Journalist covering defense & Middle East news. Bylines in i24NEWS, The National, 972 Magazine, The Media Line, Ynet, The Jerusalem Post. Veteran @BritishArmy.
Joined October 2016
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My favorite bit of work from the last 2.5 years reporting in Israel and Palestine.
24 Jul 2025
Speaking to the Druze living in the border zone separating Syria and Israel, i24NEWS' @SwiftJournalism has heard a variety of perspectives on their identity and affiliation; yet everyone voiced concern, if not outright fear, about Syria's new ruler Ahmed al-Sharaa.
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Jun 9
Residents of northern Israel remain uneasy after an armed terrorist infiltrated from Lebanon into Israeli territory before being eliminated by IDF forces.
Correspondent Robert Swift (@SwiftJournalism) speaks with locals about the ongoing tensions along the border
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Jun 9
🔴 IDF kills Hezbollah operative after crossing into Israeli territory
@SwiftJournalism and @MarkRegev break down the latest with @BaligSladeen on the #Newsroom
👇 For more updates, visit our website👇
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💥By my count every single Arab leader in Israel condemned today's terror attack, perpetrated by an Arab citizen of Israel, and zero (0) Netanyahu cabinet members have condemned the IDF soldiers who shot and killed 7-month-old Sam Fahd Abu Haikal in Hebron on Friday.
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Looking into the terms of this agreement, it is not a ceasefire. It is an agreement to limit the conflict to southern Lebanon. Israel will not bomb Beirut. Hezbollah will not bomb Israel proper. If this is kept it is a massive victory for Hezbollah because it allows it to keep killing IDF soldiers in southern Lebanon while Israel is not allowed to attack Beirut. But like all ceasefires, Israel will not obey it anyway.
Jun 3
🚨🇺🇸🇮🇱🇱🇧U.S., Israel and Lebanon in a joint statement: "As a result of the U.S. led negotiations, Israel and Lebanon agreed to the implementation of a ceasefire. The ceasefire is contingent on a complete cessation of Hizbollah fire and the evacuation of all Hizbollah operatives from the South Litani Sector"
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I'm never on this platform anymore, but here's an interesting conversation I had with a colleague about the urgent need to reopen the medical evacuation corridor from Gaza to the West Bank
New Episode 🎙️
With no access to a functioning medical system, at least 18,500 patients from Gaza wait for medical evacuation by the World Health Organization. But, where to? While Israel argues the answer is third countries, PHRI is pushing for evacuation to the Palestinian hospitals in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem.
This episode discusses the current healthcare situation in Gaza and the urgent need to reopen the medical evacuation corridor to the West Bank. Join PHRI’s Keren Shavit and @LeeCaspi for a sobering discussion about the urgency of the situation – every delay risks thousands of lives and generates untold human suffering.
Listen now > rss.com/podcasts/diagnosingt…
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RT @Rob_Malley: As @citrinowicz puts it, the idea of linking an Iran deal to normalization with Israel “is impractical, detached from reali…
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May 21
I am deeply appalled by the conduct and rhetoric of Israeli Cabinet minister Itamar Ben-Gvir in relation to the Global Sumud Flotilla.
Scotland stands with the people of Gaza. We need to see more humanitarian aid coming in, and every effort must be made to secure lasting peace.
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May 20
Israel has faced more criticism in the past few hours for the mistreatment of activists than it has over the months of massacres of civilians in Gaza
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May 17
They betrayed those in Afghanistan who trusted them.
They betrayed Ukraine by withdrawing support, even though they had guaranteed the inviolability of its borders.
They betrayed Denmark, their longtime ally, by demanding Greenland from them.
They betrayed Taiwan by calling it “a small and distant island” while in China, increasing the risk of a Chinese attack.
Now they are withdrawing their troops from Romania and Poland, leaving Eastern Europe on its own.
We will manage on our own, because for centuries we have known one thing: if you want to rely on something, rely on yourself. But these betrayals will forever strip the United States of its role as a superpower. What kind of superpower does not keep its word? In our part of the world, a new superpower must rise to take America’s place: Europe.
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💥Netanyahu claims he warned cabinet of the danger of fiberoptic drones 6 years ago… In reality, 4 years ago Zelensky warned Israel about Iranian drones Russia was using against Ukraine, suggested a joint response–and was ignored @ilanadayan1 @itaianghel
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I’ve just learned of the killing by Israel of one of the most courageous people I knew: rescuer Hussein Jaber from the Lebanese Civil Defence in Nabatieh.
I had known him for three years and met him many times. He was always inspiring, brave and endlessly helpful for many reporters.
We will not forget what Israel has done to Lebanon’s rescuers.
We will not forget Hussein.
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May 12
I appreciate the intense interest in my column. For skeptics, why not agree on Red Cross and lawyer visits for the 9,000 Palestinian "security" prisoners? If you think these abuse allegations are false, such monitoring visits would be protective. So why not?
May 11
This is a hard article to read, but I hope you'll do so. I've spent some time reporting on widespread rape and other sexual violence of Palestinian male and female prisoners by Israeli authorities, and the article is now published. The assault victims were warned not to give speak of what they endured -- they were sometimes told they would be killed or raped if they gave interviews -- but they found the courage to do so. One man described being raped three times in a single day in Israeli prison, the third time after he tried to protest. A young woman said the guards would come in at the beginning of each shift and strip her naked and abuse her. Another reported that she was shown photos of herself being raped and warned they would be released unless she cooperated with Israeli intelligence. Even three children who had been detained told me they had been sexually abused. Look, whatever our position on the Middle East, we should be able to agree on being anti-rape. Sexual assaults were horrific when Israeli women were targeted on Oct. 7, and they're equally horrific when Israeli authorities use them against Palestinians day after day after day. We should be able to find common ground in opposing rape. Here's a gift link to the article: nytimes.com/2026/05/11/opini…
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A trillion sophisticated-sounding words instead of admitting the most obvious fact: the policy of painfully and artificially restricting military aid to Ukraine in hopes of “avoiding escalation” and “making Putin come to his senses” was catastrophically wrong, deeply misguided, and irresponsible.
It only gave the aggressor advantages, time, and the protection to fully mobilize its war machine for a long-term war.
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No commentary necessary.
@netanyahu: “That’s my instruction to the military… give honest journalists the ability to see the truth”
That was 276 days ago. #Gaza is still closed. More than 220 of our Palestinian colleagues have been killed.
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May 9
The vast majority of the world views America's war in Iraq as a major failure. It destabilized the region, spread radicalism, and gave birth to ISIS.
But when John Bolton casts it as a success, he is not lying. He just has a different metric of success.
It achieved the key thing Bolton and his ilk aimed for: Iraq was eliminated from the regional chessboard as a major player that could project power and challenge the US or Israel.
We see evidence of that today, as Israel built a secret base in Iraq during the Iran war to attack Iran.
That is, 20 years later, the Iraq war has still left Iraq in such a weak state that Israel can willy-nilly set up secret bases on its territory to attack other countries.
It was never about human rights or democracy.
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May 8
I barely recognized the journalist Ali al-Samoudi when I saw him this week. He had been imprisoned by Israel — without charge and without a trial — for a year, during which time he lost half his body weight.
He is one of 105 Palestinian journalists who have been imprisoned by Israel since October 7, 2023 — most without charge, according to @pressfreedom.
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Tomorrow's front page
This is the main story of these elections, only surprising if you haven't paid attention.
Westminster parties can bury their heads in the sand all they want: The truth is the UK's days are numbered.
"A future beyond the constraints of the Union" 🙏
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May 7
🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷 A devastating message has been sent to every aspiring nuclear power: diplomacy is dead, and only a bomb guarantees safety.
Professor Kenneth Roth notes that while Iran was willing to negotiate its enrichment program, the subsequent attack proved that the U.S. only respects nuclear-armed states like North Korea.
Prof. Kenneth believes this strategic failure has made a nuclear-free Middle East nearly impossible to achieve.
"The JCPOA was working.
Netanyahu went to Trump and said we can decapitate the regime, and then there will be regime change.
And Trump, who is not the most sophisticated guy, bought it."
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🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷 The legal framework of global security is being shredded by a "pointless war of choice."
Professor Kenneth Roth argues that Trump’s strikes on Iran constituted a preventive war, which is explicitly prohibited under the UN Charter.
Professor Roth warns that by bypassing the Security Council for a non-imminent threat, the U.S. has committed an act of aggression that sets a dangerous global precedent.
@KenRoth
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May 4
For the first time since the 1967 occupation, Israel is expelling an entire Palestinian neighborhood in Jerusalem.
The Silwan area, located near the "Holy Basin," the Temple Mount, and al-Aqsa Mosque, is home to many archaeological and historical sites of exceptional significance.
As of April 2026, approximately 1,800 residents in Silwan are under threat of expulsion, after hundreds have already been uprooted and left homeless in the past two years. In Baten al-Hawa alone, 33 families have already been expelled, and 53 additional families, including 130 children, face a similar fate. In al-Bustan, Israel has already demolished 48 homes and plans to demolish the homes of 123 more families, which will lead to the expulsion of approximately 1,450 people.
The expulsion in Silwan is part of a policy of ethnic cleansing throughout the entire West Bank.
Link to the full article >> btselem.org/jerusalem/202603…
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“We have been killing [Palestinians] at a scale not seen since 1967” - said head of IDF Central Command, a rightwing settler, in a closed briefing, as reported by @JoshBreiner. He also said IDF soldiers cannot shoot Jewish stone throwers due to “sociological consequences.”
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