report<\/a> issued early this month.<\/p>\n\u201cI am alarmed by the rise in executions and death sentences issued in Iran since March and that capital punishment continues to be used to instill fear among the population and suppress dissent,\u201d Turk said in the report. <\/p>\n
Israeli teen settler arrested in beating of amputee<\/p>\n
Elsewhere in the Middle East, police arrested a 16-year-old boy from the Israeli settlement of Avigayil in the beating of a 61-year-old Palestinian man. Saeed Muhammad Ibrahim Rabah was struck with a pipe outside his home in the occupied West Bank, a year after he lost a leg after being shot by a settler.<\/p>\n
Rabah told the Associated Press that two settlers arrived at his home in Khirbet al-Rakeez on Saturday afternoon. One struck him on his back when he approached, Rabah said. He called the violence an effort to make families leave.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will remain, no matter what happens,\u201d he said after filing a police report. \u201cThis is our land and this is our homeland, and we must protect it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Separately, the Palestinian Health Ministry in the West Bank said a 14-year-old in the Askar refugee camp in Nablus was shot dead by Israeli forces, which did not immediately comment. Nehad Ajouri, uncle of the victim, Islam Maher Ajouri, called the shooting indiscriminate.<\/p>\n
Also in the West Bank, Israel\u2019s military said it had detained a suspect in a stabbing attack that wounded a 24-year-old Israeli man in the area of Al-Auja. Israel\u2019s emergency services said the man was taken to a hospital and was in \u201cmoderate\u201d condition. <\/p>\n
Airstrike in Gaza kills a 4-year-old<\/p>\n
Four-year-old Mohammed Taha died after an Israeli airstrike hit a house in central Gaza on Sunday, hospital authorities said. The strike in Zawaida also wounded at least five other people, including a child, according to the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, which received the casualties.<\/p>\n
The military later said it struck and killed a Hamas commander in central Gaza. Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital confirmed that the man named in the statement, Ismail Abu Ful, was killed.<\/p>\n
An Israeli strike in southern Gaza wounded at least seven people, including three children, according to health officials at Nasser Hospital. The military did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n
Also, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz in a statement said he instructed the military to \u201cact immediately and forcefully\u201d to prevent launches of balloons, kites or drones from Gaza toward nearby Israeli communities.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe view every launch as an act of war in every respect,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Before the Oct. 7, 2023, attack by Hamas-led militants on Israel \u2014 when about 1,200 people were killed and 251 taken hostage \u2014 burning kites and balloons were sent from Gaza into southern Israel, causing fires and other damage.<\/p>\n
While the heaviest fighting has subsided since a fragile ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war took hold in October, Israeli forces have carried out repeated airstrikes, killing more than 1,280 Palestinians, according to health officials in Gaza.<\/p>\n
The Gaza Health Ministry, part of the Hamas-led government, maintains detailed casualty records that are seen as generally reliable by U.N. agencies and independent experts. It doesn\u2019t give a breakdown of civilians and militants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Sunday defended the memorandum of understanding signed with the United States in mid-June…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":593824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[268629,268633,5155,42,87,46,125694,268632,268631,2899,43,45,4946,1266,40,38,41,39,268630,1032,2201],"class_list":["post-593823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-central-gaza","tag-good-path","tag-group","tag-headlines","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-jan","tag-late-execution","tag-majid-adineh","tag-military","tag-news","tag-occupied-west-bank","tag-official","tag-people","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-u-s-memorandum","tag-united-states","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}