Sarah El Deeb
@seldeeb.bsky.social
Investigative journalist, Associated Press; Beirut-Cairo. Two cats: Drake & Smudge.
apnews.com/article/gaza... After brief return home, a family in Gaza is forced by war to flee again
After brief return home, a family in Gaza is forced by war to flee again
The Associated Press has followed the Abu Jarad family as it traverses across the Gaza Strip and back, fleeing from Israel's campaign against Hamas.
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apnews.com/article/isra... Israeli use of human shields in Gaza was systematic, soldiers and former detainees tell the AP
Israeli use of human shields in Gaza was systematic, soldiers and former detainees tell the AP
Several Palestinians and Israeli soldiers say troops are systematically forcing Palestinians to act as human shields in Gaza, sending them into buildings and tunnels to check for bombs and gunmen.
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The sound of hunger apnews.com/article/maln... Gaza's main hospital is overwhelmed with children in pain from malnutrition
Gaza's main hospital is overwhelmed with children in pain from malnutrition
The U.N. children’s agency says more than 9,000 children have been treated for malnutrition in Gaza this year, and food security experts say tens of thousands of cases are expected in the coming year.
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Witnesses say hundreds are still unable, afraid to go back home #Syria coast apnews.com/article/syri... - our report - with Bassem Mroue
A Syrian man barely escaped a wave of sectarian killings. His brothers did not
This past weekend’s sectarian violence was possibly among the bloodiest 72 hours in the modern history of Syria after 14 years of civil war — and it threatens to open an endless cycle of vengeance.
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AP roundup of the violence and massacres on the Syrian coast, by Bassem Mroue and Sarah el Deeb. @seldeeb.bsky.social @bmroue.bsky.social @apnews.com apnews.com/article/syri...
2 days of clashes and revenge killings in Syria leave more than 1,000 people dead
The death toll from two days of clashes between Syrian security forces and loyalists of ousted President Bashar Assad and revenge killings that followed has risen to more than 1,000, a war monitoring ...
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@roba-hus.bsky.social digs into Maher #Assad fourth division going thru documents tunnels and speaking to witnesses to reveal the state with a state and the what it left behind #Syria www.al-monitor.com/originals/20...
'Where's the gold?': How the Assads sucked Syria dry
From a Bond villain lair in the rugged heights overlooking Damascus, the all-seeing eye of a notorious Syrian military unit gazed down on a city it bled dry. Many of the bases of the elite Fourth Divi...
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What a day to return to #Beirut apnews.com/article/leba... Masses of mourners attend the funeral of Hezbollah leader Nasrallah, 5 months after his killing
Masses of mourners attend the funeral of Hezbollah leader Nasrallah, 5 months after his killing
Hundreds of thousands of people have packed into a stadium in Beirut and nearby streets for the funeral of Hezbollah’s leader, nearly five months after he was killed in an Israeli airstrike on a south...
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apnews.com/article/syri... Inside Bashar Assad's detention centers, where 'death was the least bad thing'
Inside Bashar Assad's detention centers, where 'death was the least bad thing'
The system of detention, torture and death run by Syria’s former ruler, Bashar Assad, is starting to come out into the open.
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apnews.com/article/gaza... In Gaza's crowded tent camps, women wrestle with a life stripped of privacy
In Gaza's crowded tent camps, women wrestle with a life stripped of privacy
For Gaza’s women, the hardships of life in the territory’s sprawling tent camps are compounded by the daily humiliation of never having privacy.
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apnews.com/article/syri... Now Syria's long-ruling Baath party is collapsing, too
Now Syria's long-ruling Baath party is collapsing, too
The party that for decades ruled as part of the Assad dynasty is now being blamed for damaging relations with other Arab countries and aiding in the spread of corruption that brought the war-torn nati...
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apnews.com/article/syri... Alone and broke against a renewed insurgency, is #Assad's rule in #Syria about to collapse?
Alone and broke against a renewed insurgency, is Assad's rule about to collapse?
As insurgents pursue a shock offensive that quickly captured not just Aleppo, but the key city of Hama, the Syrian President appears to be largely on his own.
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Who is the man leading the shock offensive that has revived #Syria’s insurgency apnews.com/article/syri... #al-Golani @chehayebk.bsky.social
Who is Abu Mohammed al-Golani, the leader of Syria's shock insurgency?
Over the past dozen years, Syrian militant leader Abu Mohammed al-Golani has worked to remake his image and the insurgency he commands.
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apnews.com/article/leba... Displaced families in Lebanon who return home are faced with piles of rubble - Bassem Mroue and Lujain Jo
Displaced families in Lebanon who return home are faced with piles of rubble
Tens of thousands of residents who have started streaming back into southern Lebanon to check on their homes are finding that they have lost everything.
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apnews.com/article/syri... Syrian insurgents launch large-scale attack on government forces in the country's northwest
Syrian insurgents launch large-scale attack on government forces in the country's northwest
Syria's opposition groups say armed forces launched a large-scale attack on areas controlled by government forces and seized territory in northwestern Syria.
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Meanwhile, syrian opposition fighters launched a wide scale offensive on government and allied troops in northwestern Syria. 🧐
So good to wake up to no drones in the skies and no threats of attacks #Beirut
Ceasefire went into effect. So many feelings but first and foremost: tired. People are tired. Thousands of cars heading south from displacement to check on their homes. #Lebanon
