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Friday, September 27, 2024
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Topic: Hamas

Israel attacks Rafah after Hamas claims responsibility for strike on Kerem Shalom 

3 Israeli soldiers were killed in rocket attack. Palestinian health officials informed after Hamas's attack, an Israeli airstrike hit a house in Rafah killing 3 people and wounding others.

Netanyahu’s cabinet votes to shut Al Jazeera’s operations in Israel

The vote came after Israel's parliament passed a law last month for temporary closure in Israel of foreign broadcasters considered to be a threat to national security.

Hamas proposes new deal, asks for six-week ceasefire before return of 129 hostages

After rejecting US-mediated ceasefire deal, Hamas asks IDF forces to retreat from urban areas to allow displaced Palestinians to return north.

Born in refugee camp, once Palestine’s PM, on US terror list — all about Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh

Haniyeh’s three sons were killed Wednesday in Israeli air strike in Gaza. Palestinian leaders will not back down if their families & homes are targeted, he says.

UN Security Council demands immediate ceasefire in Gaza, US abstains from voting

It also demands the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages. Israel says Hamas took 253 hostages during its October 7 attack.

UN chief António Guterres urges massive Gaza aid flow, sees ‘dramatic starvation’

Initially, Israel stopped all aid deliveries into Gaza. Although it later allowed the deliveries, aid organisations say security checks & moving through a war zone hinder their operations.

SubscriberWrites: How the American-Iraqi solution can end the conflicts in Gaza. It’s time for Peace!

Israeli negotiators have hit a brick wall in Qatar after the Hamas group rejected calls for a permanent end to hostilities.

Fighting at Shifa hospital rages, with Blinken in Cairo for Gaza talks

Israel said its troops had killed more than 50 Hamas gunmen over the previous day, taking the number of fighters killed around the hospital to 140.

World Bank warns of famine in Gaza, calls for urgent humanitarian aid

The World Bank has called for “immediate, free, and unimpeded access of medical supplies, food and life-essential services through all available means at speed and scale to the people of Gaza.”

Israel’s Herzog to open Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam amid protests against IDF actions in Gaza

Museum officials say they had extended invite to Israeli President before the October 7 Hamas attack.

On Camera

India has 2 women CMs now. Atishi and Mamata Banerjee are both victims of bad PR

Women look up to women in power as role models. But so far, Atishi’s public image is that of a woman-in-waiting rather than a woman-in-charge.

Tamil Nadu govt & Ford go way back. How carmaker’s return is new chapter in story that began in 1995

High value of 350-acre Ford plant property drove TN to encourage Ford to return over nearly a yr of negotiations. It's expected to reinforce state's resurgence as global manufacturing hub.

A fitness & fighter aircraft enthusiast, who is Air Marshal AP Singh, the next Chief of Air Force

Air Marshal Amar Preet Singh will take over as chief on 30 September. During his service of nearly 40 yrs, he has served in variety of command, staff, instructional & foreign appointments.

Lesson from Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Pakistan: if you have no patience, you don’t deserve democracy

Sri Lankan transition was smoothly managed. Check Bangladesh for contrast. They forced their incumbent into exile, installed a mostly unelectable govt of non-political people.