内容摘要：) based on dozens of undercover operations spanning three continents, and thousands of documents, also shows how government officials and businesspeople are profiting off the illegal movement of gold across borders.

) based on dozens of undercover operations spanning three continents, and thousands of documents, also shows how government officials and businesspeople are profiting off the illegal movement of gold across borders.

A glimpse into the people, places and daily life in Palestine before the 1948 Nakba.Long before lines were drawn on a map and city names were changed, there existed a land full of people who lived in bustling cities and remote villages, where markets overflowed with diverse voices, and farmers tended olive trees rooted deep in the hills.

This story is told not through treaties or timelines, but through photographs: small, powerful fragments that capture the texture of daily life and those who lived it.They offer a rare, unfiltered lens into the lived reality of Palestinians in a time before exile and occupation dominated the narrative.This collection of 100 archived images of life in Palestine before the

, when Zionist militias expelled at least 750,000 Palestinians and captured 78 percent of historical Palestine.Browse through Palestine as it was: people, places, and life and culture.

The children, elders, farmers and merchants

At the heart of any place is its people. This section gathers faces and figures of children, elders, farmers and merchants, capturing a moment in each of their lives.The US, owing to its outsize influence over the global economy, offers an exception with its practice of imposing secondary sanctions.

Under Washington’s sanctions regime, companies registered anywhere in the world are at risk of being blacklisted if they are deemed to be helping Russia evade sanctions.Some human rights advocates argue that manufacturers are responsible for the sale of their products, whether sold with their approval or not, under the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.

"Companies are responsible for how their products are being used. It’s crucial for companies to make sure that they are not causing or contributing to adverse human rights impacts related to their operations. They should seek to prevent or mitigate the adverse human rights effects," Ella Skybenko, a researcher at the London-based Business & Human Rights Resource Centre, told Al Jazeera.Skybenko said that companies should carry out enhanced due diligence and put in place mechanisms to identify suspicious orders from third parties.