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India Today
29-07-2025
- Politics
- India Today
Palestinian activist in Oscar-winning film killed in Israeli-occupied West Bank
Prominent Palestinian activist Odeh Hathalin, who had worked on the Oscar-winning documentary 'No Other Land', was shot and killed on Monday in the village of Umm al-Khair in the Israeli-occupied West attack, reportedly carried out by Israeli settler Yinon Levi, was captured on video by Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham, who co-directed the film. The footage shows Levi, previously sanctioned by the US and EU, firing a handgun during a confrontation with Palestinian police confirmed that an Israeli citizen was taken in for questioning over the shooting, though Levi was released to house arrest the following day. The Palestinian health ministry later confirmed Hathalin succumbed to his injuries. A second Palestinian man was also injured after allegedly being beaten during the condemned Hathalin's killing, calling it an 'act of terrorism' and urging Israeli authorities to end settler violence and ensure accountability. "France condemns this murder with the utmost firmness as well as all deliberate acts of violence committed by extremist settlers against the Palestinian population, which are multiplying across the West Bank," a foreign ministry spokesperson spokesperson called on Israeli authorities to swiftly punish those responsible for the violence, which he said continues unchecked, and to ensure the protection of Palestinian by Israeli settlers in the West Bank has surged since the Hamas attacks on October 7, 2023, with at least 964 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces and settlers since then, according to the rare arrests, settlers often face little legal consequence. Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank are considered illegal under international law.- EndsMust Watch
Time of India
22-04-2025
- Politics
- Time of India
Myanmar junta extends post-quake ceasefire to April 30: statement
Live Events (You can now subscribe to our (You can now subscribe to our Economic Times WhatsApp channel Myanmar's junta on Tuesday prolonged a ceasefire declared after last month's devastating earthquake to April 30, after aid groups and international mediators called for an extension to ease relief junta -- which seized power in a 2021 coup sparking a many-sided civil war -- said it would cease attacking its myriad armed opponents following the magnitude-7.7 quake which has killed more than 3, monitors and residents in combat zones say fighting continued on both sides during the 20-day truce, declared to spur aid delivery in Myanmar's central belt and which was due to expire at midnight (1730 GMT).The ceasefire was extended to April 30 "aiming to continue the rebuilding and rehabilitation process with momentum", the junta information team said in a the military said it would not hesitate to retaliate if other armed groups launched attacks -- as it said when it announced the March 28 earthquake has left more than 60,000 people living in tent encampments and pushed two million people into "critical need of assistance and protection", according to the continued fighting, humanitarian groups and regional powers have called for the pause on hostilities to be prolonged as aid efforts continue into their fourth Thursday, junta chief Min Aung Hlaing flew to Bangkok to meet Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim for rare backroom talks with the chair of the 10-country ASEAN whose country currently holds the rotating chairmanship of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), said he had also spoken to Myanmar's opposition "National Unity Government" which promised a similar truce after the sides agreed "they would do whatever is necessary to avoid any extension of the fighting", Anwar told reporters after the meeting.
