Joe Snell
Founder and Co-Editor at The Assyrian Journal
Embedded Video Editor, Foreign Desk at The Washington Post
🌍 World news for The Washington Post. Assyrian. [email protected]
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2 months ago |
washingtonpost.com | Maham Javaid |Joe Snell
In the past two weeks, President Donald Trump has suggested that Palestinians prefer to remain in Gaza because “they don’t know anything else; they’ve never had an alternative.” But for Ghassan Salem, who was born and raised in the strip, leaving is not a choice he would consider. “The land of Gaza contains my life, my memories and everything,” he said.
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2 months ago |
washingtonpost.com | Maham Javaid |Joe Snell |Hajar Harb |Janice Chen
The Gaza Strip once looked like this:A bustling Gaza City coastline on June 9, 2023. (Video: Reuters)And this:Cars and pedestrians rush down this busy Gaza City street on June 11, 2023. (Video: Reuters)Now, it is a vast landscape of destruction. Palestinians walk down the al-Saftawi Street in Jabalia, Gaza, on Jan. 20. (Video: Omar al-Qattaa)Beneath the jagged remnants, bodies remain trapped. Drone footage taken Jan. 20 shows the wide-scale destruction of Rafah, Gaza.
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2 months ago |
flipboard.com | Maham Javaid |Joe Snell |Hajar Harb |Janice Chen
1 day agoDrone footage shows extent of Israeli destruction in RafahDrone footage obtained by Middle East Eye shows the extent of the destruction in Rafah after 15 months of Israel’s war on Gaza, with displaced families living in tent camps in Khan Younis.Israel’s bombing campaign has destroyed 88 percent of the strip's infrastructure and residential areas, including homes, sewage networks, electricity grids and water lines.
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Nov 26, 2024 |
theassyrianjournal.com | Joe Snell
By Joe Snell | Nov. 26, 2024“They drowned one of my sisters in the well in Saleh village,” said Ziyane Rhawi, born in 1908. “Another sister, they buried alive under a pile of stones.”“[My aunt’s] two daughters were kidnapped by the Muslims,” said Ferida Rhawi, born in 1910.
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Oct 26, 2024 |
theassyrianjournal.com | Joe Snell
By Joe Snell | Oct. 26, 2024By Wednesday evening, Khushaba Oshana, 39, and his family huddled in their living room in the village of Rabatkeh in northern Iraq, and braced for Turkish airstrikes. Six hundred miles away, an explosion and gunfire had rocked an aerospace company near Turkey’s capital, leaving at least 5 people dead and 22 injured. Turkey’s Defense Minister Yasar Guler pointed to the culprits, the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK.
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The sun setting on the Nahla Valley in northern Iraq. About 800 Assyrians live across eight villages in this mountainous region near the border with Turkey. https://t.co/Ymtu2jaLmJ
The doors of St. John the Baptist Assyrian Church in Erbil, Iraq open to reveal a marble-covered sanctuary. Rows of pews face deep red curtains. The priest swings a censer of incense and the fog drifts toward a woman down the aisle. In this spacious hall, she seems nearly alone. https://t.co/idMMfhGo90
The Trump administration on Tuesday terminated a program that allowed Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan and Venezuelan migrants to legally work in the U.S. The ruling affects over half a million people, according to the Department of Homeland Security. @washingtonpost https://t.co/rvqy7TSn9o