The Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate has condemned the arrest of a prominent local journalist by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank. Ali al-Samoudi, who has worked extensively with Western media, was detained during a raid on his son’s home in the northern city of Jenin early on Tuesday. The 58-year-old was interrogated for half an...
Bertram Hill & Tamasin Ford BBC Africa Eye BBC The members of Kenya’s security forces who shot dead anti-tax protesters at the country’s parliament last June have been identified by the BBC. The BBC’s analysis of more than 5,000 images also shows that those killed there were unarmed and not posing a threat. The East...
Police forces were in several cases unprepared for the level of violence that broke out in riots after the murder of three children in Southport last summer, a report by MPs has found. It left officers exposed to “significant risk”, the Home Affairs Committee said, in disorder that saw attacks on hotels housing asylum seekers...
One soldier said they’re directed to make the buffer zone look like the aftermath of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. The Israeli military is now occupying over half of the land area of Gaza after having massively expanded the “buffer zone” spanning the entirety of Gaza’s border and systematically destroyed everything in it, as Israeli...
A Palestinian-American teenager has been killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian officials say. Omar Mohammed Saada Rabea, 14, was shot on the outskirts of Turmus Ayya on Sunday evening along with two other 14-year-old boys, one of whom was seriously wounded. The other suffered minor wounds. The Israeli military said its...
“It was a little bit by surprise at the end – I thought we’d have to do again – but I’m delighted. It was a fantastic day and winning was the cherry on top.” Hill’s closing 62, which boasted five birdies and a bogey in each nine, was the low round of the week. It...