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...“I expect to see a similar situation: fighting, destruction, loss of life . . . but I’m not sure it’ll be the last battle,” said Ibrahim Dalalsha, director of the Horizon Center, a Ramallah-based think-tank...
...I don’t think the audience will listen to me if I’m explicit about what I want to say,” she explains. “We need time to recondition their perceptions and that involves a bit of trial and error.”...
...He knows I’m strong and can withstand it,” he said....
...“I’m sure we’ll be shocked by what we see,” he added....
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...“I’m also not sure there’s enough TNT in Israel to destroy all the tunnels,” he added....
...So fighting has been raging in Khan Younis, which is the biggest town in southern Gaza, and people have been evacuating from Khan Younis and going to Rafah....
...“For 20 years I’ve been covering the stories of other people and their suffering . . . but this time I’m living the story and I’m part of it,” he said....
...The evacuation order appeared to signal preparations for an Israeli offensive against Hamas in and around Khan Younis, Gaza’s second-largest city....
...Three additional officers were reported killed during fierce fighting in the southern city of Khan Younis, bringing the IDF death toll during the ground operation to 219....
...Here’s what else I’m keeping tabs on today: Economic data: The US reports monthly factory orders and Brazil releases its latest consumer prices data....
...“I’m quite sure that hundreds, if not thousands, of Hamas members who are originally from the northern part of Gaza are right now in the south,” said Michael Milstein, a former IDF intelligence official....
...“If I’m offered to go to another place I would go, I wouldn’t hesitate.”...
...Today, athletes from basketball star Kevin Durant to Olympic fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad have issued digital collectibles in their likeness, and sports NFTs are expected to become a $2bn industry in 2022, doubling...
...Younis is among them, having recently swapped his one-bedroom flat near the European Central Bank — which cost him €1,500 a month — to a 45 sq m apartment in the Bornheim neighbourhood for €850 a month....
...He was identified only as M, in accordance with an army censorship order, and his funeral, attended by Israeli president Reuven Rivlin, was held privately....
...I’m not sure.”...
...Ibtihaj Muhammad was drawn to fencing because of the uniform. As a Muslim woman, the sport gives her the ability to compete while covering her head, arms and legs....
...– US Olympian fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad on Trump’s proposed Muslim ban....
...Luckily for me high in the Lord’s media centre, I’m perched next to the former Pakistan and Surrey spin bowler Saqlain Mushtaq....
...I see people all around me, gay and straight, who have decided not to give a stuff about what patriarchy or social convention expects: I’m one of them....
...The Thief, a new hotel in Oslo, features a huge range of contemporary art, while the Andaz in Amsterdam and Citizen M in London both make use of video installations....
...Scattered explosions occurred as polling stations opened at 7 a.m. (0400 GMT)....
...“I have problems when people give me a 100 shekel note for 20 shekels worth of stuff,” says Moussa, a greengrocer in the southern Gaza town of Khan Younis....
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