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From The Independent
Germany: Angela Merkel’s coalition split over border ‘concentration camps’ as pressures of refugee crisis take toll
From PressTV
Israelis kill 4 more Palestinians, injure 1 in al-Quds, WB
Four Palestinians have been shot dead and another injured by Israeli regime forces in East al-Quds (Jerusalem) and the occupied West Bank amid growing concerns over a major Palestinian uprising.
The latest shooting of the Palestinian youths on Saturday came as the Israeli media cited official accounts as alleging that the victims attempted to stab the regime’s soldiers and armed Jewish settlers in the occupied territories.
Since the current violence erupted on October 1, Israeli troops and armed settlers have killed 41 Palestinians while seven Israelis have also been killed in retaliatory knife attacks.
According to press reports, three of the Saturday’s killings occurred in the flashpoint West Bank city of al-Khalil (Hebron), where over 500 Israeli settlers live in a heavily guarded occupied enclave in the city center surrounded by nearly 200,000 local Palestinian citizens.
The fourth victim was shot dead at a checkpoint in an Israeli settlement complex in the Israeli-annexed east al-Quds. The fifth Palestinian was also shot at another checkpoint, reports added.
According to both Palestinians and Israeli sources, all the victims shot by the Israeli on Saturday were Palestinian teenagers.
Israeli soldiers further used rubber bullets and live fire against stone-throwing protesters in several parts of al-Khalil, wounding 11 with rubber bullets and another one with a gunshot, local reports said, citing Palestinian medics.
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From PressTV
Israeli troops shoot dead two other Palestinians in Gaza Strip
At least two Palestinians have lost their lives and more than a dozen others sustained injuries after Israeli forces opened fire at a group of Palestinian protesters in the northeastern part of the blockaded Gaza Strip.
Gazan Health Ministry spokesperson Ashraf al-Qudra said 20-year-old Abdul Qader Farhan was fatally shot as Israeli troopers fired live bullets to disperse the Palestinian protesters in the city of Beit Hanoun, Palestinian Arabic-language Safa news agency reported.
Qudra added that as many as 27 Palestinians were also wounded during clashes in other areas of the Gaza Strip. He added that 11 Palestinians were shot with live rounds, while another one was hit by rubber-coated steel bullets.
The senior Palestinian medical official added that 14 Palestinians also suffered excessive tear gas inhalation.
The new death in Gaza came hours after 37-year-old Shawqi Jabr Obeid succumbed to the gunshot wounds he had sustained during clashes with Israeli soldiers along the Gaza border last week.
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From PressTV
Palestinian man shot by Israeli troops dies of wounds
A Palestinian man shot and wounded by Israeli forces last week has died of his wounds at a hospital in the besieged Gaza Strip, local media reports say.
According to official Palestinian news agency Palestine al-Youm, Shawqi Jabr Obeid, a 37-year-old Palestinian from the Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza succumbed to his injuries on Friday morning.
He had been injured by Israeli gunfire last Friday during clashes with protesters near the border fence along the besieged Gaza Strip.
At least seven Palestinians lost their lives and nearly 150 sustained injuries after Israeli forces opened fire at a group of Palestinian protesters in the eastern part of the blockaded enclave. Israeli troopers fired live bullets to disperse the Palestinian protesters east of the Shejaiya neighborhood of Gaza City on last Friday.
The latest death comes a day after Riyad Ibrahim Dar Youssef, a 46-year-old Palestinian from the al-Janiya Village in occupied West Bank city of Ramallah, was pronounced dead after he was assaulted by Israeli soldiers in the volatile region. He was targeted on his way back home from picking olives with his family.
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From Russia Today
Senior Al-Qaeda leader killed in Syria airstrike
Sanafi Al-Nasr, who was allegedly killed in an airstrike near the town of Dana, was Al-Qaeda’s senior strategist and an important power broker, the Iranian Fars news agency reports, citing jihadist sources close to the killed militant leader.
Al-Nusra released several photos showing a car hit by an air strike along with several bodies of the dead militants, although their identities were not verified. However, jihadists claimed on social media that Al-Nasr had been killed.
Other photos published by the terrorist organization show the alleged graves of Al-Nasr and two other militants who were killed in an airstrike.
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From Russia Today
Hungary seals borders as refugees flow into Slovenia
“The government has decided to include the army in helping police,” the Slovenian Prime Minister Miro Cerar said on Saturday, following a meeting of Slovenia’s national security council. Ljubljana has had to deal with an influx of refugees after Hungary closed its border with Croatia.
The first bus with refugees arrived at the Slovenian-Croatian border on Saturday morning.
“The bus is on the border crossing (Gruskovje) and the migrants will now go through a registration process,” police spokesman Bojan Kitel told Reuters.
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From Russia Today
Hungary to close border with Croatia to stop refugee influx
The border will be closed from 12am local time (22:00 GMT) on Friday and refugees will be able to enter Hungary from Croatia only through two transit zones, which are yet to be set up. They will have to present valid travel documents or submit asylum requests, Reuters reports, citing Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto.
“If we seal off the green border, it is only going to be possible to come into Hungary in a regular way,” he said on Thursday, as quoted by Reuters. “It would exactly look like the practice on the Serbian border. It would (be) exactly the same,” he added. “Hungary will fully enforce the Schengen rules on the border with Croatia.”
The minister also said that Hungary had informed Croatia, Slovenia, Poland, Slovakia, Austria, and Germany about its decision to close the border.
He earlier blamed the EU leaders for having failed to make a decision on protecting Greek borders from a massive refugee inflow.
“We have urged Greece and the European Council to put together a joint European force to protect the external Schengen border,”Szijjarto said. “Unfortunately, this decision has not been made,” he added.
After the border closure, the refugees are expected either to try and get to Europe through Slovenia or to stay in Croatia, which is already struggling with mass refugee inflow, for an indefinite period.
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