Tag: Refugees
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Desperate journeys: Syrian refugees fleeing Israel’s assault on Lebanon | Israel attacks Lebanon
Al-Bara, Syria – Musa Baghdadi paid $6,000 for the privilege of exchanging one bombardment for another. “I paid to escape the shelling in Lebanon to reach my village, which is also under bombardment by Assad’s army,” he tells Al Jazeera at his modest, one-storey home in al-Bara, western Idlib. The little house has not fared…
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Poland to temporarily suspend asylum rights amid Belarus border tensions | Migration News
The move aims to curb a border crisis that Warsaw says has been orchestrated by Minsk and its ally Russia. Poland is set to temporarily suspend the right to asylum as part of a broader strategy aimed at reducing irregular migration, driven by escalating tensions with Belarus. The Polish government accuses Belarus of facilitating the…
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Locked out: Palestinians in Jordan still waiting to return to stolen homes | Israel-Palestine conflict
Amman, Jordan – David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s first prime minister, believed that the memory of the Nakba, or “catastrophe”, would eventually fade for the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians violently expelled from their homeland by Zionist militias in 1948. In 1949, a year after the State of Israel was created, he is reported to have said:…
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Israel attacks Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon | Israel-Lebanon attacks
NewsFeed Video shows the first moments after an Israeli air attack hit Lebanon’s largest Palestinian refugee camp, killing several people and devastating the area. Published On 1 Oct 20241 Oct 2024 Source link
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How will immigration shape the US presidential election? | Migration
Donald Trump and Kamala Harris present conflicting plans on the issue of immigration. What are the positions of the two United States presidential nominees on immigration and is it a make-or-break topic on who will next sit in the White House? The Democrat’s Kamala Harris says she wants to fix a broken system. But Republican…
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What bombs did Israel use against the al-Mawasi ‘safe zone’ in Gaza? | Refugees News
The three bombs dropped by Israeli warplanes on displaced people’s tents in southern Gaza left three enormous craters and myriad questions about the use of such big munitions on such a densely populated space. In the early hours of Tuesday, Israel’s bombing of al-Mawasi killed at least 19 people and wounded many more. At least…
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Why is Germany imposing more restrictions on its borders? | Migration News
Germany’s centre-left government has decided to impose temporary land border restrictions aimed at controlling irregular migration in the wake of a knife attack and electoral gains made by a far-right party. The new curbs, announced by the government on Monday, come days after the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) won elections to the eastern state…
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At least 13 killed, 14 missing after boat sinks off Yemen: UN agency | Refugees News
Eleven men and two women among the dead as search operations continue, International Organization for Migration says. At least 13 people have died and 14 others are missing after a boat sank off the coast of Yemen, the United Nations migration agency has said. “A migrant boat capsized off the coast of Yemen’s Taiz governorate…