The Israel Defense Forces reported that two Palestinians arrived to Hebron‘s House of Contention, where two Israeli soldiers were standing. One of the Palestinians proceeded to stab one of the soldiers, and the other soldier responded by shooting the two Palestinians.

Doctors said that the Palestinian was likely shot by an Israeli sniper in the head, causing his immediate death.

Witnesses said that Masalmah was among the crowds of the protesters when he was shot dead, but the spokeswoman of the Israeli occupation army claimed he attempted to stab an Israeli army officer, causing him light injuries.

Man was part of sniper cell that was preparing to fire at Israeli forces, high-ranking army officer says.

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Back in April, I sent the FBI some FOIA requests concerning the FBI‘s public stance on encryption — which is kind of a big deal right now, given that the FBI is giving mixed messages on encryption. Director James Comey is out there pushing the panic button over people encrypting their mobile phones, while older FBI recommendations suggested that encrypting your mobile phone could protect your information from those with malicious intent. So it seemed quite reasonable to find out what kinds of talking points the FBI had put together on encryption, as it seemed rather important to the very timely debate about whether or not tech companies should be forced to backdoor encryption.

I submitted the FOIA requests on March 27th. On September 10th — which is 167 days later — the FBI finally responded, telling me that it expected to get to my request about 300 days later, or approximately 475 days from when it was first submitted. It was addressed (typo-wise) to „God morning.“

„We‘re looking into the possibility that our own forces fired on other forces, including at guards, soldiers, and police officers,“ the senior police officer stated to Walla! News, on condition of anonymity.

However, he stressed that this would not affect operations.

„It can happen during such an incident,“ he said.

«Der Tod eines Asylbewerbers durch die Hände von Sicherheitskräften und einem wütenden Mob ist eine tragische, aber absehbare Folge eines Klimas, in dem israelische Politiker Bürger ermutigen, das Gesetz in die eigenen Hände zu nehmen», sagt die Human-Rights-Watch-Aktivistin Sari Bashi.

This video widely circulated on social media shows members of the Israeli public attacking Haftom Zarhum after he was shot at Beer Sheva bus station on 18 October.

Eritrean asylum seekers were stunned by reports of Sunday’s lynching of Habtom Zarhum in Be’er Sheva. Videos showing a furious mob kicking and beating the wounded man following a terror attack quickly spread among the community.

Das britische Außenministerium hat am Montag bestätigt, dass die Irak-Expertin und ehemalige BBC-Journalistin Jacqueline Ann Sutton sich das Leben genommen hat, nachdem sie von der Beerdigung ihres bei einem Terrorakt umgekommenen Chefs kam. Kollegen haben jedoch Zweifel an der Selbstmord-These.

We at the Institute for War & Peace Reporting are devastated to announce the death of our country director in Iraq, Jacky Sutton.

Jacky, who was 50, was found dead at Istanbul’s Ataturk Airport on October 17. She had flown from London to take an onward flight to her base in Erbil in the Kurdish Region of Iraq.

The circumstances of her death are unclear, and we are trying to establish the facts.