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How Israeli forces destroyed Gaza’s Jabaliya refugee camp – video analysis | Israel-Gaza war

How Israeli forces destroyed Gaza’s Jabaliya refugee camp – video analysis | Israel-Gaza war

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Using video analysis and satellite imagery, the Guardian has chronicled the destruction of the Jabaliya refugee camp through three offensives since October 2023. Repeated airstrikes and ground operations by Israel, which claims it is used as a Hamas base, have razed the camp to the ground and driven out most of the civilians. Observers have said the systematic destruction of entire neighbourhoods in northern Gaza is part a policy known as the ‘generals’ plan’, aimed at driving out civilians by declaring certain areas closed military zones Source link

Gen Z Camp Counselor Says She’s Terrified Of Gen Alpha’s Entitlement

Gen Z Camp Counselor Says She’s Terrified Of Gen Alpha’s Entitlement

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Every generation complains about the generation that comes after them — it’s a tale as old as time. Gen X whined about millennials, millennials complained about Gen Z, and now, Gen Z is sounding alarms about Gen Alpha.  Olivia, a content creator and Gen Z camp counselor, complained in a recent TikTok about the entitlement and stupidity of the children works with, claiming she is “genuinely terrified for this next generation of children.”  The Gen Z camp counselor said she’s ‘terrified’ of Gen Alpha’s entitlement and stupidity. “I decided to work at a summer camp this year, and I didn’t understand the severity of the brain rot,” Olivia admitted. “Not only is their lingo actually terrifying, but the entitlement and genuine stupidity … is so scary.” RELATED: Teacher Quitting After 24 Years Says The ‘New Type Of Parent’ Is To Blame — ‘We Have Become Babysitters’ Although she hesitated to call children “stupid,” she felt that word was the only accurate descriptor. She recalled working with 12-year-old children who didn’t know that there were seven …

The anxious history of the American summer camp

The anxious history of the American summer camp

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Sign up for the Smarter Faster newsletter A weekly newsletter featuring the biggest ideas from the smartest people Notice: JavaScript is required for this content. In the summer of 1861, weeks after Confederate troops fired the first shots of the Civil War, educator and abolitionist Frederick Gunn assembled his own troops—about 30 boys and a dozen girls who were students at his Washington, Connecticut, boarding school. Gunn, an early proponent of outdoor education, had led students on camping trips before, but this time he had something a little more regimented in mind. Like the gathering Union forces, they would march—42 miles to be exact—to a beach on the Long Island Sound, where they would set up camp, waking in the morning to a bugle call and falling asleep under the stars after singing patriotic songs by the fire. During the day, between fishing and foraging, they would perform military drills in preparation for their eventual service in the Union Army. The Gunnery Camp, as it came to be known, was so successful (“a jocund ten days,” …

‘Bodies everywhere’: the horrors of Israel’s strike on a Rafah camp | Israel-Gaza war

‘Bodies everywhere’: the horrors of Israel’s strike on a Rafah camp | Israel-Gaza war

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It took nearly half an hour for the first ambulances and firefighters to reach the stretch of blazing tents in the Kuwait peace camp in Rafah on Sunday night. The crowding and rubble that slowed the passage of emergency vehicles fuelled the spread of flames through the temporary homes of the displaced. Zuhair, a 36-year-old lawyer, had been sitting on a road near his own tent, watching the news with friends as the last glimmers of twilight faded from the sky, when an explosion shook the area at about 8.45pm. He raced towards the sound, terrified for his wife, children and friends. A vision of hell lay ahead, so gruesome he started shaking from shock. “I saw bodies everywhere. Children burning. I saw heads without bodies, the injured running around in pain, some alive but trapped inside burning tents.” Israeli airstrike on camp for displaced Palestinians kills 35 in Rafah – video There had been no warning, and for many long minutes, there was no help. He said people tried at first to drag the …

Students at Trinity College Dublin Dismantle Antiwar Protest Camp

Students at Trinity College Dublin Dismantle Antiwar Protest Camp

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Students who oppose the war in Gaza began dismantling their protest camp at Trinity College Dublin in Ireland on Wednesday evening, after the institution agreed to divest from three Israeli companies listed by the United Nations for their links to settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories. Trinity said that it would move to divest as soon as next month, and that its endowment fund would also seek to divest from investments in other Israeli companies in the future. “We fully understand the driving force behind the encampment on our campus, and we are in solidarity with the students in our horror of what is happening in Gaza,” the college said in a statement released on Wednesday evening. “We abhor and condemn all violence and war, including the atrocities of October 7th, the taking of hostages and the continuing ferocious and disproportionate onslaught in Gaza,” it added. “The humanitarian crisis in Gaza and the dehumanisation of its people is obscene.” The statement was approved by the college’s board. Trinity’s protest, which began five days ago and …

Washington police clear pro-Palestinian university protest camp

Washington police clear pro-Palestinian university protest camp

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Law enforcement officers walk through a now empty pro-Palestinian protest camp at George Washington University’s University Yard, on May 8, 2024, in Washington, DC. KENT NISHIMURA / AFP Washington police cleared an encampment of pro-Palestinian protesters at George Washington University on Wednesday, May 8, authorities said, making several pre-dawn arrests. Just after 4:00 am, hundreds of officers moved in on a university quad, making arrests and using pepper spray, the student-run GW Hatchet newspaper reported. CNN said around three dozen people were arrested. Police remained on the scene at around 10:00 am, an Agence France-Presse (AFP) reporter saw; as tents were being dragged toward a garbage truck and a student held a poster reading “Free Palestine” on the sidewalk. The arrests came as the mayor and police chief from the nation’s capital were expected to testify in front of Congress later in the day about why the encampment – which had entered its second week – had taken so long to clear. However, after the encampment was cleared, Republicans who control the House Oversight Committee …

Macron’s camp presents 48-part agenda and candidate list dominated by incumbents

Macron’s camp presents 48-part agenda and candidate list dominated by incumbents

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The presidential majority’s lead candidate in the European elections, Valérie Hayer (center), surrounded by, among others, former prime minister Elisabeth Borne, Edouard Philippe (Horizons), Prime Minister Gabriel Attal and François Bayrou (MoDem) in Paris on April 30, 2024. JULIEN DE ROSA / AFP On Monday, May 6, Valérie Hayer’s campaign team presented its agenda for the European elections on June 9. The political platform claimed to be exhaustive, with 48 proposals, but its serious tone was one-sided. In front of a dozen or so of her running mates, the presidential majority’s lead candidate was in tune with the speech delivered at the Sorbonne by French President Emmanuel Macron on April 25. “We must be conscious today of the fact that our Europe is mortal, it can die,” the president declared. Ten days later, out came the platform vision “so that Europe doesn’t die,” according to Hayer. Macron camp’s flagship proposal is the creation of a fund to support European defense industries, against the backdrop of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and a hypothetical military disengagement by …

US repatriates two dozen westerners from Islamic State camp in Syria | US news

US repatriates two dozen westerners from Islamic State camp in Syria | US news

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The United States has repatriated two dozen western citizens, half of them Americans, from Islamic State prison camps in north-eastern Syria where tens of thousands have languished. The operation is the largest ever of US citizens and comes as rights groups warn of dire conditions in the camps still in use some five years after the ultra-violent extremist movement lost its last territory in Syria. In a complex operation involving US agencies, Kuwait and pro-US Kurdish fighters, the United States repatriated 11 US citizens, including five minors, as well as a nine-year-old non-US sibling of an American, the secretary of state, Antony Blinken, said on Tuesday. The United States in the same operation facilitated the repatriation of six Canadian citizens, four Dutch citizens and one Finnish citizen, eight of them children, he said. “The only durable solution to the humanitarian and security crisis in the displaced persons camps and detention facilities in north-east Syria is for countries to repatriate, rehabilitate, reintegrate and, where appropriate, ensure accountability for wrongdoing,” Blinken said in a statement. After the …

The yearly memorial march at the former death camp at Auschwitz overshadowed by the Israel-Hamas war

The yearly memorial march at the former death camp at Auschwitz overshadowed by the Israel-Hamas war

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OSWIECIM, Poland (AP) — Holocaust survivors and survivors of the Oct. 7 attack on Israel were among thousands who took part Monday in the March of the Living, a yearly memorial march at the site of Auschwitz that honors the 6 million Jews killed by Nazi Germany and celebrates the state of Israel. This year, the mood at the march was overshadowed by the war in Gaza after the October attack on Israel by Hamas, the deadliest violence against Jews since Adolf Hitler’s regime sought to destroy the entire Jewish population of Europe. That attack, in which Hamas militants killed some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and took some 250 people hostage, unleashed a deadly Israeli offensive that has killed over 34,000 Palestinians, destroyed much of Gaza and pushed hundreds of thousands of people to the brink of famine. Israel’s Gaza offensive has been fueling pro-Palestinian protests, including at many U.S. campuses. Israel and its supporters have branded the protests as antisemitic, while critics of Israel say it uses such allegations to silence opponents. While some …