Journalist. Words @NewYorker + others. Ex @TIME.Fellow @Newamerica @DartCenter @ecfr @niemanfdn. Author x3: No Turning Back.Sisters of the War. The Cave🇱🇧🇦🇺
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Honored & humbled. @nytimesbooks says #NoTurningBack “offers page after page of extraordinary reporting & many flashes of exquisitely descriptive prose… Abouzeid’s remarkable journalistic & literary work has given us, at last, a book worthy of the enormous tragedy that is Syria” xitter.cf/robertguinsler/status/…
What an incredible review in this Sunday’s @nytimesbooks for the amazing @Raniaab and her powerful NO TURNING BACK! google.com/amp/s/mobile.nyti…
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🚨 “He was blown to pieces right before my eyes. His schoolbag was still on his shoulder.”
Israeli forces killed 14-year-old Palestinian student Mohammed Abu Hammad in a drone strike on Al-Baraka Street, south of Deir al-Balah in central Gaza shortly after he returned from school.
Mohammed had stopped at his father's shop to look after it while his father ran an errand. “He hadn't even been sitting in the chair for five minutes,” Ahmed Muhareb told Drop Site's Mohamed Ahmed. “They fired a missile at the boy, while his schoolbag was still on his back.”
At the hospital, people held up Mohammed's bloodstained schoolbag and notebooks, pointing to the shrapnel that had pierced them. His father wept over his son's body. “I swear, I was just talking to him,” he cried. “Mohammed was the one I depended on.”
“This is a child. What did he do wrong?” Mohammed's sister, Malak Abu Hammad, said. Questioning the ceasefire, she asked, “Do they even know God, to be talking about a ceasefire?”
“Is it not enough that you've forced us to live in tents? You've forced us to live in hunger and poverty. Why are you killing us?” Muhareb asked.
Several other students were wounded in the attack, which also killed another Palestinian, the Palestinian Ministry of Education said. At least six Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since Saturday morning.
🎥 Mohamed Ahmed
Rania Abouzeid retweeted
To be clear, the only reason I was able to reach Heidi was because young Palestinians provided cover with rocks against machine-gun- and tear-gas-wielding settlers and soldiers. It’s those kids, not the settler terrorists, who the IDF was hunting after the attack.
Rania Abouzeid retweeted
"Israel said that commercial goods will no longer enter the Gaza Strip, cutting off a key source of food and shelter supply for the war-torn territory as hungry Palestinians face the approach of winter." (🔗 below)
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My nephews study in a big tent surrounded by bombed-out houses. They have no access to chairs or tables, so they sit on the dirt. newyorker.com/news/the-lede/…
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NEW: “They decide who enters."
To leave or enter the isolated villages in Israel-occupied south Lebanon – some of the only villages still populated – residents need Israel's approval, and must rely on UN-escorted civilian convoys.
But UNIFIL’s mandate ends in three months. No replacement is on the horizon. And residents are grappling with what that will mean for them.
We joined them on one of the civilian convoys to Debel. It took 35 vehicles four hours and three checkpoints to get there. This was what our journey looked like.
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A CNN investigation has found that while Jared Kushner acted as a key Middle East peace negotiator, his private equity firm held the largest stake in an Israeli company backing businesses tied to Israel's military campaign in Gaza, including its largest arms manufacturer. cnn.it/4y0xe5x
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“The estimate of the total amount of rubble in Gaza is 61m tonnes. It is approximately 20 times the amount of rubble generated in all wars across the world over the last 18 years”
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NEW from The Key: In Southern Lebanon, villages leveled by Israeli bombardment are being erased twice: once by the strikes, and again by the removal of landmarks and records that proved anyone lived there, @zaymayladan reports. thekeymagazine.com/p/south-l…
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New from @NadaOHomsi. Per UNIFIL:
• 30 Israeli military positions in south Lebanon
• Includes 8 fortified bases per map below; 3 new bases in 2026 (note: prior UNIFIL reports suggested 9 fortified bases)
NEW: Unifil has counted nearly 30 Israeli military positions across south Lebanon - including eight fortified bases. Revealing Israeli entrenchment in Lebanese territory, even as US-mediated negotiations for Israeli withdrawal/Hezb disarmament/LAF control prod on.
[Three of the eight fortified bases are new from 2026. The remaining 5 were established in 2024.]
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🚨 BREAKING :At least 8 Palestinians have been killed, 13 injured, and 60 civilians, including children and entire families, remain missing after a residential building collapsed west of Gaza City.
The building had been severely weakened by previous Israeli bombardment and was being used by families as shelter.
Civil Defense teams continue searching for survivors and recovering those trapped beneath the rubble, amid a critical shortage of rescue equipment.
Rania Abouzeid retweeted
In paragraph 5, the Post explains why its own headline is misinformation.
Breaking news: The Trump administration is preparing a $2.8 billion sale of 2,000-pound bombs to Israel, the largest single sale of the controversial munitions in recent years, a U.S. official told The Post. wapo.st/4Ae8VTH
Gaza is still bleeding and being bombed during what the world insists is a ‘ceasefire.’ “At least 6 families, including many children, are believed buried beneath the rubble.”
🚨 BREAKING: At least 60 Palestinians are dead or missing after a previously damaged multi-story building collapsed in Gaza’s Industrial Area, Al Araby’s correspondent reports. Members of at least six families, including many children, are believed buried beneath the rubble. At least 11 deaths have been confirmed so far.
Israel, with U.S. backing, continues to block the entry of adequate tents and mobile homes, leaving displaced Palestinians with little choice but to shelter in bomb-damaged buildings. It also blocks heavy machinery needed to reach people trapped beneath the rubble.
My latest @nowvoyagermag explains how weak sovereignty & institutions, foreign interference, sectarian oversimplification, deep political divisions, issue of Hezbollah’s arms, & Israeli violations of int. law have ravaged #Lebanon, & price ppl are paying nowvoyagermag.com/reporting/…
Israeli flags. Military checkpoints. And enormous destruction.
This is a rare look inside Israeli-occupied southern Lebanon.
The 3 Christian villages spared by the bulldozers. The Shia communities devastated by the war. And the Lebanese Army's difficult task.
W/ @zeenasaifi & @cyrilthps
Rania Abouzeid retweeted
Its hard to imagine now but in the 1990s murdering 8000 civilians was frowned upon
Breaking News: Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian Serb general during the Balkan wars of the 1990s who was convicted in the killing of 8,000 Muslims at Srebrenica, Europe’s deadliest massacre since World War II, has died. He was 83. nyti.ms/3T013o6
As #Lebanon pressures #Hezbollah to disarm, I explore a central paradox & its human cost: A state can't claim sovereignty while a non-state actor determines qns of war & peace, but sovereignty is hollow if the state can't defend its people & territory nowvoyagermag.com/reporting/…
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Israel’s attacks on Lebanon have killed over 4,000 and displaced over 1 million people. Under this pressure, any health-care system would struggle. But in Lebanon, as in Gaza, medical workers are themselves targets, too. Since March 2, the World Health Organization has documented attacks that killed 135 health-care workers and injured 405 more.
“The paramedics Israel is targeting in Lebanon are volunteers — jeopardizing their lives not to earn a living, but to help in their spare time,” writes Mary Turfah. “Many of them have day jobs or are enrolled in university. They work on rotation." The risks they’re taking are clear. And they are offered the option to leave. Very few of them do.
As a doctor with family members who have been wounded in Lebanon by Israel’s bombs, Turfah wanted to visit the paramedics doing this vital work, and ask them why they risk their lives. “We started on this path to help people,” a 24-year-old medic named Hussein told her. “As much as we’re under threat, if I leave and someone else leaves and someone else leaves, who is going to rescue people?”
Read Turfah’s full dispatch from Lebanon, where she spends time with the medics risking their lives to save the people around them: nymag.visitlink.me/0OZsMx
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First of a five-part series on the Sehnaoui family, with a focus on Antoun, who invited Benjamin Netanyahu to dinner yesterday, by @HayekCaroline. Antoun and his father Nabil tried to get a judge to ban publication of the story, but their request was rejected. lorientlejour.com/article/15…
