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Smoke rises as displaced Palestinians take shelter at Al Shifa hospital, amid the ongoing conflict between Hamas and Israel, in Gaza City, November 8, 2023. REUTERS/Doaa Rouqa
UN Rights chief calls for independent probe into Israeli claims on Al-Shifa hospital
GAZA — The United Nations’ human rights chief has called on Israel to give his team access to Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, after Israel’s military released video of what it called a Hamas “operational tunnel shaft” in the complex’s grounds, a claim immediately rejected by the Palestinian group and medical administrators as “ridiculous.”The video, released on Thursday, shows a hole in the ground and what appears to be a shaft reinforced with concrete with exposed pipes and cabling.At one point, the video, which has been geolocated by CNN, tilts up to reveal one of the hospital’s main buildings about 30 meters away from the hole.The video does not show the inside of the shaft.Israel has been under significant international pressure to prove its claims about Hamas’s...
November 17, 2023

UN Rights chief calls for independent probe into Israeli claims on Al-Shifa hospital

Yehudit Weiss
Israel says body of a second hostage found near Al-Shifa Hospital
TEL AVIV — The body of a second Israeli hostage was retrieved from a structure near the Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, the Israeli military said early Friday.A statement said the body of 19-year-old Noa Marciano – a corporal in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) – had been transferred to Israeli territory.The IDF recovered her body days after a Hamas video emerged claiming Marciano had been killed in an Israeli airstrike.On Thursday, the IDF said it had recovered the body of Yehudit Weiss, a 65-year-old Israeli woman found near Gaza’s Al-Shifa hospital. A military spokesperson said Weiss was killed by Hamas without giving details on the cause of death. He said her family had been informed, and her body would be returned to Israel.Weiss was a resident of kibbutz Be’eri, and was...
November 17, 2023

Israel says body of a second hostage found near Al-Shifa Hospital

Syria's President Bashar al-Assad speaks during a press conference in July
France issues arrest warrant for Syrian President Assad
PARIS — France has issued an arrest warrant for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad over the alleged use of banned chemical weapons against civilians in Syria, a judicial source told CNN on Wednesday.According to the source, two investigative judges on Tuesday issued four warrants against Assad, his brother Maher al-Assad, and two other senior officials, for complicity in crimes against humanity and complicity in war crimes.Anwar al-Bunni, a Syrian human rights lawyer and a founder of the Syrian Center for Legal Studies and Research, told CNN the decision was “unprecedented.” It is believed to be the first time a nation has issued an arrest warrant for crimes against humanity for a sitting head of state in another country.An Interpol ‘Red Notice’ is expected to follow, according to...
November 16, 2023

France issues arrest warrant for Syrian President Assad

TOPSHOT - US President Joe Biden speaks during a press conference after meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders' week in Woodside, California on November 15, 2023. US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping shook hands and pledged to steer their countries away from conflict on November 15, 2023, as they met for the first time in a year at a high-stakes summit in California. (Photo by Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP) (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)
Biden says Middle East conflict will not end until there is ‘a two-state solution that’s real’
WASHINGTON — US President Joe Biden said on Wednesday the “only answer” to the conflict between Israel and Hamas is “a two-state solution that’s real” — and warned Israel that occupying Gaza would be a “big mistake.”Biden told reporters during a news conference after his summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping in San Francisco that he had put that position to Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.“I made it clear to the Israelis and Bibi and to his war cabinet — that I think the only answer here is a two-state solution that’s real,” Biden said.“We've got to get to the point where there is an ability to be able to even talk without worrying whether to not we are just dealing with Hamas ... I can’t tell you how long it is going to last, but I can...
November 16, 2023

Biden says Middle East conflict will not end until there is ‘a two-state solution that’s real’

Hamas Chief Ismail Haniyeh
Gaza’s media office accuses Israel of lying about evidence at Al-Shifa hospital
GAZA — The Hamas-run government media office has accused Israel of lying on evidence found inside Al-Shifa hospital.Ismail Al Thawabta, the director of the Gaza Government Media office, rejected Israel’s allegations that Hamas equipment was found in Al-Shifa hospital.Israel says its soldiers have uncovered what the army is calling “military equipment used by Hamas” during a raid at Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City. The IDF presented some of the evidence in a video.Al Thawabta said Israel failed to present significant evidence despite the “whole world” predicting “that this [Israeli] military was going to show maps of the Hamas command and control centers.”A member of Hamas’ political office, Izzat al-Risheq, accused Israel of “staging a shameful play” with the raid, in...
November 16, 2023

Gaza’s media office accuses Israel of lying about evidence at Al-Shifa hospital

A coal company's office building Luliang City, Shanxi is engulfed by flames
26 dead and scores in hospital after China building fire
BEIJING — At least 26 people have died after a fire tore through an office building in northern China, state media report.The fire at the four-story building in Luliang City, Shanxi province broke out at around 07:00 local time on Thursday (23:00 GMT Wednesday).Of the dozens evacuated from the Yongju Coal Industry Joint Building, 63 people were taken to hospital.Chinese President Xi Jinping has instructed that "hidden risks" in key industries be investigated.Xi, who is currently in San Francisco for the Apec summit, also told authorities to safeguard people's lives and property, as well as social stability, Global Times reported.State media earlier reported that the fire was under control.Video posted on Chinese social media platform Weibo by the state-run Beijing Youth...
November 16, 2023

26 dead and scores in hospital after China building fire

A Palestinian man stis in his home destroyed during the Israeli bombardment of Gaza, in Deir el-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip on November 15, 2023, amid ongoing battles between Israel and the militant group Hamas. 
 (Photo by Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Carnage in Gaza cannot be allowed to continue, UN humanitarian chief says
GAZA — The horror suffered by civilians in Gaza has intensified each day and the "carnage" must stop, the United Nations' humanitarian chief said after Israeli forces raided Al-Shifa hospital."As the carnage in Gaza reaches new levels of horror every day, the world continues to watch in shock as hospitals come under fire, premature babies die, and an entire population is deprived of the basic means of survival," said Martin Griffiths, the UN's under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator. "This cannot be allowed to continue."Griffiths also released a "comprehensive" plan to rein in the carnage and urged the international community to support it. "The world must act before it is too late," he...
November 16, 2023

Carnage in Gaza cannot be allowed to continue, UN humanitarian chief says

40 workers have been trapped in the tunnel for four days
New drilling machine brings hope to workers trapped in collapsed Indian tunnel
UTTARKASHI — A specialist drilling machine has been deployed to rescue 40 Indian workers trapped inside a tunnel for more than four days in Uttarakhand state.It was flown in from Delhi on Wednesday after attempts to drill through the debris using another machine failed.The machine will help drill a passage so that a pipe can be inserted through which the workers can crawl out.They have been stuck inside since Sunday, after a landslide caused a portion of the tunnel to collapse.Authorities told the BBC that they did not want to speculate how long the task of clearing the debris might take, but they were expecting "a positive development" by Thursday evening.However, federal minister VK Singh on Thursday told reporters that rescue operations could stretch on for another two-three...
November 16, 2023

New drilling machine brings hope to workers trapped in collapsed Indian tunnel

Israel's outgoing Prime Minister Yair Lapid heads a cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, on November 20, 2022. Menahem Kahana/Pool via REUTERS
Israeli opposition leader calls on Netanyahu to quit
TEL AVIV — Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid called on Wednesday evening for the departure of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu without waiting for the end of the military operation against Hamas.“Netanyahu should leave immediately... We need change, Netanyahu cannot remain prime minister,” said Lapid in an interview with Israeli channel N12.“Netanyahu cannot remain Israel's prime minister. We need a national recovery government ... he needs to go now. We cannot allow ourselves to have a Prime Minister who has lost the public’s trust, whether from a social or a security point of view,” Lapid said in an interview with Israel’s Channel 12.The former prime minister said the Israeli leader has “lost the public’s trust.”This is the first time Lapid has urged Netanyahu...
November 16, 2023

Israeli opposition leader calls on Netanyahu to quit

Israeli security officers with their dogs secure the scene after an attack by gunmen on a checkpoint guarding the access to road tunnels linking the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem on November 16, 2023, amid the ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas. Three gunmen attacked a checkpoint near Jerusalem on Nov 16, Israeli police said, wounding several people before the attackers were
Six Israeli security personnel injured in shooting near Jerusalem
JERUSALEM — Six Israeli security personnel have been injured, including one who is in critical condition, in a shooting attack at a checkpoint south of Jerusalem, according to Israeli police.Police said three people arrived in a car at the checkpoint and opened fired on officers stationed there. The three attackers were shot dead, police said.Two other civilians suffered minor injuries and were treated at the scene, according to a police statement.Police released a photo of two handguns and an M-16 rifle they say were used in the attack. — CNN
November 16, 2023

Six Israeli security personnel injured in shooting near Jerusalem

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