admin | April 16, 2022
Ukraine conflict worsening food crisis and decimating families' purchasing power Wheat flour reserves in the Occupied Palestinian Territory could be exhausted within three weeks and the cost of this food staple has surged by nearly 25% because of the Ukraine crisis, warns Oxfam. Palestinian households are being hit hard by rising global food prices, and many are struggling to meet their basic needs
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admin | April 9, 2022
Nuh Ibrahim's grave in the town of Tamrah in the Galilee.
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admin | April 9, 2022
On episode 54, we are joined by representatives of major Palestinian civil society organizations Sahar Francis and Ahmed Abofoul to talk about current progress in bringing an investigation into Israels crimes to the International Criminal Court, even as Israel and the US and Canada have tried to stifle progress. Francis is the director of Addameer, the Prisoners support and Human Rights Association, and Abofoul is a legal researcher and advocacy officer at Al-Haq, a group that documents Israels human rights violations. Addameer and Al-Haq are among six Palestinian civil society groups that Israels defense minister Benny Gantz designated last fall as terrorist organizations an attempt to disrupt and destroy the work of these groups and especially their gathering of evidence for the ICC investigation
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admin | April 9, 2022
Executive Summary The COVID-19 pandemic drastically altered the daily lives of countless individuals across the globe, threatening their health and livelihoods and impacting businesses, supply chains, and government revenues. Jordan and Palestine were not spared from these effects, leading their governments and populations to struggle to gain footing as the resulting health and economic crises ensued. Young job seekers, particularly women, refugees, and youth with disabilities, have been disproportionately affected by the crisis through job losses and heightened barriers to entering the workforce
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admin | April 9, 2022
This column is an opinion by Idris Elbakri, a Canadian Palestinian who calls Winnipeg his home.For more information aboutCBC's Opinion section,please see theFAQ. When war broke out in Ukraine, our family sat mesmerized and shocked in front of the TV
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admin | April 9, 2022
Through her love of cycling, 79-year-old Judith Hammond has found inspiration for her fundraising in The Big Ride (TBR). This year at the end of July, TBR will go from Derby to Manchester, via Stoke, and Judiths challenge will be to get to Derby by cycling with her friend Michael Weltike.
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admin | April 9, 2022
In January, Nadhim Zahawi, the Education Secretary, said that anyone who chanted the Hamas slogan could be referred to the police and that it was essential for universities to clamp down on the slogan following the outlawing of support for Hamas. Mr Zahawi told the Jewish Chronicle in January that the rallying cry used by Hamas is the kind of anti-Semitic, intolerant, murderous attitude of the organisation thats proscribed. The group of pro-Palestine protesters had objected to the choice of speaker for the event made by the universitys Conservative Society, Colonel Richard Kemp, the former head of British forces in Afghanistan, partly because of his support for Israel
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admin | April 3, 2022
On Monday, the U.S. Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, joined the foreign ministers of Israel, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Egypt, and Morocco for a meeting at Sde Boker, the retirement kibbutz and burial place of David Ben-Gurion, the nations first Prime Minister
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admin | April 3, 2022
The environmental situation in Gaza is dire at the moment. (Photo: via ActiveStills.org) By Benay Blend As Spring approaches, along with Earth Day, thoughts turn to the environment. This year, because of the Russia/Ukraine war there is heightened concern over environmental destruction in that region.
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admin | April 3, 2022
QAMISHLI, Syria: Three years ago, the world watched as the Syrian Democratic Forces and the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS battled the remnants of Daesh in the extremist groups last territorial holdout of Baghouz. Having once controlled an area the size of England, the terror group had been forced to retreat into an area covering just a few hundred square meters, where they dug in behind razor wire, earthworks and fields laid with thousands of landmines. When the fighting was finally over and the last Daesh positions had been cleared, SDF morale skyrocketed and there were days of celebrations across the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria
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