Mervin Yamarte says his tattoos led to him being mistaken in the US for a gang member and deported to El Salvador. (Photo via Gustavo Ocando | BBC) "We lived through hell," says 29-year-old Mervin Yamarte as he steps into his mother's home, wiping away the tears and sweat drenching his face. He is one of four men from the neighbourhood of Los Pescadores in the city of Maracaibo, Venezuela, who were deported from the US to the Center for the Confinement of Terrorism (Cecot), a

Mahmoud Abu Hamda/Anadolu, via Getty Images The ground shook as another airstrike slammed down nearby, a thunderclap ripping through the makeshift field clinic. Inside, panic surged. A baby wailed from one corner; a mother screamed for help in another. Amid toppled boxes of therapeutic food, I held a skeletal boy no older than 4 — limbs limp, eyes sunken. Just moments before, I had managed to feed him a spoonful of nutritional, peanut-rich paste. As I was readying another, an

A narrow understanding of the term, as well as Israel’s history as a haven for genocide victims, explains the dissonance 'There is little doubt that Israel’s actions are sufficient to meet the requirements for genocidal conduct.’ Photograph: Hatem Khaled/Reuters Why is it so difficult for some to accept that the Israeli government is committing genocide in Gaza? The case for genocide is compelling , but some governments and members of the public resist acknowledging it. The r

The Silent Cries of Gaza: A Legacy of Innocence Lost and the Urgent Call to Confront Genocide (Photo via LAProgressive) T he bronze sculpture by Marie Uchytilová, Memorial to the Children Victims of the War ,  depicting the 82 children of Lidice murdered at Chełmno in 1942, serves as a haunting reminder of the barbarity that defined the Nazi-led Lidice massacre . In reprisal for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, the Nazis razed the village of Lidice, executed its men, a

Right-wing groups present what they say is a clear future for Gaza - a land without Palestinians and only for Jews Far-right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said the US gave Israel a 'green light' to transform the Gaza Strip into a 'resort town' (Reuters/File photo) Extremist Israeli  politicians and right-wing settlers held a conference in Israel's parliament on Tuesday where they said the US had given them the "green light" to transform the besieged Gaza Strip in

In his latest column for the NYT, Bret Stephens tries to excuse a uniquely horrific crime with uniquely horrific journalism. The bodies of Palestinians killed while trying to reach aid trucks entering northern Gaza through the Zikim crossing with Israel are brought to al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on Sunday, July 20, 2025 [AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi] The Israelis certainly owe Bret Stephens a favour. Yesterday, The New York Times opinion columnist took to the pages of the Unite

Two experts talked to Al Jazeera about how the genocide in Gaza carries echoes of Srebrenica 30 years ago. Nimer Sultany, left, and Iva Vukusic [Al Jazeera] The raw statistics speak to the scale of the suffering in two places, separated by decades. Israel has killed more than 58,000 Palestinians in Gaza since October 2023, many of them women and children, and injured more than 138,000. With constant bombardment, man-made famine, and tactics like declaring a safe zone and then

David Lammy seemingly believes Israel and its supporters will always be able to act with impunity – but the status quo surely cannot hold A displaced Palestinian in Deir Al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, July 2025. Photograph: Hatem Khaled/Reuters A terrible tipping point in Gaza has been reached. The number of people admitted to hospital or dying from starvation has surged . The journalists’ union for Agence France-Presse  (AFP) has issued a statement warning that “withou

Photo via UNHCR In the hilly terrain of Cox’s Bazar, life for over 1 million Rohingya refugees in the world’s largest and most densely populated refugee camp is always a struggle, but monsoon season brings fresh challenges. Heavy rain makes the narrow walkways slippery and treacherous, and landslides threaten to destroy the latrines, bathing facilities and water points that refugees rely on. Since 2020, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, has run an initiative that provides refugee

Incident in which migrants were shackled with hands tied one of succession of alleged abuses at jails in Florida The Krome detention center in Miami, Florida. Photograph: Alon Skuy/Getty Images Migrants at a Miami immigration jail were shackled with their hands tied behind their backs and made to kneel to eat food from styrofoam plates “like dogs”, according to a report published on Monday  into conditions at three overcrowded south Florida facilities. The incident at the dow