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Iranian female athletes runner-up at Asian Kurash championship

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Iranian female athletes runner-up at Asian Kurash championship

The Iran women’s national kurash team claimed the second position, having won two gold medals, three silvers and three bronzes. Uzbekistan was named the top-ranked team with three gold medals, and four silvers.

Chinese Taipei finished in the third place with two gold medals and three bronzes.

Tahereh Azarpayvand and Fatemeh Barmaki won two gold medals for the Iranian delegation in the women’s minus 57-kilogram and over 87-kilogram weight categories at the end of their competitions at the Azadi Indoor Sports Complex in western Iran.

Additionally, Arezu Salimi, Rayhaneh Gilani and Haniyeh Vahdani clinched three silver medals in the minus 52-kilogram, minus 70-kilogram and minus 87-kilogram sections respectively.

Faezeh Ebrahimi, Pardis Eidivand and Saba Karamali pocketed three bronze medals for Iran in the women’s minus 48-kilogram, minus 63-kilogram and minus 78-kilogram weight classes.

The 13th edition of Asian Senior Kurash Championship in Iranian capital Tehran on June 6, and will finish on June 11, 2024.

The sports event has attracted tens of wrestlers from various Asian countries, including Chinese Taipei, India, Iran, South Korea, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.

The Turkmen national wrestling competition, kurash (also written as goresh), is a kind of wrestling on belts that has ancient roots and dates back to as early as the third century BC. Wrestlers need to earn points by forcing the opponent to touch the mat with any part of the body except a foot.

Kurash competitions are staged in four formats, namely round, shootout, mixed, and team.

During the round format contests, athletes compete with all wrestlers in the same weight category. If there are many wrestlers in one weight division, the participants are divided into two groups. Wrestlers who earn the first and second places in each group will be in action for the final showdowns.

Wrestlers are eliminated from the rest of the competition once they lose in the shootout format.

In the mixed format, wrestlers start with the round format for the preliminary round and then shift to the shootout format.

In the team format, only one athlete from each weight category of a team is allowed to participate. Participating teams will fight one-on-one in the competitions.

Thousands gather at White House for pro-Palestinian rally

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White House Rally Palestine

Footage posted to social media showed police using pepper spray on protesters, who faced arrest at the mass demonstration.

At least one demonstrator also held a canister that released green and white smoke near the southern side of the White House.

The demonstrator, who was dressed as the superhero character Spiderman, shouted along with a crowd: “Biden, Biden, we can’t wait! We’ll see you at the Hague!”

The Hague is the Dutch city that is home to the international criminal court that prosecutes war crimes.

The protest comes after criticism aimed at the president over his handling of Israel’s continued strikes on Gaza in response to the 7 October 2023 attack by Hamas.

Saturday’s demonstration featured a coalition of groups including Code Pink and the Council on American Islamic Relation, Reuters reported.

Biden has claimed that Israel’s latest attacks on Rafah do not violate the US’s red line – or, limit – with respect to support for its ally.

The Biden administration has continued to provide American weapons to Israel, even as the Israeli military launched an airstrike against a tent city in Rafah two weeks earlier that killed at least 45 people.

Saturday’s protest also comes days after Biden told Time magazine that there is “every reason” to believe that the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is prolonging the war in Gaza for his own political gain – accusations the Israeli government has criticized.

On Saturday, protesters held a red banner around the perimeter of the White House to symbolize the US’s red line with respect to Israel.

They also held up Palestinian flags and protest signs decrying what they describe as a genocide in Gaza.

“Biden, you got blood on your hands,” read one protest sign. Another sign simply read: “Free Palestine.”

Demonstrators shouted slogans that condemned the president’s response, including: “Biden, Biden, you’re a sellout. Pack your bags and get the hell out!”

Protesters will reportedly be surrounding the White House all day.

Saturday marks eight months since Israel’s current war against Gaza began, after Hamas killed 1,200 people and took 250 people hostage during the 7 October attack.

Since the war began, more than 36,800 Palestinians have been killed by Israel’s military attacks.

Gaza has also been pushed into a humanitarian crisis amid widespread hunger and disease within the territory.

Report: MKO head Rajavi in critical health condition

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Maryam Rajavi

Rajavi, 70, was going back to the MKO headquarters in the French city of Auvers-sur-Oise, on the northwestern outskirts of Paris, on Sunday evening when she suffered a panic attack and was rushed to the hospital, sources told Iran’s IRNA news agency.

The reports on her critical health condition have leaked despite an order to put a gag on the incident.

The MKO ringleader suffers from rheumatism, intestinal cancer and nervous system complications and has a history of hospitalization for panic attacks.

The MKO is an anti-Iran terrorist group supported by the West and has the blood of over 17,000 Iranian civilians on their hands.

During the imposed war of 1980s, they sided with the regime of Saddam Hussein, the deposed president of Iraq, against Iran.

Israeli Police say 33 arrested during Tel Aviv protestests

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Israel Protest

Dozens of thousands of Israelis took to the streets on Saturday, demanding a hostage swap deal with Palestinian factions.

In Tel Aviv, police announced that 33 protesters were arrested during demonstrations and that all roads near the protests were opened to traffic around midnight.

According to the authority, the demonstrators said that the 120 hostages still in Gaza should not be forgotten.

Demonstrations were also held at Haifa, Kfar Saba, Caesarea, Ra’anana, and Karkur junctions.

Israeli police also arrested three demonstrators in Haifa on charges of inciting riots.

Earlier, the Hamas-run Government Media Office said that at least 210 Palestinians were killed and more than 400 injured in severe Israeli airstrikes targeting Nuseirat refugee camp, areas east of Deir al-Balah, and al-Bureij and al-Maghazi camps in central Gaza, coinciding with a sudden incursion of vehicles east and northwest of Nuseirat.

Israel has continued its brutal offensive on Gaza since Oct. 7 despite a UN Security Council resolution demanding an immediate cease-fire.

More than 36,800 Palestinians have since been killed in Gaza, most of them women and children, and over 83,500 others injured, according to local health authorities.

Eight months into the Israeli war, vast tracts of Gaza lay in ruins amid a crippling blockade of food, clean water, and medicine.

Hamas: Israel killed some hostages during rescue operation in Gaza

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Israeli Army

Abu Obaida, the spokesperson for Hamas’ armed wing, the Al-Qassam Brigades, made the claim, saying that “by committing horrific massacres,” Israel was “able to free some of its hostages, yet it killed some others during the operation”.

He stated that ” the first to be harmed by [the Israeli army] are its prisoners”, in a reference to the around 120 captives still held in the Gaza Strip, adding, “The enemy was able, by committing horrific massacres, to free some of his captives, but at the same time, it killed some of them during the operation.”

Obaida did not elaborate on the identities of who had died, or provide any evidence to back up his claim.

Obaida said that the rescue raid “posed a great danger” to the remaining hostages and “will have a devastating impact on their conditions and lives”, in his post on Telegram.

Hamas on Saturday accused Israel of committing “a horrific massacre” after the Government Media Office in Gaza reported at least 210 people were killed and hundreds more injured in Israeli attacks on central Gaza.

In a written statement, the militant group said Israel’s killing of scores of people as it mounted a hostage rescue operation in the Nuseirat refugee camp was a “brutal crime, devoid of the values of civilization and humanity.”

Hamas said the rescuing of four hostages alive would not change Israel’s “strategic failure in the Gaza Strip,” as the group still holds a large number of other hostages after eight months of fighting.

In a separate statement, Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh said that the “resistance will continue” following the deadly fighting.

“Our people will not surrender, and the resistance will continue to defend our rights in the face of this criminal enemy,” Haniyeh added.

Israeli strikes in central Gaza leave over 200 people dead

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Gaza War

The Gaza government media office said the toll from the strikes on Deir el-Balah and Nuseirat was 210 with dozens more wounded.

The ministry confirmed that a large number of dead and wounded Palestinian had arrived at Al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital. It added that most of them were children and women.

The ministry announced that dozens of injured people were “lying on the ground”, and medical teams were trying to save them with “whatever capabilities available”.

Some of the heavy Israeli bombing took place in houses near to the hospital.

In addition, people sheltering in the hospital were phoned by Israeli forces telling them to leave the facility.

At least 32 people from the Abu Shalt family were killed in the attack and their bodies were recovered and arrived at the hospital.

“The occupation has annihilated the Nuseirat refugee camp. Innocent and unarmed civilian were bombed in their homes. I’ve never seen anything like this. It’s a catastrophe,” said local Nidal Abdo, speaking to MEE.

“I came from the camp to here in the hospital on foot. I can’t describe how we fled. I saw dead children and body parts strewn all over as we fled. No one was able to assist them. I saw an elderly man killed on a animal-drawn cart.”

“Nuseirat was being annihilated. It was hell,” Abdo continued.

As the bombing was ongoing, the Israeli military said in a statement that it had announced the rescue of four captives from Gaza during an operation in Nuseirat.

Those rescued were named as Noa Argamani, Almog Meir Jan, Andrey Kozlov, and Shlomi Ziv.

The captives, who were reportedly in good health, were taken to Tel Hashomer hospital for further evaluation.

According to the Times of Israel, all four were captured by Hamas on 7 October from the Supernova music festival.

The 7 October attack left 1,200 people dead and saw hundreds of Israelis taken to Gaza.

In a statement, the Gaza media office said they held both Israel and the US responsible for the killings and warned that they were running of medical resources.

“Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital is the only hospital in the Central Governorate and is currently working on only one electric generator after the breakdown of one of the two generators that the hospital has been operating for eight months,” read the statement.

“If one of these two generators stops, it portends a real disaster if the only generator stops, and thus the hospital may be out of service. This hospital provides health service to a million people and displaced persons, and it cannot accommodate this large number of martyrs and injuries,” it added.

A media office spokesperson told Al Arabi TV that the Israeli army had called Al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital’s administration and threatened to bomb the hospital if it was not evacuated.

The spokesperson also confirmed that Israeli special forces had infiltrated the market in Nuseirat camp.

According to the Gaza health ministry, 36,800 people in Gaza, mostly civilians, have been killed in Israel’s bombardment since 7 October.

France building ‘coalition’ to send military trainers into Ukraine

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Russia Ukraine War

“We want to have a coalition for reasons of efficiency, and several of our partners have already given their agreement,” Macron told reporters on Friday in Paris.

“We will use the coming days to finalize the largest possible coalition capable of responding to Ukraine’s request.”

Macron didn’t identify the countries, other than France, that have committed to send trainers to Ukraine. He argued that dispatching specialists to do training work inside Ukrainian shouldn’t provoke a Russian response.

“We are not at war with Russia,” Macron added.

“We do not want an escalation, but we want to do everything in our power to help Ukraine resist. Is it an escalation if Ukraine asks us to train mobilized soldiers on its soil? No, that does not mean deploying people – European or allied soldiers – on the front line.”

Macron made his comments after hosting a visit by Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky. He announced on Thursday that France will send Mirage 2000 fighter jets to Kiev and train Ukrainian pilots. It will reportedly take until around the end of this year to have pilots ready to fly the warplanes.

French forces have already trained around 10,000 Ukrainian troops in France and other NATO countries. Lithuania and Estonia have also publicly suggested that they would be willing to deploy instructors inside Ukraine. In fact, Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas said last month that NATO trainers were already operating in the battle-torn state.

Russian officials have repeatedly warned that any foreign military personnel in Ukraine would be considered legitimate targets for attack, regardless of their duties and locations. The Russian Foreign Ministry said Macron’s “belligerent rhetoric” and provocative statements had escalated the Ukraine crisis.

Macron began making public comments about the possibility of troop deployments to Ukraine in February, triggering pushback from some NATO allies and a Kremlin warning that such a step would inevitably lead to a direct conflict with Russia. US President Joe Biden reportedly rejected Macron’s proposal to send instructors to Kiev, citing concern that those troops could be in the line of fire and spark an escalation.

UNRWA urges probe into all Israeli violations against United Nations in Gaza

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Gaza War

“We call for investigations into all violations against the United Nations, including attacks on our buildings,” UNRWA’s Communications Director Juliette Touma told The Washington Post.

“UN Facilities are protected under International Humanitarian Law & must be safe shelters for civilians,” UNRWA wrote on X.

Israel has continued its brutal offensive on Gaza since a Hamas attack last Oct. 7 despite a UN Security Council resolution demanding an immediate cease-fire.

More than 36,700 Palestinians have since been killed in Gaza, most of them women and children, and over 83,500 others injured, according to local health authorities.

An Israeli warplane targeted on Friday the UN-run Asma School in the Al-Shati refugee camp, according to Palestinian Civil Defense spokesman Mahmoud Basal.

This is the second incident in two days that a school has been struck by Israeli forces. On Thursday, Israel bombed a school sheltering thousands of displaced people in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza.

1.5mn displaced in Gaza with infectious diseases amid war: Report

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Gaza War

In a statement, the office reported: “1,477,748 Palestinian displaced individuals have contracted infectious diseases due to displacement from various areas in the Gaza Strip.”

The office did not specify whether any of the affected individuals had recovered. However, it noted that the number of internally displaced persons in the Gaza Strip since Oct. 7 has reached two million.

The statement warned that 3,500 children in the Gaza Strip are at risk starving to death due to blockade and the ongoing Israeli war.

On Thursday, UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) announced that nine out of 10 children in Gaza suffer from severe malnutrition.

The statement also highlighted that 10,000 cancer patients are facing death and require treatment outside the Gaza Strip, while more than 71 cases of viral hepatitis have been recorded.

Hepatitis A is a highly infectious liver disease caused by a virus resulting from consuming contaminated food or water or close contact with an infected person.

Cases of viral hepatitis have spread in the Gaza Strip, especially among children, due to the lack of personal hygiene, clean water, food contamination, and overcrowding in displacement centers.

Since the closure of the Rafah border crossing with Egypt following Israel’s control of the Palestinian side on May 7, no patient or wounded has been able to leave the Gaza Strip.

Israel has continued its brutal offensive on Gaza since a Hamas attack last Oct. 7 despite a UN Security Council resolution demanding an immediate cease-fire.

More than 36,800 Palestinians have since been killed in Gaza, most of them women and children, and over 83,500 others injured, according to local health authorities.

Eight months into the Israeli war, vast tracts of Gaza lay in ruins amid a crippling blockade of food, clean water, and medicine.

Israel stands accused of genocide at the International Court of Justice, whose latest ruling ordered Tel Aviv to immediately halt its operation in the southern city of Rafah, where over a million Palestinians had sought refuge from the war before it was invaded on May 6.

Survey finds majority of Israelis will not vote for Netanyahu in elections

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Benjamin Netanyahu

The poll conducted by Channel 12 found that 62% of voters will not cast their ballots for a party that supports Netanyahu to continue as the leader of Israel.

The poll showed just 19% would vote for a party that supports Netanyahu, while 19% of other respondents said they do not know.

The results also indicated that 30% of those who currently classify themselves as voters within Netanyahu’s bloc said they will not vote for a party that supports Netanyahu to continue as prime minister.

Since the start of the Israeli devastating onslaught against the Gaza Strip on Oct. 7, Israeli opposition along with families of Israeli captives held in Gaza have been staging protests to show dissatisfaction about his conduct with cease-fire negotiations.

Netanyahu also met public opposition with his controversial judicial overhaul plan that limits the power of the judiciary.

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