Palestinians in displacement camps in the Gaza Strip resorted to basic means to cool down themselves and their children amid soaring summer heat on Saturday. Women were bathing their children outside their tents due to the absence of adequate showers in most of the coastal enclave. Displaced residents lack air conditioning and fans amid an […]
STORY: Ahmed Abu Della was born in the Lebanese border village of Yarine before the land to the south was known as Israel. He’d hoped to live out his days there but aged 80, he’s just left, as his hometown was pummelled by Israeli shelling. Now he’s in Baisariyeh, 30 miles north. “What kept me […]
Sarah Harper credits her declining health to a series of concerning issues at her Welch Avenue apartment. She is one of roughly 35 Ames residents who will be forced to move on Saturday because their landlord has not kept his properties up to code. The Ames Inspection Division notified tenants at 228 and 232 Welch […]
Surging violence in Haiti from clashes with armed gangs since March has displaced nearly 580,000 people, according to a new report from the UN migration agency. Haiti has long faced unrest, but at the end of February gangs unleashed co-ordinated attacks with gunmen taking control of police stations, opening fire on the main international airport […]
Residents of several dozen units at Independence Towers were displaced early Monday morning after a fire damaged the building. Eric Michel, Battalion Chief of Fire Prevention in Independence, said tenants in 27 apartments were evacuated due to smoke and fire damage to three floors of the building. Fire officials responded to the multi-story apartment building […]
Two dozen people were displaced from their homes after a fire broke out at an apartment building early Saturday morning in the 8200 block of Porche Drive, in west Fort Worth. The Fort Worth Fire Department arrived at the scene about 3:15 a.m. and reported that the fire was coming from the two-story building’s roof. […]
BENTONVILLE, Ark. (KNWA/KFTA) — The Best Friends Pet Resource Center in Bentonville is holding a Super Adoption Event from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, June 15, and Sunday, June 16. The goal of the event is to find homes for more than 450 dogs and cats from 30 different shelters who were displaced […]
The residents displaced by a fire at Second Avenue Commons will officially be moving to a new location. >> Nearly 200 people displaced due to fire at Second Avenue Commons Allegheny County officials announced Saturday that the nearly 200 people who were displaced by a fire in early June will be moving to 1200 Reedsdale […]
More than 50 people were displaced and one person was injured after five mobile homes caught fire in the Lazy Daze Mobile Home Community in Phoenix on Wednesday afternoon. Phoenix Fire Department crews were dispatched just before 3 p.m. for reports of a structure fire near 43rd Avenue and Van Buren Street, the department said. […]
GENEVA (AP) — The number of internally displaced people in Sudan has reached more than 10 million, the U.N. migration agency told The Associated Press on Monday. The International Organization for Migration said the tally includes 2.83 million driven from their homes before the current war began by multiple local conflicts that have been happening […]
(KRON) — Dozens of residents were displaced due to a two-alarm fire in Contra Costa County on Saturday, a Contra Costa Fire Department captain told KRON4. Teen fatally shot near SF’s Dolores Park identified as SJSU student Firefighters responded to a two-alarm fire at a three-story apartment complex on Montoya and San Pablo Avenue at […]
Israel bombed a United-Nations run school that was sheltering displaced Palestinian families. The Israeli airstrike killed at least 33 people, including women and children. Israel claimed Thursday the school was being used as a Hamas compound, without providing evidence. Israel’s military said it was not aware of any civilian casualties in the strike on the […]