Habib Battah (@habib

Habib Battah

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Habib Battah

@habib_b

Journalist/Prof, words: @BeirutReport @ThePublicSource @NovaraMedia @NiemanReports @The_NewArab @Jacobin @Guardian @FortuneMagazine @ArchReview @AJEnglish

Beirut / New York

beirutreport.com

Joined September 2010

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Habib Battah
@habib_b
Sep 5, 2025
How Western media manufactured consent for the Israeli invasion of Lebanon. Most correspondents transmitted Israeli military talking points without question claiming Hezbollah was preparing to invade northern Israel, instead of the other way around.
What the Media Won’t Tell You When It Embeds With the Military
From thepublicsource.org
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Habib Battah
@habib_b
Oct 24, 2024
Look at the AC units and the little plants on balconies where breakfast happens and clothes dry. To consider these family homes as “targets” is to adopt the mindset of a sociopathic serial killer.
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Habib Battah
@habib_b
Jan 2, 2024
Imagine if Hamas bombed residential Tel Aviv to kill an Israeli general at home. Would journalists report it as an “assassination” or a terrorist attack?
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Habib Battah
@habib_b
Aug 4, 2020
As smoke clears, port of Beirut devastated- added to casualties- billons of $ in imports including national wheat silos-seem to have been eviscerated. Homes shattered for miles. Damages will be massive and could not come at worse time when everyone is broke and hungry #Beirut
Habib Battah
@habib_b
Jul 1, 2023
I've seen a few things in my life, but the horrific blood-soaked carpet on my @airfrance plane yesterday was another level! An hour into the transatlantic flight from Paris to Toronto, I kept smelling something gross and couldn't figure it out. Until I got up and looked down...(1
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Habib Battah
@habib_b
Jul 6, 2023
. @AirFrance told CNN blood and feces I sat in was a “low to nonexistent” risk. Doctors disagree. “In a hospital setting this would’ve been treated as contamination and a biohazard…The plane should have been taken out of service until properly cleaned”
Airline passenger finds plane floor soaked in blood | CNN
From cnn.com
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Habib Battah
@habib_b
Jul 1, 2023
Replying to @habib_b
I just kept wondering what happened to this poor passenger that lost this much blood and how did it happen. One @airfrance staff member mentioned internal bleeding and infection. What if it was a disease-would I or any other passengers be exposed? @BEA_Aero @TSBCanada (5
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Habib Battah
@habib_b
Jul 1, 2023
Replying to @habib_b
I really hope @airfrance @IATA takes this seriously and can tell us if we were exposed to any hazardous medical/bio waste. Chief attendant filed a report, noting sick passenger traveled Thursday from Paris to Boston, so 1 other flight exposed passengers to blood before ours. (6
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Habib Battah
@habib_b
Jul 2, 2023
Replying to @airfrance
Thanks for getting back to me @airfrance but this is not a customer service issue- it’s a BIOHAZARD. There is fresh human blood on your aircraft. You may have exposed me and other passengers to infectious disease. We need to know the condition of the sick passenger ASAP.
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Habib Battah
@habib_b
Mar 24, 2023
Have you heard of Paris? They say it’s the Beirut of Europe!
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Habib Battah
@habib_b
Jul 1, 2023
Replying to @habib_b
Here I am trying to get the blood off my luggage that it absorbed from the airplane carpet. The @airfrance staff crowded around, shocked because they claimed a cleaning crew had removed the seats after the sick passenger incident, but apparently not cleaned the floor. (4
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Habib Battah
@habib_b
Jul 1, 2023
Replying to @habib_b
I took out my backpack from under the seat and the strap was soaked in blood too. I got on my hands and knees and cleaned for half an hour. The @airfrance staff gave me gloves and more wipes. Then they casually noted a passenger had hemorrhaged on a flight before ours. (3
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Habib Battah
@habib_b
Oct 8, 2023
Replying to @salisbot
Settler colonialism isn’t rock science. We have seen several examples of what tends to happen. Do you need a masters degree to understand apartheid doesn’t usually go well?
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Habib Battah
@habib_b
Jul 13, 2019
Being an independent journalist is tough but even more disheartening when major corporate media like @VICE steal your work. My photo for a piece I wrote on Lebanon’s Jewish community in 2010 for @AJEnglish was used with no permission, compensation or attribution. #plagiarism