The US State Department maintained it's continuing to find that allegations of Israel committing genocide in Gaza are unfounded as Amnesty International released its report on Thursday claiming there's enough evidence that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians. "People are entitled to draw their own conclusions. We disagree with the conclusions of such a report," State Department Principal Deputy Spokesperson Vedant Patel told reporters during a news briefing on Thursday afternoon. "We have said previously and continue to find that the allegations of genocide are unfounded. Reporters pressed Patel relentlessly over the Department's process for gathering information and the irrefutability of the Department's determinations.
The election count does not make sense. Will the results be contested? Take the gloves off President Joe Biden! Where did 20 million democratic votes disappear to?
The terror attack that Lahluh initiated, which killed Deutsch, occurred back in August.The IDF and Shin Bet killed terrorist Wael Lahluh, who murdered Israeli citizen Yonatan Deutsch, Israel's military announced on December 1, 2024.
Lahluh, aged 31, was a resident of the West Bank's Qabatiya, the IDF said. It added that he was the head of a terrorist cell at the time he was killed in the Israeli strike. The terror attack that Lahluh initiated, which killed Deutsch, occurred back in August. Deutsch, 23, from Beit She’an, was shot in the area of the Mehola Junction in the Jordan Valley in the West Bank. Another Israeli civilian was also wounded during the attack.
While people knew they had connections to Hamas, neighbors say no one could have guessed how deep those links truly went. When Israeli forces stormed the Aljamals’ building on June 8 they found Almog Meir Jan, Andrey Kozlov and Shlomi Ziv, hostages who had been captured from the Nova music festival on October 7, cowering in a darkened room. The experience of the three men – alongside that of Noa Argamani who was held in another house nearby, belonging to the Abu Nar family – echoes testimony from previously released hostages. They describe being confined among the civilian population, rather than in Hamas’ vast tunnel network under Gaza.
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip Israeli forces shelled tent camps for displaced Palestinians north of Gaza’s southern city of Rafah last Friday, killing at least 25 people and wounding another 50, according to the territory’s health officials and emergency workers. This was just latest and one of many recent attacks in the tiny Palestinian enclave where hundreds of thousands have fled fighting between Israel and Hamas... It comes less than a month after an Israeli bombing triggered a deadly fire that tore through a camp for displaced Palestinians in southern Gaza, drawing widespread international outrage including from some of Israel’s closest allies over the military’s expanding offensive into Rafah.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has defended Joe Biden over his fumble after being called 'Putin' when Biden was introducing him at a NATO event last Thursday."
LONDON, ENGLAND - Six British lawmakers entered the race to lead the defeated Conservative Party by Monday’s deadline, in a contest that will decide whether the opposition party tacks to the right or steers toward the political center.
The assassination would make him the highest-level Hamas official killed by Israel since the Hamas-led Oct. 7 attacks, when militants killed 1,200 people and took about 250 hostages.
On March 6, Russia fired a missile into the Ukrainian port of Odesa that exploded about 400
metres (1,300ft) from where
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was preparing to tour the city with
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.
Law that bars people who are the subject of domestic violence restraining orders from owning weapons is upheld.
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