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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 470

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The Zomi camp for displaced people in southwestern Gaza. (Courtesy, Damour for Community Development)
August 9, 2024, 1:26 am
Palestinians, Israelis partner to bring off-grid solutions to Gaza camps
Damour for Community Development and Arava Institute for Environmental Studies want to show international donors value of wastewater treatment, desalination, solar energy solutions
By Sue Surkes
A community space and kitchen in the Zomi displaced people's camp in the Gaza Strip has been named for the Canadian-born Israeli peace campaigner Vivian Silver, who was murdered by Hamas terrorists in her home in Kibbutz Be'eri, close to the Gaza border, on October 7, 2023. (Courtesy, Damour for Community Development)
August 8, 2024, 2:10 pm
Israeli peace activist murdered by Hamas is memorialized in Gaza evacuee camp
Sign with Vivian Silver’s name and photo graces community facility in humanitarian zone in south Gaza
By Sue Surkes
View of the security barrier and Shuafat Refugee Camp in northeast Jerusalem, on December 5, 2019. (Olivier Fitoussi/ Flash90/ File)
September 4, 2022, 8:12 pm
East Jerusalem man arrested for imprisoning his 23-year-old daughter in storage unit
50-year-old resident of Shuafat refugee camp suspected of beating his adult daughter and cutting her hair over an extended period of time
By ToI Staff
Ukrainian Jewish refugees are seen in a newly opened kosher camp on the southern shore of Lake Balaton in Balatonoszod, Hungary, on July 29, 2022. (Peter Kohalmi/AFP)
August 18, 2022, 12:02 pm
Observant Ukrainian Jewish refugees find peace at Hungarian resort complex
A Chabad-affiliated camp on the shores of Lake Balaton hosts 700 religious Jews; hundreds of others are on a waiting list
By Peter Murphy
Illustrative: Syrian refugee Ayesha al-Abed, 21, right, prepares food as her Husband Raed Mattar, 24, left, plays with their daughter Rayan, 18 months old, before they break their fast on the first day of fasting month of Ramadan, at an informal refugee camp, in the town of Bhannine in the northern city of Tripoli, Lebanon, Tuesday, April 13, 2021. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
January 2, 2022, 2:16 pm
4 Syrian refugees die after burning coal for heat in southern Lebanon
Mother and three young children declared dead of asphyxiation in the southern village of Kharayab
By Sarah El Deeb
Illustrative: Palestinian Authority security forces in balaclavas stand by an armored vehicle at the entrance to Balata camp, near the West Bank city of Nablus, on December 15, 2020. (Photo by JAAFAR ASHTIYEH / AFP)
December 20, 2020, 12:14 pm
In West Bank refugee camps, Palestinians arm up for post-Abbas power struggle
Tensions surface after death of prominent anti-PA activist who Ramallah claims was working for exiled Abbas rival Dahlan; elections could be held next year for 1st time since 2005
By AFP and ToI Staff
Photograph of an internee in a camp uniform, taken by internee Marcell Seidler, Camp N in Sherbrooke, Quebec, circa 1940-1942. Seidler secretly documented camp life using a handmade pinhole camera. (photo credit: Marcell Seidler/Courtesy Eric Koch/Library and Archives Canada)
August 16, 2020, 6:55 am
In WWII, an anti-Semitic Canada kept Jewish ‘enemy aliens’ in barbed wire camps
Online exhibit details how thousands of German and Austrian Jews were arrested in Britain and shipped overseas, where they were kept together with Nazi POWs in harrowing conditions
By Julie Masis
Refugees from former German territories live in the once notorious Dachau camp on March 10, 1954. Cars parked in Barracks Street give testimony of wealth achieved by some refugees. (AP Photo/Heinrich Sanden, Sr.)
April 28, 2020, 2:24 pm
Former Dachau resident recalls growing up in a repurposed concentration camp
German Nazi site, liberated 75 years ago, was turned into refugee housing after the war; the camp ‘was inescapable,’ says Jean Boehme
By Pauline CURTET
Children using the safe water facility at IsraAID space in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya. (Lior Sperandeo/IsraAID)
April 13, 2020, 4:10 am
Crowding, lack of water spell COVID-19 nightmare for world’s 71 million refugees
Unable to wash hands or practice social distancing, huge numbers of forcibly displaced people set to suffer from pandemic at disproportionate rates, Jewish humanitarian groups warn
By Renee Ghert-Zand
A man chants slogans while lifted on the shoulders of another wearing a Palestinian flag as a bandanna, as protesters block the main road outside the Palestinian refugee camp of Burj al-Barajneh, south of the Lebanese capital Beirut, on July 16, 2019 (ANWAR AMRO / AFP)
July 16, 2019, 10:15 pm
Palestinians protest Lebanon crackdown on unlicensed foreign workers
Community fears effects of Labor Ministry measures ostensibly targeting Syrian refugees
By Agencies
German Chancellor Angela Merkel walks during her visit to German Jordanian University in the Jordanian town of Madaba on June 21, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / AHMAD ABDO
June 21, 2018, 12:50 pm
Merkel visits refugee host Jordan amid migration row at home
Chancellor tells students that a majority of Germans believe ‘we must be an open country,’ provided there are some controls
By AP
A Palestinian protester uses a slingshot to hurl stones towards Israeli security forces during clashes at the Aida Palestinian refugee camp near Bethlehem on April 14, 2014. (Musa al-Shaer/AFP)
December 26, 2017, 7:57 am
Security forces seal weapons workshop in Jenin area
Three Palestinians arrested during rioting in refugee camp south of Jerusalem
By ToI Staff
US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley arrives in Juba, South Sudan, Wednesday, October 25, 2017. (AP Photo)
October 26, 2017, 12:15 am
US ambassador to UN evacuated from volatile South Sudan camp
Nikki Haley removed from refugee camp as demonstration against President Salva Kiir leads to guards firing tear gas
By SAM MEDNICK
Rukban refugee camp on the Jordan-Syria border. (Screen capture: YouTube/BBC)
August 14, 2017, 7:55 pm
UN fears for thousands trapped on Syria-Jordan border
Airstrikes causing fear and panic are also a danger to almost 50,000 in the Hadalat and Rukban refugee camps
By AFP
Illustrative: IDF soldiers during an arrest raid in the Dheisheh refugee camp, near the West Bank city of Bethlehem, on December 8, 2015. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
July 14, 2017, 10:09 am
Palestinian killed in clashes with IDF near Bethlehem
Army says forces came under assault during arrest operation, incident comes days after two Jenin residents shot dead in similar circumstances
By Judah Ari Gross
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