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Yahoo
6 days ago
- General
- Yahoo
Police bust Northern California man accused of manufacturing several guns, fireworks
( — A Northern California man was arrested for allegedly manufacturing a variety of guns and illegal fireworks. Around 5:20 p.m., a Butte County Sheriff's Office deputy assigned to the Magalia area contacted Micah Metzker, 41, in the area of Guilford Circle. The deputy was familiar with Metzker and knew him to be on Post Release Community Supervision from a previous case that involved the manufacturing of firearms, according to BCSO. Yuba City police search for woman missing for more than a week, possibly in San Francisco Due to Metzker's PRCS status, Metzker's was searched by law enforcement. At his home, located in the 6000 block of Guilford Circle, deputies said they found him to have a .22 caliber revolver, an unsterilized AR-15 '80%' lower receiver that was in the process of being completed, multiple ballistic vests, Glock 'Bullpup' conversion kits, firearm manufacturing equipment, firearm parts/accessories, ammunition, narcotic equipment, and illegal mortar style fireworks. The Butte County Interagency Bomb Squad reportedly responded and collected the fireworks. Metzker was placed under arrest and booked into the Butte County Jail and faces charges such as possession of a firearm and ammunition by a prohibited person, manufacturing of firearms, possession of body armor by a prohibited person, possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of dangerous fireworks, and for being in violation of his PRCS terms of release. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
24-05-2025
- Yahoo
Israeli settlers attack villages in West Bank, several injured
Israeli settlers have attacked two Bedouin villages in the West Bank, the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said on Saturday. The aid organization said one attack targeted a settlement east of Ramallah which had already been abandoned by some of the 25 families living there due to previous raids. Five of the remaining residents were injured in the attack, the PRCS said. In addition, seven people were injured in a second incident in a village east of Bethlehem. The Palestinian news agency WAFA reported that the settlers had tried to set fire to houses. They also killed some of the villagers' goats and sheep, which are central to their livelihood. The Israeli military did not initially comment on the reports. The situation in the occupied West Bank has worsened since the October 7, 2023, attacks by the Palestinian militant group Hamas and the ensuing war in Gaza. According to the Palestinian Health Ministry, more than 920 Palestinians have since been killed in the West Bank in Israeli military operations, armed clashes and attacks by extremists. There has also been increased violence by radical Israeli settlers against Palestinian civilians.
Yahoo
22-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Medic survived Gaza shootings by pleading in Hebrew, Palestinian Red Crescent says
By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) -The head of the Palestinian Red Crescent said on Thursday that a paramedic who survived an attack that killed 15 aid workers was spared because he asked Israeli soldiers for mercy in Hebrew, adding that he hoped the man's testimony would help win justice. Assad Al-Nassasrah, a Red Crescent paramedic, survived shootings that killed 15 emergency and aid workers on March 23 in southern Gaza in an incident that drew international condemnation. Their bodies were found buried in a shallow grave a week later by Red Crescent and U.N. officials who accused Israeli forces of killing them. Al-Nassasrah went missing and then was freed from Israeli detention on April 29 and has not yet publicly commented. One other paramedic survived. Younis Al-Khatib, president of the Palestine Red Crescent Society, told reporters in Geneva that Al-Nassasrah was spared after he pleaded in Hebrew and said his mother was a Palestinian citizen of Israel. "What does Assad say in Hebrew? 'Don't shoot. I am Israeli.' And the soldier got a bit confused," he told reporters. "That confusion ... made him survive." "Assad will be a witness that can put all the Israeli stories in shambles," he added. Israel's prime minister's office and its diplomatic mission in Geneva did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The Israeli military initially said its soldiers had opened fire on vehicles that approached their position "suspiciously" in the dark without lights or markings. It said they killed six militants from Hamas and Islamic Jihad who were travelling in Red Crescent vehicles. But video recovered from the mobile phone of one of the dead men and published by the PRCS showed emergency workers in their uniforms and clearly marked ambulances and fire trucks, with their lights on, being fired on by soldiers. On April 20, the Israeli military said a review into the incident had found there had been "several professional failures". It said a deputy commander, a reservist who was the field commander, would be dismissed. The military advocate general is conducting its own investigation and criminal charges could be pursued, according to the military. Asked how Al-Nassasrah was treated in custody, Al-Khatib said: "like a Palestinian". He said Al-Nassasrah had been interrogated and that he had mental health issues, but did not elaborate further. Social media footage shared by the Palestinian Red Crescent dated the day after his release showed Al-Nassasrah crying as he hugged medics and looking dazed while being examined in a Gaza hospital. Eight of those killed were from the PRCS, which provides medical aid in Gaza and is part of the world's largest humanitarian network. Al-Khatib said the organisation was working with lawyers and considering formal submissions to international courts and to the U.N. Security Council. "We think the international community is responsible to provide justice to those killed," he said. "We don't train our people to go and die."
Straits Times
22-05-2025
- Politics
- Straits Times
Medic survived Gaza shootings by pleading in Hebrew, Palestinian Red Crescent says
FILE PHOTO: A screenshot taken from a video published by the Palestinian Red Crescent and obtained from cellphone of killed paramedic, shows the last moments during the incident in which aid workers were killed in Israeli fire, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent, in the southern Gaza Strip, March 23, 2025. Palestinian Red Crescent/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo GENEVA - The head of the Palestinian Red Crescent said on Thursday that a paramedic who survived an attack that killed 15 aid workers was spared because he asked Israeli soldiers for mercy in Hebrew, adding that he hoped the man's testimony would help win justice. Assad Al-Nassasrah, a Red Crescent paramedic, survived shootings that killed 15 emergency and aid workers on March 23 in southern Gaza in an incident that drew international condemnation. Their bodies were found buried in a shallow grave a week later by Red Crescent and U.N. officials who accused Israeli forces of killing them. Al-Nassasrah went missing and then was freed from Israeli detention on April 29 and has not yet publicly commented. One other paramedic survived. Younis Al-Khatib, president of the Palestine Red Crescent Society, told reporters in Geneva that Al-Nassasrah was spared after he pleaded in Hebrew and said his mother was a Palestinian citizen of Israel. "What does Assad say in Hebrew? 'Don't shoot. I am Israeli.' And the soldier got a bit confused," he told reporters. "That confusion ... made him survive." "Assad will be a witness that can put all the Israeli stories in shambles," he added. Israel's prime minister's office and its diplomatic mission in Geneva did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The Israeli military initially said its soldiers had opened fire on vehicles that approached their position "suspiciously" in the dark without lights or markings. It said they killed six militants from Hamas and Islamic Jihad who were travelling in Red Crescent vehicles. But video recovered from the mobile phone of one of the dead men and published by the PRCS showed emergency workers in their uniforms and clearly marked ambulances and fire trucks, with their lights on, being fired on by soldiers. On April 20, the Israeli military said a review into the incident had found there had been "several professional failures". It said a deputy commander, a reservist who was the field commander, would be dismissed. The military advocate general is conducting its own investigation and criminal charges could be pursued, according to the military. Asked how Al-Nassasrah was treated in custody, Al-Khatib said: "like a Palestinian". He said Al-Nassasrah had been interrogated and that he had mental health issues, but did not elaborate further. Social media footage shared by the Palestinian Red Crescent dated the day after his release showed Al-Nassasrah crying as he hugged medics and looking dazed while being examined in a Gaza hospital. Eight of those killed were from the PRCS, which provides medical aid in Gaza and is part of the world's largest humanitarian network. Al-Khatib said the organisation was working with lawyers and considering formal submissions to international courts and to the U.N. Security Council. "We think the international community is responsible to provide justice to those killed," he said. "We don't train our people to go and die." REUTERS Join ST's Telegram channel and get the latest breaking news delivered to you.
Al Jazeera
22-05-2025
- Health
- Al Jazeera
Palestinian health minister reports 29 ‘starvation-related' deaths in Gaza
At least 29 children and elderly people have died from 'starvation-related' deaths in the Gaza Strip in recent days, the Palestinian health minister says, warning that thousands more are at risk as limited aid begins trickling into the bombarded enclave. Majed Abu Ramadan told reporters on Thursday that earlier comments by the United Nations aid chief to the BBC that 14,000 babies could die without desperately needed food aid were 'very realistic', but could be an underestimation. Israel has allowed limited deliveries of humanitarian aid into Gaza amid a wave of international condemnation of its 11-week total blockade on the territory, which spurred warnings of mass famine. But UN officials have said the humanitarian aid entering Gaza is 'nowhere near enough' to meet the needs of the population in the war-torn enclave. About 90 aid trucks entered Gaza on Thursday, but Abu Ramadan said 'very few shipments went inside Gaza'. The aid that was allowed in was limited to 'flour for bakeries', he added. The president of the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS), Younis al-Khatib, also said Palestinians have yet to receive any supplies so far. 'No civilian has received anything yet,' al-Khatib told reporters. He said most of the aid trucks are still at the Karem Abu Salem crossing, known as Kerem Shalom to Israelis, in southern Gaza. As limited deliveries enter the Strip, the Israeli military has continued to launch attacks across the enclave, with medical sources telling Al Jazeera that at least 51 Palestinians have been killed since dawn on Thursday. At least 53,655 Palestinians have been killed and more than 121,000 others injured since Israel's war on Gaza began in October 2023, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. Reporting from Deir el-Balah in central Gaza, Al Jazeera's Tareq Abu Azzoum said that while Palestinians have welcomed the influx of aid, it is a 'drop in the ocean' compared with the population's needs. 'Five hundred aid trucks are needed on a daily basis in order to avert the current food crisis in the territory,' Abu Azzoum explained. Still, Gaza resident Ahmed Abed al-Daym said the aid trucks were a 'positive sign' amid dire conditions. 'Our homes are empty – there is no bread, and our children are going hungry,' he told Al Jazeera. 'In many households, bread has completely disappeared. What people urgently need is a steady and sufficient flow of flour and other essentials. Unfortunately, the limited aid that has entered so far falls far short of meeting our needs.' Another resident, Reem Zidiah, said that due to the mass starvation that Gaza is enduring, no one is safe in the besieged enclave. 'All of us here in Gaza, we don't think about tomorrow because we don't know what will happen tomorrow – whether we're going to live or die,' Zidiah told Al Jazeera. Meanwhile, Israeli military spokesman Avichay Adraee announced new forced evacuation orders for Palestinians in Jabalia and Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza. He said in a post on X that the army will 'significantly expand its military activity' in the area.
