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Car ramming kills two people in occupied East Jerusalem

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2 years ago

February 10, 2023

Car ramming kills two people in occupied East Jerusalem

Driver ploughs a automobile right into a crowded bus cease in unlawful Israeli settlement of Ramot earlier than being shot and killed.

A Palestinian has ploughed a automobile right into a crowded bus cease in occupied East Jerusalem, killing two folks, together with a toddler, earlier than being shot and killed, Israeli police and medics say.

The automobile ramming on Friday occurred within the unlawful Israeli settlement of Ramot, Tensions have soared within the jap half of town after a Palestinian carried out a taking pictures exterior a synagogue on January 27, which killed seven folks within the deadliest assault in Jerusalem in additional than a decade.

The Israeli rescue service recognized the 2 folks killed on Friday as a six-year-old boy and a person in his 20s. It mentioned medics have been treating 5 injured, together with an eight-year-old in essential situation after present process CPR. The others ranged in age from 10 to 40 and have been in average to critical situation.

“It was a stunning scene,” mentioned paramedic Lishai Shemesh, who occurred to be driving by on the time of the assault. “I used to be within the automobile with my spouse and youngsters and observed a automobile driving quick into the bus cease and crushing the individuals who have been ready there.”

Police mentioned an off-duty detective shot and killed the suspect on the scene. There was no fast phrase on his identification.

Footage confirmed police and paramedics swarming a mangled blue Mazda that had slammed into the bus cease. Bloody our bodies lay strewn across the scene.

Suspect’s home to be demolished

The Palestinian teams Islamic Jihad and Hamas, which guidelines the Gaza Strip, praised the assault however didn’t declare accountability for it.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described the incident as a “terrorist” assault and ordered safety forces to be strengthened.

The Israeli i24 information web site reported that Netanyahu has determined to seal the suspect’s home and demolish it.

The Israeli settlement of Ramot was in-built 1974 on lands confiscated from the Palestinian villages of Beit Iksa and Beit Hanina.

Israel claims all of Jerusalem as its undivided capital whereas the Palestinian Authority seeks East Jerusalem, captured by Israel within the 1967 Center East warfare, because the capital of its future state.

Hostilities have escalated in occupied East Jerusalem and the West Financial institution since Israel stepped up raids final 12 months after a sequence of lethal Palestinian assaults inside Israel.

Practically 150 Palestinians have been killed within the occupied West Financial institution and East Jerusalem in 2022, making it the deadliest 12 months in these territories since 2004, in accordance with main Israeli rights group B’Tselem.

Final 12 months, 30 folks have been killed in Palestinian assaults towards Israelis.

Thus far this 12 months, 43 Palestinians have been killed, in accordance with a depend by The Related Press – 10 of them in a gunfight final month throughout a military raid in Jenin within the West Financial institution.

Israel’s new far-right authorities, led by Netanyahu, had accused the earlier authorities of inaction within the face of a lethal wave of Palestinian assaults final 12 months, elevating questions on its stance in direction of the Palestinians at a time of heightened stress.

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Man in India regains consciousness before his cremation on funeral pyre: reports

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November 23, 2024

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Man in India regains consciousness before his cremation on funeral pyre: reports

A 25-year-old man who was declared dead and about to be cremated in India this week was found to be still alive by witnesses, according to reports.

Rohitash Kumar, 25, who was deaf and mute, was declared dead at a hospital in the state of Rajasthan in the northwestern part of India without a post-mortem examination, according to The Times of India.

Once it was clear Kumar was alive at his cremation on Thursday afternoon, his family reportedly took him back to a hospital where he died early Friday morning.

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A crematorium in India. (Rupak De Chowdhuri/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Three doctors involved in declaring Kumar dead at the Bhagwan Das Khetan district hospital have since been suspended, the newspaper reported.

Kumar had suffered an epileptic seizure and was declared dead after he flatlined while doctors were performing CPR on him, the Daily Mail reported, citing the AFP news service.

Relatives carry the body of a person who died of COVID-19 as multiple pyres of other victims burn at a crematorium in New Delhi, India, in 2021. (AP Photo/Amit Sharma, File)

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“The situation was nothing short of a miracle,” a witness at the funeral pyre told local news outlet ETV Bharat. “We all were in shock. He was declared dead, but there he was, breathing and alive.”

Ramavtar Meena, a government official in Rajasthan’s Jhunjhunu district, called the incident “serious negligence.”

The state of Rajasthan in northwestern India. (Vishal Bhatnagar/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

“Action will be taken against those responsible. The working style of the doctors will also be thoroughly investigated,” he said.

Meena added that a committee had been formed to investigate the incident.

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Thousands march across Europe protesting violence against women

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November 23, 2024

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Thousands march across Europe protesting violence against women

Violence against women and girls remains largely unreported due to the impunity, silence, stigma and shame surrounding it.

Thousands marched across France and Italy protesting violence against women on Saturday – two days before the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.

Those demonstrating protested all forms of violence against women – whether it be sexual, physical, psychological and economic.

The United Nations designated 25 November as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. The goal is to raise awareness of the violence women are subjected to and the reality that the scale and nature of the issue is often hidden.

Activists demonstrated partially naked in Rome, hooded in balaclavas to replicate the gesture of Iranian student Ahoo Daryaei, who stripped in front of a university in Tehran to protest the country’s regime.

In France, demonstrations were planned in dozens of cities like Paris, Marseille and Lille.

More than 400 organisations reportedly called for demonstrations across the country amidst widespread shock caused by the Pelicot mass rape trial.

Violence against women and girls remains one of the most prevalent and pervasive human rights violations in the world, according to the United Nations. Globally, almost one in three women have been subjected to physical and/or sexual violence at least once in their life.

For at least 51,100 women in 2023, the cycle of gender-based violence ended with their murder by partners or family members. That means a woman was killed every ten minutes.