Dylan, a four year old migrant from Mexico, smiles while playing with his aunt Daniela, 24, as his parents Ivan, 22, and Rubi, 22, sleep on the left after the Rivera family crossed the Border Wall into the United States from Mexico in Ruby, Arizona. REUTERS/Adrees Latif
How chess offers DRC’s displaced children respite from conflict
Gabriel Nzaji teaches internally displaced Congolese children the rules of chess as part of the Chess in the City initiative at Focus Congo site in Kibati, near Goma. The aim is for youngsters traumatised by violence to learn the game for pleasure and to develop critical thinking skills. They set up using a waterproof, foldable chessboard. Photograph: Arlette Bashizi/Reuters
A child migrant looks past clouds reflecting off the side window of a Border Patrol vehicle after she was apprehended with others for crossing into the United States from Mexico in Ruby, Arizona. REUTERS/Adrees Latif
430 high school students have been killed in Gaza.
12,500 students have been wounded.
350 teachers have been killed.
286 out of 307 school buildings are damaged.
A Palestinian girl poses with a wedding dress found amid the rubble of buildings destroyed during Israeli bombardment in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, on June 20 [Bashar Taleb/AFP]
‘This photo captures novice monks at around 6am as they wake up to collect alms. Each morning, these young #monks follow a tradition that is centuries old.
Photograph: Will Langston
A teenage boy carries his young sister to school past the burnt-out remains of a car in the Canape Vert neighbourhood. About 580,000 Haitians have fled their homes owing to gang violence but many are hoping the new government will bring a reprieve to the country’s crisis
Israeli cabinet discusses punitive measures against #UN agencies
🔶️ Months of tensions boil over after UN chief adds Israeli military to #blacklist for failing to protect #children in conflict
🔶️ Benjamin #Netanyahu’s government has discussed far-reaching measures against UN agencies operating in Israel and the Palestinian territories, including the possible expulsion of staff, according to five people familiar with the matter.
🔶️ The UN has slammed Israel for not doing enough to protect either the organisation’s own humanitarian personnel in Gaza or Palestinian civilians, with #Guterres calling Gaza a “graveyard for children”.
This is not Pol Pot. This is not ISIS, or some ancient evil act we read in history books. This is the results of what "only democracy in middle east" is doing right now.
“Everything about Israel is fake. It’s a completely synthetic nation created without any regard for the organic sociopolitical movements of the land and its people, slapped rootless atop an ancient pre-existing civilization with deep roots. That’s why it cannot exist without being artificially propped up by nonstop propaganda, lobbying, online influence operations, and mass military violence.”
They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky: The True Story of Three Lost Boys From Sudan by Benjamin Ajak & Benson Deng & Alephonsion Deng & Judy A. Bernstein, 2015
The inspiring story of three young Sudanese boys who were driven from their homes by civil war and began an epic odyssey of survival, facing life-threatening perils, ultimately finding their way to a new life in America.
⭕️Numerous military offensives in recent weeks have led to recurrent mass casualty influxes at #MSF-supported medical facilities in Rafah and the Middle Area of Gaza.
⭕️How can the killing of more than 800 people in a single week, including small #children, plus the maiming of hundreds more, be considered a military operation adhering to international #humanitarian law?,
⭕️ Israel repeatedly bombed so-called safe zones, #refugee camps, a school and multiple humanitarian warehouses, which were formally registered as ‘deconflicted’ by Israeli forces.
⭕️We call on Israel’s allies, including the #US, $UK, and #EU member states, to do everything in their power to influence Israel to stop attacks on civilians and civilian infrastructure in Gaza.
Today in Writing History June 10, 1928: Maurice Sendak, author of “Where the Wild Things Are,” was born in Brooklyn, New York. A little boy once sent him a card with a drawing on it. Sendak was so moved he sent the boy another letter with his own personal “Wild Thing” drawn on it. The boy’s mother sent Sendak a thank you note saying that her son loved the card so much he ate it. Sendak considered that one of the highest compliments he ever received. Sendak was an atheist Jew who lost numerous family members in the Holocaust. He was also gay.
National guard soldiers stand in the background as Michel, from #Venezuela, protects her seven-year-old daughter Aranza at the border between Ciudad Juarez and El Paso in Texas.
A woman sits with her #children amid debris in an area affected by #floods. Flooding caused by torrential rain and fierce winds on South Africa’s eastern coast killed at least 22 people.
#Oxfam has warned that Palestinians displaced by the Israeli war on Gaza are living in appalling conditions, with #children often going hungry for a whole day and thousands sharing the same toilet.