Use our migrant child labor data!

More children are crossing the border on their own than ever before, and thousands are ending up doing dangerous, illegal jobs.

We sued the government for a huge trove of data about these kids, and shared it all here: github.com/nytimes/hhs-ch…

Two big takeaways:

1) More unexploded missiles and bombs have fallen in Gaza than anywhere in the world since at least the Second World War.

2) Ukrainian frontline is 600 mi long, and Gaza frontline is 25 mi long. There’s more rubble—37m tons—in Gaza than in Ukraine.

Journalist Barbara Demick describing famine (from Nothing to Envy)

UNICEF warns about a “catastrophe for children” and high civilian casualties as result of Rafah incursion

Families in Gaza tell me they are evacuating from east Rafah to West Rafah in horse carts drawn by people. Some people are walking. So much confusion and fear. They can’t bring all their family members and belongings in one go so most vulnerable and children are going first.

A young Palestinian American I interviewed back in October told me he watched Al Jazeera day and night to find any hint about what happened to his family in Gaza

This is the deadliest year on record for journalists since
Committee to Protect Journalists started counting. Most of the dead are Palestinians, killed covering the toll of Israel's military campaign in Gaza. Listen to this. #WorldPressFreedomDay thisamericanlife.org/827/all-the-ki…

this is a deeply moving and well-done article, the Columbia Daily Spectator The Eye should be proud.

The Stakes of Solidarity: What Low-Income Students Risked the Day of Columbia’s April 18 Mass Arrests
columbiaspectator.com/the-eye/2024/0…

'Since Israel conquered the region in 1967, its military has forbidden nearly every form of protest, even things as small as gathering more than 10 people for a political conversation or simply waving the Palestinian flag.'

New report finds that 99% of recent student protests across the US have been peaceful

'As she tried to break free, Hamilton said she was punched repeatedly in the chest and upper abdomen; another student journalist was pushed to the ground and beaten and kicked for nearly a minute.'

An estimated 19,000 children in Gaza have been orphaned.

Taken by Jelani Cobb, dean of Columbia Journalism School, inside campus