Hamas Gunman Kills One, Wounds Four in Jerusalem’s Old City
PHOTO: WOUNDED MAN LAYING ON GROUND IN JERUSALEM OLD CITY ALLEYWAY WHILE SHOOTING IS HEARD, IN A SHOOTING ATTACK SITE THAT LEFT TWO WOUNDED, ASSAILANT KILLED; SECURITY AND RESCUE TEAMS RUSHING TO SITE; VARIOUS OF SECURITY BLOCKIN
INTERNATIONAL: A gunman has opened fire in Jerusalem's Old City, killing one person and wounding at least four others. One of them is a rabbi. The attacker was identified as a 42-year-old Palestinian man from East Jerusalem, and a confirmed member of the Palestinian militant group, Hamas. Internal Security Minister Omer Bar-Lev has confirmed that the attacker had a submachine gun.
The gunman has moved through the alleys and fired quite a bit before he was shot dead by Israeli security forces.One civilian shot by the gunman died of his wounds in a hospital. The fatality was named as Eliyahu David Kay, 26, a recent immigrant from South Africa who worked as a guide at the Western Wall and resided in the central city of Modiin.
Another was seriously hurt in the attack. He was just walking through the area as they left the nearby Western Wall, where they had been praying, still wrapped in prayer shawls, including a rabbi, and two Israeli police officers were wounded.
The attack took place near a gate to a compound in East Jerusalem that is a frequent flashpoint for violence - the location of the Al-Aqsa Mosque. It is one of Islam's most revered locations, and also the holiest site in Judaism, known as the Temple Mount. This is the second attack in Jerusalem in four days.Palestinians want East Jerusalem as the capital of a future state. Israel says the entire city is its eternal and indivisible capital.
Riot Breaks Out in Netherlands Over COVID-19 Measures
PHOTO: ANTI-LOCKDOWN PROTESTS CONFRONTING RIOT POLICE ON SATURDAY NIGHT (NOVEMBER 20) IN THE HAGUE POLICE OFFICERS LEADING HANDCUFFED PROTESTER FIRE BRIGADE PUTTING OUT STREET FIRE
Riots broke out in cities across the Netherlands on Sunday. It is the third night in a row that police have clashed with mobs of angry youths who set fires and threw rocks to protest COVID-19 restrictions.Five police officers were injured and at least 28 people detained across three provinces as violent protests continues.
Bicycles were torched on the streets of ‘The Hague’ causing traffic delays as Dutch police on horseback attempted to restore order.Dutch authorities used water cannon, dogs and mounted police to stop rioting youths who set fires and threw fireworks in the worst disturbances since a full lockdown led to widespread disorder and more than 500 arrests in January.
The latest unrest began on Friday night in Rotterdam, where police opened fire on a crowd that had swelled to hundreds during a protest that the city's mayor said had turned into "an orgy of violence". Three people believed to be hit by police bullets remained in hospital on Sunday.
The protests were sparked by opposition to government plans to restrict use of a national corona pass to people who have either recovered from COVID-19 or have been vaccinated, excluding those with a negative test result. The Netherlands reimposed some lockdown measures on its 17.5 million population last weekend for an initial three weeks in an effort to slow a resurgence of the virus, but daily infections have remained at their highest levels since the start of the pandemic. Police carried out charges on horseback and arrested seven people, one of them for throwing a rock through the windshield of a passing ambulance.
Japanese Space Tourists Arrive at Launch Site Ahead of ISS Trip
PHOTO: RUSSIAN COSMONAUT ALEXANDER MISURKIN AND JAPANESE SPACE TOURISTS, ENTREPRENEUR YUSAKU MAEZAWA AND HIS ASSISTANT YOZO HIRANO, PREPARING FOR THEIR EXPEDITION TO ISS AT BAIKONUR COSMODROME, CHECKING SPACESUITS AND EQUIPMENT OF SHIP/ COMMENTS BY COSMONAUTS ABOUT PREPARATIONS
And..Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa has arrived at the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Friday for training, ahead of his flight to the International Space Station on a Russian-operated spacecraft.
Maezawa's mission, which is set for departure on 8 December, will be the first to take space tourists to the ISS in over a decade.The 45-year-old tycoon is the founder of Japan's largest online fashion mall and the country's 30th richest man.He will travel to the ISS for a 12-day mission with his production assistant Yozo Hirano and plans to document the journey for his YouTube channel.They will travel to the orbital station in a Soyuz MS-20 spacecraft with Russian cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin.
