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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19896850 > > The identified people include 169 babies born after the Hamas attacks of 7 October that began the war, and a man born in 1922 who had survived more than a century of war and upheaval. > > More than 100 pages are filled with the names of victims under 10 years old, and the first adult names do not appear until page 215. > >
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> Palestinian history and geography were scrubbed from Israeli schoolbooks a decade ago, scholar Nurit Peled-Elhanan says.
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/28943365 > Shukran Karisa Mangi always showed up drunk at work, where he dug up the bodies of doomsday cult members buried in shallow graves. But the alcohol couldn’t numb his shock the morning he found the body of a close friend, whose neck had been twisted so severely that his head and torso faced opposite directions. > > This violent death upset Mangi, who had already unearthed children’s bodies. The number of bodies kept rising in this community off Kenya’s coastline where extremist evangelical leader Paul Mackenzie is accused of instructing his followers to starve to death for the opportunity to meet Jesus. > > In one of the deadliest cult-related massacres ever, at least 436 bodies have been recovered since police raided Good News International Church in a forest some 70 kilometers (40 miles) inland from the coastal town of Malindi. Seventeen months later, many in the area are still shaken by what happened despite repeated warnings about the church’s leader.
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> Israel, Hezbollah and other Lebanese groups have exchanged more than 9,613 attacks between October 7 and September 6.
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>The database began with In the Dark’s reporting on the killings of civilians in Haditha, Iraq, on November 19, 2005. That morning, a squad of Marines, led by Sergeant Frank Wuterich, was hit by an improvised explosive device, which killed a beloved lance corporal. In the hours that followed, Marines killed men, women, and children on the street and in nearby houses. Four of those Marines, including Wuterich, were charged with murder. Three of their cases were later thrown out, and, when Wuterich went to trial, he was allowed to plead guilty to a single count of negligent dereliction of duty. A judge demoted Wuterich in rank. “Essentially a parking ticket,” Wuterich’s lawyer, Haytham Faraj, said of the sentence. “It’s meaningless.”
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# American killed in West Bank was longtime activist ‘bearing witness to oppression’, friends say #### Ayşenur Eygi ‘was not a naive traveler – This experience was the culmination of all her years of activism’, says professor by Sam Levin in Los Angeles Sat 7 Sep 2024 00.48 BST | [](https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/sep/06/aysenur-eygi-american-killed-west-bank) | |:--:| | Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi, at her graduation from the University of Washington earlier this year (Eygi family/International Solidarity Movement/AP) | Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi, a 26-year-old American activist killed while [protesting in the occupied West Bank](https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/sep/06/israel-gaza-west-bank-us-citizen-killed), was remembered by friends and former professors as a dedicated organizer who felt a strong moral obligation to bring attention to the plight of Palestinians. "I begged her not to go, but she had this deep conviction that she wanted to participate in the tradition of bearing witness to the oppression of people and their dignified resilience," said Aria Fani, a professor of Middle Eastern languages and cultures at the University of Washington (UW) in Seattle, which Eygi attended. "She fought injustice truly wherever it was." Fani, who had become close with Eygi over the last year, spoke to the Guardian on Friday afternoon, hours after news of her death sparked international outrage. Eygi was volunteering with the anti-occupation International Solidarity Movement when Israeli soldiers fatally shot her, according to Palestinian [officials](https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-citizen-killed-anti-settler-protest-west-bank-palestinian-news-agency-reports-2024-09-06/) and two [witnesses who spoke](https://apnews.com/article/american-shot-killed-west-bank-israel-palestinians-b2f1c741cea3d56eb1a339240dbf036e) to the Associated Press. Two doctors told the AP she was shot in the head. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has said it was investigating a report that troops had killed a foreign national while firing at an "instigator of violent activity", and the White House has [said](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/sep/06/aysenur-eygi-killing-west-bank-reaction) it was "deeply disturbed" by the killing and called for an inquiry. Eygi, who is also a Turkish citizen and leaves behind her husband, graduated from UW earlier this year with a major in psychology and minor in Middle Eastern languages and culture, Fani said. She walked the stage with a large "Free Palestine" flag during the ceremony, Fani said. | [](https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/sep/06/aysenur-eygi-american-killed-west-bank) | |:--:| | Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi (top) at her graduation (Courtesy of Aria Fani) | The professor said the two met when he was giving a guest lecture in a course on feminist cinema of the Middle East and he spoke of his own experience protesting in the [West Bank](https://www.theguardian.com/world/west-bank) in 2013. "I had no idea she would then be inspired to take on a similar experience," he said, recounting how she reached out to him for advice as she prepared to join the International Solidarity Movement. "I tried to discourage her, but from a very weak position, since I'd already done it myself. She was very, very principled in her activism in this short life that she lived." In her final academic year, she devoted significant time "researching and speaking to Palestinians and talking about their historical trauma", Fani said. "She was incredibly well-informed of what life was like in the West Bank. She was not a naive traveler. This experience was the culmination of all her years of activism." > She fought injustice truly wherever it was Aria Fani, University of Washington in Seattle Eygi was an [organizer](https://www.chronicle.com/package/campus-unrest) with the Popular University for Gaza Liberated Zone on UW's campus, one of dozens of pro-Palestinian [encampments](https://www.chronicle.com/package/campus-unrest) established during protests in the spring, he said. "She was an instrumental part of ... [protesting](https://www.dailyuw.com/news/168-hours-in-updates-from-the-liberated-zone/article_5c9410f2-0bdd-11ef-8f16-9f1252b627aa.html) the university's ties to Boeing and Israel and spearheading negotiations with the UW administration," Fani said. "It mattered to her so much. I'd see her sometimes after she'd only slept for an hour or two. I'd tell her to take a nap. And she'd say: 'Nope, I have other things to do.' She dedicated so much, and managed to graduate on top of it, which is just astounding." He warned her of the violence he had faced in the West Bank, including teargas, and he feared deeply for her safety: "I thought, worst-case scenario, she'd come back losing a limb. I had no idea she'd be coming back wrapped in a shroud," he said. Eygi had also previously protested the oil pipeline on the Standing Rock reservation, and was critical of Turkish nationalism and violence against Kurdish minorities, Fani said: "She was very critical of US foreign policy and white supremacy in the US, and [Israel](https://www.theguardian.com/world/israel) was no exception." Carrie Perrin, academic services director of UW's psychology department, told the [Seattle Times](https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/american-woman-killed-at-west-bank-protest-was-uw-grad-professor-says/) in an email that Eygi was a friend and a "bright light who carried with her warmth and compassion", adding: "Her communities were made better by her life and her death leaves hearts breaking around the world today." Ana Mari Cauce, the UW president, said Eygi had been a peer mentor in psychology who "helped welcome new students to the department and provided a positive influence in their lives". Fani said Eygi had been deeply dismayed by the UW administration's handling of campus protests, and that he hoped her killing would encourage campus administrators across the country to end their crackdowns on pro-Palestinian activism. Eygi's killing drew immediate comparisons to the [2003 killing of Rachel Corrie](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/aug/27/rachel-corrie-death-israel-verdict), a 23-year-old American, also from Washington state, who was killed by an Israeli army bulldozer while protesting the military's destruction of homes in Rafah with the International Solidarity Movement (ISM). ISM said in a [statement](https://palsolidarity.org/2024/09/israeli-army-kills-turkish-american-citizen-during-demonstration-in-beita-nablus/) that the group had been engaged in a peaceful, weekly demonstration before Israeli forces shot Eygi: "The demonstration, which primarily involved men and children praying, was met with force from the Israeli army stationed on a hill." Eygi's family released a [statement](https://palsolidarity.org/2024/09/statement-from-the-family-of-aysenur-eygi/) on Saturday through the ISM, calling for an independent investigation to "ensure full accountability for the guilty parties", and remembering Eygi as a "loving daughter, sister, partner, and aunt". "She was gentle, brave, silly, supportive, and a ray of sunshine," her family said. "She wore her heart on her sleeves. She felt a deep responsibility to serve others and lived a life of caring for those in need with action. She was a fiercely passionate human rights activist her whole life -- a steadfast and staunch advocate of justice." Fani and a colleague spoke earlier about the irony of her killing garnering an international response, he said: "She wanted to bring attention to the suffering of Palestinians. And if she were alive right now, she'd say: 'I got that attention because I'm an American citizen, because Palestinians have become a number. The human cost has been strategically hidden from the American public and certainly from the Israeli public.' ... Obviously this is not the outcome she would have wanted, but it is just so poetic, in such a twisted, stomach-churning way, that she went this way." The professor recounted the musicality in the way Eygi spoke, and said he used to joke that he wanted to study her voice: "She was so easy to talk to and truly an embodiment of the meaning of her name, Ayşenur, which is 'life and light'. She was just an incredibly beautiful person and good friend and the world is a worse place without her."
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> One-fifth of children Israel has killed in the West Bank in the last quarter century have been killed in the past year.
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> UN offers to monitor any eventual cease-fire in Gaza
> The FBI conducted searches at the homes of two of New York City Mayor Eric Adams' closest aides on Thursday, sources familiar with the investigation told ABC News. >The Hamilton Heights home of First Deputy Mayor Sheena Wright, who is engaged to Schools Chancellor David Banks, and the Hollis, Queens, home of Deputy Mayor for Public Safety Phil Banks, were searched as part of an ongoing investigation, the sources said. - I hope this means Adams is next.
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cross-posted from: https://biglemmowski.win/post/2226119 > Summary > > - Israel says Wassem Hazem was the head of Hamas in Jenin > - Hamas confirms the death of three fighters > - Israeli forces keep up large-scale operation in West Bank > - Fighting between Israel and Hamas still rages in Gaza Strip
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> “There’s always fewer people who leave than those who say they plan to,” he said. “A quarter of the population of Venezuela has left already, so it’s unlikely we’re going to see a massive flow overnight of people fleeing. It could be a continuous trickle over the next few years, not the massive outflow we once saw.” > > The larger migration of Venezuelans happened between 2017 and 2019, when millions of people left mostly to other countries across Latin America. > > Close to 3 million Venezuelans have now settled in neighboring Colombia and 1.5 million in Peru.
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> Officials in Ordos are over the next several years going to install 100 gigawatts of solar panels — more than three times as much capacity as the United States is currently building nationwide — along a stretch of land 250 miles (400 kilometers) long and 3 miles (5 km) wide. > > The goal isn’t just to generate huge amounts of clean power. It is also to restore a no man’s land, bringing greenery and even livestock to an area roughly the size of Puerto Rico. In doing so, the local authorities are doubling down on two of China’s most successful efforts of recent years: An epic expansion of solar power, and major progress in combating desertification.
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> The new glucose-responsive insulins (GRIs) only become active when there is a certain amount of sugar in the blood to prevent hyperglycaemia (high blood glucose). They become inactive again when levels drop below a certain point, avoiding hypoglycaemia (low blood glucose). In future, patients may only need insulin once a week, experts believe. > > Scientists behind the smart insulins have been awarded millions of pounds in grants to fast-track their development. The funding comes from the Type 1 Diabetes Grand Challenge, a partnership between Diabetes UK, JDRF and the Steve Morgan Foundation. It is investing £50m into cutting-edge research to help find new treatments for type 1 diabetes. > Almost £3m has been awarded to six research projects that have developed different types of smart insulins. They include teams at Stanford University in the US, Monash University in Australia and Zhejiang University in China. The aim is to accelerate development and launch trials as soon as possible. > > Each project aims to fine tune smart insulin to act faster and more precisely, relieving some or all of the huge burden of managing type 1 diabetes and reducing the risk of long-term complications.
A teenager has been arrested after a masked attacker stabbed five people at an open-air cafe in Turkey and broadcast the rampage on social media. Wearing a helmet, mask and bulletproof vest adorned with neo-Nazi symbolism, the attacker – who was also armed with an axe – used a knife to stab people at a tea garden and a tram stop in the northwestern city of Eskisehir, reports suggest. Two people were left in a critical condition, Turkish broadcaster Haberturk reported. (...) An online handle linked to the attacker in local media reports appears to have engaged with content relating to racist abuse and mass killings. A photograph appearing to show the attacker’s weapons and protective gear, published by Istanbul-based outlet Oksijen, showed a mask bearing a neo-Nazi-linked skull, a knife adorned with swastikas and other Nazi symbols and a vest featuring a sun symbol co-opted by the Nazis.