Friday, March 29, 2024

Six In The Morning Friday 29 March 2024

 

 Over 70 killed in a day in the besieged enclave

  • Gaza’s Health Ministry says 71 Palestinians have been killed and 112 wounded over the latest 24-hour reporting period.
  • At least 15 people were killed in an Israeli strike on a sports centre in Gaza City, while injuries were reported in the bombing of Saad bin Abi Waqqas Mosque in the Jabalia refugee camp.
  • Caroline Gennez, Belgium’s minister of development cooperation and urban policy, says international pressure must be maintained on Israel and it “must stop starving civilians and children”.
  • In a legally binding order, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) has told Israel to take measures “without delay” to ensure “the unhindered provision” of basic services and humanitarian assistance, including food, water, fuel and medical supplies.
  • At least 32,623 Palestinians have been killed and 75,092 wounded in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7. The death toll in Israel from Hamas’s October 7 attack stands at 1,139 with dozens still held captive.

Air raid hits vehicle in Gaza City, kills 8: Report

The air raid hit the car as it was travelling on Salah al-Din Street near Gaza City’s Shujayea neighbourhood, according to Wafa.

The attack killed at least eight people, including two women and five children, and wounded dozens others, the news agency said.

The report came after the Gaza government media office said Israeli forces had bombed a police force and killed one of its officers in the same neighbourhood “in two separate crimes” that killed 17 people.


‘Children were dying. We didn’t even have aspirin’: the Indigenous Venezuelans forced far from home

by Paloma de Dinechin in Manaus

At 4pm, the sound of sirens is fading. On the pavement, a teenage girl – her eyes darting back and forth to monitor police presence – starts smoking crack. She is across the street from “Hotel 583”, a makeshift shelter in a dangerous part of downtown Manaus, the capital of Amazonas in Brazil.

On the second floor of the building, in the Cidade de Deus slum, 20 of the 27 Warao people who live here cram into a sweltering room measuring about 20 sq metres. Some sleep on the floor, while the more fortunate are in hammocks. The children’s stomachs are swollen, the effect of parasites, and their skin is covered in rashes.

The second-largest Indigenous community in Venezuela, with about 41,000 members, the Warao are increasingly making the dangerous trek to neighbouring Brazil, fleeing famine and their own country’s economic and political crisis.


Tajikistan detains 9 over Moscow concert hall attack

The detainees are believed to be accomplices of the men charged for the deadly attack on a Moscow concert hall. They are the latest Tajik citizens detained for the attack claimed by ISIS-K.

Tajikistan arrested nine people in connection with last week's attack on the Crocus City Hall music venue on the outskirts of Moscow,  in which at least 143 people were killed.

The state security committee detained them on Monday in the city of Vakhdat, a source told Reuters news agency.

The Russian state news agency RIA Novosti, citing an unnamed source, reported that Russian security forces were also involved in the operation to detain the suspects.


Palestinians fear further isolation as Israeli minister announces vast West Bank settlement plans




Far-right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has announced a plan to seize 800 hectares of Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank, the largest land seizure since the 1993 Oslo Accords between Israeli and Palestinian authorities according to NGO Peace Now. FRANCE 24's Catherine Norris Trent and Claire Duhamel explored the roads around Jerusalem, some of which are included in the planned seizure, and spoke with a Palestinian land planning engineer who said Smotrich's plan is aimed at "increasing control" in the territory.


'Oppenheimer' finally premieres in Japan to mixed reactions and high emotions

By YURI KAGEYAMA

Oppenheimer” finally premiered Friday in the nation where two cities were obliterated 79 years ago by the nuclear weapons invented by the American scientist who was the subject of the Oscar-winning film. Japanese filmgoers' reactions understandably were mixed and highly emotional.

Toshiyuki Mimaki, who survived the bombing of Hiroshima when he was 3, said he has been fascinated by the story of J Robert Oppenheimer, often called “the father of the atomic bomb” for leading the Manhattan Project.

“What were the Japanese thinking, carrying out the attack on Pearl Harbor, starting a war they could never hope to win,” he said, sadness in his voice, in a telephone interview with The Associated Press.


Russia’s security services knew of ISIS threat before concert attack, new evidence from investigative body suggests

The Kremlin’s security services were aware of an ISIS threat days before a deadly attack on a concert hall near Moscow, Russian intelligence documents obtained by a UK-based investigative organization suggest.

According to the London-based Dossier Center, the documents showed ethnic Tajiks radicalized by ISIS-K – the Central Asian offshoot of the terror group ISIS – could have been involved.

At least 143 people were killed last Friday in the deadliest attack on Russia in decades, when assailants stormed Crocus City Hall with guns and incendiary devices, just before a concert was to be held.


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