Irak, Syrie):
Sources : www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
June 28, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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yairwallach.bsky.social
This is the 79th day of blockade on the Gaza strip, using starvation against a civilian population, about half of them are children.
Yesterday Israel allowed a handful of trucks in. The siege is still enforced
May 20, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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naudinchristophe.bsky.social
Gaza : Le nouveau plan israélien se rapproche de l’extermination
www.hrw.org/fr/news/2025...
Gaza : Le nouveau plan israélien se rapproche de l’extermination
Dans un contexte de famine croissante, les États parties à la Convention sur le génocide risquent d’être tenus responsables de leur inaction.
www.hrw.org
May 18, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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msf.ca
Today and every day.

Repost if you agree! 🦋
January 21, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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yairwallach.bsky.social
israelicitizensforin.live-website.com/english/
Israeli citizens calling for true international pressure on Israel for an immediate ceasefire. – Israeli Citizens For International Pressure
israelicitizensforin.live-website.com
January 3, 2025 at 1:10 PM
keavo.bsky.social
www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/gaza-...
Gaza death trap: MSF report exposes Israel’s campaign of total destruction
Amid continued attacks, siege, and blockade, Israel is destroying conditions of life in Gaza.
www.doctorswithoutborders.org
December 19, 2024 at 4:28 PM
keavo.bsky.social
Extraordinary and heartbreaking account of the realities in Gaza, and beyond www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...
Podcast: Ghassan Abu-Sittah, Muhammad Shehada and Adam Shatz · Gaza, Before and After
www.lrb.co.uk
December 19, 2024 at 8:16 AM
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seamas.bsky.social
Ireland's solidarity with Palestine isn't down to some belief that we know just what they're going through. It's from knowing we can barely imagine it.

www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
Séamas O'Reilly: Ireland's solidarity with Palestine is rooted in history — and common cause
"Ireland has, in fact, been in Lebanon long enough that some of the local staff who’ve worked closely with them have developed strongly-accented English, as displayed in an old RTÉ news segment that w...
www.irishexaminer.com
October 12, 2024 at 8:48 AM
keavo.bsky.social
Magical, fascinating.... #inourtime #greece www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, The Antikythera Mechanism
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the mysterious ancient Greek astronomical computer.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 16, 2024 at 3:35 PM
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idreesahmad.bsky.social
If you are new to Syria and are having trouble establishing the rights and wrongs, the good and bad of the situation, I wrote this piece in 2018 which should be clarifying.
pulsemedia.org/2018/05/04/a...
Are there really “no good guys” in Syria?
A version of this article first appeared in The New Arab.  Following the Syrian regime’s recent chemical attack on Douma, US, Britain and France took swift but symbolic action to destroy three chem…
pulsemedia.org
December 9, 2024 at 11:50 AM
keavo.bsky.social
Entertaining, drunken stumble through #Seoul under martial law in the company of @sarahjeong.bsky.social

www.theverge.com/24312920/mar...
www.theverge.com
December 4, 2024 at 11:30 AM
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ourworldindata.org
Measles vaccination has saved an estimated 94 million lives globally since 1974. Of those, 92 million were children.
The image shows a bar chart titled "Number of lives saved by childhood vaccinations from 1974 to 2024," sourced from Shattock et al. (2024). A total of 93.71 million lives have been saved by measles vaccines since 1974. Other diseases include tetanus (27.95 million) and whooping cough (13.17 million). The data highlights the large impact of vaccination programs globally.
December 2, 2024 at 5:34 PM
keavo.bsky.social
Let's hear it for #Billypreston ://youtu.be/XQ3XNtdzSFA
Billy Preston - That's The Way God Planned It (Later Archive)
YouTube video by BBC Music
youtu.be
November 29, 2024 at 8:32 AM
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shashj.bsky.social
Extremely disturbing first-hand testimony to Parliament from a retired NHS surgeon who spent Aug-Sep in Gaza. "The drones would come down and pick off civilians—children. We had description after description. This is not an occasional thing." committees.parliament.uk/oralevidence...
Oral evidence: Humanitarian situation in Gaza, HC 373
committees.parliament.uk
November 27, 2024 at 11:48 AM
keavo.bsky.social
Jubé de Notre-Dame : avant la réouverture de la cathédrale, une découverte aussi exceptionnelle que confidentielle #Libé
www.liberation.fr/societe/reli...
Jubé de Notre-Dame : avant la réouverture de la cathédrale, une découverte aussi exceptionnelle que confidentielle
Au cours de fouilles archéologiques, préalables au chantier de la cathédrale incendiée, un millier de fragments de ce mur sculpté qui séparait le chœur et la nef ont été exhumés. Une trouvaille inesti...
www.liberation.fr
November 27, 2024 at 9:11 AM
keavo.bsky.social
Taiwan supporting Ukraine www.politico.com/news/2024/11...
Taiwan’s former president says Ukraine needs US weapons more urgently than Taipei
Tsai Ing-wen’s comments come after a top U.S. military leader said supplying U.S. weapons to Kyiv was cutting into stockpiles that could be used in a war in Asia.
www.politico.com
November 25, 2024 at 8:18 AM
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ralphjanik.com
“equivalence” between Hamas and Israel, disregard for Israel’s right to self-defence, antisemitism:
Short thread on some of the Israeli government’s talking points regarding the Netanyahu and Gallant arrest warrants
November 24, 2024 at 10:03 AM