🎥 “I remain completely comfortable with my journalism”

On Real Talk, @mohhashem asked @antoinette_lattouf about the leaked WhatsApp messages from a group of pro-Israel lawyers which may have orchestrated her firing from Australia’s ABC.

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🗞️ Israeli forces on Thursday shot dead a Palestinian and re-arrested his teenage brother in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin, two months after the latter was originally freed as part of a captive deal.

Ahmed Walid Khashan, 18, was released from an Israeli jail on 25 November in a deal with Hamas brokered by Qatar and Egypt.

According to the Palestine Prisoner’s Club (PPC), Khashan is the brother of Wissam Khashan, a 24-year-old who was killed earlier on Thursday by Israeli soldiers, and he has spent six years in Israeli prisons.

Ahmed was originally arrested on 10 September 2022 and was sentenced to three years in prison, PPC said.
This is not the first time Israeli forces have re-arrested a Palestinian who was freed as part of the deal.

On Wednesday, another Palestinian teenager, identified as Youssef al-Khatib was also arrested after being released in the deal in November

🎥 “In the week of the anniversary of Bloody Sunday, people in Derry are watching unarmed Palestinians being gunned down by Israeli soldiers"

Colum Eastwood, the leader of the SDLP and Member of Parliament for Foyle, asked British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak if the UK would vote in favour of the next UN resolution on a ceasefire in Gaza.

Eastwood added that over 25,000 people have now been killed in Gaza and that the world cannot sit by and watch as the death toll climbs higher and higher

🎥 "First of all, the idea is to establish a perimeter along the entire Gaza-Israel border—a sterile area, 1 kilometre wide, without buildings, without anything, flat"

Gal Chen, presenter for Channel 12, reports that the Israeli military has destroyed 1,100 buildings out of 2,800 in Gaza.

They are working on establishing a buffer zone within Gaza, bulldozing the buildings despite warnings from the US not to reduce Palestinian territory

🎥 Israeli soldiers, in a TikTok video, made threats to Palestinians in the West Bank, chanting "From Judea to Samaria. Many fear eternity. If a terrorist speaks a word, we will smash his face. Let’s go, win the war."

The term "Judea and Samaria" is commonly used by Israelis to refer to the occupied West Bank.

Since the war in Gaza began, over 300 Palestinians in the West Bank have been killed by Israeli forces or settlers.

The Israeli army has detained at least 6,255 Palestinians in the West Bank since October 7, 2023, as reported by the Commission of Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners Society. Israel is increasing the installation of iron gates to limit movement in West Bank villages

🎥 In an assembly in front of his party on Saturday, Deputy of the French National Assembly David Guiraud said that he “would not back down one centimetre” while the “genocide” and “carnage” in Gaza continues.

He also mentioned that the subject of Palestine has made him the target of 'slander and defamation'

#BREAKING: Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan signed off on Sweden's bid for Nato accession on Thursday after the Turkish parliament ratified Sweden’s membership of Nato on Tuesday, after years of heated negotiations and obstacles to the country joining the military alliance.

The decision has been published in the presidency's 'official gazette'.

The majority of Turkish MPs voted for Sweden's bid this week, including members of the main opposition, the Republican People’s Party (CHP)

🎥 The internet has reacted to Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie's Oscar 'snub' by highlighting the life-threatening issues women in Gaza and Sudan are facing.

Here's everything you need to know.

#barbie #barbiemovie #feminism #oscars #gaza #sudan

The outgoing Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte asked the country's legal affairs ministry: "What can we say to make it look like Israel is not committing war crimes?"

The revelations have only recently come to light and were reported by NRC, the newspaper of record in the Netherlands.

A group of government officials and diplomats has submitted evidence to The Hague regarding comments made by the Dutch prime minister.

In November last year, the Netherlands decided to continue deliveries of parts for Israeli fighter jets despite official warnings that Israel may be committing "serious violations of humanitarian law of war".

According to NRC, Rutte's intervention in support of Israel is driven by his own political ambitions and the need to appeal to the US administration, in the hope that he succeeds Jens Stoltenberg as secretary general of Nato next summer

Sila Muhammed Al-Shablwai, a displaced Palestinian child explains how their house was bombed and says, “My toys are gone; my bed is gone.”

Since the start of Israel’s war on Gaza, Unrwa reported that over 625,000 students and 22,564 teachers have been without education and a safe environment. Among the reported 25,000 Palestinians that have been killed by Israel, thousands include students and education personnel.

🎥: @anasjamal44

🎥 Pentagon press secretary Patrick Ryder insists that United States is not at war in the Middle East.

He claimed that they are “very focused on deterrence and on preventing a wider regional conflict"

🎥 A Palestinian father in Khan Younis, Gaza, cannot distinguish whether it’s his daughter or niece who was killed by an Israeli air strike

🎥 “We take the worms out, turn it into flour and eat it. Even though it doesn’t taste good. But we need to combat hunger.”

Palestinians in northern Gaza resort to using animal feed to make flour as there is no food due to the Israeli siege, which is blocking aid and medicine

🎥 “In memory of the 21 fallen, we blow up 21 terrorist houses”

Israeli soldiers filmed the moment twenty-one houses were destroyed in Gaza.

Israel’s military said on Tuesday that at least 21 of its soldiers were killed in a single attack in the Gaza Strip, the deadliest day for Israeli troops since 7 October

🎥 Palestinians in Gaza have resorted to grinding livestock feed and bird feed to make bread for themselves, amid severe food shortages and looming famine. The situation is compounded by the blockage of aid trucks into Gaza.

“This wheat is intended for animal consumption,” said MEE correspondent Mohammed al-Hajjar. “It’s not the high-quality type made for humans"

🎥 “The Israeli government has the power to end this starvation crisis by ending the siege on Gaza and opening all crossings. Does it not, Prime Minister?”

Member of Parliament, Anum Qaisar, questioned the UK Prime Minister about the starvation crisis in Gaza caused by Israel’s total blockade that has been in effect for months

Ceasefire discussions have been taking place in recent weeks, with Axios reporting this week about a potential deal for a pause in fighting that could last up to two months.

Hamdan also noted that Hamas will release all hostages if Israel releases all Palestinian prisoners.

More than 130 hostages currently remain held in Gaza, while more than 8,000 Palestinians are currently being held in Israeli detention facilities.

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"These are the sounds of gunfire directed at people while they were receiving humanitarian aid"

Palestinian photojournalist Hossam Azam captures the moment when Israeli forces opened fire at Palestinians in northern Gaza on Wednesday while they were receiving aid.

Northern Gaza has been cut off from the rest of the Gaza Strip, suffering from a lack of food and essential supplies under the Israeli siege.

🎥: @hossam.azam2

🔴 RECAP: #Israel #Palestine (as of 23:30 GMT, 25 January)

• Reports have been circulating in Israeli and western media outlets of a potential deal between Hamas and Israel

• The ICJ is expected to give its first decision in South Africa's genocide case against Israel tomorrow

• Meanwhile, a hearing for a lawsuit against Biden - which accuses him of failing to stop an unfolding genocide in Gaza - will also take place in Oakland, California

• Hamas said that if the ICJ issues a ruling that calls for a ceasefire, it will abide by it as long as Israel reciprocates

• CIA director William Burns is reportedly set to meet with Israeli, Egyptian and Qatari officials in Europe

• MEE's correspondent in Gaza said Israeli forces have been attacking Palestinian civilians in key points where emergency aid is being delivered for over a week

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🎥 Israeli protesters blocked Tel Aviv's main Ayalon Highway, demanding their government sign a ceasefire deal and release hostages held in Gaza.

They held signs reading 'Stop the bloodshed!' and 'Deal now!'