Al Jazeera Senior Reporter in Beirut TIMEP nonresident fellow '25-26
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For a few months, I've been working on a piece about Israel's digital occupation of the south. Yesterday, they pushed deeper into south Lebanon, which means the occupation may not be solely digital anymore.
Eitherway, researching this piece was scary.
thedial.world/articles/news/…
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I wrote about Lebanon's olive harvest under Israeli drones and warplanes.
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Starting this evening, @7_eead and I are facilitating Rosa Luxembourg's book club in Badaro. Will take place every other Thursday in an effort to better understand the current political moment in Lebanon. Open to public.
findaprotest.info/es/event/b…
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Lana Nusseibeh has a long record of whitewashing UAE abuses in Sudan & Yemen, denying’s the UAE’s military support to the RSF & dismissing evidence of abuse in Yemen
Sad to see Lebanon’s prime minister (a former president of the Int’l Court of Justice) celebrating her nomination
أجرى رئيس #مجلس_الوزراء الدكتور #نواف_سلام اتصالاً هاتفياً بوزيرة الدولة في دولة الإمارات العربية المتحدة، الدكتورة لانا زكي نسيبة، هنّأها خلاله بترشيح دولة الإمارات لها لمنصب الأمين العام للأمم المتحدة، معرباً عن تقديره لكفاءتها وخبرتها الدبلوماسية اللتين تؤهّلانها لتولّي هذا المنصب الرفيع.
#لبنان #pcm
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A lot of people want to see Israel’s actions as they want them to be, rather than as they really are. The talks with Lebanon are a way to simply buy time, create a smokescreen, and then change facts on the ground. The same applies to Palestine and Syria.
Israel is uninterested in peace with Lebanon, seeks to fragment the country, maintain a buffer zone on its land, and engage in pereptual war. That's why Lebanon should avoid civil conflict. Don't believe me, believe the IDF's former intelligence head. Mine for @NationalComment: thenationalnews.com/opinion/…
I wrote about Lebanon's olive harvest under Israeli drones and warplanes.
aljazeera.com/features/2026/…
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Spoke with @JustinSalhani at @AJEnglish on Suwayda’s deadlock and the diverging US–Israeli approaches to southern Syria.
“Washington is building a partner in Damascus while Israel appears to prefer a Damascus that is too weak to assert itself in the south.”
More in the piece 👇
Syria’s southern governorate of Suwayda remains in a deadlock with Ahmed al-Sharaa’s government as the US signals differences with Israel over the future of the Druze-majority region.
Read more: aje.news/dpo3mf
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Spoke with @JustinSalhani about Israel’s “Yellow Line”. It is treated as a de facto new border: troops hold the land south of it and keep detonating homes there. It is as if the ceasefire applies to the rest of Lebanon but not to this territory. aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/1…
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Open-source investigator @ChrisOsieck has spent years documenting the devastation of Gaza from afar. He reflects with Palestinians on what images of destruction reveal and what they obscure newlinesmag.com/first-person…
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Yay. Now we get to listen to Israelis lamenting that they didn’t know how bad things were in the West Bank all this time. Because listening to/believing Palestinians - who for decades have systematically documented/reported what is happening - was never an option.
“Everything we thought we knew about the deeds of violent settlers pales in comparison to the reality on the ground.” In a guest essay Nimrod Novik describes the shock he felt on a tour of the West Bank economist.com/by-invitation/…
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“At least my loved ones and I are all well physically,” Ahed told me after his grandparents’ house, the last remaining building belonging to his family, was destroyed in Rafah. He could still hope for a “better future and cessation of further senseless wars and suffering.”
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A fellow open-source investigator, @NemoAnno, grappled with the same questions when Palestinians asked him if their homes were still standing. “It felt wrong that they wanted, or felt they had to, ask me, a stranger using a pseudonym on X, such a personal and important question.”
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“My entryway to Palestine, to my Palestinian heritage and identity was the stories my father told me about growing up in Gaza,” @tksshawa told me. Many of the stories were about the beach, fishing, and beekeepers, including friends getting stung after getting into a beehive.
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“Rafah was my grandmother,” @hamzattar said. He remembers the smell of freshly baked bread, the olive and lemon trees around her home, and her stories about Yibna, the Palestinian village from which his family was displaced in 1948. On the wall hung the keys to their old house.
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Around it grew olive, clementine, citrus and almond trees. “Friday was our scared day,” Ghayda told me as their entire family would go to the farm. “It used to be really our favorite spot on earth.” Today, in her own words, “it is flattened and inaccessible.”
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Ghayda remembers her father’s farm in Juhor ad-Dik. He had started with a small piece of land and expanded it little by little over the years. As children, she and her siblings had dreamed of having a swimming pool, and eventually their father built one there.
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On Dec. 5, 2024, Ahed found a satellite image from @planet posted on social media. “I saw what I never wanted to see.” Destruction had taken place around his block. “I remember holding my tears and trying not to alert my family that something was wrong.”
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He told me about how he missed the times he spent swimming in the Mediterranean and staying up with friends at cafés along Rafah’s coastline. Palestinians often describe the sea as mutanaffas, a breathing space or outlet from the pressures of life in the besieged Strip.
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Ahed was from the Al-Jneina neighborhood in eastern Rafah, where urban, fellahin and Bedouin ways of life met. Places that became part of his everyday rhythm, like Al-Awda Roundabout and Al-Nijma Square, are what he remembers. The busy-ness they had, the shops and markets.
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“Could you see if my home is still standing?” For @newlinesmag, I write about how satellite imagery became one of the only ways Palestinians could see what remained of home. I spoke to four, two from Rafah, about what these images show and leave out.
newlinesmag.com/first-person…
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“Our case is the most documented instance of Israeli forces targeting the press on record... If we cannot get answers in the face of such overwhelming evidence, what does it mean for the hundreds of journalists killed by Israeli fire for which there is no such evidence?” afp.com/en/agency/inside-afp…
