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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/31830904

By Nidal Al-Mughrabi
June 16, 20255:18 AM EDT

""I was never a fan of Iran, I still don't like them because of their intervention in Gaza and other Arab countries, but seeing them retaliate for real, not a play like in previous times, made me happy, despite all the sadness around me," said Amr Salah, 29.

"It is nothing compared to what Israel did to Gaza, but at least a taste of it. It is maybe time to end all of this, in Gaza too," he added."

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/31830904

By Nidal Al-Mughrabi
June 16, 20255:18 AM EDT

""I was never a fan of Iran, I still don't like them because of their intervention in Gaza and other Arab countries, but seeing them retaliate for real, not a play like in previous times, made me happy, despite all the sadness around me," said Amr Salah, 29.

"It is nothing compared to what Israel did to Gaza, but at least a taste of it. It is maybe time to end all of this, in Gaza too," he added."

 

By Nidal Al-Mughrabi
June 16, 20255:18 AM EDT

""I was never a fan of Iran, I still don't like them because of their intervention in Gaza and other Arab countries, but seeing them retaliate for real, not a play like in previous times, made me happy, despite all the sadness around me," said Amr Salah, 29.

"It is nothing compared to what Israel did to Gaza, but at least a taste of it. It is maybe time to end all of this, in Gaza too," he added."

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/31829941

By Nidal Al-Mughrabi and Dawoud Abu Alkas
June 17, 2025 6:46 AM EDT

Summary

  • Israeli military acknowledges firing, says it is investigating
  • Witnesses say tanks opened fire on crowd
  • Hundreds have been killed trying to get aid in past three weeks
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/31829941

By Nidal Al-Mughrabi and Dawoud Abu Alkas
June 17, 2025 6:46 AM EDT

Summary

  • Israeli military acknowledges firing, says it is investigating
  • Witnesses say tanks opened fire on crowd
  • Hundreds have been killed trying to get aid in past three weeks
 

By Nidal Al-Mughrabi and Dawoud Abu Alkas
June 17, 2025 6:46 AM EDT

Summary

  • Israeli military acknowledges firing, says it is investigating
  • Witnesses say tanks opened fire on crowd
  • Hundreds have been killed trying to get aid in past three weeks
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/31810747

Julius Constantine Motal
Sat 14 Jun 2025 19.58 EDT

 

Julius Constantine Motal
Sat 14 Jun 2025 19.58 EDT

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submitted 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/31809408

Los Angeles is home to the country’s largest population of undocumented immigrants. So when President Trump’s immigration raids arrived, many expected trouble.

By Miriam Jordan, Soumya Karlamangla, Shawn Hubler, Emily Baumgaertner Nunn, Orlando Mayorquín, and Matt Stevens

Reporting from Los Angeles and Washington

Published June 14, 2025 Updated June 16, 2025, 10:14 p.m. ET

"But on June 6, as [ICE] agents swarmed the premises, dozens of employees at the warehouse and at a second facility nearby fled their workstations, ducking between shelves and inside boxes. [...] One of the workers, Tomas [...], who has three U.S.-born, college-educated children and has lived in Los Angeles for three decades, texted his son Carlos at around 10 a.m. [...] When Carlos arrived at the downtown warehouse a few minutes later, [he] was already gone. Carlos stood in disbelief as his father’s co-workers were hauled away and their loved ones screamed, cried and bid them goodbye."

https://archive.ph/wip/wtpwL

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Los Angeles is home to the country’s largest population of undocumented immigrants. So when President Trump’s immigration raids arrived, many expected trouble.

By Miriam Jordan, Soumya Karlamangla, Shawn Hubler, Emily Baumgaertner Nunn, Orlando Mayorquín, and Matt Stevens

Reporting from Los Angeles and Washington

Published June 14, 2025 Updated June 16, 2025, 10:14 p.m. ET

"But on June 6, as [ICE] agents swarmed the premises, dozens of employees at the warehouse and at a second facility nearby fled their workstations, ducking between shelves and inside boxes. [...] One of the workers, Tomas [...], who has three U.S.-born, college-educated children and has lived in Los Angeles for three decades, texted his son Carlos at around 10 a.m. [...] When Carlos arrived at the downtown warehouse a few minutes later, [he] was already gone. Carlos stood in disbelief as his father’s co-workers were hauled away and their loved ones screamed, cried and bid them goodbye."

https://archive.ph/wip/wtpwL

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/31807844

By Jennifer Medina
Reporting from Los Angeles
June 15, 2025

[with videos]

"One agent soon twisted Jason Brian Gavidia’s arm and pressed him against a black metal fence outside the lot where he runs an auto body shop in Montebello, a working-class suburb east of the Los Angeles city limits. Another officer then asked him an unusual question to prove whether he was a U.S. citizen or an undocumented #immigrant.

“What hospital were you born at?” the Border Patrol agent asked.

Mr. Gavidia, 29, was born only a short drive from where they were standing.... He did not know the hospital’s name. “I was born here,” he shouted at the agent, adding, “I’m an American, bro!”"

https://archive.ph/dBqBO

 

By Jennifer Medina
Reporting from Los Angeles
June 15, 2025

[with videos]

"One agent soon twisted Jason Brian Gavidia’s arm and pressed him against a black metal fence outside the lot where he runs an auto body shop in Montebello, a working-class suburb east of the Los Angeles city limits. Another officer then asked him an unusual question to prove whether he was a U.S. citizen or an undocumented #immigrant.

“What hospital were you born at?” the Border Patrol agent asked.

Mr. Gavidia, 29, was born only a short drive from where they were standing.... He did not know the hospital’s name. “I was born here,” he shouted at the agent, adding, “I’m an American, bro!”"

https://archive.ph/dBqBO

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Foolish votes maybe, but not fools, if they are showing solidarity with their neighbor and coworker who happens to be undocumented. This is progress, and they will be further awakened when Trump attacks Medicaid and Medicare.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Yes, it always was, but the fact that staunch Zionists acknowledge it now is another step forward in public opinion, and will make it politically more difficult to attack the Palestinian solidarity movement.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

The hashtags were added in Mastodon and I forgot to remove them in Lemmy, sorry.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I think that you're missing the point here. People who had some vision of ICE taking out violent criminals now see something different and they they are taking a stand against it. And it's not happening to them, but to a single Chinese worker who they all love. That's solidarity, even if they may not call it such. Something similar happened in NY state in the town of the border czar.

These events give me hope for the future. There is no point at all in finger-wagging at Trump voters. When the tariffs and Medicaid cuts come down, we will see many more people's consciousness change.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Just removed them - sorry about that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I'm pretty sure that you can click by that and still read the full article.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

OK, thanks for the heads-up.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Most of us here know that, but many others beyond the Fediverse are still not convinced. Video documentation and expert testimony of horrible crimes is often effective in changing public opinion.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Yes, it did change. But I still think that your concern is misplaced and that the Guardian's error came nowhere close to misinformation.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago

Totally wasted sarcasm.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Right here. Biden's policies greatly strengthened Israel and directly helped the genocide.

Is Trump worse? I think yes. But that is still no reason to gloat or to think that endlessly supporting the lesser evil is going to produce any real changes that the world needs.

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