She says some of the victims appeared to be in shock as neighbours helped, wrapping them in blankets as they waited for first responders to arrive.
Rima Rifai (REE’-ma RIFF’-eye) says when she opened the door of her home, she saw the roof of her neighbour’s house was gone and people struggling to get away from the destruction. Ten people were sent to hospital following the blast - six were listed in life-threatening condition. Determined that her children have an education, she cobbled together $200 in savings to hire private tutors and send her eldest son to after-school classes during the strike - an impossibility for most of the refugee camp, she said.īut the decision to cancel the first leg of his trip due to protests over planned pension changes in France may make it harder for Charles to make his mark during this his first big international mission as monarch.Īnd first impressions matter as Charles, 74, prepares for his coronation on May 6.Ī woman who lives across the street from a house that exploded yesterday in Calgary says she initially thought it was her furnace. “Everything is chaos,” said Sherin al-Azza, a social worker and mother of five in a refugee camp called al-Azza, which has become a neighbourhood of the West Bank city of Bethlehem. The authority hasn’t budged, fearing its rivals, like the Islamic militant group Hamas, could use their movement against the ruling Fatah party. As the largest group of government employees in the West Bank after security forces, teachers are also calling for a democratically elected union. Teachers’ demands for a pay raise have escalated into a protest movement that has vexed the increasingly autocratic Palestinian self-rule government as it plunges deeper into an economic crisis.īut the strike isn’t just about money. 5 in one of the longest teachers’ strikes in recent memory against the cash-strapped Palestinian Authority. Palestinian public schools in the West Bank have been closed since Feb. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
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