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Paris-based news agency says freelance contributors facing ‘appalling’ situation in the war-ravaged enclave.French news agency Agence France-Presse has urged Israel to facilitate the immediate evacuation of its freelance journalists from Gaza, warning that they face an “appalling” and “untenable” situation in the war-ravaged enclave. AFP, one of the world’s largest news services, made the appeal on Tuesday after an association of its journalists warned that their colleagues in Gaza were facing starvation. “For months, we have watched helplessly as their living conditions deteriorated dramatically,” the Paris-based agency said in a statement. “Their situation is now untenable, despite their exemplary courage,…
Sayfollah Musallet, a Palestinian American, was killed by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank on July 11, just days before his 21st birthday. His death is one of nearly 1,000 killings involving settlers this year, and his US citizenship has helped draw rare calls for a US investigation. Could this case shift how Washington responds to settler violence in the occupied West Bank? In this episode: Hesam Musallet, uncle of Sayfollah Musallet Episode credits: This episode was produced by Amy Walters, Sari el-Khalili, Chloe K Li and Sonia Bhagat, with Phillip Lanos, Spencer Cline, Melanie Marich and our guest…
Some students also had their degrees revoked for participating in antiwar protests, including the 2024 Gaza encampments.Columbia University in the United States has imposed severe punishments, including expulsion, suspension from courses and revocation of academic degrees, on dozens of students who participated in protests against Israel’s war on Gaza. The student activist group Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD), which has called for the school to cut all financial ties with Israel, said in a statement that nearly 80 students have now been either expelled or suspended for up to three years over their involvement in antiwar protests. On Tuesday, Columbia…
Host nation Morocco will face Nigeria in the Women’s Africa Cup of Nations after beating Ghana on penalties.Goalkeeper Khadija Er-Rmichi blocked Comfort Yeboah’s attempt, and the hosts, Morocco, advanced to the championship of the Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) on a penalty shootout after a 1-1 draw with Ghana. Morocco, which prevailed 4-2 on penalties on Tuesday, will face Nigeria in the final on Saturday. The Super Falcons defeated defending champions South Africa 2-1 in the earlier semifinal on Tuesday in Casablanca. Ghana took a first-half lead. Er-Rmichi got a hand on Josephine Bonsu’s header, but it bounced off…
Latest malnutrition-related deaths include a six-week-old baby, while dozens more are killed in Israeli strikes across the enclave.At least 15 people, including a six-week-old baby, have starved to death in the last 24 hours in the besieged Gaza Strip, according to health officials, who say a wave of hunger that has loomed over the bombarded enclave for months is now finally crashing down. Six-week-old Yousef’s family could not find baby formula to feed him, said his uncle, Adham al-Safadi. “You can’t get milk anywhere, and if you do find any, it’s $100 for a tub,” he told the Reuters news…
UN chief Antonio Guterres says ‘the fossil fuel age is flailing and failing’ as renewable energy becomes cheaper.The global switch to renewable energy has passed a “positive tipping point”, and solar and wind power will become even cheaper and more widespread, according to two reports. Last year, 74 percent of the growth in electricity generated worldwide was from wind, solar and other green sources, according to a report compiled by multiple United Nations agencies called Seizing the Moment of Opportunity. It was published on Tuesday. It found that 92.5 percent of all new electricity capacity added to the grid worldwide…
Gov’t committee in Syria says it identified 298 suspects in mass killings in Alawite region.More than 1,400 people, mostly civilians, were killed in several days of sectarian violence in Syria’s coastal regions earlier this year, a government committee tasked with investigating the attacks has found. The committee said it had identified 298 suspects implicated in serious violations during the violence in the country’s Alawite heartland that left at least 1,426 members of the minority community dead in March. Tuesday’s findings come after a new wave of violence involving the country’s Druze community, raising further questions over the new government’s ability…
The White House cited ‘anti-Israel rhetoric’ and ‘woke, divisive’ causes as the reason for the US’s withdrawal.The administration of President Donald Trump has announced that the United States will end its involvement with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) over its decision to admit the State of Palestine as a member. The decision to leave the agency, announced on Tuesday, is to take effect in December 2026. In a statement, State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce argued that membership in UNESCO was not in the US’s “national interest” and called the agency’s mission “divisive”. She then pointed to…
Global grassroots organising is the only way to challenge Israel and its plan to legalise the theft of Palestinian land.My brother recently sent me a copy of an Israeli military order that was found by farmers on our land and nearby plots in the occupied West Bank. The document, accompanied by a map, states that the land is being seized for military purposes. It does not specify how long the land will be held and offers the landowners and users only seven days from an upcoming field visit – coordinated between the Israelis and the Palestinian Authority (PA) liaison office…
media’s Maram Humaid writes about trying to take care of her children while worrying her family will starve.Deir el-Balah, Gaza – “There is no voice louder than hunger,” the Arabic proverb goes. Now it has become a painful truth surrounding us, drawing closer with each passing day. I never imagined that hunger could be more terrifying than the bombs and killing. This weapon caught us off-guard, something we never thought would be more brutal than anything else we’ve faced in this endless war. It’s been four months without a single full meal for my family, nothing that meets even the…