A man sits in front of a shop which has been closed during a general strike to protest over the killing of six Palestinians by Israeli forces in the West Bank city of Nablus, March 8, 2023. (Photo by Nidal Eshtayeh/Xinhua)■
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Outrage, grief grip Palestinians after 6 killed by Israeli forces in Jenin
Protesters are seen in clashes with Israeli forces during an Israeli raid in the refugee camp of Jenin in the northern West Bank, on March 7, 2023. (Photo by Ayman Nobani/Xinhua)
Streets were almost empty and most stores were closed in West Bank cities, as a general strike was staged in response to the call from Palestinian factions to mourn the six Palestinians killed on Tuesday in the Jenin Palestinian refugee camp.
Issam Bakr, the coordinator of national and Islamic factions in Ramallah, told Xinhua that the strike was staged “to condemn the killing of six Palestinians in the Jenin refugee camp.”
Thousands of Palestinian mourners on Wednesday attended the funeral held for five of the victims in the Jenin refugee camp amid anger and grief. The sixth victim was buried in a cemetery in the city of Nablus.
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The funeral participants, led by many armed men, waved Palestinian flags while masked men threatened to retaliate for the killing of the Palestinians.
The Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) which rules the Gaza Strip, called for escalating “armed resistance” against Israel following the Israeli killings of Palestinians in Jenin.
Mourners carry the body of a Palestinian killed in clashes with Israeli forces, during a funeral in the refugee camp of Jenin in the northern West Bank, on March 7, 2023. (Photo by Ayman Nobani/Xinhua)
Earlier Wednesday, the Israeli military bombed a military facility that belongs to Hamas militants in the southern Gaza Strip after a roadside bomb was detonated against an Israeli armored vehicle in the area, according to Palestinian and Israeli sources.
Palestinian sources told Xinhua that the Israeli troops stationed on the eastern border with the Gaza Strip fired two tank shells at a lookout post of the Al-Qassam Brigades in the southern Gaza Strip, but no injuries were reported.
An Israeli military spokesman said in a statement that there were reports that an explosive device was detonated near a military force at the Gaza Strip border that was carrying out military activity west of the security fence.
He added that there were no casualties among the Israeli forces, while the tanks responded by bombing a Hamas military site.
A girl mourns during the funeral of Palestinians killed the previous day in an Israeli army raid in the West Bank city of Jenin, March 8, 2023. (Photo by Nidal Eshtayeh/Xinhua)
Meanwhile, Israeli public radio reported that the Israeli military asked Israeli farmers to evacuate the areas near the border fence adjacent to the southern Gaza Strip, hours after Palestinian militants fired a rocket at dawn at Israel.
Ahmed Al-Mudallal, a member of the Political Bureau of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad Movement, said in a statement that “there can be no truce with the Israeli occupation” as long as Israel “commits massacres in the West Bank.”
The tensions between Israel and the Palestinians have been escalating in the West Bank and East Jerusalem since the beginning of this year. Official Palestinian and Israeli figures showed that more than 70 Palestinians have been killed this year so far, while 14 Israelis have been killed in attacks carried out by Palestinians.
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Mother kills daughters, commits suicide amid in-laws’ torture for not bearing son
Mother kills daughters, commits suicide amid in-laws’ torture for not bearing son
Two minor girls lost their lives after their mother killed them and hanged herself to death on Tuesday, as her her in-laws tortured her mentally due to her inability to bear a son in Bhopal. Tragically, the woman and two of her daughters have succumbed to the ordeal, while her three-year-old daughter fights for her life in the hospital.
The woman, identified as Sangita Yadav, was 28 years old, her daughters Aradhya was 5 years old, and Shristi was 2. The incident occurred in Roadiya village, located 35 kilometers from Bhopal in the Gunaga police station area. The matter came to light on Tuesday afternoon. The bodies of the victims were taken to Hamidia Hospital. According to Gunaga police station in-charge Arun Sharma, initial investigations suggest that the woman committed suicide and murdered her three daughters. However, further investigation is underway to confirm the circumstances.
According to Dainik Bhaskar, the deceased woman’s brother, Neeraj Yadav, has accused the in-laws of harassing his sister. Neeraj revealed that Sangita had sent distressing messages to him at night. In one of the messages, she stated that she was feeling unwell. She mentioned that she was taking poison as nobody would survive, and everyone would die.
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“Neeraj said, “After that, I tried calling her on her mobile phone, but I didn’t get any response. I also called Sangita’s brother-in-law, but he didn’t pick up the phone twice. When he finally answered the third time, I asked him if everything was fine at home. He said yes, everything was fine. I didn’t trust him.” Then, he asked his relatives, who stayed nearby, to go and check once. Thet reached and confirmed, that the bodies of all three kept inside.
Neeraj revealed that his sister was troubled by her in-laws. Whenever she visited her maternal home, Sangita’s husband, Rajat Yadav, would threaten her, saying, ‘If you don’t come back, I will die in an accident. I will electrocute myself.’ On March 4th, there was a wedding in the family, where they drank alcohol and created a ruckus. They took his sister back with them that night. After the wedding, everyone collectively harassed her, which left her distraught, leading her to hang herself along with her daughters.
The authenticity of the suicide note is questionable. Relatives alleged that when Sangita was found hanging, there was a letter stuck to her back, presumed to be a suicide note. In it, she purportedly wrote about a lump in her stomach preventing her from bearing more children and not being able to give birth to a son for her family. However, some family members directly denied the existence of any such letter. Nevertheless, according to the present police officers, a letter has been recovered from the scene.”
Mother kills daughters, commits suicide amid in-laws’ torture for not bearing son
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‘Fake pastor’ with at least 10 wives jailed for marrying two at same time
‘Fake pastor’ with at least 10 wives jailed for marrying two at same time
A fake pastor who had at least 10 wives has been thrown in jail after marrying two women.
Orlando Coleman trawled black churches across the US under the guise of a travelling bishop, collecting spouses as he went. The 51-year-old would introduce himself to new congregations as a member of the clergy, and was able to dupe at least 10 different women into exchanging vows with him.
Coleman from Houston had presented himself as the founder of several churches as well as a Pentecostal preacher on social media. Despite pleading guilty to bigamy in July 2023 and being placed on probation for marrying two women simultaneously, he wedded another woman two months later.
Now, he has been put behind bars for three years for marrying multiple women since 2019.
Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg said: “At the heart of this repeat offender’s schemes was a plan to defraud women and take advantage of them for financial gain.
“This man used the church to camouflage his scams and hide from any accountability or responsibility.”
Coleman’s web of deceit started to unravel in 2021 when he married a woman in Houston, but his new wife saw he was receiving money from another woman in Virginia.
When his then current wife contacted the woman from Virginia it was revealed that she too was married to Coleman.
Coleman’s Houston wife then contacted the Harris County Sheriff’s Office with the revelation, who in turn launched an investigation and filed bigamy charges.
In July 2023, Coleman pleaded guilty to bigamy in exchange for three years of deferred adjudication probation.
However, just two months later, while still married to the woman in Virginia, Coleman tied the knot again with another woman in Kentucky, committing another offense of bigamy.
Upon learning about Coleman’s new marriage, prosecutors from the Harris County District Attorney’s Office moved to revoke his probation. In a hearing on March 11, a judge sentenced Coleman to three years in prison.
Prosecutors say Coleman married the women for housing and financial security.
After introducing himself as a Protestant pastor or bishop, Coleman would propose marriage.
If a woman accepted, he would move in with her and allow her to foot the cost of his housing and food.
“That’s the only thing he had to offer and to validate his word – the proposal to marry – that was something big,” Assistant District Attorney Vanessa Goussen told The New York Times.
“Getting proposed to was a big gesture for these women, and that corroborated his guise that he’s a godly person.”
Some of the women filed for divorce after Coleman fled to another state.
Coleman is currently being held at the Harris County Jail.
‘Fake pastor’ with at least 10 wives jailed for marrying two at same time
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Ecuador’s youngest mayor, 27, assassinated along with aide
Ecuador’s youngest mayor, 27, assassinated along with aide
Ecuador’s youngest mayor and an aide were shot dead on Sunday, police in the South American country have said.
Brigitte Garcia, 27-year-old mayor of San Vicente, and her communications director Jairo Loor, were found dead in Manabi province, officers said.
Police added that the pair had both suffered gunshot wounds and that the gunfire had come from within the car, which was rented.
Ms Garcia – a member of former president Rafael Correa’s left-wing Citizen Revolution Movement party – is the latest political figure assassinated in Ecuador.
Presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio was killed last August while leaving a campaign event two weeks before the election. He was a vocal critic of corruption and organised crime.
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Mr Correa and Luisa Gonzalez, the party’s presidential candidate in the recent elections, called Ms Garcia’s killing an assassination on social media platform X.
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