Category: Al Jazeera
Fires in India cause two tragedies just hours apart | #AJshorts
At least seven newborn babies have been killed in a fire at a children’s hospital in India’s capital, hours after a blaze left dozens dead [more…]
Hamas armed wing fires barrage of rockets at Tel Aviv from Gaza | #AJshorts
Hamas armed wing, the Qassam Brigades, have launched a barrage of missiles from southern Gaza towards Tel Aviv for the first time in months. Israel’s [more…]
Russia strikes crowded store in Ukraine’s Kharkiv | AJ #shorts
This is the moment Russian strikes hit a crowded hardware store in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest city, killing at least four people and injuring dozens. [more…]
MSF raises concern as fuel shortage limits Gaza’s water distribution to one-eighth
Christopher Lockyear, the secretary general of Doctors Without Borders (MSF), has stated that the number of aid trucks entering Gaza has decreased since October 7. [more…]
The ICJ lacks “an army” to enforce indictments against Israel | Quotable
Marc Weller, a professor of international law at Cambridge University, says the International Court of Justice does not have an army to enforce its indictments [more…]
Assal Rad: The headline fixer | The Listening Post
Eight months of Israel’s war on Gaza has shone an often unflattering spotlight on media coverage by mainstream United States news outlets. Historian Assal Rad [more…]
Why is the West divided over Palestinian statehood? | The Bottom Line
More Western states are recognising Palestine, but as long as the US opposes Palestinian independence and sovereignty, “things will get worse for all of us”, [more…]
Zelenskyy: Glide bombs, Russia’s main tool of aggression against Ukraine
Ukraine says Russian forces used so-called ‘glide bombs’ in an attack on a crowded hardware store in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv on Saturday, 15 [more…]
Children in Gaza’s al-Mawasi makeshift classrooms find hope and learning amid war
About 620,000 children in Gaza have been out of school for nearly eight months. When the war began, lessons ceased as many buildings run by [more…]
Has democratic South Africa lost its way? | Inside Story
South Africa is bracing for a milestone election. The governing ANC has been in power for 30 years, but its dominance over South African politics [more…]