CAÏRO/GAZA (ANP/RTR) - Bij de Israëlische luchtaanvallen op de Gazastrook zijn donderdag volgens medische hulpverleners zeker tien doden gevallen. Onder hen waren vijf familieleden. Alleen een meisje uit dit gezin overleefde, volgens hulpverleners.
Vroeg op de dag werd een appartementengebouw aangevallen, waarbij vier woningen getroffen werden en negen doden vielen. Daarnaast vielen er zeker vijftien gewonden in het getroffen pand. Later is bij een andere luchtaanval in Gaza-Stad een dode gevallen.
Sinds de Amerikaanse president Donald Trump regelde dat er een wapenstilstand kwam tussen Israël en de beweging Hamas in oktober, zijn er bij Israëlische aanvallen ongeveer 930 Palestijnen gedood. Sinds de grootscheepse aanvallen op de dichtbevolkte Gazastrook in 2023 begonnen, zijn er zeker 72.000 Palestijnen gedood - voornamelijk burgers, aldus de autoriteiten en hulpdiensten in Gaza.
Jamelle Bouie: The cruelty is still the point of the Trump regime. “This isn’t a border security policy. It’s cruelty as governance — directed at people this administration has decided don’t deserve dignity.”
Softness and resilience. Presence and absence. Vitality and stillness. These are just a few of the dualities that permeate the atmospheric work of Jeanne Vicerial, whose textile-focused practice taps into history and femininity with precision and reverence.
A city-wide exhibition of Vicerial’s pieces titled Incarnation: Carte blanche Jeanne Vicerial opens across several historic spaces in Aix-en-Provence this month: Musée du Pavillon de Vendôme, Musée des Tapisseries, Chapelle de la Visitation, and Musée Granet. Situated amid centuries-old architecture and existing museum collections, the artist’s works nod to time, tradition, and remembrance. The show surveys sculptures and installations created throughout the last several years, including sprawling installations that feature yards of pooling rope and smaller, intimate, provocative wall pieces.

Known for her dramatic Armors series, Vicerial nods to medieval European heritage, such as knights’ armor and burial and memorial customs. “Gisante de cœur,” for example, which translates to “recumbent figure of the heart,” references the tradition of nobility or priests’ sculptural likenesses placed atop sarcophagi. Except in Vicerial’s world, these figures are all enigmatically, anonymously, and powerfully female. The silhouettes of bodies are conveyed through textile, which in turn is associated with clothing and its potential to both reveal and conceal as well as protect.
“Beyond practical functions, textiles carry within them a memory: the memory of gestures, of uses, and of the traces left behind by the bodies that have worn or transformed them,” says a statement. “Thus, the material becomes a silent witness to past presences—the medium for a history that is simultaneously individual, intimate, and collective.”
Incarnation opens on June 13 and continues through October 4.






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Hair stylist Frédéric Fekkai and ex-Miami Beach mayor Philip Levine accused in new testimony, lawmakers reveal
Republican lawmakers have asked the Department of Justice to investigate sexual assault allegations involving two men made by Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime assistant.
In a transcribed closed-door interview in late May, as part of a congressional investigation into Epstein, Sarah Kellen, one of the late sex offender’s former aides, told the House oversight and reform committee she was “sexually and psychologically abused” by him during her employment – but also alleged she was sexually assaulted by the French celebrity hairstylist Frédéric Fekkai, and by Philip Levine, the former mayor of Miami Beach, in separate incidents in the early 2000s.
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