Polio vaccines have been adminsters to over 150, 000 Palestian children so far…..
Iran is supplying Russian with missiles to strike the Ukraine….
A 26-year-old American woman was fatally shot on Friday in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, where witnesses said she was taking part in a protest against a settler outpost when Israeli forces opened fire.
And in a separate incident in a town a few miles away, a 13-year-old Palestinian girl was shot and killed as she watched from a window while Israeli settlers and troops violently clashed with Palestinians, according to the town’s mayor.
Their deaths add to the rising tide of West Bank violence since the Hamas-led Oct. 7 attack on Israel prompted the war in Gaza. According to the United Nations, Israeli forces and settlers have killed more than 600 people in the West Bank, the largest toll in years; many of those killed were claimed as members by militant groups, but others appear to have been civilians….
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Medical teams administered polio vaccines to more than 161,000 children in southern Gaza on Thursday at the start of the second phase of a vaccination campaign, the Gazan Ministry of Health said. The three-phase drive aims to inoculate a total of about 640,000 children under 10 against the disease, after the territory’s first polio case in 25 years was recorded last month. Israel and Hamas have agreed to hourslong pauses in fighting on days when the vaccines are being administered. Shortly after the first phase of the campaign concluded Wednesday in central Gaza, an Israeli airstrike hit a hospital courtyard where displaced people were sheltering. It killed four people, Palestinian news media reported.
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The Houthi militia has targeted tugboats dispatched to a burning oil tanker in the Red Sea, forcing them to turn back, a Pentagon spokeswoman, Sabrina Singh, said on Thursday. The militia attacked the tanker more than two weeks ago, and it remains on fire and “a potentially catastrophic environmental disaster and a navigational hazard,” she said….
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The Israel Defense Forces said it was “looking into reports that a foreign national was killed as a result of shots fired in the area.” The statement said that Israeli forces in the area of Beita, in the northern West Bank, “responded with fire toward a main instigator of violent activity who hurled rocks at the forces and posed a threat to them.”…
Sep 6, 2024 – ISW Press
Iran has sent hundreds of short-range ballistic missiles to Russia to support Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, according to the Wall Street Journal.