Joe Rivano Barros
@jrivanob
editor @mlnow, trying to keep up with Eskenazi’s baseball references and the Zoomer newsroom // Signal @ jrivanob.99 // he/him
"I witnessed the IDF firing a main gun tank round into a crowd of people, destroying a car of civilians...I witnessed mortar rounds being fired at crowds of people...They are criminal. And I have fought ISIS...In my entire career I have never witnessed [this] level of brutality."
This is extraordinary. A GHF ex contractor, former US special forces lieutenant-colonel, tells @BowenBBC he never saw brutality against civilians like he did at the hands of the IDF and US contractors in Gaza - and he fought ISIS and the Taliban bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w1…
Three asylum-seekers leaving routine court hearings at San Francisco immigration court Thursday morning were arrested by ICE officers, including one man who a judge had just said might be mentally impaired. The latest from @MLNow: motherjones.com/politics/2025/…
1 million women and girls are starving in Gaza 1 million women and girls are starving in Gaza 1 million women and girls are starving in Gaza We will keep repeating it and demanding delivery of lifesaving aid #ForAllWomenAndGirls in #Gaza, immediate ceasefire, and release of all…
We're enrolling 25 new malnutrition patients every day at our clinic in Gaza City. Meanwhile, people who seek out food in the Strip are attacked by Israeli forces. This is deliberate starvation, manufactured by the Israeli authorities. msf.org/msf-finds-1-4-…
Senior Israeli military officials tell the NYT they never found evidence Hamas systematically stole UN aid and that the UN aid delivery system was largely effective nytimes.com/2025/07/26/wor…
Six people arrested this morning at SF immigration court —the most yet in one day from a single judge’s docket. One of them was a man who asked & was granted an order to self-deport. “I don’t want to be arrested,” he said. “I want to go voluntarily." missionlocal.org/2025/07/hed-ic…
At our facilities in Gaza last week, 25% of the children and pregnant women we saw were malnourished. The deliberate starvation of people cannot be normalised. Food and supplies must enter Gaza at scale. msf.org/msf-finds-1-4-…
Breaking News: Israeli military officials say they have no proof Hamas routinely steals UN aid, undercutting a claim Israel has used to limit food for Gaza. nyti.ms/4opoK4n
Award winning filmmaker @basel_adra beaten up by apartheid forces.
TODAY: Armed Israeli settlers + soldiers TERRORIZED Masafer Yatta today, storming homes in Al-Tuwani, STEALING sheep & attacking Palestinians. They beat activists & assaulted the Rabai family. No justice. No consequences. This is Israel's policy of ethnic cleansing in action.
“In my entire career I have never witnessed the level of brutality and use of indiscriminate and unnecessary force against a civilian population, an unarmed starving population.”
Former US Green Beret who was one of the armed American security guards in Gaza, who left after he saw American and Israeli colleagues killing Palestinian civilians, "Without question I witnessed war crimes by the Israeli Defence Forces, without a doubt, using artillery rounds,…
This was Zeinab just 5 days ago. She was 5 months old.
Former US Green Beret who was one of the armed American security guards in Gaza, who left after he saw American and Israeli colleagues killing Palestinian civilians, "Without question I witnessed war crimes by the Israeli Defence Forces, without a doubt, using artillery rounds,…
The lack of professional/institutional solidarity around these deaths among other journalists in the US and elsewhere continues to be really shameful, I think.
I'm not sure that people realize how abnormal it is for journalists to be killed in wars. More have been killed in Gaza (232) than in the Civil War, World Wars I and II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War (+Cambodia and Laos), the Yugoslav wars, and the Afghanistan war, combined.
I'm not sure that people realize how abnormal it is for journalists to be killed in wars. More have been killed in Gaza (232) than in the Civil War, World Wars I and II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War (+Cambodia and Laos), the Yugoslav wars, and the Afghanistan war, combined.
Breaking: An Israeli airstrike just killed Adam Yahya Abu Harbid, a cameraman for Al-Quds Al-Youm channel, along with all members of his family, after targeting their tent in Al-Yarmouk market in Gaza City.
Trump's job approval rating reaches new low of 37% in Gallup's latest tracker, polling underwater on every issue: news.gallup.com/poll/692879/in…
Despite +972’s repeated requests for further information, the Israeli army has still not provided any explanation as to who was the target of the 500lb bomb it dropped on Gaza’s Al-Baqa Cafe on Monday, or why it was necessary to kill over 30 civilians. 972mag.com/gaza-al-baqa-c…
This evening in Haifa: Israeli police arrested 24 activists during a solidarity protest with Gaza
Today in Jaffa: first big protest in solidarity with Gaza, the police allowed it to take place only for 30 minutes
Breaking News: President Emmanuel Macron said France would recognize the state of Palestine, making it the first of the G7 nations to do so. nyti.ms/3GVjhkQ
"The government is racing ahead for Gaza to be wiped out," Israeli Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu told the radio station Kol BaRama today. "All Gaza will be Jewish," he said, adding that Arabs who are loyal to Israel will be tolerated. timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry…
One million. That’s how many women and girls are starving in #Gaza. This horrific situation is unacceptable and must end. We continue to demand the delivery of lifesaving aid #ForAllWomenAndGirls, an immediate ceasefire, and the release of all hostages.