March to remember victims

Victims of terror remembered

The parents of Elan Ganeles, an American-Israeli citizen killed in a terrorist attack near the Dead Sea, chose to bury their son in Israel rather than their hometown of West Hartford, Connecticut. Ganeles, 26, was shot on Monday while driving near the West Bank city of Jericho, a day after Israeli brothers Hallel Yaniv, 21, and Yagel Yaniv, 19, were shot and killed in a similar attack in the West Bank. Ganeles was visiting Israel to attend a fri…

March to remember victims

A march to commemorate the victims and survivors of nuclear testing — not just in the Marshall Islands but the wider Pacific — was held at the University of the South Pacific’s (USP) Laucala campus yesterday. The march was organised by the Marshall Island Student Association of USP since 2019. With the theme “Kurtiplok”, meaning point of no return, students of USP and supporters made posters and wore black in the fight for recognition, reparatio…