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A screen grab from a video obtained by Al Jazeera shows a man walking along a beach in Gaza before being killed by IDF forces. Obtained by Al JazeeraThe Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has admitted killing two Palestinian men and burying their bodies with a bulldozer after Al Jazeera published a video purportedly showing the incident Wednesday. The men approached its “operational area” in central Gaza “in a suspicious manner” and didn’t respond to a warning shot, the IDF said in a statement to CNN. The Israelis killed them and bulldozed their bodies fearing they carried explosives, it said.What the video shows: In the video, which is filmed from…

Mohammad Mershid, 25, pictured in Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, in central Gaza, says he was detained and tortured by the Israeli military, during an ongoing raid near Al-Shifa Hospital, in the north. CNNA Palestinian man who was detained by the Israeli military for three days near Al-Shifa Hospital, in northern Gaza, during the IDF’s operation there, says he was forced into torture positions, spat on and threatened with execution.   Mohammad Mershid, 25, spoke to CNN while being treated for a head injury at another hospital, Al-Asqa Martyrs Hospital, in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza. He said Israeli troops stormed a house where…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel will launch a ground attack on the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip even without American support. Source link

Law enforcement officers are seen deployed outside the burning Crocus City Hall concert hall in Krasnogorsk, outside Moscow, on March 22. Stringer/AFP/Getty ImagesBarely a week since Vladimir Putin secured his fifth presidential term, Russia has been plunged into carnage and disarray.The attack on the Crocus City Hall concert venue and shopping complex near Moscow, which has been claimed by ISIS, has left hundreds of people killed or injured.This is hardly the stability and security for which so many Russians voted for President Putin. For years, the Kremlin strongman has been cast as a leader able to guarantee order in this vast, turbulent…

ISIS-affiliated news agency Amaq released a graphic video on Saturday that purports to show Friday’s attack at a concert hall in suburban Moscow recorded by one of the attackers, suggesting the perpetrators had a direct link to ISIS in order to be able to send the video.CNN has geolocated it to the concert hall and notes that its identifying metadata has been erased.The video, which is about 90 seconds long, shows four attackers with their faces blurred and voices distorted in what appears to be the Crocus City Hall complex.The video shows one attacker signaling to another gunman, who then…

A view shows the burned Crocus City Hall concert hall in Krasnogorsk, outside Moscow, on Saturday. Stringer/AFP/Getty ImagsNearly 500 personnel are working to dismantle rubble at the scene of the arena attack in Moscow, the Russian Emergencies Ministry said on Saturday.“In the morning, they started the dismantling of the most difficult part: the auditorium, where the ceiling partially collapsed,” the ministry said. “The work will be carried out throughout the day.”The Russian Investigative Committee has said that, as work continues at the site, the number who died in the attack would likely rise. At least 115 people have so far…

aw enforcement officers are seen deployed outside the burning Crocus City Hall concert hall in Krasnogorsk, outside Moscow, on Friday. Stringer/AFP/Getty ImagesThe US warned Moscow that ISIS militants were determined to target Russia in the days before assailants stormed the Crocus City Hall in an attack that killed scores of people, but President Vladimir Putin rejected the advice as “provocative.”Gunmen stormed the concert hall near Moscow on Friday, opening fire and throwing an incendiary device in the worst terrorist attack on the Russian capital in decades.Isis has claimed responsibility for the attack.Experts said the scale of the carnage – some of which…

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks during a press conference in Cairo, Egypt, on Thursday, March 21. Evelyn Hochstein/Pool/ReutersUS Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said that “the gaps are narrowing” between Israel and Hamas to reach a temporary ceasefire in exchange for the release of the hostages, but he acknowledged that “there are still real challenges.”“We worked, as you know, with Egypt, with Qatar, and with Israel to put a strong proposal on the table,” Blinken said during a press conference in Cairo, Egypt, with Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry. “And Hamas responded to that.” .Blinken said he still…

During his address to the Senate Republican policy lunch Wednesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was sharply critical of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s comments calling for elections to form a new government in Israel.”Clearly, the prime minister was not happy with Sen. Schumer’s speech. Nor was he happy with President (Joe) Biden’s praise of Sen. Schumer’s speech. But I think the prime minster understands the politics of all of it,” Louisiana Republican Sen. John Kennedy said afterward. “We made it clear to the prime minister that in our judgment, the American people overwhelmingly support Israel’s war,” Kennedy said. “And he made clear he…

American officials hope to meet with Israeli and other officials in the Middle East during the next week. Source link