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Tunisian mobs target African migrants in Sfax to 'avenge' deadly stabbing
Racial tensions in the Tunisian coastal city of Sfax flared into violence targeting migrants from sub-Saharan Africa, dozens of whom were forcibly evicted from the city, witnesses said Wednesday.
Issued on: 05/07/2023 - 14:39
Tunisia April 26, 2023. © Jihed Abidellaoui, Reuters, Video (1:24) by: Gavin LEE
Text by: NEWS WIRES
Amid the disturbances late Tuesday, police detained some and deported them as far away as the Libyan border more than 300 kilometres (over 200 miles), according to a local rights group.
The latest unrest started after the funeral of a 41-year-old Tunisian man who was stabbed to death Monday in an altercation with migrants, which led to the arrests of three suspects from Cameroon.
"We are going to avenge his death!" young people chanted at the victim's funeral, according to video footage published online.
Sfax, the North African country's second-largest city, is a departure point for many migrants hoping to reach EU member Italy by sea, usually the island of Lampedusa about 130 kilometres (80 miles) away.
Hundreds of residents massed in the streets late Tuesday demanding the eviction of all illegal migrants, said an AFP correspondent. Some blockaded streets and set tyres ablaze.
Videos shared on social media showed police chasing dozens of migrants from their homes to the cheers of city residents, before loading them into police cars.
On the Facebook page of non-government group Sayeb Trottoir, the medic Lazhar Neji, working in the emergency room of a hospital, deplored "an inhumane... bloody night that makes you tremble".
He said the hospital had received between 30 and 40 injured migrants, including women and children, and said "some were thrown from terraces, others attacked with swords".
Other footage showed migrants lying on the ground, their hands on their heads, surrounded by residents armed with sticks who waited for police to arrive to hand them over.
Police took some migrants to the site of the Sfax International Fair, from where they were to be transferred elsewhere, said Romdane Ben Amor, head of the non-government group Forum for Economic and Social Rights.
He told AFP that some migrants were taken to an area near the Libyan border, without being able to give precise numbers.
Tunisia has seen a rise in racially motivated attacks following President Kais Saied's comments in February accusing "hordes" of illegal migrants of bringing violence and alleging a "criminal plot" to change the country's demographic make-up.
With a population of 12 million, Tunisia hosts an estimated 21,000 migrants from other parts of Africa, representing 0.2 percent of the population.
Most EU countries have a lot higher ratio of migrants. Even Muslim countries don't want Muslim migrants for the violence and criminal activities they bring. But the EU hasn't realized the epic danger they are facing yet.
(AFP)
Suspected car ramming ‘terror attack’ wounds 9, Israeli police say
Fox News, July 4, 2023:
Multiple people were wounded in what is being described as a vehicular terror attack in Israel on Tuesday.
A 23-year-old Palestinian man in Tel Aviv, Israel, drove his vehicle onto the sidewalk to strike bystanders. The assailant then exited the vehicle and brandished a knife, stabbing the victims, according to police.
“We understand that he was alone, and we have no doubt that this was an attack,” said Tel Aviv Police District Commander Ami Eshed, according to Haaretz….
Officials identified the assailant as Abed Khalila, reportedly from the Palestinian village of As-Samu, near Hebron, according to Israel’s Shin Bet security services. He was reportedly shot and killed by a civilian bystander at the scene of the attack.
Nine individuals suffered injuries, including one 46-year-old woman who was evacuated to a nearby hospital with severe stab wounds, according to the Guardian.
A Hamas statement praised the attack, calling it “Heroic,” noting that it mourns one of its own, calling him a “Martyr fighter”.
Instead of the insane lunatic that he was.
An earlier Hamas statement called the attack the “first response” to Israeli military operations in the West Bank.
“The heroic action in Tel Aviv is the first response to Israel’s crimes against our people in the Jenin refugee camp. As the [Palestinian] resistance has already put it – Israel will pay the price for its crimes,” Hamas spokesperson Hazem Kassem said, according to a report from Haaretz….
Daesh/ISIS-affiliated terrorists kill at least 17 civilians in northern Mali
by Sidonie Aurore Bonny,
Anadolu Agency, June 29, 2023
At least 17 people were killed and several others were wounded in two simultaneous attacks in the Gao region of northern Mali, a local mayor said Wednesday.
The villages of Gaena and Boya were the targets of the attacks late Tuesday perpetrated by the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (ISGS), a terrorist group affiliated with Daesh/ISIS.
The information was provided by Hamido Mohamed Bello, the first deputy mayor of Gabero, the commune where the victims’ villages are located.
Armed men belonging to the ISGS attacked Boya with random gunfire, killing 14 people “around sunset,” said Bello.
The second attack, in Gaena, left three people dead and several wounded and up to six people were also abducted, he added….
The tragedy is said to be linked to a clash between the ISGS and the al-Qaeda affiliated Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM), one of whose wounded traveled to Boya, where he succumbed to his injuries, he added.
ISGS is a new group of assassins to me. But, not unexpectedly, they not only murder civilians, but other Islamic terror groups. As long as they are killing someone, they seem to be happy. Islamic insanity!
Boko Haram Kills Six Persons, Injures Others After
Shooting Mortar Bomb Into Borno Community
Sahara Reporters, July 1, 2023:
According to Daily Trust, it was gathered that the group of terrorists stormed Damboa town at 8:30pm, Friday night and attacked a civilian JTF location.
No fewer than six residents, including women were reportedly dead and several others were injured when Boko Haram terrorists shot a mortar bomb into Damboa town in Damboa Local Government Area of Borno State.
According to Daily Trust, it was gathered that the group of terrorists stormed Damboa town at 8:30pm, Friday night and attacked a civilian JTF location.
A source privy to the incident claimed that after they could not gain access into the town, the attackers fired a mortar bomb into the town.
“There was an attack by ISWAP last night in Damboa town, we lost six people including women and more than 20 people were rushed to the hospital, the situation is calm now,” the source told Daily Trust.
It was further gathered that Civilian members were shot in the attack….
Israeli forces uncover underground terrorist route in Jenin mosque
i24NEWS, July 4, 2023:
Israeli forces on Tuesday revealed details about an underground terrorist route that was uncovered in a mosque, during an ongoing counterterror operation in the West Bank city of Jenin.
“During the anti-terrorist activity in the Jenin refugee camp, the fighters of the Yahalom unit, Egoz and Oketz, and under the direction of the Shin Bet, investigated and neutralized an underground terrorist route in the city’s Al Ansari mosque,” a joint statement said.
“During the night and after an activity by the fighters of the Egoz unit and Yahalom, on the basis of accurate intelligence information from the Shin Bet, to confiscate ammunition and neutralize the shafts in the Al Ansari mosque in the refugee camp, the fighters of the Yalam unit investigated the route of the mosque using advanced technological tools,” it added.
According to the commander of the Egoz unit, the excavations carried out in the mosque “turned it into a fortified target.”
Destroy the mosque! You have every good reason to. Blow up the tunnels with enough force to weaken the foundations of the mosque.
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