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Al Bawaba
05-05-2025
- Al Bawaba
Student dies after mysteriously falling from 5th floor of Egyptian university
ALBAWABA - An Egyptian student fell mysteriously from the fifth floor inside the Zagazig University in Egypt, leading to her death, local media reported on Monday. Rawan Naser, a fourth-year student at Zagazig University in Egypt, died on Sunday after falling from the fifth floor of the college building despite attempts to save her. The female student was transported to the Sednaoui University Hospital after she fell suddenly from the fifth floor. However, she later died from her severe injuries. Security forces began questioning eyewitnesses from the student's colleagues and the college staff. Surveillance cameras around the building were also seized to capture the final moments before the incident. Zagazig University mourned, in an official statement, the student Rowan Nasser: "Zagazig University mourns with deep sorrow and grief the student Rawan Nasser, Faculty of Science, who passed away this afternoon. The university administration offers its sincere condolences and sympathy to the family of the deceased and her colleagues, both male and female. We ask God to have mercy on her and to inspire her family and relatives with patience and solace. To God we belong and to Him we shall return." Social media users and Rawan's friends call for a fair and clear investigation into Rawan's case, as some have allegedly said that this was not suicide and could be a criminal case. A person on Facebook claimed that the student was alive after she fell and only needed some first aid to be saved, but the university authorities in the Faculty of Science at Zagazig University, "left her to die in cold blood and denied her getting any medical care until she passed away." Videos showing university workers reportedly whipping the blood on the floor after the tragic incident were posted on social media.
Al Jazeera
05-05-2025
- General
- Al Jazeera
How do you keep going in Gaza when everything tells you to stop?
Before the war, my life was simple. Like many young women in Gaza, I carried within me a mixture of ambition and anxiety. My dream was to graduate from the Islamic University with honours and become a writer. My fear was that the constant attacks and instability in Gaza would somehow impede my pursuit of education and a writing career. However, I never imagined that everything I knew – my home, my university, my friends, my daily routine and my health – could vanish, leaving me struggling to keep going. When the war began, we thought it was just another short round of fighting – one of the many escalations we had grown used to in Gaza. But something about this time felt different. The explosions were closer, louder, and lasting longer. We soon realised that this nightmare was not going to end; it was only going to get worse. On December 27, 2023, we received our first 'evacuation order'. There was no time to think. We had just begun gathering a few belongings when the sound of bombing grew louder. The upper floors of the building we lived in were being targeted. We fled the building in a hurry, carrying only a small bag. My father was pushing my grandmother in her wheelchair, while I held my younger brother's hand and ran into the street, not knowing where we were going. The neighbourhood looked like a scene from the horrors of the Day of Judgement: people were running, screaming, crying, and carrying what remained of their lives. Night fell, and we found temporary shelter at a relative's house. Sixteen of us slept in one room, without privacy or comfort. In the morning, we made the difficult decision to take refuge in one of the displacement camps declared a 'humanitarian zone'. We owned almost nothing. The weather was bitterly cold, water was scarce, and we had only a few blankets. We washed, cleaned, and cooked using primitive methods. We lit fires and prepared food as if we had gone back to the Stone Age. Amid all of this, we received the news: our home had been bombed. I refused to believe what I had heard. I sat and cried, unable to comprehend the tragedy. My father's goldsmith workshop was on the ground floor of the building, so when it was destroyed, we did not just lose walls and a roof – we lost everything. The days passed slowly and heavily, wrapped in longing and misery. I lost contact with most of my friends, and I no longer heard the voices that used to fill my days with warmth. I would check in on my closest friend, Rama, whenever I had a brief chance to connect to the internet. She lived in northern Gaza. On January 15, 2024, my friend Rawan sent me a message. It did not reach me immediately. It took days because of the communications blackout. The words were simple, they shattered me from the inside: 'Rama was martyred.' Rama Waleed Sham'ah, my closest friend at university. I could not believe it. I read the message over and over again, searching for a different ending, a denial. But the truth was silent, harsh, and merciless. I didn't get to say goodbye. I didn't hear her last words, I didn't hold her hand, or tell her 'I love you' one last time. I felt as though I was breathing without a soul. While I was still processing that grief, I received even more devastating news: on February 16, 2024, my father's entire extended family – all his cousins, their wives, and their children – were killed. I saw my father break in a way I had never seen before. His grief was so deep that words could not describe it. Then, death knocked on our door. On June 8, 2024, we had just moved from our tent to a rented apartment, trying to start our lives over, when the Israeli army surrounded the area. I was the first to see the tank slowly moving up the street. I panicked and ran towards my father, shouting. But I didn't reach him. In that moment, a missile struck the building we were in. All I saw was thick smoke and dust filling the air. I didn't know if I was alive or not. I tried to say the shahada, and by the grace of God, I managed to do so. Then I started screaming, calling for my father. I heard his voice faintly from a distance, telling me not to go out because the drone was still bombing. I took a few steps, then lost consciousness. All I remember is that they carried me down the building and covered me with a blanket. I was bleeding. I would regain consciousness for a few seconds, then lose it again. The ambulance could not reach our street because the tank was at the entrance. My mother, my sister, and I bled for two hours until some young men from the area managed to find a way to get us out. They carried me in a blanket to the ambulance. The paramedics started bandaging my wounds right there in the middle of the street, in front of everyone. All the way, I heard their whispers, saying that I was between life and death. I heard them, but I could not speak. When I reached the hospital, they told me that I had sustained injuries to my head, hands, legs, and back. The pain was unbearable, and my mother's absence added to my fear. I was rushed in for an emergency surgery. I survived. After leaving the hospital, I had to go back for dressing changes. Each visit was a painful experience. I would choke every time I saw the blood. My father, who accompanied me every time, would try to ease these visits, telling me, 'You will be rewarded, my dear, and we will get through all of this.' I fell into a deep depression, suffering from both physical and emotional pain. I felt as though I was drowning in an endless spiral of sorrow, fear, and exhaustion. I no longer knew how to breathe, how to continue, or even why. We had no roof to shelter under. Finding food was a struggle. The painful memories of loved ones who had passed haunted me. The fear that my family and I could lose our lives at any moment made me feel utterly helpless. I felt everything was screaming that I could not go on. Yet, in the darkness of despair, I continued to live, day after day. I was in pain, but I lived. I went back to reading – whatever books I could find. Then, when my university announced it would resume lectures online, I signed up. My hand was still broken, wrapped in a cast, and I could barely use it. My mother helped me, holding the pen at times and writing down what I dictated. My professors understood my situation and supported me as much as they could, but the challenges were many. I struggled to access electricity and the internet to charge my phone and download lectures. Sometimes, I would lose exams due to power outages or poor network, and I would have to postpone them. Still, I kept going. My physical condition gradually started to improve. Today, we are still living in a tent. We struggle to secure the most basic needs, such as clean water and food. We are experiencing famine, just like everyone else in Gaza. When I look at the scars of war etched into my body and memory, I realise that I am no longer the same person. I have found within myself a strength I never knew existed. I have found a path through the rubble, meaning in the pain, and a reason to write, to witness, and to resist despite the loss. I have made the decision to stay alive, to love, to dream, to speak. Because, quite simply, I deserve to live, just like every human being on earth. The views expressed in this article are the author's own and do not necessarily reflect Al Jazeera's editorial stance.
Yahoo
28-03-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Posts misleadingly claim to show Yemeni man and his child bride who died after wedding night
'Rawan, an 8-year-old Arab girl d!ed due to internal injur!es which she suffered on her w£dding night. Her 40-year-old husband didn't show mercy on the wedding night (sic),' the post's caption reads. The headline of the news article in the attached screenshot reads: '8-year-old child bride dies from internal bleeding after her wedding night.' The first lines of the article, visible in the screenshot, read: 'An eight-year-old Yemeni girl passed on from internal bleeding on her wedding night in the wake of a wedding a man 5 times her age, a social activist and two nearby occupants said, for a situation that has caused an outcry in the media and resuscitated banter about child brides (sic).' The screenshot also includes a photo of a young girl and a photo of a grey-bearded man, suggesting they are the couple in question. The claim also appeared here on Facebook with a screenshot of the same article. The post was dated March 21, 2022. However, the claim is misleading. Child marriages are widespread in Yemen. According to Unicef's latest report on the subject, Yemen is home to an estimated 4 million child brides, meaning they were married before the age of 18 (archived here). Of these, 1.4 million were married before they turned 15. An internet search shows the article in the screenshot was published on an Indian website on March 21, 2022 (archived here). The second paragraph of the article stated that the incident occurred 'last week,' suggesting that it happened earlier in March 2022. AFP Fact Check found no credible reports about such an incident in Yemen in 2022. However, there was an outcry in 2013 over a similar case where an eight-year-old child reportedly died of internal bleeding in Yemen after marrying a man who was five times her age (archived here). Authorities in Yemen denied that the death occurred, and the journalist who first reported the story alleged that officials were attempting to bury the case (archived here). Gulf News later published a video report in which they interviewed a man described as the girl's father, who presented his child to the press to show she was still alive (archived here and here). Reverse image searches showed that the images of the man and the girl are unrelated to the 2013 case in Yemen – and that the two images are not related to each other, either. The man in the photo is Ebrahim Yusuf Kazi, an imam jailed for paedophilia in the United Kingdom in 2011 (archived here). His photo was published in numerous news articles at the time. Meanwhile, the photo of the girl was on the internet before the 2013 incident. It was featured in a video report on worldwide child marriage rates by Russian broadcaster Russia-1, published in October 2012 (archived here). Reverse image search results using TinEye also found the photo listed on stock image websites going back to 2010, though it is no longer available on those sites. In one occurrence of the image, on a now-defunct stock photo site, the file was named 'girl playing dress up with veil'.
AFP
28-03-2025
- AFP
Posts misleadingly claim to show Yemeni man and his child bride who died after wedding night
'Rawan, an 8-year-old Arab girl d!ed due to internal injur!es which she suffered on her w£dding night. Her 40-year-old husband didn't show mercy on the wedding night (sic),' the post's caption reads. The headline of the news article in the attached screenshot reads: '8-year-old child bride dies from internal bleeding after her wedding night.' The first lines of the article, visible in the screenshot, read: 'An eight-year-old Yemeni girl passed on from internal bleeding on her wedding night in the wake of a wedding a man 5 times her age, a social activist and two nearby occupants said, for a situation that has caused an outcry in the media and resuscitated banter about child brides (sic).' The screenshot also includes a photo of a young girl and a photo of a grey-bearded man, suggesting they are the couple in question. Image Screenshot of the misleading Facebook post, taken on March 21, 2025 The claim also appeared here on Facebook with a screenshot of the same article. The post was dated March 21, 2022. However, the claim is misleading. 2013 Yemeni incident Child marriages are widespread in Yemen. According to Unicef's latest report on the subject, Yemen is home to an estimated 4 million child brides, meaning they were married before the age of 18 (archived here). Of these, 1.4 million were married before they turned 15. An internet search shows the article in the screenshot was published on an Indian website on March 21, 2022 (archived here). The second paragraph of the article stated that the incident occurred 'last week,' suggesting that it happened earlier in March 2022. AFP Fact Check found no credible reports about such an incident in Yemen in 2022. However, there was an outcry in 2013 over a similar case where an eight-year-old child reportedly died of internal bleeding in Yemen after marrying a man who was five times her age (archived here). Authorities in Yemen denied that the death occurred, and the journalist who first reported the story alleged that officials were attempting to bury the case (archived here). Gulf News later published a video report in which they interviewed a man described as the girl's father, who presented his child to the press to show she was still alive (archived here and here). Unrelated images Reverse image searches showed that the images of the man and the girl are unrelated to the 2013 case in Yemen – and that the two images are not related to each other, either. The man in the photo is Ebrahim Yusuf Kazi, an imam jailed for paedophilia in the United Kingdom in 2011 (archived here). His photo was published in numerous news articles at the time. Image Screenshot of a 2011 BBC report on Kazi's sentence, taken on March 26, 2025 Meanwhile, the photo of the girl was on the internet before the 2013 incident. It was featured in a video report on worldwide child marriage rates by Russian broadcaster Russia-1, published in October 2012 (archived here). Image Screenshot from the 2012 Russia-1 video, taken on March 26, 2025 Reverse image search results using TinEye also found the photo listed on stock image websites going back to 2010, though it is no longer available on those sites. Image Screenshot showing TinEye search results, taken on March 26, 2025 In one occurrence of the image, on a now-defunct stock photo site, the file was named 'girl playing dress up with veil'.
Yahoo
21-03-2025
- Yahoo
Dearborn police offering $20k reward for arrest in local 19-year-old's murder
The Brief Rawan Baseti died during a road rage altercation in February after someone in the vehicle she was following opened fire and struck her Police are offering a $20,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the assailant Baseti graduated from Dearborn High School and was beloved by her family (FOX 2) - Police are asking for the public's assistance in catching the individual behind a deadly shooting that killed a 19-year-old woman in February. Rawan Baseti was following a vehicle that was involved in a traffic incident on Feb. 21 before someone opened fire, striking her. What we know Dearborn police investigating a fatal road rage shooting in February are asking for anyone with knowledge of the case to come forward, offering a cash reward for information leading to an arrest. Rawan Baseti, 19 of Dearborn, died on Feb. 21 in west Detroit. Police say she was driving a 2018 Jeep Cherokee and following a Chrysler 200 in an attempt to get a plate number. The two vehicles had been involved in a traffic altercation. She followed the suspect driver for two miles in the area of Warren and the Southfield Freeway Service Drive before entering the Warrendale neighborhood in Detroit. Someone then began shooting, striking Baseti. What we don't know Police chief Issa Shahin said some individuals identified as people of interest had been taken into custody for questioning, but were released due to a lack of evidence. While law enforcement says there are still persons of interest, they do not have any details about a potential suspect. What they're saying During a Crimestoppers press conference Friday, family of Baseti spoke. Her brother said Rawan had the "most beautiful and sincere love." "To say that my family and I are devastated or heartbroken - it's an understatement," said Hani Baseti. "Losing Rawan broke us." Another family member added that Rawan "knows not to follow any cars" and that she should not follow anyone even if involved in an incident. One of her friends in the car had encouraged her to pursue the Chrysler. "That's sadly what she did," Rawan's sister said. What you can do A $20,000 cash reward is being offered for information leading to an arrest. Callers can contact either Dearborn police or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-SPEAK Up. Anyone that calls will not have their identity revealed. The Source A Crime Stoppers press conference on Friday, involving family and Dearborn police.
