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Will Christou

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Will Christou

@will_christou

Middle East Correspondent @Guardian Tips: [email protected]

Joined February 2019

Will Christou
@will_christou
Dec 7, 2023
One of the men arrested in this video is our colleague Al-Araby Correspondent Diaa Kahlot, along with his family, who are most definitely not members of Hamas. He and other captives were stripped naked in the street and taken to an unknown location. Journalism is not a crime!
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Will Christou
@will_christou
Nov 26, 2024
Minutes after the ceasefire is announced by Biden, Israeli jets carry out 4 airstrikes in Beirut.
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Will Christou
@will_christou
Dec 7, 2024
Moammar has been searching for his brother for 39 years, arrested by Syrian soldiers in Lebanon when he was 18. He hadn’t heard anything from him since. Until Thursday, when his brother emerged from Hama prison as an old man, 39 years later.
theguardian.com
‘He has come out an old man’: joy and grief as loved ones released from Assad prisons
Family members describe renewed hopes after decades-long searches for political detainees in ‘Kingdom of Silence’
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Will Christou
@will_christou
Oct 3, 2024
Paramedics say there is a pattern: When they arrive to save wounded, Israel's airstrikes begin. Rescuers started getting calls, ordering them to evacuate their headquarters. Fear grows among Lebanese medical workers as Israel kills 50 in last 2 weeks.
Lebanese healthcare workers fearful as growing numbers killed in strikes
From theguardian.com
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Will Christou
@will_christou
Dec 9, 2024
Rebels are still struggling to navigate the sprawling prison complex, which is built like a labyrinth. Inside the cells, the prisons look like hell on earth. Tiny, cramped, walls filled with scrawled handwriting from detainees past. Medieval cages where prisoners were kept.
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Will Christou
@will_christou
Nov 25, 2024
Breaking- A Guardian investigation can reveal Israel used a US munition to target & kill 3 journalists in south Lebanon on 25 Oct, a potential war crime. Israeli surveillance tech & use of precision bomb means it likely knew it was targeting journalists.
Revealed: Israel used US weapons in strike that killed journalists
From theguardian.com
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Will Christou
@will_christou
Oct 11, 2024
BREAKING - The Guardian can reveal that Israel used a US-munition in its strike on central Beirut last night, its deadliest attack on the capital city since the war began a year ago - killing 22 people and wounding 115.
US-made munition used in Israeli strike on central Beirut, shrapnel shows
From theguardian.com
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Will Christou
@will_christou
Dec 7, 2023
Replying to @dartsj
Source: His sister and employer as reported below 👇
Israel detains TNA Arabic reporter in Gaza mass arrest
From newarab.com
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Will Christou
@will_christou
Nov 22, 2024
Good natured, brave and a humanitarian, Ali Alam, director of Dar Amal hospital in Baalbek, was killed in an Israeli airstrike on his home today. He cracked all of us journalists up, despite the horrific situation. He refused to leave the hospital despite the danger to himself
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Will Christou
@will_christou
Sep 18, 2024
The doctor said that the injuries were unlike anything they had seen before: “It’s transforming 2,000 people into disabled [people] at the same time.” ‘Sophisticated evil’: Beirut medics and civilians horrified by pager attacks.
‘Sophisticated evil’: Beirut medics and civilians horrified by pager attacks
From theguardian.com
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Will Christou
@will_christou
Dec 11, 2023
Israel used white phosphorus on a town in Lebanon, potentially committing a war crime due to the indiscriminate use of the weapon Today, @mmkelly22 @AlexHortonTX & I can reveal the US gave them the weapons used in the attack W/comment from @TiranaHassan
Israel used U.S.-supplied white phosphorus in Lebanon attack
From washingtonpost.com
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Will Christou
@will_christou
Nov 26, 2024
Replying to @will_christou
To clarify, the ceasefire does not go into effect for another 5 hours.
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Will Christou
@will_christou
Sep 29, 2024
Israel just carried an airstrike near Kola intersection in Beirut, the first time it has struck Beirut outside of the southern suburbs since the war started. Kola intersection is a popular reference point in Beirut, where taxis and buses gather to pick up awaiting passengers.
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Will Christou
@will_christou
Dec 13, 2024
Our interview with the head of HTS’s military wing revealed key details about how the rebel group defeated the Assad regime, incl: - Creation of unique military doctrine & drone unit. - Planning & organisation w/rebels in south Syria a year earlier.
Syrian rebels reveal year-long plot that brought down Assad regime
From theguardian.com
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