Israel: Explosions sound, plumes of smoke rise over Israel-Lebanon border area
VIDEO SHOWS: VARIOUS OF PLUMES OF SMOKE RISING, SOUND OF REMOTE EXPLOSIONS
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SHOWS: NORTHERN ISRAEL (DECEMBER 13, 2023) (REUTERS - Access all)
1. SMOKE RISING BEHIND HILL, ISRAELI TOWN IN FOREGROUND/SOUND OF REMOTE EXPLOSION (12:02GMT)/ SEVERAL PLUMES OF SMOKE RISING/ SOUND OF REMOTE EXPLOSIONS (12:02GMT)
2. WHITE FLASH
3. SMOKE RISING/ SOUND OF REMOTE EXPLOSION (12:03GMT)/ VARIOUS COLUMNS OF SMOKE RISING/SMOKE SEEN BEHIND HILL
4. PLUMES OF SMOKE RISING/ SOUND OF EXPLOSION (12:04GMT)
Video obtained by Reuters shows the moments of a fatal shooting at a bus stop at the entrance to Jerusalem during the morning rush hour on Thursday (November 30).
Two Palestinian attackers opened fire, killing at least three people and wounding eight others, Israeli police said.
Other video showed people running from the scene.
"The terrorists arrived at the scene by car in the morning, armed with an M-16 rifle and a handgun," police said. "The terrorists began shooting at civilians before subsequently being killed at the scene."
The shooters came from East Jerusalem and were stopped by off-duty soldiers and another civilian who was nearby, police said.
Security camera footage obtained by Reuters showed the attack. A white car is seen stopped beside a crowded bus stop. Two men then step out, guns drawn, and run at the crowd as people scatter. Shortly afterwards the Palestinian attackers are gunned down.
Reuters was able to verify the location by matching the road layout, buildings, street lights and surrounding structures with file images. The vehicle and location were also matched in footage released by Reuters.
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VIDEO SHOWS: INTERVIEWS OF MALL-GOERS AND BYSTANDERS AT MALL WHERE SHOOTING TOOK PLACE, VARIOUS OF ACTIVITY AROUND MALL EXIT
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SHOWS: BANGKOK, THAILAND ( OCTOBER 3, 2023)(REUTERS - Access all)
1. BYSTANDERS WATCHING AND FILMING MALL ENTRANCE
2. (SOUNDBITE) (Thai) 20-YEAR-OLD BANGKOK RESIDENT, DUNYAWAT PRANADTE, SAYING:
“I feel frightened. I’ve never though it was going to happen. I live pretty close to this place. Now I feel relief as the suspect has been arrested.”
3. MORE OF DUNYWAT
4. (SOUNDBITE) (Thai) 20-YEAR-OLD BANGKOK RESIDENT, DUNYAWAT PRANADTE, SAYING:
“I think the suspect isn't mature. I feel he’s too young to do this kind of thing.
5. 1-YEAR-OLD BANGKOK RESIDENT, PHONNIPHA SRITHON
6. (SOUNDBITE) (Thai) 21-YEAR-OLD BANGKOK RESIDENT, PHONNIPHA SRITHON, SAYING:
“This is too depressing for people to handle. Those who are innocent have had to die from this.”
7. MORE OFA ACTIVITY AT MALL ENTRANCE
8. (SOUNDBITE) (Thai) 21-YEAR-OLD LOCAL RESIDENT, PHONNIPHA SRITHON, SAYING:
“I want to see better security checks and systems to prevent this kind of thing.”
9. VARIOUS OF AMBULANCES
STORY: Mall-goers and bystanders were shocked after a Thai police arrested a 14-year-old suspected gunman after a shooting at a luxury mall which killed three and left four other people injured.
A crowd of shoppers and curious bystanders gathered around one of the entrances after the suspect had been taken in to custody. Emergency services shared an image of a police officer apprehending and handcuffing an individual laying face down on the floor of Siam Paragon Mall.
Unverified videos on social media showed scenes of chaos, with people, including children, running out of the doors of the mall while security guards ushered them out.
Gun violence is not uncommon in Thailand. An ex-police officer killed 22 children in a nursery last year during a gun-and-knife attack, while in 2020 a soldier shot and killed at least 29 people and wounded 57 in a rampage that spanned four locations in and around the northeastern Thai city of Nakhon Ratchasima.
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Live from Athens on Wednesday, December 6 as activists take to the streets to protest over the 2008 fatal police shooting of 15-year old student Alexis Grigoropoulos. Protesters clash with police in previous years.
The teenager was killed by an officer in the Greek capital, following a verbal altercation between police and a group of youngsters, while the incident sparked riots across the country.
Two special guards were jailed in 2010: one received life for murder, reduced to 13 years in 2019, while the other's conviction for 'complicity' was overturned on appeal.
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VIDEO SHOWS: VARIOUS OF ROCKETS BEING FIRED FROM GAZA / ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER YAIR LAPID CHAIRING SECURITY CABINET MEETING
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SHOWS: GAZA CITY, GAZA (AUGUST 6, 2022) (REUTERS - Access all) (NIGHT SHOTS)
1. VARIOUS OF ROCKETS BEING FIRED FROM GAZA
TEL AVIV, ISRAEL (AUGUST 6, 2022) (PMO - Access all) (MUTE)
2. VARIOUS OF ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER YAIR LAPID HEADING THE SECURITY CABINET MEETING
3. ISRAELI DEFENCE MINISTER BENNY GANTZ AND ALTERNATE PRIME MINISTER NAFTALI BENNETT DURING MEETING
4. LAPID TALKING IN MEETING
STORY: Israeli air strikes pounded Gaza while the militant Islamic Jihad group fired hundreds of rockets into Israel on Saturday (August 6) as a cross-border clash continued into a second day, killing at least six people, including four children.
Israeli prime minister Yair Lapid held a meeting of the ministerial committee on national security affairs (the Security Cabinet), at the Kirya in Tel Aviv at night, and issued a short statement saying that Israel will continue to act without hesitation in order to ensure the safety of its people.
While the Israeli strikes went on, hitting what the military said were weapons depots hidden in residential areas and destroying a number of houses, Islamic Jihad fired rocket salvoes as far as Israel's commercial hub Tel Aviv.
At least 24 Palestinians, including six children, have been killed and 203 wounded during the two days of firing, according to the Gaza health ministry.
Palestinian militants fired more than 400 rockets at Israel - most of them intercepted, setting off air raid sirens and sending people running to bomb shelters. There were no reports of serious casualties, the Israeli ambulance service said.
The cross-border clash, which shattered more than a year of relative calm around Gaza, began when Israel launched a surprise attack on Friday (August 5) , killing a senior Islamic Jihad commander and hitting a series of what it said were military targets.
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Celebrity chef Jose Andres told Reuters in an interview on Wednesday (April 03) that an Israeli attack that killed seven of his food aid workers in Gaza had targeted them "systematically, car by car."
Speaking in a video interview, Andres said the World Central Kitchen (WCK) charity group he founded had clear communication with the Israeli military, which he said knew his aid workers' movements.
The aid workers were killed when their convoy was hit shortly after they oversaw the unloading of 100 tons of food brought to Gaza by sea. Israel's military expressed "severe sorrow" over the incident and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called it unintentional.
Andres said there may have been more than three strikes against the aid convoy.
The aid convoy was hit as it was leaving its Deir al-Balah warehouse after unloading more than 100 tons of food aid brought to Gaza by sea, the aid group said.
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Crannofonix is live from the Iraqi Parliament in Baghdad on Monday, August 1, where followers of Shia leader Muqtada al-Sadr are gathering to protest government formation efforts led by an alliance of Iran-backed groups. The protesters declared an open-ended sit-in and claimed they would not disperse until their demands are answered.
Nearly 10 months after October elections, Iraq is still without a new government despite intense negotiations between factions.
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Israeli forces battling Hamas said they had uncovered an unusually large concrete and iron-girded tunnel, designed to carry carloads of militant fighters from Gaza right up to the border.
Razing or disabling hundreds of kilometres of underground passages and bunkers is among the aims of the offensive Israel launched after Hamas gunmen went on a killing and kidnapping spree in its southern towns and army bases on Oct. 7.
Among sites that Hamas overran in that attack was the Erez border crossing between Gaza and Israel. Just 100 metres (yards) south of the checkpoint, concealed in a sand dune, the military showed reporters the exit point of what it said was a flagship Hamas project.
The tunnel ran down diagonally to a depth of 50 metres, where it expanded to a relatively capacious 3 metres (10 feet) in height and width, with electrical fittings.
Chief military spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari put the full length of the tunnel at 4 km (2.5 miles) - enough to reach into northern Gaza City, once the heart of Hamas governance and now a devastated combat zone.
It was "the biggest tunnel we found in Gaza ... meant to target the (Erez) crossing," Hagari said, without specifying whether it was used by Hamas for the Oct. 7 attack.
"Millions of dollars were invested in this tunnel. It took years to build this tunnel ... Vehicles could drive through."
Hamas did not respond to a Reuters request for comment on the Israeli account.
Generally the tunnels shown to the media by the group, or by the Israeli military after their discovery, have been narrow and low - designed for single-file movement of gunmen on foot. The tunnel shown by Hagari had shafts plunging vertically downward that, he said, suggested it was part of a wider network.
The tunnels have been a challenge for Israel's engineers, worried that the networks could conceal hostages held by Hamas. That has slowed an offensive whose steep Palestinian civilian toll has alarmed world powers.
Hagari showed reporters a video of Mohammed Sinwar, brother of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar and himself a senior operative in the group, sitting in the passenger seat of a vehicle that he said was driving inside the tunnel.
On Oct. 29, Israel's Ynet news site reported that troops killed several gunmen who attacked Erez after accessing the area from a tunnel. Hagari's office did not respond to a query on whether that referred to the tunnel he showed.
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