Al Mayadeen English
Civilian casualties from bombing or other explosive violence have reached a record high in 2024, with 61,353 civilians killed or injured; a 67% increase from 2023, according to Action on Armed Violence (AOAV). Israeli wars accounted for 55% of these casualties (33,910), followed by the war in Ukraine at 19% (11,693). Gaza was the hardest-hit region, comprising 39% of all casualties, with over 23,600 deaths reported. The report highlighted that AOAV's findings undercount the true toll, as it based its study on English-language reports only.
Alex Roberts
Kit Klarenberg
Dmitri Kovalevich
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Did Trump stand a chance at winning the Nobel Peace Prize?
In an interview for Al Mayadeen, Norwegian historian and former Nobel Institute advisor Øyvind Tønnesson said it is "highly unlikely that [US President Donald] Trump could ever receive the Nobel Peace Prize," citing his record and worldview as fundamentally opposed to the award’s founding ideals. "The Nobel Committee has favored work for international institution building, humanitarian principles, and human rights and those principles are actually almost entirely principles that are that Donald Trump, if not hates, he is really strongly against them,” Tønnesson explained. Addressing the recent award to Venezuelan opposition figure María Corina Machado, Tønnesson described it as "a kind of slap in Trump’s face," saying the committee’s statement embodied "principles that Donald Trump is against."
