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Lindsey Hilsum

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Lindsey Hilsum is Channel 4 News International Editor. Author of ‘I Brought The War with Me; Stories and Poems from the Front Line’ and ‘In Extremis’.

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1Feb 23, '23No tomato shortage here - but I’m in Kherson, a frontline Ukrainian city that gets shelled by the Russians daily, not a British supermarket.283×4.4M38k8.9k385
2Feb 5, '24We got hold of Israel’s dossier against UNRWA - why did the donors including the UK withdraw funding on such flimsy unproven allegations before an investigation?163×2.5M12k6.4k1.3k
3Oct 10, '23Extraordinary brave work by my colleague Yousef Hammash in #Gaza37.4×577k1.5k46392
4Oct 28, '23Hard to see how this ‘urgent message’ will get to the citizens of Gaza as the Israelis cut internet and mobile phone30.9×476k3.4k1k55
5Apr 24, '24Worried about the unexplained disappeared from @LBC of @SangitaMyska. She’s a brave, principled journalist and an excellent broadcaster. Listeners will be missing her. What’s the e29.8×459k3.3k1.1k80
6Mar 8, '24Buiding a seaport for aid into Gaza City will take months during which many more children will die of malnutrition. But if Israel opened the Erez Crossing and cleared the road, aid27.5×425k4.3k1.6k94
7Feb 22, '23Thinking today of #MarieColvin who was killed in Baba Amr, Homs in Syria 11 yrs ago today. She was a great journalist and friend. Her legacy is with the ⁦@MarieColvinNet⁩ which sup25.5×394k3.3k55017
8Jun 13, '23We went to Blahodatne, the first village to be recaptured in the Ukrainian counter-offensive. A tired National Guardsman, a deserted home, and pickle jars abandoned by a villager. 25.5×393k1.1k13133
9Jan 7, '24This is unbearable. The journalists of Gaza are unbelieveably brave. This man has endured too much.23.4×361k2.9k87438
10Oct 29, '23The idea that you can be horrified by both the slaughter of Israeli civilians AND the bombing of Gazan civilians shld not be controversial. Polarisation is damaging. Good piece by 20.6×317k1.6k40248
11Oct 14, '19Sorry I can’t. Too busy fleeing Rojava, leaving Kurdish friends to the mercy of Assad and the military assault started when you told Erdogan you wanted out of ‘endless wars’.18.1×017k4.3k34
12Nov 28, '22We were in the trenches with Ukrainian soldiers - and a kitten called Olenka. ‘If we win my children will live in freedom’ says Vadym. Then we came under fire…17.6×015k3.6k703
13Nov 24, '23The war the world forgot - my @Channel4News report on #Darfur #Sudan: massacres go scarcely reported and it's the biggest humanitarian crisis in the world today @jengels92 @Zahra_Z16.5×254k1.2k74173
14Oct 30, '23Thank you all for concern about our safety when debris from Iron Dome landed nearby while we were on air @Channel4News. @C4annalisa @JoshHo_ and Nava Mizrahi brilliant calm team. A14.9×230k1.9k30923
15Oct 11, '23Entire neighbourhoods are being levelled in #Gaza and children are bearing the brunt. Amazing bravery by ⁦@Reuters⁩ and ⁦@AP⁩ camera operators bringing us these pictures. They are 14.8×228k1.7k78155
16Oct 27, '23As the conflict in the Middle East threatens to spread, I keep thinking of Yehuda Amichai’s poem ‘The diameter of the bomb’ translated by Ted Hughes.14.7×227k1.7k707156
17Jan 26, '24This is a big historic win for South Africa and many will say for international justice. Judges called for immediate protection of Palestinians in Gaza from potential genocide by I13.4×208k2k71850
18Oct 3, '23The story of how Alphonse lost his feet after he was deported from #Tunisia to #Algeria is truly shocking. Yet European politicians seem to have no pity for #African #migrants. Mor12.6×194k97033242
19Apr 22, '24Tonight @Channel4News I’m reporting on the investigation into @UNRWA by three outside organisations. Israel provided no evidence that their staff members took part in the Sept 7 at12.6×194k1.5k58246
20Mar 28, '24Sudan is the worst humanitarian crisis in the world. We’re reporting from the border with Chad - the war is causing famine and driving people to flee. We were here with @Andrewmitc12.1×186k92060250
21Feb 29, '24We at @Channel4News signed this letter of solidarity with our colleagues in Gaza.11.9×184k1.2k32937
22Jan 12, '23I have read more male twitter outrage about Australia refusing to play cricket against the Afghan team than about the Taliban excluding girls from school and university, and women 11.3×174k1.4k2268
23Oct 24, '24Our colleagues in Gaza are under threat11.3×174k1.4k63032
24May 9, '24Pretty shocking: attack on the @UNRWA office in Jerusalem10.9×169k1.2k75345
25Dec 21, '23More journalists have been killed in the first 10 weeks of the Israel-Gaza war than have ever been killed in a single country over an entire year, according to ⁦@pressfreedom⁩10.6×164k95061937
26Feb 21, '24Hard to believe tomorrow marks 12 years since my friend #MarieColvin was killed in Syria. I joined with @bbclysedoucet and Jane Wellesley to found @MarieColvinNet supporting Arab w9.9×152k1k28614
27Jul 3, '25After watching the film #DoctorsInGaza, @Basement_Films which @BBC refused to show, broadcast on @Channel4 last night, @GaryLineker says the BBC should ‘hang its head in shame’. He9.4×146k3.9k1.5k87
28Jun 23, '23Always a pleasure to see the Mayor of Kyiv, Vitaly Klitschko9.3×143k1.8k789
29Nov 17, '23This is why Israel’s policy in Gaza is unlikely to work. It is engendering grief and resentment and fury for years to come9.3×143k89927125
30Dec 8, '22This is Lviv: while doing your Christmas shopping before leaving Ukraine, you turn a corner and come across three military funerals.9.2×08.8k1.7k61
31Apr 21, '22Mykola, Romana and Oleksander. Aged 13, 16 and 15. They just escaped Mariupol. They stayed in a bunker for weeks. Some days they had only uncooked pasta to eat. ‘Our town doesn’t e8.4×07.6k1.9k89
32Sep 11, '24The All #Afghan Women Summit is about to begin in Tirana, Albania. More than 100 women are gathered to discuss a united platform to confront the Taliban and their repression of wom7.7×119k3.1k81566
33Sep 4, '21Pakistani ISI Chief Faiz Hameed just arrived in Kabul Serena Hotel. Told me he was here to meet Pakistani Ambassador - wouldn’t say he was meeting Taliban leadership (but he must b7.5×05.7k1.4k112
34Dec 31, '23An unexpected bonus of doing the newspaper review ⁦@BBCRadio4⁩ BH this morning was running into my journalistic twin ⁦@bbclysedoucet⁩. After a terrible year reporting wars in Ukrai7.2×110k1.4k843
35Oct 28, '24Banning UNRWA is not just about allegations of staff members bring connected to Hamas. It’s about the fact that UNRWA legitimises Palestinians’ refugee status and the ‘right to ret6.9×107k1.8k79491
36Feb 22, '24I remember so well the day that picture was taken! #MarieColvin was so determined to get to the bottom of what had happened in #Jenin. How distressed she would have been to see how6.4×99k1.4k33736
37Jan 8, '24Worth remembering that @PrivateEyeNews was way ahead on this, running stories about the injustice done to post masters and mistresses for years before others noticed or cared.6.2×95k1.3k34115
38Jul 7, '24Nine months on, Israel still doesn’t allow foreign journalists independent access to #Gaza. The Foreign Press Association in Israel says ‘It raises questions about what Israel does6.1×95k93064147
39Mar 29, '25By Greenlandic cartoonist Robert Holmene6.1×94k2k43853
40Dec 8, '24On this day of celebrations, I think of the Syrians who were killed during the war, and of my friend the journalist Marie Colvin and photographer Remi Ochlik, killed in Baba Amr in5.8×90k1.7k34817
41Nov 29, '24Our Foreign Secretary @DavidLammy says ‘there are no journalists in Gaza’. So who is taking the pictures on our TV screens? Whose are the bylines on newspaper reports? Who are the 5.5×85k1.3k62445
42Apr 22, '24Israel did not express concern about UNRWA staff since 2011, independent review finds - and fails to provide evidence to back up claim that @UNRWA is infiltrated by terrorists. So 5.4×83k1.1k52080
43Nov 7, '23It was both uplifting and unmeasurably sad to attend George Alagiah’s memorial service at St Martin-in-the-fields today. “In his reporting there was always the outstretched hand of5.2×80k1.3k1354
44May 24, '24In #Omdurman, I was able to meet up with ⁦@ZeinabMSalih⁩, who has done amazing reporting from #Sudan for ⁦@guardian⁩. Like other members of ⁦@MarieColvinNet⁩ she undergoes the dang5.0×78k1.1k27918
45Oct 14, '19I cross the river from Rojava into Iraqi Kurdistan in shame and sorrow. Our Kurdish friends risk being killed by Turkey or Assad. The British govt that supported them in the fight 4.9×03.5k1.6k12
46Mar 12, '22I saw a food warehouse hit in #Mykolaiv on Monday, and another at #Brovary north of #Kyiv attacked today. No other targets in the area, and both direct hits. Suggests Russians are 4.7×03k1.6k53
47May 1, '22Even the coffee…. #Russianukrainewar4.7×04.8k77336
48Mar 8, '22For #InternationalWomensDay, a Ukrainian volunteer soldier in #Mykolaiv presented me with a bunch of… honey! He apologised that he had no tulips. Very touched!4.5×05.6k3608
49May 10, '24Was glad to sign this. @SangitaMyska is an excellent journalist and broadcaster4.4×68k1.4k3258
50Jun 7, '24Fewer4.2×64k971532
51Jun 26, '22Is @Twitter bowing to an Indian government request to remove the account of @washingtonpost columnist, the brave reporter Rana Ayyub?4.0×02.7k99121
52Oct 13, '19We joined a mixed military/civilian convoy heading towards Ras al Ayn. We did not go all the way. As they entered the front line town a Turkish airstrike hit. I don’t know how many3.9×01.7k1.6k31
53Mar 13, '20Tonight @Channel4News I’m reporting on #coronavirus spreading in Iran, including audio of a desperate doctor who says his hospital is losing 20 or 30 patients a day. “It’s a disast3.8×02.4k1.3k56
54Nov 28, '22Meet Vadym and his kitten Olenka in their trench in Donetsk. We spent a few hours there and saw how tough and dangerous it is. Ukrainian soldiers will be fighting there all winter.3.5×03.9k48626
55Mar 22, '22Yesterday we reported ⁦how dangerous it is to stay in #Mariupol. Today we discovered how dangerous it is to leave. These kids were shot on the way out. Now they’re in a sandbagged 3.4×02.2k1.1k48
56May 11, '22Tonight ⁦@Channel4News⁩ I’m reporting on the 130 bodies of Russian soldiers the Ukrainian military are storing in Kyiv. Will the Russian authorities agree to their repatriation - a3.3×02.7k82241
57May 10, '22Driving across Ukraine it’s easy to understand why they chose their 🇺🇦2.8×03.4k28929
58Mar 5, '22This is what would have been happening in Odesa this weekend - if Putin hadn’t decided to invade Ukraine2.8×02.9k50125
59Feb 12, '24Our report on the overnight Israeli raid in #Rafah that rescued two hostages but killed 67 Gazans. ‘If you believe that too many people are being killed, maybe you should provide l2.8×42k1.1k83577
60Jul 4, '24Middle of the day and not got round to voting? I’ve spent much of my life in countries where ppl are willing to lose - or have lost - their lives for the right to vote. Democracy i2.8×42k1.3k4005
61Mar 8, '22Today #Mykolaiv Governor Vitaliy Kim told me there were about 1000 Russian units in the region, that Ukrainians have captured ‘dozens’ of Russian soldiers and ‘we’re not going to s2.5×02.6k42520
62Mar 3, '22So much for Putin’s ‘de-nazification’ of Ukraine.2.2×02.1k50124
63May 9, '22The rough guide to Putin’s speech: Degradation of western morality, NATO was about to attack us, Kyiv was going to get nuclear weapons, we’re fighting neo-Nazis, the Donbas is Russ2.1×01.8k40457
64Mar 13, '22This is a great piece about my friend and journalistic twin ⁦⁦@bbclysedoucet⁩, whose calm humanity shines through her broadcasting2.0×02.3k18623
65Sep 11, '24The #AfghanWomenSummit just erupted into cries of ‘Stop Gender Apartheid in Afghanistan!’ And ‘No to Taliban!’1.9×29k1.3k30110
66Mar 12, '22As I drive around Kyiv, I see how difficult it is for Russian tanks to enter. Forest on either side of roads in. Bridges. Flyovers. High rises ideal for snipers. So artillery and a1.8×01.7k38325
67Mar 9, '22Staff at British embassy in Ukraine not offered refuge in UK, say diplomats | The Independent1.8×093356723
68May 11, '22She was a role model for many @MarieColvinNet members, and much admired. Eye-witnesses say Israeli soldiers shot her in the head. Her flak jacket was clearly marked ‘Press’.1.8×01.3k54312
69Apr 7, '20Sensitive piece by ⁦@MarinaHyde⁩. The problem with all this talk about the Prime Minister being a “fighter” is that it implies that those who die of #coronavirus - or any other dis1.7×01.3k38224
70Feb 27, '22Poem of the day by WH Auden. He is the best on war.1.6×01.4k40260
71Jan 11, '20It’s possible to hold more than one idea in your head at the same time. Iranians might be angry both that the US killed General Soleimani AND that their own govt shot down a civili1.6×01.6k3005
72Apr 21, '2217 year old Bohdan and his 16 year old brother Ruslan fell upon a hot meal in Zaporizhzhia after fleeing Mariupol today. They say they were strip-searched and interrogated by Russi1.6×01.5k35616
73Mar 25, '22I am back home from Ukraine for a few weeks. No more poetry tweets for a while! But normal service will be resumed after a break.1.5×01.9k461
74Oct 16, '19This is just extraordinary. On no planet are the PKK a greater threat than ISIS. They’re not even a greater threat to Turkey let alone the US, where they’re no threat at all. Trump1.5×01.1k43110
75Jul 31, '22Tonight’s tension on the border between Serbia and Kosovo indicates that Russia may be considering other fronts; if the war in Ukraine is not going their way, they might stir up al1.5×01.1k38625
76Oct 3, '22Amazing scenes out of Iran1.4×01.2k32913
77Sep 12, '21Lovely Kochi fashion in central Kabul. Hope these glorious shops last. ⁦@paykhar⁩1.4×01.6k1519
78Feb 22, '20Today is the 8th anniversary of the death of #MarieColvin, killed by Syrian government forces in Baba Amr, Homs. We set up @MarieColvinNet to help aspiring female journalists in th1.4×09374448
79Nov 6, '21It is hard to understand why the British government has not paid the debt it owes Iran for tanks purchased before the Islamc Revolution and never delivered. The amount has been agr1.3×09773897
80Oct 13, '19I feel so sad to leave Qamishli. The Rojava administration made a huge mistake to stick so closely to the PKK, but they created a statelet which was peaceful and fairer than anywhe1.3×090037215
81Mar 15, '22Today we interviewed the Mayor of Kyiv, Vitaly Klitchko, as he visited one of the apartment blocks hit by Russian artillery in the early hours. More ⁦@Channel4News⁩ tonight.1.3×01.4k1836
82Oct 23, '21Amazing photo1.3×01.2k25121
83Jun 4, '19There was no collusion! But ⁦@bbclaurak⁩ ⁦@maitlis⁩ and I do look a little flag-like as we wait for the ⁦@realDonaldTrump⁩ ⁦@10DowningStreet⁩ presser conference.1.3×01.4k1035
85Feb 22, '21Today marks the 9th anniversary of the murder of the journalists Marie Colvin and Remi Ochlik, who were killed by a Syrian government rocket fired into the besieged enclave of Baba1.2×09883352
86Mar 15, '22Ukrainian journalists are bravely telling the story of the deadly Russian assault on their country. And some are paying the ultimate price. Kuvshynova was working for the US networ1.2×01k31411
87Feb 16, '22Believe me: there is no genocide in Donbas. I was in Rwanda. I know what genocide looks like.1.2×01.1k23521
88Mar 10, '22As we enter the third week of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, I’m thinking about the US invasion of Iraq in 2003 at the same point. In Ukraine I have been travelling in the east a1.2×088625158
89Apr 9, '21In 1993 I met Chief Jack, who led a cult that worshipped Prince Philip on the Vanuatu island of Tanna. They will certainly be mourning today.1.1×01.2k18917
90Mar 21, '22“They didn't want to leave. They were kicked out of their homes and taken by force.” Natalia told me Russian troops forced residents of Mariupol to go to Russian-controlled areas. 1.1×087134112
91Sep 17, '21We’re leaving Afghanistan after two weeks, hoping to be back soon to report on this beautiful, tragic country. But the dual-national Afghans leaving on #QatarAirways with us are sa1.1×01.2k10212
92Oct 7, '22As we leave Ukraine, I’m haunted by 18 year old Yana, whom we met in the ruins of an apartment block in Sviatogirsk, Donetsk. Without water or electricity she does her makeup every1.1×01.2k1289
93Mar 14, '22This woman is unbelievably brave1.1×01.1k1847
94Apr 20, '22Back in #Ukraine - so at the railway station, instead of a timetable there’s a notice with instructions on how to attack a Russian tank1.1×01.1k20013
95May 27, '20I would say that @maitlis is an excellent journalist.1.0×01.1k1340
96May 25, '21I’m in Kabul - seeing water-melons everywhere. And they’re delicious!1.0×01.3k633
97Mar 15, '22World leaders don’t normally travel to war zones. Shows how strongly they want to show solidarity with Zelenskyy and Ukraine.0.9×09071598
98Mar 16, '22Nazanin!!0.8×01k611
99May 8, '22Just arrived by bus in Zaporizhzhia - more than 50 civilians from the Azovstal Steel plant in Mariupol including this little boy.0.8×0926952

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