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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 476

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A Catholic priest conducts a funeral service for remains of over 700 victims of German crimes of the World War II, discovered in the so-called Valley of Death, at the Minor Basilica of the Holy Trinity of St. John the Baptist in Chojnice, Poland, on September 2, 2024. (Sergei GAPON / AFP)
September 2, 2024, 5:51 pm
Poland holds state burial for over 700 World War II victims of Nazi Germany
Teachers, priests, police officers, forestry and postal workers, and landowners were among hundreds massacred in Chojnice in early 1945
By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA
The site of a music festival near the border with the Gaza Strip is seen on October 12, 2023. At least 260 festival-goers were killed during the assault on October 7. (Erik Marmor/AP)
October 15, 2023, 3:22 am
‘I knew it’s either I hit him or I die’: Re’im rave survivor recounts daring decision
Fleeing music festival near Gaza where 260 were massacred by Hamas on October 7, Michael Silberberg took his chance when he encountered Hamas gunmen riding a motorcycle
By Agencies and ToI Staff
A view from the building at 15 Yehuda Halevi Street in Kiryat Shmona after the terrorists were killed, April 11, 1974. (Dan Hadani/IPPA/National Library of Israel)
September 2, 2023, 8:58 am
Almost 50 years after forgotten Kiryat Shmona massacre, a new film seeks to remind us
‘A Haunted Home’ revisits the horrific 1974 attack in which terrorists murdered 18 people in a northern Israeli apartment building and explores the security failures surrounding it
By Amy Spiro
Damaged buildings in Daraya, a Damascus suburb, on August 26, 2016 (AP Photo)
August 26, 2022, 9:17 am
New report shares shocking details of 2012 massacre of 700 Syrians by Assad regime
Witness testimonies of atrocities in Daraya tell of ‘systematic attack against the civilian population,’ in which entire families were executed, hospitals and schools were bombed
By ToI Staff
Ondo State Governor Rotimi Akeredolu (third left) points to the blood stained floor after an attack by gunmen at St. Francis Catholic Church in Owo town, southwest Nigeria, June 5, 2022. (AFP)
June 6, 2022, 8:25 am
Dozens of worshipers feared dead after gunmen attack Nigeria church
State lawmaker says at least 50 dead; many children among victims; priest abducted; no claim of responsibility; rare assault in south; worshipers were marking Pentecost Sunday
By Agencies
Screen grab from the video showing a blindfolded Syrian man pushed by a Syrian agent before being shot dead and thrown into a large pit full of bodies in the Tadamon neighborhood of Damascus, Syria. (AP Photo)
May 17, 2022, 3:00 pm
Hope evaporates for families of Syria missing as video exposes prisoner massacre
‘They killed him in cold blood,’ says mother of one of dozens of men whose murder by security agents is seen in footage; whereabouts of over 100,00 Syrians still unknown
By LUJAIN JO
Footage of Israeli soldiers around the time of the 1948 War of Independence from the documentary film 'Tantura.' (Screenshot)
January 27, 2022, 4:46 am
Israeli film ‘Tantura’ prompts calls to excavate possible Palestinian mass grave
A documentary airs disputed testimonies of a 1948 massacre by former IDF soldiers now in their 90s, calling attention to a nondescript parking lot that may hold victims’ remains
By Andrew Lapin
Women mourn the victims of a massacre allegedly perpetrated by Eritrean Soldiers in the village of Dengolat, North of Mekele, the capital of Tigray on February 26, 2021.(EDUARDO SOTERAS / AFP)
March 5, 2021, 12:59 pm
Eritrean troops killed hundreds in Ethiopia massacre, rights group says
An estimated 200 civilians allegedly shot dead in war-torn Tigray region; separate ‘crime against humanity’ leaves 164 dead
By Robbie COREY-BOULET
Ethiopian refugees fleeing fighting in Tigray province queue to receive supplies at the Um Rakuba camp in Sudan's eastern Gedaref province, on November 16, 2020. (Ebrahim HAMID / AFP)
November 17, 2020, 2:57 pm
UN says ‘full-scale humanitarian crisis unfolding’ in Ethiopia
United Nations refugee agency says around 27,000 Ethiopians have fled across border into Sudan, with 4,000 joining them each day
By Robbie COREY-BOULET
Ethiopians who fled their homes due to ongoing fighting are pictured at a refugee camp in the Hamdait border area of Sudan's eastern Kassala state, on November 12, 2020. (Photo by - / AFP)
November 13, 2020, 5:16 pm
UN warns of possible war crimes in Ethiopia after reports of hundreds massacred
Amnesty International says ‘scores, and likely hundreds, of people were stabbed or hacked to death’ amid fighting in northern region of Tigray
By AFP
Two Palestinian women weep as they sit on the curb in the Sabra Palestinian refugee camp in West Beirut, Lebanon, September 19, 1982, after they found bodies of relatives. (AP Photo/Bill Foley)
September 18, 2020, 10:23 am
Journalist reckons with Israeli blame for Sabra and Shatila
38 years ago, hours before the Jewish new year, word arrived of bloodshed by an Israeli ally in Beirut. A reporter set off to Lebanon to seek out the truth
By Abraham Rabinovich
Bürgermeister from towns surrounding the Gardelegen concentration camp, Germany, view atrocities in a barnyard on the outskirts of the town, taken by US Ninth Army elements on April 18, 1945. (AP Photo)
September 16, 2020, 1:49 pm
Germany inaugurates commemoration site for one of last Nazi massacres
Shortly before World War II ended, more than 1,000 forced laborers, mainly non-Jews, were gunned down and burned in a barn at Gardelegen
By AFP
The site of the Fosse Adreatine massacre of 1944 has become a memorial to the 335 victims buried in the disused quarries. (Italian Defense Ministry)
August 15, 2020, 8:46 am
After 76 years, victims of Nazi massacre in Italy identified through DNA testing
Two of those who died in 1944 Fosse Ardeatine massacre, in which 335 were killed in reprisal for a partisan attack on an SS regiment, can now finally be honored by families
By Giovanni Vigna
The aftermath of the Tulsa Massacre in 1921 (public domain)
June 19, 2020, 3:14 pm
Using blood libel tactics, white mob massacred 300 blacks in 1921 Tulsa ‘pogrom’
In two days of slaughter, a racist offensive including police and air bombers destroyed Tulsa, Oklahoma’s all-black Greenwood district. None of the perpetrators ever faced justice
By Matt Lebovic
Aftermath of the Babi Yar ravine massacre in Kiev, Ukraine, during which 33,000 Jews were murdered between Sept. 29-30, 1941. (public domain)
April 11, 2018, 3:40 am
In eastern Europe, when Nazis killed Jews, a ‘carnival atmosphere’ prevailed
In a new, second book about ‘Holocaust by bullets,’ Father Patrick Desbois depicts in grim detail local bystanders’ culpability while Nazis implemented the Final Solution
By Matt Lebovic
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