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An Israeli strike on a school sheltering displaced Palestinians in Gaza City killed 11 by Dave DeCamp   November 26, 2024 at 12:44 pm ET   Categories News Tags Gaza ,  Israel ,  Palestine Gaza’s Civil Defense Agency  told  Al Jazeera  that Israeli attacks killed 22 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip on Tuesday. Gaza’s Health Ministry said in its daily death toll update, which is released about mid-day Gaza time, that at least 14 Palestinians were killed and 108 were wounded. The ministry’s numbers only account for dead and wounded Palestinians who were brought to hospitals and morgues. “There are still a number of victims under the rubble and on the streets, and ambulance and civil defense crews cannot reach them,”  the ministry wrote on Telegram. Palestinian bodies are carried into Al-Ahli Arab Hospital after an Israeli airstrike on a school in the Zeitoun neighborhood in Gaza City on November 26, 2024 (IMAGO/APAimages via Reuters Connect) Israel...

  Chinmoy followers clash with cops in Ctg; lawyer killed November 27, 2024 A lawyer was killed during a clash between police and followers of former ISKCON leader Chinmoy Krishna Das Brahmachari in the Chattogram Court Building area today. The deceased, 32-year-old Saiful Islam, is a member of Chattogram District Bar Association. He was taken to Chittagong Medical College Hospital, where the physicians pronounced him dead around 4:00pm, said Nurul Islam, in-charge of CMCH police camp. Citing eyewitnesses, Nazim Uddin Chowdhury, president of Chattogram District Bar Association, told The Daily Star, “During the clash, a group of Chinmoy supporters who were protesting on the court premises dragged Saiful to Rangam Convention Hall around 3:30pm and hacked him.” Mohammad Didar, an employee of Golam Rasul Market, who along with some other locals rescued Saiful and took him to the hospital, told The Daily Star, “Some Chinmoy followers hacked the lawyer on the road next to Rangam Conventi...

  চট্টগ্রামে আইনজীবীর ওপর হামলাকারীদের ছবি প্রকাশ্যে November 27, 2024 চট্টগ্রামে আন্তর্জাতিক কৃষ্ণ ভাবনা সংঘের (ইসকন) নেতা ও সনাতন জাগরণ মঞ্চের মুখপাত্র চিন্ময় কৃষ্ণ দাশ প্রভু ব্রহ্মচারীর অনুসারীরা আইনজীবী অ্যাডভোকেট সাইফুল ইসলাম আলিফকে (৩৫) কুপিয়ে হত্যা করেছে। আজ মঙ্গলবার বিকেলে জেলা প্রশাসক কার্যালয় ও আদালতের প্রবেশ সড়কে ‘হামলার শিকার’ হয়ে নিহত হন তিনি। এই হামলায় প্রত্যক্ষভাবে অংশ নেওয়া বেশকয়েকজন হামলাকারীর কয়েকটি ছবি প্রকাশ্যে এসেছে। হামলায় প্রত্যক্ষভাবে অংশ নেওয়া হামলাকারীরা এসব ছবিতে দেখা গেছে, হামলাকারীরা হেলমেট পরে লাটিসোঁটা, রাম দা, বটি দা দিয়ে তেড়ে আসছে। কারও কারও মুখে আবার মাস্কও পরা ছিল। তবে তাদের বিস্তারিত পরিচয় এখনো নিশ্চিত হওয়া যায়নি। এছাড়া একটি ছবিতে হামলার পর কয়েকজন আলিফকে উদ্ধার করে নিয়ে যেতেও দেখা যায়। কয়েকজন আলিফকে উদ্ধার করে নিয়ে যাচ্ছেন। এর আগে আজ মঙ্গলবার (২৬ নভেম্বর) দুপুরে চট্টগ্রাম আদালতে চিন্ময়ের জামিন শুনানি অনুষ্ঠিত হয়। পরে আদালতের বিচারক তার জামিন নামঞ্জর করে কারাগারে পাঠানোর আদেশ দেন। এসময় তার অনুসারীরা তাকে বহনকারী গাড়ির পথ রোধ করে তার মুক্তির দাবি ক...

by  Rafaela Gonzalez LucionI  T he Rohingya, Myanmar’s Muslim minority, face what the   United Nations   has termed a “textbook example of ethnic cleansing.” Despite this strong condemnation, international efforts have failed to prevent or mitigate the ongoing atrocities. The plight of the Rohingya exposes not only Myanmar’s entrenched ethnic and religious conflicts but also highlights significant gaps in global accountability mechanisms. The People’s Republic of China (PRC), Myanmar’s influential northern neighbor and primary economic partner, has shielded Myanmar from international pressure through its role on the United Nations Security Council, complicating efforts to address the crisis. As Myanmar’s military-backed government continues policies of forced displacement, denial of citizenship, and organized violence against the Rohingya, the crisis signals an international community unable—or unwilling—to intervene against genocide within sovereign borders.  A...

 This report is from pro-Zionist media which wants to defund UNRWA and torpedo peace so that Israel reigns supreme in the world. - HS   UNRWA prides itself on the education it provides to Palestinian students which purports to teach “peace, tolerance, and friendship among all peoples.” “There’s no peace in our schools. It’s all about us returning to our land. The solution is Jihad in the path of Allah.” — UNRWA student Mas’ud from the Jalazone Boys’ School located a few miles outside of Ramallah. _________ TRANSCRIPT Exclusive from UN Watch :  Interview of Mas’ud,  Student at UNRWA’s Jalazone Boys’ School My name is Mas’ud from Al-Jalazon Camp. [I am a student at UNRWA’s] Jalazone Boys’ School. What did you learn at school about the Right of Return? They teach about everything, of course. About the details, the meaning of return…It’s a right that goes back to ’48, and how we were evacuated. ... Who are your heroes, your role models? They are the resistance fighters. ...

  India has become a dangerous place for Muslims. The BJP and its Hindutvadi thugs want to push them out of their ancestral land. Ancient religious monuments of Muslims are targeted for conversion into Hindu temples in a never ending way. And when violence erupts, protesting Muslims are gunned down under all too familiar pretexts. Victims always end up being Muslims. See the report below on Sambhal violence. - HS ========== The death toll from violent protests in India sparked by a survey into whether a centuries-old mosque was built on a Hindu temple has risen to six, an official said on Tuesday. Some police officers allegedly were also wounded during the violence on Sunday in Sambhal in India’s northern state of Uttar Pradesh, district magistrate Chirag Goyal told  AFP . Street battles broke out in a bid to block a team of surveyors from the government’s Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) from entering the Shahi Jama Masjid in Sambhal. The six Muslim men were killed by gun...

  David Ben-Gurion with Yigal Allon and Yitzhak Rabin in the Negev, during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. Photograph Source: https://www.flickr.com/people/45644610@N03 – This is available from National Photo Collection of Israel, Photography dept. Government Press –  CC BY-SA 3.0 Nearly all of these quotes are gathered from the chapter epigraphs in the book, M. Shahid Alam, Israeli Exceptionalism: The Destabilizing Logic of Zionism (Springer: 2008). A few of the quotes are from non-Zionists. The sources for most these quotes can be found in this book.  Chosenness “Israel is not another example of the species nation; it is the only example of the species Israel.” Martin Buber “Only Israel lives in, and constitutes, God’s kingdom…” Jacob Neusner “For me the supreme morality is that the Jewish people has a right to exist. Without that there is no morality in the world.” Golda Meier, 1967 “We do not fit the general pattern of humanity…” David Ben-Gurion “…only God could have crea...