The Yemeni Red Crescent Society (YRCS) with the support of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) provided ambulance services to evacuate the wounded and the dead, and the ICRC is supporting two hospitals with emergency medical supplies that are receiving a very high number of injured people, with numbers increasing throughout the day. …
Bennett: As long as I’m prime minister, there won’t be another Oslo process
It would be hard to say that the timing is perfect for Prime Minister Naftali Bennett to give an interview. The country is in the midst of a fifth, tough wave of COVID, even confirmed carriers don’t know what strain they have; the new quarantine guidelines for schools is causing controversy and confusion between the …
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German Catholic priest detained in child abuse case
A German court has ordered a Catholic priest to be held in provisional detention during his trial on accusations he sexually abused children, deciding there was a risk he could commit further assaults. The decision by the Cologne district court, taken on Thursday, came on the same day that a Catholic cardinal promised to learn …
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A market belonging to Muslims was set on fire in France
Muslims in France are in danger. A market belonging to Muslims was set on fire in BonEncontre, southwest of France. Police launched an investigation into the incident. According to the news of the French newspaper La Depeche, it was stated that the market in Bon-Encontre was set on fire last night and the swastika, the …
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Hunger-stricken Yemenis eat tree leaves to survive: WFP
The United Nations’ World Food Programme (WFP) said on Sunday it documented cases where Yemeni families are forced to eat leaves because of hunger in their war-torn country. The WFP said hunger in Yemen is rising amid the Arab country’s “conflict and economic decline.” “Families in some of the worst-hit areas of Yemen, like Hajjah …
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Pneumonia cases soaring, killing children in Afghanistan: NGO
Pneumonia cases are soaring in Afghanistan, killing children who are unable to access healthcare facilities, Save the Children, a leading humanitarian organization for children, said on Monday. “Child pneumonia is surging in the middle of a hunger crisis that is ravaging young immune systems,” it said in a statement. “The collapse of the health system, …
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Anti-Asian hate crimes in US spiked 339 percent in 2021: report
Data released Monday indicates that hate crimes against Asian Americans rose by more than 300 percent last year. The Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism released a compilation of hate crime data this week, and, as NBC News reported, it found that anti-Asian hate crimes rose by 339 percent in 2021 compared with …
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Extremists target mosque in Greece, hang anti-Islam banners
A group of Greek extremists targeted a mosque in Dimetoka (Didymoteicho), a town near the Turkish-Greek border, in an Islamophobic attack, media reports said Tuesday. The extremists on Monday hung anti-Islam banners across the Çelebi Sultan Mehmet Mosque. “The Islamization of Meriç (Evros) must be stopped immediately” read the banners. The Turkish minority in Greece …
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Attack on Turkish mosque in Austria
Unidentified people attacked the Central Mosque of the Austrian Turkish-Islamic Culture and Social Assistance Union (ATİB) in Vienna, the capital of Austria. Two unidentified people attacked the entrance floor of the central building of ATIB, which has over 60 mosque associations across the country, late at night. Making a statement regarding the attack, Turkey’s Ambassador …
Six juveniles are persons of interest in threats to historically black colleges
The F.B.I. said it was investigating the bomb threats, which disrupted life on more than a dozen campuses, as racially or ethnically motivated violent extremism and hate crimes. The F.B.I. has identified six juveniles as persons of interest in a series of bomb threats that targeted historically Black colleges and universities, a law enforcement official …
