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Israel orders Palestinians to flee Khan Younis, signaling likely new assault on southern Gaza city
Israel orders Palestinians to flee Khan Younis, signaling likely new assault on southern Gaza city
A large fire broke out at a suspected Russian air base in the city of Kursk, close to the border with Ukraine, on Tuesday.
Palestinian detainees recount time in Israel’s prison service and react to their release by Israeli authorities. CNN’s Nada Bashir reports.
Harrison Mann, military expert who quit over Gaza, says ruinous war in Lebanon would pull US into regional conflict
A bus company refused to move asylum seekers to the Bibby Stockholm barge during a protest over fears about the negative publicity it could cause, a court has heard.
‘We are advancing to the end of the stage of eliminating the Hamas terrorist army,’ the Israeli leader tells group of military officials.
Jewish protesters campaigning against military service outside the Israeli supreme court have been washed out by security forces who sprayed the group with a crowd-control substance.
Maryam Hassanein, 24, became the youngest known resignee over Gaza after leaving the Interior Department over President Joe Biden's "dehumanization of Arabs and Muslims."
French prosecutors have requested the country's highest court to rule on the validity of the international arrest warrant for Syrian President Bashar Assad for alleged complicity in war crimes during Syria’s civil war, according to a statement on Tuesday. Judges at the Court of Appeal last week ruled that the arrest warrant issued by France for Assad in November is valid and remains in place, rejecting the prosecutors' argument that he has absolute immunity as a serving head of state.
As the Israel-Hamas war continues, negotiations have stalled to secure the release of hostages taken by the terrorist organization, and Israeli forces continue to launch incursions in the southern Gazan town of Rafah ahead of a possible large-scale invasion. All patients and medical staff have left European Gaza Hospital in southern Gaza, following evacuation orders from the Israel Defense Forces in Khan Younis, the World Health Organization said Tuesday.
A judge at Lebanon's military court on Tuesday charged the gunman who opened fire at the U.S. embassy near Beirut with being affiliated to the militant Islamic State group, security and judicial officials said. Lebanese soldiers shot and arrested the gunman in early June, later identified as Kaiss Farraj from Syria, after a shootout that lasted almost 30 minutes and injured an embassy security guard. The Islamic State group has not claimed responsibility for the attack, nor has any other group.
A British man was convicted on Tuesday of planning an attack on a military base after being arrested with an explosive device in the grounds of a hospital, Britain's Crown Prosecution Service said. Mohammad Farooq was found guilty of preparing acts of terrorism following a trial at Sheffield Crown Court, in northern England. The 28-year-old had previously pleaded guilty to possession of an explosive substance with intent to endanger life, possession of an explosive substance in suspicious circumstances, possession of information likely to be useful to a terrorist, and other offences.
A trainee nurse has been found guilty of attempting to launch an ISIS-inspired suicide attack using a homemade bomb on the hospital where he worked. Mohammad Sohail Farooq, 28, was arrested outside St James's Hospital in Leeds with a viable bomb, manufactured from a pressure cooker containing 9.9kg of low explosive, in January 2023. Sheffield Crown Court heard he immersed himself in "extremist Islamic ideology" and went to the site to "seek his own martyrdom" through a "murderous terrorist attack".
State media quoted Sergei Melikov as saying 22 people had died in the June 23 attacks, whose targets included churches and synagogues. Western security experts said the attacks were further evidence that Russia, preoccupied with its war in Ukraine, faces a growing problem with Islamist militant violence at home. "The main threat factor influencing the situation in the republic remains the increased activity of international terrorist organisations," state news agency RIA quoted him as saying.
Mohammad Farooq, 28, was arrested outside St James’s Hospital in Leeds with a pressure cooker bomb in the early hours of January 20 last year
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is going to court seeking to hold Iran, North Korea and Syria responsible for its role in aiding Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel. The suit comes on behalf of 100 Americans or their families seeking to hold the trio of countries responsible for “the deaths, physical and emotional injuries, and…
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Allegations of sexual abuse against a child by a Syrian man in Kayseri, Turkey, have sparked overnight riots that targeted Syrian businesses and cars in the city.
Palestinian officials said an Israeli raid Monday killed a woman and a child in a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, where a militant was killed the day before.The Palestinian health ministry said in a statement that the woman and the child were killed in Nur Shams camp, near the northern West Bank town of Tulkarm.
Israeli forces struck southern Gaza's main city Monday after a rocket barrage claimed by militant group Islamic Jihad, and as shelling and fighting raged on across the besieged Palestinian territory.A group of Palestinian detainees meanwhile returned to the Gaza Strip, including the director of its biggest hospital who recounted "severe torture" in Israeli custody.The Israeli military said that about "20 projectiles were identified crossing from the area of Khan Yunis" in a rare salvo after nearly nine months of devastating conflict.The rockets were aimed at Israeli communities near the Gaza border and were fired in retaliation for Israeli "crimes... against our Palestinian people", said Al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of Islamic Jihad which has fought alongside Hamas.Most launches were intercepted, the Israeli military said, reporting no casualties and saying artillery was "striking the sources of the fire".Elsewhere in Gaza, witnesses and the civil defence agency reported Israeli air strikes including in the southern Rafah area and the central Nuseirat refugee camp.Witnesses reported constant Israeli tank fire in Gaza City's Shujaiya district where battles raged for a fifth day, after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu acknowledged Israeli forces were engaged in a "difficult fight".The military said troops "eliminated numerous terrorists" in raids in Shujaiya, where air strikes also killed "approximately 20" militants.Israeli forces were also operating in Rafah and in central Gaza, a statement added.- 'Torture' -Netanyahu, who recently declared that the "intense phase" of the war was winding down, said on Sunday troops were "operating in Rafah, Shujaiya, everywhere in the Gaza Strip"."This is a difficult fight that is being waged above ground... and below ground" in tunnels.The war started with Hamas's October 7 attack on southern Israel which resulted in the deaths of 1,195 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on Israeli figures.The militants also seized 251 hostages, 116 of whom remain in Gaza including 42 the army says are dead.Israel's retaliatory offensive has killed at least 37,900 people, also mostly civilians, according to data from the health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza.Months of on-and-off talks towards a truce and hostage release deal have made little progress, with Hamas saying Saturday there was "nothing new" in a revised plan US mediators presented late last month.Israel has released Mohammed Abu Salmiya, director of Gaza City's Al-Shifa hospital, along with dozens of other detainees returned Monday to Gaza for treatment, according to a hospital source in central Gaza's Deir al-Balah.Successive Israeli raids have reduced parts of Al-Shifa, the territory's largest medical complex, to rubble.Israel has accused Hamas of using Al-Shifa and other hospitals in Gaza as a cover for military operations and infrastructure, claims the militants have rejected.Speaking after his release, Abu Salmiya said he had suffered "severe torture" during his detention since November."Prisoners are subjected to all kinds of torture," he told reporters in Khan Yunis."Detainees were subjected to physical and psychological humiliation" and "several inmates died in interrogation centres and were deprived of food and medicine", he said.Contacted by AFP, the Israeli military did not confirm the detainees' release and would not comment on the torture allegations.- Health risks -According to Abu Salmiya, no charges were ever brought against him.The European hospital in Khan Yunis said the head of its orthopaedic unit, Bassam Miqdad, was also among those freed.The United Nations and relief agencies have voiced alarm over the dire humanitarian crisis and threat of starvation the war and Israeli siege have brought for Gaza's 2.4 million people.Israel's ground operation in Rafah since early May has led to the closure of a key aid crossing, and a US-built temporary pier meant to facilitate humanitarian shipments was again removed from the Gaza coast over the weekend because of high seas.The war has also led to soaring tensions on Israel's northern border with Lebanon, where the army has traded fire with the Hezbollah movement, an Iran-backed Hamas ally.In a displacement camp in Gaza's Deir al-Balah, pharmacist Sami Hamid said skin infections were on the rise, particularly among children, "because of the hot weather and lack of clean water"."The number of skin infections has increased, especially scabies and chickenpox," as have hepatitis cases probably linked to untreated sewage flowing right beside tents, said Hamid.Wafaa Elwan, displaced from Gaza City, said "no clean water" or basic hygiene products were available at the tent city."We no longer wash our children as before" and "treatment is not widely available", Elwan told AFP."My son... can't stop scratching."bur-ami/srm