Tuesday, May 27, 2025

Young Gaza girl recounts horror of the strike that killed her familyNew Foto - Young Gaza girl recounts horror of the strike that killed her family

Harrowing cellphone video shows the tiny silhouette of Ward Al-Sheikh Khalil trudging through rubble, her make-shift shelter engulfed in flames around her, after anIsraeli strikehit the school where she and her family had fled to escape the war raging around them in theGaza Strip. Khalil, just 5 years old, survived. Her mother and five of her siblings did not make it out of the burning building. When she returned to the scene of the attack, she found her sister's abandoned flip-flop and broke down sobbing. "They all died after a rocket fell on top of them," she told CBS News' team in Gaza through tears. "The rocket came down and the place was on fire. The fire was raging. It burned my arm." "The fire filled the sky and the ground," she said. "I was asleep, but I came out from the fire. When I came out, I did not find my dad. They took me to the Baptist Hospital, and I saw dad on the way, in the ambulance. I saw him. He had many wounds on his face." "Dad is alive, and my brother Seraj is alive, and I am alive. That's all. But all my other siblings are dead," the little girl, held in the arms of her uncle, told CBS News. "I wish we could get together again." The Israeli strike took place in the middle of the night. The Israel Defense Forces said the target was a Hamas command and control center inside the school building. Rescuers in the Hamas-controlled Palestinian Territory said the strike killed 33 people. European Union chief Ursula von der Leyen called the attack "abhorrent" on Tuesday during a call with Jordan's King Abdullah II, according to a readout of the call from the EU cited by the French news agency AFP. "The expansion of Israel's military operations in Gaza targeting civilian infrastructure, among them a school that served as a shelter for displaced Palestinian families, killing civilians, including children, is abhorrent," von der Leyen said, according to the EU. "The European Commission has always supported — and will continue to support — Israel's right to security and self-defense. But this escalation and disproportionate use of force against civilians cannot be justified under humanitarian and international law." Khalil's uncle, Iyad Mohamed el-Sheikh Khalil, holding his niece, told CBS News that his whole family had been displaced by the war, including his brother who had sought shelter with his wife and children at the school in Gaza City's Daraj neighborhood. When he heard reports of a strike on the school, he immediately tried to make contact. "Some pictures were released in the media. When I looked at them, I saw Ward with the Civil Defense. I immediately knew that it was my niece," he said. "When I came, I saw that the bodies of my brother's family were all charred and torn to pieces. It took a while to locate the body of her (Ward's) elder brother, Abed, so that we could bury them all together. It was a horrific scene." He worried about the lasting impact of living through such trauma on Gaza's children, including his niece. "When they come out of such bombardment and such war, how do you want children to feel? They must be in a terrible psychological state. Even we are in a terrible psychological state," he told CBS News. Amid the bombings, Palestinians in Gaza also face a critical struggle to find food, after a nearly three-monthlong Israeli blockade on all humanitarian goods entering the territory. Under pressure from its allies, including the U.S., Israel began allowing some humanitarian goods into Gaza last week, but aid agencies say it's not nearly enough to meet the needs of the enclave's roughly 2 million inhabitants. The newly established U.S.- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation alsosaid it began distributing foodon Monday. The GHF said Tuesday that it had distributed a total of about 462,000 meals over two days of operation. The United Nations and other aid organizations have objected to the group's methods, calling it a distraction. "Even when they bring aid, nothing reaches us," Islam Abu Taemia said while scavenging for food with her child in Gaza this week. "We're like stray dogs collecting food from trash. If we don't, we starve." Trump delivers Memorial Day remarks at Arlington National Cemetery Expectant mothers with lupus have better outlooks than ever before, doctors say Trump pardons former sheriff convicted of fraud, bribery

Young Gaza girl recounts horror of the strike that killed her family

Young Gaza girl recounts horror of the strike that killed her family Harrowing cellphone video shows the tiny silhouette of Ward Al-Sheikh K...
'Outer space nuclear war': Russia, North Korea blast Trump's Golden Dome missile defenseNew Foto - 'Outer space nuclear war': Russia, North Korea blast Trump's Golden Dome missile defense

MOSCOW − The U.S.Golden Dome missile defense projectundermines the foundations of strategic stability as it involves the creation of a global missile defence system, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said. The May 27 Russian comments come after recent statements fromNorth Koreaand China opposing PresidentDonald Trump's proposed missile shield. The $175-billion project, proposed by Trump, is aimed at blocking threats from China and Russia. More:Trump pushes $175 billion 'Golden Dome' missile defense plan North Korea's foreign ministry criticised the missile defense shield project as a "very dangerous threatening initiative," state media said May 27. Trump on May 20 said he had picked a design forthe Golden Dome systemand named a leader of the ambitious $175 billion program. More:Elon Musk's SpaceX leads bid for Trump's Golden Dome missile defense system The Golden Dome plan "is a typical product of 'America first,' the height of self-righteousness, arrogance, high-handed and arbitrary practice, and is an outer space nuclear war scenario," said the Institute for American Studies of North Korea's foreign ministry, according to state KCNA news agency. More:Nuclear weapons woes: Understaffed nuke agency hit by DOGE and safety worries The aim is for Golden Dome to leverage a network ofhundreds of satellitescircling the globe with sophisticated sensors and interceptors to knock out incoming enemy missiles after they lift off from countries like China, Iran, North Korea or Russia. China last week said it is "seriously concerned" about the project and called for Washington toabandon its development. This article originally appeared on USA TODAY:Russia, North Korea blast Trump's Golden Dome missile defense

'Outer space nuclear war': Russia, North Korea blast Trump's Golden Dome missile defense

'Outer space nuclear war': Russia, North Korea blast Trump's Golden Dome missile defense MOSCOW − The U.S.Golden Dome missile de...
Trump demands California stop trans girl competing in state high jump finalsNew Foto - Trump demands California stop trans girl competing in state high jump finals

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to withhold federal funding if California did not stop a transgender girl in high school from competing in state track and field finals, and said he would discuss it with Governor Gavin Newsom on Tuesday. Trump, in a social media post, appeared to be referring to AB Hernandez, 16, who has qualified to compete in the long jump, high jump and triple jump championship run by the California Interscholastic Federation at a high school in Clovis, California, this weekend. The CIF is the governing body for California high school sports, and its bylaws state that all students "should have the opportunity to participate in CIF activities in a manner that is consistent with their gender identity." California law prohibits discrimination, including at schools, based on gender identity. Trump, a Republican, referred in his social media post on Tuesday to California's governor as a "Radical Left Democrat" and said: "THIS IS NOT FAIR, AND TOTALLY DEMEANING TO WOMEN AND GIRLS." He said he was ordering local authorities not to allow the trans athlete to compete in the finals. Under the U.S. and California constitutions, state and local officials and individuals are not subject to orders of the president, who can generally only issue orders to agencies and members of the federal government's executive branch. Trump threatened that "large scale Federal Funding will be held back, maybe permanently," if his demands are not met. Such a move would almost certainly lead to a legal challenge by California, which has already sued over multiple Trump actions it says are illegal or unconstitutional. Trump also referred to comments Newsom made on his podcast in March when the governor also said he believed competition involving transgender girls was "deeply unfair." A spokesperson for Newsom declined to comment on Trump's remarks, but referred to comments Newsom made in April when he said overturning California's 12-year-old law allowing trans athletes to participate in sports was not a priority. "You're talking about a very small number of people," Newsom told reporters. Out of the 5.8 million students in California's public school system, there are estimated to be fewer than 10 active trans student athletes, according to the governor's office. A CIF spokesperson did not respond to questions, and Hernandez could not be immediately reached for comment. Some local school officials and parents have sought to prevent Hernandez from competing; others have spoken in support of Hernandez and condemned what they say is bullying of a teenager. In an interview with Capital & Main, Hernandez dismissed claims she has an unfair biological advantage in sports, noting that while she had placed first in a triple jump event this month, she came in eighth in the high jump and third in the long jump. "All I thought was, I don't think you understand that this puts your idiotic claims to trash," Hernandez said of her mixed showing. (Reporting by Rami Ayyub and Doina Chiacu; Additional reporting and writing by Jonathan Allen; Editing by Katharine Jackson and Rod Nickel)

Trump demands California stop trans girl competing in state high jump finals

Trump demands California stop trans girl competing in state high jump finals WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to...
17 bodies found in house amid search for missing persons in MexicoNew Foto - 17 bodies found in house amid search for missing persons in Mexico

Investigators found 17 bodies in an abandoned house in a central Mexican region plagued by cartel violence, the state prosecutor's office said. The remains were discovered when the property in Irapuato inGuanajuato statewas searched as part of a missing persons investigation, according to a statement released late Monday. Five of the victims have been identified as missing persons, it said. Guanajuato is a thriving industrial hub and home to several popular tourist destinations, but it is also Mexico's deadliest state, according to official homicide statistics. The violent crime is linked to conflict between the Santa Rosa de Lima gang and theJalisco New Generation cartel, one of the most powerful in the Latin American nation. The cartel is one of several that has beendesignatedas a foreign terrorist organization by the Trump administrarion. Guanajuato recorded the most homicides of any state in Mexico last year, with 3,151, 10.5% of murders nationwide, according to official figures. Since 2006, when the military launched an anti-drug operation, Mexico has tallied about 480,000 violent deaths. Recent violence in Guanajuato Innocent bystanders and police officers are often casualties amid cartel turf wars in Guanajuato. Earlier this month, officials said gunmen opened fire andkilled seven people, including children, in Guanajuato, and officers found two banners with messages alluding to the Santa Rosa de Lima gang. Messages areoften left on victims' bodiesby cartels seeking to threaten their rivals or punish behavior they claim violates their rules. In February, five women and three men wereshot deadin the street in Guanajuato. The month before that, security forces clashed with gunmen in the state, leaving10 suspected criminals deadand three police officers injured. Last December,eight people were killedand two others wounded after gunmen pulled up to a roadside stand in Guanajuato and opened fire on customers. Two months before that, the bodies of 12 slain police officers — all bearingsigns of tortureand left with messages by cartels — were found in different areas of the region. The state prosecutor's office also said the perpetrators left messages in which a cartel claimed responsibility. The bodies were found less than 24 hours aftergunmen attacked a residential centerfor people suffering from addictions in the same municipality, killing four people. Trump delivers Memorial Day remarks at Arlington National Cemetery Expectant mothers with lupus have better outlooks than ever before, doctors say Trump pardons former sheriff convicted of fraud, bribery

17 bodies found in house amid search for missing persons in Mexico

17 bodies found in house amid search for missing persons in Mexico Investigators found 17 bodies in an abandoned house in a central Mexican ...
Judge accuses the Trump administration of 'manufacturing' chaos in migrant deportation caseNew Foto - Judge accuses the Trump administration of 'manufacturing' chaos in migrant deportation case

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge suggested the Trump administration was "manufacturing" chaos and said he hoped that "reason can get the better of rhetoric" in a scathing order in a case aboutgovernment efforts to deporta handful of migrants from various countries to South Sudan. Inthe order publishedMonday evening, Judge Brian Murphy wrote that he had given the Trump administration "remarkable flexibility with minimal oversight" in the case and emphasized the numerous times he attempted to work with the government. "From the course of conduct, it is hard to come to any conclusion other than that Defendants invite a lack of clarity as a means of evasion," the Boston-based Murphy wrote in the 17-page order. Murphy oversees a case in which immigration advocates are attempting to prevent the Trump administration from sending migrants they're trying to deport from the U.S. to countries that they're not from without giving them a meaningful chance to protest their removal. The judge said the men couldn't advocate for themselves In a hearing last week called to address reportsthat eight immigrantshad been sent to South Sudan, Murphy said the men hadn't been able to argue that the deportation could put them in danger. But instead of ordering the government to return the men to the U.S. for hearings — as the plaintiffs wanted — he gave the government the option of holding the hearings in Djibouti where the plane had flown on its way to South Sudan as long as the men remained in U.S. government custody. Days later, the Trump administration filed another motion saying that Murphy was requiring them to hold "dangerous criminals in a sensitive location." But in his order Monday he emphasized repeatedly that it was the government's "own suggestion" that they be allowed to process the men's claims while they were still abroad. "It turns out that having immigration proceedings on another continent is harder and more logistically cumbersome than Defendants anticipated," Murphy wrote. The government has argued that the men had a history with the immigration system, giving them prior opportunities to express a fear of being deported to a country outside their homeland. And they've said that the men's home — Cuba, Laos, Mexico, Myanmar, Vietnam and South Sudan — would not take them back. The administration has also repeatedly emphasized the men's criminal histories in the U.S. and portrayed them as national security threats. The administration is relying on third countries The Trump administration has increasingly relied on third countries to takeimmigrantswho cannot be sent to their home countries for various reasons. Some countries simply refuse to take back their citizens being deported while others take back some but not all of their citizens. And some cannot be sent to their home countries because of concerns they'll be tortured or harmed. Historically that has meant that immigration enforcement officials have had to release people into the U.S. that it wants to deport but can't. But the Trump administration has leaned on other countries to take them. In the Western Hemisphere, El Salvador, Costa Rica and Panama have all agreed to take some people being removed from the U.S., with El Salvador being the most controversial example because it is holding people deported from the U.S. in a notorious prison. The Trump administration has said it's exploring other third countries for deportations. Murphy said in his order that the eight men were initially told May 19 they'd be going to South Africa and then later that same day were told they were going to South Sudan. He noted that the U.S. government "has issued stark warnings regarding South Sudan." He said the men had fewer than 16 hours between being told they were going to be removed and going to the airport "most of which were non-waking hours" and "limited, if any" ability to talk to family or a lawyer. "Given the totality of the circumstances, it is hard to take seriously the idea that Defendants intended these individuals to have any real opportunity to make a valid claim," the judge wrote.

Judge accuses the Trump administration of 'manufacturing' chaos in migrant deportation case

Judge accuses the Trump administration of 'manufacturing' chaos in migrant deportation case WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge sugges...

 

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