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VIDEO: Iran call for Hajj investigation September 26, 2015
Iranian President Hassan Rouhan calls for an investigation into the stampede at the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca.
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VIDEO: Cold weather hits migrants on the move September 26, 2015
Orla Guerin reports from Tovarnik, on the Croatian border with Serbia, where migrants and refugees face growing additional hardship from falling temperatures.
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VIDEO: Pope stops car to bless disabled child September 26, 2015
Pope Francis stops his car as it leaves Philadelphia airport to bless a child in a wheelchair.
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VIDEO: Bangkok bomb suspect re-enacts attack September 26, 2015
Two suspects in the bombing of the Erawan Shrine in Bangkok, Thailand are forced to re-enact their alleged role in the attack.
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VIDEO: Migrants continue to enter Hungary September 26, 2015
More than 8,000 migrants and refugees entered Hungary from Croatia on Friday, according to police figures.
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VIDEO: War crimes trial for mausoleum suspect September 26, 2015
A suspected Islamist militant accused of destroying historic monuments in the city of Timbuktu in Mali is to face charges of war crimes.
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VIDEO: Switzerland halts diesel VW sales September 26, 2015
Switzerland temporarily bans the sale of some Volkswagen diesel-engine models in the wake of the emissions-rigging scandal in the US.
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VIDEO: Greek coastguard: Migrant boats 'unsafe' September 26, 2015
Greek coastguard on Lesbos, Antonios Sofiadelis, explains why so many migrants are dying on a short crossing that should be simple and safe.
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VIDEO: Birth simulator helps Zambia midwives September 26, 2015
Nomsa Maseko reports from Zambia, where it is hoped a birth simulator being used to train midwives will translate into lives saved in childbirth.
– 24 KILLED IN GAZA CLASHES
According to Reuters, it all started when Jund Ansar-Allah (“Victorious Warriors of God”) rallied a few hundred men for an event at a Rafah mosque. Jund Ansar-Allah was led, militarily, by Abu Abdullah Assury (from Syria), known also as Abu Abdullah al-Muhajir (from Syria), and wanted by the Egyptian authorities too (see also – Nahal-Oz 06.08.09).
Abu Abdullah al-Muhajir was born in Syria in 1967. He worked in Hamas’s headquarter in Damascus in 2007. In 2008 Abu Abdullah al-Muhajir was picked by the head of Hamas Khaled Mashaal to be send to Iran for military training and afterward to be positioned in Gaza as a military expert. He arrived to Gaza in mid 2008 and immediately joined Mufti Abdel-Latif Moussa in forming the Jund Ansar-Allah with a Jihadi ideology. His case aroused concern that from the very beginning Abu Abdullah Assury was a sort of a sleeping agent in the ranks of Hamas. Abu Abdullah al-Muhajir was killed also during the fighting.
Hamas said its armed police force known as “Tanphizya” stormed the movement’s stronghold, including the Mosque where Abdel-Latif Moussa – known to supporters of al Qaeda in Gaza Strip as Abu al-Nour al-Maqdessi – had declared before weekly prayers the start of theocratic rule in the Gaza Strip, starting at Rafah. “We declare the birth of the Islamic Emirate,” stated Maqdessi and after the group killed a Hamas mediator.
Dr. Ismail Haniyeh, the PM of the Gaza Strip, denied in his sermon on Friday that any non-Palestinian gunmen were in the territory, as alleged by Israel. “Such groups do not exist on the soil of the Gaza Strip … there are no fighters in Gaza except Gazan fighters,” he said. Such “Zionist propaganda” from Israel was designed to turn the world against Hamas, he conveyed.
Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri called Abdel-Latif Moussa’s speech “wrong thinking” and the Interior Ministry said he was “mad”.
Since Hamas took over Gaza strip in 08/2007, they managed, successfully, to eradicate the common phenomena of armed gangs from all kinds caring weapons and terrorizing the population or challenging its authority over Gaza, what ever the reason was.
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