PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A debate is raging about whether or not Multnomah County should distribute tents to the homeless one day ahead of a Portland City Council vote aimed at curbing such activity. The City of Portland is in an agreement to provide money to the county as part of the Joint Office of […]
Palestinian medics said an Israeli air strike killed at least 22 people when it hit tents for displaced people in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, and “numerous” others were trapped in the debris. The strike came two days after the International Court of Justice ordered Israel to end its military offensive in Rafah, where […]
Nearly three dozen people were killed Sunday night in Rafah in southern Gaza in an Israeli airstrike that hit an area where internally displaced civilians were reportedly sheltering in tents, Palestinian health officials said. The Gaza Health Ministry reported at least 35 people died, the majority being women and children, in the strike on the […]
Palestinian medics said an Israeli air strike killed at least 22 people when it hit tents for displaced people in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, and “numerous” others were trapped in the debris. The strike came two days after the International Court of Justice ordered Israel to end its military offensive in Rafah, where […]
Homeless asylum seekers sleeping in tents along Dublin’s Grand Canal were not moved because of a high-profile football match, the Transport Minister has said. The Europa League final between Atalanta and Bayer Leverkusen is to be held in the Aviva Stadium on Wednesday evening. Green Party leader Eamon Ryan said around 89 male asylum seekers […]
URBANA, Ill. (WCIA) — Tents were taken down from the Quad pro-Palestine encampment overnight, with protesters continuing to take them down Friday morning, effectively ending the encampment. Protesters were seen quietly packing up tents this morning, with nearly half the tents that were present yesterday already gone by daybreak. By around 8:30 a.m. nearly all […]
SAN FRANCISCO – Protesters at San Francisco State University and the administration met on Monday over concerns regarding the Gaza war and the tent encampment demonstration in the center of campus. “I think a lot of us here are cautiously optimistic,” a student named Amy said. “This is the first encampment in the country where […]
The Israeli humanitarian tech aid nonprofit SmartAid has provided thousands of tents to civilians in Gaza in partnership with an American relief group since January, which its founder revealed exclusively to eJewishPhilanthropy. “We have helped build three refugee camps; it is thousands of tents,” Shachar Zahavi, founding director of SmartAid, told eJP. “We have experience […]
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Two hotels and several residents of San Francisco’s troubled Tenderloin district sued the city on Thursday, alleging it is using the neighborhood as a containment zone for rampant illegal drug use and other vices, making residents terrified to leave their homes and businesses unable to recruit staff. Plaintiffs do not seek […]
A year ago, Sido Naji woke to his house shaking in north-west Syria. He was used to the sounds of shelling and air strikes after more than a decade of war, but this time the assailant was a force of nature: a massive earthquake. The 16-year-old and his father managed to flee before their house […]
STORY: Palestinian medics have formed field medical points as fighting in Gaza has blocked the way to hospitals Location: Khan Younis, Gaza (Ibrahim Abu al-Kass, Paramedic/Red Crescent Medical Point Head) “This medical point was created after the siege of hospitals, including Nasser Hospital and al-Amal Hospital, and the hard access to them under the current […]