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A10 WORLD NEWS
Friday 23 February 2018
Israel extends detentions in Netanyahu case Palestinian killed

in West Bank, raid
JERUSALEM (AP) — An Is- that Nir Hefetz, an ex-Ne- com company, of which bribe a judge in exchange
raeli court has extended tanyahu media aide, and Elovitch is a major share- for dropping a corruption captured on video
the arrests of a media ty- Shaul Elovitch remain in holder. In return, Bezeq's case against Netanyahu's
coon and a former adviser custody until Monday. popular news site, Walla, wife. JERUSALEM (AP) — A
to Prime Minister Benjamin The two are suspected in a allegedly provided favor- Another Netanyahu con- 33-year-old Palestinian
Netanyahu implicated in case that involved the pro- able coverage of Netan- fidant, Shlomo Filber, who man was killed early on
a corruption case involving motion of regulation worth yahu and his family. was arrested this week, has Thursday by Israeli soldiers
Israel's telecom giant. hundreds of millions of dol- Separately, Hefetz is sus- turned state's witness. who are seen on a security
A Tel Aviv judge ordered lars to Israel's Bezeq tele- pected of attempting to q
camera video kicking and
beating him with their rifles
Syria: after he comes charging

World leaders urge cease-fire as fighting escalates down an alley, carrying a
long object on his shoulder.
The Israeli military con-
firmed that the video
By PHILIP ISSA showed parts of a pre-
Associated Press dawn arrest raid in the
BEIRUT (AP) — World lead- West Bank town of Jericho.
ers called Thursday for an An army statement initially
urgent cease-fire in Syria said Palestinians attacked
as government forces troops during the arrest
pounded the opposition- raid and that an armed
controlled eastern suburbs man tried to grab a sol-
of the capital in a crush- dier's gun. In a later state-
ing campaign that has left ment, it said the man ran
hundreds of people dead toward soldiers with an iron
in recent days. rod and tried to attack the
The U.N. Security Coun- soldiers.
cil heard a briefing from The statement said troops
U.N. humanitarian chief responded "by opening
Mark Lowcock on what he fire, confronted the terror-
called "the humanitarian ist at close proximity and
disaster unfolding before managed to block him."
our eyes" in the rebel-held It added that a knife was
suburbs known as eastern found on the man.
Ghouta. The army said he was taken
Sweden and Kuwait were to a hospital where he was
seeking a vote on a reso- later pronounced dead.
lution ordering a 30-day A group of people, including prominent Syrian opposition figures, chant anti-Russian slogans dur- The grainy video shows an
cease-fire to allow relief ing a protest against the attacks on the rebel-held suburb of eastern Ghouta in Syria's capital, alley lined by storefronts.
agencies to deliver aid outside the Russian Consulate in Istanbul, Thursday, Feb. 22, 2018. The group chanted Syrian songs A man is seen throwing
and evacuate the critically and slogans denouncing a Syrian government forces’ bombing campaign that has targeted hos- stones, in the direction of
pitals, apartment blocks and other civilian sites.
sick and wounded from (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis) soldiers who are in one of
besieged areas to receive the stores in the alley.
medical care. In eastern Ghouta, medical kilometer (one-third mile) fighters were using civilians Seconds later, a man is
But Russia's U.N. ambassa- workers said they hadn't away. as human shields in the seen charging down the
dor, Vassily Nebenzia, who been able to see their fami- A spokesman for the Syrian rebel-held suburbs outside alley carrying a long ob-
called Thursday's meeting, lies for days as they worked Civil Defense search-and- Damascus. ject with three legs, like a
put forward last-minute round the clock at hospitals rescue group said eastern Al-Qaida's Syria affiliate is tripod, on his shoulder. He
amendments, saying the that have been moved un- Ghouta was being target- not known to have many is heading in the direction
proposed resolution was derground to protect them ed for "extermination." fighters in eastern Ghouta, of the store where the sol-
"simply unrealistic." from bombing, while their "This is a war against civil- and government forces diers are. Once he is level
He also accused global spouses and children stay ians," said the spokesman, on Thursday concentrat- with the store, one of the
media outlets of a massive in shelters. Siraj Mahmoud. "The civil ed their fire on hospitals, soldiers jumps out, aiming
disinformation campaign "You can't be above defense is being targeted ambulances, apartment his rifle at him.
that ignored what he ground for even 15 min- as they rescue women and blocks and other civilian The man drops to the
claimed were thousands utes," said a nurse in the children, evacuate civilians sites, according to rescue ground. The soldier kicks
of fighters, including al- town of Kafr Batna, who from targeted areas and workers, war monitors, hu- him and beats him with his
Qaida-linked militants, that spoke on condition of ano- put out fires." man rights groups, and sev- rifle. Several other soldiers
were shelling Damascus nymity to protect the iden- Four rescue workers of the eral videos emerging from join in, also kicking and
from eastern Ghouta and tity of family members still organization, also known the war-scarred region. beating him, before pulling
taking refuge in hospitals living in government areas. as the White Helmets, have U.N. Secretary-General him into the store.
and schools. "At any moment I expect to been killed since Sunday, Antonio Guterres called At a later point, four sol-
Council members said they have to treat my relatives Mahmoud said. for an immediate suspen- diers are seen carrying him
needed to study the Rus- for wounds," he said. The Britain-based Syr- sion of “all war activities” across the alley, holding
sian proposals. In the background the ian Observatory for Human in the area where he said him by his hands and feet.
"We will try and find a way deep boom of a bomb Rights monitoring group people were living “in hell The Palestinian Prisoners'
forward that works for ev- could be heard exploding said 400 people, including on Earth.” Then, as now, it Club said Israel later in-
eryone," Sweden's U.N. Am- as the nurse spoke by Sky- dozens of children, have cited the presence of al- formed the family of Yassin
bassador Olof Skoog told pe to The Associated Press. been killed since Sunday. Qaida-linked groups as al-Saradih of his death.
reporters, adding that a He said a barrel bomb Foreign Minister Sergey grounds for the sweeping The military said the incident
vote was likely on Friday. had fallen less than half a Lavrov said al-Qaida-linked operation.q is under investigation.q