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As Israel’s war weighs heavily on them, many Palestinians do not feel joy this Eid but say they still have faith.Palestinians across the Gaza Strip are marking the end of the holy Muslim month of Ramadan with no respite from the Israeli military’s deadly attacks. On Wednesday, the starving population in the besieged enclave was doing its best to follow Eid al-Fitr traditions, but the reality of the war that has killed more than 33,300 Palestinians, mostly women and children, does not leave much room for celebration. “There is no joy or appetite for celebrating the holy occasion,” Ahmed Ismail,…

More than 60,000 Palestinians offered Eid al-Fitr prayers at Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem, but the atmosphere was subdued and not festive as people mourned the victims of Israel’s more than six-month war on the Gaza Strip. Large contingents of Israeli police officers were deployed at the entrances, surrounding areas and alleys of the city. Because police barred some people from entering the compound, they prayed instead at the mosque’s outer gates. While few people from the occupied West Bank were permitted to enter, the Islamic Endowments Department in Jerusalem said in a statement that more than 60,000 faithful…

NewsFeedPalestinians have been holding prayers to mark the start of Eid al-Fitr which is being overshadowed by Israel’s war on Gaza.Published On 10 Apr 202410 Apr 2024 Source link

Beijing says it is ‘disappointed’ with decision by US-based ratings agency.Fitch Ratings has downgraded China’s sovereign credit outlook to negative, prompting pushback from Beijing. The downgrade reflects “increasing risks to China’s public finance outlook” as the country attempts to move away from real estate-led growth, the New York-based ratings agency said on Wednesday. Fitch, one of the “big three” ratings agencies along with Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s, said it expected the government deficit to rise to 7.1 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2024, up from 5.8 percent last year. Government debt was forecast to rise to 61.3…

NewsFeedUS President Joe Biden has criticised Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s actions on Gaza as a “mistake”, calling the recent strike on an international charity aid convoy “outrageous”.Published On 10 Apr 202410 Apr 2024 Source link

Engineer alleges that aircraft giant took unsafe shortcuts in the production of the 787 Dreamliner.US aviation authorities have begun investigating new whistleblower claims accusing Boeing of poor safety standards, the latest in a series of safety-related controversies at the beleaguered aircraft giant. Sam Salehpour has accused Boeing of retaliating against him after he identified engineering flaws that affected the structural integrity of the company’s wide-body 787 Dreamliner and 777 jets. Salehpour, who has worked at Boeing as an engineer for more than a decade, alleges that the aircraft maker took shortcuts in the production of the 787 Dreamliner, resulting in…

A refugee from Iraq looks into his family’s past and wonders if his childhood trauma will affect his young son.When filmmaker Wiam Al-Zabari was a young boy, he fled with his mother and siblings in the middle of the night to escape Iraq in the mid-1990s. His ex-diplomat father had left Baghdad months earlier and was waiting for them to join him in the Netherlands where he sought asylum. Ever since, no one in the family has talked about their escape and why they had to leave Iraq. Now that Wiam is a father with young children, he reflects on…

NewsFeedA new app in the US is helping people to boycott businesses deemed to be supporting Israel and its war on Gaza.Published On 9 Apr 20249 Apr 2024 Source link

German legal team tells court 98 percent of arms exports to Israel since October 7 were general equipment like vests, helmets and binoculars.Germany has denied accusations that it was aiding genocide in Gaza by selling Israel arms in a case at the top UN court brought by Nicaragua – a case that reflects a mounting legal action in support of Palestinians. Tania von Uslar-Gleichen, legal adviser for the German Foreign Ministry, told the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Tuesday that Nicaragua’s case was rushed, based on flimsy evidence and should be thrown out for lack of jurisdiction. Arms exports…

Bodies pulled from the rubble in Nuseirat as targeted sanctions being considered to pressure Israel on aid flows. Source link