N. Hourani
@DarthHummuss
🧉 MA in international relations. Work in NatSec. Words in scattered places. Tweeting anonymously - mostly about the Middle East.
I just found out that a close family friend, Abdullatif Ali, was massacred in his home in Jableh along with members of his family. Gunmen entered his house, then proceeded to kill him, his daughter, and her two children. Abdullatif was a longtime Alawite dissident known locally…
A contact in Jableh just informed me that fighters have been going door to door asking if residents are Alawites. She confirms that lots of homes have been ransacked, jewelry and other belongings stolen, and cars and passports set on fire. It seems as though the scope of these…
Same guy who denied the ISIS’s kidnapping, trafficking, sexual enslaving of Yazidi Women
The dishonorable Syrian state propaganda machine is now claiming that my grandmother’s relatives in Syria, including two elderly women and an elderly man, are actually Lebanese fighters sent by Wiam Wahhab. In reality, all Lebanese Druze families who have lost relatives from…
LOL - ah yes, that pesky influential Shia lobby that dominates political and ideational spaces across US empire. Mearsheimer and Walt famously wrote a book about it.
Because israel - shia dominate world opinion.
Beware of those linked to the interim gov’t who only post about rights violations by Druze in Sweida. That’s called propaganda. If you care about human rights, mention the “individual incidents” by your own troops and the tribal militias you let march for miles.
Few know that many of the victims of violence in Sweida are innocent families from eastern Syria who work in agriculture in Sweida. 47 from the Bukair tribe, mostly women & children, were executed in cold blood by the Hijri militia. Their bodies arrived at hospitals in Damascus.
Some of the greatest crimes of our lifetime are being committed in plain sight, enabled by US and UK taxpayers
BBC News, "Witnesses said they held their hands in the air when Israeli soldiers started firing at them but that fire continued" "The World Food Program said there were snipers and tank fire involved" Is this a war crime @Keir_Starmer or just 'intolerable'?
A kind reminder for everyone: In the 1990s, the #US, with the help of the #UN & other countries, starved half a million #Iraqi children to death. What's happening in #Gaza now is not surprising. It's infuriating, because no one has learned the lesson & it's a full-on genocide.
There was a time I truly adored America, you have no idea. The very America back in the ’80s, ’90s. By God, why does it look like a monster now?!
"As the country stands at yet another fragile juncture, with violence flaring across different fronts, your analysis matters. Your positionality matters. The space you occupy matters." Syria pundits, heed Rahaf's words. Enough sectarian essentialism - enough lazy, irresponsible…
I write this with deep sorrow after the tragic events unfolding in #Syria. We’ve entered the familiar cycle where “Syria experts” suddenly find themselves called on to speak about sectarian tensions — as if this is new. Since 2011, academic and policy circles have flooded the…
#Syria: the former Republican Guard soldier killed in #Suwayda province also took part in the infamous scene involving General Zahreddine and the hanging of dismembered bodies in #DeirEzzor. Another of his men photographed there was caught 2 months ago: x.com/QalaatAlMudiq/…
#Syria: one of the Druze fighters killed last week in #Suwayda province was a former Republican Guard soldier close to General Zahreddine. x.com/QalaatAlMudiq/…
MoD announces the establishment of a Military Investigations Committee to investigate reports of violations by unidentified individuals in Sweida - good step 👏. However, not enough to create body and call it accountability, compliance with clear IL standards are needed
إدارة الإعلام والاتصال في وزارة الدفاع: بناءً على التعميمات الصارمة التي أصدرتها الوزارة بعدم دخول أي تشكيلات غير تابعة لها إلى منطقة العمليات العسكرية، تم تشكيل لجنةٍ لمتابعةِ الانتهاكاتِ التي حصلت في مدينة السويداء، والتحقيقِ في تبعيةِ وخلفية الأفرادِ المرتكبين لها.
Razan is literally propagandizing for a regime that is complicit in mass atrocities against Druze, just 4 months after excusing/obfuscating its role in slaughtering entire villages full of coastal Alawis. Razan, we principled Free Syrians condemn you - and we will never forget.
What is endlessly cruel, is that 1500 civilians of Bedouin tribes have had to choose between being hostages & being displaced from their hometowns after witnessing massacres and ethnic cleansing — yet the simple narrative of a sectarian Islamophobe will still have you believe the…
We used to highlight the Deir Yassin massacre which took place in the Nakba. Every day today in Gaza is another Deir Yassin, where hundreds are killed, even starved to death. The Palestinian Nakba is an ongoing event.
3 Alawites from the Mahfoudh family were murdered today in Homs while trying to make a living as street vendors, they were shot at by a passing car
BREAKING - Killings of Alawites in March, "though widespread, were not organized" , spokesperson for Syrian investigative committee says, citing final report. Found most killings driven by revenge, not ideological reasons. Committee able to identify 1,426 dead, most…
As the Arabic proverb goes, “He kills the victim, and marches in his funeral.” #Hypocrite
Egypt says everyone is just watching and no one is doing anything to help Gaza.