A British man stranded in Rafah has said MI5 offered to help him and his young family to escape from Gaza - but only if he agreed to work for them. He says he turned down the offer. Since then, he says, the Foreign Office has failed to help the family.
The Red Crescent says its medics have been prevented by Israeli forces from treating wounded Palestinians attacked at the Damascus Gate. Israeli forces also attacking protesters in Nablus and Sheikh Jarrah
Revealed in full for the first time, the secret memo of how Bush and Blair plotted a path to war in Iraq at the US President's Texas ranch in April 2002. An explosive scoop by
@davidahearst
An incredible
@MiddleEastEye
exclusive: For decades the UK government has quietly held land in Jerusalem - known as the 'Orange Plot' - earmarked as the site of a future embassy in Israel.
@daniaakkad
found out where it is
Huge scoop from
@daniaakkad
. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey met Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman six months after the social media giant knew it had been infiltrated by Saudi spies
A former senior MI6 official has told MPs that the UK government is stripping people in Syria of their citizenship ‘without a clear national security justification’.
@are_eb
reports
Egypt's parliamentary speaker compares Sisi to Adolf Hitler: 'Hitler had his mistakes, but what allowed him to expand eastward and westward was that he created a strong infrastructure'
Bilal Abdul Kareem has reported fearlessly from opposition-held Syria for many outlets including
@MiddleEastEye
for many years, never more so than during the final days of the battle of Aleppo in 2016. He must be released to continue his work.
The OGN social media is currently being run from outside of Syria. We will continue to keep you all updated. Bilal and his driver Abu Muhammad are still under arrest by HTS at an unknown location.
#Idlib
#FreeBilal
#FreeTox
EXCLUSIVE:
@MiddleEastEye
has learnt that alleged Islamic State 'Beatle' Aine Davis is scheduled to be deported from Turkey to the UK within days. With
@ragipsoylu
A
@MiddleEastEye
exclusive: American journalist Bilal Abdul Kareem talks for the first time about his six months in a Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham prison in Idlib, the torture he witnessed, and why Abu Mohammad al-Jolani is 'unfit to rule'
'Diego Maradona in the desert: On the trail of football's lost legend': Really pleased to be running this piece by
@MortenGlinvad
, originally in
@blzzrd
on
@MiddleEastEye
A London Jewish youth club, which last week hosted a British man who fought in Gaza, is helping vulnerable young men it supports to join the Israeli army
Seven children whose names tell the story of Syria's war: Moawiya Sayasina, Hamza al-Khateeb, Alan Kurdi, Bana Alabed, Omran Daqneesh, Maya Merhi, Jarah Begum via
@MiddleEastEye
'It's amazing to see Brother Barack Obama out there acting like he's part of the vanguard when Black Lives Matter emerged under his administration and he helped militarise those police departments': Cornel West talks to
@azadessa
We sent
@azadessa
to Minneapolis to tell the story of Ilhan Omar's journey from a childhood in a Kenyan refugee camp to Capitol Hill, as told by some of those who have helped her along the way. He sent us 7,000 words...
@MiddleEastEye
'He saw a child lying on the ground. Only when he recognised the mobile in his hand did he realise it was his brother':
@MahaGaza
reports on the senseless deaths of Mahmoud Tulba and Yahya Mazen, two children killed during Israel's assault on Gaza
Recommended reading for a stormy weekend. The real story of how police gave permission to Jack Letts' parents to send him money and then arrested them on terrorism charges... 1/2
'N3', a British man stranded in 'exile' for four years after unlawfully being deprived of his citizenship and then arrested and questioned by police for 10 days on his return, is home with his wife and children after being released without charge
'We were shooting old men, young men. I have never seen such lawlessness': Former British soldiers tell
@IanCobain
how in Basra in 2007 they were told they could shoot anyone holding a mobile phone or carrying a shovel via
@MiddleEastEye
The Charity Commission tells
@MiddleEastEye
it is investigating a London charity which organised a lunch event with British-Israeli soldier Levi Simon on his return to the UK after fighting in Gaza. w/
@are_eb
and
@NotHamudy
Why did Ofsted head Amanda Spielman endorse school's hijab ban and link to 'cohesion' on 1 February when head teacher had by then admitted policy was a 'huge error of judgment'? via
@MiddleEastEye
The UK government was forced on appeal to return citizenship to two British nationals of Bangladeshi heritage stripped of it on national security grounds so Shamima Begum has good reason to appeal, but the process can take years.
Anger within Labour ranks over the recruitment by Keir Starmer's office of a former Israeli military intelligence soldier who served in a unit accused of abuses against Palestinians
'The sands of time have steadily been running out for the Saudi regime,' a British diplomat said prior to the 1964 UK-backed coup that toppled King Saud. Fascinating historical perspective on current events by
@markcurtis30
@MiddleEastEye
Once again proud to see a
@MiddleEastEye
colleague recognised for their work in Palestine. Good luck to
@MahaGaza
at the Rory Peck Awards on 24 November!
Jeremy Corbyn attacked over alleged contact with foreign spy by Richard Dearlove, the former MI6 chief revealed this week to have been sharing secrets with Gaddafi in person via
@MiddleEastEye
Saudi Arabia is planning to execute three prominent clerics including Sheikh Salman al-Odah soon after the end of Ramadan, sources tell
@davidahearst
via
@MiddleEastEye
'Work with us in Syria or get out of the way,' Erdogan told Trump.
@ragipsoylu
reports on the phone call between the Turkish and American presidents that led to the withdrawal of US troops from northern Syria
British aid worker tells
@MiddleEastEye
that government evidence against him in his citizenship case included a statement describing a patch on a jacket he wore on an aid convoy in 2012 as a 'jihadi symbol'. It was the words of the Shahada in Arabic.
‘Because of China's money, they don't want to talk about it’: Uighur activists slam Chinese foreign minister's attendance at OIC conference in Pakistan.
@Ray_Uddin
reports
A Palestinian strawberry farmer whose photo was used by the White House to promote Trump's 'deal of the century' says he is 'insulted and angry' and has been used for propaganda. Great reporting from Jenin by
@ShazaAbed
via
@MiddleEastEye
Egyptians are back in Tahrir Square, protesting this time against Sisi and calling for an end to the regime. And an MEE correspondent in Cairo reports that violence and arrests have been used to disperse protesters
Uighurs in the US tell
@AzadEssa
that dozens of their family members are missing as a result of the Chinese government's brutal crackdown in Xinjiang province via
@MiddleEastEye
The Kafkaesque saga of 'N3': A British man stripped of citizenship in 2017 for travelling to Syria has finally returned to the UK after the government conceded it had unlawfully left him stateless
'It's not that his faith is important, it's that his faith isn't important'
@TheRedmenTV
:
@MiddleEastEye
goes to Liverpool to explore Mohamed Salah's extraordinary impact on the city
#YNWA
Exclusively on
@MiddleEastEye
, our first extract from
@OborneTweets
important new book examining how Western policymakers influenced by a neo-conservative worldview have waged a 'cold war' on Islam
'I advise my brothers to resist so they do not die in tents waiting for aid': Syrians in Idlib, who have been on the receiving end of Russian bombs for years, show solidarity with Ukrainians. By
@harun_alaswad
'It bothers me when he is not properly honoured... they forget that Islam in America as we know it, wouldn’t exist if it wasn’t for Malcolm': Well worth spending some time on this
@azadessa
epic, 54 years after Malcolm X's death via
@MiddleEastEye
Iraqi intelligence source suggests attack on Saudi oil facilities was carried out by Iranian drones launched from Iraq in retaliation for Saudi-backed Israeli drone strikes targeting Hashd al-Shaabi bases.
@davidahearst
reports
My colleague
@suadadalsalhy
is an outstanding journalist who has reported fearlessly, fairly and without favour in the highly charged world of Iraqi politics for many years
From New York to Afghanistan and Iraq,
@IanCobain
has been reporting for 20 years on the consequences of the 9/11 attacks and the 'war on terror' unleashed in their wake. For
@MiddleEastEye
, he has written about what he has learnt along the way.
A story I've been investigating for five years: How British police used cash seizures to disrupt Syrian aid convoys and how some charity money raised by Muslim communities may have ended up in government bank accounts via
@MiddleEastEye
One dominates player of the season lists, the other is listed as a suspected terrorist: The contrasting fortunes of Egyptian football's two superstars, Mohamed Salah and Mohamed Aboutrika via
@MiddleEastEye
The British embassy in Abu Dhabi has just launched a journalism award in a country notoriously intolerant of free speech in which it asks entrants to consider 'What can the world learn from the UAE’s model for tolerance?'
@are_eb
reports for
@MiddleEastEye
'We're sending you a hundred imams'. How the British government uses pre-prepared hashtags, posters and vigils to shape public opinion after terror attacks in what some call an exercise in 'mind control' by
@IanCobain
for
@MiddleEastEye
Imran Khan says there must be a 'just settlement, a homeland for Palestinians before Pakistan can recognise Israel', responding to a question from
@middleeasteye
's
@azadessa
in New York
The Council of Europe has issued a media freedom alert over
@MiddleEastEye
journalist
@IanCobain
being refused accreditation for the DSEI arms fair, classifying it as a 'state threat' that has had a 'chilling effect' on press freedom
A great thread on a great story by a great journalist. The FBI visited Saudi dissidents in the US to warn them their lives were in danger after Jamal Khashoggi's murder.
@daniaakkad
reports
NEW: A month after Jamal Khashoggi was killed, FBI agents started visiting Saudi dissidents in the US, warning them of a potential threat to their lives from their own kingdom. Here's the story in some tweets: via
@MiddleEastEye
Healthcare and hospitals were proud Venezuelan exports at the high watermark of Hugo Chavez's rule. Now the country is turning to Turkey to build its hospitals and schools in return for gold.
@ragipsoylu
reports via
@MiddleEastEye
Hi
@BBCRadio2
, Glad to see my namesake also thriving as a parent and a writer but I'm the Simon Hooper who bores people about Prevent, counter-terrorism and the Middle East for
@MiddleEastEye
:)
"Don't worry, being a parent doesn't cost as much as you think it does"
@simonbhooper
is a man speaking from experience - he shares a house with his wife and four daughters!
British spies accused in High Court of 'staggering collusion' with Gaddafi's security service in targeting of Libyan exiles, and British government accused of using secret court sessions to conceal their crimes via
@MiddleEastEye
EU training courses taught police in Algeria and Morocco how to run 'sock puppet' accounts, which have been linked to disinformation and propaganda campaigns, and data harvesting and cyber-surveillance techniques
British spy agencies knew that 'war on terror' detainees were being rendered and tortured by the CIA and their allies.
@Moazzam_Begg
writes about why he believes they also played a more active role - and why the whole truth must be told via
@MiddleEastEye
It appears Salah Gosh has resigned as head of Sudan's NISS security agency. Last month
@MiddleEastEye
revealed Gosh met the head of Mossad in Germany as part of a Saudi-backed plan to install Gosh as Bashir's successor via
@MiddleEastEye
Jeremy Corbyn says coronavirus has exposed social inequalities and 'the poorest and most vulnerable are dying'. Watch his interview with
@MiddleEastEye
here
Who favours the rule of law? A government that blocks an inquiry into its own past complicity in torture and rendition, or those seeking to hold it to account?
@Moazzam_Begg
responds to Sajid Javid's latest gratuitous attack on
@UK_CAGE
@MiddleEastEye
SCUS rejects Bilal Abdul Kareem’s bid to overturn dismissal of his case seeking to find out if he’s on a US ‘kill list’. ‘The executive now has the power to kill US citizens and there is nothing they can do about it,’ says one lawyer. With
@umaribnfarooq
Soviet tanks and fighter jets, Toyota pickups, helicopters from Belarus, drones from China, Iran and the UAE, Chadian and Darfuri militia fighters, and an Irish warship. An epic inventory of Haftar's Libyan National Army by
@Arn_Del
for
@MiddleEastEye
Three stories today on
@MiddleEastEye
which highlight how non-transparent counter-extremism campaigns are influencing and shaping the media we watch and read...
'What did you do, Baba?' How phone spyware gets inside the heads of those targeted. Amazing story by
@daniaakkad
examining the impact of surveillance software on the lives of Arab dissidents in London.
'Facts have not held much sway in a debate driven chiefly by emotion and insinuation': Timely story by
@Jonathan_K_Cook
debunking some of the claims around Corbyn, Labour and antisemitism