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Reporters laugh as US calls for ICC case against Assad
Reporters yesterday mocked the hypocrisy of US State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller during a press briefing, where he stated that the US supports the ICC case against ex-Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad but opposes cases against Israeli officials, including Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu who has led his country to carry out a genocide in the besieged Gaza Strip.
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Israel intensifies Syria invasion, advances near Damascus
Israeli forces have conducted nearly 300 air raids on Syria within 48 hours, targeting...
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The fall of Assad's Syria
Moscow confirms ousted Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad has been granted asylum in Russia as the Syrian opposition begin work to formulate a new government and release political prisoners. Over 500,000 Syrians are estimated to have been killed since 2011 when Syrian rose up in an effort to overthrow the regime.
Gaza genocide
- 430 Days
- 44,786 Killed
- 106,188 Wounded
- 11,000 Missing
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Syria burns again: MEMO in Conversation with Hussam Hammoud
For many, the civil war in Syria has been a distant memory, but that all changed when in a sudden turn of events, rebel groups captured the country’s second largest city, Aleppo, and began to move towards other northern cities. But why is all this happening now? Syrian journalist Hussam Hammoud joins us to explain.
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‘All the destruction Israel has created in Gaza is nothing, if we remain firm on our land’, says Nakba survivor
Sitting in the corner of the tent trembling in the cold winter weather with cracks on her skin reflecting her suffering, 86-year-old Aisha Mohammad Abu Sultan continues to keep her spirits high. When I approached her and asked her to send a message to the world as an eyewitness to the Palestinian 1948 Nakba as well as the ongoing Nakba, I thought she would complain about the terrible conditions Palestinians in Gaza are living under and tell stories of suffering, but I found a heroine in the body of an old pale lady. “My son,” she says, “we were subjected to the Nakba in 1948 and all the past years we had been moving away, far from the realisation of […]
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An Old Carriage with Curtains
Ghassan Zaqtan’s impeccable weaving of Palestinian memory serves as a reminder of how far such memory can extend in a confined, ever-shrinking geopolitical space constantly eroded by Israeli colonialism and the ensuing military Occupation. The last book in a trilogy, An Old Carriage with Curtains (Seagull Books, 2023) does not pick up from Where the Bird Disappeared (2018), although the themes explored in the books carry similar strands and one is still reminded of the previous. Interspersed with earlier history which centres Palestine’s significance, the book is rooted in the present navigations of the narrator attempting to secure a visitation permit for his mother to visit the village of Zakariyya. The narrator’s solitary musings, based upon incessant observation, illustrate scenes […]
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Alayet bandoura bil lahmeh (tomato and meat stew)
In my opinion, there are two types of people in the world, those who prefer tomato-based stews ...
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