The Guardian-https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/21/thousands-of-gazans-rush-to-border-as-egypt-opens-crossing I found this article particularly interesting because we haven’t seen very much cooperation between the Palestinians and Egyptians in the past. The Egyptian administration has stated that this rare border opening is solely for refugee purposes, Palestinians in turn rushed for the borders. I think this event really puts the refugee crisis in perspective that two opposing sides… Read more »
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/21/al-shabaab-extortion-indoctrination-somalia Al-Shabaab militants in Somalia are extorting huge sums from starving communities and forcibly recruiting hundreds of children as soldiers and suicide bombers as the terror group endures financial pressures and an apparent crisis of morale. Intelligence documents, transcripts of interrogations with recent defectors and interviews conducted by the Guardian with inhabitants of areas in the swath of central and… Read more »
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/feb/21/trump-cuts-un-agency-for-palestinian-refugees-millions-in-jeopardy-generation-radicalised The head of the main United Nations agency supporting Palestinian refugees has warned that the organisation is facing the most severe funding crisis in its history, threatening its support to an estimated 5.3 million people, including more than 400,000 inside Syria. Pierre Krähenbühl, commissioner general of the UN Relief and Works Agency, added that cuts in support to the… Read more »
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/21/syrian-death-toll-rises-as-bombing-of-rebel-enclave-continues Aid agencies, including the Red Cross and World Food Programme, are calling for an urgent ceasefire to allow them to reach the besieged Syrian enclave of eastern Ghouta, as rockets and barrel bombs dropped by pro-regime forces killed dozens more people on the fourth day of an intense assault. The calls were echoed by the UN secretary-general, António Guterres,… Read more »
The Guardian-https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/feb/22/israel-foiled-alleged-plot-to-blow-up-plane-from-sydney-benjamin-netanyahu-says The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has claimed intelligence provided by his country foiled an alleged plot by the Islamic State group to blow up a plane from Sydney using a device smuggled inside a meat mincer. “The Israeli intelligence services thwarted the downing of an Australian plane, an unimaginable slaughter,” the Israeli leader told an American Jewish… Read more »
Source: The Washington Post KAKUMA REFUGEE CAMP, Kenya — Here she is leading her team into the Olympic Stadium in Rio de Janeiro. There she is with the U.N. secretary general, grinning as the two of them hold up an autographed banner. Here she is with an arm around Tegla Loroupe, the Kenyan running god who once held the women’s world… Read more »
Source: The Washington Post CAIRO — Egyptian security forces launched a major military operation against a tenacious Islamic State affiliate in the country’s restive northern Sinai Peninsula and other areas on Friday. In ordering the most comprehensive offensive in years, the government has called on all branches of the security forces to respond. Soldiers and police were dispatched to tighten control… Read more »
In a world with a myriad of cultures, religions and ethnicities, education has stayed the common component that keeps society together. Knowledge is the world’s greatest tool and Palestinian students half way across the world recognize this concept. Though President Trump’s latest decision to cut spending to the United Nations threatens the education system in Lebanon for Palestinian refugees. Many… Read more »
BBC | February 21, 2018 A doctor working in the Syrian rebel enclave of the Eastern Ghouta says the situation is “catastrophic” – and he believes the international community has abandoned the people living there. “We don’t have anything – no food, no medicine, no shelter,” Dr Bassam said. Activists say 45 people were killed in fresh government air strikes… Read more »
FRANCE 24 | February 9, 2018 Two British Islamic State militants known for their role in the torture and killings of Western hostages were captured by Syrian Kurdish fighters, two U.S. officials said on Thursday. The men were the last of a group of four militants known as the “Beatles,” for their English accents, to remain at large. The two,… Read more »
