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Israeli military killed 165 children in occupied West Bank in past year: UN
OHCHR reports death toll after Israeli military’s shooting of 11-year-old Abdullah Jamal Hawash in Nablus.
The United Nations says that Israeli forces have killed 165 children in the occupied West Bank over the past year.
The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) reported on Wednesday that the Israeli military had killed 36 children in air strikes and 129 with live ammunition, “most in the head or upper body”.
Israeli soldiers shot Abdullah Jamal Hawash, 11, in the chest on Tuesday for throwing stones at an armoured vehicle in Nablus, as reported by the Palestinian Ministry of Health in the West Bank.
In videos posted by local media, the boy was seen throwing a stone at an armoured Israeli four-wheel drive in the distance before he was shot, falling to the ground.
Hawash posed “no realistic threat” to Israeli forces, said OHCHR’s office in the occupied Palestinian territory.
His death came after Israeli forces shot a 17-year-old in the head in Hebron on Sunday, leaving him in a critical condition.
Three days earlier, another 11-year-old was also shot in the head and critically injured by Israeli troops in the Hebron governorate’s Arroub refugee camp.
The Israeli army also stepped up its offensive in the West Bank overnight, storming Nablus, the city of el-Bireh, the town of Deir Abu Mishal, west of Ramallah, the Balata camp, east of Nablus, and the Fawwar camp, south of Hebron.
In the Fawwar refugee camp, Israeli forces launched an arrest campaign. The Palestinian news agency Wafa confirmed that at least seven people were arrested.
In addition, Israeli forces arrested one person from the village of al-Hadab and three people from the town of Dura, both southwest of Hebron.
Israel’s continued onslaught on the West Bank comes as the country celebrates the annual holiday of Simchat Torah.
A video on Telegram, verified by Al Jazeera’s Sanad fact-checking agency, showed Israeli settlers performing Talmudic rituals at the Western Wall – which Muslims refer to as the Buraq Wall – in the Old City of Jerusalem in the occupied territory.
The wall is adjacent to the Al-Aqsa Mosque, where Israeli settlers have repeatedly performed Talmudic rituals in the past few months while escorted by armed security forces.
Israeli far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has stormed the mosque compound multiple times since the start of the war on Gaza.
Iranians mourning the country’s supreme leader condemned U.S. strikes that Washington called retaliation for Iran’s attacks on commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz. At a tightly controlled state funeral in Mashhad — one of Iran’s most conservative cities, where opponents of the government were unlikely to be found in the crowd — mourners voiced defiance and called for revenge.
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Beloved musicians among victims in deadly Bahamas plane crash; aviation authority grounds flights
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A devastating double-aviation crisis in the Bahamas, including a deadly North Andros plane crash and a separate aircraft fire on Friday, prompted the government to suspend flight operations for a local airline and launch a federal safety probe.
Shortly after 1 p.m. local time Friday, a Cessna 402 aircraft with Bahamian registration departed Lynden Pindling International Airport in Nassau bound for San Andros Airport.
The Aircraft Accident Investigation Authority (AAIA) said the plane “encountered difficulties” and crashed into bushes prior to landing.
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Authorities said 10 people were killed in a Bahamas plane crash on Friday. (Our News Bahamas via AP)
First responders, including the Royal Bahamas Police Force, Airport Authority and emergency medical personnel, rushed to the dense brush where the aircraft went down.
The Bahamas Musicians and Entertainers Union confirmed in a statement Saturday that 10 people died in the crash, including prominent members of the “The Pond Band” and a local DJ, whose artistry the union said “touched so many lives and helped to enrich the cultural fabric of The Bahamas.”
Bahamian Prime Minister Philip Brave Davis said a sole survivor was pulled from the wreckage.
“Ann and I are praying for the families who are now facing unbearable grief,” Davis wrote in a statement on X. “We are also praying for the survivor, whose recovery and care will remain in our thoughts.”
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The identities of those killed in the crash have not yet been released.
While the AAIA’s preliminary reports initially indicated seven people were on board, officials are still establishing the facts of the flight manifest.
Just hours before the fatal crash in North Andros, a Flamingo Air flight en route to Mayaguana was forced to turn back to Nassau after the pilot reported a concern, according to the Ministry of Energy, Utilities and Aviation (MoET).
After the aircraft landed and passengers safely deplaned, the plane caught fire on the runway.
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FILE – The Civil Aviation Authority Bahamas temporarily suspended Flamingo Air’s Air Operator Certificate following two aircraft incidents Friday. (iStock)
Following the two back-to-back safety incidents, the Civil Aviation Authority Bahamas (CAAB) temporarily suspended Flamingo Air’s Air Operator Certificate, according to MoET officials.
“The suspension is a precautionary safety measure and should not be treated as an adverse compliance action against Flamingo Air,” the agency wrote in a statement.
FILE – The plane crashed in North Andros on Friday after taking off from Lynden Pindling International Airport. (Melissa Alcena/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Investigators from the AAIA and inspectors from the CAAB remain at the scene in North Andros as they work to determine what caused the Cessna 402 tragedy.
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Flamingo Air did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Moldova’s pro-European President Maia Sandu nominated businessman Vasile Tofan on Saturday as the country’s next prime minister to replace Alexandru Munteanu, who resigned earlier this month over differences with the ruling majority.
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In a video posted to social media, Sandu said Tofan’s primary responsibility, after his candidacy is approved by the country’s parliament, would be to move the country further towards its path of “integration” into the European Union.
He should also “strengthen the resilience of state institutions and society”, and “revive the economy”, added Sandu.
The Moldovan businessman now has two weeks to secure parliamentary backing, a prospect he hopes to achieve after submitting his government programme and his ministerial cabinet nominations.
Tofan had been mentioned as a possible prime minister last year even before the appointment of Munteanu.
Igor Grosu, who heads Sandu’s Action and Solidarity Party (PAS) which won the last parliamentary elections in September, announced on Friday that he had selected him as his candidate to replace the outgoing premier.
He said Tofan shared “the same objectives” as him and PAS, specifying that “EU accession in the years to come, institutional reform and economic growth”, were among the biggest points of agreement.
The nominee for prime minister, who graduated Harvard Business School and turns 44 on Sunday, has a degree in public management from the Netherlands and is a managing partner at Horizon Capital, a private equity firm with assets primarily in Ukraine and Moldova.
He has also chaired the board of directors of Moldova’s Purcari winery, considered the crown jewel of the country’s winemaking sector.
Munteanu, another businessman who like Sandu previously worked at the World Bank, had been chosen to boost the economy and bring it closer to the EU, but turbulence with PAS saw him vacate his post less than a year into holding office.
He resigned on 3 July after less than eight months, stating that he could no longer carry out his mandate “according to (his) principles and (his) convictions”.
The EU last month officially launched a first round of accession negotiations with Ukraine and Moldova. Both countries became official EU candidate countries on 23 June 2022.
Additional sources • AFP
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