Alex Crawford
@AlexCrawfordSky
Travelling foreign correspondent based in Istanbul. Sky News Special Correspondent. Wrote Colonel Gadaffi's Hat in ptsd haze.
Here’s @HughSykes original tweet having to make clear what is the *actual* headline from the interview. Here’s a clue: it begins with the letter ‘g’ …
That's abstract analysis. This is the actual n e w s from that Kennedy interview: She revealed that she has significantly changed her opinion on whether Israel is committing genocide: "We are witnessing a genocide taking place before our eyes." - @HelenaKennedyKC .
Just read what’s outlined in these two sentences - horror and shocking brutality detailed in a few words… and this is accompanied by the utter despair felt in Gaza at the continuing impunity towards the forces carrying out these attacks
The last 24-hours in Gaza: @WFP reports that Israeli forces fired on thousands of people desperately approaching an aid convoy. @WHO premises in Deir al Balah attacked 3 times and some staff and family members were handcuffed, stripped, interrogated and screened at gunpoint.
Dead bodies laying on the streets of the Syrian Druze city of Sweida which has been centre of violent clashes for nearly a week. No sign of a ceasefire. The new President has been on national tv urging fighters to lay down their weapons
Violent clashes in the Syrian Druze area of Sweida as Arab tribal fighters converge and there’s bloody sectarian battles. lWe saw looting and homes and shops burning. By nightfall, an apparent ceasefire had been agreed between Syrian Govt and Israel youtu.be/Xy-4aktwu0c?si…
The Syrian Interior Ministry spokesperson is now denying via @reuters that Govt forces are deploying to Sweida area
Syrian security forces are preparing to redeploy to the Druze-majority Sweida city to quell fighting by the Druze and Bedouin tribes, the Syrian interior ministry spokesperson has said
The IDF has hit the Syrian Defence Ministry in Damascus as battles cont in the southern city of Sweida - these pix are from Sweida. There’ve been high casualties in Sweida with Druze fighters battling Syrian army soldiers and Israelis bombing the army forces
Israeli forces have today struck areas of Lebanon, southern Syria as well as Gaza
A bloody day in the Syrian city of Sweida with Druze fighters battling Syrian army soldiers and calling on int support. Israeli jets responded with airstrikes. More than than 200 army soldiers have been killed and an unknown no. of Druze fighters
The director of Al Shifa hospital warns about the remaining ‘life’ being squeezed out of key Gaza health institutions because of the Israeli blockade on fuel… without fuel the hospitals can’t run even at their already much reduced rate
Director of Al-Shifa Medical Complex, Dr. Mohammad Abu Salmiya: •The Public Services Hospital has shut down due to fuel depletion, and Al-Shifa Medical Complex is only hours away from shutting down. •Al-Helou Hospital has less than 4 hours before it shuts down. •Intensive…
Yet more graphic images of dead children in Gaza : the youngsters were killed when Israeli forces attacked a water truck in Al-Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza City. UNICEF has said ‘65 to 70 percent’ of Gaza’s entire water system is damaged so most rely on water trucking.
As the US takes a sledgehammer to the int rule-based order, Amnesty’s @AgnesCallamard urges nations to do all they can to support @FranceskAlbs Dylan Williams, of the Center for Int Policy thinktank, labelled the US actions as ‘rogue state behaviour’
What should States do in response to the US administration sanctions against @FranceskAlbs, the ICC Prosecutor and Judges? Publicly condemn the use of sanctions to undermine the ICC and express strong, unconditional commitment to the ICC and its critical global mandate; to the…
Disingenuously the BBC clip from its own programme manages to omit the damning declaration from @HelenaKennedyKC that she believes Israel is executing genocide in Gaza… a fact pointed out by one of its fmr senior Foreign correspondents @HughSykes
“Law doesn’t matter anymore.” Israel's defence minister is preparing a plan to move all Palestinians in Gaza into a camp in the south, Israeli media reports. Human rights lawyer Baroness Helena Kennedy tells #BBCWato such a plan would break international law.
Truly horrific images of children, toddlers, babies- their bodies torn apart by an Israeli bombing whilst waiting for food supplements. Distraught mothers are hugging lifeless small bodies. ‘We’re appalled’ says @unicefchief
We’re appalled by the reported killing in Gaza today of children and women waiting in line for nutritional supplies provided by UNICEF’s partner organization, Project HOPE. The killing of families trying to access life-saving aid is unconscionable.👇 unicef.org/press-releases…
“It’s been 640+ days on the ongoing ban of international media from entering #Gaza A ban on the truth & independent reporting. A ban to further deepen the polarized narrative. A ban to cover up for the atrocities against civilians including 1 million children in Gaza. A ban…
Missed this at the time but clear words from @HelenaKennedyKC about what’s going on in Gaza, ‘we are witnessing a genocide’ and Britain’s role:’We are complicit if we don’t make it clear we oppose’ from one of UK’s most senior and respected legal figures
In a radio appearance on the BBC’s World at One, Baroness Helena Kennedy said she believed “we are now witnessing a genocide taking place before our eyes” in the Gaza Strip. "We become complicit if we do not make it very clear that we oppose what is taking place,” she added.
@skymartinbrunt remembers the day 20 years ago when he reported on the 7/7 bombings as the capital ground to a halt and dealt with a major emergency news.sky.com/story/i-was-re…
On the 20-year anniversary of 7/7, survivors call for public inquiry news.sky.com/story/7-7-bomb…
‘The soldier described a prevailing belief among troops that all Gazans are terrorists’ - more Israeli soldiers are speaking out about what they’re asked to do in Gaza. @alexrossiSKY news.sky.com/story/israeli-…
Incredible access in Iran and an important piece of eyewitness journalism from @DominicWaghorn and team, showing much more devastation at Evin Prison than prev thought with civilians killed in Israeli strikes @SkyNews
Sky News has witnessed the scale of the destruction caused by Israeli airstrikes at a notorious prison in Iran. International affairs editor @DominicWaghorn is one of the few journalists to gain access to Evin prison in Tehran. Eyewitness report ➡️ trib.al/9jTZkRf