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Friday 15 April 2016

unbearable

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Refugees covered their ears on Thursday as Greek fighter jets conducted exercises over a makeshift camp outside the village of Idomeni, close to Greece’s border with Macedonia.: photo by Daniel Mihailescu/AFP, 14 April 2016

William Blake: A Divine Image


Cruelty has a Human Heart
And Jealousy a Human Face 
Terror the Human Form Divine 
And Secrecy, the Human Dress

The Human Dress, is forged Iron 
The Human Form, a fiery Forge. 
The Human Face, a Furnace seal'd 
The Human Heart, its hungry Gorge.

William Blake (1757-1827): A Divine Image, from Songs of Innocence and of Experience, 1789

 



Statement from Greek National Defence General Staff re military jets over #Idomeni: image via Piers Schofield @inglesi, 14 April 2016 

Fighter jets making circles above #Idomeni camp. People look shocked, children crying. Who thought warplanes above this place was good idea?: tweet via Marcel van der Steen @marcelvdsteen, 14 April 2016

Military planes flying over #Idomeni. Seriously who's the genius who had the brilliant idea to fly warplanes above #refugeesGR fleeing war?: tweet via Marianna Karakoulaki @Faloulah, 14 April 2016



Heartbreaking scenes today with some of the 60,000 people who are waiting to cross the #Syria / #Jordan border: image via Emma Beals @ejbeals, 14 April 2016

Russian jets make 'simulated attack' passes near a U.S. destroyer: image via Reuters Top News @Reuters, 13 April 2016


US ‘very concerned’ about #Syrian regime offensive near #Aleppo
: image via Al Arabiya English @AlArabiya_Eng, 14 April 2016


Syria peace talks resume as violence surges in Aleppo province: image via AFP news agency @AFP, 14 April 2016 


SYRIA - A Syrian man walks along an alley in the old part of the capital Damascus. By @JOSEPHEID1 #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 14 April 2016 


 Authorities have whitewashed graffiti off walls of Moria refugee detention centre on Lesbos ahead of Pope visit: image via Piers Schofield @inglesi, 14 April 2016
 

They haven't managed the other side yet #Lesbos #Moria #refugeesGR: image via Piers Schofield @inglesi, 14 April 2016
 

@amnesty on the Pope's visit to #Lesbos: image via Piers Schofield @inglesi, 14 April 2016


A lot of closed doors and a lot of questions left unanswered... #Greece #RefugeeCrisis
: image via Louis Dowse @DwseL, 14 April 2016



 Powerful photo from Greek-Macedonia border on today's @WSJ cover. Credit: Amel Emric/AP #RefugeeCrisis: image via Alyssa Eisenstein @alyssaeisen, 14 April 2016


GREECE - Men use a pole to bring down the border fence between Greece & Macedonia near Idomeni. By @bubulator2 #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 14 April 2016 
 

Again FYMOR forces use teargas at Idomeni border at #refugeesGr.camp. One injured reported. Greek police engaged.: image via Michael Räber @iwatnew, 14 April 2016


#Idomeni Macedonia police tear gas migrants on Greek border. Photo by Daniel Mihailescu #AFP: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 13 April 2016

 

#Idomeni Macedonia police tear gas migrants on Greek border. Photo by Daniel Mihailescu #AFP: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 13 April 2016


Macedonian police fire tear gas at migrants on Greek border: image via Reuters World @ReutersWorld, 13 April 2016


"To resist is to exist" #refugeesGr #Idomeni, April 13, 2016 pic v @nenovstoyan: image via Κάποιος Ταδόπουλος @ DOC_PROVOCATEUR, 14 April 2016


Someone fainted, the air is irritating. Greek police is now trying to push people away from the fence. #Idomeni: image via julia druelle @julia druelle, 13 April 2016

  
Tear gas was shot in #Idomeni. This man also shows rubber bullets. The Greek police is moving along the fence.: image via julia druelle @julia druelle, 13 April 2016

World in focus – best photos for April 13, 2016

A policeman stands behind his shield covered with egg during a protest in front of the headquarters of Macedonia’s ruling VMRO party in Skopje: photo by Ognen Teofilovski / Reuters, 13 April 2016


#refugeesGr screaming, kids crying as police beats them off the highway #Katsikas: image via Moving Europe @MovingEurope, 14 April 2016

  
Women, children joining the blockade in #Katsikas against bad conditions. This is why people are not leaving #Idomeni: image via Moving Europe @MovingEurope, 13 April 2016


#refugeesGr in #Katsikas are blocking the highway to protest the dire conditions and ask for relocation to better place!: image via Moving Europe @MovingEurope, 13 April 2016


#Katsikas greece's mainland. People sleep over stones, floods, snakes, no waterproof tents: image via Daniel Rivas @drivaspacheco, 13 April 2016


Dead snake in #Katsikas. Refugees told to us that the camp has plenty of them and they are scared #refugeesGr: image via Daniel Rivas  @drivaspacheco, 13 April 2016


6 buses stopped near #Katsikas. The refugees don't want to go inside the camp, they came yesterday night #refugeesGr: image via Daniel Rivas @drivaspacheco, 13 April 2016

  
 A refugee child swings inside barn at makeshift camp at Greek-Macedonian border near Idomeni. By @bubulator2 #AFP: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 14 April 2016
 

Refugee children sit on bunk bed at makeshift camp at the Greek-Macedonian border near Idomeni. By @bubulator2 #AFP: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 14 April 2016


#Idomeni Refugee children in the makeshift camp at the Greek-Macedonian border. By Daniel Mihailescu. By Daniel Mihailescu #AFP: image via Stephanie Beauge @sbeaugeAFP, 13 April 2016



Syrian refugee father breaks down as he is incapable of providing food to his son as the son comforts him #migrants: image via ZED @ZedTrafficker, 14 April 2016



Syrian refugee father breaks down as he is incapable of providing food to his son as the son comforts him #migrants: image via ZED @ZedTrafficker, 14 April 2016


Syrian refugee father breaks down as he is incapable of providing food to his son as the son comforts him #migrants: image via ZED @ZedTrafficker, 14 April 2016


Powerful Message #RefugeeCrisis:
image via Maheen Taseer @MaheenTaseer, 13 April 2016