The sanctuary relocated the animals without public announcement, fearing reprisals from local authorities or the same criminal groups that forced them to flee. They hope the animals will find safety in Mazatlan after years of turmoil.
, which established the ICC.Video after video captures soldiers gleefully detonating homes, schools and places of worship - acts that violate both the Geneva Conventions and The Hague Regulations. There is an abundance of footage that shows soldiers laughing while destroying property, turning Palestinian homes into makeshift entertainment venues and even setting buildings on fire.
Bill Van Esveld, associate director at Human Rights Watch, noted that much of the destruction appears to lack any legitimate military justification, making it a clear violation of international law.Abuse and mistreatment of detaineesSome of the most disturbing footage depicts detainees stripped, blindfolded and bound and being mocked, kicked and forced into stress positions for hours.
In one video, a French-Israeli soldier points to a detainee and boasts: “Look, he pissed himself. Look, I’ll show you his back. You’re going to laugh. Look, they tortured him to make him talk. Did you see his back? Son of a whore.” Such treatment is in direct violation of the Geneva Conventions, which protect prisoners of war from inhumane treatment.Use of human shields
Six Palestinian survivors have told Al Jazeera that they were forced to act as human shields to protect Israeli soldiers against attacks. One described Israeli soldiers firing over his shoulder from the balcony of his own house.
Killing and targeting of civiliansBut Salgado pushed back on that assessment in a 2024 interview with The Guardian. “Why should the poor world be uglier than the rich world? The light here is the same as there. The dignity here is the same as there.”
In 2014, one of his sons, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, partnered with the German filmmaker Wim Wenders to film a documentary about Salgado’s life, called The Salt of the Earth.One of his last major photography collections was Amazonia, which captured the Amazon rainforest and its people. While some viewers criticised his depiction of Indigenous peoples in the series, Salgado defended his work as a vision of the region’s vitality.
“To show this pristine place, I photograph Amazonia alive, not the dead Amazonia,” he told The Guardian in 2021, after the collection’s release.As news of Salgado’s death spread on Friday, artists and public figures offered their remembrances of the photographer and his work. Among the mourners was Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, Brazil’s president, who offered a