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  • Eleven children receiving trauma care killed in their homes by Israeli airstrikes

    Eleven children receiving trauma care killed in their homes by Israeli airstrikes

    The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) has confirmed that eleven children going through treatment to help them deal with trauma were killed by Israeli airstrikes on Gaza in recent days.

    As per reports, all children between 5 and 15 years old were killed in their homes in different areas of the city while many of their relatives also either died or were injured.

    “We are devastated to learn that 11 children we were helping with trauma were bombarded while they were at home and thought they were safe,” said NRC’s Secretary General Jan Egeland.

    “They are now gone, killed with their families, buried with their dreams and the nightmares that haunted them. We call on Israel to stop this madness. Children must be protected. Their homes must not be targets. Schools must not be targets. Spare these children and their families. Stop bombing them now,” she asserted.

    Read more – Infant reunited with father after miraculously surviving Israeli airstrike

    The children NRC assisted included Lina Iyad Sharir, 15 who was targeted with both of her parents in their home on May 11 in Gaza City’s Al Manara neighbourhood. Her two-year-old sister Mina got third-degree burns and is in critical condition.

    13-year-old Hala Hussein al-Rifi was killed on the night of May 12. The attack also killed four-year-old Zaid Mohammad Telbani and his five month pregnant mother Rima. Zaid’s sister is now reportedly missing.

    Multiple air raids on May 16 killed six children that NRC worked with.

    The same attacks also killed Rula Mohammad al-Kawlak and many other children along with their family members.

    NRC works with 118 schools in the Gaza Strip approaching more than 75,000 students under its psycho-social intervention, the Better Learning Programme.

    “As an urgent measure, we appeal to all parties for an immediate ceasefire so that we can reach those in need and spare more civilians,” Egeland said.

    “But the truth is that there can be no peace or security as long as there are systemic injustices. The siege of Gaza needs to be lifted and the occupation of Palestinians must end if we are to avoid more trauma and death among children and new cycles of destruction every few years.”

  • VIDEO: Car catches fire after driver uses hand sanitizer while smoking

    VIDEO: Car catches fire after driver uses hand sanitizer while smoking

    A car burst into flames in Maryland after a driver used hand sanitizer while smoking a cigarette.

    According to officials, the fire was caused by the “driver using hand sanitizer and smoking a cigarette,” which he cites as a “bad combo in an unventilated area like a car.” 

    Read more – Woman ‘destroys’ $26m lottery ticket in laundry

    The car is badly damaged and cannot be recovered, Fire control officials took the driver to a nearby hospital for treatment of minor burns and injuries. 

  • Bill Gates admits affair with Microsoft employee

    Bill Gates admits affair with Microsoft employee

    Bill Gates has admitted via a spokeswoman that he had an extramarital affair 20 years ago with a Microsoft employee that was investigated by Microsoft.

    According to details, the affair ended ‘amicably’ and is not connected to his decision to step down from the company’s board.

    The company’s board did an investigation into the affair after a female employee sent a letter in 2019 alleging that she and Gates had a ‘sexual relationship’ over the years.

    “Microsoft received a concern in the latter half of 2019 that Bill Gates sought to initiate an intimate relationship with a company employee in the year 2000,” Shaw said in an emailed statement.

    “A committee of the Board reviewed the concern, aided by an outside law firm to conduct a thorough investigation. Throughout the investigation, Microsoft provided extensive support to the employee who raised the concern.”

    It is not clear what role the investigation or the affair played in the decision of Gates and his wife, Melinda French Gates divorce after 27 years of marriage. The couple announced their divorce earlier this month.

    Read more – Bill Gates quits Microsoft board of directors

    In a divorce filing that day, French Gates called the marriage “irretrievably broken.”

    French Gates’s divorce lawyer, Robert Cohen, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

    Gates is ranked as the fourth on the list of the world’s wealthiest people. Forbes estimates Gates’s net worth at $128.3 billion.

  • Woman ‘destroys’ $26m lottery ticket in laundry

    Woman ‘destroys’ $26m lottery ticket in laundry

    A woman in America claims that she destroyed her $26 million winning lottery ticket in the laundry.

    According to details, the woman mistakenly put the ticket in the pocket of her pants and sent it for laundry. She had bought the ticket at a store in the Los Angeles suburb of Norwalk back in November.

    Read more – Lost glasses help 80-year-old win more than £100,000

    A store employee said that a woman came and told the workers that she had put the ticket in her pants and it was destroyed in the laundry.

    Her claim is being investigated by California Lottery officials, with the store’s manager saying that CCTV video showed the woman buying the ticket. She is also someone known to staff at the store.

    As per rules, someone who believes he or she is a winner, must complete a claim form.

    But Lottery spokeswoman Cathy Johnston said if someone has lost a ticket, they must also provide proof they owned it, such as a photograph of the front and back of it. Johnston said the claim will still be investigated.

  • Faisal Edhi files visa application for Palestine

    Faisal Edhi files visa application for Palestine

    Pakistani humanitarian Faisal Edhi has announced that he has submitted a visa request with the Palestinian embassy in Pakistan to grant him permission to fly to Palestine and help the Palestinians who have been subjected to Israeli atrocities for a long time now.

    “We want to take part in the relief work in Palestine via the Edhi Foundation. Five people, including my son Saad Edhi [and myself], will be going to Palestine,” says Faisal.

    Son of renowned philanthropist Abdul Sattar Edhi and chairman of the Edhi Foundation, Faisal said that his organisation will buy food and medicine from Egypt, adding that the foundation has set aside a budget of “Rs25-30 million” for the purpose. 

    “We do not want any support from the government as we will do everything with the help of people,” said Edhi.

    Israeli airstrikes hammered the Gaza Strip after a week of violence that has killed nearly 200 Palestinians, despite international calls for de-escalation.

  • Infant reunited with father after miraculously surviving Israeli airstrike

    Infant reunited with father after miraculously surviving Israeli airstrike

    A child was reunited with his father after miraculously surviving an Israeli airstrike in Gaza.

    The infant identified as Omar was rescued on Saturday morning after being pulled from a debris at Al-Shati Refugee Camp in Gaza.

    As per reports, 10 family members including eight children and two women of the family died in the Israeli strike.

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    The infant, who was pictured wrapped in a blanket, was taken to the nearest hospital for treatment. A doctor at the Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza said they are treating the child’s fractured leg and other wounds. The father of the child was later reunited with him.

    Read more – Israeli air strike destroys Al Jazeera and AP offices in Gaza

    Talking to media, the father said that his wife and four sons, aged 14 to six, along with another woman and her four children were killed.

    “They went to relatives to celebrate Eid,” he said.

    Al-Hadidi said his baby boy Omar was his only child who survived the attack. He said: “Thank God I still have Omar.”

    He asked what did his children do to Israel to deserve such violence.

    “Were they throwing stones at the Israeli forces or attacking them that they targeted his children in their sleep.”

  • ‘Fighting must stop immediately’: UN Secretary-General

    ‘Fighting must stop immediately’: UN Secretary-General

    UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Sunday called on Israel and Palestine to “immediately end fighting” and return to negotiations.

    “The United Nations is actively engaging all sides towards an immediate ceasefire,” António Guterres added.

    All members of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), who participated in an emergency meeting on the situation in Palestine on Sunday, urged Israel not to make demographic and territorial changes in the occupied territory and immediately cease its hostilities.

    Pakistan on Sunday urged the US to play its role in addressing the worsening Palestine crisis and restore peace in the region.

    Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi spoke with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday. They discussed bilateral relations and important regional developments, particularly the deteriorating situation in Palestine.

    The Foreign Ministers of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in their emergency meeting on Sunday condemned what they described as “barbaric” Israeli attacks on Palestinians and urged the UN Security Council to act swiftly to bring an end to the atrocities.

    The meeting was convened by Saudi Arabia. Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi represented Pakistan at the virtual session. He stressed upon the member states that the OIC must not fail the people of Palestine at this critical juncture.

    Israeli airstrikes on Gaza have claimed the lives of 42 more people, taking the death toll to 188. According to Gaza health officials, 16 women and 10 children were killed in the recent air strikes which also targeted the home of a Hamas leader.

  • Devastating stories from Gaza as Israeli air strikes claim 188 lives

    Israeli airstrikes on Gaza have claimed the lives of 42 more people, taking the death toll to 188. According to Gaza health officials, 16 women and 10 children were killed in the recent air strikes which also targeted the home of a Hamas leader.

    Stories being shared from the region are devastating. A ten-year-old girl, heartbroken and tired from the atrocities she is having to face, questions the world,” I am only ten. How can one expect me to fix the ongoing situation?”

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    “When I see all this, I cry everyday. I ask my myself, Why do we deserve this ?” cried the girl.

    Palestinians are scared as Gaza continues to bleed and Israeli barbarism doesn’t seem to end.

    A little girl cries to her mother that she doesn’t want to die. ” I’m scared that my home will be demolished,” cries the girl to her mother.

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    A deaf child who survived the air-strike explains what he experienced.

    Israeli warplanes unleashed a new series of heavy airstrikes at several locations in Gaza early on Monday, hours after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signalled that the bombings would rage on.

    In a televised address on Sunday, Netanyahu said the Israeli air raids were continuing at “full-force” and would “take time”, adding that his country “wants to levy a heavy price” from Gaza’s Hamas rulers.

    While Palestinians mourn the loss of their loved ones, others called out Israel, standing with Palestine.

    US Representative, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted, “If the Biden admin can’t stand up to an ally, who can it stand up to?”

    She further tweeted,” Apartheid states aren’t democracies.”

    People from across the world marched in solidarity with Palestinians.

    “There is no space in any of the hospital rooms,” Journalist Youmna Al Sayed reported, saying that Gaza’s healthcare system is on the verge of collapsing.

  • Boy calls police after getting angry with barber over bad haircut

    Boy calls police after getting angry with barber over bad haircut

    A 10-year-old boy in China called the police after getting angry with the barber over a bad haircut.

    As per reports, the incident happened in Anshun, Guizhou in China where the boy called the police after he was not satisfied with his haircut.

    A video of the boy went viral that showed him repeatedly looking into the mirror and getting angry after the barber was done with his job.



    He started crying and kept moving his hands through his hair. The boy later contacted the police after being unhappy with his new hairstyle.

    The police discovered that the reason for calling them to the scene was not an emergency situation after reaching there.


    They later asked the elder sister of the boy to settle the matter with the barber. She promised the police officials that she would educate the boy to speak to his parents first and not to involve the police in such minor matters.

  • Israelis dance as third holiest mosque attacked

    Israelis dance as third holiest mosque attacked

    Israelis were seen dancing and singing in front of the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem while a fire blazed on.

    More than twenty people including nine children and a Hamas commander were killed in Gaza Strip overnight – making it one of the bloodiest days of fighting in several years.

    While Israel continues to bomb Gaza and kill childern, this bloodbath has been the reality of Palestinians under apartheid.

    The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has condemned escalating Israeli aggression and attack on Al-Aqsa Mosque. The meeting of the OIC Permanent Representatives was convened upon the request of the State of Palestine. During the meeting, Pakistan’s permanent representative at the UN also strongly condemned the Israeli aggression.

    Prime Minister Imran Khan on Sunday strongly condemned the attack on innocent Palestinians by the Israeli forces during the month of Ramzan.

    Last month Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a report on how Israel is an apartheid state.

    The report says: International criminal law has developed two crimes against humanity for situations of systematic discrimination and repression: apartheid and persecution. Crimes against humanity stand among the most odious crimes in international law.

    Tensions in Jerusalem have flared since Israeli riot police attacked Palestinian worshippers on the last Friday of Ramazan in the city’s worst disturbances since 2017.

    Nightly unrest since then at the Al-Aqsa compound has left hundreds of Palestinians wounded, drawing international calls for de-escalation and sharp rebukes from across the Muslim world. Al-Aqsa Mosque is the third holiest site of Islam.