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As violence rages in Gaza, Israel’s Palmachim airbase is a hub for evacuating wounded soldiers
The Palmachim airbase about an hour away from Jerusalem has become a critical operations centre in Israel’s war against Hamas. While injured Israeli soldiers are airlifted from the battlefield in Gaza, there’s no escape from the war for Palestinian civilians. CBC | World News
Read More »‘It’s not about Hamas,’ say West Bank Palestinians amid growing violence and anguish
More than 800 Palestinians have been forcibly displaced by settler violence in the West Bank since Oct. 7. Coupled with events in Gaza, the despair, anger and anxiety many West Bank Palestinians say they already live with under occupation is amplifying. CBC | World News
Read More »Icelandic women — including PM — stage 24-hour strike for pay equity, end to violence
Icelandic women across the island nation went on strike Tuesday to push for an end to unequal pay and gender-based violence. CBC | World News
Read More »Amid violence and lack of critical aid, pregnant women in Gaza are at particular risk: UN
Humanitarian organizations and physicians said thousands of expectant families in Gaza and the West Bank are facing extreme challenges in accessing safe delivery services as the conflict between Israel and Hamas stretches towards a second week. CBC | World News
Read More »MP who defected to Tories from SNP ‘forced into hiding’ after ‘threats of violence’
Dr Lisa Cameron said she had to move out of her home after she was threatened with being ‘bricked in the street’. Daily Express :: News Feed
Read More »Minnesota program offers ‘blueprint’ for pursuing perpetrators of domestic violence
In an effort to stop domestic abuse, St. Paul, Minn., has been operating a program that brings together police, prosecutors and victim support services to bring “sure and swift consequences” for intimate partner violence. CBC | World News
Read More »Canada’s politicians have stayed mostly silent about a wave of anti-Muslim violence in India
Foreign Minister François-Philippe Champagne called his Indian counterpart this week about a recent wave of sectarian attacks which many blame on the Indian government’s anti-Muslim legislation and rhetoric. But the Liberal government, and most other Canadian politicians, have been shy about criticizing the Modi government. CBC | World News
Read More »Russian advocates against domestic violence branded ‘enemies of the family’
In December 2017, Margarita Gracheva’s husband took her to a wooded area near their home and chopped off both her hands in a jealous rage. She has since emerged as one of the most high-profile victims of Russia’s epidemic of domestic violence, Chris Brown writes. CBC | World News
Read More »U.S. says Taliban has agreed to reduction in violence in Afghanistan
An airstrike in Afghanistan on Friday killed at least eight people — all believed to be civilians, residents said — just hours after U.S. statements that there had been a breakthrough in peace talks. CBC | World News
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