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Conflict Observer
5y ago
First published in French on January 20, 2019 under the title “Les violences de Gaza”
In 2018, the State of Israel celebrated 70 years. 70 years since the War of Independence for some, since the Nakba (“catastrophe”) for others. It is 70 springs, three or four generations, a grandfather who has cultivated lands he wished to own, a grandmother who has kept her keys, “just in case”.
Seven decades later, despite moments more tense than others, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has never seemed so latent. From one side or the other, daily life is paced by a persistent conflict that is now sin ..read more
Conflict Observer
6y ago
The Turkish army is preparing to storm the Syrian city of Afrin, in the north of Syria, in order to attack and “eliminate” the People’s Protection Units (YPG), a Kurdish fighting force frequently described as a “terrorist” organization by Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the president of Turkey,
Alan Fisher, journalist for Al-Jazeera based in Gaziantep, Turkey, reports that fighters from the Free Syrian Army (FSA) were fighting alongside the Turkish soldiers and that both armed groups now surround the Kurdish town of Afrin :
“There were people who said they wanted to help the YPG against the FSA and the ..read more