The UN Security Council on Friday called for an investigation into mass graves discovered near health facilities in the Gaza Strip. Graves containing several hundred bodies were found near the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis and the Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City in recent weeks. Last month the office of the UN High Commissioner for […]
A third mass grave was discovered Wednesday at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, Gaza’s media office announced, including some containing bodies without heads, raising concerns of potential war crimes after Israeli military sieges on the territory’s hospitals. The new discovery raises the total to seven mass grave sites between three Gaza hospitals, containing the bodies […]
Archaeologists have unearthed a sprawling ancient Roman cemetery in southern France containing 1,430 graves and evidence of funerary banquets held in honor of deceased family members. Excavations of the cemetery, called the Robine necropolis due to its proximity to a canal of the same name, began in 2017 ahead of construction work in the city […]
A view of destruction after Israeli forces withdrawal from the Gaza Strip’s largest health complex, Al-Shifa Hospital and its surroundings in Gaza City, Gaza on April 21, 2024. Credit – Mahmoud Issa — Anadolu via Getty Images Mass graves with hundreds of bodies were discovered last weekend at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis and Al-Shifa […]
icon Semafor Signals Supported by Microsoft logo Insights from Sky News, Le Monde, The Conversation, and Human Rights Watch Arrow Down Title icon The News The European Union and United Nations called for an independent probe into the reported discovery of mass graves near two Gaza hospitals that were raided by Israeli forces. Palestinian authorities […]
AKRON, Ohio (WJW) — A driver lost control of their vehicle Saturday morning, rolling their car into an Akron cemetery and causing damage to about 30 graves, according to St. Bernard Catholic Church. Teen injured in Painesville shooting Police were reportedly called to St. Bernard Catholic Cemetery on South Maple Street following the crash. The […]
The diggers’ hoes scrape the brown soil, looking for, and often finding, human bone fragments. The women then wipe the bone pieces with their hands as others watch in solemn silence. The digging goes on, a scene that has become all too familiar in a verdant area of rural southern Rwanda, where the discovery in […]
ARALSK, Kazakhstan (AP) — In the middle of the vast desert that surrounds what is left of the Aral Sea, graves stand as stark reminders — of communities that once thrived, of the powerful body of water that teemed with life, and of the years of change that fueled its disappearance. Decades ago, when the […]
A group of archaeologists was exploring a site in Germany, checking for any potential discoveries before an apartment complex was built there. The team of experts discovered “small remains” of a fortification dating to about 1634 A.D. Then, they found “the real surprise.” In the northern half of the site, archaeologists found “eight mass graves […]
TAMPA, Fla. — The U.S. Air Force plans to expand its search for grave sites in a former Black cemetery at a base in Florida after discovering 121 potential sites already, a base official said. Air Force spokesperson 2nd Lt. Laura Anderson told news stations Feb. 19 that a nonintrusive archaeological survey performed over the […]
Civil rights attorney Ben Crump is calling for an investigation after 215 bodies were found buried in a cemetery behind a Mississippi jail. The Chicago Crusader reports the remains were discovered in a pauper’s cemetery behind the Hinds County, Mississippi jail. The gravesites are reportedly marked with merely a metal rod and number. Following the […]
It is almost here. The holiday we love, and love to hate. Christmas. Once celebrated only in December it now starts in August. If you are like my mother, you listen to Christmas music in July. (This apple fortunately did fall very far from that tree.) I was never a big fan of this holiday […]