Chicago advocates travel to Illinois Capitol to call for cease-fire - CBS Chicago #PEACEMAKER ⁦CBS News⁩ ⁦CBS New York⁩ ⁦Joanna Walters⁩ ⁦Dr. Zaher Sahloul⁩ cbsnews.com/chicago/news/m…

Another causality of the war in #Gaza is healthcare to #Venezuelan migrants in #Colombia & migrants in #Mexico , as funders like Simón Bolívar Foundation that is “sensitive” to the optics of supporting innocent victims of wars are cutting their aid to Organizations that works in Gaza

10-year-old Shahed's pink pants are unmistakeable in the carnage. She was playing foosball with her friends when she was killed in an Israeli airstrike -- one of 8 children killed in that strike on Tuesday, according to Al Aqsa Martyrs Hospital.
With her family's consent, we've…

In a deadly strike on a refugee camp this week in Gaza, at least 14 people were killed – including 8 children, according to hospital officials.

Jeremy Diamond has this report about 10-year-old Shahed, who was killed. A warning, the report is graphic and extremely difficult to watch

More details in our written report: edition.cnn.com/2024/05/02/mid…

2 weeks ago, we reported on a deadly strike in Gaza. The harrowing image of children's bodies splayed around a foosball table impossible to forget.
A CNN analysis of evidence recovered and documented at the scene of the strike now points to the likely cause: a precision-guided…

Our book, THE ARAB SPRING: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE, has been published! You can download and read it for free through the link below. It consists of 12 chapters by 12 authors. I thank our international team of dedicated authors for making this possible! researchcentre.trtworld.com/books/the-arab…

Coedited by Dr. Tarek Cherkaoui, chapters of 'The Arab Spring' were authored by Profs. François Burgat, Richard Falk, Mujeeb R. Khan, Ali Bakir, Ziad Majed, Ömer Özkızılcık, Nur Günay, Ferhat Polat, Tahir Kılavuz, Michael Arnold, Idlir Lika, and myself.

researchcentre.trtworld.com/books/the-arab…

Breaking breaking:

After being kidnapped by the Israeli soldiers in December from inside the Awda Hospital in Jabalia, Dr. Adnan Al-Bursh is announced dead today.
He passed away on April 19 after sustaining severe injuries while kidnapped

'Every single day, I've watched small children die': American nurse shares heartbreaking work in #Gaza MedGlobal abcnews.go.com/International/…

This is horrible and against all norms

Russia’s attacks in Syria were a prelude to Putin’s war on Ukraine
chicagotribune.com/2022/03/01/zah…

Here we go. Like #Syria like #Ukraine️ .
Ukrainian authorities have reported some 1,400 cases of suspected chemical weapons use since Russia invaded in February 2022
nytimes.com/2024/05/02/wor…

11 years since the Massacre of Banyas & al-Bayda:
On May 2-4, 2013, #Syria nRegime forces carried out mass killings in Ras al-Nabea in Banyas city & al-Bayda village in #Tartus At least 459 civilians, incl. 92 children were massacred.
#SNHR #Syria
Details: snhr.org/?p=780

يخشى السوريون شمال غرب البلاد باستمرار ضربات النظام الانتقامية منهم بعد كل عملية قصف تنفذها إسرائيل على أهداف داخل مناطق سيطرته، و يتساءلون 'كيف للطائرات المسيرة الإيرانية أن لا تحقق هدف في إسرائيل، ويكون هدفها محققاً على رؤوس السوريين؟.'
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#Gaza : World Health Organization (WHO) and partners have started work to clean-up Nasser Medical Complex as part of efforts to restore functionality so it can serve patients again

The bottomline and what is read between the lines is that #Syria is not a priority to the EU or the world, get used to it, funds will be cut, Ukraine and Gaza will consume Europe and the US, but let us celebrate the “resilience” of Syrian civic society #Syria Conf2024

#Gaza ’s Palestinian health authorities say they can no longer count all of their dead wsj.com/world/middle-e…

Health officials say their priority is those who come in injured. Zaher Sahloul, a Chicago-based critical-care doctor who spent time in Khan Younis earlier this year, said, “The priority was to treat the injured, to make sure the living had a chance to live…. The dead were the…

For #EarlyRecovery to realize:
1. Progress on the political process
2. Reconnecting the fragmented healthcare & governance systems
3. Funding based on building local peace & empowerment of women & minorities
4. Removing barriers to diaspora’s contributions
#SyriaConf2024