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Farmers to hold candlelight marches on Dec 24 in support of Dallewal

Farm unions on Sunday said that they will hold candle marches on December 24 across the country in support of veteran farmer leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal, whose fast-unto-death entered its 27th day. Farmer leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal has been on an indefinite fast since November 26 at the Khanauri border in Sangrur. Additionally, on December 26, when Dallewal’s fast will …

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1 week, 2 days ago

Remains show that an Early Bronze Age community were butchered like animals

CNN

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. “We actually find more evidence for injuries to skeletons dating to the Neolithic period in Britain than the Early Bronze Age, so Charterhouse Warren stands out as something very unusual,” said lead study author Rick Schulting, professor of scientific and prehistoric archaeology at the University of Oxford, in a statement. “In addition, …

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1 week, 6 days ago

Two-member UN team meets Rohingya Muslims in Jammu

Hindustan Times

A two-member team of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees met Rohingya Muslims at a slum here amid a heated debate whether the illegally settled immigrants be provided water and electricity. On December 7, Jammu and Kashmir Jal Shakti Minister Javed Ahmed Rana said the water supply would not be snapped to the slums housing the immigrants, pending a …

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1 week, 6 days ago

Two-member UN team meets Rohingya Muslims in Jammu

Deccan Chronicle

Jammu: A two-member team of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees met Rohingya Muslims at a slum here amid a heated debate whether the illegally settled immigrants be provided water and electricity. Senior Protection Officer Tomoko Fukumura along with Protection Associate Ragini Trakroo Zutushi on Monday met the Rohingya Muslims and some local residents in the Kiryani Talab area …

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2 weeks ago

Brian Mast: Pro-Israel hawk set to lead US House foreign policy panel

Al Jazeera

Rights advocates decry the nomination of the Florida Republican, who has compared Palestinian civilians to Nazis. Washington, DC – Palestinian rights advocates in the United States are denouncing the selection of Republican Congressman Brian Mast to lead the House Foreign Affairs Committee. “Brian Mast might be the perfect person to serve as a spokesperson for the war criminals of the …

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2 weeks, 1 day ago

Syrian rebels free prisoners from ‘human slaughterhouses’ after Bashar al-Assad exit

Hindustan Times

Armed Syrian rebels, led by the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, freed hundreds of prisoners detained by exiled President Bashar al-Assad in jails, which the detainees describe as “slaughterhouses”. As the rebels swept across Syria, they broke through jails, where the government officials had fled, to free political prisoners detained by Assad since the beginning of ‘pro-democracy’ protests in 2011. Exiled Omar …

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3 weeks, 6 days ago

How cancer cells fend off starvation, death from chemotherapy: Study explains

Hindustan Times

Laboratory experiments with cancer cells reveal two ways in which tumors evade drugs designed to starve and kill them, a new study shows. Study results showed that the low-glucose environment inhabited by cancer cells, or tumor microenvironment, stalls cancer cell consumption of existing uridine nucleotide stores, making the chemotherapies less effective. "Our study shows how cancer cells manage to offset …

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4 weeks, 1 day ago

Militia detains 300 migrants in the desert in Libya’s effort to contain sea crossings

Associated Press

TRIPOLI, Libya — Libyan military officials said Monday they apprehended hundreds of migrants traversing the country’s vast desert hoping to ultimately cross the Mediterranean Sea in pursuit of a better life in Europe. The 444 Brigade, a powerful militia group that operates under the auspices of the Libyan army, said in a statement that its patrolling commanders detained more than …

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1 month ago

The warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu’s arrest is a stain on Israel – but he remains shameless

The Independent

The decision by the International Criminal Court to issue arrest warrants for the prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, and his former defence minister, Yoav Gallant, will hardly come as a shock to either man. Their oft-quoted belief that the civilian deaths and injuries were due to Hamas’s tactic of using innocent people as human shields and hiding in hospitals …

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1 month ago

Israel's siege of northern Gaza raises questions about potential plans to starve and conquer territory

ABC

Israel's war in Gaza has stretched into its second year, and its recent campaign in the north of the territory has led many to question its real motives. Giora Eiland said under his plan, those left in northern Gaza "have to decide either to surrender or to die of starvation". The Kamal Adwan hospital is struggling to remain operating after …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Israel’s war conduct in Gaza ‘consistent with the characteristics of genocide,’ UN Special Committee finds

CNN

CNN — Israel’s war conduct in Gaza “is consistent with the characteristics of genocide,” including mass civilian casualties and using starvation as a weapon, according to a new United Nations Special Committee report released Thursday. “Through its siege over Gaza, obstruction of humanitarian aid, alongside targeted attacks and killing of civilians and aid workers, despite repeated UN appeals, binding orders …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Israel’s war conduct in Gaza ‘consistent with the characteristics of genocide,’ UN Special Committee finds

CNN

CNN — Israel’s war conduct in Gaza “is consistent with the characteristics of genocide,” including mass civilian casualties and using starvation as a weapon, according to a new United Nations Special Committee report released Thursday. “Through its siege over Gaza, obstruction of humanitarian aid, alongside targeted attacks and killing of civilians and aid workers, despite repeated UN appeals, binding orders …

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1 month, 1 week ago

The view from Gaza: What the US decision not to punish Israel looks like

Al Jazeera

The US decision not to follow through on its past warning to Israel carries fatal consequences for many trapped in Gaza. The letter also called on Israel to permit at least 350 trucks of aid into Gaza daily, open a fifth crossing, permit people trapped in Israel-imposed coastal displacement camps to move inland before winter, allow aid agencies to enter …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Why isn’t the US holding Israel to account?

Al Jazeera

A United Nations special committee says Israel’s warfare methods in Gaza are consistent with genocide. In a new report, a UN committee says Israel is intentionally causing the death of civilians and aid workers, using starvation as a weapon of war, and inflicting collective punishment on Palestinians. Separately, the Human Rights Watch NGO says 90 percent of Gaza’s people have …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Israel’s warfare methods in Gaza ‘consistent with genocide’: UN committee

Al Jazeera

Report says Israel ‘using starvation as a method of war and inflicting collective punishment on the Palestinian population’. Gaza aid supply goes from ‘bad to worse’ after Israel misses US deadline Israel’s warfare in the Gaza Strip is consistent with the characteristics of genocide, a United Nations committee has said, accusing the country of “using starvation as a method of …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Spineless awareness: Comb jellies can fuse and reverse age, new research reveals

Salon

In 1641, French philosopher René Descartes, writing his famous “Meditations on First Philosophy,” observed that a mind is fundamentally different from the body which contains it. After cutting off a part of each animal’s lobe and placing different creatures together, they found on nine out of ten occasions “independent grafting experiments were successful, and all fused ctenophores survived for the …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Israeli rejects ’biased’ warning of famine in Gaza

Live Mint

By Emily Rose JERUSALEM -Israel rejected on Saturday a group of global food security experts' warning of famine in parts of northern Gaza where it is waging war against Palestinian militant group Hamas. Asked about the FRC alert, a U.S. State Department spokesperson said on Saturday that Washington was "concerned about the limited amount of aid reaching civilians living in …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

‘Strong likelihood’ of imminent famine in north Gaza: Food security experts

Al Jazeera

Famine thresholds ‘may have already been crossed or else will be in the near future’, Famine Review Committee warns. There is a “strong likelihood that famine is imminent in areas” of northern Gaza, according to a committee of global food security experts, as Israeli forces press on with a major offensive in the area. ‘The unacceptable is confirmed’ The committee …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Two million people at risk of starvation in Myanmar’s Rakhine: UN

Al Jazeera

UNDP says without urgent action, 95 percent of the population will regress into survival mode. Myanmar‘s war-ravaged Rakhine state could face imminent famine according to a new United Nations report, which estimates that more than two million people could be at risk of starvation. “Rakhine’s economy has stopped functioning,” said a United Nations Development Programme report released late on Thursday. …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

The Trauma of Starvation: How the Israeli War on Gaza is Affecting Palestinians Elsewhere

Al Jazeera

The article details the devastating impact of Israel's starvation of Gaza on Palestinians and their families, both in Gaza and across the occupied West Bank. It highlights the psychological and physical trauma inflicted on children and the broader social and psychological framework that has created this crisis. The article emphasizes the need for a comprehensive approach to address the trauma …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Famine Looms in Vulnerable Regions as Conflict and Climate Shocks Aggravate Food Insecurity

Associated Press

Severe food crises threaten hundreds of thousands of people in vulnerable areas worldwide. The report warns that conflicts, economic instability, and climate shocks are driving alarming levels of acute food insecurity, with immediate, scaled-up intervention needed to prevent further deterioration in these already vulnerable regions.

1 month, 3 weeks ago

Opinion: Israel is weaponizing hunger against Palestinians. Here’s how the U.S. can stop it

LA Times

As the U.N.’s leading independent expert on the right to food, I have watched with growing horror over the past 12 months as Israel has weaponized hunger against approximately 2.3 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. In a report submitted to the U.N. General Assembly last month, I documented how Israel has used hunger as a tool of war in …

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War in Gaza: Death Toll Exceeds 70 as Israel Continues Attacks

Firstpost

At least 72 people have been killed in Israel's ongoing offensive in Gaza, with the death toll expected to be much higher due to communication difficulties in the region. The UN's human rights chief, Volker Türk, described the situation as the 'darkest moment' of the war, highlighting the systematic bombing and siege of an entire population.

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2 months, 1 week ago

Food Sovereignty in Gaza Under Threat as Israel's Military Operations Disrupt Agriculture

China Daily

Palestinians are calling for accountability and the revival of their agricultural sector amid the ongoing Israeli military operations in Gaza. Food sovereignty in the region is threatened due to the attacks, which have caused widespread damage and starvation tactics. The agricultural sector was largely self-sufficient in producing various plant species, but it has been severely disrupted by the Israeli occupation. …

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Farmers to hold candlelight marches on Dec 24 in support of Dallewal

Remains show that an Early Bronze Age community were butchered like animals

Two-member UN team meets Rohingya Muslims in Jammu

Two-member UN team meets Rohingya Muslims in Jammu

Brian Mast: Pro-Israel hawk set to lead US House foreign policy panel

Syrian rebels free prisoners from ‘human slaughterhouses’ after Bashar al-Assad exit

How cancer cells fend off starvation, death from chemotherapy: Study explains

Militia detains 300 migrants in the desert in Libya’s effort to contain sea crossings

The warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu’s arrest is a stain on Israel – but he remains shameless

Israel's siege of northern Gaza raises questions about potential plans to starve and conquer territory

Israel’s war conduct in Gaza ‘consistent with the characteristics of genocide,’ UN Special Committee finds

Israel’s war conduct in Gaza ‘consistent with the characteristics of genocide,’ UN Special Committee finds

The view from Gaza: What the US decision not to punish Israel looks like

Why isn’t the US holding Israel to account?

Israel’s warfare methods in Gaza ‘consistent with genocide’: UN committee

Spineless awareness: Comb jellies can fuse and reverse age, new research reveals

Israeli rejects ’biased’ warning of famine in Gaza

‘Strong likelihood’ of imminent famine in north Gaza: Food security experts

Two million people at risk of starvation in Myanmar’s Rakhine: UN

The Trauma of Starvation: How the Israeli War on Gaza is Affecting Palestinians Elsewhere

Famine Looms in Vulnerable Regions as Conflict and Climate Shocks Aggravate Food Insecurity

Opinion: Israel is weaponizing hunger against Palestinians. Here’s how the U.S. can stop it

War in Gaza: Death Toll Exceeds 70 as Israel Continues Attacks

Food Sovereignty in Gaza Under Threat as Israel's Military Operations Disrupt Agriculture