Nearly 1,500 Palestinians have been unlawfully killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank in the past 16 years – 98 percent of them civilians, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). Each of them, like Taha and Ibrahim, has a story and loved ones who mourn them.
A mother uses her fingers to give water drops to her child during a hot summer day as a heatwave continues, in Jacobabad, Pakistan. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro
The Israeli army attacked the al-Nazla elementary school building in the as-Saftawi neighbourhood, where displaced Palestinians were sheltering, on Saturday [Dawoud Abo Alkas/Anadolu]
Israel has intensified its Rafah offensive despite yesterday’s ICJ ruling for it to halt, including bombing residential buildings near the Kuwaiti Hospital.
A series of Israeli air attacks have killed dozens of people throughout northern Gaza, including women and children sheltering in Beit Hanoon.
Northern Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital is out of service as Israeli forces continue to surround it.
Love Understood: The Science of Who, How and Why We Love by Laura Mucha, 2019
For Love Understood, almost 200 strangers in over 40 countries have come together to share their most personal stories, feelings, and insights about love. These are incredibly frank, intimate, and illuminating conversations, and author Laura Mucha has used these rare and varied insights as a springboard from which to dive into the subject of love, scrutinizing it from all angles ...
Frontlines Stories of Environmental Justice by Nick Meynen, 2019
Every unpacked frontline is one cutting edge of an economic system and political ideology that is destroying life on earth. Revealing our ecosystems to be under a sustained attack, Nick Meynen finds causes for hope in unconventional places.
Fixation How to Have Stuff Without Breaking the Planet by Sandra Goldmark, 2020
Our massive, global system of consumption is broken. Our individual relationship with our stuff is broken. In each of our homes, some stuff is broken. And the strain of rampant consumerism and manufacturing is breaking our planet. We need big, systemic changes, from public policy to global economic systems. But we don't need to wait for them.
Palestinians queue in front of the pharmacy opened by Sehveil, a Palestinian pharmacist who took refuge in Khan Younis, due to a shortage of pharmacies and health services in the area [Doaa Albaz/Anadolu]
Palestinians living in the Jabalia Refugee Camp, Beit Lahia, Al-Falouja, and Al-Fakhura in the north of Gaza migrate towards safer areas after being forced to flee due to Israeli attacks, Friday [Mahmoud Issa/Anadolu]
The Israeli military has continued its operation in the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza, targeting more residential buildings and public facilities, including schools and UNRWA facilities.
There has been no water or food supplied to the camp for the last 17 days. There is an actual famine going on there.
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