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Louisa Loveluck

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Award-winning foreign correspondent. Former @washingtonpost.com staff writer. Now: London. Previously: Baghdad, Beirut, Cairo. Email me: louisaloveluck@gmail.com.

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Louisa Loveluck @leloveluck.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Thank you for sharing it, Eileen.
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Louisa Loveluck @leloveluck.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The drive is being led by the Stephen Miller, and run out of the newly created Office of Remigration - using a term adopted by the far right to describe the forcible expulsion of minority ethnic immigrants. forbiddenstories.org/the-office-o...
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The office of Remigration: “America First” and its overseas negotiations
Since January 2025, the Trump administration has concluded deals with 35 countries to deport third country nationals. The details of these agreements have been clouded in secrecy.
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Louisa Loveluck @leloveluck.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Between 2025 and August 2026, the Trump administration deported over 25,000 people to countries other than their country of origin. Very few of these removals were publicly announced by the US. The Deportation Project tracked them. forbiddenstories.org/the-deportat...
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Louisa Loveluck @leloveluck.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
What is Trump’s third-country deportation policy and who does it target? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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What is Trump’s third-country deportation policy and who does it target?
Key questions answered about scheme that has sent more than 25,000 people to countries that are not their own
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Louisa Loveluck @leloveluck.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Barred from deporting asylum seekers back to places they face jail or death, Trump struck 35 secret deals to send people to places which will deport them there instead. - 25,000 people deported - $410 million spent. - UN aid used to sweeten the deals. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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Banished to alien lands: Trump’s secret deportation deals
After a plane journey in shackles, an Iranian woman found herself in the middle of Africa in a country she did not know existed. She is one of thousands deported from the US on the back of shadowy dea...
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Louisa Loveluck @leloveluck.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Distressing footage shows Fahed Abu Haykal's car pulling to a stop, moments before an IDF soldier shot his 7-month old baby inside the vehicle. Troops claimed the car was accelerating towards them. "I stopped as required and then they simply opened fire,” Fahed said. www.haaretz.com/west-bank/20...
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Louisa Loveluck @leloveluck.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Thrilled to have joined the @theguardian.com’s brilliant Investigations team for the next year, and just so grateful to be back at work. Got a story? Email: louisa.loveluck@theguardian.com Signal: leloveluck.62 Contact the Guardian securely: www.theguardian.com/info/ng-inte...
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How to contact the Guardian securely
Some of the most important stories published by the Guardian have come from confidential tips. If you have something sensitive to share with us, here’s how to get in touch
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Mai El-Sadany @maitelsadany.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Horrific news from Iraq where feminist activist and human rights defender Yanar Mohammed, co-founder and director of the Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq (OWFI), has been assassinated by gunmen outside of her home just days after returning from Canada.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Amazon data centers are on fire after Iranian missile strikes on Dubai www.404media.co/amazon-data-...
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Amazon Data Centers on Fire After Iranian Missile Strikes on Dubai
Some AWS services are down in the Middle East. Recovery is unclear as it requires 'careful assessment to ensure the safety of our operators,' according to Amazon.
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Erin Cunningham @erinmcunningham.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
As the laid off Middle East News Editor, I concur. Management eliminated the positions of every single staff correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East.
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Louisa Loveluck @leloveluck.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
To do what this team does takes a village, and our employers celebrate that village when we win awards. Job cuts now risk leaving the most vulnerable behind - in conflict zones, or in environments where losing the Post's protection risks livelihoods or even lives.
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Louisa Loveluck @leloveluck.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
As @washingtonpost.com international & local correspondents, we have risked our lives, side by side, because we believe reporting from the ground serves the public good. To choke that engine of brave, committed colleagues would be devastating. If you value our work, tell Jeff Bezos to #SaveThePost.
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Sarah Kaplan @sarahkaplan48.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
My @washingtonpost.com colleagues worked round the clock this weekend to expose the truth of what's happening in Minneapolis and bring urgent weather news to millions facing dangerous cold and snow. If you value this work, tell Jeff Bezos to #SaveThePost www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
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Federal agent secured gun from Minn. man before fatal shooting, videos show
A Washington Post analysis of videos sheds light on the encounter that left 37-year-old Alex Pretti dead.
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Louisa Loveluck @leloveluck.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Famine has been officially confirmed in the Gaza City region and is projected to spread within weeks to two more population centers in the wider Gaza Strip, the global authority on hunger said Friday. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
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Famine confirmed in Gaza City region, global hunger monitor says
More than half a million people in and around Gaza City are facing catastrophic conditions “characterized by starvation, destitution and death,” the IPC said.
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Louisa Loveluck @leloveluck.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
'Women – especially single mothers and widows like herself – are all but absent from the scenes of aid drops. "We simply can't reach those areas. It's too violent, too chaotic and too dangerous. Only the strong or well-connected get through," she says.' www.haaretz.com/middle-east-...
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Gaza Looters Wreak Havoc as Aid Seekers Remain Empty Handed
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Louisa Loveluck @leloveluck.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
State Dept fired top press officer for Israeli-Palestinian affairs, after vetoing his use of the line: “We do not support forced displacement of Palestinians in Gaza.” Also rejected his suggested condolences after Israel's killing of an Al Jazeera crew. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Trump administration to vet all 55 million foreigners with U.S. visas
The State Department plans to scour legal visa holders for “overstays, criminal activity, threats to public safety ... or providing support to a terrorist organization.”
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Louisa Loveluck @leloveluck.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Figures from a classified Israeli military intelligence database indicate five out of six Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza have been civilians. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
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Revealed: Israeli military’s own data indicates civilian death rate of 83% in Gaza war
Figures from classified IDF database listed 8,900 named fighters as dead or probably dead in May, as overall death toll reached 53,000
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Louisa Loveluck @leloveluck.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
The Trump administration is planning to vet all 55 million foreigners who currently hold visas for travel to the United States. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Trump administration to vet all 55 million foreigners with U.S. visas
The State Department plans to scour legal visa holders for “overstays, criminal activity, threats to public safety ... or providing support to a terrorist organization.”
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Louisa Loveluck @leloveluck.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
No attempt to elide culpability intended. Eyewitnesses say it's most commonly IDF forces opening fire, but whistleblowers have also described contractors doing so, and in some cases, doctors report that injuries are sustained from the crowd.
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Louisa Loveluck @leloveluck.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Staggering numbers of Palestinians now being shot in Gaza as they try to find food at GHF sites, or along UN convoy routes. More than 4,500 people treated in a single Red Cross clinic. Almost 1,400 across two MSF clinics. Total is more than 12,000, according to health ministry.
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Jake Godin @godin.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
For another comparison, there's also an aerial view from a similar perspective, though at lower altitude since it's from a drone photographer, here on Facebook from 2019: www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=... The drone photo is closer to 31.5057, 34.4619 whereas the plane photo is closer to the coast.
An aerial view of Gaza City taken from a Jordanian military aircraft by photojournalist Heidi Levine in July 2025. Massive destruction is visible, as are IDP tents. An aerial photo taken from a drone photographer in 2019 showing Gaza City's Old Town facing east, providing a view similar to the aerial photo taken in July 2025.
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Jake Godin @godin.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Can just barely see it but the massive destruction in Gaza City's eastern neighborhoods such as Shejaiya and Tuffah is visible in the background of the photo. When compared with a satellite image taken a week after the war started, can see thousands of homes have been razed.
An aerial view of Gaza City taken from a Jordanian military aircraft by photojournalist Heidi Levine in July 2025. Massive destruction is visible, as are IDP tents. An area in the background has been annotated.A July 27 2025 SkySat satellite image from Planet Labs showing Gaza City's eastern Shejaiya and Tuffah neighborhoods. There's a large amount of destruction visible, with thousands of homes that have been visible reduced to rubble. A large area is annotated showing the rough area that is visible in the background of the aerial photo.An October 15 2023 SkySat satellite image from Planet Labs showing Gaza City's eastern Shejaiya and Tuffah neighborhoods. Some destruction is visible from airstrikes conducted at the start of the war but other than that thousands of buildings are visible with orchards and farmland on the periphery of the neighborhoods. A large area is annotated showing the rough area that is visible in the background of the July 2025 aerial photo.
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Louisa Loveluck @leloveluck.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Thank you for sharing this, Jake.
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Louisa Loveluck @leloveluck.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
An aerial view of what the Gaza City area looked like this week. Taken from a Jordanian military aircraft, by our colleague Heidi Levine.
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Louisa Loveluck @leloveluck.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
The death toll in Gaza now stands, officially, at 60,000. Experts say this is a significant undercount. How many have gone unrecorded? www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
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More than 60,000 people killed in Gaza war, local health officials say
The toll announced by the Gaza Health Ministry is likely to be an undercount as Israel pursues its war and starvation spreads.
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Louisa Loveluck @leloveluck.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
I spoke to the @washingtonpost.com's podcast this week about our reporting on starvation across the Gaza Strip. The number of people killed by malnutrition or starvation after four months of Israeli blockade has now risen to 154. 89 are children. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p...
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Gazans are starving. Will aid get in?
Podcast Episode · Post Reports · 28/07/2025 · 23m
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Louisa Loveluck @leloveluck.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Almost a week after Israel promised to increase aid to Gaza, UN says situation on the ground is mostly unchanged. A former Israeli military official described a “total breakdown of order” caused by IDF campaign. washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
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Looting, chaos and Israeli gunfire prevent aid from reaching Gazans
Israel said it would allow more food to enter Gaza and provide secure corridors for humanitarian aid. But U.N. officials say almost nothing has changed.
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Louisa Loveluck @leloveluck.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Israel's military campaign in Gaza has killed 60,000 people. 18,500 were children. Here are their names. www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...
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60,000 Gazans have been killed. 18,500 were children. These are their names.
Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one per hour since the war began.
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Louisa Loveluck @leloveluck.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Medical Aid for Palestinians says that Baby Zainab, on the right, has now died. Her mother "couldn’t find the medical care Zainab needed here in Gaza, nor was she allowed medical evacuation, as her mother was hoping for. More children will die, one by one, as this madness continues”.
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Louisa Loveluck @leloveluck.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
After 4 months of a near-total Israeli siege, Gaza’s hospitals now have wards for the malnourished children whose tiny bodies are just the width of their bones. Aid groups had warned of this for more than a year. Now a worst case scenario is upon us. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
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Mass starvation stalks Gaza as deaths from hunger rise
Aid agencies warned for months that Israel’s harsh limits on food aid would bring acute malnutrition and widespread suffering to Gaza’s 2.1 million people.
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Erin Cunningham @erinmcunningham.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Iran-linked militias in Iraq are earning billions of dollars from state coffers, operating extensive business networks and holding more power than ever before. There is much at stake if these groups become a target. — @leloveluck.bsky.social & Mustafa Salim www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
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Why powerful pro-Tehran militias in Iraq stayed quiet amid Iran conflict
As the U.S. struck Iran, the prospect for retaliation was running high in neighboring Iraq, where American and Iranian interests exist in close proximity.
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Louisa Loveluck @leloveluck.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
“My dear sister, it’s hard, it’s really hard for me to describe to you all of these children’s injuries,” he said. “How can a child who weighs between 5 to 10kg bear a missile,” he asked. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
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Gaza doctor’s death in Israeli strike devastates medical community
Marwan al-Sultan, director of Gaza’s Indonesian Hospital, provided harrowing accounts of how the health care system collapsed over the course of the war.
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Louisa Loveluck @leloveluck.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
In one of Sultan’s final messages to Post reporters, on May 14, he had listed the names of 21 people brought dead to the hospital, most no older than nine years old. Some of them had arrived in pieces, he said.
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Louisa Loveluck @leloveluck.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Within weeks, the Indonesian Hospital itself was under siege and almost out of equipment, and Sultan issued the first of what would become a series of urgent appeals to the international community, urging the protection of his facility and team.
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Louisa Loveluck @leloveluck.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
“An entire densely populated square was targeted at a time when people were sitting safely at home,” he said in a message. “People who work with us now have received their relatives who were killed or injured.”
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Louisa Loveluck @leloveluck.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
By November, Gaza’s telecommunications network was on its knees and Sultan said that his staff had been forced to use loudspeakers to direct medics to the Jabalya refugee camp, where hundreds of civilians had been buried under rubble in one of the war’s deadliest Israeli strikes.
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Louisa Loveluck @leloveluck.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
October: As Israeli troops readied a wide-scale ground invasion, Sultan described the shock of the moment inside Indonesian Hospital as like being “in a dream.” So heavy was the influx of casualties from Israeli bombing that he barely left the hospital — and already feared being killed if he did.
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Louisa Loveluck @leloveluck.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
From the nightmarish early months of Israel's military campaign in Gaza, Dr Marwan Sultan had narrated its horrors to the world. Here is what he told us: 🧵 www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
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Gaza doctor’s death in Israeli strike devastates medical community
Marwan al-Sultan, director of Gaza’s Indonesian Hospital, provided harrowing accounts of how the health care system collapsed over the course of the war.
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Louisa Loveluck @leloveluck.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Prof. Maynard, who volunteers with @medicalaidpal.bsky.social, said colleagues he worked with a year ago had lost 20-30kg due to severe food shortages. "I have had patients die because they can’t get enough food to recover, it’s distressing to see that and know that it is preventable and treatable."
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Louisa Loveluck @leloveluck.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Volunteer surgeon Prof. Nick Maynard on the malnutrition he witnessed inside a Gaza neonatal unit: "'Skin and bones’ doesn't do it justice. I had tears in my eyes seeing how unbelievably thin these children are. A doctor who tried to bring formula feed in, had it confiscated by Israeli authorities."
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Louisa Loveluck @leloveluck.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
The build-up to an innocent man's murder felt like a horror story on so many levels. It's brutal watching, but in the words of Jean's mother: "Everyone should watch it.”
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Louisa Loveluck @leloveluck.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Thank you for sharing the story!
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Aron Lund @aronlund.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
On the fear and hatred left behind by Assad’s police state, as seen on a single street in Tadamon, Damascus. Wonderful journalism on a tragic subject by @leloveluck.bsky.social, Zakaria Zakaria, and @salwangeorges.bsky.social, for @washingtonpost.com. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
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The fall of Assad’s informant state leaves Syria riven by betrayals
Neighbors and colleagues reported on each other everywhere. Now, Syrians are shadowed by the question of who among them had contributed to the regime’s tyranny.
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Louisa Loveluck @leloveluck.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
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Louisa Loveluck @leloveluck.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
The Assad regime made Syria an informant state. Neighbours and colleagues reported on each other in every district and workplace: what they said, where they went, who came for dinner. With the dictatorship gone, our story on what happened next. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
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The fall of Assad’s informant state leaves Syria riven by betrayals
Neighbors and colleagues reported on each other everywhere. Now, Syrians are shadowed by the question of who among them had contributed to the regime’s tyranny.
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Sam Heller | سام هيلر @abujamajem.com · 12/05/2025
@washingtonpost.com's @leloveluck.bsky.social, Zakaria Zakaria and @gerryshih.bsky.social on acute feelings of insecurity in Syria's Suweida and mixed attitudes on Israeli intervention: www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
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As Syria’s Druze minority reels from violence, Israel pursues an opening
Attacks on the Druze by Islamist gunmen backing the new Syrian government have pushed some in the community to welcome Israeli promises of protection.
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Aron Lund @aronlund.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Fireworks and dancing in the streets: Syrians celebrate Trump’s decision to scrap the sanctions that, for years, have impoverished them and prevented Syria’s reconstruction. @leloveluck.bsky.social @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
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Louisa Loveluck @leloveluck.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Our beloved colleague Hajar Harb has been the beating heart of our Gaza coverage. Devastatingly, she has been diagnosed with stage 4 cancer. We are raising money to help her family with medical bills for a truly special person. All money goes to them directly. www.justgiving.com/team/hajarharb
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Fundraising for Hajar
Help Reem Akkad raise money to support My Child My Friend
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John Scott-Railton @jsrailton.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
BREAKING: jury awards massive $167 million in punitive damages against spyware company NSO Group. Precedent-setting win against notorious #Pegasus spyware maker. Very consequential for victims to see this. Congratulations to #WhatsApp on sticking this case through since 2019. Some thoughts 1/
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Louisa Loveluck @leloveluck.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Israel plans to take control of — and severely restrict — the distribution of humanitarian aid inside Gaza, using US security contractors, as a condition for lifting its two-month blockade of food, water and fuel. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
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Israel plans to control aid distribution in Gaza, use U.S. contractors
Aid agencies say the plan runs counter to humanitarian principles, is logistically unworkable and could put Gazans and workers at risk.
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