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UN probe finds Syrian government behind April sarin attack

By JAMEY KEATEN The investigators also ap- were killed. its Western allies rushed to was perpetrated by the
ZEINA KARAM pealed to the U.S.-led co- The United States quickly judgment and blamed the Syrian air force.”
Associated Press alition to better protect ci- blamed the Syrian govern- Syrian government without Wednesday’s report, the
GENEVA (AP) — Syrian vilians as it strikes at Islamic ment and launched a pu- ever visiting the site. 14th by the commission
President Bashar Assad’s State militants in the east. nitive strike on Shayrat air “We have analyzed all the since it was set up by the
air force conducted a sa- The latest report by the base, where the report says other interpretations” of U.N.’s Human Rights Coun-
rin-gas attack that killed Commission of Inquiry on the Sukhoi-22 plane took who might have conduct- cil in 2011, covers little more
at least 83 civilians in April, Syria offers among the off. ed the attack, commission than four months, from
one of 20 chemical weap- strongest evidence yet of Syrian government officials chairman Paulo Pinheiro March to early July. The
ons attacks perpetrated allegations that Assad’s have denied responsibility, said at a Geneva news report is based on informa-
by the Syrian government forces carried out the April and said last month that conference. tion retrieved from satel-
in the past four years, U.N.- 4 attack on Khan Sheikhoun they would allow in U.N. “It is our task to verify these lite images, video, photos,
mandated investigators in rebel-held Idlib province teams to investigate. Russia allegations, and we con- medical records, and over
said Wednesday. in which dozens of people says the United States and cluded ... that this attack 300 interviews.q

Rights group alleges ‘assembly line’ of torture in Egypt

act with “almost total im- Wednesday, saying it’s full
punity.” of inaccuracies and under-
In a 63-page report re- mines the sovereignty of
leased Wednesday, Hu- the state and the role of its
man Rights Watch says national institutions”
el-Sissi, a U.S. ally who was Most of the detainees are
warmly received at the alleged supporters of the
White House earlier this Muslim Brotherhood group,
year, is pursuing stability “at which rose to power af-
any cost,” and has allowed ter the 2011 uprising that
the widespread torture of toppled President Hosni
detainees despite it being Mubarak but has been
outlawed by the Egyptian the target of a sweep-
constitution. ing crackdown since the
El-Sissi “has effectively giv- military overthrew Mor-
en police and National si in 2013.Human Rights
Security officers a green Watch says Egypt arrested
light to use torture when- or charged some 60,000
ever they please,” said Joe people in the two years
Stork, deputy Middle East after Mohammed Morsi, a
director at the New York- Brotherhood leader who
based group. “Impunity for became Egypt’s first freely
the systematic use of tor- elected president, was
In this Aug. 2, 2015 photo, Egyptian security forces stand guard outside one of the entrances of ture has left citizens with no overthrown following a di-
Tora prison, in Cairo, Egypt. Human Rights Watch, an international rights group, is alleging system- hope for justice.” visive year in power. Hun-
atic torture inside Egyptian police stations and Interior Ministry headquarters where officers act in
“almost total impunity.” The allegations, the group dreds have gone missing in
(AP Photo/Hassan Ammar) said, amount to crimes what appear to be forced
against humanity. disappearances, and hun-
By MAGGIE MICHAEL national rights group says “green light” to systematic Egypt’s Foreign Minis- dreds of others have re-
Associated Press Egyptian President Abdel- torture inside detention fa- try slammed the report ceived preliminary death
CAIRO (AP) — An inter- Fattah el-Sissi has given a cilities, allowing officers to in a statement later on sentences.q
Israel sets up services for settlers in volatile Hebron

By EYAD MOGHRABI While Israel maintained se- and to provide them with ments are illegal, a position face of the city and Juda-
Associated Press curity control over the area municipal services in a va- that has wide international izing it.”
HEBRON, West Bank (AP) under the 1997 agreement, riety of fields,” it said. backing. Hagit Ofran of the anti-set-
— The Israeli military has municipal services to Pal- Hebron is the largest city Kamel Hmeid, the city’s tlement watchdog group
created a new authority to estinians and settlers were in the West Bank, and a Palestinian governor, said said the decision formal-
provide municipal services provided by the Palestin- frequent flashpoint of vio- the military’s order favored ized what she called “the
for settlers in Hebron, draw- ians. lence between the tiny settlers at the expense of already existing apartheid
ing accusations that Israel is The order, signed by Maj. hard-line Jewish communi- the Palestinian population in the city,” since Jewish
moving closer to annexing Gen. Roni Numa, head of ty and the Palestinian ma- and was meant to deepen settlers will now receive su-
parts of the volatile West the military’s Central Com- jority. It also has deep reli- Israeli control. perior municipal services
Bank city. mand, establishes a new gious significance for Jews “It paves the way for the from Israel.
The military order, signed “municipal services ad- and Muslims, who revere it settlers to expand their con- “It also undermines the au-
last week, alters a 20-year- ministration” for the Jewish as the burial site of religious trol over the Old City and thorities of the Palestinian
old agreement in Hebron’s neighborhood, the army patriarchs. paves the way for Israel to municipality,” she added.
Old City, where several said. The Palestinians claim all of annex this part of the city,” “It is symbolic but also a
hundred ultranationalist “By force of the order, an the West Bank, captured he said. “Israel has been meaningful step that allows
settlers live in heavily guard- administration will be es- by Israel in the 1967 Mid- facilitating the settlement the settlers to control their
ed enclaves surrounded by tablished to represent the east war, as part of a future project in the city for years, lives and get more budgets
tens of thousands of Pales- residents of the Jewish independent state. and now they have made to affect what’s going on in
tinians. neighborhood in Hebron They say that all settle- a big leap in changing the Hebron.” q