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For those interested in Cairo and its monuments, I’ve been experimenting with creating this website. It tells stories of some of the lesser known sites, intertwining the Mamluk, Ottoman and modern eras. I’ll add to it when possible.
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Satellite photos show how Israeli forces have erased Gaza towns. apnews.com/article/gaza-war-…
It's believed to be the 1st time the US has used the new PrSM missile: a strike in Iran that Iranian officials say killed 21 civilians. @airwars found it sprayed lethal metal pellets as far as 170 m from the center of the strike. By @FrankelJulia
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Smuggling into Gaza is booming - cigarettes but also essentials like spare parts, medicines, X-ray machines. Merchants, smugglers make millions and huge bribes go to the same Israeli soldiers enforcing restrictions. An AP investigation by @sammymagdy
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The Israeli military is quickly building a long earthen barrier in Gaza, separating the more than half of the territory that it holds from the rest, where Palestinians are crowded, sat imagery shows. With @FrankelJulia apnews.com/article/israel-ga…
Lee Keath retweeted
💔"The photojournalism award went to the Associated Press photographers Abdel Kareem Hana, Jehad Alshrafi and Mariam Dagga for their portrayal of the severe food shortages in Gaza. Ms. Dagga was killed in an Israeli strike in August."
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Israel’s claims over double tap strike on Gaza’s Nasser Hospital that killed 22 people contradict the sequence of events on the ground. It says it targeted a Hamas camera, but a Reuters cameraman was the first victim killed.
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Israel killed five journalists, including our AP colleague, freelancer Mariam Dagga, in a double strike Monday on Gaza’s Nasser Hospital. It hit them and rescue workers as they rushed to the site of the first strike moments earlier, according to doctors.
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Like other Palestinian journalists in Gaza, Mariam was dedicated to showing the devastation wreaked by Israel’s campaign. Based at Nasser Hospital, she covered the most horrendous scenes of war and starvation. Here are some of her photos. apnews.com/photo-gallery/mid…
And here is a story we worked on together earlier this month, on the emaciated children being treated in Nasser Hospital
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Nearly a year after Israel's pager bombings targeting Hezbollah in Lebanon, the wounded -- some fighters, some civilians, including children -- still struggle with grievous wounds. By @seldeeb @bmroue with amazing photos by @HassanAmmar5 apnews.com/projects/irsael-g…
Emaciated, starving children: This month, the hunger building among Gaza’s more than 2 million Palestinians under Israel's blockade passed a tipping point into accelerating death, aid groups say. With @seldeeb and Wafaa Shurafa. apnews.com/article/gaza-pale…
Israel has raided at least 10 hospitals in Gaza, saying Hamas uses them as command bases. But the AP's @IsabelDeBre and @FrankelJulia examined 3 hospitals where Israel gave little evidence of a Hamas presence, facilities that once again are under fire.
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Lee Keath retweeted
We traced the Abu Jarad family’s journey in Gaza over the last year, through 7 displacements.
They did everything correctly, obeying Israeli evac orders time after time.
It brought them from a lovely middle-class life to a dismal tent camp.
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One of the most shocking things in Israel’s bombardment and offensives in Gaza is seeing entire families wiped out, sometimes in a single strike. @seldeeb documented how the deaths ripple across family trees apnews.com/article/gaza-pale…
A little-known Mamluk monument of Cairo, the Mosque of Manjak el-Yusufi stands on an isolated hill overlooking the Bab el-Wazir Cemetery. Its 14th-century builder, Manjak, was a fearsome figure. A butcher. An executioner. This is his story: exploringhistoriccairo.squar…
Manjak later served as governor of Damascus and built bathhouses, caravanseries and other infrastructure across Syria and the Levant. Still standing today is the Madrasa he built on Jerusalem's Haram al-Sharif next to the Dome of the Rock
Today, his mosque in Cairo is a rarely visited but unique site of the old medieval city, with dramatic sunset views over the cemetery and the city beyond. More stories of little known corners of Cairo's history can be found here: exploringhistoriccairo.squar…
