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Gaza patients in limbo amid Israel’s ‘pilot reopening’ of Rafah crossing | Israel-Palestine conflict

Gaza patients in limbo amid Israel’s ‘pilot reopening’ of Rafah crossing | Israel-Palestine conflict

Published by Sam Flores

Gaza City – With what remains of her wounded forearms, Nebal al-Hessi scrolls on her phone to follow news updates on the reopening of the Rafah land crossing from her family’s tent in an-Nazla, Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip. Nebal’s hands were amputated in an Israeli artillery attack on the home where she had taken shelter with her husband and her daughter in the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, on October 7, 2024. Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list More than a year later, the 25-year-old mother is one of thousands of wounded people placing their hopes on the reopening of the Rafah crossing between Gaza and Egypt as they seek access to adequate medical treatment outside the besieged Palestinian territory. “It’s been a year and five months since I got injured … Every day, I think about tomorrow, that I might travel, but I don’t know,” Nebal tells Al Jazeera in a quiet voice. Recalling the attack, Nebal says she was sitting on her bed holding her baby daughter Rita, …

The House Article | How Thousands Of Ukrainian Children In The UK Are Growing Up In Limbo

The House Article | How Thousands Of Ukrainian Children In The UK Are Growing Up In Limbo

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More than 60,000 Ukrainian children have now spent at least past of their education in the UK since 2022 (Alamy) 8 min read27 min More than 60,000 Ukrainian children have grown up in the UK since fleeing Russia’s full-scale invasion. Zoe Crowther explores how the absence of a long-term settlement plan is leaving these children and their families in limbo When Alisa Cooper fled Kharkiv in eastern Ukraine to the UK in 2022, her son Kupriian was five years old. Kupriian is now nine and only speaks English fluently. In the four years since leaving Ukraine, Britain has become the place where he learnt to read, make friends and feel safe. “He hated me a lot at the very beginning of reception [class], and it was really hard for him – the whole process of adaptation, of learning how to speak, how to read, to do spelling,” Cooper says. “We struggled a lot, but four years passed, and now English is his primary language. His mindset is different from my Ukrainian …

The group fighting back amid Kent’s ‘water limbo’ – which they blame on South East Water | UK News

The group fighting back amid Kent’s ‘water limbo’ – which they blame on South East Water | UK News

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Water fights are supposed to be fun – but the anger, indignation, and exasperation in Tunbridge Wells mean this one will be feisty. “They have left us in water limbo,” organiser Jonathan Hawker told a packed bar of over 100 residents on Wednesday night. “And that’s no way to live in 2026.” It was the first big public meeting led by Dry Wells Action – a newly established community fightback group. They’ve had over three years of disrupted water supplies in Kent and East Sussex that have come to a head this winter. Image: There’s growing anger among locals in Tunbridge Wells Although most people are now reconnected, lengthy outages in December and January mean residents fear further water cuts are just inevitable. They did invite South East Water (SEW) to come along, but they failed to send anyone. “Their communications are just tragic,” one businessman noted, “but you all know that!” “It’s very disappointing SEW didn’t send a representative here to speak to the community – that’s the least they could have done,” Syed …

How a uranium supply coveted by Russia ended up in limbo in Niger

How a uranium supply coveted by Russia ended up in limbo in Niger

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