#civilian-casualties

#civilian-casualties

The job of his volunteer team was to hold off any attackers for 20 minutes to allow the Israel Defense Forces time to arrive. The soldiers didn't arrive. Tamir and his friends held them for two hours. At 8.26am, 14 minutes before they were overcome, Tamir sent a text message to his wife: Don't open the door. Even if it's me. Badly injured, Tamir was initially left for dead.

On President Donald Trump's orders, the U.S. military last month began carrying out a series of strikes in the Caribbean, blowing up boats suspected of moving drugs and killing a total of at least 27 people so far. (Multiple news outlets reported that a strike yesterday was believed to be the first one to leave survivors.) Although Trump has called the dead "narcoterrorists," his administration has not provided good evidence to support that characterization.

At least 20 people were killed and dozens more were injured in central Myanmar after the military launched a paraglider bomb attack during an anti-government protest on Monday night. The attack hit Chaung U, in Sagaing region, twice during a national holiday. Myanmar has been engulfed in armed conflict since the military seized power in 2021 and the town has been a key battleground in the war.

Within hours after they were told that Aysenur Ezgi Eygi had been killed by an Israeli sniper while at a protest in the West Bank last year, her family was on a phone call with the parents of Rachel Corrie, a 23-year-old activist who was crushed to death by an Israeli army bulldozer in Gaza more than two decades ago. The families were introduced by a mutual contact in Washington state, where both Corrie and 26-year-old Eygi had lived.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says five people were killed and 10 injured overnight as Russian drones and missiles struck several regions. He said the attacks targeted Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Zaporizhzhia, Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, Kherson, Odesa, and Kirovohrad regions. In a post on X, formerly Twitter, he called on the US and Europe to take action to force Russian President Vladimir Putin cease his attacks.

I often have the same dream: that I'm trying to get home, says Elena Lebedeva, setting out tea and sandwiches in the tiny kitchen of her rented flat. There's always some checkpoint, obstacle, something in the way. I keep going walking, running, crawling but I never manage to reach it. Home for Lebedeva is Opytne, a tiny village one school, no supermarkets just outside Donetsk.

Russia's President Vladimir Putin said his forces are prevailing in what he described as a righteous battle in Ukraine. Our fighters and commanders go on the attack, and the entire country, all of Russia, is waging this righteous battle and working hard, he said. President Putin signed a decree ordering the conscription of 135,000 men for military service, the official government newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta reports.

Claim: If Hamas agrees to Israel's demands, the war could end right now. Factcheck: Israel, with full political and military support from the US, has blocked numerous efforts to reach a ceasefire in Gaza. Netanyahu and his government have been repeatedly blasted by the families of captives held in Gaza, along with hundreds of thousands of Israelis, who protested to call for an end to the war and the return of all captives.