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A10 WORLD NEWS
Saturday 17 March 2018

Palestinian kills 2 Israeli soldiers in car-ramming attack

JERUSALEM (AP) — A Pal- diers were seriously hurt, it 10 TV said the Palestinian the assailant." take responsibility for the
estinian killed two Israeli added, saying the Palestin- ploughed the vehicle into The incident came as Pales- attack.
soldiers and badly wound- ian driver was injured and the group of soldiers as tinians protested across the "This uprising against the
ed two others when he hospitalized for treatment. they dismounted from a West Bank and the Gaza (Jerusalem) decision and
rammed his vehicle into A military spokesman jeep and walked toward a border marking 100 days occupation is not a wave
them in the West Bank on called the incident a "terror guard post. since U.S. President Donald of rage, but a continued
Friday, the military said. attack." Maj. Gen. Yoav Morde- Trump recognized Jerusa- action until freedom," it
The Palestinian intentionally Israel's Shin Bet security ser- chai, who heads Cogat, lem as Israel's capital. Doz- said.
ran over soldiers on duty vice said the attacker had the Israeli defense body for ens sustained light to mod- The Palestinians seek east
securing routes near the spent time in prison for se- Palestinian civilian affairs, erate injuries in clashes with Jerusalem as their future
settlement of Mevo Dotan, curity offenses and was ordered in response to the Israeli forces on Friday. capital and view Trump's
close to the Palestinian city freed last year. attack "an immediate and Gaza's rulers, the Islamic decision as siding with Is-
of Jenin, it said. An officer Media showed footage broad suspension" of per- militant group Hamas, is- rael on one of the thorniest
was killed along with a sol- of a smashed and man- mits for employment in Is- sued a statement praising issues at the heart of the
dier while another two sol- gled white car. Channel rael "for the entire family of the "operation" but did not conflict. q

In Syria, at least 100 killed in attacks as more people flee

By PHILIP ISSA ed," said Siraj Mahmoud, a
BASSEM MROUE member of the opposition's
BEIRUT (AP) — Airstrikes in Syrian Civil Defense search-
Syria killed more than 100 and-rescue group.
people on Friday as civil- The Observatory said an-
ians, weary and many other 36 people were killed
wounded, fled besieged in the Kurdish-held town
areas for the second of Afrin in northern Syria,
straight day. where Turkish troops and
Syrian government forces Turkey-backed Syrian op-
stepped up their offensive position fighters have been
in the rebel-held eastern on the offensive since Jan.
suburbs of the capital, Da- 20. The dead included nine
mascus, capturing a ma- killed in airstrikes that hit the
jor town and closing in on town's general hospital.
another under the cover of Friday's government attack
Russia's air power. on Kafr Batna was with
The majority of the deaths cluster bombs, napalm-like
occurred in eastern Gh- incendiary weapons, and
outa, where government conventional explosives,
forces have been on a the Observatory said.
crushing offensive for three Photos and videos re-
weeks, capturing 70 per- leased from the area
cent of the besieged area. This photo shows Syrian troops stand guard as civilians stand with their belongings after fleeing showed charred bodies
from fighting between the Syrian government forces and rebels, near Hamouria in eastern Gh-
The weekslong violence outa, a suburb of Damascus, Syria, Friday, March. 16, 2018. covered with sheets lined
has left more than 1,300 ci- (SANA via AP) up near what appeared to
vilians dead, 5,000 wound- be shops. A medical char-
ed and forced thousands mark in its relentless civil war Rights said bombing and other 12 in Saqba. Govern- ity supporting hospitals in
to flee to government-con- that has killed some 450,000 shelling by government ment forces also captured eastern Ghouta, the Syrian
trolled areas. people and displaced half and Russian forces killed a the nearby town of Jisreen, American Medical Society,
Friday's staggering death the country's population. total of 76 people in east- it said. said doctors in Kafr Batna
toll came a day after Syr- The Britain-based Syr- ern Ghouta, including 64 "If the world does not move, were treating patients for
ia passed the seven-year ian Observatory for Human killed in Kafr Batna and an- Ghouta will be exterminat- severe burn wounds.q
Egypt’s president ready to join fight against militants

By HAMZA HENDAWI side” with the security lasted about five hours — in In comments made image that have sprung up
CAIRO (AP) — Up for re- forces, said Abdel-Fattah which he presides over offi- Wednesday, he said he across the country.
election in less than two el-Sissi, a general-turned- cial functions during which would rather win a third of Banners for his challenger,
weeks, Egypt’s president on president. “We either live he addresses the nation. the vote with a good turn- Moussa Mustafa Moussa,
Thursday took center stage together, or die together,” With the outcome of the out than every vote with a number only in the dozens
at a televised ceremony he added. election a foregone con- low turnout. A good turnout in Cairo, a city of some 18
commemorating the coun- El-Sissi has yet to do any tra- clusion — el-Sissi’s only would contribute to Egypt’s million people.
try’s martyrs, declaring his ditional campaigning for challenger is a little-known stability and freedom, he “What is happening, to
readiness to personally join the March 26-28 election, politician who supports him said. Voting for Egyptian be exact, is a one-man
the battle against militants such as addressing rallies — he and his supporters expatriates begins Friday. referendum,” Abdullah el-
and decorating soldiers or doing TV ads. With his have been tirelessly urging With el-Sissi not campaign- Sinnawy, a political ana-
and families of fallen ones. win all but certain, he has voters to come out and ing, the only sign of an im- lyst and one-time el-Sissi
“I swear by God that I am apparently opted instead cast their ballots since a minent election is the tens supporter, wrote Thursday
ready to don combat fa- for televised appearances high turnout will accord the of thousands of banners in the independent Al-
tigues and fight side by — Thursday’s ceremony vote legitimacy. bearing the incumbent’s Shorouk daily.q