Rona-Lee Shimon, star of the global Netflix hit Fauda, is sitting in an office in downtown Tel Aviv listening to a teenager recounting her brother’s kidnapping by Hamas on October 7.
The actress is shown a clip of Evyatar David being dragged along a dusty street by a terrorist jubilantly holding aloft an AK-47. In another sequence, 23-year-old Evyatar lies in the back of a truck, his hands cuffed behind him. He is punched and slapped.
What torments his 18-year-old
More than 130 prison guards and other staff are being held hostage by inmates in at least five prisons around Ecuador, which is descending into civil war amid a horrific escalation in gang violence.
Twisted videos circulating on social media showed how masked thugs delighted in subjecting prison staff to extreme violence, including being shot and hanging.
Terrified citizens meanwhile are resorting to taking up arms in an attempt to defend themselves, according to various reports on social media, as
Thick plumes of smoke could be seen drifting over the top of buildings today in the Gaza Strip’s southern city of Khan Yunis, the focus of recent fighting in a war that is now in its 13th week.
Fighting raged today across Gaza, where displaced Palestinians are ‘exhausted’, with no end in sight to the war between the besieged territory’s Hamas rulers and Israel.
The enclave’s Hamas-run health ministry said that 165 Gazans were killed over the past 24 hours,
The present Gaza war, initiated by Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel, poses important questions about both the morality and laws of war and the language of conflict. People everywhere are having heated conversations involving concepts such as targeting civilians, terrorism, proportionality, and genocide. They deploy these concepts when arguing about broad questions, like whether Hamas’s attacks on civilians are justified resistance, and about narrower ones, like whether a specific Israeli bombing of a refugee camp is justified to … Read more
A Hamas leader has issued a chilling warning that the terror group’s October 7 massacre will happen ‘again and again’ until Israel is ‘annihilated’ – vowing that the terrorists will pay any price to achieve their aims.
Ghazi Hamad, deputy foreign minister for Hamas, cynically told a broadcaster that the terrorists ‘did not want to harm civilians’ during their bloody rampage through southern Israel, which saw more than 1,400 Israelis murdered in cold blood.
He said the terror group had
More than 100,000 people took to the streets of London on Saturday in protest as they defended the rights of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank following the violent response to horrific Hamas terror attacks launched on Israel earlier this month.
Around 1,000 Met Police officers are on duty to monitor events in the capital after a similar event last week saw tens of thousands turn out in solidarity with Palestinians trapped in the Gaza strip.
More than 4,100
Displaced residents in Myanmar had just returned to their village to get more rice when a
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BRUSSELS — Claude stood watch on the dark, glistening street as Samuel crouched down to jam a lentil into the tire valve of an SUV. “Of course, it will piss them off,” Claude said. An hour later, the vehicle would be slumped against the curb on a flat tire. By the end of the night, the Belgian cell of the
Devastating images and videos have laid bare the horror of Vladimir Putin’s lawless invasion of Ukraine, as Russian troops unleash heavy gunfire and missiles on local residents.
Heartbreaking footage, taken in Irpin, located on the outskirts of the besieged capital city Kyiv, confirmed that Russian forces are attacking heavily populated civilian areas where men, women and children are leaving the country as the Russian tyrant continues denying bombing Ukrainian cities.
One image depicted a mother and her two children lying
