Israeli soldiers filmed pushing bodies of Palestinians off West Bank roof

IDF says its is reviewing the incident, which took place during a raid in the town of Qabatiya

Israeli soldiers have been filmed pushing three apparently lifeless bodies from a rooftop during a raid in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, in the latest in a series of suspected violations by Israeli forces since the start of the Israel-Hamas war that rights groups say show a pattern of excessive force toward Palestinians.

The incident took place in the town of Qabatiya in the northern West Bank, where the Israeli military has been carrying out large-scale raids since late August that the Palestinian health ministry says have killed dozens of people.

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Israel Strikes Lebanon as Hezbollah Vows Retaliation for Pager Attacks: Live Updates – The New York Times

  1. Israel Strikes Lebanon as Hezbollah Vows Retaliation for Pager Attacks: Live Updates  The New York Times
  2. UN peacekeepers in Lebanon urge de-escalation after heavy airstrikes  Reuters
  3. ‘This will end up with a regional war,’ warns Lebanese Foreign Minister  CNN
  4. Israel-Lebanon latest: Beirut warns conflict out of control as Israel vows new era of war with Hezbollah  The Independent
  5. Lebanese envoy warns of ‘doomsday’ Israel-Lebanon war  The Times of Israel
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IDF investigating soldiers for throwing bodies off roof in West Bank – CNN

  1. IDF investigating soldiers for throwing bodies off roof in West Bank  CNN
  2. Video captures Israeli soldiers pushing dead bodies from roof  Al Jazeera English
  3. Six Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in occupied West Bank's Qabatiya  Reuters
  4. IDF 'investigating' after soldiers filmed throwing Palestinian bodies off West Bank roof  Haaretz
  5. Did an Israeli soldier push body off roof in West Bank raid?  South China Morning Post
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Hezbollah Hunts for Security Gaps, Moles as It Reels From Brutal Week of Airstrikes, Pager Attacks – The Wall Street Journal

  1. Hezbollah Hunts for Security Gaps, Moles as It Reels From Brutal Week of Airstrikes, Pager Attacks  The Wall Street Journal
  2. Day 348: Palestine Action and Lebanon  The Electronic Intifada
  3. Inside Hezbollah’s arsenal: Look at the weapons shaping its conflict with Israel  The Times of India
  4. Defense is not just blocking  JNS.org
  5. Kavanaugh: Threat From Hezbollah is 'Significantly Greater' Than Hamas  Bloomberg
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‘It’s guerrilla warfare’: Brazil fire teams fight Amazon blazes – and the arsonists who start them

Firefighters and police in Rondônia battle fires intensified by both the climate crisis and a criminal assault on the rainforest

The occupants of the vinyl-coated military tents at this remote jungle camp in Brazil’s wild west compare the hellscape surrounding them to catastrophes old and new: the extinction of the dinosaurs, the bombardment of Gaza, the obliteration of Hiroshima during the second world war.

“It’s as if a nuclear bomb has gone off. There’s no forest. There’s nothing. Everything’s burned. It’s chaos,” said Lt Col Victor Paulo Rodrigues de Souza as he gave a tour of the base on the frontline of Brazil’s fight against one of its worst burning seasons in years and a relentless assault on the greatest tropical rainforest on Earth.

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