Israeli forces drag Palestinian-American woman from home in West Bank
Israeli forces arrested a Palestinian-American woman after breaking into her home and pulling her from her bed in the occupied West Bank, family members told the Associated Press news agency. Relatives said Israeli soldiers burst into Samaher Esmail’s home, in the town of Silwad, while she was asleep in the early hours of Monday and pulled her out of bed.
A video of the raid and arrest posted to social media by her son showed soldiers surrounding his handcuffed mother and putting her into an armoured vehicle. “They broke into her house and pulled her out, took her out of her bed,” the woman’s brother, Mubarak Esmail, told the AP. “They didn’t even let her put on her hijab,” he said.
The AP reports that the Israeli military said Esmail was arrested for “incitement on social media”. Esmail is from Gretna, Louisiana, the same hometown as 17-year-old Palestinian-American Tawfic Abdel Jabbar, who was recently shot dead by Israeli forces in a nearby village in the occupied West Bank.
Our @EdAhmedMitchell: “We call on the State Department to investigate this incident and secure the immediate release of Samaher Esmail before something even worse happens to her..." #CeasefireNOW #WestBank #Gazahttps://t.co/pNjGTBcvI8
— CAIR National (@CAIRNational) February 6, 2024
Stay silent and they'll come for you next, speak out and they'll come for you now.
Either her Facebook page was always empty or has been scrubbed, no posts, no pictures, just a few details confirming it's her.
Six people reported killed in Israeli shelling of vehicle in Rafah
Six people were reported killed in the Israeli shelling of a vehicle with a police logo in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on Tuesday, according to reports from Wafa and the French news agency AFP. Witnesses told the AFP that the six people were travelling in the vehicle which had been securing the passage of an aid truck carrying flour in Rafah’s Khirbat al-Adas neighbourhood.
Photographs from the scene show first responders taking a body covered in blankets to an ambulance. The Israeli military did not immediately comment on the attack when contacted by the AFP.
Houthis fire missiles at cargo ships in Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, US military says
Iran-backed Houthi militants on Tuesday fired six anti-ship ballistic missiles from Yemen toward commercial vessels, US Central Command said. One missile exploded in the Gulf of Aden near the MV Star Nasia, causing minor damage to the Marshall Island-flagged, Greek carrier, CENTCOM said. No injuries were reported.
Other Houthi missile attacks likely targeting MV Morning Tide, a Barbados-flagged, UK-owned cargo ship operating in the southern Red Sea, "impacted the water near the ship without effect," CENTCOM said.
In a statement Tuesday, a spokesperson for the Houthis vowed the militants would increase their attacks on US and UK ships if Israel's war in Gaza does not stop.
The Houthis are having more success than I thought.
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