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Tuesday, 13 June
00:30
Joint Room and Unity of the Squares: What Will the Next Israeli War on Gaza Look Like "ConflictWatch Feed Palestine"
In an exclusive interview with Al Jazeera Net Arabic, Ayman Nofal, Commander of Military Relations and a member of the General Military Council of Hamass military arm, Qassam Brigades, spoke about the last Israeli war on Gaza and the future wars.
A new political discourse has been shaped around the unity of the Palestinian Resistance in Gaza and the West Bank. This unity discourse was not a random occurrence, but an outcome of a process that began in 2018, when leading military arms of the Palestinian movement formed the Joint Operations Room of Resistance Factions.
Since then, the reference to Palestinian unity shifted from that of political unity namely between leading Palestinian groups, Hamas and Fatah to the unification of armed resistance. Later, another term emerged, Wihdat al-Sahat, or the Unity of the Squares, which expanded the concept of unity to reach all forms of resistance throughout Palestine.
In an exclusive interview with Al Jazeera Net Arabic, Ayman Nofal, Commander of Military Relations and a member of the General Military Council of Hamass military arm, Qassam Brigades, spoke about the last Israeli war on Gaza in May and the future wars.
Here are selected topics and translated comments based on the interview. For the full interview (Arabic), click here.
New Rules of Engagement: How Palestinians Defeated Netanyahu and Redefined Unity
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Monday, 12 June
18:20
New digital tool maps blue carbon ecosystems in high resolution "IndyWatch Feed Enviro"
When Hurricane Dorian blazed its trail of destruction through the Bahamas in 2019, it ravaged the countrys mangroves. Almost overnight, coastal communities were deprived of a natural barrier that protected them from high tides and storm surges. Since then, several nonprofits and local organizations have taken up restoration projects to revive mangroves in the island nation. But given the scale of destruction, where do you begin? How do you determine which areas to prioritize? Florida-based nonprofit Perry Institute for Marine Sciences used a recently developed online tool to answer these questions. The Blue Carbon Explorer mapped out mangroves in the Bahamas, including a color-coded depiction of how their health had changed over time: red for mangrove loss, black for no change and green for mangrove growth. With the help of this data, the Perry team was able to pinpoint areas where mangroves had degraded and were not likely to recover naturally and used this information to prioritize sites for restoration. The team is currently working with local groups to try out a suite of methods to restore mangroves in the worst-affected areas, including direct planting, letting waves disperse propagules naturally and dropping propagules from drones in hard-to-reach areas. The data in the tool found degraded mangroves that are more isolated from the healthier ones, Valerie Pietsch McNulty, conservation scientist at the nonprofit Nature Conservancy, told Mongabay in a video interview. Those areas are less likely to recover naturally because they arent close to a seed source. The Blue CarbonThis article was originally published on Mongabay
02:33
Nothing but Smiles: Water City Brings Joy to the Children of Gaza "ConflictWatch Feed Palestine"
Water City is the brainchild of woman interceptor Hiba al-Hindi. She designed it with the hope of bringing joy and smiles to the face of children in the besieged and war-torn Gaza Strip.
At first glance, the project was a success. Hundreds of children came from throughout the Gaza Strip and were already enjoying the first park of its kind.
The Palestine Chronicle spent hours at Water City and recorded numerous moments of true joy and innocence.
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Sunday, 11 June
23:34
De Onthullende Yoeri Albrecht Affaire 10 "IndyWatch Feed War"
22:30
The case for the One Democratic State Initiative as a counter-hegemonic endeavor "ConflictWatch Feed Palestine"
Proponents of the One Democratic State Initiative call
on armed factions, BDS groups, and activists to keep doing what
they're doing, but as part of a liberation movement that aims at
imposing a transition from Zionism to democracy.
18:52
Extraordinary Exhibition in Gaza Turns Destroyed Home into Art (PHOTOS) "ConflictWatch Feed Palestine"
The art form used in the event varied greatly, as some artists painted, and others wrote or sculpted.
Even before the rubble was fully removed from some of the destroyed houses in Gaza, Palestinian artists found creative ways to express their outrage, grief, and defiance.
Many of the partly or completely shattered walls of the houses are now artistic expressions for many artists who participated in the Occupation Kills Childhood, which is scheduled to last for five days.
The art form used in the event varied greatly, as some artists painted, and others wrote or sculpted.
On one wall, a Palestinian child appears to be emerging from the rubble, sobbing while covered in blood. Israeli warplanes are circulating above.
Another wall featured a little girl combing her hair; a third of a fist, exemplifying defiance; and a fourth of Israeli missiles blowing up homes.
The reality was not much different from art only a few weeks ago, when on May 9, Israeli warplanes launched a deadly war on the besieged Gaza Strip, killing 33 Palestinians and wounding hundreds more. Among the victims were six children.
The Open air exhibition took place in Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, where much of the Israeli attacks took place.
On the other side of the exhibition, remnants of Israeli missiles and rockets were also put on display, a reminder of the cruelty of war that doesnt distinguish between a fighter and a civilian.
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01:08
The World Food Program suspends food aid for 8,000 families in Gaza, citing lack of funds "IndyWatch Feed War"
The UN's World Food Program has provided food aid to
8,000 families in Gaza suffering from food insecurity, but is now
suspending support due to budget cuts. As a result, many families
in Gaza will go hungry.
Saturday, 10 June
17:00
Unraveling the Secrets of the Long-Lost Shipwrecks in the Bahamas "IndyWatch Feed Tech"
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Unraveling the Secrets of the Long-Lost Shipwrecks in the Bahamas
05:48
The Other Side of the Story: How Evolution Impacts the Environment "IndyWatch Feed Tech"
The story of the peppered moths is a textbook evolutionary tale. As coal smoke darkened tree bark near England's cities during the Industrial Revolution, white-bodied peppered moths became conspicuous targets for predators and their numbers quickly dwindled. Meanwhile, black-bodied moths, which had been rare, thrived and became dominant in their newly darkened environment.
The peppered moths became a classic example of how environmental change drives species evolution. But in recent years, scientists have begun thinking about the inverse process. Might there be a feedback loop in which species evolution drives ecological change? Now, a new study by researchers at the University of Rhode Island shows some of the best evidence yet for that very phenomenon.
In research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the researchers show that an evolutionary change in the length of lizards' legs can have a significant impact on vegetation growth and spider populations on small islands in the Bahamas. This is one of the first times, the researchers say, that such dramatic evolution-to-environment effects have been documented in a natural setting.
[...] Armed with specialized lizard wrangling gearpoles with tiny lassos made of dental floss at the endthe team captured hundreds of brown anoles. They then measured the leg length of each lizard, keeping the ones whose limbs were either especially long or especially short and returning the rest to the wild. Once they had distinct populations of short- and long-limbed lizards, they set each population free on islands that previously had no lizards living on them.
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