Israel says it attacked Hamas gunmen inside Gaza tunnels - CNA

The militant group has so far released four civilians from the 240 hostages Israel says were captured in the Oct 7 attacks in which about 1,400 people were killed. Many of the hostages are believed to be held in the tunnels.

Gaza health authorities say that 8,306 people, including 3,457 minors, have been killed in Israeli attacks since Oct 7. UN officials say more than 1.4 million of Gaza's civilian population of about 2.3 million have been made homeless.

Reuters has been unable to independently verify casualty counts.

The al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas' armed wing, said militants clashed early on Tuesday with Israeli forces invading southern Gaza. Four vehicles were targeted with al-Yassin 105 missiles, it said, referring to locally produced anti-tank missiles.

The militants also fired at two Israeli tanks and bulldozers in northwest Gaza, al-Qassam said. In Beit Hanoun, in the northeast, they "liquidated" an Israeli unit which was ambushed as it entered a building.

Reuters was unable to confirm the reports of fighting. The Israeli military had no immediate comment on the Hamas accounts.

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2023-10-31 12:54:29Z
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Police open fire at Paris train station on woman making 'threats' - CNA

PARIS: French police on Tuesday (Oct 31) shot and seriously wounded an unarmed woman who was making threats at a train station in Paris during morning rush hour, police and prosecutors told AFP.

According to witnesses, the woman, who was completely veiled, shouted "Allahu akbar" (God is greatest) and "made threats", a police source said, adding that "police fired because they feared for their safety".

After passengers on a suburban train alerted police, agents managed to "isolate" the woman at the Bibliotheque Francois Mitterrand station on the capital's south bank which was evacuated, the source said.

She "refused to follow police orders" and threatened "to blow herself up", the Paris prosecutor's office said.

A police officer then fired a single shot, inflicting a life-threatening injury to her abdomen, it said.

No explosives or other arms were found on the woman, the police source said.

Police have launched two investigations, prosecutors said. One will probe the woman's actions, while another will elucidate whether the police's use of a firearm was justified.

France has been under "attack alert" since Oct 13, when a teacher in the northern city of Arras was stabbed to death by a former pupil. The killer later claimed the attack for the Islamic State extremist group.

Many in France, which has large Muslim and Jewish populations, also fear repercussions from the Oct 7 attack by Hamas on Israel and the Israeli retaliation in Gaza.

Bomb alerts have led to the evacuation of dozens of airports, train stations and tourist sites in recent weeks.

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2023-10-31 12:18:39Z
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Student in China strangles teacher repeatedly for taking away phone, shocking netizens - AsiaOne

A student in China went out of control after his phone was confiscated by a teacher during class. 

The incident took place on Oct 9 at a higher vocational college in Guangdong, South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported. 

The student was reportedly playing with his phone during class, according to Chinese media. 

Upon realising that the student was not paying attention to his lesson, the male teacher clad in a green shirt, decided to confiscate the student's phone. 

"Give it to me," the teacher said, adding: "You are playing video games in the class."

The video of the incident, which has since gone viral, showed the teacher forcefully taking the phone out of the student's hand after the student refused to give up his device.

As the teacher continued his lesson while holding on to the phone, the furious student followed the teacher from behind, hoping to get his device back.

Choked the teacher twice 

When he couldn't, the student grabbed the teacher and tried to choke him twice.

Students in the class gasped in horror, with some stepping in to help pull the student away from the teacher who was seemingly unfazed by the attack. 

Several students also circled the aggressive student to prevent him from assaulting the teacher again. 

In response to the incident, the school said that the student involved has been dealt with, although no specific details of the punishment has been mentioned, SCMP reported. 

'Must be expelled'

The viral video sparked public outrage among netizens, with many slamming the student for his unruly behaviour towards the teacher.

A user commented: "How can a student be angry enough to choke other people? It's scary."

"Teachers who spank children must be punished and expelled. The child must also be expelled for this behaviour," another user added. 

Many online also praised the teacher for his calm demeanour amidst the student assaulting him. 

A user wrote: "What a responsible teacher. He restrained himself from hurting the student during the violence."

One user even said: "It is too difficult to be a responsible teacher in the current educational environment."

ALSO READ: 'I will end your life right now': Secondary school student taunts and threatens teacher in class

ashwini.balan@asiaone.com

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2023-10-31 04:03:12Z
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UN pushes to open Israel crossing to deliver aid to Gaza - CNA

More than one border crossing was needed to deliver aid to the besieged Gaza Strip and Kerem Shalom controlled by Israel is the only one equipped to take enough trucks, the United Nations said on Monday (Oct 30).

Aid trucks have been trickling into Gaza from Egypt over the past week via Rafah, the main crossing that does not border Israel. It has become the main point of aid delivery since Israel imposed a "total siege" of the enclave in retaliation for an attack by Palestinian Hamas militants from Gaza on Oct 7.

UN officials have repeatedly said this was insufficient for the scale of needs of Gaza's civilian population of about 2.3 million, more than one million of whom have been made homeless by Israel's bombardment.

"More than one entry point into Gaza is indispensable if we are to make a difference - Kerem Shalom, between Israel and Gaza, is the only crossing equipped to rapidly process a sufficiently large number of trucks," senior UN aid official Lisa Doughten told the UN Security Council.

Doughten was speaking on behalf of UN aid chief Martin Griffiths, who is in Israel working to increase deliveries.

The United States is leading negotiations with Israel, Egypt and the UN to try and create a sustained delivery mechanism for aid to Gaza. They are wrangling over procedures for inspecting aid and bombardments on the Gaza side of the border.

Each truck has to offload its cargo at a checkpoint for inspection for possible arms and ammunition, then they are reloaded when the check is complete, UN World Food Programme Executive Director Cindy McCain said last week.

US Ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, said the number of trucks entering Gaza "must be scaled up urgently". The United States has been trying to balance staunch support for its ally Israel with growing global concern about the humanitarian crisis.

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2023-10-30 22:57:00Z
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Putin blames the West, Ukraine after mob storms Russian airport to 'catch' Jewish passengers - CNA

BUS CHASE

Police said they had arrested 60 people in connection with the unrest.

Shmuel, 26, an Israeli citizen and one of the passengers, told Israeli publication Ynet that police had got passengers onto a bus which was chased around the airport by rioters.

"The bus kept turning around ... and people were chasing it and throwing stones. I put my suitcase against the window," he said.

At one point, he said the passengers had been questioned by locals about their religion.

"They came inside, went from person to person, and asked if they were a Muslim or a Jew. I said I was a Muslim, because I was scared to death. Fortunately, they believed me and continued on," he said.

It was unclear in what circumstances that questioning took place with another passenger telling the Mediazona news website that a small group of locals had been shown the passengers' documents in an airport building where the passengers were being held at the time.

Rabbi Alexander Boroda, the president of Russia's Federation of Jewish Communities, called for a tough response.

In a statement, Boroda said that the riot had "undermined the basic foundations of our multi-cultural and multi-national state" and that anti-Israeli sentiment fuelled by events in the Middle East had become open aggression towards Russian Jews.

"Moreover, we see that local authorities were not prepared for such incidents and allowed large-scale violations of law and order and mass demonstrations with open threats to Jews and Israelis," Boroda said.

"I call on the country's leadership and law enforcement agencies to find and punish all the organisers and participants of these anti-Semitic actions in the strictest possible manner."

Israel's ambassador to Russia was cited by the RIA news agency as saying that no Israeli citizens had been hurt amid unconfirmed reports they had been taken to a military base before being flown out of the region.

Makhachkala airport resumed normal operations on Monday afternoon, Russia's aviation authority said, but it announced that flights from Israel would temporarily be re-directed to other cities in Russia.

Israel raised its travel warning for Russia's North Caucasus region, which includes Dagestan, to its highest level.

The unrest followed several other anti-Semitic incidents in recent days in the region in response to Israel's war against Hamas militants in Gaza. Israel has urged Russian authorities to protect Israelis and Jews in their jurisdictions.

In the past few days, a Jewish centre under construction in Nalchik, the capital of the nearby Russian republic of Kabardino-Balkaria, was set on fire, emergency officials said.

Russia, which wants an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and backs a two-state solution, has tried to maintain contact with all sides in the Israel-Hamas conflict, but has angered Israeli authorities by inviting a Hamas delegation to Moscow. Israel's foreign ministry summoned the Russian ambassador on Sunday.

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2023-10-30 21:53:00Z
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60 arrested after mob storms Russian airport looking for Israelis - CNA

"SURGE IN ANTISEMITISM"

A statement from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office on Sunday evening said: "Israel expects the Russian authorities to protect all Israeli citizens and all Jews, and to act decisively against the rioters and against incitement to violence against Jews and Israelis."

White House National Security Council spokeswoman Adrienne Watson said: "The United States vigorously condemns the antisemitic protests in Dagestan, Russia.

"The US unequivocally stands with the entire Jewish community as we witness a worldwide surge in antisemitism," Watson said on X, formerly Twitter.

Dagestan governor Melikov on Sunday posted a message, saying: "All Dagestanis empathise with the suffering of victims by the actions of unrighteous people and politicians and pray for peace in Palestine.

"But what happened at our airport is outrageous and should receive the appropriate assessment from law enforcement. This will be done."

He also claimed on Monday morning that the "initiators of this action are our enemies who organised it from Ukrainian territory", according to Russia's Ria-Novosti news agency.

Melikov said the riots were instigated by posts on the social media platform Telegram from Utro Dagestan, run by "traitors" working from Ukraine.

Utro Dagestan, a Telegram channel with about 60,000 followers, had shared a post urging a mass gathering at the airport to prevent the arrival of "undesirable" passengers on the Red Wings flight.

Dagestan and Chechnya are mainly Muslim areas in a region that has witnessed years of violent tension with the central Russian authorities.

The RIA Novosti news agency reported on Sunday that a Jewish centre in another North Caucasus republic - Kabardino-Balkaria - had been set on fire in the city of Nalchik.

Dagestan is Russia's southernmost territory and one of its poorest regions.

It has taken an active part in the Ukraine offensive - with independent reports showing it has sent proportionally more men to Ukraine than many more ethnically Russian regions.

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2023-10-30 09:23:08Z
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China and Russia take aim at US at Chinese military forum - CNA

BEIJING: Chinese and Russian military chiefs targeted the United States for criticism at a security forum in Beijing on Monday (Oct 30), even as China's second-most-senior military commander vowed to boost defence ties with Washington.

The Beijing Xiangshan Forum, China's biggest annual show of military diplomacy, began Sunday without the country's defence minister, who typically hosts the event, but included a US delegation amid roiling regional tensions.

Russia's Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu warned the West that its involvement in the Ukraine war created grave danger.

"The Western line of steady escalation of the conflict with Russia carries the threat of a direct military clash between nuclear powers, which is fraught with catastrophic consequences," Russia's TASS state news agency cited Shoigu as saying at the forum.

Shoigu also said the West intends to inflict "strategic defeat" on Russia in a "hybrid war", and praised the model of Russia-China relations as "exemplary", Russian state media reported.

Zhang Youxia, vice chairman under President Xi Jinping on China's Central Military Commission, delivered veiled criticism of the United States and its allies, accusing "some countries" of trying to undermine the government.

"Some countries deliberately create turbulence and interfere in other countries' internal affairs, and instigate colour revolutions," Zhang said in his keynote address, using the term the Chinese government uses to describe attempts to overthrow Communist Party rule.

"Countries should not deliberately provoke other countries on major and sensitive issues," he said, adding that Taiwan is a core interest of China.

But in other parts of his speech, Zhang stressed the need for improved military ties with the United States.

"We will deepen strategic cooperation and coordination with Russia and are willing to, on the basis of mutual respect, peaceful coexistence and win-win cooperation, develop military ties with the US," Zhang said in an address being closely watched by military attaches and diplomats amid tensions over Taiwan and the South China Sea.

China's defence minister delivered the keynote speech in previous years.

China and the US have had no high-level military-to-military communications since the Washington-sanctioned former Chinese defence minister, Li Shangfu, was appointed in March.

Li was sacked last week without explanation, and China did not name a replacement. Reuters reported last month that Li, who has been missing for two months, was being investigated over corruption.

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2023-10-30 03:47:00Z
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