Omar Shakir

On heels of @amnesty report on genocide in Gaza, new 179 @hrw report finds that Israel has inflicted conditions of life in Gaza calculated to destroy Palestinians—amounting to the crime against humanity of extermination & acts of genocide. Consensus grows. hrw.org/news/2024/12/1…

Do you have a son in the IDF? You might be the parents of a war criminal | Opinion | Hagai El-Ad haaretz.com/opinion/2025-0…

"There is no case since WW2 of starvation that has been so minutely designed and controlled" Famine expert Alex de Waal on Israel deliberately starving an entire civilian population

[1/8] People in #Gaza who have survived bombs & bullets are starving. Yesterday, Israeli forces again fired on crowds waiting for aid trucks. Hospitals report >80 people killed. The starving arrived as the wounded. There seems to be no limits to this cruelty. A🧵from Gaza…

AFP Journalists’ Association on reporters in Gaza: ‘Since AFP was founded in August 1944, we have lost journalists in conflicts, we have had wounded and prisoners in our ranks, but none of us can remember seeing a colleague die of hunger. We refuse to see them die’

#Gaza : bombardement du café Al-Baqa "Au-delà de savoir s’il y avait une cible militaire légitime, et donc si c’était une attaque indiscriminée, il y a une question de proportionnalité et de précaution" - @OmarSShakir dans @lemondefr ⤵ lemonde.fr/videos/video/2…

“This is one of the worst tragedies we’ve seen,” @WFPChief tells me as dozens of Palestinians were reportedly killed by Israeli fire while desperately approaching a @wfp 25-truck aid convoy in northern Gaza. She tells me how it all unfolded and calls for immediate humanitarian…

.@WHO’s staff residence in Deir al Balah, #Gaza, was attacked three times today as well as its main warehouse. Israeli military entered the premises, forcing women and children to evacuate on foot toward Al-Mawasi amid active conflict. Male staff and family members were…

The @LemkinInstitute is calling on every leader in the world to step in immediately with measures that ensure food and water gets into Gaza right now. No more discussions, meetings, reports, sessions, summits. GET FOOD AND WATER INTO GAZA NOW. IF YOU HAVE THE POWER, YOU…

A few kilometers from #Gaza, shops are full. But people in Gaza are being starved—including UNRWA staff—who are fainting from severe hunger. “We have 6,000 trucks loaded with food, medicines and hygiene supplies in Jordan and Egypt — just waiting for the green light to get in…

1. How on earth is Germany not signed on to this sensible, balanced statement? Is there really no red line that Israel could cross from Mertz' perspective? 2. Israel isn't budging. What are these states actually going to DO to change its policies? gov.uk/government/new…

🔴 BREAKTHROUGH: Two Israeli soldiers accused of war crimes in #Gaza were Arrested and interrogated at #Tomorrowland after a joint complaint by the #HindRajabFoundation & @GLAN_LAW. This is historical! More info ⬇️ hindrajabfoundation.org/perpetrators/b… #JusticeForGaza #NoSafeHaven…

The killing in Gaza continues Yesterday, July 20, the Israeli military killed 133 people, 76 of whom were waiting for humanitarian aid. ישראל ממשיכה את ההרג בעזה. אתמול, 20.7, הצבא הישראלי הרג 133 בני אדם - מתוכם 76 בעת שחיכו לסיוע הומניטרי.

Report: IDF shot at Gazans holding white flags near aid site, reservist says haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

The Israeli military is targeting everything that remains to sustain human survival in Gaza.

Israel's genocide in Gaza: “We’re in the death phase,” one UNRWA worker said. “Everything around people at the moment is death, whether it’s bombs or strikes, children wasting away in front of their eyes from malnourishment, from dehydration, and dying.” news.un.org/en/story/2025/…

A very thoughtful piece, but someone please inform @ezraklein this is not the future, but the present nytimes.com/2025/07/20/opi…

Israel has ordered mass relocations from displacement camps in Deir al-Balah — forcing families who already lost everything to move yet again. 93% of Gaza is now off-limits. This is like relocating the entire UK population to Wales. Overcrowded, aid-dependent communities are…

Headlines like this should be published by every media outlet on the planet. Their silence is complicity. ISRAEL IS STARVING GAZA. OPEN THE GATES. LET IT IN.

Just spoken to @_jwhittall, our superb head of @ochaopt. He’s in Deir el Balah, Gaza, with Israeli airstrikes intensifying. Surrounded by our team, and civilians we stay to help. Exceptional courage and integrity on humanitarian frontline. They are best of UN. And all of us.

A truly outrageous and sickening request from the Netanyahu government. The U.S. should not be complicit in or use ANY governmental, American taxpayer resources to aid and abet what amounts to the ethnic cleansing of Palestinian civilians from Gaza.  We cannot stand for this.…