冰冷数据穿透战争迷雾(How many people have died in Gaza?) From the very start of Israel's war against Hamas, the death toll in Gaza has been disputed. On May 8th the controversy over the numbers, which media organisations includingThe Economistuse, intensified after the UN appeared to revise ...
Climate change may be contributing to thousands more wildfire smoke-related deaths every year than in previous decades, a new study suggests — results a Canadian co-author says underline the urgency of reducing planet-warming emissions. The international study published Monday is o...
A mother of two from Gaza City makes a video statement for Hamas days before blowing herself up, killing four Israelis and wounding seven others. Handout/Getty Images News/Getty Images Both the glamorization of martyrdom and its establishment as a gateway to rewards in the afterlife...
if they would like to leave, to re-establish themselves in Dubai, in the USA, in Germany or almost anywhere else, the answer invariably would be Yes, Yes and Yes. This is what they dream about. They have lost the war and their homes, the future in Gaza is bleak and further...
Siegel-Itzkovich observes that “in recent years, Hamas integrated the underground system in many ways into its defensive and offensive system, built by cruelly combining military warfare, guerrilla warfare, and terrorism.” TUNNELS FROM Gaza are a threat but the government’s tunnel vision also ne...
Examples of Palestinians worth reading or listening to their interviews: Ghssan Kanafani, Edward Said, Ali Abunimah, Susan Abulhawa, Mohammed El-Kurd and thousands of others.Somearticles here. Here isMohammed El-Kurd. Here is a voice of a Palestinianpoet from Gaza. One of mymany interviews. ...
On the other hand, I have not observed many opponents of the ongoing genocide in Gaza claiming that they know how the captives died. What is most common is an expression of a richly justified scepticism as to the Israeli occupation...
The wars in Ukraine and Gaza have seen Russia, Israel and Hamas all accused of committing war crimes. The subject of war crimes is also on my mind since I’m living in Tokyo at the moment. Some 100,000 people are thought to have died in the firebombing of this city in a single nig...
While Israel bears primary responsibility to avoid excessive civilian deaths in its bombardment of Gaza, Hamas' ability to claim the bombardment constitutes a war crime would be weakened if it deliberately places its own people in harm's way. ...
Male deaths outnumber female deaths by two and even five to one. Statistics for other years are similar. And a truly shocking statistic, between August 2011 and June 2015, 16 female cyclists died on London’s roads, andevery one of those deathswas the result of an incident involving a lor...