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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 530

Aylan Kurdi

This handout photo courtesy of Tima Kurdi shows Aylan Kurdi, left, and his brother Galib Kurdi. The body of 3-year-old Syrian Aylan Kurdi was found on a Turkish beach after the small rubber boat he, his 5-year old brother Galib and their mother, Rehan, were in capsized during a desperate voyage from Turkey to Greece. (Photo courtesy of Tima Kurdi /The Canadian Press via AP)
June 30, 2019, 12:56 am
Family denounces movie on toddler who drowned while fleeing Syria
‘I’m heartbroken,’ says aunt of Alan Kurdi, who became a global symbol for the refugee crisis after photos emerged of his lifeless body washed ashore on a Turkish beach
By AFP
Ben Caplan in 'Old Stock' (Stoo Metz)
September 8, 2017, 6:18 pm
Klezmer troubadours sing the Jewish refugee experience in new musical
Using a shipping container as a set, Canadian playwright Hannah Moscovitch teams up with folk artist Ben Caplan to tell her ancestors’ story
By Renee Ghert-Zand
The cover of Charlie Hebdo magazine, showing British Prime Minister Theresa May holding her own severed head in her hands. (Screen capture)
June 10, 2017, 1:31 am
Charlie Hebdo ‘severs’ Theresa May’s head
French satirical magazine mocks London Bridge attack, says Islamic State was giving fleeing pedestrians ‘diet tips’
By ToI Staff
In this frame grab taken from video provided by the Syrian anti-government activist group Aleppo Media Center (AMC), a child sits in an ambulance after being pulled out or a building hit by an airstirke, in Aleppo, Syria, Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2016. (Aleppo Media Center via AP)
August 18, 2016, 11:38 am
Haunting image shows Syrian boy rescued from Aleppo rubble
Picture of injured 5-year-old after devastating airstrike on rebel strongholds widely shared on social media as symbol of tragedy
By Zeina Karam and PHILIP ISSA
A paramilitary police officer carries the lifeless body of Aylan Kurdi, 3, after a number of migrants died and a smaller number were reported missing after boats carrying them to the Greek island of Kos capsized, near the Turkish resort of Bodrum early Wednesday, September 2, 2015. (AP/DHA)
March 4, 2016, 1:08 pm
Turkey jails Syrian smugglers over death of tot Aylan Kurdi
Two suspects get four-year sentence for human trafficking; acquitted of causing deaths of five people through negligence
By AP
Rabbi Jennie Rosen, Vice President for Community Engagement at HIAS (courtesy)
February 7, 2016, 4:40 pm
The rabbi who rallies American Jews for the global refugee cause
HIAS vice president Jennie Rosenn touts grassroots advocacy for expanded refugee resettlement as best way for Jews to address crisis
By Renee Ghert-Zand
A Charlie Hebdo cartoon depicting drowned Syrian child Aylan Kurdi, published the week of September 9, 2015. (Charlie Hebdo)
January 17, 2016, 2:35 am
Drowned Syrian toddler’s father wept over French cartoon
Charlie Hebdo depiction of 3-year-old Aylan Kurdi as an adult chasing a European woman called ‘inhuman and immoral’
By AFP
Turkish soldiers take photos of the body of a migrant washed up ashore in Izmir's Dikili district on January 5, 2016. (AFP/Dogan News Agency/Taylan Yildirim/Turkey OUT)
January 14, 2016, 9:18 pm
Charlie Hebdo depicts drowned refugee child as sex abuser
French mag raises ire by implying Aylan Kurdi, whose death put spotlight on refugees’ plight, would have become a sexual offender
By ToI Staff
Turkish soldiers take photos of the body of a migrant washed up ashore in Izmir's Dikili district on January 5, 2016. (AFP/Dogan News Agency/Taylan Yildirim/Turkey OUT)
January 5, 2016, 4:17 pm
Turkey finds drowned bodies of 21 migrants, including children
Images reminiscent of three-year-old Aylan Kurdi show more Syrian casualties of deadly capsizes on the Aegean Sea
By Stuart Williams
Tima Kurdi, left, who lives in the Vancouver area, lifts up her 5-month-old nephew Sherwan Kurdi after her brother Mohammad Kurdi and his family, who escaped conflict in Syria, arrived at Vancouver International Airport, Monday, Dec. 28, 2015, in Richmond, British Columbia. (Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press via AP)
December 29, 2015, 5:06 am
Relatives of drowned Syrian boy land in Canada
Aylan Kurdi’s drowning in September while trying to cross by sea into Greece sparked worldwide concern for refugees
By AP
Sally Abrams
September 21, 2015, 2:01 pm
Sally Abrams
‘Who by fire and who by water?’
This past year illustrated far too well the High Holiday prayer’s catalogue of all the terrible ways to die
Migrants and refugees demonstrate at Istanbul's Esenler Bus Terminal as they wait for buses to the Turkish-Greek border after authorities withheld tickets to Turkish border towns on September 18, 2015. (AFP PHOTO/OZAN KOSE)
September 19, 2015, 11:42 am
Syrian girl dies as another refugee boat sinks off Greek coast
5-year-old drowns when boat holding 26 people goes down trying reach Greece from Turkey; coastguard says 11 people rescued
By AFP
A paramilitary police officer carries the lifeless body of Aylan Kurdi, 3, after a number of migrants died and a smaller number were reported missing after boats carrying them to the Greek island of Kos capsized, near the Turkish resort of Bodrum early Wednesday, September 2, 2015. (AP/DHA)
September 18, 2015, 2:24 pm
Another drowned Syrian toddler said to wash up on Turkish beach
Four-year-old girl, who has not been identified, found lifeless weeks after photo of Aylan Kurdi shocks world
By AFP
The Za'atri camp for Syrian refugees as seen from a helicopter carrying US Secretary of State John Kerry and Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh on July 18, 2013. (State Department photo/public domain)
September 16, 2015, 3:19 am
US slammed for weak Syria refugee response
With millions displaced by Syria war, aid agencies urge Washington to ‘add a zero’ to its 10,000-refugee commitment
By Dave Clark
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