Images show damage to the Bunjay desalination plant near Jask following U.S. strikes. The attack has cut off water supplies to 20 villages, leaving around 10,000 people without water, according to Iranian reports.
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"Israel’s Latest Genocide Is Against the Shias of Lebanon. Why Is the World Silent?"
Lebanon’s Christians are being told by the Israeli military to get rid of any displaced Shias hiding in their homes or villages. Haven’t we seen this story before?
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Hundreds marched in Bangladesh's capital, Dhaka, protesting soaring fuel prices and shortages amid global supply disruptions due to the US-Israel war on Iran.
Videos show the moment a projectile strikes central Israel, with a loud explosion heard on impact.
Iran says it will continue to “fight back” against US-Israeli attacks. At least 24 Israelis have been killed since the start of the US-Israeli war on Iran.
Initiating online classes without proper planning could be self-destructive, alleges Mia Golam Porwar
Secretary General of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami and former MP Mia Golam Porwar issued a statement today, April 2, expressing strong condemnation and protest against the government’s imprudent decision to conduct online classes three days a week in schools and colleges of all metropolitan cities.
In the statement, he said, “The decision taken at a coordination meeting held at the Secretariat on March 31 to introduce online classes three days a week in educational institutions in Dhaka and other metropolitan cities is highly undesirable and short-sighted. Using the excuse of an energy crisis, the government is imposing online classes on young students, which is part of a deep conspiracy to render the nation intellectually deficient.
He further stated, “An online-dependent education system exposes students to multiple forms of harm. Due to the high cost of internet access, many poor students become excluded from educational activities. Under the pretext of online classes, the increased use of smartphones puts young students at risk of device addiction and moral degradation. As classroom-based learning is disrupted, students’ regular study habits are severely affected. In such a situation, introducing an online-based education system amounts to knowingly destroying students’ academic lives.
He also said that the impact of online-based education on Bangladeshi students during the COVID-19 period was reflected in the ‘National Student Assessment 2022’ report. It showed that primary-level students failed to achieve grade-appropriate competencies in Bangla and mathematics. Even students from poorer and remote regions like Mymensingh lagged far behind those from relatively affluent areas. Surveys by organizations including UNICEF revealed that during the period of online classes, both dropout rates and child labor increased.
Mia Golam Porwar added that attempts to implement a new curriculum in 2023 without proper planning, the disruptions during the July movement, subsequent instability in educational institutions, and the lack of effective education reforms have meant that the damage inflicted on students and the education system during COVID-19 has yet to be overcome.
In this context, when meaningful reforms are most needed, returning to online classes will not bring any benefit to students.
He further said that it is never acceptable to destroy students’ futures under the pretext of an energy crisis.
If there truly is an energy crisis, why is the burden being placed on young students while other sectors, including state luxuries, continue to operate? Targeting only educational institutions is essentially part of a broader conspiracy to weaken the intellectual foundation of the nation. The government must give the highest priority to the education sector and take effective and responsible measures. Otherwise, it will have to bear the responsibility.
We call for the immediate withdrawal of this irrational decision and urge ensuring regular, in-person classes for all students.”
A video published by a Palestinian content creator shows a group of children carefully lifting their doll on a stretcher to reenact a funeral as they play together in a displacement camp in Gaza.
BREAKING: More than 370,000 children in Lebanon have been forced from their homes, says UNICEF, as Israel issues leave-or-die threats covering some 14% of Lebanon’s territory.
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A toddler returned to his mother with burns on each leg after being held by Israeli forces - with a doctor describing them as marks of "torture" likely caused by deliberate cigarette burn
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Al Manar TV correspondent Ali Shuaib, Al Mayadeen correspondent Fatima Ftouni, and her brother, photojournalist Mohammad Ftouni, were killed in Israeli air strikes while travelling in a car near Jezzine in southern Lebanon. Earlier this month, Israel killed seven other members of the Ftouni family in Lebanon.
Israel once again targeted Palestinians in a drone attack in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza.
In another violation of the ongoing ceasefire, Israel targeted tents sheltering displaced people in the al-Mawasi area west of Khan Younis, killing two Palestinians and wounding four others, including three children, according to medics
At least 243 students and teachers have been killed since the start of the US-Israel war on Iran, an official from Iran’s Education Ministry says.
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