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Gaza publishes identities of 34,344 Palestinians killed in war with Israel | Gaza | The Guardian

Gaza’s health ministry has identified 34,344 Palestinians killed by Israeli attacks in the territory, publishing a list of names, ages, gender and ID numbers that cover more than 80% of Palestinians killed in the war so far.

The remaining 7,613 people included in its death toll, which is now above 41,000, are Palestinians whose bodies have been received by hospitals and morgues, but whose identities have not yet been confirmed.

The identified people include 169 babies born after the Hamas attacks of 7 October that began the war, and a man born in 1922 who had survived more than a century of war and upheaval.

The document runs to 649 pages, with the dead listed largely by age. Gaza’s population is youthful, and the register underlines the high toll of Israeli attacks on Palestinian children.

More than 100 pages are filled with the names of victims under 10 years old, and the first adult names do not appear until page 215.

Israeli officials question the death toll given by the authorities in Gaza, arguing that because Hamas controls the government there, Gaza’s health officials cannot provide reliable figures.

However, doctors and civil servants in the territory have a credible record from past wars. After several conflicts between 2009 and 2021, United Nations investigators drew up their own lists of the dead and found they closely matched ones from Gaza.

“Unfortunately, we have the sad experience of coordinating with the ministry of health on casualty figures every few years,” Farhan Haq, a spokesperson for the UN secretary general, has said. “Their figures have proven to be generally accurate.”

Source: Gaza publishes identities of 34,344 Palestinians killed in war with Israel | Gaza | The Guardian

Un joc secund, mai pur – ore de drum

Pythagoreio, 2017

În secolul 11 î.Hr., emigranții din Argos s-au stabilit în insula Samos și, cinci secole mai târziu, aici se năștea Pitagora, filosof și matematician pasionat de misticism și metempsihoză, ale cărui principii și teoreme fundamentale în matematici le-am învățat cu toții.

El dat numele celei mai pitorești așezări, un sat de pescari devenit capitală a insulei, unde încerc să redescopăr vestigiile centrului urban din antichitate.

Valoarea istorică a portulețului inclus azi în Patrimoniul Mondial UNESCO provine, după cum susținea Herodot, din trei elemente: Heraionul, considerat una din cele șapte minuni ale lumii, din ingeniosul sistem de aducțiune a apei și din zona antică a portului cu solidul chei antic, azi disparut.

În secolul 6 î.Hr., două diguri formau o dană bine păzită care asigura ambarcațiunilor protecție împotriva furtunilor, toate înfăptuite pe vremea când la putere s-a aflat tiranul Polycrate…

Source: Un joc secund, mai pur – ore de drum

(7) What you need to know about mpox – YouTube

STAT senior writer for infectious disease Helen Branswell answers the most frequently asked questions about what is happening with mpox now and what can be done to stop this current outbreak. In August, the World Health Organization declared the mpox outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and several other African countries a public health emergency of international concern. This is the second time in two years that mpox, formerly called monkeypox, has been listed as a PHEIC. In 2022, mpox spread through multiple countries, including the United States where transmission from that outbreak continues at a rate of about 250 cases a month. Traditionally mpox spreads mainly via direct contact with infected animals, but in the 2022 outbreak, the virus was seen to be transmitting from person to person through sexual contact. Last fall, health officials were alerted to the fact that sexual contact was also being seen in transmission of the virus in a new outbreak in eastern DRC and neighboring countries. For more on STAT’s mpox coverage: https://www.statnews.com/topic/mpox/

Brasil Solicita Apoio Internacional no Combate a Incêndios Florestais : Linkezine

O governo brasileiro intensificou seus esforços no combate às queimadas que assolam o país, acionando representações diplomáticas em busca de ajuda internacional. Pedidos de apoio foram encaminhados aos governos de Paraguai, Colômbia, México, Peru, Uruguai, Chile, Canadá e Estados Unidos. O objetivo é contar com auxílio especializado e equipamentos para controlar os incêndios florestais, que afetam principalmente a região amazônica.

Respostas Positivas e Cooperação Imediata

Dentre os países consultados, o Uruguai já se manifestou positivamente, confirmando sua disposição em enviar recursos. O governo uruguaio ofereceu uma aeronave de asa fixa, modelo CASA C-212 Aviocar, da Força Aérea Uruguaia, além de uma doação de 40 mil litros de líquido extintor de incêndio. Esse apoio será fundamental para as operações de combate às queimadas que estão programadas para começar ainda em setembro de 2024.

Iniciativas e Pedidos Brasileiros

Os pedidos de ajuda fazem parte de uma estratégia do governo federal, coordenada pela ministra do Meio Ambiente, Marina Silva. Em ofício enviado no dia 4 de setembro de 2024 ao Ministério das Relações Exteriores (MRE), Silva instruiu que as embaixadas brasileiras nesses países realizem “consultas urgentes” sobre possíveis colaborações. A ministra também solicitou à Agência Brasileira de Cooperação que verificasse a possibilidade de apoio com aeronaves — tanto de asa fixa quanto rotativas — para lançamento de água e transporte de brigadistas e equipamentos.

O objetivo é garantir que o Brasil conte com todos os recursos necessários para enfrentar os incêndios, que ameaçam não apenas o meio ambiente, mas também a biodiversidade e comunidades locais.

Source: Brasil Solicita Apoio Internacional no Combate a Incêndios Florestais : Linkezine

It’s Not New — It’s Our Legacy | Filosofa’s Word

Race-based hatred and violence are nothing new in the United States and did not start with J.D. Vance’s lies about Haitian immigrants.  In fact, racial hatred and violence are a large part of our history, the history that some would whitewash away given half a chance.  What we see today is just a continuation of centuries of intolerance, racism, and bigotry in all its forms that lead to violence and ultimately murder.  Last Sunday marked the 61st anniversary of one of the most notable and heinous such events, as author/historian Joyce Vance reminds us …


The Legacy of Hate

By Joyce Vance

15 September 2024

Today, it has been 61 years since a white supremacist’s bomb went off at 10:22 a.m. at 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four young girls who were getting ready for church services.

VICTIMS OF THE SIXTEENTH STREET BAPTIST CHURCH BOMBING ON SEPT. 15, 1963: DENISE MCNAIR, 11; CAROLE ROBERTSON, 14; ADDIE MAE COLLINS, 14; AND CYNTHIA WESLEY, 14. A FIFTH LITTLE GIRL, SARAH COLLINS RUDOLPH, WAS SERIOUSLY INJURED. (CREDIT: AP PHOTO)

In the environment of permissible hate that permeated the culture and the legal system in the Deep South in 1963, the men responsible went unpunished for decades. The FBI officially closed its investigation in 1968, without bringing a single indictment, although they had identified the men responsible. Racist leaders like Alabama Governor George Wallace and Police Commissioner Bull Conner tolerated racial violence, even encouraging it. The Ku Klux Klan lynched Black men and Black boys, using terror to try and maintain political control.

It sounds familiar.

Today, as church bells ring across my city and people mourn the loss of young lives and condemn the evil men who made it possible, this country is at risk of repeating that history. Just like violence against Black people was often justified by lies about crimes they had committed, Donald Trump and J.D. Vance are spreading lies about Haitian immigrants—lies that are so ridiculous they would be laughable if their potential impact wasn’t so deadly serious. A woman who posted on Facebook that a Haitian immigrant had eaten her neighbor’s cat has recanted. But the truth doesn’t matter to Donald Trump, who has continued, as he did on the debate stage last Tuesday, to add outrage over immigrants eating dogs and cats to his repertoire of campaign lies. This morning, on Truth Social, Trump is unleashing a torrent of hate against immigrants—his choice in this election, as in 2016 and 2020, for a spew of venom designed to blind Americans to the truth and force them into Donald Trump’s arms…

Source: It’s Not New — It’s Our Legacy | Filosofa’s Word