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A man records a video with his mobile phone of rockets being fired from Gaza City towards Israel on October 7, 2023. © 2023 MOHAMMED ABED/AFP via Getty Images
Disclaimer: This dispatch includes distressing descriptions of violence, as well as stills of and links to graphic imagery and footage.
As news broke early Saturday morning that members of Palestinian armed groups from Gaza had breached the border fence, massacring hundreds of civilians, including children, in southern Israel, videos began emerging on social media.
(UN News)* — The humanitarian situation in Gaza is “indescribable” and “unprecedented” as the battle between extremist Palestinian armed groups and Israeli forces escalates.
A building is engulfed in flames in central Gaza. Credit: UN News/Ziad Taleb
While the phrase might seem logical, “Israel’s 9/11” is already being used as a huge propaganda weapon by Israel’s government — now engaged in massive war crimes against civilians in Gaza, after mass murder of Israelis by Hamas last weekend.
Israeli security forces and Palestinian armed groups must make every effort to protect the lives of civilians in today’s [] outbreak of fighting in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories, said Amnesty International amid a mounting civilian death toll.
(UN News)* — The escalating conflict between Israeli forces and Palestinian armed groups has displaced hundreds of thousands of people, the UN reported on Monday [].
Over 120,000 people have been internally displaced in Gaza due to concerns over their protection and the destruction of homes, said UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric, speaking in New York.
The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, UNRWA, is sheltering roughly 137,000 people in 83 of its schools across the Gaza Strip.
Six health care workers have been killed and four others injured, with seven health care facilities and nine ambulances damaged.
UN-verified cases up by more than 40 per cent in the first half of 2023.
GOMA, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 28 September 2023 (UNICEF)* – The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is on track to have record levels of verified grave violations against children for a third consecutive year in 2023.
(UN News)* — An estimated 13.4 million babies were born early in 2020, with nearly one million dying from preterm complications, UN agencies and partners said in a new report on Thursday [].
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The estimated number of foreign-born residents in the United States as of September 2023 is at a historic high of nearly 50 million. Credit: Shutterstock.
Based on the Census Bureau’s 2023 Current Population Survey, the estimated number of foreign-born residents in the United States as of September 2023 is at a historic high of nearly 50 million.
Everyone knows that the United States is the world’s leading military power, with an annual “defense” budget approaching one trillion dollars, considerably more than the arms budgets of the next 144 nations combined.
Richard E. Rubenstein
The U.S. employs more than 3.5 million active military and civilian personnel and maintains more than 750 military bases located in some 80 nations around the world.
The nation’s most profitable and fastest-growing manufacturing sector is the military-industrial complex, which employs more than 4 million workers and supplies approximately 40 percent of the total weaponry used by the world’s armed forces.
In the production and deployment of nuclear weapons, of course, the U.S. is absolutely dominant.
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