6 d. ago Israel ends mention of humanitarian zones as Gaza war grinds on

International aid workers fear for Palestinians who have fled their homes in search of safetyIsrael has quietly stopped designating areas of Gaza as humanitarian zones since it resumed its strikes on the Palestinian territory last month.The move has heightened fears among aid workers for the safety of civilians sheltering in places previously deemed protected. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Jean Charles de Menezes’s mother says ‘everyone should watch’ TV drama about his killing

Disney+ series revisits killing of Brazilian man wrongly identified as a terrorist by Met police officers in 2005The mother of a man shot dead by police in a London Underground station after being mistaken for a terrorist has said “everyone should watch” a new dramatisation of her son’s killing.Jean Charles de Menezes was shot seven times by two police marksmen in Stockwell tube station on 22 July 2005. De Menezes was wrongly identified as one of the fugitives involved in a failed bombing two weeks after the 7/7 attack in London, which killed 52 people. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago IDF troops are accused of carrying out 'summary executions' of 15 Gaza aid workers as Israel sacks deputy commander over the incident

Gaza's civil defence agency have rejected the findings of the army's internal probe which suggested a chain of 'professional failures' led to the incident which saw 15 aid workers killed.

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8 d. ago Israeli military admits 'professional failures' after 15 Palestinian medics killed in Gaza

An Israeli probe found that 15 aid workers were killed as a result of an ‘operational misunderstanding’

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8 d. ago Israeli military finds 'professional failures' after 15 Palestinian medics killed in Gaza

An Israeli probe found that 15 aid workers were killed as a result of an ‘operational misunderstanding’

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8 d. ago Israel sacks deputy commander after it admits 'professional failures' over the killings of 15 Gaza aid workers by IDF troops

An Israeli investigation into the killings of 15 Palestinian medics last month in Gaza by Israeli forces said Sunday it found a chain of 'professional failures'

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8 d. ago Israeli military admits ‘operational misunderstanding’ after troops killed 15 Gaza medics

‘Poor night visibility’ was also blamed for the deaths of the aid workers following an investigation by Israel Defense Forces (IDF)

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1 week ago ‘Keeping people alive’: Gaza’s last working bakery forced by Israel to keep on moving

World Central Kitchen mobile bakery’s production limited by flour shortage as result of Israel’s blockadePalestinians witnessed a large white trailer being laboriously towed through the bomb-pitted roads of southern Gaza by a red tractor earlier this month, though it is unclear how many realised it was one of their last humanitarian lifelines in the face of a total Israeli blockade.The trailer contained Gaza’s last working bakery, forced by Israeli evacuation orders to move around the territory so it can keep functioning. Aid workers say the amount of bread it can produce is only a fraction of the needs of the people of Gaza. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Sudan paramilitaries kill at least 100 people in attack on famine

At least 20 children and nine aid workers among dead

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2 w. ago Dining across the divide: ‘He has a very rosy view of empire and colonialism’

They both support the underdog, but can they find common ground on Britain’s past?Frankie, 28, LondonOccupation Aid worker Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Fleeing Taliban fighters, Ibrahim begs the country he helped – Australia – to save his family

Mohammed Ibrahim Danish spent four years as a translator for aid workers who taught children and trained doctors. In today’s Afghanistan the penalty for that is death Get our afternoon election email, free app or daily news podcastHuddled on Afghanistan’s chaotic border with Pakistan, his young son shivering in the cold, Ibrahim Danish stared at the unmoving metal gates – willing them to open, even just for a moment.“We spent the night there in the middle of the street with little Daniel and it was [the most] difficult night of my life,” he says. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Israel kills 15 aid workers in Gaza as Red Crescent demands international probe

The bodies of the 15 aid workers, including eight medics from PRCS, were found in a mass grave in southern Gaza after the Israeli Defence Force shot the group to death two weeks ago

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3 w. ago Ten Brits are accused of committing war crimes 'by targeting and killing civilians and aid workers' in Gaza while fighting for Israel

The alleged war crimes include 'running a bulldozer over a dead body' and a vehicle demolishing part of a hospital.

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3 w. ago Ten Brits are accused of committing war crimes while fighting for Israel in Gaza

Lawyers will today hand in a 240-page dossier to the Metropolitan Police 's war crimes unit alleging the British nationals were involved in the targeted killing of civilians and aid workers.

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3 w. ago Middle East crisis live: Israeli attack on tents housing journalists in Gaza kills at least two, say Palestinian medics

Airstrikes hit media tent outside Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, say medics, injuring nine othersAs we mentioned in the opening summary, ten Britons have been accused of committing war crimes while fighting for Israel in Gaza. Here is some more of the story, written by the Guardian’s legal affairs correspondent Haroon Siddique:Michael Mansfield KC is one of a group of lawyers who will on Monday hand in a 240-page dossier to Scotland Yard’s war crimes unit alleging targeted killing of civilians and aid workers, including by sniper fire, and indiscriminate attacks on civilian areas, including hospitals.The report, which has been prepared by a team of UK lawyers and researchers in The Hague, also accuses suspects of coordinated attacks on protected sites including historic monuments and religious sites, and forced transfer and displacement of civilians. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Israel’s military admits it made ‘mistake’ over killing of Gaza medics

The UN and Palestinian Red Crescent have demanded an independent inquiry into the killing of the paramedics and emergency workers

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3 w. ago Aid worker recounts surviving Israeli Military gunfire at ambulances and fire truck in Gaza

An aid worker who survived being fired at by the Israeli Defence Force in Gaza described his experience.

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3 w. ago Israel admits wrongly identifying slain Gaza aid workers as a threat

Israel has admitted to 'mistakenly identifying' Gaza aid workers as a threat after phone footage from a Palestinian medic among the 15 slain in southern Gaza cast doubt on their claims. 

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3 w. ago Our aid workers were brutally killed and thrown into a mass grave in Gaza. This must never happen again | Jagan Chapagain

A record number of humanitarian workers were killed last year. My staff’s red uniforms should have protected them. Instead they became their death shroudsJagan Chapagain is secretary general of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies‘What was their crime?’ Families tell of shock over IDF killing of paramedicsWhich was most horrific? The agonising week-long wait – silence after our colleagues went missing, as we suspected the worst but hoped for something different? Or the confirmation, seven days later, that bodies had been found? Or, since, the ghastly details of how they were found, and killed?Their ambulances were crushed and partly buried. Nearby were their bodies – also buried, en masse, in the sand. Our dead colleagues were still wearing their Red Crescent vests. In life, those uniforms signalled their status as humanitarian workers; they should have protected them. Instead, in death, those red vests became their shrouds.Jagan Chapagain is secretar...

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3 w. ago ‘What was their crime?’ Families tell of shock over IDF killing of Gaza paramedics

Relatives who waited agonising week before bodies were found speak of passion that drove Red Crescent workers• Our aid workers were brutally killed and thrown into a mass grave in Gaza. This must never happen againGaza is one of the most dangerous places in the world to be a civilian now that Israeli forces have resumed their military campaign with even more ferocity, but for the first responders who rush towards the wreckage of bombed buildings, the risks are multiplied many times over.The 15 paramedics and rescue workers whose bodies were found last weekend in a bulldozed pit outside Rafah knew they were putting their lives in peril to try to save others, but they could not have been prepared for what awaited them in the early hours of 23 March. Continue reading...

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