2 h. ago Despair deepens for a Palestinian family forced to flee across Gaza yet again

The Abu Jarad family has been forced to uproot and move across Gaza 11 times since war broke out nearly two years ago

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4 d. ago My evacuation from Gaza City: ‘I told my terrified toddler we’re going camping’

As he and his family are forced by the Israelis to flee Gaza City, Nedal Hamdouna describes in searing detail the reality of what that means on the ground – and how he is trying to protect his daughter from the reality of all-out war

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7 d. ago Holding Liat review – powerful study of a family torn apart by Hamas’ 7 October attacks

Brandon Kramer’s documentary complicates any simple view of the Israel-Gaza war in its portrait of one family’s agonising divisionsAt the present moment, for pro-Palestinian campaigners, mention of the hostages and victims of Hamas’s 7 October attacks tends to be greeted with indifference, or even contempt. And yet this powerful and complex documentary, directed by Brandon Kramer (a distant relative of some of the people involved) and co-produced by Darren Aronofsky, is a reminder that the situation now can’t be understood without remembering the Hamas massacre – how it was calculated to provoke a rage-filled reaction that would discredit Israel internationally, what it meant and continues to mean within Israel and how the political and ideological connotations of the hostages have themselves evolved.At first, the hostages’ images were widely seen as a focus for outrage and a casus belli. Posters put up in cities showing the hostages were ripped down - to the fury of their families....

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9 d. ago Mahmoud Khalil on exile, liberation and Ice detention: ‘It was a clear act of cruelty’

His grandparents survived the Nakba and he fled Assad’s Syria. Khalil is no stranger to political persecution, but not even Trump’s crackdown can silence himWhen a history of resistance to the lurching authoritarianism of Donald Trump’s second presidency is written, it could well begin on 11 April 2025, inside a small immigration courtroom in remote, central Louisiana.It was there, in the early afternoon, that a slight young man dressed in a blue uniform jumpsuit spoke calmly but directly to the new administration – away from the gaze of television cameras and 1,000 miles (1,610km) from his friends and family. Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University graduate and Palestinian organiser, had been arrested a month earlier – snatched from the lobby of his Manhattan apartment building as he returned home with his wife. Now, detained in the small town of Jena, he sat before a judge who had just ruled that he was eligible to be deported from the United States purely for his political views....

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1 week ago Take a seat! Mischievous bear sends diners fleeing from restaurant before quick

This is the moment a bear attempts to climb into a Tennessee restaurant, forcing diners to flee from their tables before a quick thinking man uses a chair to stop it.

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1 week ago Half a million people forced to flee homes after flooding in Pakistan’s Punjab

The latest evacuations bring the total number of people displaced since last month to 1.8 million, officials say

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1 week ago Half a million people flee their homes in Pakistan’s Punjab to escape flooding

Officials say rivers are swelling to dangerous levels in Pakistan’s eastern Punjab province, forcing more than half a million people to flee their homes in the past 24 hours

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1 week ago Terrifying moment mother is forced to flee to safety as 'XL Bully' launches vicious attack before its owner flees the scene

Emma Rogers was out walking her cockapoo Winnie past a fishmongers in Twickenham when she was set upon by another 'bully-type' dog

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2 w. ago Israeli airstrikes and gunfire kill 18 in and around Gaza City, Gaza officials say

Toll includes 13 people trying to get food near distribution point, as Israeli cabinet to discuss next stages of offensiveIsraeli airstrikes and gunfire have killed at least 18 people in and around Gaza City, local health authorities have said, as Benjamin Netanyahu’s security cabinet prepared on Sunday to discuss plans to seize the city.Residents of Sheikh Radwan, one of the largest neighbourhoods of Gaza City, told reporters the area had been under Israeli tank shelling and airstrikes throughout Saturday, overnight and on Sunday morning, forcing many families to flee. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Israeli airstrikes and gunfire have killed 18 around Gaza City, local officials say

Toll includes 13 people trying to get food near distribution point, as Israeli cabinet to discuss next stages of offensiveIsraeli airstrikes and gunfire killed at least 18 people in and around Gaza City, local health authorities said, as Benjamin Netanyahu’s security cabinet prepared to discuss plans to seize the city.Residents of Sheikh Radwan, one of the largest neighbourhoods of Gaza City, told reporters the area had been under Israeli tank shelling and airstrikes throughout Saturday, overnight and on Sunday morning, forcing many families to flee.With Reuters and Agence France-Presse Continue reading...

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2 w. ago ‘It’s overwhelming’: woman who was UK’s first surrogate closes agency as demand soars

Kim Cotton says laws, little changed since being rushed through in response to her pregnancy in 1985, are ‘dinosaur’Much has changed since Kim Cotton became the UK’s first surrogate 40 years ago, when she was forced to flee hospital on the floor of a car under a blanket, such was the level of media frenzy around her story.She describes it as a harrowing experience and wishes much of that surrogacy journey had been done differently. “It wasn’t the right way to do surrogacy, but it was the only thing that was offered,” she says. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Horrified tourists flee beach as dozens of 'rat carcasses' wash up in holiday hotspot

Several tourists were forced to gather their stuff and 'flee' after they noticed dozens of washed up rodents on the shore of a popular beach hotspot, which sees millions of visitors each year

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3 w. ago Amalfi Coast tourists 'flee' beach as dozens of dead RATS appear in holiday hotspot

Beachgoers were left gobsmacked after dozens of dead rats washed up at a popular beauty spot in Italy - some families were forced to 'flee' from the beach

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last month Haunting abandoned Ukraine ghost town deserted after Russia flattened it

Thousands were forced to flee their homes as Putin's forced unleashed a brutal assault on their city. Now it lies as a ghost town ion the Russian border.

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