Tag: childhood

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh killed in Iran, says Palestinian group / Sniping, Shredding, Incinerating: Israel’s War on Children in Gaza

GAZA casualties, live statistics Ismail Haniyeh, the political leader of Hamas, has been killed by a strike in Tehran in the early hours of Wednesday morning, the group said, only hours after Israel claimed it had killed a top Hezbollah commander in Beirut. Hamas blamed Israel for Haniyeh’s death, which one official described as a “grave escalation”. It said… Read More Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh killed in Iran, says Palestinian group / Sniping, Shredding, Incinerating: Israel’s War on Children in Gaza

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Life and Fiction

Readers who are parents might be forgiven for thinking that Alice Munro who blamed her abused daughter for her husband’s paedophilia was a sociopath whose condition might have a bearing on her books. (Alice Munro claimed her daughter was lying about being abused by stepfather) Mukul Kesavan A year and a half ago, while moving… Read More Life and Fiction

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Israel’s Tents Massacre in Rafah Is a Heinous War Crime / Israel Is Blind to Rafah’s Inferno, but Its Own Ruin Is Entwined With Gaza’s

Toddlers go up in flames, and the Israeli public celebrates, erases, chatters or yawns – that’s what our hell looks like. When you embark on a campaign of vengeance, as the saying goes, dig two graves; Israel has such a strong desire for revenge that it is slowly sinking in a dark abyss, hand in… Read More Israel’s Tents Massacre in Rafah Is a Heinous War Crime / Israel Is Blind to Rafah’s Inferno, but Its Own Ruin Is Entwined With Gaza’s

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Turkey allocates only 10 out of 20,000 teaching positions for Kurdish language

The Turkish Ministry of Education’s decision to allocate only 10 positions for Kurdish language teachers out of 20,000 new teaching positions has sparked significant backlash, the Stockholm Center for Freedom reported. Last year the ministry appointed 50 Kurdish teachers under a program titled “Living Languages and Dialects.” This year, the number was reduced to 10, comprising six… Read More Turkey allocates only 10 out of 20,000 teaching positions for Kurdish language

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Israeli precision-guided munition likely killed group of children playing foosball in Gaza

GAZA casualties, live statistics Rest in peace little one. I weep for your parents but you rest in peace An undated photo of Shahed Awda Talla. Obtained by CNN The last time Mona Awda Talla saw her daughter Shahed alive, she was leaving the house to go buy her some cake, wearing pink pants. The 10-year-old… Read More Israeli precision-guided munition likely killed group of children playing foosball in Gaza

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What’s Bill Gates up to? Have ‘irregularities’ found in funding HPV vaccine trials faded?

By Colin Gonsalves * After having read the 72nd report of the Department Related Parliamentary Standing Committee on alleged irregularities in the conduct of studies using HPV vaccines by PATH in India, it was startling to see Bill Gates bobbing his head up and down and smiling ingratiatingly on prime time television while the Prime Minister lectured him in… Read More What’s Bill Gates up to? Have ‘irregularities’ found in funding HPV vaccine trials faded?

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‘Chronic traumatic stress disorder’: the Palestinian psychologist challenging western definitions of trauma

“Now, my son can even tell what types of explosives are falling” GAZA casualties, live statistics Bethan McKernan in Jerusalem Even before the war in Gaza broke out, people in the besieged Palestinian territory had some of the world’s worst rates of mental illness. Israel and Egypt’s blockade of the Mediterranean strip is now 17 years old; a… Read More ‘Chronic traumatic stress disorder’: the Palestinian psychologist challenging western definitions of trauma

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