Rania Abouzeid
@raniaab.bsky.social
Mideast-based journalist. Words @Newyorker @NatGeo + other mags. Ex @TIME. Fellow @Newamerica @DartCenter @ecfr Harvard @niemanfdn
Author x3: No Turning Back. Sisters of the War. The Cave🇦🇺🇱🇧🇳🇿
www.raniaabouzeid.com
Author x3: No Turning Back. Sisters of the War. The Cave🇦🇺🇱🇧🇳🇿
www.raniaabouzeid.com
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‘Thanks to journalists such as Anas al-Sharif and his colleagues who risked their lives, for over six hundred days the genocide has been live-streamed for the world to see. And yet we are told we must wait for the experts.’
Stefan Tarnowski on Gaza and the media: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/au...
Stefan Tarnowski on Gaza and the media: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/au...
Stefan Tarnowski | Plausible Deniability
From the sieges within the siege, Palestinian journalists are smeared as terrorists and assassinated by airstrike. Even...
www.lrb.co.uk
August 19, 2025 at 10:55 AM
‘Thanks to journalists such as Anas al-Sharif and his colleagues who risked their lives, for over six hundred days the genocide has been live-streamed for the world to see. And yet we are told we must wait for the experts.’
Stefan Tarnowski on Gaza and the media: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/au...
Stefan Tarnowski on Gaza and the media: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/au...
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“Palestinian journalists like Anas al-Sharif have been able to tell their own people’s story directly to the world. And Israel is methodically killing them for it, while many of their Western colleagues and international journalistic institutions remain shamefully silent”— my latest @theguardian.com
Western journalists are failing to stand up for their colleagues in Gaza | Mohamad Bazzi
This hypocrisy of western media has been laid bare by Israel’s targeting of journalists since the 7 October 2023 Hamas attack
www.theguardian.com
August 16, 2025 at 2:17 PM
“Palestinian journalists like Anas al-Sharif have been able to tell their own people’s story directly to the world. And Israel is methodically killing them for it, while many of their Western colleagues and international journalistic institutions remain shamefully silent”— my latest @theguardian.com
AL JAZEERA: "The order to assassinate Anas Al Sharif, one of Gaza’s bravest journalists, and his colleagues, is a desperate attempt to silence the voices exposing the impending seizure and occupation of Gaza.”
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/...
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/...
Anas al-Sharif among five Al Jazeera journalists killed by Israel in Gaza
Al Jazeera staff killed in targeted Israeli attack on a tent housing journalists near al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza City.
www.aljazeera.com
August 11, 2025 at 5:15 AM
AL JAZEERA: "The order to assassinate Anas Al Sharif, one of Gaza’s bravest journalists, and his colleagues, is a desperate attempt to silence the voices exposing the impending seizure and occupation of Gaza.”
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/...
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/...
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Alex de Waal tells @IChotiner that even if humanitarian aid now reaches Gaza, probably thousands of Palestinian children "have got to that stage of severe acute malnutrition where their bodies just can’t digest food."
All happening on the world's watch.
www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
All happening on the world's watch.
www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
How to Prevent More Starvation Deaths in Gaza
As Israel refuses to let in sufficient humanitarian aid, a leading expert on famine explains why even “flooding the zone” with food won’t be enough.
www.newyorker.com
August 10, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Alex de Waal tells @IChotiner that even if humanitarian aid now reaches Gaza, probably thousands of Palestinian children "have got to that stage of severe acute malnutrition where their bodies just can’t digest food."
All happening on the world's watch.
www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
All happening on the world's watch.
www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
My latest for @ecfr looks at efforts to find 100s of 1000s of Iraqis who are missing.Many are believed to be in mass graves. #Iraq has so many mass graves it has a specialized directorate. It even has a Mass Graves Day.Every number is a person who was part of a family that is integral to a community
Visiting Fellow @raniaab.bsky.social's policy brief documents the ongoing attempt to identify and bring justice, dignity and closure to the disappearance and killings of hundreds of thousands of people in Iraq, many of whom are believed to be in mass graves @ecfrmena.bsky.social
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Unearthing the past: Iraq’s mass graves and the quest for justice
A European-backed UN body explored mass graves in Iraq between 2018 and 2024, supporting steps towards justice and reconciliation—and providing wider lessons for the region…
ecfr.eu
August 1, 2025 at 7:26 AM
My latest for @ecfr looks at efforts to find 100s of 1000s of Iraqis who are missing.Many are believed to be in mass graves. #Iraq has so many mass graves it has a specialized directorate. It even has a Mass Graves Day.Every number is a person who was part of a family that is integral to a community
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Syria’s Alawite communities assembled lists of the dead from three days of killing in March. Pro-government forces looted, burned or vandalized homes, leaving behind menacing graffiti such as this message in the village of Sonobar: 'You were a minority and now you are a rarity' reut.rs/44rr1Tc
June 30, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Syria’s Alawite communities assembled lists of the dead from three days of killing in March. Pro-government forces looted, burned or vandalized homes, leaving behind menacing graffiti such as this message in the village of Sonobar: 'You were a minority and now you are a rarity' reut.rs/44rr1Tc
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EXCLUSIVE: watch the trailer for "Gaza: Doctors Under Attack", the film the BBC didn't want to air. The trailer features, among others, Dr Adnan al Bursh, later killed by Israel.
Zeteo is proud to be airing this documentary to paid subscribers across the world on 2 July at: gazadoctors.film
Zeteo is proud to be airing this documentary to paid subscribers across the world on 2 July at: gazadoctors.film
June 30, 2025 at 7:40 PM
EXCLUSIVE: watch the trailer for "Gaza: Doctors Under Attack", the film the BBC didn't want to air. The trailer features, among others, Dr Adnan al Bursh, later killed by Israel.
Zeteo is proud to be airing this documentary to paid subscribers across the world on 2 July at: gazadoctors.film
Zeteo is proud to be airing this documentary to paid subscribers across the world on 2 July at: gazadoctors.film
Canada’s Globe and Mail asked me to contribute to their Quarter Mark series, to choose a date from the past 25 years that significantly impacted the Mideast. It wasn’t hard to pinpoint an event - the 2003 US invasion of #Iraq.
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
Opinion: The Iraq war may have ended, but its lingering impact – on the Middle East and beyond – has not
America’s invasion of Iraq on March 20, 2003 and the lies underpinning it are perhaps the single most significant development in the Middle East this century
www.theglobeandmail.com
June 15, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Canada’s Globe and Mail asked me to contribute to their Quarter Mark series, to choose a date from the past 25 years that significantly impacted the Mideast. It wasn’t hard to pinpoint an event - the 2003 US invasion of #Iraq.
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
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@raniaab.bsky.social for @newyorker.com on the latest turn of the Lebanese debate over Hizbullah's arms, as, meanwhile, Israel continues to attack: www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
Who Gets the Guns in Lebanon?
As the Lebanese Army tries to assert its authority in the war-torn south, calls to disarm Hezbollah are rising.
www.newyorker.com
June 6, 2025 at 6:49 AM
@raniaab.bsky.social for @newyorker.com on the latest turn of the Lebanese debate over Hizbullah's arms, as, meanwhile, Israel continues to attack: www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
My latest for The New Yorker looks at the capabilities of the Lebanese army, and how and why they have historically been limited, amid rising calls to disarm Hezbollah #lebanon
In Lebanon, calls for Hezbollah’s disarmament are rising—but the party’s secretary-general, Sheikh Naim Qassem, has said that it won’t give up its arms in the face of continued Israeli aggression.
Who Gets the Guns in Lebanon?
As the Lebanese Army tries to assert its authority in the war-torn south, calls to disarm Hezbollah are rising.
www.newyorker.com
June 2, 2025 at 6:04 PM
My latest for The New Yorker looks at the capabilities of the Lebanese army, and how and why they have historically been limited, amid rising calls to disarm Hezbollah #lebanon
This is what passes as a ‘ceasefire’ in sth #Lebanon, where there are near daily Israeli attacks without a word from US & French ceasefire monitors. UN peacekeepers have clocked more than 2,600 Israeli airspace violations, 1,400 military activities & more than 60 airstrikes during the ‘ceasefire'
May 8, 2025 at 9:01 AM
This is what passes as a ‘ceasefire’ in sth #Lebanon, where there are near daily Israeli attacks without a word from US & French ceasefire monitors. UN peacekeepers have clocked more than 2,600 Israeli airspace violations, 1,400 military activities & more than 60 airstrikes during the ‘ceasefire'
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Amnesty has long warned of double standards undermining the rules-based order, and the impact of this reached new depths in 2024.
April 30, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Amnesty has long warned of double standards undermining the rules-based order, and the impact of this reached new depths in 2024.
An important investigation into Turkish military bases inside #Iraq and a hidden war that has killed 100s of people and designated a large swath of northern Iraq a ‘forbidden zone’ - with the Kurdish KDP’s help www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgVU...
The Forbidden Zone: Why Is Turkey building military bases inside Iraq? - BBC World Service Docs
YouTube video by BBC World Service
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April 30, 2025 at 1:33 PM
An important investigation into Turkish military bases inside #Iraq and a hidden war that has killed 100s of people and designated a large swath of northern Iraq a ‘forbidden zone’ - with the Kurdish KDP’s help www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgVU...
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What happened on the other side of Signalgate? An eyewitness says that the U.S.’s attack in Yemen killed women and children, including a newborn baby.
The Other Side of Signalgate
The Trump Administration’s extraordinary security breach has elicited shock, amusement, and anger. An eyewitness in Yemen describes what happened when the bombs started to fall.
www.newyorker.com
April 8, 2025 at 2:36 PM
What happened on the other side of Signalgate? An eyewitness says that the U.S.’s attack in Yemen killed women and children, including a newborn baby.
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"We are witnessing acts of war in #Gaza that show an utter disregard for human life.”
No aid in over a month. Over 1,000 children killed or injured in a week. Starvation.
Protect civilians. Facilitate aid.
Release hostages. Renew a ceasefire.
Read the joint statement: www.unrwa.org/newsroom/off...
No aid in over a month. Over 1,000 children killed or injured in a week. Starvation.
Protect civilians. Facilitate aid.
Release hostages. Renew a ceasefire.
Read the joint statement: www.unrwa.org/newsroom/off...
April 7, 2025 at 3:54 PM
"We are witnessing acts of war in #Gaza that show an utter disregard for human life.”
No aid in over a month. Over 1,000 children killed or injured in a week. Starvation.
Protect civilians. Facilitate aid.
Release hostages. Renew a ceasefire.
Read the joint statement: www.unrwa.org/newsroom/off...
No aid in over a month. Over 1,000 children killed or injured in a week. Starvation.
Protect civilians. Facilitate aid.
Release hostages. Renew a ceasefire.
Read the joint statement: www.unrwa.org/newsroom/off...
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Israeli airstrikes killed at least 100 Palestinians on Thursday, including at least 27 sheltering at a school, Gaza's Health Ministry said.
Israeli strike on a school in Gaza kills at least 27 people, Palestinian health officials say
Gaza's Health Ministry says an Israeli airstrike has killed at least 27 Palestinians sheltering at a school in northern Gaza and wounded 70 more.
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April 3, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Israeli airstrikes killed at least 100 Palestinians on Thursday, including at least 27 sheltering at a school, Gaza's Health Ministry said.
He was an amateur compared to Matthew Miller et al.
April 3, 2025 at 3:56 PM
He was an amateur compared to Matthew Miller et al.
*correction: targets a building near schools. Here’s the aftermath. Strike comes after two crude projectiles were fired from Lebanon, one fell in Lebanese territory, other was intercepted. Hezbollah denied involvement.
March 28, 2025 at 12:56 PM
*correction: targets a building near schools. Here’s the aftermath. Strike comes after two crude projectiles were fired from Lebanon, one fell in Lebanese territory, other was intercepted. Hezbollah denied involvement.
#Israel targets a school in #Beirut, when students are in class during a ceasefire it has violated ~1000 times & killed abt 100 ppl without a peep from US & French-led truce monitoring mechanism. Israeli threat today has ppl scrambling to get kids from school, leave work, traffic jams
March 28, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Witkoff, who told Tucker Carlson he’s pretty sure Lebanon will normalize with an Israel that is still occupying Lebanese territory and has killed more than 100 Lebanese during the ‘ceasefire,’ basically because Trump wants it to. An Israeli drone is over Beirut today….
BBC Security Correspondent Frank Gardner is one of the UK’s most experienced & knowledgable journalists.
His disdain for Witkoff is a joy:
“Steve Witkoff isn't a professional negotiator, he knows very little about foreign affairs. He’s a New York property tycoon who plays golf with Donald Trump.”
His disdain for Witkoff is a joy:
“Steve Witkoff isn't a professional negotiator, he knows very little about foreign affairs. He’s a New York property tycoon who plays golf with Donald Trump.”
March 24, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Witkoff, who told Tucker Carlson he’s pretty sure Lebanon will normalize with an Israel that is still occupying Lebanese territory and has killed more than 100 Lebanese during the ‘ceasefire,’ basically because Trump wants it to. An Israeli drone is over Beirut today….
These are just ppl who have been ID'ed by rescue & health workers who are also being killed in unprecedented numbers despite their targeting being a war crime. UN says 1000s more are dead under the rubble. As UN’s Tom Fletcher noted, in Gaza dogs are “fat” b/c they feed on corpses. Min. 50,000 dead
March 24, 2025 at 12:53 PM
These are just ppl who have been ID'ed by rescue & health workers who are also being killed in unprecedented numbers despite their targeting being a war crime. UN says 1000s more are dead under the rubble. As UN’s Tom Fletcher noted, in Gaza dogs are “fat” b/c they feed on corpses. Min. 50,000 dead
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Netanyahu again orders a complete ban on food, medicine, and other emergency humanitarian aid for people in the Gaza Strip.
This is not only an openly acknowledged war crime, it is the exact same one that made the ICC issue an arrest warrant for him and Gallant last year.
jpost.com/breaking-new...
This is not only an openly acknowledged war crime, it is the exact same one that made the ICC issue an arrest warrant for him and Gallant last year.
jpost.com/breaking-new...
March 2, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Netanyahu again orders a complete ban on food, medicine, and other emergency humanitarian aid for people in the Gaza Strip.
This is not only an openly acknowledged war crime, it is the exact same one that made the ICC issue an arrest warrant for him and Gallant last year.
jpost.com/breaking-new...
This is not only an openly acknowledged war crime, it is the exact same one that made the ICC issue an arrest warrant for him and Gallant last year.
jpost.com/breaking-new...
Israel is tonight threatening to invade the outskirts of the Syrian capital, Damascus
March 1, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Israel is tonight threatening to invade the outskirts of the Syrian capital, Damascus