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Hiba Zayadin

10 months

1) Israel is using starvation as a method of warfare in Gaza – a war crime. New @HRW report out today: In the following thread, I’ll go into some of the details.

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Hiba Zayadin

@ZayadinH

8 months

“I can only surmise that Israel is not allowing reporters to work freely inside Gaza, because their soldiers are doing things they do not want us to see.” - @BowenBBC

Hiba Zayadin

@ZayadinH

8 months

A group of more than 50 journalists with @BBCNews @SkyNews @CNN @Channel4News and others have sent an open letter to the embassies of Israel and Egypt calling for “free and unfettered access” to Gaza for foreign media.

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Hiba Zayadin

@ZayadinH

1 year

The information blackout continues this morning and so does Israel’s bombardment of densely populated neighbourhoods of Gaza.

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Hiba Zayadin

@ZayadinH

5 months

. @POTUS , the fact that Israel is using starvation as a weapon of war in Gaza is not in contention. It is clear as day. We at @hrw laid out the evidence in this report back in December, the evidence today is even stronger.

TIME

@TIME

5 months

Read the full transcript of President Joe Biden’s interview with TIME

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Hiba Zayadin

@ZayadinH

9 months

🧵 Twice last year, state-sponsored attackers attempted to remotely compromise my personal Jordanian phone using Israeli-owned spyware Pegasus. Twice too was @adamcoogle , my @hrw colleague in Jordan, targeted. It was a jarring experience every time.

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Hiba Zayadin

@ZayadinH

1 year

Since at least Oct 5, Syrian & Russian govt forces have bombarded opposition-held northwest Syria, killing scores of people and damaging hospitals and schools. A new @hrw report has documented their use of cluster munitions & incendiary weapons.

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Hiba Zayadin

@ZayadinH

9 months

"Some might say that the very reputation of international law... hangs in the balance," - Lawyer for South Africa team Blinne Ni Ghralaigh in her presentation at the @CIJ_ICJ right now.

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Hiba Zayadin

@ZayadinH

1 year

A @hrw team is here at the @CIJ_ICJ for the hearings on state-sponsored torture, arbitrary detention and enforced disappearances in Syria. These here are the faces of just some of the 10s of 1000s who suffered abuse at the hands of Syrian government forces since at least 2011.

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Hiba Zayadin

@ZayadinH

1 year

Israel’s total blockade on Gaza forms part of the crimes against humanity of apartheid & persecution that Israeli authorities are committing against Palestinians. These ongoing crimes are structural causes of the repeated rounds of violence.

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Hiba Zayadin

@ZayadinH

8 months

A group of more than 50 journalists with @BBCNews @SkyNews @CNN @Channel4News and others have sent an open letter to the embassies of Israel and Egypt calling for “free and unfettered access” to Gaza for foreign media.

Broadcast journalists send open letter calling for foreign media access to Gaza

The broadcasters represented are Sky News, the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, CNN, ABC, NBC, and CBS.

www.standard.co.uk

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Hiba Zayadin

@ZayadinH

9 months

Israel is starving Gaza. Israel is deliberately starving Gaza. And it is doing so as a method of warfare.

Israel: Starvation Used as Weapon of War in Gaza

The Israeli government is using starvation of civilians as a method of warfare in the occupied Gaza Strip, which is a war crime. Israeli forces are deliberately blocking the delivery of water, food,...

www.hrw.org

AJ+

@ajplus

10 months

@WFP The UN reports the entire population of occupied Gaza is facing crisis levels of hunger due to the Israeli-imposed food crisis, with half the population starving and over 570,000 people experiencing catastrophic levels of hunger.

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Hiba Zayadin

@ZayadinH

10 months

The magnitude of suffering Palestinians are forced to endure in JUST ONE DAY is staggering. And we're in day 93 of Israel's brutal war on Gaza, we're also past year 75 of Palestinian displacement and dispossession. On January 7, 2024, heartbreak looked like this:

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Hiba Zayadin

@ZayadinH

2 years

As a Jordanian, I wanted to be proud that an Arab and Muslim-majority country is hosting the 2022 World Cup. But the legacy of the World Cup in Qatar is built on a racialized labor governance system that makes way for widespread abuses of migrant workers.

First World Cup in Arab World Tarnished by Migrant Worker Abuses

As a Jordanian, I wanted to be proud that an Arab and Muslim-majority country is hosting the 2022 World Cup. And yet, the tournament has drawn unprecedented global scrutiny primarily for its treatm...

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Hiba Zayadin

@ZayadinH

1 year

Come work with me! @hrw is recruiting for a research assistant for Syria + Jordan-- friends in Jordan, please spread the word!

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Hiba Zayadin

@ZayadinH

1 year

"They broke me into pieces." Turkish border guards are indiscriminately shooting at civilians on the border with Syria, as well as torturing & using excessive force against those trying to cross into Turkey. Above all, they are doing so with impunity.

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Hiba Zayadin

@ZayadinH

1 year

Thread 1/ A new report from @hrw sheds light on the horrific treatment of Syrian asylum seekers and migrants at the hands of Turkish border guards. The report details accounts of torture and indiscriminate shootings by border officials. 📸: @AliHajSuleiman

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Hiba Zayadin

@ZayadinH

2 years

As UN Member States debate whether to create a new body to clarify the fate of thousands of people forcibly disappeared during the war in Syria, @hrw and @amnesty join calls urging them to do so.

Syria: Families of ‘Disappeared’ Deserve Answers

United Nations member countries should establish an international, independent entity to track and identify those missing and disappeared since the start of the Syria crisis in 2011.

www.hrw.org

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Hiba Zayadin

@ZayadinH

8 months

🧵In a report released today, @HRW exposes the chilling reality of abuses & impunity in Turkish-occupied northern Syria, echoing the urgency for justice seen in the wake of the murder of Syrian feminist & activist Hiba Haj Aref in Bezaa village this week.

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Hiba Zayadin

@ZayadinH

6 months

🧵In Dec, @hrw found Israel using starvation of Gaza as a weapon of war, a war crime. Today, we detail its deadly consequences: kids not only killed in airstrikes but now dying from malnutrition, dehydration, and other starvation-related complications.

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Hiba Zayadin

@ZayadinH

8 months

There’s never been an easier decision to make than the decision to stop arming Israel! Yet @POTUS , @RishiSunak , @JustinTrudeau and others continue to do so without shame. You all risk complicity in what the ICJ has deemed a plausible genocide of the Palestinian people in Gaza.

missfalasteenia

@missfalsteenia

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“Why are they bombing us??” “They told us this was a safe zone!” “They told us to come here, so why are they bombing us!?” This woman just like many Gazans went to seek safety in Rafah but Israel is carpet bombing it as we speak.

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Hiba Zayadin

@ZayadinH

7 months

Israeli assurances to use US arms legally are not credible say @hrw and @Oxfam in a memo to the Biden Administration calling on it to suspend arms to Israel.

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Hiba Zayadin

@ZayadinH

8 months

📢 Coming tomorrow: A detailed report by @HRW exposing grave abuses and potential war crimes in Turkish-occupied territories of northern Syria, or as Turkish officials like to call them: "safe zones".

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Hiba Zayadin

@ZayadinH

1 year

To those, like #Cyprus , clamoring to deport Syrians, @HRW says: the arbitrary detentions, kidnappings, tortures, and killings that we have documented for years against refugees who returned to #Syria have not ceased.

No, Syria Is Still Not Safe for Refugee Returns

On September 15, Cyprus Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou bemoaned that European Union member states cannot currently return asylum seekers to Syria, and said the EU should reevaluate whether...

www.hrw.org

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Hiba Zayadin

@ZayadinH

1 year

If this is not the final nail in the coffin of traditional western-state centric human rights advocacy, I don’t know what is. None of this is new, but with Ukraine response ongoing and fresh in our minds, these states’ response is all the more jarring, all the more indefensible.

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Hiba Zayadin

@ZayadinH

2 years

The killing of 4 members of the same Kurdish family at the hands of Turkish-backed fighters in Jinderis on the eve of Nowruz, is not an isolated incident. It is the culmination of years of human rights abuses committed with impunity.

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Hiba Zayadin

@ZayadinH

6 months

Let’s repeat that: 520 bodies recovered from 7 mass graves found at 3 different hospitals across Gaza. 520 bodies. 7 mass graves. 3 hospitals. 520 bodies. 7 mass graves. 3 hospitals.

Kenneth Roth

@KenRoth

6 months

Gaza: "49 bodies found at ‘third mass grave’ at al-Shifa hospital, Palestinian officials say. So far, 520 bodies have been recovered from seven mass graves found at three different hospitals across Gaza in recent weeks, Gaza’s Civil Defense agency said."

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Hiba Zayadin

@ZayadinH

7 months

Turkiye is increasingly deporting Syrians to the remote, isolated Turkish-occupied border town of Tel Abyad, which suffers from lawlessness, insecurity and dire humanitarian conditions and to which most deportees have no meaningful ties whatsoever.

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Hiba Zayadin

@ZayadinH

9 months

Humanitarians warned the world of the risk of famine in Gaza as early as Nov. @hrw determined Israel is deliberately starving Gazans in mid Dec. More warnings have surfaced since. Now, Palestinians are forced to eat GRASS. What more do Israel's allies possibly need to see to act?

Sana Saeed

@SanaSaeed

9 months

What’s left to say anymore?

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Hiba Zayadin

@ZayadinH

2 years

"We told you to hurry." - Heartbreaking testimony from northwest Syria, where, since the first earthquake hit more than 60 hours ago and until this moment, no aid had entered.

Karam Shaar كرم شعّار

@Karam__Shaar

2 years

"The groaning has ceased"

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Hiba Zayadin

@ZayadinH

9 months

706,000 people are starving to death worldwide -- 577,000 of them (82%) are in Gaza. (UN) “It bears repeating, 4 out of 5 people in the world in famine, or a catastrophic type of hunger, are in Gaza right now.” - Lawyer Blinne Ni Ghralaigh before the ICJ yesterday.

Hiba Zayadin

@ZayadinH

10 months

1) Israel is using starvation as a method of warfare in Gaza – a war crime. New @HRW report out today: In the following thread, I’ll go into some of the details.

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Hiba Zayadin

@ZayadinH

9 months

& today we have Western states doing Israel's bidding, its dirty work. By halting funding, the US, UK, AUS, CDN, GER, ITALY & others, are now directly contributing to the collective punishment of Palestinians in Gaza, a people who've endured >100 days of bombardment & starvation.

Middle East Eye

@MiddleEastEye

9 months

"It will be impossible to win the war if we do not destroy Unrwa, and this destruction must begin immediately" Earlier this month on 4 January, Noga Arbell, a former Israeli official, called for the destruction of Unrwa during a discussion in the Israeli parliament.

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Hiba Zayadin

@ZayadinH

10 months

"If death doesn't come from airstrikes, it will come from starvation." - @Hind_Gaza at @WFP on Dec 12. That frightening possibility is not simply a byproduct of the war. Israel is intentionally starving Gaza's civilian population. So how is intent determined? 🧵

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Hiba Zayadin

@ZayadinH

2 years

Yet again, the past and present actions of the Syrian govt are compounding the suffering of those displaced to NW Syria to flee its brutal rule. Reports arising of other parties to the conflict denying aid from urgently reaching earthquake survivors.

Human Rights Watch

@hrw

2 years

Over 20,000 people have lost their lives, and countless more injured in earthquakes that struck Turkey and Syria. In northwest Syria, where communities are among the most disadvantaged and cut off from rescue efforts, safe and secure access to aid should be secured.

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Hiba Zayadin

@ZayadinH

5 months

The entire world has for months watched on as Israel deliberately starved Gaza’s battered & exhausted population, its kids, its pregnant & breastfeeding women, its elderly. This is just 1 of many atrocities Israel is inflicting on Palestinians. How much longer!?

UN Humanitarian

@UNOCHA

5 months

" @WFP and @UNRWA will run out of food for distribution in the south by tomorrow," warns our colleague Georgios Petropoulos. With all crossings into Rafah closed or unsafe, the humanitarian situation in #Gaza is in a downward spiral. Aid and fuel must be allowed immediate entry.

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Hiba Zayadin

@ZayadinH

8 months

This artwork encapsulates how twisted it is for the US to airdrop a paltry amount of aid into Gaza when it is the one arming, shielding, and justifying Israel’s plausible genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. If the US truly cared about starving children, it would #StopArmingIsrael .

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Hiba Zayadin

@ZayadinH

10 months

2) Israeli forces are deliberately blocking the delivery of water, food, and fuel, while willfully impeding humanitarian assistance, apparently razing agricultural areas, and depriving the civilian population of objects indispensable to their survival.

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Hiba Zayadin

@ZayadinH

10 months

Most of Gazans are displaced & in harm’s way. The risk of forced displacement, a war crime Israel perpetrated against the Palestinians before, is growing. Indeed, an Israeli minister described the evacuation of northern Gaza as “rolling out Nakba 2023.”

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Hiba Zayadin

@ZayadinH

10 months

3) High-ranking Israeli officials, including Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, and Energy Minister Israel Katz, openly expressed intent to deprive civilians of vital resources. This reflects a policy Israeli forces are carrying out.

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Hiba Zayadin

@ZayadinH

1 year

On Thursday, UN member states will vote on the creation of a body to clarify the fate of 1000s of people gone missing during the war in Syria. @hrw joined more than 100 groups in calling on them to absolutely do so. The people of Syria deserve no less.

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Hiba Zayadin

@ZayadinH

9 months

Since Oct, 1000s in Jordan have peacefully demonstrated in solidarity with #Gaza . Instead of upholding the right to free expression & assembly, Authorities have responded with arrests, harassment, and charges under the new cybercrimes law. New from @hrw :

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Hiba Zayadin

@ZayadinH

1 year

Hearings have begun. Not 1 representative of the Syrian government showed up. Activists, torture survivors, & families of the forcibly disappeared have gathered outside the court to watch on a laptop live-streaming the proceedings. You too can watch here:

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Hiba Zayadin

@ZayadinH

2 years

Syria govt has long weaponized & obstructed aid from reaching those who need it most. In such circumstances, aid agencies may “conduct temporary humanitarian relief operations, to bring lifesaving supplies to a people in extreme need" without its consent.

Northwest Syria: Aid Delays Deadly for Quake Survivors

The slow humanitarian response to the earthquakes that severely affected opposition-held northwest Syria highlights the inadequacy of the United Nations Security Council-mandated cross border aid...

www.hrw.org

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Hiba Zayadin

@ZayadinH

9 months

Israel has prevented sufficient meds from entering Gaza and disrupted the refrigeration needed for insulin since October. Its blockade has so far sentenced people with diabetes, including children, to needless suffering and possibly death. @billvanesveld

Gaza Blockade Puts People with Diabetes at Risk

Karim, who lives in the Gaza Strip, has Type 1 diabetes; his body does not produce enough insulin, which regulates blood sugar. His medical insulin may run out next week and without it, he risks...

www.hrw.org

Rami Ayari

@Raminho

9 months

The #UN Humanitarian Coordinator for #Palestine @jamiemcgoldric8 says #Israel recently added insulin pens for children to the list of prohibited items that are not allowed into #Gaza and he does not know why. He adds that other medicines for chronic illnesses are also not

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Hiba Zayadin

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11 months

Between Jan 1 & Oct 6, Israeli security forces killed more Palestinians in the West Bank than in any other year since 2005. Since October 7, they have killed more Palestinians in the West Bank in the last six weeks than in any entire year since 2005!

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Hiba Zayadin

@ZayadinH

2 years

An excellent report out by @SyrianLDP & @oopensyr looking at @UN 's top 100 suppliers in Syria. Findings: - ~ 47% of spending in 2019, 2020 went to risky or highly risky suppliers - > 23% of funds went to companies with owners sanctioned by US, EU, or UK

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Hiba Zayadin

@ZayadinH

1 year

Yesterday, @KingAbdullahII approved a draconian cybercrimes bill that Jordanians protested against, further plunging the country into repression. Some weeks ago, @hrw joined others in highlighting some of the key ways it undermines free speech:

Jordan: Scrap Draconian Cybercrimes Bill

Human Rights Watch joined Access Now, Article ARTICLE 19, and 10 11 other organizations on July 24, 2023, in urging the Jordanian government to withdraw a proposed cybercrimes law currently before...

www.hrw.org

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Hiba Zayadin

@ZayadinH

2 years

For every foreigner repatriated from squalid detention camps in NE Syria, seven remain. Most are children. New @hrw report on this mass collective punishment in the name of countering #ISIS .

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Hiba Zayadin

@ZayadinH

7 months

On Jan 18, Jordanian airstrikes on Syria killed 10 Syrian, including 2 little girls, Farah & Dima. Cross-border airstrikes that kill demand scrutiny regardless of the threat posed by drug smuggling. Jordan should ensure accountability and compensation.

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Hiba Zayadin

@ZayadinH

2 years

The Syrian government’s history of obstructing aid combined with the failure of the Security Council-authorized cross border mechanism to meet the urgent needs of Syrians in the besieged northwest has resulted in deadly delays in lifesaving aid.

Adam Coogle

@adamcoogle

2 years

Coming more than a week after the earthquakes, Assad’s authorization for aid to pass through two more border crossings into northwest Syria for just three months is too little, too late

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Hiba Zayadin

@ZayadinH

10 months

4) Heart-wrenching testimonies from displaced Palestinians in Gaza describe profound hardships—no food, no potable water, no electricity. Families are struggling to survive, with 9 out of 10 households in northern Gaza and 2 out of 3 in the south experiencing days without food.

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Hiba Zayadin

@ZayadinH

1 year

This is such important context, with contributions from @MouinRabbani , @MariamBarghouti , @TariqNafi and @sarahleah1 .

The Listening Post

@AJListeningPost

1 year

A week on from Hamas’ shock assault against Israel we’re delving into the news coverage of the war in Occupied Palestine. Watch the full report now ⤵️

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Hiba Zayadin

@ZayadinH

2 years

As @FilippoGrandi begins visit to Syria, @hrw has joined @amnesty , @RPW2019 , and @SyrianACD in calling on the UNHCR chief to halt programmes that could incentivise premature and unsafe returns. Syria is not safe.

Syria: Rights groups urge UNHCR Chief Grandi to halt Syria return programme - Amnesty International

As UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi begins a visit to Syria, prominent local and international rights groups* remind UNHCR that Syria is still not safe for return, and urge UNHCR and...

www.amnesty.org

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Hiba Zayadin

@ZayadinH

10 months

8) Israel’s near total blockade of Gaza, as well as its > 16-year closure amounts to collective punishment, another war crime. Israel, as the occupying power, is failing to live up to its duties to ensure access to food and medical supplies to Gaza's population.

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Hiba Zayadin

@ZayadinH

10 months

7) Even before Oct 7, 1.2M of Gaza's 2.2M ppl faced acute food insecurity, with >80% reliant on aid. Israel maintains overarching control over Gaza, leaving civilians, subjected to a 16-year unlawful closure, dependent on it for basic necessities.

Human Rights Watch

@hrw

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Israel, with Egypt’s help, has turned Gaza into an open-air prison. For 15 years.

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10 months

13) Most importantly, Israel which is committing the crime against humanity of apartheid against Palestinians with impunity, should dismantle all forms of systematic oppression and discrimination, and end the occupation of Gaza.

A Threshold Crossed

The 213-page report, “A Threshold Crossed: Israeli Authorities and the Crimes of Apartheid and Persecution,” examines Israel’s treatment of Palestinians. It presents the present-day reality of a...

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Hiba Zayadin

@ZayadinH

10 months

5) @WFP raised the alarm re the catastrophic situation in Gaza more than once. Nov 17: warned of "immediate possibility" of starvation. Dec 3: declared a "high risk of famine". Dec 6: said 48% of households in north & 38% in south face "severe hunger".

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@ZayadinH

10 months

6) Some displaced Gazans have taken to social media platforms to convey their suffering.

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Hiba Zayadin

@ZayadinH

6 months

Jordanian authorities are on verge of deporting a 24 yr old Syrian student who lived 1/2 his life in JO without charging him for a crime or presenting him before judicial body & merely for attempting to document a pro-Gaza rally. #لا_لإبعاد_عطية_أبو_سالم

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Hiba Zayadin

@ZayadinH

1 year

Below some heartbreaking tweets I gathered of the psychological torture Gazans abroad are being subjected to as they wait to hear from their families in Gaza. Imagine having to endure more than 28 hours wondering whether members of your family are alive or dead.

Hiba Zayadin

@ZayadinH

1 year

The information blackout continues this morning and so does Israel’s bombardment of densely populated neighbourhoods of Gaza.

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@ZayadinH

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10) Bakeries, grain mills, agricultural areas, water and sanitation facilities have been bombed, worsening the plight of Gaza's population. @OCHA reported on Dec 10, that Israeli military’s bombardment had destroyed more than half of the civilian infrastructure in Gaza.

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@ZayadinH

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12) @hrw calls on the Israeli government to cease using starvation as a method of warfare, lift the blockade, and restore access to water and electricity. 🇺🇸, 🇬🇧, 🇨🇦, 🇩🇪 and others should suspend military assistance to Israel.

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Hiba Zayadin

@ZayadinH

2 years

“Research by @hrw and other rights groups have repeatedly found that Syria is not safe for returns and that many of those who return face serious abuses at the hands of the Syrian government and affiliated militias." - @Aya_Majzoub to @lorienttoday

Tessa Fox

@Tessa_Fox

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Excellent deep look into the issue of deporting Syrians from Lebanon by @sewella . While the gov plan to return Syrians in mass numbers hasn't taken off, deportations have recently increased with dangerous consequences for refugees.

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9) Alongside the blockade, Israeli military’s extensive airstrikes in Gaza have resulted in widespread damage or destruction to objects necessary for survival. @UN_SPExperts said the significant damage “threatens to make the continuation of Palestinian life in Gaza impossible.”

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@ZayadinH

1 year

In northeast Syria, millions of people are grappling with erratic access to water & electricity after Turkish drone strikes wreaked havoc on critical infrastructure, making an already dire humanitarian crisis decidedly worse. New @HRW report:

Northeast Syria: Turkish Strikes Disrupt Water, Electricity

Drone strikes by Turkish Armed Forces on Kurdish-held areas of northeast Syria between October 5 and 10, 2023, damaged critical infrastructure and resulted in water and electricity disruptions for...

www.hrw.org

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2 years

As Turkey again threatens a full-blown military incursion into parts of northeast Syria held by Kurdish-led forces, @HRW draws on its documentation of previous Turkish incursions into the region in a Q&A addressing pertinent human rights concerns.

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Türkiye’s airstrikes and drone attacks on critical civilian infrastructure in northeast Syria are putting livelihoods at risk and severing communities from electricity, medical care, and other essential services.

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1 year

Israeli authorities are repeatedly signaling their intent to commit mass atrocities and the US is basically cheering them on - and arming them of course.

Lowkey

@Lowkey0nline

1 year

White House spokesperson White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre describes calls for ceasefire in Gaza as "repugnant."

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1000s of displaced families in northeast Syria are living in precarious conditions without sustained aid for over 4 years now. Clean water, sanitation, healthcare are scarce commodities. Immediate attention to this ongoing crisis is necessary. <Thread>

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@ZayadinH

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Syrian student Atia Abu Salem will go on hunger strike to protest his arbitrary detention & the deportation order imposed on him by Jordanian authorities. He and another Syrian, Wael Ashi, are at imminent risk of being sent to Syria, where they face a real risk of persecution.

ahmed sawaee

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سيبدأ عطية أبو سالم إضرابًا مفتوحًا عن الطعام والشراب مطالبًا بإلغاء قرار إبعاده من الأراضي الأردنية، والإفراج عنه. ++

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2 years

Turkish authorities are exacerbating an already acute water crisis in northeast Syria that is believed to have given rise to the cholera outbreak in two key ways. (Thread)

Hiba Zayadin

@ZayadinH

2 years

It's not only crumbling healthcare, damaged water infrastructure & a massive displacement crisis that is aggravating Syria's cholera outbreak. It's also the current actions of parties to the conflict, namely Turkey and the Government of Syria

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New @hrw report documents the forcible displacement of 5 entire Palestinian communities due to settler attacks, often with direct participation of @IDF . This is not going to be resolved by sanctioning a few bad apples. Here's what US, UK, EU should do:

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@ZayadinH

2 years

As Biden marks a decade since #AustinTice went missing in #Syria by declaring the US is certain that the Syrian government was holding him, @hrw looks at the devastating legacy of enforced disappearance and arbitrary detention across the country.

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@ZayadinH

1 year

Yesterday BBC insinuates this 👇🏽, today Israel strikes Al Ahli Baptist hospital, killing at least 500.

BBC News (World)

@BBCWorld

1 year

'Does Hamas build tunnels under hospitals and schools?' #BBCYourQuestionsAnswered ⬇️

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@ZayadinH

1 year

Many people in Jordan 🇯🇴 are not getting financial support because their hardships fall outside an algorithm's faulty model of poverty. New @hrw report examines failures of an automated cash transfer program financed by the #WorldBank 🌐

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@ZayadinH

1 year

📢 Urgent call to Jordanian Government: Scrap draconian cybercrimes bill currently being discussed in Parliament. This joint statement from @accessnow , @hrw , @article19org , @GulfCentre4HR and others details its alarming implications for online freedoms

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Hiba Zayadin

@ZayadinH

10 months

11) Israel’s military actions in Gaza have also had a devastating impact on Gaza’s agricultural sector. More details in the report + an earlier @hrw thread here on the apparent razing of agricultural land since start of Israeli forces' ground invasion.

Human Rights Watch

@hrw

11 months

NEW: Satellite imagery reviewed by HRW shows that orchards, greenhouses and farmland in northern Gaza have been razed since the beginning of Israel’s ground invasion, compounding concerns of dire food insecurity and loss of livelihood. 1/14 🧵⤵️

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Hiba Zayadin

@ZayadinH

1 year

For the UN to accept such an arrangement with a government whose track record in weaponizing and co-opting aid has been proven time and again is incredible.

Hiba Zayadin

@ZayadinH

1 year

As long as it is “in full cooperation and coordination with the Syrian Government.”

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Hiba Zayadin

@ZayadinH

2 years

Turkey's aerial bombardment of north and northeast Syria since Nov 20 has worsened an already dire humanitarian crisis, causing significant power cuts and fuel shortages, forcing aid groups to halt activities, and leading to school and work disruptions.

Northeast Syria: Turkish Strikes Exacerbate Humanitarian Crisis

Turkish airstrikes since November 20, 2022, are inflicting damage on densely populated areas and critical infrastructure across north and northeast Syria and exacerbating an already catastrophic...

www.hrw.org

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Hiba Zayadin

@ZayadinH

2 years

New @hrw report on intensified repression in Jordan sheds a spotlight on the practices of security agencies, including the General Intelligence Directorate and its outsized role in restricting civic space.

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Hiba Zayadin

@ZayadinH

2 years

Sobering report out by @UNCoISyria this week warning that #Syria , a country decimated by over a decade of war, may "return to large-scale fighting" - a devastating projection.

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Hiba Zayadin

@ZayadinH

8 months

Türkiye’s Strikes Wreak Havoc on Northeast Syria: Critical Infrastructure Damaged, Millions Without Access to Essential Services

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Hiba Zayadin

@ZayadinH

1 year

Heart shattering scenes from Sicily today. Wildfires burning everywhere on the island. Scorched earth where lush vegetation should have been. #ClimateActionNow #Sicilia

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Hiba Zayadin

@ZayadinH

1 year

غدًا، ستعقد محكمة العدل الدولية جلسة استماع بشأن التعذيب الذي ترعاه الدولة في سوريا منذ 2011. يتعين على المحكمة أن تتخذ على وجه السرعة تدابير لمنع المزيد من الانتهاكات ضد السوريين، الذين ما زالوا يعانون في ظل ظروف مرعبة، وحياتهم عرضة لمخاطر شديدة

سوريا: "محكمة العدل الدولية" تبدأ النظر في قضية تعذيب مفصلية

جلسات "محكمة العدل الدولية" التي ستنعقد يومي 10 و11 أكتوبر/تشرين الأول 2023 بشأن التعذيب الذي ترعاه الدولة في سوريا منذ 2011، مهمة للغاية لإحقاق العدالة.

www.hrw.org

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Hiba Zayadin

@ZayadinH

9 months

Just days after @CIJ_ICJ hears genocide case against Israel, Netanyahu repeats phrase he earlier said in a now-deleted tweet that the @LemkinInstitute for Genocide Prevention at the time considered an expression of genocidal intent. *Deleted tweet and Lemkin analysis in reply.

Prime Minister of Israel

@IsraeliPM

9 months

I told him something else: This is not just our war – it is also your war. This is the war of the sons of light against the sons of darkness. This is a war against the axis of evil led by Iran and its three proxies: Hezbollah, Hamas and the Houthis.

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Hiba Zayadin

@ZayadinH

5 months

“Most children under five in Gaza are spending entire days without eating anything at all.”

Children die of malnutrition as Rafah operation heightens threat of famine in Gaza

Arrival of Israeli troops in the southern border town has choked aid supplies, as hunger deepens in southern Gaza

www.theguardian.com

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Hiba Zayadin

@ZayadinH

2 years

Seeing friends & acquaintances of mine in the region focusing on the few racist portrayals of Qatar and disregarding the real and widespread abuses of migrant workers who helped build and deliver the World Cup and whose exploitation went unpunished and uncompensated, saddens me.

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Hiba Zayadin

@ZayadinH

2 years

Last week, UN member states discussed the creation of a UN body to track and clarify the fates of an estimated 100,000 people who were disappeared or went missing in the Syrian conflict since 2011. Families have waited years for news of their loved ones; they deserve answers.

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@ZayadinH

5 months

Kids in white shrouds Kids starved Kids burnt Kids without limbs Kids carrying the dead bodies of other kids Orphaned kids Traumatized kids This is Israel’s legacy.

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Hiba Zayadin

@ZayadinH

1 year

As humanitarian exemptions introduced by the US, UK, & EU to their sanctions regimes post-earthquake near expiration, @hrw is calling for their urgent renewal and for other, more far-reaching reforms to facilitate much-needed aid in #Syria more effectively

Put People’s Rights First in Syria Sanctions

The United States, the United Kingdom, and the European Union should urgently renew the earthquake-related humanitarian exemptions they introduced to their Syria sanctions’ regimes in February 2023...

www.hrw.org

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Hiba Zayadin

@ZayadinH

2 years

As some rushed to improve relations with Assad post quake, Saudi FM acknowledged new approach to Syria is needed. If a stable & prosperous Syria is the aim, any new approach needs to push at its center for commitments by Assad & allies to the Syrian ppl.

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Hiba Zayadin

@ZayadinH

5 months

It’s long been apparent & now clearer than ever that Israel is using starvation as a weapon in its brutal war on Gaza. We & others have exposed this & other atrocities since October & still no major action on the part of Israel’s allies to prevent atrocities against Palestinians.

OCHA OPT (Palestine)

@ochaopt

5 months

For days now, crossings into #Gaza have been closed, unsafe to access or not logistically viable. Aid distribution is almost impossible with no regular fuel imports, unstable telecommunication and ongoing fighting. The impact is devastating for over 2 million people.

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Hiba Zayadin

@ZayadinH

2 years

Jordanian authorities should ensure a thorough, impartial, and transparent investigation into this case of a 37-year-old Jordanian man who died in custody in Marka prison last week, just days after his arrest, and whose family say he was being tortured.

Mohammed al Ersan

@JournalistErsan

2 years

أول اختبار أمام مدير الأمن العام الجديد هو فتح تحقيق في تفاصيل وفاة السجين زيد الدبش في سجن ماركا.. يدعي أهالي الموقوف انه قتل تحت الضرب... تحقيق العدالة على طاولة مدير الامن العام..

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Hiba Zayadin

@ZayadinH

4 months

Peaceful speech should never be criminalized. Journalists should not receive prison sentences for the articles they write, regardless of whether the information within them is contested. Hiba should be released.

Moh'd Shamma

@karmel_shamma

4 months

The court's decision to imprison Hiba Abu Taha for one year is a serious and clear violation of her right and the freedom of expression in Jordan, even if the decision is subject to appeal.

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Hiba Zayadin

@ZayadinH

6 months

Reports that Jordan is planning to move ahead with Atia’s deportation, without giving him a fair shot in court or any kind of due process and knowing full well the risk of persecution he faces upon return, is incredibly cruel and alarming behaviour. Cc: @AymanHsafadi

Hiba Zayadin

@ZayadinH

6 months

Jordanian authorities are on verge of deporting a 24 yr old Syrian student who lived 1/2 his life in JO without charging him for a crime or presenting him before judicial body & merely for attempting to document a pro-Gaza rally. #لا_لإبعاد_عطية_أبو_سالم

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@ZayadinH

7 months

“As soon as you drive thru the north, you get that universal gesture of hunger of ppl putting their hands to their mouths. A lot of children, women with very gaunt faces,” said UNICEF’s @1james_elder , describing the effects of Israel’s starvation tactics

Unicef official tells of ‘utter annihilation’ after travelling length of Gaza

James Elder describes children on the brink of death and families desperate for clean water, food and shelter

www.theguardian.com

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@ZayadinH

1 year

Just over two weeks ago, an Israeli airstrike killed Gaza journalist @RoshdiSarraj . Yesterday was Roshdi’s daughter’s first birthday. His wife penned this letter to him:

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Hiba Zayadin

@ZayadinH

5 months

“The Israeli investigations are not about securing justice, they’re about obstructing justice.” - @KenRoth

Democracy Now!

@democracynow

5 months

A new report by the @guardian and @972mag reveals that Israel surveilled, hacked, smeared and threatened top ICC officials in order to stop possible war crimes prosecutions of Israeli leaders. "This is a crime,” says @KenRoth , former executive director at @hrw .

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@ZayadinH

5 months

Just a daily reminder for States to: - halt arms to 🇮🇱 to avoid complicity in war crimes - use their leverage—incl. targeted sanctions—to press 🇮🇱 to comply with @CIJ_ICJ binding orders in genocide case -support @IntlCrimCourt 's 🇵🇸probe to ensure accountability for grave crimes.

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Hiba Zayadin

@ZayadinH

11 months

UAE’s migrant workers & their communities back home are among those contributing the least to the climate crisis yet are often the ones who have the greatest exposure to climate harm. New @hrw report ahead of #COP28

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