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Gaza civil defence says Israeli fire kills 40
Gaza civil defence says Israeli fire kills 40 Relatives mourn a loved one killed by an Israeli air strike in Khan Younis. Photo: Reuters Gaza's civil defence agency said Israeli operations killed 40 people on Saturday in the Palestinian territory devastated by more than 21 months of war. Civil defence spokesman Mahmud Bassal said the dead included nine Palestinians killed in three separate air strikes in Gaza City, in the territory's north. Thirteen were killed in five separate air strikes near the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, including eight in a strike on an encampment for displaced people in Al-Mawasi, Bassal said. A drone strike killed two in central Gaza's Nuseirat refugee camp. The agency said that 14 people were killed by Israeli gunfire while waiting for aid in six separate incidents in northern, central, and southern Gaza. One of them was killed "after Israeli forces opened fire on people waiting for humanitarian aid" northwest of Gaza City, it added. Witnesses said several thousand people had gathered in the area. One of them, Abu Samir Hamoudeh, 42, said the Israeli military opened fire "while the people were waiting to approach the distribution point," located near an Israeli military post in the Zikim area, northwest of Sudaniyah. The Israeli military said that its troops fired "warning shots to distance the crowd" after identifying an "immediate threat." It added that it was not aware of any casualties as a result of the fire. Another man was killed by a drone strike near Khan Younis, while one was killed by artillery fire in the Al-Bureij camp in central Gaza, the civil defence agency said. The Israeli military said it was continuing its operations in Gaza, adding that it had killed members of a "terrorist cell" which it accused of planting an explosive device targeting soldiers. It added that over the past day, the air force had "struck over 100 terror targets" across the Gaza Strip. Bassal said civil defence teams also recovered the bodies of 12 people following Israeli bombardment north of Rafah the previous night. The recovery operation was conducted in coordination with the UN humanitarian office (OCHA), he said, adding that the bodies were taken to Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis. Israel launched its military campaign in Gaza after a deadly attack by Palestinian militant group Hamas on October 7, 2023. The Israeli campaign has killed 59,733 Palestinians, mostly civilians, according to the health ministry in the Hamas-run territory. Hamas's October 2023 attack resulted in the deaths of 1,219 people, most of them civilians, according to a tally based on official figures. (AFP)
South China Morning Post
2 days ago
- South China Morning Post
2 arrested in Hong Kong as customs seizes 249 vials of botulinum toxin
Hong Kong customs has arrested two people and seized nearly 250 vials of suspected botulinum toxin for wrinkle treatments, including 20 in a parcel inspected at a border checkpoint. The Customs and Excise Department said on Friday that officers at the Shenzhen Bay control point conducted an X-ray inspection of a parcel declared as carrying body lotion last week and found 20 botulinum toxin injection vials suspected to contain Part 1 poisons, which are regulated under the law. Customs said the express parcel, inspected on July 16, originated from a commercial address in South Korea for delivery to Hong Kong. The following day, at the delivery address in Hung Hom, customs officers arrested an unemployed man, 20, who signed for the parcel, and a female shop assistant, 45, who was listed as the recipient. A subsequent search of the premises uncovered 229 cosmetic injection products with various ingredients, some of which were also suspected to contain Part 1 poisons. The total estimated market value of the 249 bottles was HK$76,000.
South China Morning Post
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ICC convicts ‘Rambo' and ex-sports minister for Central African Republic war crimes
The International Criminal Court on Thursday convicted a former top Central African Republic football official and a militiaman nicknamed Rambo for war crimes committed during the country's civil war in 2013 and 2014. Ex-sports minister Patrice-Edouard Ngaissona was a senior leader of mainly Christian militias as the country slid into civil war, while Alfred Yekatom, a former MP, commanded them on the ground. The ICC sentenced Yekatom to 15 years behind bars for 20 war crimes and crimes against humanity including murder and torture. Ngaissona received 12 years for 28 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Patrice-Edouard Ngaissona appearing before the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands in 2019. File photo: Reuters Their militia, known as anti-Balaka or 'anti-machete', were formed as vigilante self-defence groups after mainly Muslim rebels called the Seleka stormed the capital Bangui and removed then-president Francois Bozize, a Christian.
