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2 months ago | 
irishnews.com | Hajar Harb |Maham Javaid |Joe Snell |Janice Chen
The Gaza Strip is a vast landscape of destruction. Beneath the jagged remnants, bodies remain trapped. From Gaza City in the north to Rafah in the south, entire neighborhoods that once bustled with life now lie in ruin. Since the ceasefire with Israel began a week ago, Palestinians returning to their communities are finding only fragments of their former lives. Many are also searching desperately for their missing loved ones.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
washingtonpost.com | Mohamad El Chamaa |Joe Snell
BEIRUT - A week after Islamist rebels swept suddenly into Aleppo, members of the city's dwindling Christian community are wondering again what future is left for them in Syria. Over nearly 14 years of civil war, Aleppo's Christian population has fallen from 300,000 to just 25,000, as many have left the country for better opportunities and a life free from the threat of violence. In 2013, two of the city's archbishops were kidnapped; their whereabouts remain unknown.
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Jul 31, 2024 | 
publico.pt | Ruby Mellen |Joe Snell
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Há apenas quatro meses e meio, isolado num hospital que mal funcionava no Norte de Gaza, Fadi al-Zant, de 6 anos, estava às portas da morte.
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Jul 23, 2024 | 
dailyherald.com | Sammy Westfall |Joe Snell
WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 3:Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu waves after speaking before joint session of Congress, on March, 03, 2015 in Washington, DC.(Photo by Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post) The Washington Post Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is in the United States to address a joint meeting of Congress on Wednesday, during a moment of heightened uncertainty in American politics after President Biden announced he would end his reelection campaign.
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May 13, 2024 | 
dev.to | Joe Snell
Last night, my brother messaged me a spotify link, but when I tapped it, it took me somewhere else entirely. tldr; I made a thing to hide rick rolls in spotify links: https://spotify-rickroll.vercel.app/After copying the link to a note to see the raw URL, I saw that there was a query string with URL encoded values.
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Jan 8, 2024 | 
theassyrianjournal.com | Joe Snell
By Joe Snell | Jan. 8, 2024An Assyrian women’s choir released their first album on Dec. 15, a collection of Christmas melodies sung almost exclusively in Aramaic. The album, “The Joy of Christmas,” mixes 14 choir songs and solo performances, 11 sung in Aramaic. The album is available on iTunes. The group behind the anthology is “Assyrian Women,” composed of singers from as far as Germany, Canada, the U.S., Australia and Ukraine. For years they’ve performed live concerts in California.
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Dec 28, 2023 | 
theassyrianjournal.com | Joe Snell
By Joe Snell | Dec. 28, 2023Nouri Iskandar, an Assyrian composer, pioneer of classical Syrian music, and musicologist who wrote some of the most iconic Assyrian folk songs, and later fled his home in Syria during its budding civil war, died on Christmas morning on his 85th birthday. “Malfono worked tirelessly to document our culture and to celebrate the continuity of ancient Assyrian heritage,” wrote Assyrian musician Lolita Emmanuel.
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Dec 15, 2023 | 
estadao.com.br | Joe Snell |Hazem Balousha
“Nós não pegamos roupas de inverno quando deixamos a Cidade de Gaza, mais de um mês atrás”, disse ao Washington Post, pelo telefone, Ramzi Mohammed, de 31 anos. Mohammed está instalado em Rafah com sua mulher e seus três filhos. “A única coisa que fazemos à noite é ficar bem juntos para nos aquecer”, afirmou ele. Durante seu ataque terrestre em Gaza, as Forças Armadas de Israel ordenaram que os moradores rumassem para Khan Younis e Rafah em busca de abrigo.
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Dec 13, 2023 | 
stripes.com | Joe Snell |Hazem Balousha
Hard rain on a roof covered with felt and tar paper. (Wikimedia Commons) Heavy rains pummeled southern Gaza on Wednesday, bringing mud, flooding and in some cases disease to the thousands of displaced Palestinians living in makeshift tents in this corner of the besieged enclave. “We didn’t get our winter clothes from Gaza City when we left more than a month ago,” Ramzi Mohammed, 31, told The Washington Post in a phone call.
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Oct 20, 2023 | 
theassyrianjournal.com | Joe Snell
By The Assyrian Journal | Oct. 20, 2023BAGHDEDA, IRAQ — Protesters on Friday evening lit fire to a house and barber shop in Baghdeda, Iraq that belong to the owner of the al-Haitham Hall. Footage posted to Instagram shows dozens of young men marching to the home of Samir Nabo and, later, plumes of smoke and large fires through the windows of the building.
