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☆ Young Palestinians with amputated and injured legs find care in US — but face uncertain future
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-12 | by ( Aditi Sangal | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

Celina OdehShe is one of three Palestinians who received PCRF’s help to come to the US for leg injury treatment. At least 1,000 children in Gaza have had one or both legs amputated, UNICEF reported in December. Doctors feared that she may have needed both legs amputated, but with adequate care and treatment, she has avoided that outcome. An anxious wait to return homeEvacuating to the United States is not the obvious answer for all injured children, Hailat said. “We’re trying to limit how many people we bring to the United States.

Persons: Ahed, “ Ahed, Bseso, ”, Tareq Hailat, Celina Odeh, Joe English, —, Israel —, Ahmed Damo, PCRF, PCRF Ayham, ’, Musalm, Hailat, Amber Alayyan, Alayyan, there’s, PCRF’s Hailat, “ We’re, malnourishment, worriedly, “ Organizations: CNN, Shriners Children’s, Palestine Children’s Relief, UNICEF, ”, Children’s Locations: Gaza, Greenville , South Carolina, United States, Israel, Chicago, Greenville

☆ Palestinians are eating grass and drinking polluted water as famine looms across Gaza
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-30 | by ( Sana Noor Haq | Rosa Rahimi | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +14 min

“They are weak now, they always have diarrhea, their faces are yellow,” El Jamara, whose family was displaced from northern Gaza, told CNN on January 9. “Unfortunately, many relatives and friends are still in the northern Gaza Strip, suffering a lot,” Hamouda, a father-of-three, told CNN. The first 1,000 days of a child’s life are “absolutely critical” for physical growth and cognitive development, Inglis told CNN. “It is not enough to meet my family’s needs at all,” the student, who is sheltering in a tent in Rafah, told CNN. “We simply don’t have enough, and we cannot keep up with the overwhelming needs of people on the ground,” she told CNN.

Persons: CNN — Hanadi Gamal Saed El Jamara, El Jamara, Arif Husain, Martin Griffiths, “, ”, El, Mohammed Hamouda, Odeh Al, Haw, Hamouda, Yahya Hassouna, Israel, ” Hamouda, Jabalya, Gihan, Baz, ” El Baz, Hoor, Hazem Saeed Al, Mohammed Hamouda Hamouda, Abu Youssef Al, Rebecca Inglis, Inglis, Shadi Bleha, Khan Younis, OCHA, Mohammed Hamouda Juliette Touma, Naizi Organizations: CNN, Food Programme, Integrated Food Security, UN, of Health, “, Getty, United Nations Relief, Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, UNRWA, Najjar Hospital, UNICEF, World Health Organization, United Nations Population Fund, WFP, OCHA, World, Al Locations: Rafah, Gaza, Israel, Egypt, “, Gaza City, AFP, East, Britain, Al, Territories, Deir al, Balah

These are then smuggled into the United States, the officials say. Last month, the United States imposed sanctions on 28 people and entities involved with the international proliferation of illicit drugs, including a large China-based network. Biden is also due to meet with Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in San Francisco. In San Francisco, state and local officials have tried to clean up drugs from the city's streets, with limited success. "We know San Francisco - and cities across the United States - will benefit from more targeting of the trafficking and production of fentanyl worldwide," a spokesperson for Breed said in a statement.

Persons: Joe Biden, Xi Jinping, Biden, Xi, Mike Odeh, Jake Sullivan, Washington, General Merrick Garland, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, Alicia Barcena, Brooke Jenkins, Mayor London Breed, Breed, Michael Martina, Sayantani Ghosh, Michelle Nichols, Josie Kao Organizations: Customs, Port, U.S . Customs, FRANCISCO, U.S, Economic Cooperation, United, city's, APEC, U.S . Centers for Disease Control, Prevention, . National, Washington, Biden, Institute of Forensic Science, China's Ministry of Public Security, Commerce, San Francisco . Mexican Foreign, Mayor London, Thomson Locations: Arizona, Mexico, Nogales , Arizona, U.S, Asia, Pacific, San Francisco, United States, China, CHINA, MEXICO, Washington, San Francisco . Mexican, Francisco's

QUSRA, West Bank—On the morning of Oct. 12, Hani Odeh was considering a problem: how to get the bodies of four Palestinians shot dead during an attack by Israeli settlers to the cemetery in Qusra, where he is mayor. The four men had been killed the day before. Israeli police are still investigating the circumstances of the deaths, which came after Hamas’s massacre of over 1,400 people a few days earlier, and the Israeli military had instructed the mayor to change the route of the cortege from the hospital to avoid inflaming the situation further. Odeh, smoking cigarettes in his office, the customary portrait of Yasser Arafat hanging above his desk, said he complied.

Persons: Hani Odeh, Yasser Arafat Organizations: West Bank — Locations: Qusra

☆ In Northern Gaza, the Price of a Ride South Is Out of Reach for Many
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-22 | by ( Raja Abdulrahim | More About Raja Abdulrahim | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

The Israeli military said Saturday night that it would intensify its already punishing bombardment of the besieged enclave ahead of an expected ground invasion. Drivers were now charging between $200 and $300 to take a family south, she said. Even as Israel has told Gazans to head south, airstrikes have continued to hit that part of the enclave. “I did not go to the south mainly because I know no one there; where am I to go?” said Yasser Shaban, 57, a civil servant in Gaza City. The cousin returned to Gaza City with his surviving family members — a wounded son and his sister — to be treated at Al Shifa Hospital.

Persons: Abu Odeh, Ms, Francesca Albanese, ”, Gazans, Daniel Hagari, “, Yasser Shaban, Mr, Shaban, Khan Younis, —, ” Abu Bakr Bashir, Ameera Harouda Organizations: Drivers, Israel, Gaza, United Nations, The New York Times, Al Shifa Locations: Gaza, Jabalia, Gaza’s, Israel, Palestinian, Gaza City, Khan, ”

☆ Live updates: Israel-Hamas war rages, Biden to make Oval Office address
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-19 | by ( Tara Subramaniam | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

Family members told CNN that the men were transferred to a nearby hospital and died of their wounds soon after. Meanwhile, tensions are mounting in the West Bank, where Palestinians have been killed in confrontations with both Israeli forces and settlers. Hani Odeh, Qusra’s mayor, told CNN that settlers roam freely in the village under the protection of Israeli police. Odeh told CNN he watched the attack happen from his own vehicle while Israeli soldiers patrolled the street. Read more about the tense situation in the West Bank

Persons: Abed Rahim Khatib, Ibrahim Wadi, Ahmad, Hani Odeh, Ibrahim, Odeh Organizations: West Bank, CNN, Hamas, Palestinian Ministry of Health, West Locations: Palestinian Territories, Rafah, Qusra, Nablus, Israel, Gaza, Qusra’s, Territories

Family members told CNN that the men were transferred to a nearby hospital and died of their wounds soon after. Meanwhile, tensions are mounting in the West Bank, where Palestinians have been killed in confrontations with both Israeli forces and settlers. “Anyone who challenges us in Judea and Samaria will be met with huge force,” Hagari said, using the Jewish biblical names for the West Bank. Abdulrahman, 12, lost his father seven years ago when he was shot dead by Israeli settlers near Nablus. Aseel Wadi's father and brother were killed by Israeli settlers as they drove to a funeral for Palestinians killed in their West Bank community.

Persons: CNN — Ibrahim Wadi, Ahmad, Hani Odeh, Ibrahim, Odeh, Daniel Hagari, “, ” Hagari, Israel, Abu Raidi, Obaida Abu Srour, Hassan Muhannad, Moath Odesa, Abdulrahman, Rabeea, ” They’ve, Benjamin Netanyahu, Netanyahu, Itamar Ben Gvir, Bezalel Smotrich, Joe Biden, Mahmoud Abbas, Ibrahim Wadi, CNN's Becky Anderson, –, Ibrahim’s, Khitam, Aseel, CNN “, We’ve, ” Organizations: CNN, West Bank, Hamas, Palestinian Ministry of Health, Bank, United Nations, IDF, West Bank ., National, Finance, Palestinian Locations: Qusra, Nablus, Israel, Gaza, Qusra's, Qusra’s, Territories, Brig, Judea, Samaria, Odeh, Jordan, West Bank, Palestinian

☆ Don’t Let Israel Become a Nation of Revenge - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-19 | by ( Ayman Odeh | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

I have friends who were killed and who lost children in Hamas’s murderous attack on Oct. 7. Yet despite all this, I have also witnessed glimmers of the future we could have, made real by ordinary people — Jewish and Arab, Palestinian and Israeli — who have stepped up in the face of unspeakable tragedy. In Israel, much of the military had been apparently stationed in the West Bank to protect settlers. Those of us who are Arab Palestinian citizens of Israel are uniquely positioned to see through his bluster and warmongering to the failure he really is — truths that the past several days have laid bare. The only way we can fulfill our responsibility to the nation of our youngest ones — and to ourselves — is to recognize the nation of Palestine and the nation of Israel and to establish a State of Palestine alongside the State of Israel.

Persons: —, Netanyahu Organizations: West Bank, State Locations: Gaza, Israeli, Israel, Palestinian, Palestine

☆ What is Islamic Jihad? The Hamas ally at war with Israel
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-18 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/2] Palestinian Islamic Jihad militants participate in an anti-Israel military parade marking the 36th anniversary of the movement's foundation in Gaza City, October 4, 2023. Israel said Islamic Jihad was responsible, saying a failed rocket launch by the group hit the hospital. Islamic Jihad denied this, saying it did not have any activity in or around Gaza City at that time. * Islamic Jihad has the second-biggest armed network in Gaza after that of the enclave's governing militant group Hamas. * Islamic Jihad is designated a terrorist group by Israel, the United States and European countries.

Persons: Mohammed Salem, Israel, Islamic Jihad, Fathi Shiqaqi, Abdel, Aziz Odeh, Yasser Arafat's, Shiqaqi, Edmund Blair Organizations: Islamic, REUTERS, Al Ahli Arab Hospital, Islamic Jihad, Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organisation, PLO, West Bank, Hamas, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Israel, Gaza City, Palestinian, Gaza, Al Ahli, Yasser Arafat's Palestine, Malta, Palestine, Jihad, Beirut, Damascus, United States

REUTERS/Raneen Sawafta Acquire Licensing RightsRAMALLAH, West Bank, Oct 11 (Reuters) - As Israel declared war on Hamas and pounded Gaza following Saturday's devastating attack by the Islamist movement, violence has risen in the occupied West Bank, risking escalation after more than a year of continuous flare-ups. The Israeli military has said it is prepared for an escalation in the West Bank and its forces have been on high alert, carrying out arrests and thwarting possible attacks. By Wednesday, military checkpoints remained closed and roads in several parts of the West Bank were blocked with mounds of dirt, restricting movement. With uncertainty growing around who will replace the PA's unpopular octogenarian president, Hamas has been making efforts to expand its influence in the West Bank. Violence in the West Bank had already been surging, with stepped up Israeli military raids, settler assaults on Palestinian towns and a spate of Palestinian attacks targeting Israelis.

Persons: Odeh, Raneen, Israel, Daniel Hagari, Fatah, Mohammad Shtayyeh, Mahmoud Abbas, Nick Macfie Organizations: West Bank, REUTERS, Palestinian Foreign Ministry, Palestinian Authority, Palestinian, UN, Thomson Locations: Nablus, RAMALLAH, West, Gaza, Qusra, West Bank, Judea, Samaria, East Jerusalem, U.S, ISRAEL, Israel, Palestinian, Jerusalem

☆ Arab towns in Israel strike in protest at funding freeze
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-21 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

JERUSALEM, Aug 21 (Reuters) - Arab local councils in Israel held a strike on Monday in protest at the finance minister's freeze earlier this month on hundreds of millions of shekels to their municipalities, a decision that has prompted accusations of racism. That the finance minister was casting Arabs as thieves and criminals was "ridiculous" and "false", the mayor of the Arab city of Umm al-Fahm, Samir Mahameed, told Israeli Army Radio. The ultra-nationalist Smotrich's move drew accusations of racism from Arab and Jewish lawmakers, including opposition leader Yair Lapid, as well as Arab mayors. Israeli Interior Minister Moshe Arbel urged Smotrich to release the funds and voiced support for the municipal strike. Videos circulating on social media showed police pushing some of the demonstrators, including Arab lawmaker Ayman Odeh.

Persons: Bezalel Smotrich, Benjamin Netanyahu's, Samir Mahameed, Netanyahu, Smotrich, Yair Lapid, Moshe Arbel, Ayman Odeh, Henriette Chacar, Maayan, Mark Heinrich Our Organizations: Finance, Israeli Army Radio, Police, Thomson Locations: Israel, Umm

☆ Factbox: FACTBOX Islamic Jihad, a Palestinian faction with rockets and Iranian backing
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-09 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Following are some facts about Islamic Jihad:* Founded in the late 1970s by Fathi Shiqaqi and Abdel-Aziz Odeh, Islamic Jihad gained support among Palestinians disillusioned with Yasser Arafat’s Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO). * Islamic Jihad has the second-biggest armed network in Gaza after that of the enclave's governing militant group Hamas. Islamic Jihad does not disclose such information. * Unlike Hamas, Islamic Jihad has not contested Palestinian parliamentary elections and appears to have no ambition to form a government in Gaza or the West Bank. * Islamic Jihad is designated a terrorist group by Israel, the United States and European countries.

☆ Israel approves 'national guard' sought by far-right security minister
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-02 | by ( Dan Williams | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

It was not immediately clear who would have direct authority over the national guard. Having moderated some of his positions, he wields an expanded law-and-order portfolio in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's religious-nationalist governing coalition. Ben Gvir has described the planned national guard in media interviews as an update of the previous government's initiative. "Why does the State of Israel - which has an army, police, military intelligence, the Shin Bet, Mossad, National Security Council, Prisons Service, riot police, a SWAT team - need another national guard?" He said that the national guard would take months to get off the ground and that he was trying to fill police posts in parallel.

☆ Nigeria LNG declares force majeure as flooding disrupts gas supply
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-17 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Companies Nigeria LNG Ltd FollowLAGOS, Oct 17 (Reuters) - Nigeria LNG has declared force majeure because of widespread flooding that has disrupted supply, a spokesman for the company said on Monday. The declaration could worsen Nigeria's cash crunch and will curtail global gas supply as Europe and others struggle to replace Russian exports due to the invasion of Ukraine in February. NLNG said all of its upstream gas suppliers had declared force majeure, forcing it to make the declaration as well. Odeh said NLNG was determining the extent of the disruption and would try to mitigate the impact of the force majeure. NLNG's supply had already been limited due to prolific oil theft that has slashed output from what is typically Africa's largest exporter.

☆ Trump support for Jan. 6 rioters is bad. But another former president was worse.
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-28 | by ( Steven Lubet | Steven Lubet Is The Williams Memorial Professor At The Northwestern University Pritzker School Of Law. His Most Recent Book Is | The Trials Of Rasmea Odeh | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +7 min

He likely has encouraged future insurrections by vowing to pardon the rioters who sacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. During Tyler’s presidency, the Whigs actually expelled him from the party when he violated Whig principles. Tyler, like Trump, was a somewhat unexpected president who didn’t originally belong to the party that elected him. But Harrison died one month after his inauguration, making Tyler the first vice president to succeed to the presidency. Like Trump, Tyler had little respect for the party establishment that put him in power.

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