Israel has rounded up kids, men and women in Gaza - stripping, blindfolding and handcuffing them, taking them in trucks for torture sessions in warehouses.
Two boys & a 40-year-old share their harrowing testimony.
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“They have this unbelievable racism. They really hate us,” Nader said. “This isn’t about Hamas. This is about wiping us all out. This is about a genocide, signed off by [US President] Biden.”
The first doctors to die of coronavirus while on the frontlines of the UK's epidemic were minorities who gave their lives to the British people.
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"The Israeli army is asking people if they are Christian or Muslim. If you’re Muslim you weren’t allowed in." -
@ajimran
Israeli occupation forces are attacking Palestinians during the funeral of killed Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh.
“Oh my God, did you hear that? That’s the hospital. Oh my God, are you guys hearing this? No, no, no, this is really bad. Are you guys seeing this? This is right behind the hospital. For 5 days, this drone did not leave the sky of this area. We’re looking at a tragedy right now.”
After five days, a dozen people including Nader and his son were released. No reasons were given for the ordeal. Some people didn’t return from the torture sessions, said Nader. “We would hear their screams and then nothing.”
In the warehouse, groups of soldiers would suddenly start beating one person while the others were forced to listen to screams of pain. If any of the men and teenagers nodded off from exhaustion, soldiers poured cold water on them.
Israeli soldiers are accused of taking more than 100 people captive for days. They reportedly threatened to kill them, robbed their IDs, money and phones. They are accused of beating Palestinian men and boys for hours while they were blindfolded.
At a time when many are starving in Gaza and food is impossible to come by, soldiers threw what little food the Zindah family had away, before loading 14-year-old Mahmoud (14) and his father onto a truck.
Nader Zindah made sure his son Mahmoud was on his lap, terrified of being separated. “I don’t want to lose my child, nor do I want my son to lose his father,” he said.
“One of the soldiers said I looked like his nephew and that this nephew was killed in front of his grandmother who was taken hostage by Hamas and that the soldiers will slaughter us all,” young Mahmoud said.
Al Jazeera instructs its legal team to urgently refer the case of Samer AbuDaqa’s assassination to the ICC prosecutor.
The legal file will also encompass recurrent attacks and incitement against Al Jazeera crews in the occupied Palestinian territories.
"Today 'immigrants' is a dirty word, it's ridiculous."
My interview with
@Harryslaststand
who at 94, having fought against the Nazis, is now going to tour refugee camps and rally much-needed empathy for today's war victims
Unsurprisingly, Wiley, who told British Asian pop star Jay Sean “I will throw Bombay potatoes on you”, “Your mum makes a dodgy
korma” and “I will slap off your dad’s turban”, in 2011, is an unhinged racist.
But he still was made an MBE in 2017.
BBC journalists have accused the broadcaster of bias in a letter sent to Al Jazeera.
Among their concerns - that the broadcaster invests greater effort in humanising Israeli victims compared with Palestinians and omits key context in coverage.
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Without Mohammed Balousha, the world would not know about one of the most harrowing stories of Israel’s war on Gaza.
He is the journalist who filmed the premature babies who were left to decompose in hospital.
Targeting journalists is a war crime.
“The Palestinians are delighted, absolutely delighted to see a friend like Ireland, somebody standing by them”
What’s behind Ireland’s support for Palestine?
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“I thanked him for teaching me how to be a decent human being while hearing his last breaths.”
Thank you John, for sharing Harry with us.
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A look through Jack Merritt,'s tweets (the 25-year-old killed in the London Bridge attack) shows how rare he was. Advocated for prisoners, rallied against racism, disaster capitalism. Gone too soon. Rest in power...
Al Jazeera cameraman Samer Abudaqa confirmed as killed in an Israeli attack in Gaza.
If you call yourself a journalist, do not fail to include these crucial 11 words in your stories, obits and posts:
Medical teams were prevented by Israeli forces from immediately reaching him.
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'When it's white terrorism it's just a tragedy'
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Al Jazeera’s statement on the killing of Samer Abu Daqqa: Al Jazeera urges the international community, media freedom organisations, and the ICC to take immediate action to hold the Israeli government and military accountable for these acts of carnage and crimes against humanity
As part of the French government’s proposed anti-separatism bill, refusing a doctor from the opposite sex will be punished with 5 years in jail and a €75k fine, according to the interior minister
Dans
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, Gérald Darmanin annonce que le délit de séparatisme punira de 5 ans de prison celles et ceux qui refusent de se faire soigner par un médecin d'un autre genre.
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Where are the push notifications?
Where is the urgency?
Where is the solidarity?
Where is the outrage?
His horrific death is confirmed, what’s stopping you?
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Israeli forces have urinated on Palestinians and made them act like animals, while children were attacked by army dogs.
Unrwa also says women were photographed and filmed while naked and subject to inappropriate touching.
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An Iraqi refugee remembers the day a US air strike in Mosul killed his...
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“The Israeli state must end this planned genocide against the Palestine people,” Spanish minister
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After Israel announced it was bombing Gaza’s al-Jalaa tower, families had mere minutes to evacuate.
Only one elevator was working.
At the same time, journalists in media offices desperately tried to save their cameras.
The story of today’s bombing:
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A Syrian teacher and father of three among the thousands trapped on the Belarus-Polish border tells his story.
Croatian police have strip-searched female refugees (including a 13-year-old), beaten men, attacked groups of migrants for fun and cut up passports, say those stranded in Bosnia.
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“What is happening now in Ukraine is the continuation of Russia’s policy,” says the Syrian artist who painted a mural in solidarity with Ukraine in Idlib.
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- In the UK, black males 4.2 times more likely to die from coronavirus than white males; black females 4.3 times more likely.
- Pakistani, Bangladeshi and mixed ethnicities also more at risk
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The Dutch government has quit after thousands of families were wrongly made to repay child benefits.
Some were picked out “as a result of ethnic profiling by bureaucrats who picked out their foreign-looking names”.
‘Our village is dead’: The devastating toll of Greece’s wildfires
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"The virus has become a justification to express prejudice and hate"
Coronavirus prompts 'hysterical, shameful' Sinophobia in Italy
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'No one can dry our tears today'
More than 200 people killed, 450 injured in Sri Lanka massacre targeting Christian minority, tourists on Easter
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In the Czech Republic, the Roma community is in mourning.
Stanislav Tomas ('Czech George Floyd') died after police knelt on his neck for more than six minutes.
His mother has Alzheimer's and still does not know he has passed.
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Several Arab doctors in Italy paid the ultimate sacrifice as they tried to save coronavirus patients
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In Greece, there are creeping fears of a crackdown on press freedom, with reports of spying on journalists, a new law banning 'fake news' and as a bullied Dutch reporter flees the country in fear
@katymfallon
reports
This is so harrowing to watch.
A refugee boat is sinking, a mother is calling out, 'Where is my baby, I lose my baby!'.
The six-month-old baby boy, Joseph, was rescued, but died hours later.
Escuchad el sonido del naufragio que vivimos ayer.
El grito desesperado de una madre en busca de su bebé de 6 meses de vida, en medio del caos.
Le recuperamos del mar en parada respiratoria,remontó, pero horas más tarde su pequeño cuerpo no resistió.
Ella es la madre de Joseph💔
Last week, an Israeli attack flattened a family home in Gaza.
Al-Hassan Mattar, his father Weam, sister Tala, their grandmother and others seeking shelter there were killed.
@AbubakerAbedW
remembers his friend Al-Hassan, a 21-year-old Liverpool fan.
'She went to school to learn but left in blood-soaked clothes."
Teenage students are buried in a Hazara district of Kabul after their school was attacked.
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Some of the places, communities where 'social distancing' is not an option:
Gaza
African migrants in Italy
Refugees in Greece
Kibera dwellers
Bangladesh
“No one hears our voices”
A five-year-old Syrian girl is feared to have died on a Greek islet. The dozens of refugees with her body remain stranded, awaiting rescue.
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@f_grillmeier
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