On 29 October 1948, al-Dawayima was one of several Palestinian villages targeted as part of a military campaign initiated by the newly established State of Israel aimed at the dispossession and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. Over the course of the day, Israeli forces from the 89th Battalion entered al-Dawayima, destroying homes and infrastructure and forcibly displacing its population.
On 29 October 1948, al-Dawayima was one of several Palestinian villages targeted as part of a military campaign initiated by the newly established State of Israel aimed at the dispossession and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. Over the course of the day, Israeli forces from the 89th Battalion entered al-Dawayima, destroying homes and infrastructure and forcibly displacing its population.
Just days after Russia invaded Ukraine, Durov wrote that Telegram was "increasingly becoming a source of unverified information," and he worried about the app being used to "incite ethnic hatred." It is unclear who runs the account, although Russia's official Ministry of Foreign Affairs Twitter account promoted the Telegram channel on Saturday and claimed it was operated by "a group of experts & journalists." And indeed, volatility has been a hallmark of the market environment so far in 2022, with the S&P 500 still down more than 10% for the year-to-date after first sliding into a correction last month. The CBOE Volatility Index, or VIX, has held at a lofty level of more than 30. The last couple days have exemplified that uncertainty. On Thursday, news emerged that talks in Turkey between the Russia and Ukraine yielded no positive result. But on Friday, Reuters reported that Russian President Vladimir Putin said there had been some “positive shifts” in talks between the two sides. Telegram was founded in 2013 by two Russian brothers, Nikolai and Pavel Durov.
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