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Steve Sweeney

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Steve Sweeney

@SweeneySteve

Award-winning, Beirut-based war correspondent/conflict journalist, commentator, filmmaker. Reports from the ground.

Donetsk/London/Beirut/Moscow

Joined December 2010

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Steve Sweeney
@SweeneySteve
Mar 31
As a foreign journalist that lives and works in Lebanon I never wanted to be the centre of attention. After Israel launched an attack on me and my dear friend @AliRida_SB I was unwittingly catapulted into the limelight. I have never courted "fame" and until recently not engaged
Steve Sweeney
@SweeneySteve
Dec 30, 2024
You are literally aiding and abetting a genocide. Spare us the lecture.
UK at the UN 🇬🇧🇺🇳
@UKUN_NewYork
Dec 30, 2024
The Houthis must stop their reckless attacks on Israel and Red Sea shipping immediately. We are clear: Iran is fuelling this escalation. Israel has a right to self-defence in the face of Houthi attacks, but any action must be in line with international humanitarian law.
Steve Sweeney
@SweeneySteve
Nov 17, 2023
How is ending a massacre of Palestinians even subject to a debate? What kind of sick world have we become?
Steve Sweeney
@SweeneySteve
Nov 27, 2021
Cubans marching in defence of the revolution in Havana today. Something you won't see reported in the bourgeois press.
Steve Sweeney
@SweeneySteve
Apr 12, 2024
Iran? I mean it’s Israel that bombed a consulate in Damascus. It’s Israel that launches air strikes in Syria. It’s Israel that is committing a genocide of Palestinians, with weapons and military support from Britain. And you’re worried about Iran?
David Cameron
@David_Cameron
Apr 11, 2024
Today I made clear to Foreign Minister Amir-Abdollahian that Iran must not draw the Middle East into a wider conflict. I am deeply concerned about the potential for miscalculation leading to further violence. Iran should instead work to de-escalate and prevent further attacks.
Steve Sweeney
@SweeneySteve
Oct 22, 2024
Today I visited the Sahel hospital in southern Beirut the morning after Israel claimed - without evidence - that hundreds of billions of dollars in gold and cash were stored in the basement and used to fund Hezbollah. I had unrestricted access to all areas, including the
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Steve Sweeney
@SweeneySteve
May 8, 2023
“Anyone who loves freedom owes such a debt to the Red Army that it can never be repaid.” Ernest Hemingway
Steve Sweeney
@SweeneySteve
Nov 25, 2023
The moment an NHS surgeon and members of the @CPGBML were arrested at the pro-Palestine demo in London today for displaying a pamphlet denouncing Zionism as “a racist, antisemitic and reactionary tool of imperialism.”
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Steve Sweeney
@SweeneySteve
Jun 29, 2022
GERMAN journalist Alina Lipp faces 3 years behind bars for her reporting from eastern Ukraine. Explaining that Ukraine has been killing civilians in the Donbass region for years and calling it a genocide is deemed a crime, she says. morningstaronline.co.uk/article/w/germ…
Steve Sweeney
@SweeneySteve
May 9, 2023
Happy Victory Day from Moscow ✊🏽✌🏽
Steve Sweeney
@SweeneySteve
Oct 24, 2024
My reports on the hunt for Hezbollah gold under the Sahel hospital in Beirut and my return after Israel moved the goalposts and said we weren’t looking in the right place. (Part one here, part two in comments)
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Steve Sweeney
@SweeneySteve
Aug 15, 2022
There is no Uighur genocide in Xinjiang. But don't just take it from me. Take it from the diplomats from 30 Muslim-majority countries who recently visited the region. And from UN Human Rights chief Michelle Bachelet and the countries that signed a letter backing China
Steve Sweeney
@SweeneySteve
Dec 10, 2024
I’ve been speaking to people that have fled Syria and they are describing horrific scenes in Homs. Terror groups hunting down former soldiers and members of the Shia community, slitting throats and even beheading people, all of which is being sanitised or ignored by Western media
Steve Sweeney
@SweeneySteve
May 15, 2022
Has the US paid reparations for its destruction of Iraq? Or Libya? Or Syria? Or Nicaragua?