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Reuters journalist Issam Abdallah died in an apparent strike across the Israel-Lebanon border
Issam Abdallah: Rights groups want Israel investigated over journalist's killing
LONDON — Rights groups say Israel should be investigated for a possible war crime over the death of a journalist in Lebanon in October.Reuters reporter Issam Abdallah, 37, died in two apparent strikes across the Israel-Lebanon border in October. Six others were wounded.Amnesty and Human Rights Watch (HRW) said investigations showed the journalists were probably fired on deliberately by an Israeli tank crew.Israel denies targeting the reporters."We do not target civilians," Israeli government spokesperson Eylon Levy said when asked about the reports from Amnesty and HRW."We've been doing everything possible to get civilians out of harm's way," Eylon added in a televised briefing.The group of seven journalists from Reuters, Al-Jazeera and AFP, were filming about...
December 08, 2023

Issam Abdallah: Rights groups want Israel investigated over journalist's killing

Refaat Alareer
Palestinians mourn well-known writer Refaat Alareer killed in Israeli air strike
GAZA CITY — Palestinians are mourning the death of well-known writer and literary scholar Refaat Alareer, who was killed in an air strike in Gaza City on Wednesday.Alareer's father-in-law said he had died along with his brother and sister and four of her children.He had taught literature at Gaza's Islamic University, which was destroyed by Israeli air strikes on 11 October.Israel said the university was an "important Hamas operational, political and military centre in Gaza".In an interview with the BBC in the hours after Hamas's 7 October attack on Israel, which sparked the current war, Alareer caused huge offence by calling it "legitimate and moral" and "exactly like the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising".The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was a revolt that took...
December 08, 2023

Palestinians mourn well-known writer Refaat Alareer killed in Israeli air strike

Gadi Eisenkot
Israel war cabinet minister's son killed in Gaza fighting
TEL AVIV — The son of Israel's former army chief Gadi Eisenkot, who is currently a minister in the country's war cabinet, has been killed in Gaza, the military says.It says 25-year-old Major Gal Eisenkot died in northern Gaza on Thursday.Israeli media say Maj Eisenkot was badly injured after a tunnel shaft exploded and later died in hospital.PM Benjamin Netanyahu said he and his wife were "broken-hearted", and that Gal Eisenkot was a "true hero".In his statement, Netanyahu added: "Our heroes have not fallen in vain. We will continue to fight until victory."Gadi Eisenkot, 63, is a battle-hardened retired general who served as Israel's chief of the general staff from 2015-19.A lawmaker from the National Unity party, he is also a current member of...
December 08, 2023

Israel war cabinet minister's son killed in Gaza fighting

An image posted by Issam Abdallah to social media shows him immediately before the attack. He can clearly be seen wearing his press vest
Investigations show Israeli tank shells killed Reuters journalist 
BEIRUT — Investigations by two news organizations and two human rights groups made public on Thursday say that it was Israeli tank shells that in October killed Reuters videographer Issam Abdallah and injured six other journalists in southern Lebanon.The reports by Reuters, AFP, Amnesty International, and Human Rights Watch drew on forensic analysis, witness testimony and interviews with government officials, lawyers and medical professionals.The findings are in line with a CNN analysis of the events conducted at the time. A CNN team that was nearby in southern Lebanon reported at the time that the projectile that hit the journalists October 13 came from Israel.CNN has asked the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) for comment on the allegations.Eylon Levy, a spokesperson for the Israeli...
December 08, 2023

Investigations show Israeli tank shells killed Reuters journalist 

Images from Gaza circulating on social media Thursday showed mass detention of Palestinian men by the Israeli military.
Images from Gaza show Israeli soldiers detaining dozens of men stripped to underwear
JERUSALEM — Images from Gaza circulating on social media Thursday showed a mass detention by the Israeli military of men who were made to strip to their underwear, kneel on the street, wear blindfolds, and pack into the cargo bed of a military vehicle.The exact circumstances and dates of the detentions are unclear, but some of the detainees’ identities were confirmed by colleagues or family members.At least some of the men are civilians with no known affiliation to militant groups, according to a conversation CNN had with one of their relatives and a statement by one of their employers, a news network.The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor posted an image of one detainment and said in a statement on its website Thursday that “the Israeli army detained and severely abused dozens...
December 08, 2023

Images from Gaza show Israeli soldiers detaining dozens of men stripped to underwear

Israel's attacks on Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza have left dozens of structures in ruins.
Israeli tanks shell Jabalia camp as heavy fighting continues in north Gaza
GAZA — The Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza has seen heavy fighting as Israeli tanks surrounded the area.While the focus of the Israeli ground operation seems to be in the south, hundreds of tank shells hit Jabalia refugee camp in the north.The situation in the biggest refugee camp is terribly difficult, Israeli tanks are surrounding the densely populated area. The Hamas-run local authority said about 100,000 people are still in the camp without a functioning hospital and at risk of starvation.Fifty-six year-old Hanan Alturok, a mother of eight, lives close to Jabalia. She told the BBC: “During the ceasefire we moved to the hospital, we thought it's safer than my house but yesterday the shells were landing inside the place and we had to flee under fire.“My husband Maher was...
December 07, 2023

Israeli tanks shell Jabalia camp as heavy fighting continues in north Gaza

07 November 2023, Lebanon, Blida: Mourners throw rice over the coffins of  three sisters, killed along with their grandmother in an Israeli strike a day earlier, during their funeral procession in the Lebanese southern border village of Blida. Three Lebanese girls were killed along with their grandmother when an Israeli strike hit their car on Monday while theyr were traveling between Aytaroun and Aynata in southern Lebanon. Photo: Marwan Naamani/dpa (Photo by Marwan Naamani/picture alliance via Getty Images)
At least 94 people killed by Israeli fire in Lebanon since October 8, Lebanese officials say
BEIRUT — At least 94 people have died and 406 been injured in Lebanon as a result of “the Israeli aggression against southern Lebanon” between October 8 – when Hezbollah began firing rockets at Israel – and December 5, according to the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health.In a report released on Wednesday, the ministry added that 92% of wounded people are males and 96% of wounded people are Lebanese,The Israeli military has regularly exchanged fire with militants in southern Lebanon over the past two months, saying when it is fired upon, it will return fire.The Lebanon Disaster Risk Management Unit as of Wednesday had registered 20,000 displaced people from villages in Tyre district, south Lebanon, Lebanon state-run NNA news said on Thursday.Those displaced people are distributed...
December 07, 2023

At least 94 people killed by Israeli fire in Lebanon since October 8, Lebanese officials say

A Palestinian woman weeps during a funeral
Fear grips Palestinians in Europe as they wait for news from loved ones in Gaza
BERLIN — The last message Ahmad received from his loved ones was last Saturday, and since then he has heard nothing. Like him, thousands of Palestinians in Europe long to receive Whatsapp messages from Gaza.Since the outbreak of war in Gaza, Ahmad Salama's family, split between Germany and Saudi Arabia, has been glued to the television.Although the news from the conflict is deeply distressing, it is the only way they can find out how their relatives who fled from northern Gaza to the south are faring.The 23-year-old Palestinian, who has been studying in Germany for six years, receives news from Zahr, his father's aunt, once a week."It is nerve-wracking, we can only send them Whatsapp messages and wait for an answer. We have our TV on all the time to make sure that the part...
December 07, 2023

Fear grips Palestinians in Europe as they wait for news from loved ones in Gaza

Palestinians stand by buildings destroyed in Israeli airstrikes in Deir al-Balah, Saturday, Oct. 14, 2023. Amnesty's report focused on two strikes in this neighborhood
US-made weapon used in two Israeli airstrikes in Gaza that killed 43 civilians: Amnesty probe
LONDON — An investigation by Amnesty International alleges that a US-made weapons guidance system was used in two Israeli airstrikes in Gaza in October in which 43 civilians are said to have been killed.Fragments of the US-made Joint Direct Attack Munitions guidance system were found in the rubble of destroyed homes in the neighborhood of Deir al-Balah in central Gaza, according to a report released Tuesday by the human rights organization.Israel uses a wide variety of American weapons and munitions, but Amnesty International’s report is one of the first attempts to tie an American-made weapon to a specific attack that left a significant number of civilians dead.The JDAM is a “guidance tail kit that converts existing unguided free-fall bombs into accurate, adverse weather ‘smart’...
December 07, 2023

US-made weapon used in two Israeli airstrikes in Gaza that killed 43 civilians: Amnesty probe

Vladimir Putin is welcomed by UAE Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan at the Abu Dhabi International Airport. — courtesy Reuters
Putin lands in UAE for rare foreign trip
ABU DHABI — Russian President Vladimir Putin is making a rare trip abroad to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and is also scheduled to travel to Saudi Arabia.Putin is expected to discuss the wars in Gaza and Ukraine, as well as oil production, with the UAE president.The UAE is currently hosting the COP28 UN climate summit, but the Kremlin has not said whether Putin will attend.He has barely left Russia since March, when the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued him an arrest warrant.The ICC has accused him of illegally deporting Ukrainian children to Russia — a war crime — but neither the UAE nor Saudi Arabia recognize the court’s jurisdiction.The Russian leader has snubbed other recent international summits including Brics in South Africa in August and the G20 summit in...
December 06, 2023

Putin lands in UAE for rare foreign trip

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