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Fox News
12 hours ago
- Fox News
Inside The Idaho Murders: Part 2
The off-campus killings of Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin sent shockwaves across the city of Moscow, and soon the entire country. Everyone had questions, and everyone demanded answers. Almost seven weeks later, over 2,000 miles away, authorities finally had an answer to one massive question: Who was the killer? Former NYPD Inspector and FOX News Contributor Paul Mauro delves into the manhunt, providing a detailed account of the arrest of Bryan Kohberger. Follow Emily on Instagram: @realemilycompagno If you have a story or topic we should feature on the FOX True Crime Podcast, send us an email at: truecrimepodcast@ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit
Yahoo
22-07-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Syrian committee reports 1,426 killed in March violence
Syrian committee reports 1,426 killed in March violence BEIRUT (Reuters) -A Syrian fact-finding committee said on Tuesday that 1,426 people, including 90 women, had been killed during the March 6-9 violence in the country's coastal regions that witnessed attacks on security forces followed by killings of Alawite Syrians. The incidents were the worst violence to hit Syria since the downfall of President Bashar al-Assad last year, and the fact-finding committee's work is seen as an important test of the new leadership, made up mainly of former anti-Assad rebel fighters. In a key finding, the committee concluded that Syrian commanders did not give orders to commit violations and in fact gave orders to halt them. The committee came up with a list of 298 suspects involved in violations against Alawites and 265 involved in the initial attack on security forces, committee head Jumaa Al-Anzi said. The names are not being released publicly for now and have been referred to courts for further investigations, while 31 people have been arrested, spokesperson Yasser Farhan said. The violence began on March 6 with attacks on Syrian security forces stationed in the region that put hospitals and other state institutions out of operation and caused wide areas to fall out of government control, Farhan said. The committee found that 238 members of the security forces were killed in these attacks, perpetrated by forces aligned with the former Assad government, Farhan said. In response to the attacks, around 200,000 armed men mobilized from across Syria, pouring into the coastal region, he said. This led to violations including killings, theft and sectarian incitement that the committee found were "widespread but not organised," Farhan said. Farhan said the committee members had full cooperation from government forces as they undertook their months of work.
Free Malaysia Today
22-07-2025
- Free Malaysia Today
At least 32 killed by Israeli fire while seeking aid in Gaza
The UN has recorded at least 875 killings within the past six weeks in the vicinity of aid sites and food convoys in Gaza. (EPA Images pic) GAZA : At least 32 people were killed by Israeli fire while they were on their way to an aid distribution site in Gaza at dawn on Saturday, according to the Gaza health ministry and Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis. The Israeli military said it had fired warning shots at suspects who approached its troops after they did not heed calls to stop, about a kilometre away from an aid distribution site that was not active at the time. Gaza resident Mohammed al-Khalidi said he was in the group approaching the site and heard no warnings before the firing began. 'We thought they came out to organise us so we can get aid, suddenly (I) saw the jeeps coming from one side, and the tanks from the other and started shooting at us,' he said. The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a US-backed group which runs the aid site, said there were no incidents or fatalities there on Saturday and that it has repeatedly warned people not to travel to its distribution points at dark. 'The reported IDF (Israel defence forces) activity resulting in fatalities occurred hours before our sites opened and our understanding is most of the casualties occurred several kilometres away from the nearest GHF site,' it said. The Israeli military said it was reviewing the incident. Deaths near aid sites GHF uses private US security and logistics companies to get supplies into Gaza, largely bypassing a UN-led system that Israel alleges has let Hamas-led rebels loot aid shipments intended for civilians. Hamas denies the accusation. The UN has called the GHF's model unsafe and a breach of humanitarian impartiality standards, which GHF denies. On Tuesday, the UN rights office in Geneva said it had recorded at least 875 killings within the past six weeks in the vicinity of aid sites and food convoys in Gaza – the majority of them close to GHF distribution points. Most of those deaths were caused by gunfire that locals have blamed on the Israeli military. The military has acknowledged that civilians were harmed, saying that Israeli forces had been issued new instructions with 'lessons learned'. At least 18 more people were killed in other Israeli attacks across Gaza on Saturday, health officials said. The Israeli military said that it had struck militants' weapon depots and sniping posts in a few locations in the enclave. The war began when Hamas-led rebels stormed into Israel on Oct 7, 2023, killing 1,200 people, mostly civilians and taking 251 hostages back to Gaza. The Israeli military campaign against Hamas in Gaza has since killed around 58,000 Palestinians, most of them civilians according to health officials, displaced almost the entire population and plunged the enclave into a humanitarian crisis, leaving much of the territory in ruins. Israel and Hamas are engaged in indirect talks in Qatar aimed at reaching a 60-day ceasefire, though there has been no sign of any imminent breakthrough.
Al Jazeera
21-07-2025
- Al Jazeera
Israeli forces kill 92 aid seekers in Gaza as 19 people starve to death
Israeli forces have killed at least 115 Palestinians across Gaza, including 92 people who were shot dead while trying to get food at the Zikim crossing in the north and aid points in Rafah and Khan Younis in the south. The killings on Sunday came as Israel's continued siege of Gaza worsened a hunger crisis, with health authorities there announcing at least 19 deaths from starvation over the past day. In Zikim, Israeli forces shot at least 79 Palestinians, according to medical sources, as large crowds gathered there in the hopes of getting flour from a United Nations aid convoy. Nine more were killed near an aid point in Rafah, where 36 others had lost their lives just 24 hours earlier. Four more were killed near a second aid site in Khan Younis, according to the Palestinian Civil Defence. Rizeq Betaar, a Palestinian man who survived the attack at Zikim, helped carry one young victim to the hospital. 'We saw this young man lying on the ground, and we were the ones who carried him on the bicycle. We're trying to get him to help. But there is nothing,' Betaar said. 'There are no ambulances, no food, no life, no way to live any more. We're barely hanging on.' Another survivor, Osama Marouf, also helped to transport an old man who was shot and wounded. 'We brought this old man from Zikim. He went just to get some flour,' Marouf said. 'I tried to save him on the bicycle – I don't even want the flour any more, he's like my father, this old man. May God give me the strength to do good. And may this hardship not last much longer.' Israel's military acknowledged the attack, saying it had fired 'warning shots to remove an immediate threat posed to the troops' in northern Gaza. It did not, however, provide evidence or details of the alleged threat. The military went on to dispute the high number of casualties. 'New levels of desperation' The UN's World Food Programme (WFP) issued a statement that disputed the Israeli account, saying the victims were simply people 'trying to access food to feed themselves and their families on the brink of starvation'. It said the Israeli shootings happened shortly after a convoy of 25 trucks carrying food assistance crossed the Zikim point. 'Shortly after passing the final checkpoint… the convoy encountered large crowds of civilians anxiously waiting to access desperately needed food supplies,' the agency said. 'As the convoy approached, the surrounding crowd came under fire from Israeli tanks, snipers and other gunfire.' The violence came despite assurances from Israel that operational conditions for humanitarian agencies in Gaza would improve, the WFP said, including that armed forces would not be present nor engage along convoy routes. 'Gaza's hunger crisis has reached new levels of desperation. People are dying from lack of humanitarian assistance. Malnutrition is surging with 90,000 women and children in urgent need of treatment. Nearly one person in three is not eating for days,' the WFP warned. 'Only a massive scale-up in food aid distributions can stabilise this spiraling situation, calm anxieties and rebuild the trust within communities that more food is coming,' it added. Gaza's Ministry of Health echoed that warning, saying that at least 19 Palestinians died of hunger on Sunday and hundreds more suffering from malnutrition could die soon. 'We warn that hundreds of people whose bodies have wasted away are at risk of imminent death due to hunger,' a spokesperson for the ministry said. The ministry added that at least 71 children have died of malnutrition since the war began in 2023, while 60,000 others show signs of severe undernourishment. Al Jazeera's Hind Khoudary, reporting from central Gaza, said that a 35-day-old baby in Gaza City and a four-month-old child in Deir el-Balah had died of malnutrition at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital. 'The mother was touching her body, saying, 'I am sorry I could not feed you,'' Khoudary said. 'Parents go to the GHF [Gaza Humanitarian Foundation] distribution sites to risk getting killed or leave their children starving. We met a mother who is giving her children water just to fill their stomachs. She can't afford flour – and when she could, she couldn't find it.' 'Heading into the unknown' In southern Gaza, Israeli forces killed at least 13 people waiting for food near a distribution point run by the United States-backed GHF. The killings brought the number of Palestinians killed at or near GHF sites since May to nearly 1,000 people. Ahmed Hassouna, who was trying to bring food back from the GHF aid site, said an Israeli tank 'came at us from the side'. 'There was a young man with me, too – and they started firing gas at us. They killed us with the gas. We barely made it out to catch a breath, they suffocated us with the gas,' Hassouna told Al Jazeera. The UN and humanitarian aid agencies have long denounced the GHF for its 'weaponisation' of aid in Gaza and called on Israel to allow the entry of other humanitarian assistance, which has been blocked from entering the enclave. Philippe Lazzarini, the head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, said staff in Gaza are sending desperate messages about the lack of food. 'All man-made, in total impunity. Food is available only a few kilometres away,' he wrote on X, adding that UNRWA has enough supplies at the border to feed Gaza for three months. But Israel has been blocking aid since March 2. The US-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) also denounced Israel's continuous attacks on aid seekers. 'The escalating massacres of starving Palestinian women, children and men murdered with US-supplied weapons and with the complicity of our government as they desperately search for food to feed their families is not only a human tragedy, it is also an indictment of a Western political order that has enabled this genocide through inaction and indifference,' said Nihad Awad, CAIR's national executive director. 'Western governments cannot claim ignorance. They are watching in real time as innocent civilians are intentionally starved, forcibly displaced, and slaughtered – and are choosing to do nothing. History will long remember the Western world's indifference to the forced starvation, ethnic cleansing and genocide in Gaza.' Doctors in Gaza, meanwhile, said there has been a surge in people showing up at hospitals weak and malnourished, but that they do not have the resources needed to treat them. Dr Mohammed Abu Afash, the director of the Palestinian Medical Relief Society in Gaza, told Al Jazeera that women and children are collapsing from hunger. 'We are heading into the unknown. Malnutrition among children has reached its highest levels,' he said, warning of a looming disaster if aid is not allowed in immediately.
South China Morning Post
20-07-2025
- Health
- South China Morning Post
At least 73 in Gaza killed while seeking aid, Israel orders evacuations
At least 73 people were killed while attempting to access aid at locations across Gaza on Sunday, the health ministry in the Palestinian territory said. The largest toll was in northern Gaza, where at least 67 Palestinians were killed while trying to reach aid entering northern Gaza through the Zikim crossing with Israel , according to the ministry and local hospitals. More than 150 people were wounded, with some of them in critical condition, hospitals said. It was not immediately clear whether they were killed by the Israeli army or armed gangs, or both. But some witnesses said that the Israeli military shot at the crowd. The killings in northern Gaza did not take place near aid distribution points associated with the Gaza Humanitarian Fund, or GHF, a US- and Israel-backed group that hands out food packages to Palestinians. Witnesses and health workers say hundreds of people have been killed by Israeli fire while trying to access the group's distribution sites. The Israeli military did not immediately make any comment on Sunday's killings.
