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In Gaza, Israel has waged what may be the 21st century's most destructive war, a new visual investigation by The Post has found, destroying more buildings in seven weeks than in Aleppo in three years or in Mosul or Raqqa in one year.
Free link:
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The door was required by law to be self-closing but was broken. The space heater was being used in a building with four complaints about lack of heat in 2021. It's owned by a group of investors that includes a company co-founded by a member of Adams' own transition team.
NYC Mayor Eric Adams says there's a key message to take from devastating Bronx fire: "Close the door."
"If we can drill that in, we can save lives...This painful moment can turn into a purposeful moment."
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Pat Tillman called the Iraq invasion and occupation "fucking illegal" and was killed by friendly fire in an incident the military covered up and tried to hide from his family
The NFL just glossing over how Pat Tillman died. "In the line of duty," sure that's one way of putting it.
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The learn to code VC genius types wiped out their own troubled but probably ultimately solid bank because they were all in a group chat together and panicked.
Silicon Valley Bank was the main bank for two of our companies, my personal savings, and my mortgage. This is how things unfolded for us:
Between 2013 and 2023, all good.
Thursday, 9 AM: in one chat with 200+ tech founders (most in the Bay Area), questions about SVB start to…
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A fourth grader who survived the shooting said officers assaulting the barricaded room told kids to call for help before they had incapacitated the gunman, which led to him shooting a kid who called for help
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On this day in 1969, Chicago police staged a 4am no-knock raid against Black Panther leader Fred Hampton, firing between 83 and 90 rounds and killing Hampton in his bed.
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Clarification from the White House regarding Biden's remarks
BIDEN: "I never really thought that I would see...have confirmed pictures of terrorists beheading children"
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An Israeli police investigation has found that an IDF helicopter firing at Hamas fighters at the desert rave site also hit civilians, Haaretz reports. There is also a "growing assessment" that Hamas didn't know about the desert rave in advance:
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A video posted online on Monday and verified by The Times appears to show Ukrainian soldiers killing captured Russian troops outside a village west of Kyiv on or around March 30, as the Russians were withdrawing. I'll thread some findings here:
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Mayor Adams claimed he carried around a photo of an officer friend who died in the line of duty in 1987. It turns out the picture was printed off Google by aides in the wake of the mayor's claim and stained with coffee to make it look older
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Israeli communications minister and member of Netanyahu's Likud party: "There will be no Palestinian state here. We will never allow another state to be established between the Jordan and the sea."
מכבדים ומוקירים את נשיא ארצות הברית ג'ו ביידן שיצא מגדרו בתקופתה הקשה ביותר של מדינת ישראל. זוהי ידידות אמת.
אבל אנחנו חיים כאן, זוהי ארצנו. נחלת אבותינו ההיסטורית. לא תהיה כאן מדינה פלסטינית. לעולם לא נאפשר להקים מדינה נוספת בין הירדן לים. לעולם לא נחזור על אוסלו.
ובמילותיו של…
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never forget that the NFL's first reaction to a possible death on the field was to give players 5 minutes to warm up
Per Joe Buck, once officials gave each team 5 minutes to warm up before resuming play, Bengals head coach Zac Taylor walked across the field and consulted Bills HC Sean McDermott. Both coaches then sent their teams to their respective locker rooms. Such a classy move by Taylor.
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A Post investigation has found that Israeli vehicles were present in the area and that Israeli weapons likely caused the visible damage in the killing of 6-year-old Hind Rajab and eight others in Gaza City on January 29.
Before she was killed, Rajab called the Palestinian Red…
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Every resident of New Orleans is ready to have the weirdest conversation you've ever had instantly
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Roshdi Sarraj, a Palestinian journalist who worked for Radio France, was killed today in an Israeli bombing of the Tel Al Hawa neighborhood of Gaza City, the network said: .
One of his last tweets, from five days ago, below:
A lack of media coverage from Gaza ..
due to the killing more than 12 journalists, the bombing, and the blackout of electricity and the Internet.
However, we are still trying to withstand and continue coverage so the world can see the israili crimes in Gaza.
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NYT liveblog with a helpful list of the six ways you can still cancel your student loan debt
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Our latest visual investigation: New evidence of war crimes obtained by The Times, including previously unpublished CCTV videos, shows how Russian paratroopers executed 8 captured Ukrainian volunteer fighters in Bucha in March.
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The Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem says an Israeli sniper shot dead two Christian women today who were sheltering inside the Holy Family Parish in Gaza. It alleges that one was killed trying to carry the other to safety. No belligerents are present at the location, it says.
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The Israeli bombing campaign in Gaza might be killing children at a rate unprecedented in 21st-century conflict, this data suggests.
(By
@RubyMellen
@arturgalocha
&
@juledurg
)
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The IDF has begun releasing visuals from their raid on Al-Shifa Hospital last night. They reportedly spent at least 10 hours inside parts of the complex. Here's a breakdown of what they claim to have found 🧵
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Incredible example of a trend increasingly emerging into the open: law enforcement sympathy for right-wing armed groups. Michigan sheriff defends Whitmer plotters, saying they might have just been planning a citizens' felony arrest. "A lot of people are angry with the governor."
This interview with a sitting sheriff in Michigan is absolutely wild.
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This story also states that none of the three officials have seen proof to support this claim and that "they said that this was the supposition of the Israeli government."
NEW: According to three senior Biden admin officials, Hamas is not releasing the remaining women hostages because, it seems, they have been sexually abusing them. One official said they think Hamas is keeping these women in order to keep raping them.
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Look Tàr getting shut out despite being impeccable is a good zen lesson. You polish your rock for the pursuit of perfection itself and then you die and that's fine.
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After a federal task force killed the self-described antifa activist Michael Reinoehl on Sept. 3, President Trump praised it as “retribution.” Our new investigation raises doubts about whether officers made any attempt to arrest Reinoehl before killing him
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Chicago police claimed "if 200 shots were exchanged, that was nothing ... It’s a miracle that not one policeman was killed." In fact, the single shot fired by the Panthers was from security man Mark Clark, who pulled the trigger on his shotgun as police shot him in the chest.
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39 journalists have been killed in the first month of the Israel-Gaza War, the deadliest month since CPJ started keeping statistics in 1992.
34 were Palestinians; nearly all died from Israeli airstrikes, many in their homes with their families:
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Members of Zaka, the Israeli first responder group cited in dozens of Western media stories about October 7, "spread accounts of atrocities that never happened, released sensitive and graphic photos, and acted unprofessionally on the ground," a Haaretz investigation finds:
Haaretz investigation reveals cases of negligence and the spreading of misinformation by the Zaka volunteer group, which began collecting bodies in the devastated communities of southern Israel immediately after the Hamas attack /
@AronRabino1
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The Gaza Health Ministry says an Israeli airstrike has killed at least 500 people at Al Ahli Hospital in Gaza City:
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The Israeli military has desecrated at least 16 cemeteries across Gaza, bulldozing them to set up military posts or create roads for armored vehicles.
CNN reporters traveling with the Israeli military in central Gaza witnessed their destruction of cemeteries firsthand. Their armored vehicle drove directly through the New Bureij cemetery on a freshly bulldozed dirt road, graves visible on either side.
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An essential eight minutes of television. If these were the conditions for an American try to imagine what it's like to be an average civilian in Gaza right now.
This is incredibly insightful about how desperate life in Gaza is right now:
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This conversation about whether the US has pressured Netanyahu to back away from forced displacement or not feels divorced from the reality in which much of Gaza has been rendered uninhabitable, its hospitals and life-sustaining infrastructure ruined.
Intense Biden pressure on this gets results: Netanyahu forced publicly reject Gazan displacement and Israeli reoccupation, against the far-right parties in his own coalition. This will undermine that coalition, which as I've written, is Biden's point:
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Blinken unable to answer my colleague John's question here
Why is China’s treatment of the Uighurs an obvious case of genocide and Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians nothing of the sort? A question for Blinken:
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the 21st-century Blood Meridian is getting stuck on a flooded basin with dwindling food and water and unavoidable thumping techno while your demise is narrated by a guy who structures crypto taxes who's grinding his teeth as he tells you how this is all really soul renewing
In case anyone was wondering how burning man is going it rained all day and now everything looks like this lol
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Based on interviews with 22 people who lived nearby and Lt. Ray Brady, the commander of the investigation team, we’ve reconstructed what happened. What we found suggests that officers may have opened fire without warning or even seeing a gun.
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CNN reports that nearly half of the air-to-ground munitions that Israel has used in Gaza in its war with Hamas since Oct. 7 have been unguided, otherwise known as “dumb bombs,” according to a new US intelligence assessment:
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The Post contacted 25 aid groups, U.N. agencies and donor countries to ask about aid delivery to Gaza and found that Israeli authorities have denied or restricted access to items ranging from lifesaving medical supplies to toys to chocolate croissants.
“I think it’s…
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Israel has yet to provide supporting evidence of its claims that employees of the UN relief agency UNRWA are members of terrorist organisations, an independent review led by the former French foreign minister Catherine Colonna has said.
The Colonna report, which was commissioned…
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Audio and video analysis by CNN shows that the bullet that struck and killed Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was almost certainly fired intentionally at her by an Israeli soldier positioned around 200m away
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not sure i've ever seen a journalist or anyone else take on Adams as directly as Olurin does throughout this sit-down
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NBC reports on the images of Palestinian men stripped to their underwear and detained in Beit Lahiya, Gaza.
One is Diaa al-Kahlout, a journalist for
@The_NewArab
's Arabic service. Others are relatives of Hani Almadhoun, a DC-based fundraiser for UNRWA:
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Former intelligence official on PBS NewsHour tonight saying that the US should think about a "9/11 Commission" for domestic extremism and consider applying some of the lessons from the fight against Al Qaeda here at home.
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An Israeli airstrike in southern Gaza killed 19 members of the same family after they stayed home thinking they'd be safe following a warning strike about hundred meters away
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Andrew Cuomo approved the GOP state gerrymander in 2012, designed the supposed gerrymander fix in 2014, and appointed four conservative Court of Appeals judges who this year blew up New York's redistricting, paving the way for Democrats to lose the House
If the Dems end up losing the House, I think it can be said that they lost it in New York: they blew redistricting, and then they badly underperformed a still-very-winnable set of districts, even while faring well elsewhere
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Interesting initial
@ForensicArchi
analysis on the Al Ahli Hospital strike that opens up some questions and casts doubt on the Israeli military explanations.
Preliminary analysis by FA,
@alhaq_org
&
@earshot_ngo
into the
#AlAhli
hospital blast in Gaza casts significant doubt on IOF claims that the source of the deadly explosion was a Palestinian-fired rocket travelling west to east.
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Kudos to
@AymanM
for doing what TV so often fails to do and letting Americans hear from a Palestinian journalist directly
"We feel that we are being killed twice: once by the bombs and once by this silence."
@WaelDahdouh
on the lack of sufficient support from Western journalists and press organizations around the world.
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In the past three weeks, 3,195 children have been killed in Gaza, 29 in Israel. The number of children killed in Gaza has surpassed the annual number of children killed across the world's conflict zones since 2019, according to Save the Children.
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🚨Egypt planned to manufacture and supply up to 40,000 rockets for Russia and keep it secret from "the West."
New exclusive from the US intelligence leaks from me,
@missy_ryan
&
@siobhan_ogrady
:
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A third woman has accused Governor Cuomo of unwanted touching and sexual attention, saying he placed his hands on her face and asked if he could kiss her at her friend's wedding. A friend took a series of pictures of the incident as it occurred.
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We used 3D modeling to recreate a deadly shooting in Nablus, showing how Israeli forces in an armored vehicle fired repeatedly into a group of Palestinian civilians, even though those civilians would've been visible. Our new investigation [paywall free]:
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New from Visual Investigations: Videos obtained by The Times show for the first time how U.S. Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, who died after engaging rioters on Jan. 6, was attacked with chemical spray while guarding the west side of the Capitol:
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Mohammed Abu Mughaisib, deputy medical coordinator for Doctors Without Borders in Gaza, told The Post that workers at Al-Nasr Hospital had to leave babies in incubators behind as they evacuated yesterday when it was overtaken by Israeli forces:
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Israel claimed it killed "a number of Hamas terrorist operatives" in a strike on an ambulance outside Gaza's biggest hospital today. Videos reviewed by The Post showed women, children and others in civilian clothes among the dead and wounded.
Videos showed more than a dozen people dead and wounded on the ground and damaged vehicles directly outside Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City this afternoon. The source of the damage was not immediately clear.
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NYT responds to the dangerous and unsupported accusation that Palestinian photographer Yousef Masoud "coordinated" with Hamas:
"He was doing what photojournalists always do during major news events, documenting the tragedy as it unfolded."
🚨🚨🚨🚨
Important expose by
@honestreporting
: Photographers working for AP, CNN, NYT, and Reuters were EMBEDDED with Hamas on 10/7 and accompanied the terrorist group into Israel. They knew the attack was coming, and participated in it.
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Based on what can be confirmed from videos released by Hamas today, fighters penetrated the border in at least 5-6 places and assaulted Israeli military outposts nearly uncontested, at times catching soldiers in their underwear. Level of surprise looks to have been nearly total.
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Terrible news. Its now being reported that FTX put up billions of dollars worth of slurp juices as collateral. Fully half of the nations slurp juice reserves now belong to the Saudi sovereign wealth fund
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For context, here is a map the IDF has released, overlayed on Google Earth, indicating the Mawasi area that it apparently intends to be a "safe" or "humanitarian" zone for Gazans. It is approximately 2.5 square miles of land.
The IDF has no plans to allow Palestinians to move back to northern Gaza when the military expands its ground offensive into the southern part of the Strip.
It instead plans to direct the civilian population to areas away from the expected ground offensive in southern Gaza, in…
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The Israeli military is using an AI targeting program called Lavender that tagged around 37,000 Gazans as suspected militants, has around a 10% error rate, and led to systematic targeting of suspects in their family homes, +972 Magazine reports:
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“He’s still alive. Film these marauders. Look, he’s still alive. He’s gasping,” a man says as a Russian soldier with a jacket pulled over his head, apparently wounded, seems to breathe. A soldier shoots the man twice. He keeps moving, the soldier shoots him again, and he stops.
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“Gaza will also go down as a place name denoting one of history’s heaviest conventional bombing campaigns," said Robert Pape, a US military historian and author of Bombing to Win, a landmark survey of 20th century bombing campaigns.
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Palestinian journalists Saeed al-Taweel and Muhammad Sobh were reportedly killed during Israeli bombing tonight, making it five Palestinian journalists killed since the fighting began.
من بينهم سعيد الطويل ومحمد صبح.. استشهاد وإصابة عدد من الصحفيين إثر غارة إسرائيلية استهدف برجا سكنيا غرب مدينة #غزة
#عملية_طوفان_الأقصى
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What the brother of Israeli-American Hayim Katsman, who was killed during the Oct. 7 Hamas incursion, told Jake Tapper:
“The most important thing for me and also for my brother, is that his death will not be used as a justification for killing innocent people”
Listen to Noi Katzman who’s Brother Chaim was buried today
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While major networks shipped star anchors to the relative safety of Israel, journalists within the 140-square-mile Gaza Strip are contending with a massive bombing campaign, electrical and internet outages, and food and water shortages.
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The simultaneous removal of old-school verification and the arrival of revenue sharing based on impressions has caused an explosion in high-volume blue-check accounts spouting unsourced or totally false news for views and been an overall disaster for media literacy.
Left: One of the most notorious "open source" accounts on X with Twitter Blue subscription falsely claims the US embassy in Lebanon is being evacuated.
Right: The US embassy in Beirut denies that it's being evacuated, confirming that it's operating normally.
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Israeli airstrikes that have killed enormous numbers of civilians in Gaza suggest their military has "a tolerance for civilian casualties which is orders of magnitude greater" than the U.S. air force during the war against ISIS, experts say:
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The Oct. 7 Hamas assault on Israel was the deadliest single attack in the nation's history. Our team has spent the weeks since reconstructing it in detail. Our new visual investigation shows how Israel's vaunted "Iron Wall" crumbled [free link]:
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NYC piloting dumpsters like they're launching the Apollo program
In addition to the two schools on W. 152nd St. in this article, we just finished installing containers at PS 161 on W. 133rd St.
Lots more to come. We're serious about ending the piles of black bags.
See page 76 at to find out more about this new pilot.
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Israel on Friday revised the Oct. 7 death toll down from around 1,400 to roughly 1,200 people.
The 1,200 include 318 soldiers, 59 police offices and around 800 civilians.
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Three other apparent Russian soldiers, including one with an obvious head wound who has his hands tied behind his back, are seen dead near the victim. All are wearing camouflage, and three have white arm bands commonly worn by Russian troops. Equipment is scattered around them.
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Prior to whatever happened overnight, the Kakhovka Reservoir had reached unprecedentedly high levels. This was likely due to Russian forces keeping too few gates open, the NYT reported, just months after letting the reservoir sink to historic lows:
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Alleged leaker Jack Teixeira foresaw a violent struggle against Blacks, political liberals, Jews, and gay and transgender people, who would make life intolerable for people like him. A sweeping new profile by
@samueloakford
@chrisd9r
&
@shaneharris
:
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Fighters in Gaza launched rockets that flew in the direction of al-Ahli Hospital 44 seconds before an explosion there killed at least 100 people on Oct. 17, The Post found.
Our comprehensive new look into the worst strike of the Gaza war thus far:
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One of the most violent confrontations during the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol occurred during an attempt by the mob to breach a west-side door. We identified three times that rioters dragged officers into the mob and beat them:
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The Israeli air force said Thursday it had dropped 6,000 bombs, hitting more than 3,600 targets, over the past five days in Gaza — more than the United States dropped during any month of the entire, five-year US air campaign against the Islamic State
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Strikes on the Jabalya refugee camp in northern Gaza killed and injured hundreds of people Tuesday, according to the Gaza Health Ministry and the director of Gaza’s Indonesian hospital.
Jabalia Massacre |
“We have never encountered bodies so extensively burned & fragmented; even their bones were burned. 6 tons of explosives were thrown at an entire bloc”
Ahmed Kahlout, heading Palestinian rescue teams in northern Gaza about the massacre a while ago
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In what may be evidence of war crimes, one soldier says his captain ordered the execution of three men who were “walking past our storehouse” because they could “give away our position.” He tells his girlfriend: "We would have had to feed them, and we don’t have enough food."
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One soldier appears similar to a man pictured in close proximity, possibly providing protection, to former Georgian President and Ukrainian politician Mikheil Saakashvili during a 2017 protest. Facial matching software has indicated a likely match to open source researchers.
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The video was filmed on a road just north of the village of Dmytrivka (50.464987° 30.182556°). The location was first identified by open source researchers and confirmed by us. It is around seven miles southwest of Bucha, where recent Russian atrocities have been alleged.
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The Israeli military has destroyed or damaged at least five of Gaza’s seven major universities.
“When you destroy those kinds of institutions, you're not fighting Hamas, you're fighting the existence of the Palestinians. You’re fighting their capability to have memory and to…
Class destroyed: The rise and ruin of Gaza's revered universities
By
@chantaladasilva
@ywsalam
@matthewgmull
@biancabritton
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Columbia / Barnard Hillel, the largest Jewish organization at the university, has issued a statement saying it does not believe Jewish students should leave campus:
In response to “horrific” scenes of antisemitic harassment at and around campus, the Orthodox Rabbi at Columbia/Barnard sent a WhatsApp message to more than 290+ Jewish students this morning recommending that they go home until it’s safe again for them on campus:
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The looting of dead and displaced Palestinians' civilian property in Gaza is routine, unpunished and supported by commanding officers, according to soldiers who spoke with +972 Magazine
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Amazing Reuters image of Wagner guys doing the hang loose with their morning java after seizing the headquarters of their military's southern command
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You don't hear U.S. officials talking about it, but around 500-600 American citizens live in Gaza, per government estimates.
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The Times's Visual Investigations team obtained previously unpublished police bodycam video from an officer beaten by the Capitol mob on Jan. 6. It provides an officer’s perspective on the battle to defend an entryway where a rioter was crushed by the mob.
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The Post was finally able to reach its photographer in Gaza, Loay Ayyoub, who described last night in a brief message
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Rosanne Boyland, a 34-year-old Trump supporter who was killed during the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, appears to have died amid a crush of pro-Trump rioters during their attempt to fight through a police line, according to videos we reviewed:
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Because the claim that Palestinian fighters committed rapes is circulating widely, it's worth saying that there are, as of now, no verified or first-hand accounts.
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The Gaza Health Ministry has updated its death toll since Oct. 7:
15,207 killed
40,652 wounded
70% woman and children
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in one fell swoop a blue check went from generally meaning a verified celeb, brand, CEO, politician, journalist, academic etc. to almost exclusively crypto/AI/ponzi/attention economy scammers
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ALMA Al-SHAAB, Lebanon (AP) — An Israeli shell landed in a gathering of international journalists covering clashes on the border in south Lebanon, killing a Reuters videographer and leaving six other journalists injured.
A Reuters livestream near the Lebanese-Israeli border a few minutes ago captured an apparent strike on their position and the cries of wounded people.
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