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Chaos erupted inside the Philippine Senate building on Wednesday after the sound of gunshots were heard. The scene unfolded after Senator Ronald dela Rosa, a top ally of former president Rodrigo Duterte, said the police were coming to arrest him.
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We get a firsthand account of the violent raid, arrest and detention of members of the Global Sumud Flotilla, after Israeli forces intercepted the humanitarian mission in international waters Thursday. "We were held in a makeshift prison with shipping containers and barbed wire. Many people were subject to aggressive physical force. Of the 56 aid-carrying vessels attempting to break Israel's naval blockade of Gaza, more than a third were seized by the Israeli military," recounts flotilla member Hannah Smith. Some flotilla members had to be rescued after one boat was "left sinking," Smith reports.
Two members, Saif Abukeshek of Spain and Thiago Ávila of Brazil, are now being held without charges in an Israeli prison. "It is a favorite tactic of the Israeli regime to try to bully people into silence and submission, to threaten people, and they've gotten away with it for decades," says Rania Batrice, a Palestinian American member of the Global Sumud Flotilla's communications team. Abukeshek's wife, Sally Issa, says her husband "started a hunger strike, and he was treated very bad, so bad that all the activists on the boat could hear him screaming." The Spanish and Brazilian governments have denounced the arrests as "flagrantly illegal" and are demanding their citizens' release.
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Today, the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), and the U.S. Department of Education released a toolkit outlining federal resources available to help Puerto Rico recover and rebuild safe, healthy, and modernized school facilities. The Departments of Energy and Labor, as well as the Environmental Protection Agency, also collaborated on the toolkit.
The toolkit focuses on four key aspects to supplement ongoing recovery efforts in the education sector: planning and design, workforce readiness, contracting and procurement, and project review. In addition, the document includes a directory with technical assistance opportunities and information on other funding sources from federal partners.
"As Puerto Rico continues to rebuild, recover, and reimagine a future of security and prosperity for all of its families, DHS will be there every step of the way," "I encourage officials to use the resources available to them through the federal government to build safe and resilient schools for teachers and students."
"All children deserve to have the opportunity to learn and thrive in safe and functioning educational facilities,"
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