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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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Howard French @hofrench.bsky.social · Jul 13
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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Mat Nashed @matnashed.bsky.social · Jul 13
Objectivity in the context of Israel-Palestine is a code word for censorship.
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Mat Nashed @matnashed.bsky.social · Jun 24
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 · Jun 23
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 · Jun 19
“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.

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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 · Jun 2
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 · May 26
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.

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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 · May 6
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 · May 6
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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BSonblast @bsonblast.bsky.social · May 6
Today's quick update [May 5]:

- RSF drone strikes on Port Sudan for the second consecutive day, targeting strategic fuel depot.

- RSF attack on Elfashir, North Darfur repelled by SAF.

#KeepEyesOnSudan
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Mat Nashed @matnashed.bsky.social · May 5
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/...
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 · May 5
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
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 · May 5
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/...
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.
www.aljazeera.com
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Alonso Gurmendi @alonso-gd.bsky.social · Apr 11
Always a pleasure to speak with al-Jazeera’s Mat Nashed.

www.aljazeera.com/features/202...
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 · Apr 15
"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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Mat Nashed @matnashed.bsky.social · Apr 15
#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...
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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Adrenalynn (she/her) @adrenalyn.bsky.social · Apr 15
🇸🇩 "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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Mat Nashed @matnashed.bsky.social · Apr 15
#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...
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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BSonblast @bsonblast.bsky.social · Apr 15
“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 · Apr 15
#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...
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 · Apr 15
#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...
Sudan’s voices
People impacted by the war speak out about their lives and how they will never be the same.
interactive.aljazeera.com
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Mat Nashed @matnashed.bsky.social · Apr 15
#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...
Sudan’s voices
People impacted by the war speak out about their lives and how they will never be the same.
interactive.aljazeera.com
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Mat Nashed @matnashed.bsky.social · Apr 10
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...
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
www.aljazeera.com
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Mat Nashed @matnashed.bsky.social · Apr 10
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...
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
www.aljazeera.com
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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · Apr 5
‘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 · Apr 6
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 · Apr 4
Sara and Dalia are brilliant.

Good work @aymanmak.bsky.social and thanks for bringing more attention to #Sudan
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Ayman Makarem @aymanmak.bsky.social · Apr 4
There is nowhere near enough discussions on Sudan, where the humanitarian situation is being described as the worst in human history. I sat to talk with two brilliant Sudanese commentators @bsonblast.bsky.social and @dalliasd.bsky.social to talk about war and more:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsuB...
Khartoum is Free, But the War Rages On
YouTube video by From the Periphery
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Mat Nashed @matnashed.bsky.social · Apr 4
He's alive.
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Mat Nashed @matnashed.bsky.social · Apr 4
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 · Apr 4
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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