A record-breaking surge of illegal crossings along the US-Mexico border is overwhelming the Border Patrol. More than 10,000 migrants have crossed daily in recent days – largely into the southwestern states of Texas and Arizona. Al Jazeera’s Julia Galiano reports from Mexico City. Subscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/AJEnglish Find us…
Israel’s army is preventing Palestinian medics from transporting the wounded in Jenin, a city in the occupied West Bank which has faced the biggest Israeli raids since the Gaza war began. Ambulance staff say their own lives are at risk as they try to save the lives of others. Subscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Follow…
Warning that this report contains disturbing images. Bulldozers of the Israeli occupation forces have destroyed the Sheikh Shaban cemetery in as-Saha neighbourhood in eastern Gaza. The dead have been exhumed and crushed under the bulldozers … it is not the first time the occupation forces bulldozed cemeteries – destroying graves, exhuming the dead bodies, and…
The UK’s backlog of dealing with refugee claims is at its highest this year. It’s a hot political issue that’s threatened to derail the government. The delays can have a devastating impact on families seeking asylum. Al Jazeera spoke to a Sudanese woman desperate to be reunited with her sons. Al Jazeera’s Jonah Hull reports…
More than 70 journalists have been killed since the Israel-Gaza war broke out on October 7. Among them, Al Jazeera cameraman Samer Abudaqa, who was killed in an Israeli attack in southern Gaza on December 15. Al Jazeera reporter Carmen Joukhadar was injured in an Israeli air strike in Lebanon on October 13. She talks…
More than 20 people have been killed and hundreds of others displaced by floods in several districts in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The met department says unprecedented rains dumped more than 20 times the volume of water usually seen during this time of year bringing life to a standstill. Al Jazeera’s Minelle…
It has been nearly five months since the coup in Niger ousted president Mohammed Bazoum. The military takeover resulted in sanctions imposed by the regional bloc ECOWAS, including border closures and trade restrictions. They have led to hyperinflation for millions of people already struggling with food shortages. Al Jazeera’s Ahmed Idris reports from the capital…
Israel is stepping up its military operations – air attacks striking deeper into Lebanon. Overnight, it targeted a site in the Iqlim al-Tuffah region approximately 20km (12 miles) from the border, an area where Hezbollah has military assets. That could have been in response to Hezbollah firing surface-to-air missiles that exploded close to Israeli helicopters…
Nebal Farsakh, a media communications officer at the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS), has told Al Jazeera that her organisation’s ambulance centre in Gaza’s Jabalia has been under siege for two days. “There is artillery shelling, and gunfire has been going on from the Israeli occupation forces since yesterday. There is no way anyone can…
The Qatar-based media network is holding a memorial for its journalist and cameraman Samer Abudaqa, who was killed last week by an Israeli drone attack while covering an earlier strike on a school in Khan Younis. “Many of them [journalists in Gaza] were asked to leave but they preferred to stay including our fallen colleague…