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Two children killed by Israeli strike on Gaza’s Al-Shati camp

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Israeli military claimed it struck Hamas target. (AFP/File)
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Updated 24 October 2023
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Two children killed by Israeli strike on Gaza’s Al-Shati camp

Two children killed by Israeli strike on Gaza’s Al-Shati camp
  • Palestinian rescue teams recovered bodies of two young girls from under rubble after attack on Al-Shati camp
Updated 24 October 2023
Ahmed Hijazee
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GAZA: The Israeli military struck Gaza’s crowded Al-Shati camp on Monday, flattening homes and killing at least 40 people, according to a report that reached Arab News from the targeted site.

Footage acquired by Arab News shows Palestinian rescue teams retrieving the pajama-clad bodies of two young girls, identified as Yomna and Aya, from the rubble of their family home in the aftermath of the attack.

The footage also shows bedding and a school backpack belonging to one of the victims.

Onlookers said the house belonged to Mostafa Al-Bahloul, whose daughter recently moved to Gaza from Ukraine.

Mahmoud Awad Abu Abdallah, a relative, said that one of the victims, Aya, had Ukrainian citizenship.

The Israeli military claimed it targeted a Hamas hideout in the refugee camp in northern Gaza, Reuters reported.

But a spokesperson for Gaza’s health ministry, Ashraf Al-Qudra, said in a statement on Facebook that the Israeli attack killed and injured children and women.

More videos that reached Arab News from a reporter in Gaza show another airstrike targeting the entrance to Al-Wafa Hospital.

The Israeli military campaign against the Gaza Strip has killed more than 5,000 people in the past two weeks, according to the Palestinian health ministry.

Topics: Israel-Hamas war Gaza Palestine

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RSF paramilitaries kill 31 in Sudanese city of Sennar, activists say

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DUBAI/CAIRO: At least 31 people have been killed and 100 wounded since the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces renewed an assault on the city of Sennar in southeastern Sudan on Sunday, a legal activist group said.
Several parts of the city including the main market have been targeted by RSF artillery fire, said Emergency Lawyers, which has monitored civilian deaths and other humanitarian violations.
The progress of the RSF, which already controls most of Sennar and at least half of the country, has slowed in the southeast as heavy rains have made movement difficult.
Its war with Sudan’s army has created the world’s largest hunger and internal displacement crises, killing tens of thousands of civilians and destroying most of Sudan’s infrastructure and economy.
Emergency Lawyers said the army had killed at least four people in Al-Souki, a town near Sennar, during airstrikes. The RSF killed one person and wounded 17 in artillery strikes on el-Obeid, another town it has struggled to assert full control of.
Both sides in Sudan’s 18-month-old civil war have committed abuses that may amount to war crimes, a UN-mandated mission said on Friday, calling for peacekeepers and a country-wide arms embargo.
On Saturday, Sudan’s army-aligned foreign ministry rejected both recommendations, calling the idea of international peacekeepers “the wish of Sudan’s enemies and it will not be fulfilled.”

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UN rights chief calls on states to challenge Israel over occupation

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  • Nearly 50,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza
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GENEVA: The UN human rights chief said on Monday that ending the nearly year-long war in Gaza is a priority and he asked countries to act on what he called Israel’s “blatant disregard” for international law in the occupied Palestinian territories.
Nearly 50,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza, according to Gaza health officials, since Israel unleashed a military campaign in response to cross-border attacks by Hamas militants on Oct. 7, 2023 in which 1,200 people were killed and a further 250 taken hostage.
“Ending that war and averting a full-blown regional conflict is an absolute and urgent priority,” the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk said in a speech at the opening of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.
“States must not – cannot – accept blatant disregard for international law, including binding decisions of the (UN) Security Council and orders of the International Court of Justice, neither in this nor any other situation.”
He cited an opinion released by the UN top court in July that called Israel’s occupation illegal and said this situation must be “comprehensively addressed.” Israel has rejected the opinion and called it one-sided.
Turk’s comments were given in a broad speech marking the mid-way point of his four-year term as UN rights chief where he described massive challenges around the world and a crisis of political leadership.
“In every region around the world, we see deep-seated power dynamics at play to grab or hold on to power, at the expense of universal human rights,” he said at the start of the five-week session where rights violations in Sudan, Afghanistan and Ukraine will also be debated.

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BEIRUT: A Lebanese judge on Monday issued a formal arrest warrant for former central bank governor Riad Salameh, days after he was taken into custody over alleged embezzlement, a judicial official said.
The investigating judge finished questioning Salameh and “issued an arrest warrant against him,” the official told AFP, requesting anonymity as they were not authorized to brief the media.
Salameh ran the central bank for three decades until July 2023.
If the prosecution continues, it would mark a rare case of a serving or retired senior Lebanese official facing accountability in a system which critics say has long shielded the elite.
Salameh was long feted as a financial wizard in Lebanon but left office with his reputation shredded by corruption charges at home and abroad and the catastrophic collapse of Lebanon’s financial system in 2019.
Salameh’s media office has said he will not comment publicly on the case, in line with the law. It said in a statement he had cooperated in the past with more than 20 criminal probes in Beirut and Mount Lebanon, and was cooperating with the investigation after his detention.
Salameh has denied previous corruption charges.

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Turkey says its air strikes hit PKK targets in northern Iraq

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Turkey says its air strikes hit PKK targets in northern Iraq

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ISTANBUL: Turkish air strikes in northern Iraq destroyed 21 targets of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) on Monday, Turkey's Defence Ministry said, adding many militants had been "neutralised" in the attack.
Ankara typically uses the term "neutralised" to mean killed.
The operations targeted PKK bases in Gara, Hakurk, Metina and Qandil, the ministry statement said.

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Israeli strikes in central Syria kill seven — war monitor

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DAMASCUS: Israeli strikes in central Syria killed at least seven people late Sunday, including three civilians, a war monitor reported.
Since the start of the civil war in Syria in 2011, Israel has carried out hundreds of strikes there, targeting pro-Iranian groups in particular.
“The number of dead in the Israeli strikes on the Masyaf region stands at seven, namely three civilians, including a man and his son who were in a car, and four unidentified soldiers,” said the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which has a vast network of sources inside the country.
The attack also wounded at least 15 others and destroyed military facilities in the area, the Observatory said.
“Thirteen violent explosions rang out in the zone housing scientific research centers in Masyaf where pro-Iranian groups and weapons development experts are present,” the group said in an earlier statement.
The Syrian state news agency Sana had previously reported five killed and 19 wounded near Masyaf, citing a medical source.
“Around 11:20 p.m. (2020 GMT) on Sunday, the Israeli enemy carried out an air attack from the northwest of Lebanon targeting a number of military sites in the central region,” Sana reported, citing a military source.
“Our air defense shot down some missiles.”
Israeli air raids in Syria have intensified since the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel that sparked the war in Gaza.
Israeli authorities rarely comment on individual strikes in Syria, but have repeatedly said they will not allow arch-enemy Iran to expand its presence there.
At the end of August, three pro-Iranian fighters were killed in the central region of Homs in strikes attributed to Israel, the Observatory said.
A few days later, the Israeli military said it had killed an unspecified number of fighters belonging to Hamas ally Islamic Jihad in a strike in Syria near the Lebanese border.

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