8 Palestinian Women Journalists You Should Follow
And what really happened in Gaza this week.
Hello and welcome to a special edition of the Almost newsletter, a new weekly email to help you stay updated on and make sense of the latest in Israel’s war on Gaza.
This week, we’re honoring the brave Palestinian women journalists of Gaza who have and are still risking their lives to document the devastating realities of Israel’s war on Gaza.
Here are just 8 journalists you should follow:
- Plestia Alaqad, age 22
- Bisan Owda, age 26-27
- Lama Jamous, age 9
- Hind Khoudary, age 29
- Noor Harazeen, age 35
- Doaa Albaz, age 29
- Youmna El-Qunsol, age 35-36
- Sumaya Mohamed, age 11
What’s Been Happening In Gaza
- In what is now known as the Flour Massacre, Israel’s military opened fire on Palestinians trying to get food aid in Gaza, killing at least 112 people and injured more than 750 others.
- The same day, people in Israel held up bloody bags of flour in a protest against the Flour Massacre. We spoke to Standing Together, which organized the protest.
- Meanwhile, a senior Israeli advisor said Israel was not involved in the Flour Massacre even after its military admitted it had opened fire.
- A Palestinian mother who spent 10 years trying to get pregnant lost her twin babies, who were born and killed during Israel’s war on Gaza, as well as her husband at the same time.
- We interviewed the young Libyan filmmaker who made a genius video showing why boycotting companies actually makes a difference.
- A Swedish politician staged a powerful silent protest against the war on Gaza during her EU speech.
- A British activist slashed a painting of Lord Balfour whose declaration led to Israel taking over the Palestinian land.
- Google fired an engineer who disrupted a conference to call out its role in supplying technology to the Israeli military.
- Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has presented his first official plan for Gaza after the war. Here’s what’s inside.
- Meanwhile, Egypt has started building a walled buffer zone at its border with Gaza after Israel insisted it will invade Rafah.
- And US President Joe Biden got called out for talking about the war on Gaza while casually eating ice cream.
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