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Dena Takruri

@Dena

Peabody Award-winning Senior Presenter @ajplus | Coauthor of They Called Me A Lioness: A Palestinian Girl’s Fight For Freedom out now! https://t.co/49V6jC0fvX

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Truth Tellers(@sirharrysummit) 's Twitter Profile Photo

'International journalists have not fought for the right to enter the Gaza Strip and to cover the war. They have abandoned the right' Youmna ElSayed @ajenglish

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Here’s how AJ+’s Dena Takruri remembers her colleague Shireen Abu Akleh two years after the Al Jazeera journalist was killed by Israel.

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Mohammad Alsaafin(@malsaafin) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I find myself often thinking about the premature babies that the Israeli army left to die last year, the nurse who who stayed behind until the army forced him to leave, and how people reacted to fake stories of babies killed on Oct 7 vs how they reacted to this.

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Ryan Grim(@ryangrim) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Update: One of the American doctors trapped in Gaza by Israel's siege is Adam Hamaway, an Army veteran who famously saved the life of Tammy Duckworth after her helicopter crash in Iraq

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Sana Saeed(@SanaSaeed) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Big resignation from the Biden administration - an extremely powerful one at that. This section, in particular, struck hard - read it and read it again.

“Because the hardest part of the past six months was feeling totally alone like I was the only one disturbed by the footage

Big resignation from the Biden administration - an extremely powerful one at that. This section, in particular, struck hard - read it and read it again. “Because the hardest part of the past six months was feeling totally alone like I was the only one disturbed by the footage
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Here’s how AJ+’s Dena Takruri remembers her colleague Shireen Abu Akleh two years after the Al Jazeera journalist was killed by Israel.

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Tony Karon(@TonyKaron) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We are humbled and honored to have Wizard_bisan1's work grace our platform - her Peabody Awards win is a salute to her, and all Palestinian journalists who risk their lives to chronicle Israel's genocide from where the missiles land aje.io/om82pu

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US Ambassador not welcome here.

Xavier University students force cancellation of commencement speaker, Amb. Linda Thomas-Greenfield.

yahoo.com/news/xavier-un…

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The violence we’re seeing U.S. police use on college campuses is nothing new - but did you know that many of their departments were also trained by Israel? (with Dena Takruri)

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This is what it’s like to live in the Negev desert, where Israel is again demolishing Palestinian Bedouin homes. (with Dena Takruri)

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Bisan Owda has just won one of broadcast journalism’s highest honors – the Peabody Award – for her work with AJ+.

Bisan is currently facing intense Israeli bombardment in Rafah in the occupied Gaza Strip. This is her message to the world:

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Prem Thakker(@prem_thakker) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Hind Rajab's mom on Columbia students naming Hind's Hall:
'I started crying because I wanted all of these movements & support to come while Hind was still alive.'
Hopes protests don't stop till permanent ceasefire.
'Wake up now! Why are others like Hind still going through this?'

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Mehdi Hasan(@mehdirhasan) 's Twitter Profile Photo

'The Israeli position now is anyone who disagrees with them is Hamas.'

Watch & share my full response to an Israeli colonel accusing me of 'parroting Hamas talking points' on CNN tonight, and watch me calling out the Israeli military's Gaza lies, which even CNN has debunked:

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Tareq Abu Azzoum(@TareqAzzom) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I went to find a safe shelter in the middle area as I was driving through the city of Khan Younis where I found nothing but rubble.

I don’t know where locals in Rafa will go now as an unspeakable human catastrophe is happening now

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Omar Shakir(@OmarSShakir) 's Twitter Profile Photo

An Israeli military court will tomorrow decide whether to renew for 6 more months administrative detention of Palestinian rights activist Bassem Tamimi. Israel's unlawfully sweeping use of admin detention—3,400+ Palestinians held wo charge or trial, unprecedented numbers—must end

An Israeli military court will tomorrow decide whether to renew for 6 more months administrative detention of Palestinian rights activist Bassem Tamimi. Israel's unlawfully sweeping use of admin detention—3,400+ Palestinians held wo charge or trial, unprecedented numbers—must end
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Ahed Tamimi told me this in a 2022 interview.
Relevant considering the unprecedented pro-Palestinian activism across US universities today

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