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A6 WORLD NEWS
Thursday 4 May 2023

Israeli airstrikes on Gaza kill Palestinian as violence ebbs

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli “We were sleeping at home
airstrikes on the Gaza Strip safe and sound when we
killed a 58-year-old man heard a giant explosion
and wounded five others from a missile,” Hatem re-
on Wednesday, Palestinian called as mourners filled
health officials said, even his neighborhood mosque
as the latest spasm of vio- and took turns bending
lence between Israel and down to kiss his father’s
Palestinian militants in the forehead.
enclave appeared to ebb. “He was martyred,” he
Israeli fighter jets struck tar- said.
gets in Gaza in response to After a quiet few hours, the
salvos of rockets launched Israeli military announced
by Palestinian militants at that residents in southern
Israeli territory on Tuesday. towns no longer needed to
But after sunrise, the vio- remain close to bomb shel-
lence seemed to subside ters. Hamas spokesman Ha-
as both sides signaled they zem Qasem thanked Pal-
wanted to avoid a wider estinian militants for “con-
conflict.The exchange fronting Israeli aggression
erupted when a prominent and concluding the round
Palestinian detainee died of the conflict.”
in Israeli custody after an The U.N.’s envoy to the
87-day hunger strike. The Palestinians inspect the ruins of the house of Palestinian militant, Mohammad Souf, that was Mideast, Tor Wennesland,
death of Khader Adnan, demolished by Israeli troops in the West Bank village of Haris, Wednesday, May 3, 2023. said he welcomed “the
Associated Press
45, a leader of the Pales- restoration of calm” after a
tinian Islamic Jihad militant groups have blamed Israel vice claims Adnan refused tant group in Gaza. violent 12 hours. “Had our
group credited with popu- for his death, accusing pris- medical treatment until it The Israeli strikes sent shrap- efforts failed, we would risk
larizing hunger strikes as an on authorities of medical was too late. nel slicing through the being in the midst of an-
effective form of activism, negligence. London-based Palestinian militants in Gaza house of 58-year-old Hashil other deadly escalation,”
reverberated across the Amnesty International on fired 100 rockets into south- Mubarak in Gaza City, his he said. But not everyone
occupied West Bank and Wednesday described Ad- ern Israel late Tuesday, se- son Hatem said. As their roof welcomed the calm. Isra-
Gaza Strip, where he is re- nan’s treatment in Israeli riously wounding a foreign collapsed, shards of metal el’s far-right National Secu-
vered as a national hero. prison as “inhumane” and worker at a construction struck Mubarak’s chest, kill- rity Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir
Protests erupted at Israeli “degrading,” citing a doc- site. The Israeli military said ing him, according to the lambasted Prime Minister
military checkpoints and tor who visited his cell and its warplanes struck tunnels, Palestinian Health Ministry. Benjamin Netanyahu over
a general strike shuttered said authorities rebuffed arms production sites and Mubarak was rushed to the what he described as a
stores across the territo- his requests for medical at- military installations belong- hospital and could not be weak response to the rock-
ries. Palestinians and rights tention. Israel’s prison ser- ing to the ruling Hamas mili- resuscitated. et fire from Gaza.q

Rights panel: Peru used excessive

force to quell protests

By FRANKLIN BRICEÑO the protests from Decem- a teen bystander. All of the
Associated Press ber through February to victims died from bullets,
LIMA, Peru (AP) — The Inter demand the resignation pellets and blunt objects,
American Commission on of President Dina Boluarte according to the report.
Human Rights said Wednes- and members of Congress. The protests were carried
day that Peru’s military and Among violence detailed out, for the most part, by
police forces used exces- in the IACHR report was a Indigenous peoples and
sive force to quell violent fatal clash in Ayacucho peasant communities,
anti-government protests, on Dec. 15, when soldiers mainly from the southern
and that they should be fired rifles at demonstrators regions of Apurímac, Aya-
investigated as possible ex- who were trying to enter cucho, Puno and Arequi- A phalanx of police face off with anti-government protesters
trajudicial executions and the Ayacucho airport, kill- pa, which saw the highest seeking immediate elections, President Dina Boluarte’s
massacres. ing 10 civilians. The IACHR number of victims. resignation, the release of ousted President Pedro Castillo and
justice for protesters killed in clashes with police, on the Pan-
The commission, an auton- said it reviewed testimonies The commission said the American North Highway in Chao, Peru, Feb. 17, 2023.
omous arm of the Organi- indicating that soldiers also killings of protesters may Associated Press
zation of American States, fired shots outside the air- have been extrajudicial
said the violations took port, hitting bystanders as executions and massa- and inclusive talks with an the arrest of Pedro Cas-
place in several regions well as people who were cres and should be investi- intercultural and territorial tillo, Peru’s first president of
across Peru, but centered fleeing the confrontations. gated “with due diligence focus, where all the differ- humble, rural roots, follow-
its investigation on the cities The report also found that and with an ethnic-racial ent groups in society are ing his widely condemned
of Ayacucho and Juliaca. 18 civilians died on Jan. 9 in focus.” Monitoring the cri- adequately represented.” attempt to dissolve Con-
Those cities saw the largest Juliaca, including protest- sis in Peru, it concludes, The unrest began in ear- gress and head off his own
number of deaths during ers, a brigade doctor and requires “broad, genuine, ly December following impeachment.q