Iona Craig أيونا كريچ (@ionacraig) / X

Iona Craig أيونا كريچ

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Iona Craig أيونا كريچ

@ionacraig

Journalist. Mostly Yemen/Arabian Peninsula. Also @YemenData. ☘️ Find me in the other place: bsky.app/profile/ionacr…

Joined October 2008

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Iona Craig أيونا كريچ
@ionacraig
Mar 9, 2017
Five-yr-old Sinan described to me how he was shot at from behind by helicopter gunship fire and saw his mother die
Women and Children in Yemeni Village Recall Horror of Trump’s “Highly Successful” SEAL Raid
From theintercept.com
Iona Craig أيونا كريچ
@ionacraig
Oct 27, 2023
Wael Al Dahdouh’s team are the only journalists with satellite comms in Gaza. With internet and phone shut down, a man who lost his family to an Israeli airstrike two days ago is now the sole voice to tell the world what is happening in the darkness. What a burden. What a man
AJ+
@ajplus
Oct 26, 2023
"Despite the pain ... I felt it was my duty to get back in front of the camera." Al Jazeera Journalist Wael Al Dahdouh explains why he continues to report from Gaza after his wife, son, daughter and other relatives were killed.
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Iona Craig أيونا كريچ
@ionacraig
Mar 8, 2022
Here's a U.S. cluster bomb fired by the U.S. Navy into southern Yemen that killed 41 civilians including 21 children and 14 women. It was still killing children three years after it was dropped.
Iona Craig أيونا كريچ
@ionacraig
Oct 17, 2023
Having spent several months under airstrikes sometimes more than a dozen a night, often within 100 meters, it was the incoming whistle in this video that was the airstrike giveaway for me. You don’t forget that sound. “A fragment from a rocket” is not consistent with this.
Jason Paladino
@jason_paladino
Oct 17, 2023
As far as I can tell, this video, confirmed by the @washingtonpost, is the only close up footage of the strike. The whistle before the blast does not seem consistent with the remnants of a falling rocket, or a misfire. Comparison in next tweet.
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Iona Craig أيونا كريچ
@ionacraig
Nov 13, 2017
For the last week Saudi Arabia has blocked all humanitarian assistance and aid workers from entering Yemen. 20 million Yemenis need that aid. Many will die without it.
The Guardian
@guardian
Nov 12, 2017
Millions on brink of famine in Yemen as Saudi Arabia tightens blockade trib.al/q8ilQ4T
Iona Craig أيونا كريچ
@ionacraig
Mar 8, 2022
Replying to @ionacraig
Sumayah, 8 yrs-old when I met her, was the only surviving member of her family. That U.S. cluster bomb killed her parents, 2 sisters and 1 brother when she was 9 months-old.
Iona Craig أيونا كريچ
@ionacraig
Mar 10, 2017
Replying to @ionacraig
This is 5 yr-old Sinan. He got shooed out the room for interrupting his elders when telling me about what happened. He came back with soup.
Iona Craig أيونا كريچ
@ionacraig
Mar 8, 2022
Replying to @ionacraig
This is Mohammed, who was 12 when I met him with Nada, 9. Both lost parents to the U.S. cluster bomb attack. Aged 20 months when the bombing happened, Nada was hit by shrapnel that killed her pregnant mother and her 10-month-old brother. She still has scars.
Iona Craig أيونا كريچ
@ionacraig
Nov 30, 2017
Pitiful turnout in parliament today for Yemen debate considering UK complicity in current humanitarian crisis and starvation of an entire nation.
Iona Craig أيونا كريچ
@ionacraig
Jun 2, 2020
Yemeni photographer and cameraman, and 2016 @rorypecktrust finalist, Nabil Hassan, was reportedly assassinated near his home in Aden today. adengad.net/news/466749/
Iona Craig أيونا كريچ
@ionacraig
Jan 22, 2022
Yemen remains offline after more than 36 hours, disconnected from the world. An eery silence that seeds a dread in the pit of your stomach. All the while the death toll in yesterday’s Saudi-led airstrike on a migrant detention centre climbs…now at 82 dead.
Iona Craig أيونا كريچ
@ionacraig
Nov 13, 2017
Replying to @ionacraig
A few of the children I met across Yemen in Aden, Lahij, Taiz, Sana’a and Hodeidah. Some of the 20 million in need of humanitarian aid now being blocked from entering Yemen by the Saudi coalition. A coalition actively supported by the UK and US.
Iona Craig أيونا كريچ
@ionacraig
Mar 10, 2017
Village elder Sheikh alAmeri response today to @CENTCOM "How could they kill civilians?The women, the children and say their raid is right?"
BBC World Service
@bbcworldservice
Mar 10, 2017
.@realDonaldTrump said Navy Seal raid in #Yemen was "highly successful". What did the survivors tell @ionacraig? 📻 bbc.in/2muZ6hn
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Iona Craig أيونا كريچ
@ionacraig
Mar 20, 2018
The US Senate held the fate of millions of Yemenis in its hands. By voting to table #SJRes54 they’ve not just killed a resolution. Those 55 senators will have the blood of thousands, who will die as a result of US support for the Saudi-led intervention in Yemen, on their hands.