Maya Gebeily
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Bureau Chief for Lebanon, Syria & Jordan @Reuters
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http://reuters.com 07-10-2012 16:18:00
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Huge news if you follow Jihadism or Syria and Iraq:
Abu Maria Al-Qahtani dies in northern Syria; rumors he’s been assassinated.
This is a profile of him based on close knowledge of & conversations with him by me in New Lines Magazine newlinesmag.com/argument/what-…
“Following nearly 6 months of unrelenting Israeli assault on occupied #Gaza , it is my solemn duty to report on the worst of what humanity is capable of & to present my findings: 'the Anatomy of a Genocide'.”
— Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt at United Nations Human Rights Council.
#HRC55
More evidence suggesting that the IDF deliberately targeted Reuters's Issam Abdallah and other colleagues: in addition to 2 tank shells, the journalists came under fire by a machine gun of the type mounted on Merkava tanks
By Maya Gebeily Anthony Deutsch
reuters.com/world/middle-e…
After an Israeli tank crew struck Issam Abdullah & 6 other journalists in south Lebanon - an attack that Human Rights Watch has called a war crime - they then “likely opened fire on them with a heavy machine gun”.
Newly released details from Reuters’ investigation.
reuters.com/world/middle-e…
Even more evidence indicating that #Israel 's attack on a group of 7 journos in south #Lebanon on 13 October, which killed Issam Abdallah, was likely a direct attack on civilians that must be investigated as a war crime.
Read Amnesty International's investigation here: amnesty.org/en/latest/news…