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Ibn Batata retweeted
Whoever "demanded" this should go and read all those columns that were published in German media a few months ago on how it's the law of the strongest in this new age and we must accept it and the weak will suffer what they must
Ibn Batata retweeted
Reporters using "defense" to describe what Israel is doing in Lebanon are providing cover and impunity for these forms of brutal erasures. Inexcusable.
Ibn Batata retweeted
Israel demolishes a public school in the southern Lebanese city of Marwahein.
It has been blowing up wide swathes of villages in recent days.
Ibn Batata retweeted
Israel carried out a “triple tap,” killing three medical workers and wounding six, outside of Nabatieh today.
Paramedics were trying to rescue wounded from an airstrike, when they were struck. Another ambulance came to rescue the medical workers and was struck. A third rescue attempt was made, and that ambulance was struck too. A paramedic remains missing.
Israel has killed over 90 healthcare workers in Lebanon in about six weeks.
Pictured: One of the slain medical workers, Fadel Sarhan.
Ibn Batata retweeted
A roomful of billionaires took up a collection to fund a blog that would make fun of college students, defend Israel, and patronize the sensibilities of not-very-bright but very rich boomers. One of those boomers then bought it for $150 million and also bought tiktok and much of the rest of the media.
Good for you, but please spare us the parade.
I can't explain how surreal it is to see a @TheFP billboard in Times Square is given this all started at a kitchen table....
Ibn Batata retweeted
Das gut gewordene Deutschland stellt sich vor:
Ibn Batata retweeted
Spain is doing something now considered radical: telling the truth.
Spain’s PM Pedro Sanchez says international law is being fundamentally violated by one country, Israel, as it continues to bomb Lebanon.
🔴LIVE updates: aje.news/8xcc64
Ibn Batata retweeted
April 12, 2026, I visited Marwan Barghouti in my capacity as his lawyer.
What I confirmed through this visit is deeply alarming. In recent weeks, Marwan Barghouti has been subjected to three violent assaults. On April 8 in Ganot Prison, he was severely beaten and left bleeding for more than two hours. He requested medical care and was denied treatment. On March 25, he was assaulted during his transfer from Megiddo to Ganot. On March 24, in Megiddo Prison, guards entered his cell with a dog, forced him to the ground, and the dog repeatedly attacked him. 
These are not isolated incidents. They form a clear pattern of escalating abuse: violence, medical neglect, and treatment that places him at immediate risk.
He had a great deal to say. Above all, he wanted to know more about his family and the Palestinian people, What is happening in Palestinian and Israeli scene I tried to tell him everything I know.
But even that conversation took place under absurd conditions: the phones did not work, so we had to shout through the glass just to hear each other.
For five hours, I sat there without food or water, trying to make sure this visit meant something.
This is what a legal visit looks like today: basic conditions denied, communication obstructed, and even the most elementary human and professional standards ignored.
And still, despite all of that, his mind was sharp, focused, and deeply engaged with everything happening outside those prison walls.
Ibn Batata retweeted
- @AlexCrawfordSky is doing something fascinating and it is drawing a lot of heat.
She is reporting on Arabs as if they were white people.
"she was 4 years old & called Lamar.. when they found her body she'd been decapitated. Her mother was killed with her"
@AlexCrawfordSky reporting from Lebanon
Ibn Batata retweeted
It’s time for Germany to reassess its support for Israeli actions that not only contradict its policies but are now the basis for vitriol against state leaders. /2
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This is fascinating because in Germany many phrases are criminalised because they are taken very literally in the most extreme interpretation.
But this kind of genocide threats apparently are to be taken lightly and in the most benign interpretation.
German Chancellor Merz: "Trump didn't assume Iran could be completely wiped out. It was part of his strategy."
Translation: the genocide threat was just strategy. Not real. Just rhetoric. This is the logic of appeasement. He threatened to kill millions. Merz calls it strategy.
The civilized world is making excuses for barbarism
Ibn Batata retweeted
Ich habe im @DLF über meine Erfahrungen als Journalistin im #Libanon gesprochen. Wer über die brutalen israelischen Angriffe berichtet, bringt sich in Lebensgefahr. Immer wieder greift #Israel gezielt Reporter:innen an – und begeht damit Kriegsverbrechen. deutschlandfunk.de/andrea-ba…
Ibn Batata retweeted
In the last 3 (!) negotiations with Iran, the U.S.-Israel have killed the negotiators, including Kamal Kharrazi, 81, who died from his injuries today. His wife was almost killed.
Israel also killed Hamas negotiators every chance they got. We are the least self aware people to ever live.
There is good reason to worry about the safety of our negotiators in Pakistan.
The country is armed and dangerous and the government is not fully in control.
Previous high level visits were short and they involved decoy aircraft, as when then-President Clinton surreptitiously changed airplanes so no one would know which one he was on. The USSS did not like President Bush going there in 2006.
The Secret Service will be tested this trip. So too will the military that supports this mission.
Pray for the safety of our negotiators, including the VP, and for their success.
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CCTV videos emerging a day after one of Lebanon’s deadliest days. In this video from Kaifoun, a person at the top center can be seen with a baby stroller within the impact zone of the airstrike.
Ibn Batata retweeted
Wichtig wäre mir persönlich jetzt ein Brennpunkt über Rote-Dreieck-Graffitis an Berliner Universitäten.
I24NEWS @inon_yttach: The Israeli cabinet quietly approved the construction of 34 new settlements in Judea and Samaria—an unprecedented number approved at once, and during ongoing military operations.
Among the approved locations are areas within Palestinian enclaves in northern Samaria, as well as remote points that even the military rarely reaches.
In fact, this marks the largest single approval of settlements by any cabinet to date. Until now, 69 settlements had been approved across numerous decisions; this move brings the total to 103 in one step.
Ibn Batata retweeted
“The Israeli army can say whatever it wants, but it is not providing any evidence. What I see on the ground is families terrorised - videos of people jumping from balconies to escape, images of children wounded by shrapnel and trapped under rubble. This is also my city. I’ve walked these streets countless times. The strikes came without warning, during rush hour”
For @BBCNewsnight on Israel’s claims that it struck Hezbollah centres and took precautions to “mitigate harm to civilians”.
Ibn Batata retweeted
Justo hoy, Netanyahu lanza su ataque más duro contra el Líbano desde que empezó la ofensiva.
Su desprecio por la vida y el derecho internacional es intolerable.
Toca hablar claro:
- Líbano debe formar parte del alto al fuego.
- La comunidad internacional debe condenar esta nueva violación del derecho internacional.
- La Unión Europea debe suspender su Acuerdo de Asociación con Israel.
- Y no debe haber impunidad ante estos actos criminales.
