Scoop: Confidential US paper on Gaza says 'famine inevitable, Changes Could Reduce but Not Stop Widespread Civilian Deaths, devex.com/news/exclusive…

My Columbia Journalism students are out reporting non-stop: working sources they've built over months, navigating the campus unlike any outsider, and adding much-needed context, humanity and depth to coverage.

If you're an editor looking to commission them, get in touch.

Over the past months, I’ve been donating to support cancer treatment for the great Yemeni journalist Shuaib M. Almosawa. I know many of you have contributed as well. His treatment has gone well but he still needs some help to finish chemo & make it home. gofund.me/06d0f45b

Cool report. Also she points out what the city really needs to do to help vulnerable NYers

Columbia Spectator editorial board to university President Minouche Shafik on today's events:

'Hundreds of campus affiliates stood witness as the NYPD disgracefully arrested over 100 of our classmates, friends, and colleagues for peacefully protesting. Similar scenes unfolded…

6yr old Hind Rajab's emergency call from Gaza drew global calls for investigation of her death. IDF deny they were there. The Washington Post finds:
- IDF vehicles present.
- Gunfire as girls begged for help + damage to ambulance = consistent w/ IDF weapons.
washingtonpost.com/world/interact…

'Arab nations call for restraint as Israel-Iran conflict intensifies' Kareem Fahim Claire Parker Sarah Dadouch | سارة دعدوش Mustafa Salim for the The Washington Post - includes my thoughts, which basically is: you can try to calibrate escalation, but you can't control it. washingtonpost.com/world/2024/04/…

The morning of Saturday April 15, 2023, downtown Khartoum (my video)

I'm in Gaza with my charity INARA. As we were leaving one cluster of tents a woman came up and said “My son keeps screaming and shaking uncontrollably. It started when he saw his sister’s head blown off”.

Gaza is going hungry. Its children could face a lifetime of harm. wapo.st/4cCHzLv
“Starvation in war like this is a massacre in slow motion.' - Alex de Waal, director of the World Peace Foundation

I spoke with Israeli intelligence officers about the AI-based target machine they used which marked 37,000 Gazans as suspects for assassination. These whistleblowers expose numerous machines & policies that killed thousands of civilians since October.
972mag.com/lavender-ai-is…

“The smell in Al Shifa Hospital and around it within 800 metres is intolerable due to the smell of corpses. Everywhere there are corpses, in the street, inside houses and inside the sand dunes' thenationalnews.com/news/mena/2024…

Wild read here from Jenna Scatena on the man behind Thodex, a $2 billion Turkish crypto exchange that suddenly disappeared and prompted an international manhunt for the owner.

Opposition victories in Turkey’s local elections deal Erdogan rare defeat - with ⁦Kareem Fahim⁩ washingtonpost.com/world/2024/04/…

Initial results in Turkey’s local elections show a wave of looming opposition victories in major cities such as Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir. If numbers continue trending this way, they signal a BIG blow to Erdogan’s AKP. (Opposition is red)

In Saudi Arabia 👇🏽
“Why are you wearing this?” police asked, pointing to his T-shirt emblazoned with the word “Palestine” in six different fonts. “This is a political gesture . . . We’re pro-Palestine, but you don’t do this,” the officers warned.

By Ahmed Al Omran

🗳️Turkey is going back to the polls!

This time for local elections and Azra Ceylan reports on Turkey’s most consequential race in İstanbul.

With comments by AKP's Oğuz Üçüncü, DEM Party’s Meral Danış Beştaş, Sinem Adar (@sinemadar.bsky.social), Seda Demiralp and Berk.
open.spotify.com/episode/3R8R7h…

SCOOP: The Biden admin quietly authorized the transfer of billions of dollars in bombs & warplanes to Israel in recent days despite concerns about the offensive in Rafah. The arms include 2k pound MK84 bombs linked to previous mass casualty events 🧵washingtonpost.com/national-secur…

Jordanian protestors addressing the Egyptian people last night in Amman- and yesterday a small protest at Cairo’s Press Syndicate chanted in support of the Jordanians. So much to read between the lines in this Palestine centric heated moment for all Arabs, but esp Egypt

“Palestinians in Gaza are no longer facing only a risk of famine, as noted in the Order of 26 January 2024, but that famine is setting in”
By March 15, the new Order notes, 31% of children under 2 in northern Gaza Strip suffered from acute malnutrition, double the rate in January