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Mat Nashed

@matnashed.bsky.social
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Journalist for Al Jazeera English. Covering Sudan and Palestine.

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Mat Nashed @matnashed.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
It's been nearly 2 years since I posted on Blue Sky. But I wanted to share my latest story that explores the notion of home in a region that has endured decades of Israeli aggression? I try to illustrate that through the eyes of three women from south #Lebanon. inkstickmedia.com/fear-loss-an...
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Fear, Loss, and Hope Amid Israel's War on South Lebanon
Despite the fear of a sustained occupation, residents of southern Lebanon remain steadfast in their hope for an end to the onslaught.
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Mohamad Bazzi @mbazzi.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Lebanon signed away its right to pursue legal action against Israel for its war crimes in southern Lebanon. Lebanon's deputy prime minister now says individual Lebanese citizens still have the right to bring cases against Israel before European courts. What a pathetic and weak government.
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Lebanon outlines legal path to prosecute Israeli war crimes
As Israeli strikes and home demolitions continue in southern Lebanon, a government official outlined the country’s options for legally pursuing Israel.
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Mat Nashed @matnashed.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
It's been nearly 2 years since I posted on Blue Sky. But I wanted to share my latest story that explores the notion of home in a region that has endured decades of Israeli aggression? I try to illustrate that through the eyes of three women from south #Lebanon. inkstickmedia.com/fear-loss-an...
inkstickmedia.com
Fear, Loss, and Hope Amid Israel's War on South Lebanon
Despite the fear of a sustained occupation, residents of southern Lebanon remain steadfast in their hope for an end to the onslaught.
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Mat Nashed @matnashed.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
I spoke to the Australian program Global Roaming about Sudan. I highlighted the RSF;s atrocities, the need to see this war as a counter-revolution directed at grassroots politics and how both sides - and their backers - enable one another in many ways. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
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Who profits from Sudan's 'endless' civil war? - ABC listen
It's the biggest humanitarian disaster in the world right now, yet few outside the conflict are aware of it. But Sudan's brutal civil war, which has displaced millions and turned cities like El Fasher...
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Mira Al Hussein @miraalhussein.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
“Some 250,000 people were still in el-Fasher when the city fell. Of that number, at least 60,000 people remain unaccounted for, according to the Yale Humanitarian Research Lab, which uses satellite imagery to assess conflict dynamics in Sudan.” ✍️ @matnashed.bsky.social
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Mat Nashed @matnashed.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
It was really a pleasure to do this with @miraalhussein.bsky.social and Hamid Khalafallah. Thanks for inviting me on to speak about #Sudan
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Hafsa Halawa @hafsahalawa.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
We can lament the collapse of the multilateral system, or we can be realistic and act knowing that bilateral, state-state processes have been the order of the day across the globe since Astana, if not before. That requires acknowledgment on all sides that a military solution in Sudan is impossible
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Hafsa Halawa @hafsahalawa.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
What is happening in Darfur is utterly devastating, made more painful by how we all saw it coming. You can’t really say you didn’t know, but if you didn’t, read this: An atrocity foretold: How the RSF siege of El Fasher turned into genocidal slaughter www.thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/202...
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An atrocity foretold: How the RSF siege of El Fasher turned into genocidal slaughter
Communication networks are down but a deluge of shocking videos point to mass killings on a devastating scale.
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Howard French @hofrench.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
I woke up this morning to a BBC report about a deadly Israeli air strike against a water station in Gaza, where mostly women and children lined up for H2O. reut.rs/3UfTxSZ
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Gaza truce talks faltering over withdrawal; 17 reported killed in latest shooting near aid
Witnesses described people being shot in the head and torso.
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Mat Nashed @matnashed.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Objectivity in the context of Israel-Palestine is a code word for censorship.
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Mat Nashed @matnashed.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Let me know the last time Israel ever respected a ceasefire: Not in Gaza, not in Lebanon and I strongly doubt it will do so in Iran. More and more people in this region ask the simple question: How are we supposed to live under the domination of this colonial and imperial state. Who can blame them
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Hafsa Halawa @hafsahalawa.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
All of this. All of this death, destruction and damage because no one will force Israel to stop. All of this just so Netanyahu can hold on to power until he dies. How cheap the world views life in our region. Even after Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Palestine…there is no end to the cruelty.
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Mat Nashed @matnashed.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
“Now that Israel has started a war with Iran, everyone here in Gaza is scared that the world is going to forget about them." My story for Al Jazeera. aje.io/vsrf80
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Israel massacres in Gaza, lockdowns West Bank as attention shifts to Iran
As the world focuses on Israel’s war with Iran, violence against Palestinians has scaled up in the occupied territories.
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Mat Nashed @matnashed.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
The hell with mainstream analysts who stupidly argued Hamas was the "genocidal" actor in order to deflect from Israel's explicit and stated intentions to commit genocide in #Gaza since the start of the war. We still have people who want to be taken serious yelling, "But, Hamas."
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Hafsa Halawa @hafsahalawa.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
As always, @nesrinemalik.bsky.social perfectly and eloquently calls it as it is. She’s right: sanctions, embargo, criminal charges all required, yet all come too little too late. We are yet to see what this war has done to a region of 450 million Arabs. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The turning point that wasn't: the way the world talks about Israel's war has changed. Nothing else has | Nesrine Malik
An air of complicity has prompted new rhetoric from UK and EU leaders. But it won’t redeem them – or change history’s course, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
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Mira Al Hussein @miraalhussein.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Sudan's Security and Defence Council announced its severing diplomatic ties with the UAE over its support for the RSF.
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BSonblast @bsonblast.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Sudan is in the early morning of May 6, and another drone strike has been reported, making it the 3rd day of attacks. Reportedly, 4 targets hit so far: the airport, a fuel depot, warehouse & a naval base. Port Sudan is the wartime capital & supposedly safe. But nowhere is safe. #KeepEyesOnSudan
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Mat Nashed @matnashed.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Israel has used human rights jargon and terms from IHL to provide a veneer of legality for its genocide in #Gaza. The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces are now adopting the same practice to perpetrate atrocities in #Sudan. My in-depth story for AJE. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/...
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How RSF is adopting Israel’s ‘template for genocide’ in Sudan
For years, Israel has used human rights terminology to whitewash killing civilians, now the RSF is doing the same.
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Mira Al Hussein @miraalhussein.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
There's something to be said about the UAE increasingly behaving like- and aspiring to the level of impunity enjoyed by Israel. "The RSF has also mimicked the Israeli tactic of carrying out mass expulsions under a humanitarian guise." - @matnashed.bsky.social
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How RSF is adopting Israel’s ‘template for genocide’ in Sudan
For years, Israel has used human rights terminology to whitewash killing civilians, now the RSF is doing the same.
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Mat Nashed @matnashed.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Israel has used human rights jargon and terms from IHL to provide a veneer of legality for its genocide in #Gaza. The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces are now adopting the same practice to perpetrate atrocities in #Sudan. My in-depth story for AJE. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/...
aljazeera.com
How RSF is adopting Israel’s ‘template for genocide’ in Sudan
For years, Israel has used human rights terminology to whitewash killing civilians, now the RSF is doing the same.
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Alonso Gurmendi @alonso-gd.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Always a pleasure to speak with al-Jazeera’s Mat Nashed. www.aljazeera.com/features/202...
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Unpacking Israel’s war on international humanitarian law
Israel has tried to legally justify its attacks and treatment of Palestinians, even as it goes against international law
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Ana Santos Pereira @anamspereira25.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
"Entire cities and states have been decimated, pushing more than 12 million people to flee their homes. And yet, there has been limited media coverage of Sudan’s war - the experiences of Sudanese people have been neglected." #KeepEyesOnSudan
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Adrenalynn (she/her) @adrenalyn.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
🇸🇩 "Some evenings, we would roam out in the valley. Nyala is beautiful, stunning scenery. Other days were for socialising with our neighbours, days and nights full of dallouka music, and jabana coffee sessions with the other women. Life was so nice before the war." #Sudan
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BSonblast @bsonblast.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
“Our family is spread across seven countries. I fear I’ll never see them again. That’s the fear I’ve had inside me since the start of the war.” #KeepEyesOnSudan
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Mat Nashed @matnashed.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
#Sudan 's civil war is a war on civilians. To mark the 2nd year of the conflict, we produced an interactive that features the voices of five Sudanese civilians whose lives have been upended by the war. Here are there unheard stories. Don't look away. interactive.aljazeera.com/aje/2025/sud...
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Sudan’s voices
People impacted by the war speak out about their lives and how they will never be the same.
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Mat Nashed @matnashed.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
#Sudan 's civil war is a war on civilians. To mark the 2nd year of the conflict, we produced an interactive that features the voices of five Sudanese civilians whose lives have been upended by the war. Here are there unheard stories. Don't look away. interactive.aljazeera.com/aje/2025/sud...
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Sudan’s voices
People impacted by the war speak out about their lives and how they will never be the same.
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Mat Nashed @matnashed.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
For decades, Israel waged a war on international humanitarian law by trying to create quasi-legal concepts to commit atrocities with impunity. Now, Israel and its western allies risk destroying what's left of the human rights legal order. My latest for AJE. www.aljazeera.com/features/202...
aljazeera.com
Unpacking Israel’s war on international humanitarian law
Israel has tried to legally justify its attacks and treatment of Palestinians, even as it goes against international law
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Mat Nashed @matnashed.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
For decades, Israel waged a war on international humanitarian law by trying to create quasi-legal concepts to commit atrocities with impunity. Now, Israel and its western allies risk destroying what's left of the human rights legal order. My latest for AJE. www.aljazeera.com/features/202...
aljazeera.com
Unpacking Israel’s war on international humanitarian law
Israel has tried to legally justify its attacks and treatment of Palestinians, even as it goes against international law
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
‘Weakens cyberdefenses’ and ‘rising danger’ are not ‘neutral’ terms. So, the NYT, like the others, is fine with taking a stand when they want to. This is not a matter of journalistic ethics. It’s a matter of editorial policy.
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Mat Nashed @matnashed.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
How are people in the Arab world expected to make peace with a genocidal and expansionist state as its neighbour? This is the question on people's mind, as they watch Israel continue its genocide in #Gaza and colonial aggression on the #Westbank , #Syria and #Lebanon
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Mat Nashed @matnashed.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Sara and Dalia are brilliant. Good work @aymanmak.bsky.social and thanks for bringing more attention to #Sudan
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Mat Nashed @matnashed.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
He's alive.
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Mat Nashed @matnashed.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
I woke up this morning and found that a doctor in Rafah wrote me in the middle of the night: "I just wanna say something from here under fire...after so many times for displacement It seems that our next exodus is a displacement to heaven" I don't know if he is dead or alive. #Gaza
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Mat Nashed @matnashed.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
The absolute cynicism of world politics is quite horrifying: It forecasts where we are heading and what we have normalised.
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Mat Nashed @matnashed.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
In early March, Syrian armed groups descended onto the coast after an insurgency attack by Assad loyalists. Sectarian-motivated killings against Alawites soon followed. Many Alawites now fear they will never be safe in the new #Syria. My story for AJE www.aljazeera.com/features/202...
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‘Don’t trust anyone’: Have Syria’s Alawites lost faith in new government?
Syria’s Alawites fear they may never be safe after hundreds were killed in sectarian-motivated violence.
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Omar Baddar @omarbaddar.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Imagine what the news coverage would be like if Hamas had just killed 700+ Israelis. But it’s Palestinians being murdered, so it’s a foot note. Hundreds of children brutally killed with US-supplied weapons, but life goes on like nothing is happening.
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Mat Nashed @matnashed.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
In early March, Syrian armed groups descended onto the coast after an insurgency attack by Assad loyalists. Sectarian-motivated killings against Alawites soon followed. Many Alawites now fear they will never be safe in the new #Syria. My story for AJE www.aljazeera.com/features/202...
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‘Don’t trust anyone’: Have Syria’s Alawites lost faith in new government?
Syria’s Alawites fear they may never be safe after hundreds were killed in sectarian-motivated violence.
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Richard McNeil-Willson @mcneilwillson.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
The idea it represents something new or Trumpian is false. Across Europe, govts have smeared anti-War protests as 'pro-Hamas' and Antisemitic. For decades, Muslims have had their rights and citizenship undermined. The arrest of Khalil exists in a constellation of anti-Muslim language and policy.
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Richard McNeil-Willson @mcneilwillson.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
The arrest of Mahmoud Khalil is part of the long War on Terror, which has encouraged: - Brutal crackdowns on critical activism - The deportation of those from non-White, esp Muslim backgrounds It is a pattern evident not just in an increasingly fascist US, but replicated across Europe today.
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Mat Nashed @matnashed.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
The US is hunting and disappearing university students to protect a foreign country from criticism. Let that sink in.
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Mai El-Sadany @maitelsadany.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
No matter your background and irrespective of whether you agree with his political beliefs or not, if you're not terrified that a US permanent resident could be subject to deportation and greencard revocation without due process, then you are in deep need of a history lesson.
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Chris Osieck @chrisosieck.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
An overview of what happened on the Syrian coast. syriadirect.org/blood-on-the...
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Blood on the coast: Can Damascus pull back from the brink?
DAMASCUS/PARIS — After at least 200 civilians were killed in two days of bloodshed, Syria’s Ministry of Defense and General Security Forces halted operations on the coast against forces loyal to the d...
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BSonblast @bsonblast.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
- Senior state health official: 13,000 people recorded killed & injured in North Darfur due to the ongoing clashes between SAF and RSF in the state. - UN Human Rights Office: over 10,000 people have been imprisoned by RSF in detention centers in Khartoum State. #KeepEyesOnSudan
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Mat Nashed @matnashed.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
The freeze on USAID funding risks exacerbating an already catastrophic hunger crisis in #Sudan, caused by the warring parties who have blocked and weaponised aid throughout the war. My latest for Al Jazeera. aje.io/oepv5a
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Sudanese starve as soup kitchens close down and warring parties block aid
The pause in USAID funding is exacerbating the hunger crisis in Sudan and compounding the challenge for relief workers.
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Mat Nashed @matnashed.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
The freeze on USAID funding risks exacerbating an already catastrophic hunger crisis in #Sudan, caused by the warring parties who have blocked and weaponised aid throughout the war. My latest for Al Jazeera. aje.io/oepv5a
aje.io
Sudanese starve as soup kitchens close down and warring parties block aid
The pause in USAID funding is exacerbating the hunger crisis in Sudan and compounding the challenge for relief workers.
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Aron Lund @aronlund.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Putin Agrees to Help Trump Broker Nuclear Talks With Iran - @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Putin Agrees to Help Trump Broker Nuclear Talks With Iran
Russia agreed to assist US President Donald Trump’s administration in communicating with Iran on issues including the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program and its support for regional anti-US proxies, a...
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Is your NGO forced to sign a statement agreeing to transphobia, opposing climate justice, or anything like that in order to get US funding? You can send me a msg on Signal at @ ayoub.02
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Ukraine needs support. No question. Also…given von der Leyen’s political outlook, the terrifying thing for me is what this means for people migrating to Europe across the Mediterranean.
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Pure gaslighting. German media is grimly fascinating because you will see media outlets report the phrase “Nakba 2.0” without explaining what the Nakba actually was.
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Mat Nashed @matnashed.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Israelis and their leaders are openly threatening Palestinians with 2nd Nakba in #Gaza , even as they continue to publicly deny that the first ever occurred in 1948 My latest for @ajenglish.bsky.social with Maram Humaid from #Gaza on Israel's cognitive dissonance. www.aljazeera.com/features/202...
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Israel threatens a second Nakba, yet denies the first ever happened
Israel has long denied the 1948 Nakba ethnic cleansing, even as it calls for carrying out a second Nakba today.
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