The City of Cape Town says it was shocked after firefighters were shot at in two separate incidents this week. Mayoral Committee Member for Safety and Security, JP Smith says they responded to a structural fire at Uitsig where they were also stoned. He says a crew also came under[…]
The South African Police Service (SAPS) has launched an investigation after a video showing what appears to be heavily armed members of the VIP protection unit, allegedly assaulting three men on the N1 in Johannesburg. In the video which has since gone viral on social media, armed officers in plain[…]
Israeli settlers rampaged through Palestinian towns in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, torching buildings and cars in apparent retaliation for the killing by Hamas of four Israelis near a settlement the day before, residents and officials said, Reuters reports. One Palestinian was shot dead during the rampage, Palestinian health officials said.[…]
The attack on the Islamic Society of Markham is the latest in a number of Islamophobic incidents in Canada. Muslims in Canada are calling for more protection and a serious engagement with Islamophobia after a man entered a mosque brandishing a weapon, threatened congregants, damaged mosque property, and tried to run over worshippers in[…]
Three people have been arrested as part of an ongoing probe after far-right groups were filmed attacking Palestinian citizens of Israel who were passing by pro-government protests in Jerusalem, according to Israeli police quoted by local media. Reports say that one man was “savagely” beaten during the attacks on Monday[…]
LOCAL Pit bulls across the country are being surrendered in large numbers to the NSPCA and in instances where they are not being turned in, the dogsare being poisoned, beaten, set alight and stabbed by community members. The NSPCA on Wednesday said the difficult task of dealing with the aftermath[…]
A 39-year-old woman from Cape Town has been killed in a shark attack at Central Beach in Plettenberg Bay in the Southern Cape. According to NSRI spokesperson, Chris Lambinon, “NSRI Plettenberg Bay and the police services were activated at 07h53 following reports of a shark incident at Central Beach.” “The[…]
The man accused of stabbing novelist Salman Rushdie last week in western New York pleaded not guilty to second-degree attempted murder and assault charges on Thursday and was held without bail. Hadi Matar, 24, is accused of wounding Rushdie, 75, on Friday just before the “The Satanic Verses” author was[…]
Qatar has accepted Hamas’s request to rebuild Palestinian homes destroyed by the Israeli occupation during the latest three-day offensive on the besieged Gaza Strip. In a statement, Hamas disclosed that Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammad Bin Abdul-Rahman told Hamas Chief Ismail Haniyeh that Qatar accepted his request to rebuild the[…]
Israeli settlers, yesterday, attacked a number of Palestinian shepherds in Bethlehem’s eastern occupied village of Kisan. Ahmed Ghazal, a member of the village’s local council, told Safa that a group of settlers had “assaulted Palestinian shepherds near the Ebi Hanahel settlement, built on the village lands.” “Clashes erupted between the villagers and[…]
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