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Tuesday, 28 February 2023
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Hawara: 'What happened was horrific and barbaric'
Hawara: 'What happened was horrific and barbaric'
Homes in Hawara are charred black alongside burned-out cars cloaked in a layer of ash. The air tastes acrid as people speak of the night their town burned.
Residents told the BBC a mob had gone on an hours-long rampage armed with iron bars and rocks before torching buildings, cars and trees.
On Sunday the Palestinian town was subjected to one of the worst cases of mass Israeli settler violence in years, hours after two settlers were shot dead by a Palestinian gunman.
"The settlers attacked our house, they smashed the windows and burned my nephew's cars and trucks. They tried to break into my car showroom and set it on fire," said Abdel Nasser al-Junaidi, speaking outside his home.
He described how he had rushed his children up to the rooftop to try to keep them safe.
"The army did nothing to protect us. It supported the settlers and protected them. The shooting was from both settlers and soldiers. We were terrified. What happened was a horrific and barbaric attack," said Mr al-Junaidi.
The scale of the damage becomes clear when you keep walking the length of this town that sits astride Route 60 - the main highway running north-south through the occupied West Bank.
FULL ARTICLE AT: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-64757990
Israeli-American killed in West Bank as unrest intensifies
Israeli-American killed in West Bank as unrest intensifies
An Israeli American has been shot and killed in the occupied West Bank as retaliatory unrest intensifies.
Elan Ganeles, 26, was killed in an attack on vehicles on a highway near the city of Jericho.
The shooting happened after Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian villages in the West Bank on Sunday night, with dozens of cars and houses burned.
That attack came after two settlers, from a nearby village, were shot dead by a Palestinian on Sunday.
Ganeles was taken by paramedics to a hospital in Jerusalem, but was later pronounced dead.
US Ambassador Tom Nides tweeted: "Sadly, I can confirm that a US citizen was killed in one of the terror attacks in the West Bank tonight. I pray for his family."
The Israel Defense Forces said attackers opened fire on Israeli vehicles on three occasions, and later set their own vehicles on fire.
There was an exchange of fire with police before the attackers fled, the IDF tweeted.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility by any Palestinian groups.
Islamist movement Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip but is less prominent in the West Bank, said the attack was a natural response to Israeli attacks.
"The crimes conducted by the occupation and the herds of settlers will not be met but with stabbing, shooting and car ramming," a spokesman said in a statement.
The violence came after Israeli and Palestinian officials had pledged to de-escalate tensions at a summit in Jordan.
Videos posted hours after the summit ended on Sunday showed a large crowd of Israeli settlers entering the village of Hawara, about 4 miles (6km) south of Nablus, lighting fires and throwing stones.
The Palestinian health ministry said 37-year-old Sameh Aqtash died after being shot in the stomach during an attack by settlers in Zaatara on Sunday night.
FULL ARTICLE AT: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-64793715
Ukraine war: Zelensky says situation in Bakhmut worsening
Ukraine war: Zelensky says situation in Bakhmut worsening
The situation in the city of Bakhmut, on the eastern frontline, is becoming "more and more difficult", Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has said.
Russian forces have been trying to take the city for over six months.
"The enemy is constantly destroying everything that can be used to protect our positions", Mr Zelensky stated.
The Ukrainian leader's remarks came as US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned China against arming Russia during a visit to Kyiv on Monday.
Some of the fiercest fighting to take place since Russia invaded Ukraine just over a year ago has taken place in Bakhmut, in Ukraine's Donetsk region, part of which is under the control of Russia and its separatist allies.
Recently efforts by Russian forces to capture the industrial city have intensified, with its troops gaining ground.
The separatist leader of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, Denis Pushilin, said "practically all roads" into the city were "under [Russian] fire control".
And the commander of Ukraine's ground forces, Col Gen Oleksandr Syrskyi, said the situation around Bakhmut was "extremely tense".
"Despite significant losses, the enemy threw in the most prepared assault units of Wagner, who are trying to break through the defences of our troops and surround the city," Gen Syrskyi said.
Speaking about the situation in his nightly address, President Zelensky said managing to gain a foothold in Bakhmut and ensuring its defence were being heavily compromised by Russia's renewed onslaught.
He was "grateful to each and every person who is heroically holding" the area.
President Zelensky also called once again for modern combat aircraft to be sent so that "the entire territory of our country" can be defended from "Russian terror".
FULL ARTICLE AT: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-64793923
Sex education is suspended in Isle of Man school after drag queen guest speaker tells lies!
Sex education is suspended in Isle of Man school after drag queen guest speaker 'tells 11-year-olds there are 73 genders - and made a child who said there are "only two" leave the class'
- An independent review has been launched into Queen Elizabeth II High School
- The review comes after parents raised concerns about sex education lessons
A school has suspended its sex education curriculum after a drag queen guest reportedly told pupils there were 73 genders and made a child who argued that there are 'only two' leave the classroom.
An independent review has been launched into Queen Elizabeth II High School in Peel, Isle of Man, after Year 7 children were left 'traumatised' after being taught about sex-change operations and sexual acts.
The review of the school's personal, social, health and economic (PSHE) curriculum, led by the island's government, comes after parents raised concerns about the lesson - particularly the 'graphic, disproportionate, indecent presentation' of sexual acts and gender identities being taught to their children, The Telegraph reports.
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Monday, 27 February 2023
Israel and Palestinians pledge to reduce violence
Israel and Palestinians pledge to reduce violence
The Israeli government and the Palestinian Authority have announced a joint commitment to take immediate steps to end a surge in violence.
The move has emerged from rare talks in Jordan, also attended by US and Egyptian officials.
The meeting agreed to support confidence-building steps and "to work towards a just and lasting peace".
As the talks took place, a Palestinian gunman shot dead two Israelis in the occupied West Bank.
The Israeli military said it was pursuing the gunman and reinforcing troop numbers in the West Bank, deploying two additional battalions. It confirmed that one of those killed in the village of Hawara, near Nablus, was a soldier.
Israel's government described the killings in Hawara as "a Palestinian terror attack".
Hours after Sunday's shooting, a large group of settlers entered the same village and began throwing stones and setting trees and cars alight.
At least 15 houses and a number of cars have been burned, according to Palestinian sources. Several families had to be evacuated from their homes.
The Palestinian Red Crescent emergency service said hundreds were injured.
Nearby in the West Bank, in Za'tara, a Palestinian man was killed after being shot when Israeli settlers and soldiers entered the village, Palestinian health officials say.
The summit in the Red Sea resort of Aqaba was called following a recent rise in deadly violence that has stoked fears of a wider conflict.
It brought together Israeli and Palestinian security chiefs for the first time in many years. The US president's top Middle East adviser, Brett McGurk, was also present.
The first point of the summit's communique read: "The two sides [Palestinian and Israeli] affirmed their commitment to all previous agreements between them, and to work towards a just and lasting peace.
"They reaffirmed the necessity of committing to de-escalation on the ground and to prevent further violence."
According to the statement, Israel made a commitment to stop discussing new settlement building for four months. In return, it is understood the Palestinians will not take action against Israel at the UN.
FULL ARTICLE AT: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-64779504