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☆ Hamas Airs Video Purporting to Show Two Israeli Hostages Killed in Captivity
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-15 | by ( Jan. | At P.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +3 min

Aragamani said in the video that they were killed by Israeli strikes, while she was injured. Argamani became a prominent face among the more than 200 hostages taken during Hamas' Oct. 7 massacre across southern Israel that sparked the war in Gaza. Sharabi, 53, was taken hostage from Kibbutz Beeri, one of the hardest hit communities in the Hamas assault, along with his brother. A day earlier Hamas aired a video showing the three hostages and promising to disclose their fate. Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said on Monday that Hamas carries out "psychological abuse" with its handling of the hostages.

Persons: Noa Argamani, Itai Svirsky, Yossi Sharabi, Aragamani, Daniel Hagari, Itai, Hagari, Argamani, Svirsky, Yoav Gallant, Benjamin Netanyahu, Gallant, Hatem Maher, Muhammad Al Gebaly, Ari Rabinovitch, Andrew Heavens, Philippa Fletcher Organizations: Hamas, Beeri, Israeli Locations: CAIRO, JERUSALEM, Israel, Gaza, Beeri

☆ The Arab Israeli Feels the Pain Twice - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-22 | by ( Thomas L. Friedman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +5 min

Abbas is a Palestinian Arab citizen of Israel who happens to be a devout Muslim and a member of Israel’s parliament, where he leads the important United Arab List party. And we cannot condemn it and say ‘but’ — that word ‘but’ has become immoral.” (Recent polls show overwhelming Israeli Arab condemnation of the Hamas attack.) Abbas sees the complexities lived by that Israeli Jewish mother in Jerusalem who never lost trust in her kids’ Palestinian Arab teacher, and by that Israeli Arab bicycle shop owner who spontaneously reached out a hand to ease the pain of Jewish children he’d never met. At the same time, though, Abbas spoke about the searing pain Israeli Palestinian Arabs and Bedouins feel at seeing their relatives pummeled and killed in Gaza. “One of the hardest things today is to be an Israeli Arab,” Abbas said to me.

Persons: —, Alaa Amara, Thomas Hobbes, Walter Mondale, Mondale, Mansour Abbas, Abbas, ’, he’d, pummeled, ” Abbas, ” Organizations: West Bank, Jewish Locations: Israel, Jerusalem, Palestinian, Israeli, Taibe, Arab, Gaza, Jordan, Tel Aviv, Muslim, “

☆ US asks Mexico to review cargo airline pilots' rights
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-30 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Aug 30 (Reuters) - The United States is asking Mexico to review whether the labor rights of pilots at a small cargo airline are being infringed, the eight such request Washington has made this year, U.S. officials said on Wednesday. Since the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) on trade took effect in 2020, the office of the U.S. Trade Representative has now launched a total of 13 labor rights complaints against facilities in Mexico. The United States wants Mexico to probe if pilots at Mas Air, a Mexico City-based cargo airline, are being denied the right to freedom of association and collective bargaining. "Today's action highlights the United States is committed to safeguarding the labor rights enshrined in the USMCA across industries and sectors," Trade Representative Katherine Tai said in a statement. Mexico has 10 days to agree to conduct a review and, if it agrees, 45 days from Wednesday to complete the review.

Persons: Katherine Tai, Washington, David Ljunggren, Sandra Maler Organizations: U.S . Trade Representative, United, Mas Air, Thomson Locations: United States, Mexico, Washington, U.S, Canada, Mexico City

With Americans predicted to spend nearly $1,000 each on gifts, Christmas is coming at a bad time. A Gallup poll published in October suggested US households will spend an average of $932 on gifts alone. Add to that increased travel and socializing, and you could be putting yourself in financial peril at the worst possible time. Push gift-giving back a few daysIf you want to carry on gifting, but aren't committed to tradition, you could try gifting in January. Huddleston suggested getting each guest to bring a dish or bottle to share costs.

Airlines’ service cuts that ramped up this summer show no sign of relenting this holiday season, leaving more travelers likely to pay higher fares for fuller planes at crowded airports. And while dozens of small cities receive federal subsidies to support air travel through the long-running Essential Air Service program, Malarkey Black said even 29 of those communities are facing potential cutbacks due to pilot shortages. For the regional flights that do remain, “fares are up markedly as a result of service cuts,” said Scott Keyes, the founder of Scott’s Cheap Flights. Major U.S. carriers have cited pilot shortages for their cuts at regional airports, with some of them saying the labor crunch would take years to resolve. “Commercial air service is an expected amenity to both businesses and residents alike,” Grover said, promising to work “relentlessly, tenaciously” to restore it.

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