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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Yahya Sinwar, the mastermind behind the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel, has reportedly been killed.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Israel’s yearlong military campaign in Gaza has hollowed out the Palestinian militant group Hamas and killed some of its top leaders. But the death of Yahya Sinwar this week deprived the group of its chief strategist and leading proponent of all-out war with Israel.

Robert Roberson‘s capital punishment sentence was based on junk science and a misdiagnosis of “shaken baby syndrome,” the Texas Supreme Court on Thursday night blocked his execution.The move to halt Roberson’s execution is temporary, but came less than two hours before the 57-year-old death row inmate was scheduled to die by lethal injection.According to the Washington Post, Roberson could have been the first American to receive the death penalty for a conviction related to shaken baby syndrome, a brain injury caused by forcefully shaking an infant or toddler. The condition can cause permanent brain damage or death.Roberson was put on death row when he was convicted of murdering his two-year-old daughter after he brought her to a hospital in Palestine, Texas, in 2002.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. IN THE END Yahya Sinwar died brutally in the rubble of Gaza, like tens of thousands of victims of the war he unleashed a year earlier. In a firefight with an Israeli patrol in southern Gaza, the leader of Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist movement, was killed on October 17th.

Hamas on Friday confirmed its leader Yahya Sinwar had been killed by the Israeli military in Gaza, a day after Israel announced his death. «We mourn the great leader, the martyred brother, Yahya Sinwar, Abu Ibrahim,» Qatar-based Hamas official Khalil al-Hayya said in a recorded video statement broadcast by Al Jazeera. Sinwar became Israel's most wanted man after the October 7, 2023 attack, the deadliest in Israeli history.

Sinwar spent nearly two decades in custody whose 'high tolerance for suffering' vision shaped his role as Hamas leader. On Thursday, Israel said troops in Gaza had killed Sinwar. The secretive figure feared on both sides of the battle lines engineered the surprise October 7, 2023, attack into southern Israel, along with the even more shadowy Mohammed Deif, head of Hamas’ armed wing. Israel said that it killed Deif in a July airstrike in southern Gaza that killed more than 70 Palestinians.

West Bank are running out of cans and sugar, blocked by the prolonged closure of a Jordan border crossing, managers of two soda-bottling plants in the occupied Palestinian territory said. In the latest global supply chain snarl due to the conflict in the Middle East, a crucial trade crossing at the Allenby bridge has been largely closed to commercial traffic since early September after a Jordanian gunman shot and killed three Israeli civilians. Sugar and cans previously were transported to West Bank bottlers from Jordan via the bridge, according to Hatim Omari, manager of a plant that bottles Pepsi, 7UP and Mirinda for sale in the Palestinian territories and neighboring countries.

Yahya Sinwar, the Palestinian militant leader who helped in plotting the deadliest assault on Israel in its history, released a drone footage where the leader was seen throwing a stick as what appeared to be his last restort while his right arm seemed to be severely wounded. As per the footage released by IDF International Spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Nadav, the militant leader was seen alone in a ruined Gaza apartment with the walls blown out from shelling, sitting in a chair covered by dust, with his head and face obscured by a scarf.

IDF) announced on Thursday that they have killed Yahya Sinwar, who was considered the mastermind behind the October 7 attack on Israel. The confirmation came from Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz. «The mass murderer Yahya Sinwar, responsible for the massacre and atrocities of October 7th, was eliminated today by IDF soldiers,» stated Katz. Sinwar, along with Mohammed Deif, was believed to have planned the October 7 attack, which led to the deaths of about 1,200 Israelis, mostly civilians. This incident sparked a conflict causing over 42,000 Palestinian casualties in Gaza, as reported by local health authorities. Hamas has said the attack was in retaliation for Israel's treatment of Palestinians and aimed to bring global attention to their plight.

Twitch after making controversial remarks about Palestinians. Zach Hoyt, known online as Asmongold, described Palestinians as coming from an «inferior culture». He was later banned following backlash on social media, according to BBC news. The streamer, who has five million followers, was suspended by Twitch for violating its community guidelines. These rules prohibit promoting discrimination or expressing inferiority based on protected characteristics. The channel where the comments were made now shows it is «temporarily unavailable» due to rule violations.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin wrote to Israeli officials on Sunday demanding concrete measures to address the worsening situation in the Palestinian enclave amid a renewed Israeli offensive in northern Gaza, U.S. officials said on Tuesday. Failure to do so could impact U.S. policy, said the letter, which was first reported by Israeli News 12.

Samidoun, a pro-Palestinian group behind a rally where people chanted “death to Canada” and burned the Canadian flag in Vancouver earlier this month, as a terrorist entity.Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc made the announcement on Tuesday and noted that the listing was made alongside the U.S. Treasury Department’s own decision to list the group as a specially designated global terrorist entity.“Violent extremism, acts of terrorism or terrorist financing have no place in Canadian society or abroad,” LeBlanc said in a statement.“The listing of Samidoun as a terrorist entity under the Criminal Code sends a strong message that Canada will not tolerate this type of activity, and will do everything in its power to counter the ongoing threat to Canada’s national security and all people in Canada.”Samidoun has been previously listed as a terrorist entity by Germany and the Netherlands and, in a release, Public Safety Canada, said the group has “close links with and advances the interests of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).That group is also listed as a terrorist entity by Canada, the U.S.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Israel’s military is ordering civilians to leave large parts of northern Gaza as it conducts an offensive against Hamas militants in Jabalia refugee camp. But many Palestinians are staying put, because they are trapped by fighting around them, exhausted by a year of repeated evacuations or fearful that nowhere in the Gaza Strip is safe.

Dozens of people protesting Israel’s war in Gaza have been arrested in a sit-in outside the New York Stock Exchange

A pro-Palestinian protest erupted outside of the New York Stock Exchange on Monday. There was no disruption to trading and none of the protestors appeared to make it to the historic trading floor.

People who lived near the disastrous East Palestine train derailment last year should still be able to receive personal injury payments even while the bulk of their $600 million class action settlement with Norfolk Southern railroad remains on hold dur...

Netanyahu warned the people of Lebanon they could face "destruction and suffering" like the Palestinians in war-battered Gaza if they don't «free» the country from Hezbollah.

Hezbollah's deputy leader said in comments broadcast on Tuesday that the group backs efforts to reach a ceasefire in Lebanon, and for the first time omitted any mention of a Gaza truce deal as a pre-condition to halting the group's attacks on Israel.

parliamentary committee headed by Congress MP Shashi Tharoor is likely to look into the issue covering the condition of people going overseas for work. Sources said the Standing Committee on External Affairs in its first meeting on Monday discussed its agenda, and this issue came up for discussion. They said MPs expressed concern over the issue, with a seasoned parliamentarian referring to the recent case of some Indians being forced to work for the Russian military in its war against Ukraine after they arrived there on the promise of employment. The government had informed Parliament in August that at least eight Indians were killed in the conflict and that it had strongly taken up the matter with Russia for their discharge and overall safety.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. AS ISRAEL faces the first anniversary of the October 7th atrocities by Hamas, two huge challenges loom. One is Israel’s internal divisions, which will be highlighted by two separate commemoration services that are due to be held.

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