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  • Israel kills 64 more Palestinians in Gaza, including 20 waiting for humanitarian aid

    GAZA CITY, Palestine / ANKARA – Israeli army attacks across the Gaza Strip killed at least 64 Palestinians on Friday, including 20 people who were waiting for humanitarian aid as Tel Aviv escalated its genocidal war on the enclave, medics said.

    In one of the deadliest incidents of the day, 15 people were killed and 90 more injured while waiting for food assistance near the al-Tahlia Roundabout in eastern Khan Younis in southern Gaza, a medical source told Anadolu.

    Five civilians were shot dead near an aid distribution center in northwestern Rafah in southern Gaza.

    Another five Palestinians were killed in separate Israeli attacks on civilian gatherings in the al-Tuffah and Zeitoun neighborhoods east of Gaza City.

    Four more people were killed in an Israeli strike targeting a gathering of residents in Jabalia Al-Nazla area in northern Gaza, and a tent for displaced civilians in the Saftawi area north of Gaza City.

    Eleven other Palestinians were killed in a strike on a family home in the northern town of Jabalia.

    Eight Palestinians, including women and children, were killed when Israeli forces struck a displaced people’s tent near Tiba Towers in al-Mawasi, west of Khan Younis.

    Most of the victims were members of the same family whose shelter was directly hit near the Tiba Towers, eyewitnesses told Anadolu. Several others were injured in the attack.

    In another nearby attack, three more people, including two children, were killed near the British field hospital in al-Mawasi, Khan Younis.

    Airstrikes also struck two tents along the Khan Younis beachfront, killing four civilians, most of them women and children.

    The Palestinian news agency Wafa reported that Israeli artillery also struck tents housing displaced civilians in al-Mawasi, Rafah, in southern Gaza, causing further casualties.

    In central Gaza, four people were killed in the al-Bureij refugee camp when a family’s house was targeted in an overnight raid.

    In the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, two Palestinians were killed in an airstrike targeting a gathering of civilians in the Al-Hasayneh area, medics said.

    Meanwhile, three more people were killed in southern Gaza City following a strike on a family home in the al-Sabra neighborhood.

    Israeli forces also hit a school sheltering displaced people, though casualties from that strike were not immediately confirmed.

    In a separate incident, Israeli forces demolished multiple residential homes in northern Khan Younis, according to eyewitnesses.

    ANADOLU, 4.7.2025

  • UK’s Palestine Action loses bid to pause ban as terrorist group

    LONDON, July 4 – Pro-Palestinian campaign group Palestine Action’s co-founder on Friday lost a bid to pause the British government’s decision to ban the group under anti-terrorism laws, though the group is launching an urgent appeal.

    Huda Ammori, who helped found Palestine Action in 2020, asked London’s High Court to stop the proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation, before a full hearing of her case that banning the group is unlawful later this month.

    British lawmakers this week decided to ban Palestine Action after its activists broke into a Royal Air Force base and damaged two planes in protest against what the group says is Britain’s support for Israel.

    Proscription would make it a crime to be a member of Palestine Action that carries a maximum sentence of 14 years in prison.

    Palestine Action has increasingly targeted Israel-linked companies in Britain, often spraying red paint, blocking entrances or damaging equipment. The group accuses the British government of complicity in what it says are Israeli war crimes in its ongoing bombardment of Gaza.

    Israel has repeatedly denied committing abuses in its war in Gaza, which began after Palestinian militant group Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, 2023.

    Ammori’s lawyer Raza Husain said the proscription marked the first time Britain had sought to ban a group carrying out such direct action, describing it as “an ill-considered, discriminatory, authoritarian abuse of statutory power”.

    Critics of the government’s decision, including some United Nations experts and civil liberties groups, have also argued that damaging property does not amount to terrorism.

    REUTERS

  • IAEA inspectors leave Iran after Tehran cut cooperation

    TEHRAN, Jul. 04 – International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors left Iran today for Vienna, Media sources reported.

    On Wednesday, Iranian President Massoud Pezeshkian announced the suspension of Tehran’s cooperation with the IAEA.

    Earlier on June 25, Iran’s parliament (Majlis) approved a bill to suspend Tehran’s cooperation with the IAEA following its politically-motivated resolution against the Islamic Republic.

    MEHR, 4.7.2025

  • Injuries rise to 45 in gas station explosion in Rome, Italy

    ROME, July 4 – The number of injuries has risen to 45 following a powerful explosion at a gas station in eastern Rome on Friday morning, according to the latest reports from Italian media.

    Italy’s ANSA news agency reported that the injured include 12 police officers, six firefighters, and three emergency rescuers who had arrived on the scene after an initial smaller blast. Additional explosions occurred shortly thereafter.

    Two people are in critical condition and currently on life support, while six others have been classified as “code red” – the highest level of medical emergency in Italy’s healthcare system.

    The explosion occurred at a gas station on Via Gordiani in Rome’s Prenestino district. Preliminary investigations by the local fire department suggest the blast may have been caused by a fuel pump detaching from a tanker truck. Authorities are continuing to investigate the incident.

    XINHUA, 4.7.2025

  • No new missing victims found as search continues for sunken ferry in Indonesia’s Bali Strait

    JAKARTA, July 4 – Indonesian rescue authorities said Friday that no new missing victims have been found in the ongoing search for those who disappeared after a ferry sank in the Bali Strait.

    The joint Search and Rescue (SAR) team has entered its second day of operations following the sinking of the KM Tunu Pratama Jaya ferry on Wednesday night. The ferry was carrying 53 passengers, 12 crew members, and 22 vehicles when it went down in the waters between Java and Bali islands.

    “So on the second day of the search today, there have been no new findings of victims who were declared missing, but the joint SAR team is still carrying out activities and preparing plans for the next operation on Saturday,” said Ribut Eko Suyanto, deputy for search and rescue operations readiness at Indonesia’s National Search and Rescue Agency.

    He noted that harsh weather posed significant challenges to the ongoing efforts. “Visibility decreased from 10 kilometers to only three kilometers, waves reached heights of 2.5 meters, and strong winds were present in the area,” he explained.

    He also confirmed that the number of survivors had increased to 30 after a newly identified survivor.

    As of Friday evening, the total number of individuals found stands at 36, including 30 survivors and 6 deceased. A total of 29 people remain missing.

    XINHUA, 4.7.2025

  • EU says situation around GHF food distribution centers in Gaza ‘untenable’

    BRUSSELS – The European Union on Friday criticized the situation surrounding food distribution centers operated by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), calling it “untenable” and “not tolerable” and arguing that the bloc is not involved in the initiative.

    About “the humanitarian foundation (GHF) that you mentioned, there’s the distribution centers in Gaza, and what’s happening around those distribution centers, the situation is untenable. It should not be tolerated, and the violence should cease immediately,” EU Commission spokesperson Anouar El Anouni told a midday briefing in Brussels.

    Reiterating the EU’s longstanding position, El Anouni stressed that humanitarian aid must never be “politicized or militarized,” and should be delivered in line with core humanitarian principles under the coordination of the UN.

    “As the European Union, we do not finance this initiative. We are not financing this initiative, and we’re also not cooperating with it,” he added.

    ANADOLU, 4.7.2025

  • Pakistan’s army claims 30 suspected militants killed near Afghan border

    ISLAMABAD – The Pakistan army on Friday claimed that they have killed at least 30 suspected militants while attempting to cross the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.

    In a statement, the military said that the movement of a group of militants trying to infiltrate through the Pakistan-Afghanistan border was detected by the security forces in the general area of Hassan Khel in the North Waziristan tribal district, near the Afghan border.

    “Our troops effectively engaged and thwarted the Indian-sponsored Khawarij’s attempt to infiltrate. As a result of precise and skillful engagement, all thirty Indian-sponsored Khawarij were sent to hell,” it said in the statement.

    A large quantity of weapons, ammunition, and explosives was also recovered from the militants.

    The Pakistani military said the Afghan interim Taliban administration “needs to check” and prevent the use of Afghan soil by “foreign proxies” for orchestrating terrorist activities against Pakistan.

    There was no immediate reaction from New Delhi or Kabul to the statement from the Pakistani military.

    Last week, at least 13 Pakistani soldiers were killed in a suicide bombing in North Waziristan, in the country’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province near the Afghan border, while 14 terrorists were killed by the military in subsequent operations.

    Islamabad accuses Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militants, who are allegedly based in Afghanistan, of carrying out terrorist attacks in Pakistan, while Kabul denies that such attacks are launched from its soil.

    ANADOLU, 4.7.2025

  • British group Palestine Action seeks to pause government ban

    People wave Palestinian flags during a protest after British lawmakers voted to ban pro-Palestinian campaign group Palestine Action as a terrorist organization, outside Downing Street in London, Britain, July 2, 2025. REUTERS

    LONDON, July 4 – A co-founder of pro-Palestinian group Palestine Action asked a London court on Friday to pause a British government decision to ban it under anti-terrorism laws, a move her lawyers said was an “authoritarian abuse” of the law.

    Huda Ammori, who helped found Palestine Action in 2020, asked London’s High Court to stop the proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation, before a full hearing of her case that banning Palestine Action is unlawful later this month.

    British lawmakers this week decided to ban the group in response to its activists breaking into a Royal Air Force base and damaging two planes, a protest against what it says is Britain’s support for Israel.

    Proscription would make it a crime to be a member of Palestine Action that carries a maximum sentence of 14 years in prison. Proscribed groups under British law include Islamic State and al Qaeda.

    Palestine Action has increasingly targeted Israel-linked companies in Britain with direct action.

    Critics of the government’s decision, including some United Nations experts and civil liberties groups, say damaging property does not amount to terrorism.

    “This is the first time in our history that a direct action, civil disobedience group which does not advocate for violence has been sought to be proscribed as terrorists,” Ammori’s lawyer, Raza Husain, told the court.

    Husain described the government’s decision as “an ill-considered, discriminatory, authoritarian abuse of statutory power that is alien to the basic tradition of the common law”.

    Home Secretary Yvette Cooper, Britain’s interior minister, said this week that “violence and serious criminal damage has no place in legitimate protests”.

    Husain said that “one may disagree with what Palestine Action do and think that criminal damage, trespass and burglary are wrong”, but that designation the group as a terrorist organisation was “an abuse of language”.

    A decision on whether to pause Palestine Action’s impending proscription is expected later on Friday.

    REUTERS

  • Woman dies in apparent bear attack at home in northeastern Japan

    TOKYO, July 4 – An 81-year-old woman was killed Friday in an apparent bear attack at her home in Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, local media reported.

    At around 7:40 a.m. local time, police received a call from a man who said that when he visited his mother’s home in Kitakami City, he found her lying on the floor in the living room and bleeding, newspaper Asahi Shimbun reported.

    First responders rushed to the scene and the elderly woman was confirmed dead, the report said.

    According to police, Seiko Takahashi, in her usual clothing, had suffered multiple injuries, including those believed to have been caused by animal claws, on her head and throughout her body.

    Multiple footprints believed to be from a bear were found inside the house, which is located in a rural area with rice fields, the report said.

    Police are investigating the possibility that she was attacked by the animal.

    XINHUA

  • 28 killed in attacks in northern Nigeria: report

    ABUJA, July 4 – Jihadist groups have killed 28 people in two separate attacks in northern Nigeria, media reported on Thursday, citing the military and residents.

    Militants from the jihadist group Lakurawa raided a village in Nigeria’s northwestern Sokoto state on Wednesday, killing 17 people, residents said. The attackers stormed the village, “shooting indiscriminately” in what locals believe was a reprisal for the killing of three jihadists by vigilantes in a failed raid on the community days earlier.

    Another 11 were killed Thursday when jihadists from Islamic State West Africa Province attacked the border town of Malam Fatori and opened fire on a camp for internally displaced people, said Lieutenant Colonel Olaniyi Osoba of the Multinational Joint Task Force, a multinational military coalition fighting jihadists in the region.

    Osoba said 20 others were wounded and taken to a hospital in Bosso across the border in Niger.

    According to the United Nations, jihadist violence has killed over 40,000 people and displaced around 2 million in northeastern Nigeria since 2009.

    XINHUA