Israeli attack kills sons of Hamas chief Haniyeh
‘The Israelis want to send a message to Hamas’
Yosri Ghoul, a journalist in Gaza, spoke to Al Jazeera about the Israeli strike that killed at least six members of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh’s family.
He said witnesses in the Gaza beach camp described an Israeli attack that targeted the car carrying his sons and grandchildren.
He said they were on their way to visit a family member to celebrate Eid.
When Ghoul arrived on the scene, he saw several bodies, badly disfigured, and one person who was severely injured.
Ghoul said that the Israeli military had previously targeted cousins and nephews of Haniyeh, but this was the first time they had targeted his children.
“It seems that the Israelis want to send a message to Ismail [Haniyeh] and Hamas that the Israelis will target the families of Hamas leaders in north Gaza and also in south Gaza,” he said.
Students in Iran threatened with prosecution for graduation dance video
Al-Zahra University in Bushehr will pursue legal action, says its president, in a move labelled ‘absurd’ by human rights lawyers
A group of Iranian students have been threatened with prosecution after a video of them dancing after their graduation emerged on social media this week.
In the now viral video, a group of about 11 female students from Al-Zahra University in the coastal city of Bushehr, in south-west Iran, were seen dancing and riding a motorcycle.
The university’s president, Zahra Hajiani, told the Iranian Students news agency (ISNA) that the video had been made “without coordination and obtaining permission from the university” and was an “illegal activity”.
Myanmar: Rebel fighters pressure junta at border hub
The Myanmar military and an ethnic minority armed group have clashed for a second day near Myawaddy — an important frontier trading point. Thailand has said it is prepared for tens of thousands of refugees.
Fighters led by the Karen National Union (KNU) on Wednesday fought Myanmar junta soldiers around the frontier town of Myawaddy as Thailand prepared for an influx of refugees from the hotspot.
The alliance of groups opposed to the country's ruling military junta has already inflicted heavy losses on Myanmar's army around the vital trade hub, through which more than $1.1 billion (around €1 billion) worth of trade passes annually.
What we know so far
The KNU said on Saturday that it had taken control of a military base about 10 kilometers (6 miles) to the west of Myawaddy and that hundreds of soldiers, police, and their families had surrendered.
Top Navalny ally Volkov says 'very clear' attack on him was ordered by Kremlin
FRANCE 24 spoke to Leonid Volkov, former chief of staff to the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. On March 12, Volkov was assaulted in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius, where he has lived in exile since 2019. "I was attacked by someone with a hammer in the dark in front of my house," Volkov said, explaining that he was left with a badly injured leg and broken hand. "It's very clear for me that [the attack] has been an order from [the] Kremlin", he added, saying that "every evidence that I have shows this". The Russian dissident also explained that he receives online threats "pretty much daily".
Morocco drought: Satellite images show vital Al Massira reservoir is shrinking
By Sophie Abdulla, BBC News
Morocco's second-largest reservoir that serves some of its major cities and has been central to farm irrigation is drying up, according to satellite images analysed by the BBC.
Al Massira Dam, which sits around halfway between Casablanca and Marrakesh, contains just 3% of the average amount of water that was there nine years ago, figures show.
Six consecutive years of drought and climate change, which causes record temperatures that lead to more evaporation, have threatened water supplies across the North African nation and hit agriculture and the economy in general.
Power to the people? Bolivia’s hunt for gas targets national parks – and divides communities
Fossil fuel exports were meant to fund a revolutionary leftist agenda. But the state’s move to drill in Tariquía reserve has led to bitter conflict and diminishing returns
Photographs by Marcelo Pérez del Carpio
In the far southeast of Bolivia, the cloud forest of the Tariquía reserve is accessible only by a few dirt paths that quickly become impassable with heavy rain. Local people say that, not so long ago, it could be a two-day horse ride just to communicate with the outside world.
That remoteness helped preserve Tariquía. But this protected area is now the frontline for Bolivia’s extractive activities, as the leftist government of Luis Arce scours the country for gas reserves that could keep its fossil-fuel model of development running – whether or not communities welcome drilling.
“[Exploitation of] Tariquía was inevitable with the continuation of that [extractivist] model,” says Dr Penelope Anthias, a Durham University geographer who has worked in the reserve. “Protected areas are the new extractive frontier.”
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