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At least 45 killed in Israeli airstrike on displaced persons camp in Rafah, health ministry says, hours after Hamas fired rockets into Israel

By: Al IMRAN on May 27, 2024 / comment : 0

 At least 45 killed in Israeli airstrike on displaced persons camp in Rafah, health ministry says, hours after Hamas fired rockets into Israel


The Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry raised the death toll to 45 Monday from Israeli airstrikes in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, AFP and Reuters reported. Gaza officials said the strike hit tents for displaced people in Rafah, with "numerous" others trapped in flaming debris. ( )

The airstrike came hours after Hamas claimed it fired a barrage of rockets from Gaza toward central Israel as rocket sirens rang for the first time in months in cities like Tel Aviv.The Israeli attack drew swift condemnation from Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Turkey, France and Qatar which warned it could "hinder" budding steps to revive stalled truce and hostage release talks in the Israel-Hamas war raging since

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Gaza's Ministry of Health said in an earlier statement that, "Never before in history has such a large number of mass killing tools been amassed and employed together in front of the world as is happening now in Gaza," noting severe shortages of water, food, medicine, electricity and fuel. ( )

Eyewitnesses told CBS News' team in Gaza that eight airstrikes hit tents in western Rafah, though the reports could not be independently confirmed. The eyewitnesses said the casualties, which included civilians, were rushed to Emirati Hospital. The tents were part of a camp about 200 meters (about 650 feet) away from the largest United Nations warehouse in the Gaza Strip. ( )

The Israel Defense Forces acknowledged the strike in a statement Sunday night. 

"A short while ago, an IDF aircraft struck a Hamas compound in Rafah in which significant Hamas terrorists were operating," the IDF said. "The strike was carried out against legitimate targets under international law, using through the use of precise munitions and on the basis of precise intelligence that indicated Hamas' use of the area. The IDF is aware of reports indicating that as a result of the strike and fire that was ignited several civilians in the area were harmed. The incident is under review."( )

Footage from the scene showed heavy destruction, and a spokesperson with the Palestinian Red Crescent Society said the death toll was likely to increase as search and rescue efforts continued in Rafah's Tal al-Sultan neighborhood west of the city center.( )

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More than 2,000 believed buried alive in Papua New Guinea landslide, government says

By: Al IMRAN on May 27, 2024 / comment : 0

More than 2,000 believed buried alive in Papua New Guinea landslide, government says



Melbourne, Australia — The Papua New Guinea government said a landslide Friday is believed to have buried more than 2,000 people alive. It formally asked for international help.

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The government figure is around three times more than a United Nations' estimate of 670.

The remains of only six people had been recovered so far. A once-bustling village in Enga province was almost wiped out when a piece of Mount Mungalo collapsed early Friday morning, burying homes and the people sleeping inside.

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In a letter to the U.N. resident coordinator dated Sunday and seen by numerous news agencies, the acting director of the South Pacific island nation's National Disaster Center said the landslide "buried more than 2000 people alive" and caused "major destruction."The landslide caused "major destruction to buildings, food gardens and caused major impact on the economic lifeline of the country," the letter said, according to Agence France-Presse.

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The letter also said the main highway to the Porgera Gold Mine was "completely blocked."

Estimates of the casualties have varied widely since the disaster occurred, and it wasn't immediately clear how officials arrived at the new number of people affected.Australia was preparing Monday to send aircraft and other equipment to help at the landslide site as overnight rains in the nation's mountainous interior raised fears that the tons of rubble that buried villagers could become dangerously unstable.

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Australian Defense Minister Richard Marles said his officials have been talking with their Papua New Guinea counterparts since Friday, when the landslide occurred. 

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Papua New Guinea fears thousands missing after landslide

By: Al IMRAN on May 27, 2024 / comment : 0

 

Papua New Guinea fears thousands missing after landslide



There are fears the number of missing following a deadly landslide in Papua New Guinea could stretch into the thousands, a government agency has said.

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The acting director of the nation's National Disaster Centre said in a letter it was feared more than 2,000 people were buried alive in Friday's disaster.

However, an exact casualty figure has been hard to establish and estimates have varied widely, as rescue efforts have been hindered by rubble 10m (32ft) deep in some places and a lack of adequate equipment.

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Fewer than a dozen bodies have been recovered so far, while the United Nations (UN) put the figure of the missing at 670.

The collapse of a mountain side early Friday morning wiped out a bustling village in Enga province, with the damage extending for close to a kilometre, observers report.

About 3,800 people had been living in the area prior to the disaster.

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The letter by Lusete Laso Mana said the damage was "extensive", and that it had "caused major impact on the economic lifeline of the country".

Prime Minister James Marape has expressed his condolences and ordered the country's defence force and emergency agencies to the area, about 600km north-west of the capital Port Moresby.

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But locals in the affected Kaokalam village say they are still waiting for officials to step in with larger rescue operations.

One resident, Evit Kambu, said she believed many of her family members were trapped under the rubble and debris.

"I have eighteen of my family members buried under the debris and soil that I am standing on. And a lot more family members in the village I cannot count," she told news agency Reuters.

"Thank you to all those who've come to help us. But I cannot retrieve the bodies, so I am standing here helplessly."

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A community leader who visited the site told the BBC locals felt they had been left to fend for themselves. They were using shovels and their bare hands to try and dig people out.

"It's been almost three to four days now but [many] bodies are not located yet. It is still covered by the landslide and people are finding it really hard to dig them out - they are calling for the government for support and help," Ignas Nembo told the BBC's Newshour programme.

However, a police official from the province told the BBC he had seen soldiers arrive at the scene and they were attempting to remove boulders to try and free those trapped.

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Acting Provincial Police Commander Martin Kelei described these efforts as precarious - as removing car-sized boulders and other large barriers risked further rock slips.

"Digging is very hard at the moment because we're worried about further landslides and deaths - so local people are only digging from where they can see it is safe. We are trying to identify wherever we can see that people are buried," he said.

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He had visited the site several times since Friday's collapse and claimed survivors could still be heard calling for help under the rubble.

Local media reported one couple being pulled alive from under rocks. They had survived as their home only caught the edge of the landslide's onslaught.

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They were saved after rescue workers heard their shouts for help, the local NBC channel reported.


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Richard Sherman, Songwriter of Many Spoonfuls of Sugar, Dies at 95

By: Al IMRAN on May 26, 2024 / comment : 0

 

Richard Sherman, Songwriter of Many Spoonfuls of Sugar, Dies at 95

He and his brother, Robert, teamed up to write the songs for “Mary Poppins” and other Disney classics. They also gave the world “It’s a Small World (After
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 All).”Richard M. Sherman, the younger brother in a songwriting team that won two Oscars and two Grammys, brought Disney movies to musical life and gave the world numbers like “A Spoonful of Sugar,” “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” and the ubiquitous, multiply translated “It’s a Small World (After All),” died on Saturday in Beverly Hills, Calif. He was 95.
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The death, in a hospital, was announced by the Walt Disney Company.

The careers of the Shermans — Richard and Robert — were inextricably linked with Walt Disney. Their Academy Awards were for “Chim Chim Cher-ee,” a chimney sweep’s alternately cheerful and plaintive anthem from “Mary Poppins” (1964), and for the film’s score. Their Grammy Awards were for “Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too,” shared in 1975 for best recording for children, and the “Mary Poppins” score.

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“It’s a Small World” was written for the Disney theme-park ride of the same name. The song plays as guests in boats pass among 240 dolls of many nations with identical faces — tiny can-can and folk dancers, mermaids and mariachi bands — plus Big Ben, the Taj Mahal and grinning farm animals.

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“People want to kiss us or kill us,” Richard Sherman said in a 2011 video interview about the song, which he said was “the biggest hit of the World’s Fair,” where it was introduced in 1964.


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Rockets fired at Tel Aviv as Israel faces growing pressure over war in Gaza

By: Al IMRAN on May 26, 2024 / comment : 0

 

Rockets fired at Tel Aviv as Israel faces growing pressure over war in Gaza

What we're covering

  • Sirens sounded in Tel Aviv and parts of central Israel on Sunday, according to the Israeli military, marking the first time rockets have been fired at the city since late January. Hamas said it was responsible.
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  • Ceasefire and hostage talks are set to resume next week, officials say. Israel's war cabinet meets later Sunday. Talks between Israel and Hamas have stalled, with both parties failing to reach an agreement over differences on key demands.
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  • Protesters clashed with police in Tel Aviv Saturday night, following a day of rallies calling for a ceasefire and the return of hostages. One video showed horse-mounted police and water cannons trying to clear demonstrators.
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  • Spain's defense minister has said that what is happening in Gaza is a "real genocide." Spain was one of three European countries to announce plans to recognize a Palestinian state, further piling pressure on Israel.The
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  •  Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said on Sunday that eight rockets have been fired from the Rafah area of southern Gaza and had crossed into Israel. "A number of projectiles" were 

At least 6 people are dead after tornado-spawning storms strike the Central US Memorial Day weekend

By: Al IMRAN on May 26, 2024 / comment : 0

 

At least 6 people are dead after tornado-spawning storms strike the Central US Memorial Day weekend

At least six people, including children, are dead, after suspected tornadoes struck Texas and Arkansas overnight, as severe storms caused power outages and forced residents to shelter in place across the Central United States on
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 Memorial Day weekend.Five fatalities were reported in Cooke County, Texas, and three occurred in one household, Cooke County Sheriff Ray Sappington told CNN on Sunday morning. Two children in the area were reported missing and are still unaccounted for as of Sunday morning.
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Another person was killed in Benton County, Arkansas, the county’s safety administrator told CNN.

More than 110 million people across broad swaths of the US are under threat of large hail, damaging winds and a fierce twisters Sunday, mainly throughout the mid-Mississippi, Ohio and Tennessee River valleys.

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As the storms move east, the Storm Prediction Center warned of “violent tornadoes, extreme hail and corridors of widespread wind damage.”Inside a Shell gas station, 60 to 80 people were trapped until the storm blew over, Sappington said. Multiple injuries were reported at the station, but none were life-threatening, he added.Many vehicles were damaged and destroyed, leaving about 40 people stranded. They were transported by bus to another gas station in Gainesville, where

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 they were picked up by family members.In north Denton County, Texas, a possible tornado injured an unknown number of people, damaged several homes, overturned 18-wheelers, downed trees and knocked out power lines on Saturday night, authorities said early Sunday. Deputies responded to multiple locations, including “homes and RV trailer parks,” Dawn Cobb, a county spokesperson, said in a news release.

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