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@GIWMiddleEast
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338subscribers
+0 since we began measuring on 7 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
| Telegram ID | -1002385695931 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @GIWMiddleEast |
| Description | The GIW channel for all Middle Eastern stuff! @GIWguy globalintelwatch@gmail.com |
| Created | Between 1 September 2024 and 4 February 2025— estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 8 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 8 August 2026 |
| Measurements held | 2 |
| On Telegram | t.me/GIWMiddleEast |
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 8 Aug 2026, 07:03 | 338 | no change |
| 7 Aug 2026, 14:27 | 338 | first reading |
13 posts held, back to 4 February 2025 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 pageof Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 13 posts for this entry, the most recent from 6 February 2025. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
Lifetime counters from Telegram’s own channel header, read 8 August 2026 — not the date at the top of this page, which is when the subscriber count was last read. Below Telegram’s rounding threshold, so these counts are exact.
Measured directly from 7 videos with a duration reading, out of the posts we hold for this channel — not this channel’s whole posting history, only the sample this register has actually read. An exact reading to the second, taken from the post itself rather than from Telegram’s own rounded chrome, so it carries no ≈ mark.
85 reactions across 11 posts, in 12 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 41.2% of them.
| Reaction | Count | Share | Share, drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🤣 | 35 | 41.2% | |
| 🔥 | 21 | 24.7% | |
| 👍 | 9 | 10.6% | |
| 💩 | 4 | 4.71% | |
| 😁 | 4 | 4.71% | |
| 😍 | 3 | 3.53% | |
| 🤡 | 3 | 3.53% | |
| 👏 | 2 | 2.35% | |
| 🌚 | 1 | 1.18% | |
| 🤬 | 1 | 1.18% | |
| 🤮 | 1 | 1.18% | |
| 🫡 | 1 | 1.18% |
No sentiment is inferred, and none should be read in. This table is ordered by count and by nothing else. Emoji do not carry stable meaning across languages or communities — 🙏 is thanks in one channel and mourning in another — so we publish which ones were pressed and how often, and pass no judgement on what an audience meant by them.
Precision. Telegram publishes reaction counts per emoji and short-forms each one — 4.34K, 1.2M — so any single kind at or above 1,000 reaches us at three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. The shares above are ratios of those figures and carry the same error. This is also why the total here can differ slightly from a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page: both are sums of the same rounded parts, taken over samples with different edges.
Coverage. Reactions were read on 11 of the 13 sampled posts in this sample. Summed by Telegram’s own count on each post — not by adding up the per-emoji breakdown above — those same posts carry 85reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 13 most recent posts we hold, published 4 February 2025 to 6 February 2025, using the newest reading held for each. Telegram Stars are excluded: they are a payment, not a reaction, and they have their own section.
🇮🇱❌🇱🇧💥 Israeli warplanes attacked eastern Baalbek near the Lebanese-Syrian border. Israeli Army Radio, citing a security source: We attack targets deep inside Lebanon because of attempts to transfer weapons from Syria and establish new sites for Hezbollah.
👍2💩2🔥1
Signed TabZ
#BREAKING 🇵🇸❌🇮🇱 — Former Israeli Defense Minister Galant: In some locations, orders were given to implement the Hannibal directive and in other locations not and this is a problem 📝This is the first confession by a top Israeli official of activating the Hannibal directive, to kill their own civilians in case of fear of captivity.
Signed TabZ
🇱🇧🇸🇾❗️ Local armed Shia villagers (presumably affiliated with the Zaiter clan) captured two Syrian government soldiers in the border area and brought them back into Lebanon. A vehicle with a mounted anti-air gun was also captured from the Syrians.
🤬1
Signed TabZ
🇸🇾🇱🇧⚠️ UPDATE: Syrian forces have NOT entered Lebanese territory and are actually fighting the Zaiter Clan and not Hezbollah. The Zaiter Clan is an armed drug militia. All reports of an “incursion into Lebanon” by Syrian forces are therefore FALSE!
😁2🌚1👍1
Signed TabZ
🇸🇾🇱🇧 Syrian “Shaheen Brigades” launched drones targeting the Zaiter Clan on the Lebanese-Syrian border.
😁2🫡1
Signed TabZ
🇸🇾🇱🇧 - HTS forces reportedly entered Lebanese territory and captured a small chunk of territory and town. One reason given for the incursion is the prevention of weapons smuggling for Hezbollah.
👏2💩2🤣1
Signed Rayden Skahyv
🇮🇷 - Iran state TV released the first image of the newly build drone carrier named Shahib Bagheri. The newly jet-powered drone Qaher can also be seen being successfully launched from the carrier.
🤮1
Signed Rayden Skahyv
🇺🇸🇮🇱🇵🇸 During his meeting with Netanyahu, U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth was asked about the potential deployment of American ground troops to Gaza. He responded that the Pentagon is ready to explore all available options.
Signed TabZ
🇸🇾❌🏳️⚧️ - More footage of HTS harassing transexual prostitutes in Syria. This individual was let free again…
🤣13😍2
Signed Lynx
🇸🇾❌🏳️⚧️ - HTS has reportedly started arresting transgender individuals accused of operating prostitution rings in several Syrian cities.
🤣21🔥4😍1
Signed Lynx
🇺🇸🇮🇱 - US. Senator Lindsey Graham objects to Trump’s Gaza intervention. “I think that would be an interesting proposal. We’ll see what our Arab friends say about that. I think most South Carolinians would probably not be excited about sending Americans to take over Gaza. It might be problematic.” 🔗 AF Post
👍6
Signed The Global Eye
🇺🇸🇮🇱🇯🇴🇪🇬 - US. President Donald Trump: - The people of the Gaza Strip have no choice but to leave it - I want to see Jordan and Egypt receive Palestinians from the Gaza Strip
🔥11
Signed The Global Eye
Showing the 12 most recent of 13 posts we hold for @GIWMiddleEast. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
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A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 8 August 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“GIW - Middle East” (@GIWMiddleEast), 338 subscribers as measured 8 August 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/GIWMiddleEast.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.