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  • Israeli airstrikes hit UN school and homes in Gaza, killing at least 34 people, hospitals say

    Palestinians inspect a school sheltering displaced people, after it was hit by an Israeli strike, in Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip, on Sept. 11, 2024. (Reuters)

    DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — Israeli airstrikes across Gaza overnight and Wednesday hit a UN school sheltering displaced Palestinian families as well as two homes, killing at least 34 people, including 19 women and children, hospital officials said.

    The deadliest strike came Wednesday afternoon, targeting the UN’s Al-Jawni Preparatory Boys School in central Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp. The Israeli military said it was targeting Hamas militants planning attacks from inside the school. The claim could not be independently confirmed.

    At least 14 dead from the strike, including two children and a woman, were brought to Awda and Al-Aqsa Martyrs hospitals nearby, officials from the facilities said. At least 18 people were wounded in the strike, they said.

    One of the children killed was the daughter of Momin Selmi, a member of Gaza’s civil defense agency, which works rescuing wounded and bodies after strikes, the agency said in a statement. Selmi hadn’t seen his daughter for 10 months, since he remained in north Gaza to keep working while his family fled south, the agency said.

    Tens of thousands of Palestinians driven from their homes by Israeli offensives and evacuation orders are living in Gaza’s schools. The Al-Jawni school, one of many in Gaza run by the UN agency for Palestinians UNWRA, has been hit by multiple strikes over the course of the war.

    Israel frequently bombs schools, saying they are being used by Hamas militants. It blames Hamas for civilian casualties from its strikes, saying its fighters base themselves and operate within dense residential neighborhoods.

    More than 90 percent of Gaza’s school buildings have been severely or partially damaged in strikes, and more than half the schools housing displaced people have been hit, according to a survey in July by the Education Cluster, a collection of aid groups led by UNICEF and Save the Children.

    Israel’s 11-month-old campaign in Gaza has killed at least 41,084 Palestinians and wounded another 95,029, the territory’s Health Ministry said Wednesday. Israel launched its campaign vowing to destroy Hamas after the Oct. 7 attack on southern Israel, in which militants killed some 1,200 people and abducted 250 others.

    Earlier Wednesday, a strike hit a home near the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, killing 11 people, including six brothers and sisters from the same family ranging in age from 21 months to 21 years old, according to the European Hospital, which received the casualties.

    A strike late Tuesday on a home in the urban Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza killed nine people, including six women and children, according to the Gaza Health Ministry and the civil defense. The civil defense said the home belonged to Akram Al-Najjar, a professor at the Al-Quds Open University, who survived the strike.

    AN-AP

  • Tajikistan’s chief mufti injured in attack, interior ministry says

    Tajikistan’s top Muslim cleric Sayeedmukarram Abduqodirzoda was injured in an attack outside a central mosque in the capital Dushanbe on Wednesday, the interior ministry said.

    DUSHANBE — Tajikistan’s top Muslim cleric Sayeedmukarram Abduqodirzoda was injured in an attack outside a central mosque in the capital Dushanbe on Wednesday, the interior ministry said.

    The ministry said a person with “hooligan motives” had stabbed Abduqodirzoda following a prayer service at a mosque.

    He suffered minor injuries and was released after a medical examination, the ministry said. Authorities detained the attacker and have opened a criminal case into the incident, it added.

    Abduqodirzoda, 61, has served as chairman of the country’s highest Islamic institution, the Islamic Council of Ulema, since 2010, according to his official biography.

    Tajikistan is a land-locked country of some 10 million people sandwiched between Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and China. The majority of Tajiks are adherents of the Hanafi school of Sunni Islam.

    AN-REUTERS

  • Occupation commits four massacres in Gaza over the past 24 hours

    GAZA — The Israeli occupation army committed four massacres against families in the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours, resulting in the killing of 64 civilians and the injury of 104 others, according to medical sources.

    The number of people killed since the start of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip on October 7th, 2023, has surged to 41084, the majority of whom are children and women. Some 95029 others have been wounded.

    Thousands of victims are still trapped under the rubble or scattered on the roads, as ambulance and civil defense teams are facing difficulties in reaching them due to the continued Israeli attacks, the massive amount of debris and the shortage of fuel and heavy equipment.

    Casualty data in Gaza are incomplete due to the intensive Israeli aggression, the repeated and complete interruption of communication and internet services, lack of fuel and devastated infrastructure, which render it difficult to document figures.

    WAFA, Sep 11, 2024, 05:22 PM

  • Four Palestinians killed by Israeli bombing in Rafah

    GAZA — Four Palestinians were killed and 15 others were injured on Wednesday as a result of the Israeli occupation bombing of a house in Rafah city.

    Local sources reported that the occupation aircraft bombed a house owned by Abu Shalouf family in Mawasi area of ​​Rafah, which led to the killing of four citizens and the injury of 15 others.

    Israeli occupation artillery shelling was renewed in the vicinity of Dawla intersection, south of the Zeitoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City, in conjunction with Israeli firing of smoke and sound shells towards the southeastern areas of the neighborhood.

    The occupation drones also opened fire in Sabra neighborhood, and Al-Musalaba and Hassan Al-Banna areas in the Zeitoun neighborhood in Gaza City.

    Since the start of the aggression on October 7, 2023, 41,020 Palestinians have been killed, most of them children and women, and 94,925 others have been injured. Rescue teams are still facing great difficulties in reaching thousands of victims who are still under the rubble or on the streets.

    WAFA

  • 2 killed in attack on anti-polio team in NW Pakistan

    ISLAMABAD — A polio worker and a policeman were killed in firing by unknown gunmen in Pakistan’s northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province, according to police officials on Wednesday.

    Unknown miscreants riding on a motorcycle opened fire at a polio vaccination team in Salarzai area of Bajaur district of the province, said the police in the area.

    The attackers fled the scene after carrying out the attack, and a search operation is underway to arrest the culprits, said the police, adding that polio vaccination has been halted in the area after the incident.

    Earlier on Monday, a week-long polio vaccination campaign was launched in the district to administer vaccination drops to children aged up to five years.

    This is the second attack on an anti-polio team in KP province this week. Earlier on Tuesday, a bomb blast hit a vehicle carrying polio workers and policemen in South Waziristan district, leaving at least six people injured, according to police officials.

    According to government officials, Pakistan is one of the only two polio-endemic countries in the world along with its neighbor Afghanistan. The country has reported 17 polio cases so far this year.

    XINHUA

  • Taufan Yagi: Rakyat Malaysia dinasihat tangguh perjalanan ke Ha Long, Sa Pa

    KUALA LUMPUR — Rakyat Malaysia yang ingin melancong ke Ha Long dan Sa Pa dinasihatkan menangguhkan rancangan perjalanan buat masa ini berikutan kesan Taufan Yagi di Vietnam Utara, menurut Kedutaan Besar Malaysia di Hanoi, Vietnam.

    Menurut amaran cuaca yang dimuat naik di laman Facebook kedutaan pada Selasa, rakyat Malaysia yang tinggal, bekerja atau terpaksa melakukan perjalanan ke kawasan yang terjejas dinasihatkan untuk memantau berita tempatan dengan teliti dalam beberapa hari akan datang.

    “Lakukan e-daftar dengan Misi kami di https://ekonsular.kln.gov.my/login dan ambil semua langkah berjaga-jaga yang diperlukan, ikuti nasihat dan patuhi cadangan/arahan daripada pihak berkuasa tempatan yang berkenaan,” menurut kenyataan itu.

    Rakyat Malaysia yang memerlukan bantuan konsular segera, boleh menghubungi Pegawai Bertugas di +849-0418 5610 atau e-mel di mwhanoi@kln.gov.my.

    Menurut kedutaan, hujan lebat akibat Taufan Yagi menyebabkan banjir dan tanah runtuh teruk di Lao Cai, Yen Bai, Thai Nguyen dan Cao Bang.

    Pihak berkuasa tempatan mengeluarkan amaran dengan hujan yang masih berterusan dan paras air yang semakin meningkat, terdapat kemungkinan berlakunya banjir meluas di kawasan utara, termasuk kawasan sekitar Hanoi.

    Amaran banjir di Hanoi akibat paras air Sungai Merah yang meningkat ke sekurang-kurangnya Tahap Amaran 1 dikeluarkan untuk kawasan berikut: pantai Phuc Tan (Ward Phuc Tan, Daerah Hoan Kiem, Hanoi), pantai Phuc Xa (Ward Phuc Xa, Daerah Ba Dinh, Hanoi), Tu Lien, Quang Ba, Phu Thuong (Daerah Tay Ho), menurut kedutaan.

    Menurut laporan Agensi Berita Vietnam (VNA) pada Selasa, Perdana Menteri Pham Minh Chinh mengarahkan kementerian, agensi dan pihak berkuasa tempatan untuk bekerja sepanjang masa dalam menghadapi situasi kecemasan susulan banjir yang kompleks di bandar dan wilayah utara berikutan Taufan Yagi.

    Dalam ucapan sebelum mesyuarat anggota kabinet tetap mengenai pembinaan undang-undang, perdana menteri menyatakan banjir dan tanah runtuh pasca taufan menyebabkan 296 orang maut dan hilang setakat 3 petang pada hari itu, serta menekankan bahawa kesihatan dan nyawa rakyat mesti diutamakan, menurut VNA.

    Pemimpin kerajaan mengarahkan pembabitan seluruh sistem politik dan pelaksanaan semua langkah untuk mengatasi banjir dan tanah runtuh, menurut laporan itu.

    BH ONLINE-BERNAMA

  • Russia says it could “combine” with China if they faced a threat

    MOSCOW — Russia said on Wednesday that its partnership with China was not aimed against third countries but the two powers could “combine potential” if faced with a threat from the United States.

    “I would like to remind you that Moscow and Beijing will respond to ‘double containment’ by the United States with ‘double counteraction’,” Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said when asked about a possible deployment of U.S. missiles in Japan.

    The Japan Times reported on Sept. 7 that the United States had expressed an interest in deploying a Typhon mid-range missile system to Japan for joint military exercises.

    “It is clear that both Russia and China will react to the emergence of additional and very significant missile threats, and their reaction will be far from being political, which has also been repeatedly confirmed by the two countries,” Zakharova told reporters at her weekly briefing.

    She said Russia and China had a strategic partnership that was not aggressive in its intent.

    “Our relations are not directed against third countries… and double counteraction does not contradict this. This is a defensive position, this is not an initiative to target other countries,” Zakharova said in answer to a question from Reuters.

    “But if an aggressive policy of attack is being implemented against us from one centre, why don’t we combine our potential and give an appropriate rebuff?”

    Presidents Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping signed a “no limits” partnership deal in 2022, less than three weeks before Putin sent his troops into Ukraine. In May this year they agreed to deepen what they called their “comprehensive partnership and strategic cooperation” for a new era.

    The two countries have not declared a formal military alliance, although Putin last week described them as “allies in every sense of the word”.

    Russia and China have staged military exercises together, including naval drills that started on Tuesday. Putin, overseeing the launch of the manoeuvres, warned the United States against attempts to outgun Russia by building up its military power in the Asia-Pacific region.

    REUTERS

  • Kremlin warns of escalation if US allows Kyiv to hit Russia with long-range missiles

    A general view of the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, August 12, 2024. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov/File Photo

    MOSCOW — The Kremlin told the West on Wednesday that any decision to allow Ukraine to strike Russia with long-range Western missiles would deepen what it called the direct involvement of the U.S. and Europe in the war and would trigger a response from Moscow.

    The warning came as senior Ukrainian government officials pressed U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and British foreign minister David Lammy, on a joint visit to Kyiv, to allow Ukraine to fire long-range U.S. ATACMS missiles and British Storm Shadow cruise missiles at targets deep inside Russia.

    Washington has previously been reluctant to supply Ukraine with long-range weapons over fears that this could escalate the 2-1/2-year-old conflict, but there are signs its stance may be shifting.

    U.S. President Joe Biden said on Tuesday his administration was “working that out now” when asked if he would lift restrictions on Kyiv’s use of missiles such as ATACMS.

    Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters Moscow suspected a U.S. decision to let Kyiv fire such missiles into Russia had already been taken and that there would be a response if that happened.

    “It (our response) will be an appropriate one,” said Peskov.

    “The involvement of the United States of America and European countries in the conflict over Ukraine is direct, and each new step increases the degree of this involvement,” he said.

    Vyacheslav Volodin, the chairman of the State Duma, the lower house of parliament, and a close ally of President Vladimir Putin, said Moscow would be forced to use “more powerful and destructive weapons” against Ukraine if Kyiv started firing long-range Western missiles at Russia.

    “Washington and other European states are becoming parties to the war in Ukraine,” Volodin said on Telegram.

    ‘DANGERS AND RISKS’

    Sergei Ryabkov, one of Russia’s deputy foreign ministers, was cited by state news agencies as saying Moscow was worried about what it regarded as a potentially dangerous escalatory scenario and would move to destroy any new deliveries of long-range ATACMS missiles to Ukraine by the United States.

    “As was the case with past U.S. arms deliveries to the Kyiv regime, they will all be destroyed,” TASS cited Ryabkov as saying. “But the dangers and risks are growing.”

    The long-range U.S. Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS) have a range of up to 190 miles (305 kms) while the British Storm Shadows have a reach of around 155 miles (249 km).

    Ukraine is already firing both at Russian targets on territory internationally recognised as Ukraine but wants to use them to hit bases inside Russia itself.

    REUTERS

  • Cambodia sentences 2 Thai men to life in prison for 118-kg drug trafficking

    PHNOM PENH — A Cambodian court on Wednesday sentenced two Thai men to life in prison for trafficking a large amount of illicit drugs, according to a verdict.

    Saehoe Somchai, 33, and Saehoe Thanat, 30, were both arrested in the capital Phnom Penh on August 21, 2023, with 118 kg of methamphetamine and ketamine.

    “The duo was charged with possessing, transporting and trafficking illicit drugs,” said the verdict pronounced by Theam Chan Piseth, presiding judge of Phnom Penh Municipal Court.

    “The court decided to sentence each of them to life in prison,” the verdict said, adding that the court also fined each of them 80 million riel (20,000 U.S. dollars).

    Under the kingdom’s law, the convicts have one month to file an appeal against the verdict.

    Cambodia has ramped up efforts in combating illicit drugs since August 2023 when Prime Minister Hun Manet took office.

    The Southeast Asian country detained 17,574 drug-related suspects, including 550 foreigners of 15 nationalities, during the January-August period of 2024, seizing a total of 5.75 tons of illicit drugs, according to the Anti-Drug Department.

    XINHUA

  • Hezbollah official killed in Israeli raid on SE Lebanese village

    BEIRUT — A Hezbollah official was killed and another member severely injured on Wednesday afternoon during an Israeli raid in southeastern Lebanon’s Mays al-Jabal village, Lebanese sources told Xinhua.

    Military sources, who spoke anonymously, said an Israeli drone targeted a motorcycle with two air-to-ground missiles in Mays al-Jabal, killing a Hezbollah military cadre and wounding his companion.

    They added that the civil defense crew is working to transfer the casualties to the government hospital.

    Meanwhile, the Emergency Operations Center of Lebanon’s Public Health Ministry issued a statement and confirmed the incident and casualties.

    Israeli airstrikes also targeted the municipality of Yater and the villages of Maroun al-Ras and Rachaya al Foukhar in the eastern sector of the border area in southern Lebanon, the official National News Agency reported.

    Also on Wednesday, Hezbollah claimed in a series of statements that its fighters have targeted the Israeli sites of Ruwaisat Al-Qarn, Al-Alam, and Al-Raheb, as well as the Zebdine barracks in the occupied Shebaa Farms.

    The exchange of fire took place as tensions mounted along the Lebanon-Israel border since Oct. 8, 2023, following a barrage of rockets launched by Hezbollah toward Israel in solidarity with Hamas’ attack on Israel the previous day. Israel then retaliated by pounding southern Lebanon, where Hezbollah builds numerous weapons caches, tunnels, and bunkers, with heavy artillery.

    XINHUA