NYTIMES (Abdi Latif Dahir and Daniel Berehulak) - Inside an Ancient Lebanese City Engulfed by War
The Lebanese city of Tyre, one of the oldest metropolises in the world, has been left scarred.
NYTIMES (Mairav Zonszein) - It’s Not Just the West Bank Settlers. It’s Israel.
Settler violence is reaching new heights.
YOUTUBE (CNN) - Israeli settlers besiege Palestinian home
In a weekend of brazen settler violence, dozens of Israeli settlers seized a Palestinian home in the occupied West Bank while the homeowner was inside. Two days later, Israeli authorities have yet to announce any arrests as the investigation is ongoing. Settlers also attacked an NBC News crew in the village of Jalud.
NYTIMES (Adam Rasgon) - Palestinian Teenager Killed After Israeli Settlers Enter West Bank Village
Palestinian and Israeli authorities offered divergent accounts of the incident, which came as settler violence has surged across the Israeli-occupied territory.
NYTIMES (Adam Rasgon, David M. Halbfinger and Fatima AbdulKarim) - How Israel’s Financial Chokehold Is Stifling the West Bank Economy
Intensifying restrictions have hit every part of the territory’s dealings, spurring worries about whether the Palestinian Authority can remain solvent.
NPR (Frank Langfitt) - Palestinian family in West Bank fear settler violence will rob them of home
The family of a Palestinian-American man remain holed up in his West Bank home for more than a week, after Israeli settlers laid siege to the house and the Israeli army then turned it into a closed military area.
NYTIMES (Genevieve Glatsky and Federico Rios) - Chocó, Colombia, Faces Deeper Hardship After an Earthquake
In Chocó, a predominantly Afro-Colombian and Indigenous region, “pain, hunger and homelessness await” survivors of last week’s earthquake, the governor says.
YOUTUBE (CNN) - Palestinian-American returns to home under settler siege
Loui Ridi reached his West Bank home on Monday, more than a week after it came under siege by Israeli settlers — only to find settlers still roaming freely. A Palestinian-American living in Ohio, he traveled to his native village of Qusra in the occupied West Bank to support his brother and nephew, who have been trapped inside the house. The Israeli military declared the area a closed military zone, and Ridi was only able to reach his home under Israeli military escort. CNN’s Jeremy Diamond joined him on the journey.
AMERICANALMANAC (Sadie Smith) - Venice tenants face eviction from their own homes to clear way for $133 million housing project backed by Nithya Raman
Nonprofit developers are hauling longtime low-income renters into court to kick them out of a city-owned Venice fourplex, all to build a $133 million affordable housing project that the city's own attorney has called "infeasible and unauthorized." Mary Alice Crowe moved into her apartment near the Venice Canals forty-three years ago. She was twenty-nine. She […] The post Venice tenants face eviction from their own homes to clear way for $133 million housing project backed by Nithya Raman appeared first on American Almanac .
Nonprofit developers are hauling longtime low-income renters into court to kick them out of a city-owned Venice fourplex, all to build a $133 million affordable housing project that the city's own attorney has called "infeasible and unauthorized." Mary Alice Crowe moved into her apartment near the Venice Canals forty-three years ago. She was twenty-nine. She raised her son there, built a life there, and at seventy-one she assumed she would stay. Allan Phillips, her neighbor in the same small building, has lived there for thirty-five years. Both pay below-market rent on city-owned land. Both now face a legal action filed by nonprofit developers who want them gone, and who argue they cannot afford to wait for the tenants' own lawsuit…Open
AI:In another crushing blow to the working class, Los Angeles officials and nonprofit developers are weaponizing the legal system to steamroll longtime low-income tenants in Venice. These residents, some having occupied their homes for over four decades, are being dragged into court to make room for a massive $133 million "affordable housing" project backed by Nithya Raman. Even more egregious is that the city's own attorney has flagged this entire endeavor as unauthorized and infeasible, yet the bureaucratic machine pushes forward regardless of the human cost. This isn't about helping people; it is a coordinated displacement effort where existing residents are treated like obstacles in a high-stakes real estate game orchestrated by radical…Open
NYTIMES (Julie Turkewitz) - Colombia Quake Chases Teenage Venezuelan Brothers From Their New Home
A pair of brothers who lost their mother and other family members in Venezuela and were profiled by The New York Times have now survived deadly quakes in two countries.