Conflict and Carnage in Yucatan: Liberals, the Second Empire, and Maya Revolutionaries, 1855-1876

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The village’s men were at a counting station in a nearby town. Able-bodied women grabbed their children and fled. Mek, who has a permanently injured foot and deformities in both hands, could not. Qatar condemned the Israeli military for raiding Gaza's Al-Shifa Hospital — an action it described as “a war crime and a blatant violation of international laws.” It's not just Israel that says Hamas has built its fortifications, its terror network, its command and control under the Shifa hospital. That's being corroborated independently by the US government, both from the White House and the Pentagon,” Mark Regev, a senior adviser to the Israeli prime minister, told CNN. Gazan child speaks of having to carry decapitated body after Israeli strike on Jabalia (via The Irish Times)

A Palestinian prisoner has died, bringing to 6 the number of prisoners who died in Israeli prisons since October 7, the Palestinian news Agency WAFA said late on Saturday, Reuters reports. Thaer Samih Abu Assab, who has been detained in 2005 and sentenced to 25 years in jail, died in the Negev desert prison, the agency said, quoting the Palestinian Commission of Detainees Affairs. Community representatives are brought together in peacetime to discuss and propose rules for future conflicts. The rules are taken to district governments for potential legislation, before being disseminated among the population. Jordan’s foreign minister Ayman Safadi stated that Arab troops would not go into Gaza to assume control after the war. [353] 19 November The first machine guns were successfully mounted on planes in June of 1912 in the United States, but were imperfect; if timed incorrectly, a bullet could easily destroy the propeller of the plane it came from. The Morane-Saulnier L, a French plane, provided a solution: The propeller was armored with deflector wedges that prevented bullets from hitting it. The Morane-Saulnier Type L was used by the French, the British Royal Flying Corps (part of the Army), the British Royal Navy Air Service and the Imperial Russian Air Service. The British Bristol Type 22 was another popular model used for both reconnaissance work and as a fighter plane.Because mighty Russia supported Serbia, Austria-Hungary waited to declare war until its leaders received assurance from German leader Kaiser Wilhelm II that Germany would support their cause. Austro-Hungarian leaders feared that a Russian intervention would involve Russia’s ally, France, and possibly Great Britain as well. Internet and telecom services were restored after Israel reportedly agreed to allow the delivery of 140,000 liters of fuel into the Gaza Strip every two days following a request by the US to do so, [348] consisting of 20,000 liters to be delivered to Jawwal and Paltel to maintain telecom and internet service and 120,000 liters for water desalination, sewage pumping, food production and hospitals. [349] It was reported that the body of Noa Marciano, a 19-year-old soldier who was taken captive on 7 October, was found in a building near al-Shifa hospital. [350] 18 November

They put a knife to me, they took me out and raped me,” Mek says. “I refused, I argued, but they slept here and ate here and then they continued on. Only 20 percent of Palestinians in Gaza, despite (or perhaps because) of living under Hamas rule since 2007, favored such a “military solution” to the conflict. Fifty-four percent supported a two-state solution along the lines envisaged by the 1993 Oslo agreements, with a Palestinian state in what are now the occupied territories living alongside Israel. That’s a remarkable level of support given how implausible such a scenario appears to have become, particularly given the Israeli government’s stated commitment to eventual large-scale annexation in the West Bank and categorical rejection of meaningful Palestinian independence. Hamas' actions have resulted in it being designated as a terrorist organization by a number of western powers, including the United States, United Kingdom, European Union and others. [101] [102] [103] China, [104] Turkey, [105] Russia [106] and other countries do not regard Hamas as such. A 2018 attempt to condemn Hamas for "acts of terror" at the United Nations failed to achieve the required two thirds majority, with 87 votes in favor, 58 votes against, 32 abstentions and 16 non-votes. [107] Israeli policy In a new op-ed in the Washington Post on Saturday, US president Joe Biden said that the Palestinian Authority should govern Gaza and the West Bank following the war between Israel and Hamas.Provinces are at different stages of progress but Khasaia says people are responding positively to the idea of everyone returning to traditional rules of engagement. After that I started screaming. I was still screaming until a fellow from the other village heard my screams and came into rescue, and other people … came and helped me out.”

By the war’s end, the Allies were producing five times more aircraft than the Germans. On April 1, 1918, the British created the Royal Air Force, or RAF, the first air force to be a separate military branch independent from the navy or army. Second Battle of the Marne The Abducted and Missing Families Forum, an Israeli group representing the families of those taken hostage in Gaza, said that they supported a blanket release of all Palestinian prisoners in exchange for the return of all Israeli hostages held in Gaza. [284] The leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Yahya Sinwar, said the group was prepared to release all Israeli hostages in return for the release of all Palestinian prisoners. The IDF spokesman dismissed the report as "psychological terror cynically used by Hamas to create pressure". [285] After all, it was the divide-and-rule policy towards Palestinians propagated and instituted by the Israeli right that focused on keeping not only the PA in the West Bank but Hamas in Gaza in power, deeply divided and at each other's throats, weak and contained. Israel thought it had Hamas under control and the Palestinians so profoundly divided that peace negotiations were plausibly deemed pointless. But this policy is exactly what, predictably if not indeed inevitably, produced the Oct. 7 massacres. Netanyahu had stated in an interview with CBS that the Israeli government had "strong indications” that hostages were in al-Shifa, which was one of the reasons they entered the hospital. [342] It was reported that the body of Yehudit Weiss, a 65-year-old woman who was kidnapped from Be’eri kibbutz, was found in a building near the hospital. [343] [344] The WHO has expressed deep concern about the situation for patients and health workers and has called for an immediate ceasefire and the flow of humanitarian assistance.Visual artists like Otto Dix of Germany and British painters Wyndham Lewis, Paul Nash and David Bomberg used their firsthand experience as soldiers in World War I to create their art, capturing the anguish of trench warfare and exploring the themes of technology, violence and landscapes decimated by war. The Eastern Front In a new op-ed in the Washington Post on Saturday, US president Joe Biden said that the Palestinian Authority should govern Gaza and the West Bank following the war between Israel and Hamas. “Gaza and the West Bank should be reunited under a single governance structure, ultimately under a revitalized Palestinian Authority, as we all work toward a two-state solution,” he wrote. Evidence: In a follow up exchange with CNN, Biden told MJ Lee, “Yes,” he was absolutely confident based on intelligence he’d seen that Hamas was operating a command center under the Al-Shifa hospital, but declined to share details on the evidence. Kurti “provokes all the time, I’m sorry that some of the Serbs fell for these provocations. Kurti is the only culprit, the only person who wants conflict and war,” Vucic told media. By the time James V. Forrestal became the country's first secretary of defense, he was showing the strains of nearly eight years of government service. As his biographers point out, Forrestal had become something of an automaton, a workaholic who could neither relax on the job nor retreat to the haven of a happy family. He and his wife led essentially separate lives. She was a schizophrenic whose bizarre behavior, including vulgar language, chronic breakdowns, and alcoholism, grew worse with each year of their marriage. He was a promiscuous Lothario whose private affairs revealed a cynical and secretive personality that became increasingly unstable in the Machiavellian world of the National Military Establishment.