Men were sent on from Ghana despite ‘risk of torture, persecution or inhumane treatment’
A lawyer for 11 west Africans deported by the US to Ghana said they had been returned to their home countries despite many fearing for their safety.
Under Donald Trump’s drive to ramp up expulsions, the US has sent migrants to third countries, including Rwanda, Uganda and El Salvador, prompting accusations that deportee rights have been violated.
Ghana’s president, John Mahama, said last week that his country had accepted 14 west African nationals deported by the US and was ready to accept 40 more. Officials initially said all 14 had been sent on to their home countries but lawyers for 11 said they were then held in dire conditions in a military camp.
Hamas beheaded and shot children. Here is the proof.
Shooting, stabbing, choking, beheading and burning: hours before Israel presents its defense at The Hague, new harrowing testimonies of Hama
Shooting, stabbing, choking, beheading and burning: hours before Israel presents its defense at The Hague, new harrowing testimonies of Hamas' monstrosities come to light; discretion is advised.
Some of the images and details below are highly disturbing and readers are advised to exercise discretion. We see value in bringing these images to the public's attention at a time when Israel is forced to defend itself in The Hague.
The disturbing documentation includes images of a girl who was shot in the head at point-blank range and then beheaded. Another imaging revealed how terrorists set a person on fire after stabbing, shooting and running him over.
Another horrifying still depicts a group of people with their hands tied with plastic zip ties, then shot while trying to shield their heads with their hands. If there were no zip ties within reach, the terrorists would bind their victims with electric cables ripped from home appliances. Gunshot marks were visible on the exposed hands of the victims, sometimes elderly people.
“It's pure evil,” says the institute’s director Dr. Hen Kugel, whose 30 years of experience in forensics haven’t prepared him for what came on October 7.
“I already witnessed every possible murder method – shooting, stabbing, strangulation, you name it. But this kind of abuse, as the one seen on this young man’s body, I couldn’t even imagine something like that. This is not just ensuring the job is done; it's pure evil intended to obliterate every trace of that person.”
Evidence from the killing grounds continues to pour in, albeit in smaller volumes at first. Last month, the institute received 143 plastic bags containing bone fragments. “The professional challenge for the institute's staff is to identify the person solely through these remains. Efforts to identify the victims continue all the time, albeit with less intensity. We clear debris and find bones. We cling to every crumb, splinter and bone that allows for deciphering,” Dr. Kugel says.
As part of his job, Dr. Kugel is also forced to watch numerous videos of the terrorists' atrocities. He is a member of a panel that managed to declare the death of missing persons in the absence of a body, based on assessments that also rely on watching these videos.
"One of the videos that shocked me the most was of a Tanzanian student who worked on one of the kibbutzim near the border. He was seen on security cameras talking to his killers. He was probably begging for his life, but they dragged him outside from the dairy barn, plunged a huge knife into his chest that came out his back, and then shot him. When I first encountered this atrocity, I remember asking myself, ‘what do they have against him? Can't they see he's not Israeli? Do they have some previous conflict with him? Why did they murder him, and with such cruelty?’" wonders Dr. Kugel.
"It's about hate, deep wickedness, humiliation. I've seen many murder cases, but who ties up people together, shoots them all and then sets them on fire? What kind of despicable murderer would do all of this? It's pure evil."
The photos and descriptions, which have been largely withheld to spare the public, are set to play a crucial role in Israel's defense at the International Court in The Hague.
In response to cynical accusations of war crimes, Israel is compelled to reveal the extent of Hamas' atrocities and the terrorists' war crimes. These include the murder and desecration of bodies long after their victims were rendered defenseless.
UN workers in Gaza feel at risk from airstrikes, as violence continues to spread across Israel and occupied territories.
UN workers in Gaza feel at risk from airstrikes, as violence continues to spread across Israel and occupied territories.
"There was an airstrike just a few minutes ago in the neighbourhood next to my home, about 200 metres from where I live. They [Israeli warplanes] shelled a house, killing a man and his wife and another person," Adnan Abu Hasna, a spokesman for UNWRA, a UN refugee agency in Gaza, told EUobserver on Tuesday (11 May).
"There's a dramatic change in what's going on," he said.
"In the past, they used to warn people [before striking their building], but now they're just hitting houses directly without any warning," he added.
"People are staying off the streets, but Gaza is the most densely populated place in the world - if you throw a stone here, you will injure somebody," he noted.
"There's no place to hide. Nowhere to escape," he said.
Asked if he or other UNWRA workers were at risk, Abu Hasna said: "Yes. It's dangerous".
But staff were still providing primary healthcare and distributing food to the 1.2 million people in Gaza who depended on them to eat, he added.
"We have no alternative. It's our job," he said.
Hamas, the militant Palestinian group which rules Gaza, was also continuing to fire rockets into Israel, he noted.
उइगर मुस्लिमों के उत्पीड़न पर अमेरिका सख्त, 4 चीनी अधिकारियों पर लगाया प्रतिबंध
उइगर मुस्लिमों के उत्पीड़न पर अमेरिका सख्त, 4 चीनी अधिकारियों पर लगाया प्रतिबंध
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वॉशिंगटन: चीन में उइगर मुस्लिमों (Uighur Muslim) पर हो रहे अत्याचार के खिलाफ अमेरिका (America) ने कड़ा रुख अपनाया है. अमेरिका ने एक चीनी संस्था सहित चार शीर्ष अधिकारियों को शिनजियांग प्रांत (Xinjiang region) में उइगरों पर अत्याचार का दोषी ठहराते हुए उन पर प्रतिबंध लगा दिया है. अब ये अधिकारी और इनके परिवार के सदस्य अमेरिका में प्रवेश नहीं कर पाएंगे.