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How Britain Destroyed the Palestinian Homeland
Ninety-nine years since Balfour's "promise", Palestinians insist that their rights in Palestine cannot be dismissed. By Ramzy Baroud Ramzy Baroud is an internationally-syndicated columnist, a media consultant, an author. When I was a child growing up in a Gaza refugee camp, I looked forward to November 2. On that day, every year, thousands.. More -
Palestinians in Gaza protest against aid cuts
Umm Baha has become a regular participant in protests against reduced UNRWA services in the besieged Gaza Strip. The 43-year-old Palestinian widow says she has no choice but to demonstrate against recent cuts to services offered by the United Nations refugee agency. "The diminished assistance that I receive is disproportionate, considering my.. More -
Australia deliberately ignores refugee abuse
Australia is deliberately ignoring the inhumane treatment of refugees held on the South Pacific island of Nauru as a means of deterring others from attempting the journey to Australia, two rights groups have said. Under Canberra's immigration policy, people intercepted while trying to reach the country by boat are sent to a prison on Manus Island,.. More -
Monitor: 60,000 dead in Syria regime jails
More than 60,000 people have been killed through torture or died in dire humanitarian conditions inside Syrian regime prisons throughout the country's five-year uprising, according to a monitor. The numbers were obtained from Syrian regime sources, the United Kingdom-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Saturday. "Since March 2011,.. More -
Rise in Palestinian children held by Israel 'alarming'
A jabbing pain in his shoulder and thigh roused Obada from his sleep at 3am. In the half-light, the 15-year-old could make out eight masked men surrounding his bed, their rifles pointed at him. "I felt terrified," he said of the experience of being arrested in February from his home in the village of al-Araqa, near Jenin in the northern West.. More -
War, disasters disrupt education of 80 million, more aid needed: experts
At least 80 million children living in areas affected by war or natural disaster had their education disrupted last year, leaving them prey to child labor, trafficking and extremism, experts said on Thursday. Many humanitarian aid appeals for 2015 ignored education, and aid appeals for education were only one-third funded. Overall, education received.. More -
Million displaced Pakistanis face tough choices before going home
Of some 5.3 million people displaced by fighting in northwestern Pakistan in recent years, a million or so remain to be resettled under a program the authorities see as key to keeping a lid on extremist violence. People are generally anxious to get back, having lived in refugee camps or cramped conditions in towns and cities since being forced to leave.. More -
186 Palestinians killed by Israel over last 5 months
According to the latest Palestinian figures, since Oct. 1 of last year, at least 186 Palestinians have been killed and another 15,645 injured by Israeli troops in the Gaza Strip and in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem. Over the same period, according to Israeli figures, 33 Israelis have been killed in a months-long wave of violence.. More -
Israeli NGOs report on routine abuse of Palestinian detainees
Israel's Shin Bet domestic security agency abuses Palestinians under interrogation in a manner so systematic it points to official endorsement, two Israeli NGOs said in a report published Wednesday. The 70-page joint study by rights groups B'Tselem and Hamoked is based on accounts by 116 suspects interrogated at Shikma prison in the southern Israeli.. More -
More than 10,000 refugee children missing in Europe
More than 10,000 unaccompanied refugee and migrant children have disappeared in Europe, the EU police agency Europol said on Sunday, fearing many have been whisked into sex trafficking rings or the slave trade. Europol's press office confirmed to Al Jazeera the figures published in British newspaper The Observer. The number relates to the last 18-24.. More -
Israel spraying toxins over Palestinian crops in Gaza
On January 7, a low-flying agricultural aircraft sprayed herbicides onto Palestinian farmlands along the eastern border, eradicating or damaging up to 162 hectares of crops and farmland along the Israeli border fence. "Herbicides are sprayed in high concentrations. Thus, they remain embedded in the soil, and then find their way to the water basin... More -
Year 2015 termed 'deadliest for refugees' crossing sea
The year 2015 was the deadliest on record for refugees trying to reach Europe by sea, with 3,771 deaths recorded in the Mediterranean alone, the International Organization for Migration said on Tuesday. The Mediterranean was followed by Southeast Asia, mostly in the Bay of Bengal, Andaman Sea, Malaysia and Thailand, which saw at least 800 deaths this.. More -
Record half-a-million refugees reach Europe this year
A record number of refugees have crossed the Mediterranean into Europe this year, breaching the half-a-million mark for the past nine months, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM). As of Tuesday, the group said 522,124 people had travelled by sea to reach the continent. About 388,000 have entered via Greece, and more than.. More -
Trump's anti-Muslim rhetoric whips up hate
At a campaign rally in New Hampshire Wednesday night, Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump declined to correct a supporter who declared that “Muslims” are “a problem in this country” and urged the candidate to “get rid of ‘em.” Voicing the beliefs of nearly half of U.S. Republicans, the speaker.. More -
UN 'shocked' over Hungary action against refugees
The UN chief has said he was "shocked" after Hungarian riot police fired tear gas and water cannon at crowds of refugees desperate to cross the border from Serbia. When asked about the border clashes on Wednesday, Ban Ki-moon said the treatment of the refugees by the Hungarian police was "not acceptable". Tensions boiled over at.. More
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