Israel: At least 37 Palestinians been killed 1000 wounded US Embassy move to Jerusalem

May 14, 2018 By administrator

At least 37 Palestinians have been killed and hundreds injured during clashes with Israeli forces along the Gaza border. Protests have amplified as the opening ceremony for the US Embassy in Jerusalem gets underway.

Fresh clashes between Israeli troops and Palestinians broke out on Monday on the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel, as protesters reached the climax of a six-week protest against the US moving its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.

Gaza’s health ministry said 37 Palestinians were shot and killed by the Israeli army — including a 14-year-old, leading the Palestinian government to accuse Israel of committing a “terrible massacre” in Gaza.

Palestinian government spokesman Yusuf al-Mahmoud in a statement called for “an immediate international intervention to stop the terrible massacre in Gaza committed by the forces of the Israeli occupation against our heroic people.”

It is the deadliest day in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict since 2014.

Conflicting sources have put the number of injured at between 227 and 500. The ministry said 200 were wounded by live fire.The Israeli army said in a statement its forces are “responding with riot dispersal means and fire, and are operating according to standard operating procedures” in response to “10,000 violent rioters.”

Jerusalem US Embassy opens Monday

Some 35,000 Palestinians have gathered at 10 different points along the border to protest the moving of the US Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to the disputed city of Jerusalem.

A lavish ceremony is due to take place later on Monday to mark the occasion.

The US decision has infuriated the Palestinians, who seek east Jerusalem as a future capital.

Aleppo-Armenians desperate to move to Yerevan, ask for help

October 7, 2016 By administrator

Aleppo Compatriotic Charitable Organization has officially asked for help from Armenia and Diaspora-based benefactors in taking Aleppo-Armenians out of war-torn Syria.

According to the organization, 600 hundred letters from families in Aleppo have already been received, asking for help to reach Armenia.

Given security concerns, those people will first be moved to Lebanon by land to later be transferred to Armenia by air.

In a statement Thursday, October 6, the NGO called on the philanthropists to help those displaced reach Armenia from Lebanon.

According to the organization, each of the Armenians needs $500 for the trip.

Aleppo, including the Armenian districts there, have repeatedly fallen under missile and rocket attacks over the past five years. Dozens of Armenians have been killed, hundreds more wounded so far.

Move: Scandal Parajanov: theatrical release on January 7

January 6, 2015 By administrator

On January 7, the film comes out in theaters Serge Avedikian: The Scandal Parajanov or the tumultuous life of a Soviet artist. I report here this bright film about a mischievous and unclassifiable creator. I also mentioned my meeting in Yerevan (Armenia), four years before his death, with the director censored and suppressed by the Soviet power.

When passing Serge Avedikian in civilian life, one can not imagine he interprets Sergei Parajanov: Yet the transformation is amazing, it really seems to see come to life before our eyes of spectators marveled author fiery horses.

The story of the film begins in Kiev in 1958 precisely during the filming of Horses, and later in Yerevan Sayat Nova. In 1973, he was imprisoned in Ukraine, as the authorities seek to destroy with the perversity of zeks (common law prisoners). But Parajanov is a holy man. He is an artist and he will give zeks drawings, playing cards porn, to their great joy. So, they will protect it. It holds up through this activity. If he is imprisoned is that the authorities accused him his homosexuality under Article 121 of the Soviet Constitution.

Tuesday, January 6, 2015,
Jean Eckian © armenews.com

Fatih Akin’s Film on Armenian Genocide Opens in Turkey amid Security

December 5, 2014 By administrator

ISTANBUL—German Turkish filmmaker Fatih Akin’s movie “The Cut” premiered in Turkey on Thursday amid high security and high praise. The Radikal newspaper reported that Akin was accompanied by seven bodyguards at the premiere of the movie and the following evening. The premiere of the movie with a total budget of $20 million was attended by a number of celebrities. Prominent Armenian photographer from Istanbul Ara Güler was also present at the event.

Several Turkish actors and directors shared their opinions of the film in interviews with Agos Weekly following the preview in Turkey. The actors and directors have praised the film devoted to the Armenian Genocide.

“The film presents the historic events that have been completely overlooked. It’s safe to say that it was a very daring film. It’s very hard to make a film that presents a tragedy,” Turkish actress Serra Yılmaz said.

The story offers a window onto the Armenian Genocide which started in 1915 and led to the death of 1.5 Million Armenians and consequently their displacement across the world.

The story follows Nazaret Manoogian, an Armenian blacksmith played by Tahar Rahim, who is separated from his family when he is forced into labor for the Ottoman Empire. He survives the mass killings but loses his ability to speak and begins to search for his family members who he learns were on a death march. When he finds out that his daughters are alive, he resumes his journey searching for his daughters once again.

The film follows Akin’s previous films, Head On (2004) and Edge of Heaven (2007), as the third installment in a semi-connected series.

As we follow the journey, and witness the atrocities, we are speechless just like Nazaret who lost his ability to speak, as though he is also simply just watching like us as the tragedy unfolds.

3,000 ISIS fighters reportedly cross into Iraq as Kurdish forces prepare to fight

October 7, 2014 By administrator

Three thousand Islamic State fighters have crossed over into Iraq from Syria, the Anbar Provincial Council reports from western Iraq. However, while desperate for outside help other than airstrikes, Kurdish forces are readying for battle.

“We received intelligence information indicating that 3,000 militants of the ISIS group had crossed the borders with Syria and arrived in Anbar through al-Mosul city,” council leader Sabah Karhoot said Monday, IraqiNews reported.

Karhoot added that “elements of the group possess powerful and heavy weapons, those it had previously seized in the region,” and has reportedly called on the Iraqi government to send reinforcements and arms to help repel the terrorist group and regain control of the province.

While moderate gains against IS have been reported recently, local military forces have abandoned several border crossings, and Kurdish troops are once again stepping up to the challenge and preparing to do battle.

The Anbar report comes shortly after 2,000 people were forced to flee Kobani, on the border between Syria and Turkey, after Islamic State (also known as ISIS, or ISIL) captured it. Although the black Islamic State flag has been raised, Kurdish forces deny that the Islamists emerged victorious.

The Kurds, however, are desperate for outside help. They echoed the words of a British military official recently, their spokesman saying that “airstrikes alone are really not enough to defeat ISIS in Kobani.”

They fear a massacre is approaching, with their forces the only ones there and thousands of civilians still trapped inside the city.

Turkey, meanwhile, continued largely to be on the sidelines of the fight taking place on its doorstep: several Turkish towns have already been hit by shells fired from Syria.

Turkish military forces have posted a column of tanks on the border, and eyewitnesses on the border told RT that they had fired several shells in the IS’s direction.

“One of the tanks already fired twice this morning towards Kobani and last night there was shelling two or three times. Some of the shells even landed on Turkish territory,” the young man said.

NATO has recently promised it will not abandon Turkey in the event of an attack by IS. “Turkey should know that NATO will be there if there is any spillover, any attacks on Turkey as a consequence of the violence we see in Syria,” the alliance’s secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg told Reuters.