Bulgarian journalist and editor working on the Middle East, Eastern Europe and the Balkans. Currently with Al Jazeera English.
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Last Notes npub1m5gf77hhxq3da7t706nht2g6h5a6luuz6lqg908ppfv564se8neshxt8v6 Mariya Petkova Israel continues to be the biggest mass killer of journalists. npub1m5gf77hhxq3da7t706nht2g6h5a6luuz6lqg908ppfv564se8neshxt8v6 Mariya Petkova @nprofile…2j4j npub1m5gf77hhxq3da7t706nht2g6h5a6luuz6lqg908ppfv564se8neshxt8v6 Mariya Petkova If you read one thing this holiday season, let it be this oped by Rev Munther Isaac: npub1m5gf77hhxq3da7t706nht2g6h5a6luuz6lqg908ppfv564se8neshxt8v6 Mariya Petkova "I don’t know what glory there is in being light-skinned descendants of Black people because of resettling in northern climes with weak UV rays." npub1m5gf77hhxq3da7t706nht2g6h5a6luuz6lqg908ppfv564se8neshxt8v6 Mariya Petkova 27,000 human beings were massacres in the span of 3 days. THEEE DAYS. npub1m5gf77hhxq3da7t706nht2g6h5a6luuz6lqg908ppfv564se8neshxt8v6 Mariya Petkova Palestine is no longer in the news, but Israeli executions of Palestinian children continue. npub1m5gf77hhxq3da7t706nht2g6h5a6luuz6lqg908ppfv564se8neshxt8v6 Mariya Petkova #Canada has decided that 95-year-old Richard Falk, a former UN rapporteur on Palestine, is a "national security threat". npub1m5gf77hhxq3da7t706nht2g6h5a6luuz6lqg908ppfv564se8neshxt8v6 Mariya Petkova This is Bisan Owda's documentary on her return to the north. It is a heavy watch. npub1m5gf77hhxq3da7t706nht2g6h5a6luuz6lqg908ppfv564se8neshxt8v6 Mariya Petkova Jewish journalist Noa Avishag Schnall describes how Israeli soldiers abused her: npub1m5gf77hhxq3da7t706nht2g6h5a6luuz6lqg908ppfv564se8neshxt8v6 Mariya Petkova Palestinian writer Bassem Khandaqji has finally been released after 20 years in Israeli prison, but was forcibly exiled to Egypt. This is him meeting his sister. npub1m5gf77hhxq3da7t706nht2g6h5a6luuz6lqg908ppfv564se8neshxt8v6 Mariya Petkova Mouin Rabbani: npub1m5gf77hhxq3da7t706nht2g6h5a6luuz6lqg908ppfv564se8neshxt8v6 Mariya Petkova If you are wondering what to make of the ceasefire development, here is a very good analysis by the Drop Site News and Sami Al-Arian. npub1m5gf77hhxq3da7t706nht2g6h5a6luuz6lqg908ppfv564se8neshxt8v6 Mariya Petkova The colonisation of #Palestine model is being replicated. npub1m5gf77hhxq3da7t706nht2g6h5a6luuz6lqg908ppfv564se8neshxt8v6 Mariya Petkova And so, after threatening him many times, Israel assassinated our colleague Anas Al-Sharif, correspondent for Al Jazeera Arabic, who despite the threats and starvation never stopped broadcasting from northern Gaza. npub1m5gf77hhxq3da7t706nht2g6h5a6luuz6lqg908ppfv564se8neshxt8v6 Mariya Petkova Making money from genocide 101: npub1m5gf77hhxq3da7t706nht2g6h5a6luuz6lqg908ppfv564se8neshxt8v6 Mariya Petkova "The US quietly delivered hundreds of Hellfire missiles to Israel before its unprecedented attack on Iran on Friday, Middle East Eye can reveal. npub1m5gf77hhxq3da7t706nht2g6h5a6luuz6lqg908ppfv564se8neshxt8v6 Mariya Petkova These days, you can only see/hear Greta on alternative outlets like Zeteo. Can't remember the last time I have seen her on a TV screen... npub1m5gf77hhxq3da7t706nht2g6h5a6luuz6lqg908ppfv564se8neshxt8v6 Mariya Petkova It is painful to see Laila Soueif looking so frail. May she find the strength to pull through and see her son released. npub1m5gf77hhxq3da7t706nht2g6h5a6luuz6lqg908ppfv564se8neshxt8v6 Mariya Petkova #Israel kills 6 Palestinians trying to reach Gaza aid distribution point npub1m5gf77hhxq3da7t706nht2g6h5a6luuz6lqg908ppfv564se8neshxt8v6 Mariya Petkova Yes, in Gaza, PR aid stunts kill and waste money. npub1m5gf77hhxq3da7t706nht2g6h5a6luuz6lqg908ppfv564se8neshxt8v6 Mariya Petkova A good overview of the inevitable aid fiasco that happened in #Rafah today. npub1m5gf77hhxq3da7t706nht2g6h5a6luuz6lqg908ppfv564se8neshxt8v6 Mariya Petkova "In an 11-second clip shared on the messaging site Telegram, a young girl can be seen trying to make her way out of a burning classroom following a deadly Israeli strike on the Fahmi Al-Jargawi girls' school. npub1m5gf77hhxq3da7t706nht2g6h5a6luuz6lqg908ppfv564se8neshxt8v6 Mariya Petkova @nprofile…aq7u I hope Bel Trew and the Independent take responsibility at some point for helping spread falsehoods about Oct 7 that directly contributed to what is happening now. npub1m5gf77hhxq3da7t706nht2g6h5a6luuz6lqg908ppfv564se8neshxt8v6 Mariya Petkova "The attack hit the home of Alaa al-Najjar, a paediatrician at the southern city’s Nasser Hospital, on Friday, setting it ablaze and killing nine of her 10 children, according to the head of the hospital’s paediatrics department, Ahmad al-Farra." npub1m5gf77hhxq3da7t706nht2g6h5a6luuz6lqg908ppfv564se8neshxt8v6 Mariya Petkova Another Israeli politician is acknowledging what is going on in Gaza is genocide. npub1m5gf77hhxq3da7t706nht2g6h5a6luuz6lqg908ppfv564se8neshxt8v6 Mariya Petkova @nprofile…vffx npub1m5gf77hhxq3da7t706nht2g6h5a6luuz6lqg908ppfv564se8neshxt8v6 Mariya Petkova An Israeli politician saying what foreign doctors on medical missions in #Gaza have been saying for a long time. npub1m5gf77hhxq3da7t706nht2g6h5a6luuz6lqg908ppfv564se8neshxt8v6 Mariya Petkova "Under international law, when international peace is under threat and genocide is being committed, states and corporations have the duty to act. Among the measures they can resort to are embargoes as a form of economic pressure to stop violations of international law." npub1m5gf77hhxq3da7t706nht2g6h5a6luuz6lqg908ppfv564se8neshxt8v6 Mariya Petkova It took an official death toll of more than 53,000 Palestinians (God only knows the true number) , 70,000 Palestinian children hospitalised with acute malnutrition, scores of them dying for the UK, France and Canada to say the "sanctions" word. npub1m5gf77hhxq3da7t706nht2g6h5a6luuz6lqg908ppfv564se8neshxt8v6 Mariya Petkova "We in Gaza have seen PR exercises masked as “humanitarian action” before. We remember the airdrops that were killing more people than they were feeding. We remember the $230m pier that barely got 500 truckfuls of aid into Gaza from the sea: a feat that could have been accomplished in half a day via an open land crossing. npub1m5gf77hhxq3da7t706nht2g6h5a6luuz6lqg908ppfv564se8neshxt8v6 Mariya Petkova The US pressure on Israel over the starvation of #Gaza is so strong that the Israeli army let in today FIVE WHOLE TRUCKS. npub1m5gf77hhxq3da7t706nht2g6h5a6luuz6lqg908ppfv564se8neshxt8v6 Mariya Petkova “It was a deal,” said Basem Naim, a member of Hamas political bureau who has previously engaged in direct talks with U.S. officials. He said the pledge was made by “Witkoff, himself.”...“If we release [Alexander], Trump will speak out thanking Hamas for its gesture, obliging Israel on the second day to open the borders and allow aid to come into Gaza, and [Trump would] call for an immediate ceasefire and to go for negotiations to end the war.” npub1m5gf77hhxq3da7t706nht2g6h5a6luuz6lqg908ppfv564se8neshxt8v6 Mariya Petkova "Trump has no intention of pouring American taxpayer money into Gaza. He hopes that other countries will open their hearts and wallets. The U.S. has written a 13-page document in the hope of persuading donors. But so far, no one is interested. npub1m5gf77hhxq3da7t706nht2g6h5a6luuz6lqg908ppfv564se8neshxt8v6 Mariya Petkova "Together with Israel, [Trump] has charted an outline for a new, supervisory body to distribute Israeli-secured aid without intervention from Hamas. npub1m5gf77hhxq3da7t706nht2g6h5a6luuz6lqg908ppfv564se8neshxt8v6 Mariya Petkova Seth Stern, director of advocacy at Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF), commenting on #RumeysaOzturk 's release ruling: npub1m5gf77hhxq3da7t706nht2g6h5a6luuz6lqg908ppfv564se8neshxt8v6 Mariya Petkova "A U.S. official confirmed the authenticity of the proposal and said the former director of the U.N. World Food Program, David Beasley, is the lead choice to run GHF. npub1m5gf77hhxq3da7t706nht2g6h5a6luuz6lqg908ppfv564se8neshxt8v6 Mariya Petkova The Israei authorities consistently lie and yet their claims are unquestionably reported. npub1m5gf77hhxq3da7t706nht2g6h5a6luuz6lqg908ppfv564se8neshxt8v6 Mariya Petkova This is a podcast with Pastor Munther Isaac trying to make sense of this Christian silence on genocide. npub1m5gf77hhxq3da7t706nht2g6h5a6luuz6lqg908ppfv564se8neshxt8v6 Mariya Petkova It is quite incredible that the Christian world is marking Easter and priests and officials talk about Christ and the holy places and say nothing, not a word, about what is happening in these same holy places now. npub1m5gf77hhxq3da7t706nht2g6h5a6luuz6lqg908ppfv564se8neshxt8v6 Mariya Petkova The latest news from the Israeli war on Palestinian children: npub1m5gf77hhxq3da7t706nht2g6h5a6luuz6lqg908ppfv564se8neshxt8v6 Mariya Petkova On Palm Sunday, Israel bombs the BAPTIST hospital in Gaza. Israel confirms. BBC still puts "Hamas says" in the title. npub1m5gf77hhxq3da7t706nht2g6h5a6luuz6lqg908ppfv564se8neshxt8v6 Mariya Petkova "It's important to note that we can enter houses without using human shields. We did it for months, according to a proper entry procedure which included sending in a robot, a drone, or a dog. This procedure proved itself, but it took time, and the command wanted achievements here and now. npub1m5gf77hhxq3da7t706nht2g6h5a6luuz6lqg908ppfv564se8neshxt8v6 Mariya Petkova "the IDF's Military Police Criminal Investigation Division opened 6 investigations into the use of Palestinian civilians as human shields, and my jaw dropped. I've seen cover-ups before, but this is a new low. If the MPCID wanted to do its job seriously, it would have to open far more than even a thousand investigations. But all the MPCID wants is for us to be able to tell ourselves and the world that we're investigating ourselves, so they've found 6 scapegoats and are pinning it all on them." npub1m5gf77hhxq3da7t706nht2g6h5a6luuz6lqg908ppfv564se8neshxt8v6 Mariya Petkova An Israeli soldier talks about the true scale of "human shields" practice which he calls slavery: npub1m5gf77hhxq3da7t706nht2g6h5a6luuz6lqg908ppfv564se8neshxt8v6 Mariya Petkova "Walid is the first Palestinian child to ever die inside Israeli prisons, according to documentation collected by DCIP. Israeli authorities are withholding his body from his family." npub1m5gf77hhxq3da7t706nht2g6h5a6luuz6lqg908ppfv564se8neshxt8v6 Mariya Petkova Today, the Israeli army killed Al Jazeera colleague Hossam Shabat in #Gaza. His car was directly targeted in Beit Lahia. npub1m5gf77hhxq3da7t706nht2g6h5a6luuz6lqg908ppfv564se8neshxt8v6 Mariya Petkova Imagine being at that meeting and not saying anything. npub1m5gf77hhxq3da7t706nht2g6h5a6luuz6lqg908ppfv564se8neshxt8v6 Mariya Petkova Israel just attacked the UN headquarters in Gaza, killing at least one UN worker and injuring seriously 5 others... because it can. npub1m5gf77hhxq3da7t706nht2g6h5a6luuz6lqg908ppfv564se8neshxt8v6 Mariya Petkova Al Araby Al Jadeed is reporting that a Hamas source has said one Israeli captive has been killed and others injured in the massive bombardment Israel unleashed on the #Gaza Strip. npub1m5gf77hhxq3da7t706nht2g6h5a6luuz6lqg908ppfv564se8neshxt8v6 Mariya Petkova The #Gaza hashtag seems to be taken over by Israeli bots. I guess it was going to happen sooner or later. npub1m5gf77hhxq3da7t706nht2g6h5a6luuz6lqg908ppfv564se8neshxt8v6 Mariya Petkova Footage of Jewish Voice for Peace's occupation of the Trump Tower in New York calling for the release of Mahmoud Khalil. npub1m5gf77hhxq3da7t706nht2g6h5a6luuz6lqg908ppfv564se8neshxt8v6 Mariya Petkova "The victims include women, children, and young men who are known to have supported the Syrian revolution against Assad. npub1m5gf77hhxq3da7t706nht2g6h5a6luuz6lqg908ppfv564se8neshxt8v6 Mariya Petkova "The victims include women, children, and young men who are known to have supported the Syrian revolution against Assad. npub1m5gf77hhxq3da7t706nht2g6h5a6luuz6lqg908ppfv564se8neshxt8v6 Mariya Petkova "Efforts to bring an end to the atrocities, and recover looted property...don't eliminate the urgent need for clear responses from the interim government on key questions, like why these factions were permitted to remain outside the new military and security institutions. Furthermore, why were they stationed along sectarian frontlines in the coastal region? How did they manage to carry out such crimes, details of which are increasingly horrifying?" npub1m5gf77hhxq3da7t706nht2g6h5a6luuz6lqg908ppfv564se8neshxt8v6 Mariya Petkova "On the morning of March 3rd, I was notified of an online report about me. An obscure AI-powered right-wing Zionist platform called “Jewish Onliner” published a report falsely accusing me of being a “terrorist”. Rather than defend me, the Yale Law School moved within less than 24 hours of learning about the report to place me on leave." npub1m5gf77hhxq3da7t706nht2g6h5a6luuz6lqg908ppfv564se8neshxt8v6 Mariya Petkova So the Trump administration is talking to Hamas and now it is talking to Iran. npub1m5gf77hhxq3da7t706nht2g6h5a6luuz6lqg908ppfv564se8neshxt8v6 Mariya Petkova @nprofile…a3pt A chunk of the European and US left (real people, not bots) hold these views. Some out of ignorance; others out of cognitive dissonance; and perhaps some out of material benefit. npub1m5gf77hhxq3da7t706nht2g6h5a6luuz6lqg908ppfv564se8neshxt8v6 Mariya Petkova "Time and time again, we see the same pattern: Feminist outrage is conditional, activism is selective, and solidarity is reserved for those whose struggles do not challenge Western power." npub1m5gf77hhxq3da7t706nht2g6h5a6luuz6lqg908ppfv564se8neshxt8v6 Mariya Petkova Mada Masr is reporting that the plan for Gaza Egypt and other states are preparing will include an administrative body that will govern Gaza alongside the Palestinian Authority for a period of 6 months. npub1m5gf77hhxq3da7t706nht2g6h5a6luuz6lqg908ppfv564se8neshxt8v6 Mariya Petkova @nprofile…vlvm @nprofile…mny2 thank you. There is a character limit. I haven't had the time to switch to another instance. npub1m5gf77hhxq3da7t706nht2g6h5a6luuz6lqg908ppfv564se8neshxt8v6 Mariya Petkova After violating the ceasefire terms and refusing to engage in stage 2 negotiations, #Israel has now blocked aid from coming into #Gaza. npub1m5gf77hhxq3da7t706nht2g6h5a6luuz6lqg908ppfv564se8neshxt8v6 Mariya Petkova "Israeli forces have also declared some 60 percent of the city’s area a “restricted and highly dangerous zone”, it said. npub1m5gf77hhxq3da7t706nht2g6h5a6luuz6lqg908ppfv564se8neshxt8v6 Mariya Petkova "Al Mezan, a Palestinian advocacy group, says Israeli forces are continuing to demolish private and public property in Rafah...and preventing resident... from returning to their homes. npub1m5gf77hhxq3da7t706nht2g6h5a6luuz6lqg908ppfv564se8neshxt8v6 Mariya Petkova "Palestinians broke the fast on the first day of Ramadan at a mass iftar dinner in Rafah, in southern Gaza on Saturday" npub1m5gf77hhxq3da7t706nht2g6h5a6luuz6lqg908ppfv564se8neshxt8v6 Mariya Petkova "Secondly, the council's announcement coincided with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s statements demanding the demilitarisation of southern Syria. npub1m5gf77hhxq3da7t706nht2g6h5a6luuz6lqg908ppfv564se8neshxt8v6 Mariya Petkova News from #Syria is not good: npub1m5gf77hhxq3da7t706nht2g6h5a6luuz6lqg908ppfv564se8neshxt8v6 Mariya Petkova "Boxes of cash valued at nearly $28m, gold bars, luxury jewellery and 183,000 pieces of weaponry. npub1m5gf77hhxq3da7t706nht2g6h5a6luuz6lqg908ppfv564se8neshxt8v6 Mariya Petkova "New York Governor Kathy Hochul [issued an] order directing the City University of New York (CUNY) to immediately remove a job posting for a Palestinian studies professor role at Hunter College. npub1m5gf77hhxq3da7t706nht2g6h5a6luuz6lqg908ppfv564se8neshxt8v6 Mariya Petkova Rudy Giuliani is in Republika Srpska, rallying support for Milorad Dodik. npub1m5gf77hhxq3da7t706nht2g6h5a6luuz6lqg908ppfv564se8neshxt8v6 Mariya Petkova "Israel has canceled the release of six Palestinians from prison who were set to be released on Saturday after they reportedly refused exile abroad. npub1m5gf77hhxq3da7t706nht2g6h5a6luuz6lqg908ppfv564se8neshxt8v6 Mariya Petkova ""Whoever stays until the end will tell the story. We did what we could – remember us.” npub1m5gf77hhxq3da7t706nht2g6h5a6luuz6lqg908ppfv564se8neshxt8v6 Mariya Petkova "Mr Trump, I think you profoundly misunderstand who we are and what Gaza is to us." npub1m5gf77hhxq3da7t706nht2g6h5a6luuz6lqg908ppfv564se8neshxt8v6 Mariya Petkova 🤔 npub1m5gf77hhxq3da7t706nht2g6h5a6luuz6lqg908ppfv564se8neshxt8v6 Mariya Petkova An extremist Zionist group in the US is not only harassing pro-Palestinian activists and students, but it has apparently started coming after Jewish intellectuals. They gave Norman Finkelstein a pager... npub1m5gf77hhxq3da7t706nht2g6h5a6luuz6lqg908ppfv564se8neshxt8v6 Mariya Petkova Al Jazeera Arabic has perched its correspondent Rami Abu Al-Taima near the Rafah border crossing to watch for any trucks with tents and caravans entering the Strip. npub1m5gf77hhxq3da7t706nht2g6h5a6luuz6lqg908ppfv564se8neshxt8v6 Mariya Petkova Baby Mohammed was separated from his family for a year after Israel bombed the school where they were sheltering, killing his mom. In the chaos, his father and two siblings couldn't find him. A woman saw him crawling and crying by himself and picked him up and ran with him. She raised him as her own. npub1m5gf77hhxq3da7t706nht2g6h5a6luuz6lqg908ppfv564se8neshxt8v6 Mariya Petkova Zul-Qarnain Nantambu, the man who rose the Sudanese and Palestinian flags ar rhe Super Bowl, spoke to Al Jazeera 2 days ago. npub1m5gf77hhxq3da7t706nht2g6h5a6luuz6lqg908ppfv564se8neshxt8v6 Mariya Petkova Caption: Pro-Palestinian demonstrators rally outside the New York Times building in Manhattan to protest US President Donald Trump’s recent comments about the US ‘owning’ Gaza and forcibly displacing Palestinians in New York City, US, February 12, 2025 [Mostafa Bassim/Anadolu] npub1m5gf77hhxq3da7t706nht2g6h5a6luuz6lqg908ppfv564se8neshxt8v6 Mariya Petkova The documentary by Australian journalist Antony Loewenstein on Israel's weapons industry is available to watch on Al Jazeera's website and youtube channel. npub1m5gf77hhxq3da7t706nht2g6h5a6luuz6lqg908ppfv564se8neshxt8v6 Mariya Petkova As we are on the brink of genocidal warfare resuming in #Gaza , the Israeli police stormed Palestinian bookstores in occupied East Jerusalem. They took books as "evidence" against the bookstore owners, including books with the Palestinian flag on them and books by Israeli writers. npub1m5gf77hhxq3da7t706nht2g6h5a6luuz6lqg908ppfv564se8neshxt8v6 Mariya Petkova "Unable to understand human sarcasm, the AI bot mistranslated a pro-Israel post aimed at showcasing Israelis' ethnic diversity, and responded to it by calling IDF soldiers "white colonizers in apartheid Israel." npub1m5gf77hhxq3da7t706nht2g6h5a6luuz6lqg908ppfv564se8neshxt8v6 Mariya Petkova "For example, responding to a pro-Palestinian influencer that claimed that the U.S. ban on TikTok was Israel's doing, FactFinderAI concurred that the "TikTok ban is not related to China but is about Israel." npub1m5gf77hhxq3da7t706nht2g6h5a6luuz6lqg908ppfv564se8neshxt8v6 Mariya Petkova A rather entertaining read from Haaretz: npub1m5gf77hhxq3da7t706nht2g6h5a6luuz6lqg908ppfv564se8neshxt8v6 Mariya Petkova It is exactly a year since Israeli soldiers hiding in a tank killed five-year-old Hind Rajab, her 4 cousins, aunt and uncle, and the 2 paramedics sent to rescue her. npub1m5gf77hhxq3da7t706nht2g6h5a6luuz6lqg908ppfv564se8neshxt8v6 Mariya Petkova "Julia Sebutinde, the current president of the ICJ, been accused of plagiarising parts of her dissenting views in the court's advisory opinion on the Israeli occupation of #Palestine npub1m5gf77hhxq3da7t706nht2g6h5a6luuz6lqg908ppfv564se8neshxt8v6 Mariya Petkova "The world should not be deceived by our survival. Staying alive in Gaza is not synonymous with heroism. Escaping death is not a victory. We barely made it. Tens of thousands of Palestinians did not. npub1m5gf77hhxq3da7t706nht2g6h5a6luuz6lqg908ppfv564se8neshxt8v6 Mariya Petkova Then yesterday, as the media was focused on the return of the displaced to the north in #Gaza , the Israeli army killed 5-year-old Nadia Mohammed al-Amoudi when it shelled a horse-drawn cart in al-Jisr, near Nuseirat camp. npub1m5gf77hhxq3da7t706nht2g6h5a6luuz6lqg908ppfv564se8neshxt8v6 Mariya Petkova There is a #ceasefire but Israel has not stopped killing Palestinian children. npub1m5gf77hhxq3da7t706nht2g6h5a6luuz6lqg908ppfv564se8neshxt8v6 Mariya Petkova This man, who is returning to the north for the first time since Nov 2023, said "the moment I crossed into Gaza (city), I felt like the oxygen changed. It's different oxygen. It's sugar. " npub1m5gf77hhxq3da7t706nht2g6h5a6luuz6lqg908ppfv564se8neshxt8v6 Mariya Petkova There is some footage repeated from the early hours of the first returnees arriving to the north. People are kissing the ground, laughing, putting dirt on their head, crying. npub1m5gf77hhxq3da7t706nht2g6h5a6luuz6lqg908ppfv564se8neshxt8v6 Mariya Petkova Along Al Rashid Rd, Mubasher is showing a few initiatives to support returnees along the long trek to their homes. npub1m5gf77hhxq3da7t706nht2g6h5a6luuz6lqg908ppfv564se8neshxt8v6 Mariya Petkova The words Trump used yesterday to describe what he wants to do to Gaza are not coincidental. npub1m5gf77hhxq3da7t706nht2g6h5a6luuz6lqg908ppfv564se8neshxt8v6 Mariya Petkova Dunno if anyone remembers these guys. In 2021, they dug a tunnel out of Israel's Gilboa prison using spoons and caused nation-wide joy across Palestine. npub1m5gf77hhxq3da7t706nht2g6h5a6luuz6lqg908ppfv564se8neshxt8v6 Mariya Petkova This is an excellent rundown on what is happening in the occupied #WestBank , the nature of the resistance in #Jenin , the attacks on Palestinian villages, and what the future may hold. npub1m5gf77hhxq3da7t706nht2g6h5a6luuz6lqg908ppfv564se8neshxt8v6 Mariya Petkova Palestinian lawyer Mohammad Dahleh on the Israeli assault on #Jenin : npub1m5gf77hhxq3da7t706nht2g6h5a6luuz6lqg908ppfv564se8neshxt8v6 Mariya Petkova "Losing my leg is not the biggest loss in my life, what hurts me more is that I want my mother. I don’t want to live without her,” Mohammad told Drop Site News, his voice wracked with pain. npub1m5gf77hhxq3da7t706nht2g6h5a6luuz6lqg908ppfv564se8neshxt8v6 Mariya Petkova A video showing #Gaza children scavenging the remains of Israeli tanks and armoured vehicles for oil. npub1m5gf77hhxq3da7t706nht2g6h5a6luuz6lqg908ppfv564se8neshxt8v6 Mariya Petkova The big news from #Gaza is chicken has reappeared. It seems Israel has finally allowed animal protein that's not in a can to enter npub1m5gf77hhxq3da7t706nht2g6h5a6luuz6lqg908ppfv564se8neshxt8v6 Mariya Petkova What the Anti-Defamation League had to say about the #Musk Nazi salute. npub1m5gf77hhxq3da7t706nht2g6h5a6luuz6lqg908ppfv564se8neshxt8v6 Mariya Petkova Israeli media is quite clear that even when it comes to reporting on released Israeli captives, the narrative is still controlled by the military censor.
