7 Israeli officers injured after car rams checkpoint in East Jerusalem's
infamously disputed area, driver killed
16 May, 2021 19:12
A car rammed a temporary police checkpoint in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in East Jerusalem on Sunday, injuring seven officers. The Palestinian driver of the vehicle was shot dead at the scene.
The gruesome videos uploaded on social media captured a car speeding up and crashing into a group of officers standing outside a parked police vehicle.
The attacker was shot dead by the police, while still inside his car. He was described as a Jerusalem resident of Palestinian origin.
The incident has left seven officers, representing the police and the border service, injured. Two of them were said to be in moderate condition.
A policewoman was also treated for a light gunshot wound to the leg, which according to media reports she got as a result of friendly fire.
Sheikh Jarrah is the very neighborhood where the evictions of several Palestinian families were to take place, provoking violent protests in East Jerusalem and the ongoing deadly exchange of fire between Israel and Gaza-based armed group, Hamas.
Since the flare-up started on Monday, numerous attacks by Jews and Palestinians against each other have been reported inside Israel and the occupied West Bank.
Similar attacks on the Israeli security forces were also attempted in the West Bank on Friday and Saturday, ending in the drivers being shot dead in both cases.
Sheikh Jarrah, IS
Israeli military says it destroyed Hamas’ unmanned submarine, thwarting ‘terrorist activity in Israeli waters’
17 May, 2021 15:17
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have published a video claiming to show a strike on an unmanned submarine that was allegedly operated by the Palestinian armed group Hamas.
Israeli security forces spotted an underwater drone being transported by a vessel off Gaza’s shore in the Mediterranean on Monday.
The Israel Defense Forces said the hardware was apparently on its way to “carry out hostile terror activity” in Israeli waters.
Both the submarine and the transport vessel were destroyed after being targeted by an Israeli ship and warplane, the IDF said, adding that several Hamas militants were also killed.
A simmering conflict between Israel and the Palestinians reignited with new force a week ago, following violent clashes in Jerusalem that were provoked by planned evictions of several Palestinian families.
The IDF said Hamas in Gaza has fired more than 3,000 rockets at Israeli territory since the escalation started. At least 10 people were killed and 50 injured in Israel by those attacks, according to media reports.
Meanwhile, strikes by Israel resulted in at least 218 civilian casualties in Gaza, including 58 children, according to the local health ministry.
What this report fails to mention is that many of those 3000 rockets misfired and landed in Gaza, resulting in Hamas contributing to the casualty count there. This is easy to believe when you consider that Hamas uses highly populated areas from which to launch their rockets. This prevents the IDF from firing back immediately as the IDF always sends warnings before it targets a specific building. That's why no journalists were injured when they blew up the building housing AP, Al Jazeera, and Hamas.
‘Serious crisis for Spain & Europe’: PM Sanchez vows to ‘restore order’ in Ceuta as African enclave faces massive migrant influx
18 May, 2021 13:33
Spanish legionnaires and migrants are pictured on El Tarajal beach in Ceuta, Spain on May 18, 2021.
© Reuters / Jon Nazca
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has pledged to secure the country’s borders and visit the North-African enclaves of Melilla and Ceuta after the latter saw over 6,000 migrants cross the border illegally in a single day.
The PM called the abrupt influx of migrants a “serious crisis” on both Spanish and European levels, as he delivered a televised address on the Ceuta situation on Tuesday.
“The priority is to guarantee border control on the border with Morocco and provide Ceuta and Melilla with the necessary means to solve the crisis,” Sanchez stated.
This sudden arrival of irregular migrants represents a serious crisis for Spain and Europe. I want to assure Spaniards and those who live in Ceuta and Melilla that we are going to restore order in the city and on its borders with maximum speed.
Sanchez also pledged to visit both enclaves, located some 300 kilometers apart on the Moroccan coast, later in the day, in order to “show the determination with which the government of Spain is acting.”
The enclave of Ceuta saw an unexpected influx of migrants on Monday, with more than 6,000 people crossing into the Spanish territory in an apparently coordinated attempt. The migrants, some 1,500 of whom turned out to be minors, flocked into Ceuta from both north and south, bypassing its border fences through sea approaches, as they walked through low tide, used inflatable dinghies and even swam to get into Europe.
At least one person died during the mass border breach, according to Spanish authorities.
The PM vowed to expel all who illegally entered the country’s territory during the unusually large border breach. Some 1,500 people from Monday’s breach had been already sent back to Morocco, Spain’s Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska said earlier in the day. Additional police and border guard forces have been deployed to the enclave to tighten up security.
For years, both Ceuta and Melilla have been particular hotspots for migrants seeking to flee Africa and enter Europe. The illegal migrants frequently try to get in by scaling the border fence and trying to catch a ride via passing traffic, or attempting to reach Spanish soil by sea.
The enclave of Melilla saw a minor border breach as well, Spanish media reported on Tuesday, with some 85 people climbing over its border fence.
Over 1,400 Christians in Nigeria Slaughtered by Jihadists
in First Four Months of 2021
May 17, 2021
Elizabeth Johnston
At least 1,470 Christians in Nigeria have been brutally murdered by radical Islamic jihadists, with another 2,200 abducted, in just the first four months of 2021.
The heartbreaking number of Christian deaths in the West African nation is the highest since 2014, according to a report by The International Society for Civil Liberties & Rule of Law released this week.
Nigeria’s Northwestern Kaduna state experienced the most Christian deaths at 300, most of which were committed by Muslim Fulani herdsmen. The state of Benue follows, with 200 murdered Christians, followed by the central Plateau state with 90 deaths.
At least 120 Christians have also been slain by the northern Muslim-controlled Nigerian Army in the states of Benue, Akwa Ibom, Anambra, Imo, Abia, and Ebonyi.
As for the 2,200 missing or abducted Christians, the report states that Kaduna state topped the list with 800 abductions, 600 of which were indigenous Christians, “including those abducted in Muslim-held areas of Birnin-Gwari, Igabi and Giwa Local Government Areas.” The second-largest number of Christian abductions occurred in Niger state, with 300.
The report cites interviews and open-source reports, claiming that “220 Christians are most likely to have died or been killed in captivity of their abductors.”
“This represents 10% of 2,200 abducted Christians across the country, especially Christian travelers and rural others among them are male and young female farmers including those abducted and raped to death or killed after being raped,” the report goes on.
The report also claims that the Nigerian government is falsely attributing most murders and abductions to “herder-farmer clashes” rather than jihad and other religious motives of the Fulani.
State and federal governments “have made several deliberate attempts to cover the egregious and grisly massacre of Christians in Nigeria by falsely labeling them as ‘herders-farmers clashes,’ or attacks by ‘bandits,’ or ‘killings that cut across Muslims and Christians,” the report declares. “Apart from killings, maiming and abductions by the … Jihadist groups, Governments and local institutions in the Muslim-controlled northern States are also making life very unbearable for their indigenous Christian communities. These include Katsina State where under-age Christian girls are forcefully married to Muslim men and converted to Islam.”
Pray for our brothers and sisters in Nigeria, saints!
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