AFP via Getty ImagesThe author of this story is anonymous for their safety.GAZA CITY—Gaza residents suffering wave after wave of Israeli bombing on Monday reacted with horror, as Hamas threatened to start executing Israeli hostages on camera each time a civilian is killed in an airstrike without warning.Abu Ubaida, a spokesman for the armed wing of Hamas, made the blood-chilling threat after a day of heavy bombing across the Gaza Strip in response to the militants’ raid on Israel over the weeken
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In a hospital ward in eastern Syria, two newlyweds struggle to take their eyes off each other. Yet their eye contact is not the gaze of an infatuated couple; they are grimacing.
It is just hours since a fire tore through their wedding reception, killing four and critically burning more than 20 others. Exhausted and in pain, they have not yet come to terms with their tragedy.
Stuck amid the human detritus of what remains of ISIS’s caliphate in Al Hol camp, Muhanad Al Kurdi proposed to his cousin Aida Mohammed two months ago.
Inter-familial marriages are common in Deir Ezzor, where they are from, and after three years in Al Hol people have long stopped putting their lives on hold in the hope things will return to normal.