Horrific news from Iraq where feminist activist and human rights defender Yanar Mohammed, co-founder and director of the Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq (OWFI), has been assassinated by gunmen outside of her home just days after returning from Canada.
Amazon data centers are on fire after Iranian missile strikes on Dubai
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As the laid off Middle East News Editor, I concur. Management eliminated the positions of every single staff correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East.
To do what this team does takes a village, and our employers celebrate that village when we win awards. Job cuts now risk leaving the most vulnerable behind - in conflict zones, or in environments where losing the Post's protection risks livelihoods or even lives.
As @washingtonpost.com international & local correspondents, we have risked our lives, side by side, because we believe reporting from the ground serves the public good. To choke that engine of brave, committed colleagues would be devastating. If you value our work, tell Jeff Bezos to #SaveThePost.
My @washingtonpost.com colleagues worked round the clock this weekend to expose the truth of what's happening in Minneapolis and bring urgent weather news to millions facing dangerous cold and snow.
If you value this work, tell Jeff Bezos to #SaveThePost
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Famine has been officially confirmed in the Gaza City region and is projected to spread within weeks to two more population centers in the wider Gaza Strip, the global authority on hunger said Friday. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
'Women – especially single mothers and widows like herself – are all but absent from the scenes of aid drops. "We simply can't reach those areas. It's too violent, too chaotic and too dangerous. Only the strong or well-connected get through," she says.' www.haaretz.com/middle-east-...
State Dept fired top press officer for Israeli-Palestinian affairs, after vetoing his use of the line: “We do not support forced displacement of Palestinians in Gaza.” Also rejected his suggested condolences after Israel's killing of an Al Jazeera crew. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Figures from a classified Israeli military intelligence database indicate five out of six Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza have been civilians. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
The Trump administration is planning to vet all 55 million foreigners who currently hold visas for travel to the United States. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
No attempt to elide culpability intended. Eyewitnesses say it's most commonly IDF forces opening fire, but whistleblowers have also described contractors doing so, and in some cases, doctors report that injuries are sustained from the crowd.
Staggering numbers of Palestinians now being shot in Gaza as they try to find food at GHF sites, or along UN convoy routes. More than 4,500 people treated in a single Red Cross clinic. Almost 1,400 across two MSF clinics. Total is more than 12,000, according to health ministry.
An aerial view of Gaza City taken from a Jordanian military aircraft by photojournalist Heidi Levine in July 2025. Massive destruction is visible, as are IDP tents.
An aerial photo taken from a drone photographer in 2019 showing Gaza City's Old Town facing east, providing a view similar to the aerial photo taken in July 2025.
For another comparison, there's also an aerial view from a similar perspective, though at lower altitude since it's from a drone photographer, here on Facebook from 2019: www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...
The drone photo is closer to 31.5057, 34.4619 whereas the plane photo is closer to the coast.
An aerial view of Gaza City taken from a Jordanian military aircraft by photojournalist Heidi Levine in July 2025. Massive destruction is visible, as are IDP tents. An area in the background has been annotated.
A July 27 2025 SkySat satellite image from Planet Labs showing Gaza City's eastern Shejaiya and Tuffah neighborhoods. There's a large amount of destruction visible, with thousands of homes that have been visible reduced to rubble. A large area is annotated showing the rough area that is visible in the background of the aerial photo.
An October 15 2023 SkySat satellite image from Planet Labs showing Gaza City's eastern Shejaiya and Tuffah neighborhoods. Some destruction is visible from airstrikes conducted at the start of the war but other than that thousands of buildings are visible with orchards and farmland on the periphery of the neighborhoods. A large area is annotated showing the rough area that is visible in the background of the July 2025 aerial photo.
Can just barely see it but the massive destruction in Gaza City's eastern neighborhoods such as Shejaiya and Tuffah is visible in the background of the photo. When compared with a satellite image taken a week after the war started, can see thousands of homes have been razed.
Thank you for sharing this, Jake.
An aerial view of what the Gaza City area looked like this week. Taken from a Jordanian military aircraft, by our colleague Heidi Levine.
The death toll in Gaza now stands, officially, at 60,000. Experts say this is a significant undercount. How many have gone unrecorded? www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
I spoke to the @washingtonpost.com's podcast this week about our reporting on starvation across the Gaza Strip. The number of people killed by malnutrition or starvation after four months of Israeli blockade has now risen to 154. 89 are children. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p...
Almost a week after Israel promised to increase aid to Gaza, UN says situation on the ground is mostly unchanged. A former Israeli military official described a “total breakdown of order” caused by IDF campaign. washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
Israel's military campaign in Gaza has killed 60,000 people. 18,500 were children. Here are their names. www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...
Medical Aid for Palestinians says that Baby Zainab, on the right, has now died. Her mother "couldn’t find the medical care Zainab needed here in Gaza, nor was she allowed medical evacuation, as her mother was hoping for. More children will die, one by one, as this madness continues”.
After 4 months of a near-total Israeli siege, Gaza’s hospitals now have wards for the malnourished children whose tiny bodies are just the width of their bones. Aid groups had warned of this for more than a year. Now a worst case scenario is upon us. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
Iran-linked militias in Iraq are earning billions of dollars from state coffers, operating extensive business networks and holding more power than ever before. There is much at stake if these groups become a target. — @leloveluck.bsky.social & Mustafa Salim www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
“My dear sister, it’s hard, it’s really hard for me to describe to you all of these children’s injuries,” he said. “How can a child who weighs between 5 to 10kg bear a missile,” he asked.
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In one of Sultan’s final messages to Post reporters, on May 14, he had listed the names of 21 people brought dead to the hospital, most no older than nine years old. Some of them had arrived in pieces, he said.
Within weeks, the Indonesian Hospital itself was under siege and almost out of equipment, and Sultan issued the first of what would become a series of urgent appeals to the international community, urging the protection of his facility and team.
“An entire densely populated square was targeted at a time when people were sitting safely at home,” he said in a message. “People who work with us now have received their relatives who were killed or injured.”
By November, Gaza’s telecommunications network was on its knees and Sultan said that his staff had been forced to use loudspeakers to direct medics to the Jabalya refugee camp, where hundreds of civilians had been buried under rubble in one of the war’s deadliest Israeli strikes.
October: As Israeli troops readied a wide-scale ground invasion, Sultan described the shock of the moment inside Indonesian Hospital as like being “in a dream.” So heavy was the influx of casualties from Israeli bombing that he barely left the hospital — and already feared being killed if he did.
