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Middle East leaders slam Israel at Saudi-hosted summit on Gaza
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Middle East leaders and Iran's president meeting in the Saudi capital Saturday roundly condemned Israel's actions in its war against Hamas in Gaza, as fears mount the conflict could draw in other countries.
The emergency meeting of the Arab League and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) comes after Hamas militants' bloody October 7 attacks that Israeli officials say left about 1,200 people dead, mostly civilians, and 239 taken hostage.
Israel's subsequent aerial and ground offensive has killed more than 11,000 people, also mostly civilians and many of them children, according to the Hamas-run health ministry.
Host Saudi Arabia "confirms that it holds the occupation (Israeli) authorities responsible for the crimes committed against the Palestinian people," Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the Gulf kingdom's de facto ruler, said as Saturday's summit began.
"We are certain that the only way to guarantee security, peace and stability in the region is to end the occupation, siege and the settlements," he said of Israel's actions in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, on his first trip to Saudi Arabia since the two countries mended ties in March, said Islamic countries should designate the Israeli army a "terrorist organisation" for its conduct in Gaza.
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Israel says it is out to destroy Hamas and blames the Palestinian armed group for the high death toll, accusing it of using civilians as "human shields" -- a charge Hamas denies.
The roster of attendees on Saturday also included Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani, who called for "deterrent steps to stop the ongoing war crime" in Gaza, without going into detail.
Raisi is the first Iranian president to visit Saudi Arabia since Mahmoud Ahmadinejad attended an OIC meeting in the kingdom in 2012.
Iran backs Hamas as well as Lebanon's Hezbollah and Yemen's Huthi rebels, placing it at the centre of concerns the war could expand.
The conflict has already fuelled cross-border exchanges between the Israeli army and Hezbollah, and the Huthis have claimed responsibility for "ballistic missiles" the rebels said targeted southern Israel.
Analysts say Saudi Arabia feels vulnerable to potential attacks because of its close ties with Washington and the fact that it was considering normalising ties with Israel before the war broke out.
Kim Ghattas, author of a book on the Iran-Saudi rivalry, said during a panel organised by the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington that "the Saudis are hoping that the fact they didn't normalise yet, and the fact that they have a channel to the Iranians, gives them some protection."
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Middle East leaders and Iran's president meeting in the Saudi capital Saturday roundly condemned Israel's actions in its war against Hamas in Gaza, as fears mount the conflict could draw in other countries.
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Seems like the ICC is going to be busy arresting Zion war criminals all around the world:-
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in DAWN, Feature, Press Release Israel-Palestine, Press Releases
In a separate letter to ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan on Friday, DAWN asked the Prosecutor urgently to issue a public statement reminding the parties to the conflict of the ongoing investigation there and send an investigative team to the Gaza region of Palestine to document and investigate potential crimes under the Rome Statute.
"If U.S. officials don't care about Palestinian civilians facing atrocities using U.S. weapons, perhaps they will care a bit more about their own individual criminal liability for aiding Israel in carrying out these atrocities," said Sarah Leah Whitson, executive director of DAWN. "The American people never signed up to help Israel commit war crimes against defenseless civilians with taxpayer funded bombs and artillery."
The Arms Export Control Act (AECA) and the Foreign Assistance Act (FAA) mandate that the U.S. Department of State and Department of Defense establish end-use monitoring protocols for arms transfers. These measures aim to ensure that the weapons are used responsibly and in compliance with international law. Despite these legal requirements, the U.S. has historically been lax in enforcing these laws regarding arms provided to Israel. Members of Congress have recently called for strengthened end-use monitoring and financial tracking of U.S. aid to Israel. Over $3.3 billion dollars in weapons transfers and weapons financing to Israel remain opaque, with limited information and monitoring.
In addition, the Biden administration's new Civilian Harm Incident Response Guidance (CHIRG) program requires U.S. officials to investigate "civilian harm by partner governments suspected of using U.S. weapons and recommend actions that could include suspension of arms sales." DAWN urged Secretary Blinken to investigate the civilian harms of Israel's use of U.S. arms and munitions in Gaza under the CHIRG program and to confirm that such monitoring is already taking place.
U.S. officials could face individual criminal liability for aiding and abetting Israel with weapons used in the commission of crimes against humanity and war crimes under the Rome Statute, in light of the pending ICC investigation in Palestine, which covers all crimes committed since June 13, 2014. Article 25(3)(b) of the Rome Statute clearly states that "providing the means for [the] commission" of a crime within the jurisdiction of the court, which Gaza is, shall be criminally responsible and liable for punishment in the ICC. Although the U.S. is not a party to the Rome Statute or a state party of the court, U.S. nationals would nevertheless be subject to the jurisdiction of the court where the court has jurisdiction and is conducting an investigation, such as Gaza. Evidence that the U.S. has monitored the use of its weapons by Israel, verified they have not been used in criminal attacks on Gaza, and suspended new arms transfers in the face of evidence of misuse of its weapons could serve as a defense to criminal charges against U.S. officials by the ICC.
Although the ICC formally announced its investigation into crimes in Palestine in March 2021, it has never sent an official investigatory mission to Palestine or Israel. DAWN urged the ICC Prosecutor Khan to urgently remind the parties to the conflict of his ongoing investigation into Palestine to deter the commission of crimes and to send an investigative team there to document any crimes.
"The ICC Prosecutor sent a team of investigators to Ukraine to document and investigate war crimes there as soon as the war started, but over a week into this war the Prosecutor has yet to utter even a word regarding the ICC's active investigation in Palestine," said Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man, Director of Research for Israel-Palestine at DAWN. "If the ICC fails to robustly and prominently investigate and prosecute the crimes now underway in Gaza, he will destroy whatever credibility the court has left as an independent body committed to equal protection for all victims of international war crimes."
Since the most recent escalation of the conflict in Israel-Palestine, the evidence is clear that multiple parties to the conflict have committed serious violations of international humanitarian law, including war crimes and crimes against humanity. This includes deliberate attacks on civilians in southern Israel by Palestinian armed groups and the taking of civilians as hostages now in Gaza. It also includes Israel's total blockade on food, fuel, electricity, and water, collectively punishing over two million Palestinian civilians in Gaza; daily indiscriminate bombardment of civilians; deliberate targeting of civilians, including journalists, in Gaza and Lebanon; targeting of hospitals and mosques; and failure to distinguish between military and civilian targets in its attacks. Israeli bombardment has already caused the displacement of over 400,000 Palestinians, killed over 2,215 civilians, including 724 children and 458 women, and injured 8,714.
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(Washington D.C., October 14, 2023) – U.S. law requires the United States to monitor and ensure the weapons and munitions it provides to Israel and ensure they are not used to commit war crimes in Gaza, Democracy for the Arab World Now reminded Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of...
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U.S.: Monitor and Restrict Use of U.S. Weapons by Israel to Avoid Complicity in War Crimes
October 15, 2023in DAWN, Feature, Press Release Israel-Palestine, Press Releases
Failure to conduct end-use monitoring could expose U.S. officials to International Criminal Court liability for aiding and abetting Israeli war crimes
(Washington D.C., October 15, 2023) – U.S. law requires the United States to monitor and ensure the weapons and munitions it provides to Israel and ensure they are not used to commit war crimes in Gaza, Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN) reminded Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III in a letter sent Friday, October 13, 2023. Failure to comply with end-use monitoring requirements not only breaches U.S. laws but also could expose U.S. officials to prosecution by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for aiding and abetting war crimes, DAWN warned.In a separate letter to ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan on Friday, DAWN asked the Prosecutor urgently to issue a public statement reminding the parties to the conflict of the ongoing investigation there and send an investigative team to the Gaza region of Palestine to document and investigate potential crimes under the Rome Statute.
"If U.S. officials don't care about Palestinian civilians facing atrocities using U.S. weapons, perhaps they will care a bit more about their own individual criminal liability for aiding Israel in carrying out these atrocities," said Sarah Leah Whitson, executive director of DAWN. "The American people never signed up to help Israel commit war crimes against defenseless civilians with taxpayer funded bombs and artillery."
The Arms Export Control Act (AECA) and the Foreign Assistance Act (FAA) mandate that the U.S. Department of State and Department of Defense establish end-use monitoring protocols for arms transfers. These measures aim to ensure that the weapons are used responsibly and in compliance with international law. Despite these legal requirements, the U.S. has historically been lax in enforcing these laws regarding arms provided to Israel. Members of Congress have recently called for strengthened end-use monitoring and financial tracking of U.S. aid to Israel. Over $3.3 billion dollars in weapons transfers and weapons financing to Israel remain opaque, with limited information and monitoring.
In addition, the Biden administration's new Civilian Harm Incident Response Guidance (CHIRG) program requires U.S. officials to investigate "civilian harm by partner governments suspected of using U.S. weapons and recommend actions that could include suspension of arms sales." DAWN urged Secretary Blinken to investigate the civilian harms of Israel's use of U.S. arms and munitions in Gaza under the CHIRG program and to confirm that such monitoring is already taking place.
U.S. officials could face individual criminal liability for aiding and abetting Israel with weapons used in the commission of crimes against humanity and war crimes under the Rome Statute, in light of the pending ICC investigation in Palestine, which covers all crimes committed since June 13, 2014. Article 25(3)(b) of the Rome Statute clearly states that "providing the means for [the] commission" of a crime within the jurisdiction of the court, which Gaza is, shall be criminally responsible and liable for punishment in the ICC. Although the U.S. is not a party to the Rome Statute or a state party of the court, U.S. nationals would nevertheless be subject to the jurisdiction of the court where the court has jurisdiction and is conducting an investigation, such as Gaza. Evidence that the U.S. has monitored the use of its weapons by Israel, verified they have not been used in criminal attacks on Gaza, and suspended new arms transfers in the face of evidence of misuse of its weapons could serve as a defense to criminal charges against U.S. officials by the ICC.
Although the ICC formally announced its investigation into crimes in Palestine in March 2021, it has never sent an official investigatory mission to Palestine or Israel. DAWN urged the ICC Prosecutor Khan to urgently remind the parties to the conflict of his ongoing investigation into Palestine to deter the commission of crimes and to send an investigative team there to document any crimes.
"The ICC Prosecutor sent a team of investigators to Ukraine to document and investigate war crimes there as soon as the war started, but over a week into this war the Prosecutor has yet to utter even a word regarding the ICC's active investigation in Palestine," said Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man, Director of Research for Israel-Palestine at DAWN. "If the ICC fails to robustly and prominently investigate and prosecute the crimes now underway in Gaza, he will destroy whatever credibility the court has left as an independent body committed to equal protection for all victims of international war crimes."
Since the most recent escalation of the conflict in Israel-Palestine, the evidence is clear that multiple parties to the conflict have committed serious violations of international humanitarian law, including war crimes and crimes against humanity. This includes deliberate attacks on civilians in southern Israel by Palestinian armed groups and the taking of civilians as hostages now in Gaza. It also includes Israel's total blockade on food, fuel, electricity, and water, collectively punishing over two million Palestinian civilians in Gaza; daily indiscriminate bombardment of civilians; deliberate targeting of civilians, including journalists, in Gaza and Lebanon; targeting of hospitals and mosques; and failure to distinguish between military and civilian targets in its attacks. Israeli bombardment has already caused the displacement of over 400,000 Palestinians, killed over 2,215 civilians, including 724 children and 458 women, and injured 8,714.
BE'ERI, ISRAEL -- OCTOBER 14, 2023: SOLDIERS TAKE COVER AS THEY LAUNCH MORTAR ROUNDS TOWARDS GAZA IN SOUTHERN PART OF ISRAEL, SATURDAY, OCT. 14, 2023. ISRAEL WAS CAUGHT BY SURPRISE AFTER HAMAS LAUNCHED AN UNPRECEDENTED ASSAULT ON COMMUNITIES NEAR GAZA WHICH LED TO THE DEADLIEST BOUT OF VIOLENCE TO HIT ISRAEL IN 50 YEARS THAT HAS TAKEN MORE THAN A THOUSAND LIVES ON BOTH SIDES. NOW, ISRAELÕS MILITARY PREPARES FOR A WIDE SCALE INCURSION INTO GAZA IN THE COUNTRYÕS SOUTH.
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It's all part of their propaganda and brainwashing campaign. During their propaganda blitzkrieg when the Jews attacked Gaza all the US News media were showing were female models with Hollywood make over as Israeli soldiers.
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Gulf states fend off call from Iran to arm Palestinians at Riyadh summit
Iranian president had travelled to Saudi Arabia to try to force a more interventionist approach to Israel-Hamas war
Gulf states fend off call from Iran to arm Palestinians at Riyadh summit
Iranian president had travelled to Saudi Arabia to try to force a more interventionist approach to Israel-Hamas warPatrick Wintour Diplomatic editor
Sun 12 Nov 2023 09.53 EST
Gulf state leaders have fended off an Iranian-led attempt to call for arming the Palestinians and severing all diplomatic ties with Israel at an extraordinary summit in Riyadh, in a effort to retain control of the region’s diplomatic response to the Israeli assault on Gaza.
Tehran, however, insisted on Sunday that its influence remained through its allied “resistance factions” operating in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Yemen. In a further sign that it has no intention of jettisoning a military path, militants near the Israeli border with Lebanon fired anti-tank missiles towards Israel, hitting a number of civilians, according to the Israeli military.
An Israeli ambulance service spokesperson told Israel’s N12 News that one person had been critically injured and between three to five others wounded. Footage showed cars on fire on a road near an open area.
The secretary general of Lebanon’s powerful Hezbollah group, Hassan Nasrallah, said on Saturday that the front against Israel would remain active, a declaration that in turn drew a warning from Israel to the Shia group not to escalate fighting.
An Israeli soldier near the country’s border with Lebanon watches Hassan Nasrallah’s speech on his phone. Photograph: Jalaa Marey/AFP/Getty Images
Nearly 1,500 Hezbollah fighters in the ranks of the Syrian regime’s army have been withdrawn to strengthen the group’s frontline in Lebanon. The political and militant group is Iran’s most prominent proxy movement.
The head of Hezbollah’s executive council, Hashem Safieddine, said on Sunday: “The occupying regime [Israel] is delusional and mistaken if it believes that it can eliminate the Hamas movement or other resistance factions. The resistance front has developed both in terms of presence and strength.”
The relatively tepid outcome of the Riyadh summit, attended by 51 leaders in the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), left some disappointed, but others insisting the moral force of the unified support for Palestine shown by the Islamic world would force the US to rein in Israel.
The refusal of the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to engage with US proposals for a long humanitarian pause and longer-term solution, including a future role for the Palestinian Authority, has angered the Biden administration.
In an unprecedented diplomatic push by Iran to force the Gulf monarchies to adopt a more interventionist approach, the country’s president, Ebrahim Raisi, travelled to Riyadh on Saturday, the first Iranian leader to do so in 11 years, in an effort to persuade the Gulf states to take a tougher approach and explicitly back Hamas.
The final OIC communique, however, was long on condemnation and demands for an immediate ceasefire, but short on practical steps to help Hamas.
It called for an end to the sale of weapons and ammunition to Israel, and a loosely worded proposal to break the humanitarian siege that did not explicitly mention the Rafah crossing from Egypt into Gaza.
It also called on the international criminal court and the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons to investigate possible Israeli war crimes, and for more decisive action from the UN security council. It also condemned “the Israeli aggression against the Gaza Strip, the war crimes and the barbaric and inhumane massacres perpetrated by the occupation government”.
A Palestinian family flees south from the northern Gaza Strip. Photograph: Mahmud Hams/AFP/Getty Images
The lengthy statement made no mention of a ban on oil sales, a tactic used in the 1973 Yom Kippur war, the severance of diplomatic relations with Israel or the arming of the Palestinians. All three proposals had been advanced by Raisi in a 10-point plan he presented to the conference.
. Raisi praised Hamas in his speech, saying: “There is no other way than to resist Israel, we kiss the hands of Hamas for its resistance against Israel”. That view was not shared by most Gulf leaders, but it was echoed by the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. He said: “They want us to classify Hamas as a terrorist. No, it is not a terrorist. They are fighting for their homeland and struggling to obtain their rights.”
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It had originally been intended there would be two separate and consecutive summits this weekend, starting with a meeting of the Arab League, followed by a meeting of the larger OIC.
In the run-up to the Arab League summit, however, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Morocco and Bahrain opposed moves led by Algeria to close down US bases in the region and impose a trade boycott. Riyadh proposed the merger of the two summits, a device that softened the conflicts among Arab states by convening the larger gathering.
Israel Katz, Israel’s energy minister, had spoken of his country’s contempt for the summit, writing: “President [Bashar al-] Assad of Syria, who slaughtered hundreds of thousands, children, women, and old men of his own people, and the president of Iran, who slaughters any Iranian who dares to protest against him, or any Iranian woman who he regards as insufficiently modest, are gathering in Saudi Arabia with the leaders of the Islamic countries to discuss our war.
“For them, the Palestinians are cannon fodder against Israel, and many of the leaders there pray that Israel will eliminate the extreme Islamic terrorism that threatens them as well.”
He is one crazed Nazi blurting mad nonsense exactly like Hitler.
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And when I say Arabs are Zionists people abuse and laughed at me on this thread
Daniel sometimes seems to be extreme sometimes but then people who listened to Israr ahamd in 1990s thought the same
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday criticized the Western countries for remaining silent on the massacre in Palestine.
Speaking at an emergency joint Arab-Islamic summit in the Saudi capital of Riyadh, Erdogan said, “It is shame that Western countries, which always voice for human rights, and freedoms, remain silent on the massacre in Palestine."
“We are faced with unprecedented barbarism in history, where hospitals, schools, and refugee camps are bombed and civilians are massacred,” he added.
He stressed that it is vital to deliver fuel to places in urgent need, especially hospitals in Gaza.
“We believe that a fund should be established within the Organization of Islamic Cooperation to rebuild Gaza,” the president proposed.
The oil-rich kingdom is hosting a summit of the Arab League and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC).
Representatives of the Islamic world exchange ideas about concrete steps to be taken regarding the recent developments.
Israel has launched relentless air and ground attacks on the Gaza Strip – including hospitals, residences, and houses of worship – since a cross-border attack by the Palestinian resistance group Hamas on Oct. 7.
At least 11,078 Palestinians have been killed, including 4,506 children and 3,027 women. The Israeli death toll, meanwhile, is around 1,200, according to official figures.
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President Erdogan called out shameful attitude in Western countries and condemns the silence over the death of innocent people of Gaza.
Turkish President Erdogan criticizes West for silence on massacre in Palestine
It is vital to deliver fuel to places in urgent need, especially hospitals in Gaza, says Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Gozde Bayar |11.11.2023 - Update : 12.11.2023
ANKARATurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday criticized the Western countries for remaining silent on the massacre in Palestine.
Speaking at an emergency joint Arab-Islamic summit in the Saudi capital of Riyadh, Erdogan said, “It is shame that Western countries, which always voice for human rights, and freedoms, remain silent on the massacre in Palestine."
“We are faced with unprecedented barbarism in history, where hospitals, schools, and refugee camps are bombed and civilians are massacred,” he added.
He stressed that it is vital to deliver fuel to places in urgent need, especially hospitals in Gaza.
“We believe that a fund should be established within the Organization of Islamic Cooperation to rebuild Gaza,” the president proposed.
The oil-rich kingdom is hosting a summit of the Arab League and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC).
Representatives of the Islamic world exchange ideas about concrete steps to be taken regarding the recent developments.
Israel has launched relentless air and ground attacks on the Gaza Strip – including hospitals, residences, and houses of worship – since a cross-border attack by the Palestinian resistance group Hamas on Oct. 7.
At least 11,078 Palestinians have been killed, including 4,506 children and 3,027 women. The Israeli death toll, meanwhile, is around 1,200, according to official figures.
Anadolu Agency website contains only a portion of the news stories offered to subscribers in the AA News Broadcasting System (HAS), and in summarized form. Please contact us for subscription options.
Turkish President Erdogan criticizes West for silence on massacre in Palestine
It is vital to deliver fuel to places in urgent need, especially hospitals in Gaza, says Recep Tayyip Erdogan - Anadolu Ajansı
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President Erdogan called out shameful attitude in Western countries and condemns the silence over the death of innocent people of Gaza.
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The Gaza Zion hatred is coming to the Streets of US and UK as the Zion media spreads brainwashing hate:-
By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN
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Published 5:04 PM EST, Wed November 8, 2023
Kenneth Pinkney
Broward County Sheriff's Office
CNN —
A man has been charged with a hate crime after he allegedly “made his hand into the shape of a firearm and made a shooting gesture” toward a US Postal Service worker near Fort Lauderdale, Florida, then ripped off her hijab and slapped and punched her in the face, according to police and court documents.
The alleged attack on the postal worker comes as incidents inspired by hate against Muslims and Jews escalate in the US following the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack on Israel and the intense Israeli bombardment of Gaza.
In Wilton Manors, Florida, Kenneth Jerome Pinkney, 47, approached the uniformed postal worker, who has not been named publicly, on October 24 while she walked up to a home delivering mail, a probable cause affidavit states. He rode his bike past the victim and made a “shooting gesture” with his hand, then called her derogatory names and told her “to go back to her country,” it states.
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The postal worker tried to laugh the comments off, according to the probable cause statement, but Pinkney approached her and ripped off her hijab – a headscarf worn by many Muslim women for religious or cultural reasons – and began to slap and punch her in the face.
She bled from her mouth and got scratches on her face, the affidavit states.
Then, as the victim tried to get back in her US Postal Service truck, Pinkney tried to grab her leg, the affidavit says. She ripped Pinkney’s shirt as she tried to free herself and told him she was going to call the police – then he said he would do the same, it says.
Pinkney was arrested and charged with battery and “evidencing prejudice while committing an offense” based on his remarks about “the victim’s ancestry, religion, and national origin,” a felony hate crime, according to the probable cause affidavit and court records.
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Police who responded to the scene also found, “Pinkney was unable to provide any details regarding the incident without losing track of his story,” according to the probable cause affidavit.
The court has ordered him to undergo a mental health screening, the docket shows.
“Fort Lauderdale Police Department presented their investigative findings in this case to the Broward State Attorney’s Office,” Paula McMahon, public information officer for Broward State Attorney’s Office, told CNN in a statement Wednesday.
After reviewing all the evidence, facts and circumstances, prosecutors filed formal charges on Tuesday of felony battery/hate crime, a second-degree felony that carries a maximum possible penalty of up to 15 years in state prison, McMahon said.
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Pinkney was held as of Wednesday at the Broward County Sheriff’s North Broward Bureau jail on $20,000 bond, jail records show. CNN has reached out to the Broward County Public Defender’s Office, which court records show is representing him.
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CNN has also reached out to the US Postal Service.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations’ Florida chapter welcomes the hate crime charge against Pinkney, it said. As the conflict in the Middle East has flared over the past month, Muslim and Arab groups across the United States have reported a rise in vandalism, threats and violence, including the stabbing death of a 6-year-old Palestinian American boy near Chicago under investigation as a federal hate crime.
“This alleged violence and hate have absolutely no place in Florida,” CAIR-Florida Media and Outreach Director Wilfredo Amr Ruiz said in a statement. “We will make sure to follow up on this and any other case to ensure they are prosecuted to the fullest extent to deter others from engaging in this criminal anti-social behavior targeting anyone, regardless of their race or religion.”
CAIR-Florida and the American Muslim community stand in solidarity with all those challenging antisemitism, systemic anti-Black racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia, White supremacy and all other forms of bigotry, Ruiz said.
Florida man charged with a hate crime after he allegedly tore off a postal worker’s hijab and punched her, police say
By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN
3 minute read
Published 5:04 PM EST, Wed November 8, 2023
Kenneth Pinkney
Broward County Sheriff's Office
CNN —
A man has been charged with a hate crime after he allegedly “made his hand into the shape of a firearm and made a shooting gesture” toward a US Postal Service worker near Fort Lauderdale, Florida, then ripped off her hijab and slapped and punched her in the face, according to police and court documents.
The alleged attack on the postal worker comes as incidents inspired by hate against Muslims and Jews escalate in the US following the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack on Israel and the intense Israeli bombardment of Gaza.
In Wilton Manors, Florida, Kenneth Jerome Pinkney, 47, approached the uniformed postal worker, who has not been named publicly, on October 24 while she walked up to a home delivering mail, a probable cause affidavit states. He rode his bike past the victim and made a “shooting gesture” with his hand, then called her derogatory names and told her “to go back to her country,” it states.
American Arabs, Muslims and Jews: How has the Israel-Hamas war changed you?
The postal worker tried to laugh the comments off, according to the probable cause statement, but Pinkney approached her and ripped off her hijab – a headscarf worn by many Muslim women for religious or cultural reasons – and began to slap and punch her in the face.
She bled from her mouth and got scratches on her face, the affidavit states.
Then, as the victim tried to get back in her US Postal Service truck, Pinkney tried to grab her leg, the affidavit says. She ripped Pinkney’s shirt as she tried to free herself and told him she was going to call the police – then he said he would do the same, it says.
Pinkney was arrested and charged with battery and “evidencing prejudice while committing an offense” based on his remarks about “the victim’s ancestry, religion, and national origin,” a felony hate crime, according to the probable cause affidavit and court records.
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Police who responded to the scene also found, “Pinkney was unable to provide any details regarding the incident without losing track of his story,” according to the probable cause affidavit.
The court has ordered him to undergo a mental health screening, the docket shows.
“Fort Lauderdale Police Department presented their investigative findings in this case to the Broward State Attorney’s Office,” Paula McMahon, public information officer for Broward State Attorney’s Office, told CNN in a statement Wednesday.
After reviewing all the evidence, facts and circumstances, prosecutors filed formal charges on Tuesday of felony battery/hate crime, a second-degree felony that carries a maximum possible penalty of up to 15 years in state prison, McMahon said.
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Pinkney was held as of Wednesday at the Broward County Sheriff’s North Broward Bureau jail on $20,000 bond, jail records show. CNN has reached out to the Broward County Public Defender’s Office, which court records show is representing him.
How reports of hate crimes in the US were already at record highs, in 4 charts
CNN has also reached out to the US Postal Service.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations’ Florida chapter welcomes the hate crime charge against Pinkney, it said. As the conflict in the Middle East has flared over the past month, Muslim and Arab groups across the United States have reported a rise in vandalism, threats and violence, including the stabbing death of a 6-year-old Palestinian American boy near Chicago under investigation as a federal hate crime.
“This alleged violence and hate have absolutely no place in Florida,” CAIR-Florida Media and Outreach Director Wilfredo Amr Ruiz said in a statement. “We will make sure to follow up on this and any other case to ensure they are prosecuted to the fullest extent to deter others from engaging in this criminal anti-social behavior targeting anyone, regardless of their race or religion.”
CAIR-Florida and the American Muslim community stand in solidarity with all those challenging antisemitism, systemic anti-Black racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia, White supremacy and all other forms of bigotry, Ruiz said.
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White se Zayda, Whites ke WafadaarThe Gaza Zion hatred is coming to the Streets of US and UK as the Zion media spreads brainwashing hate:-
Florida man charged with a hate crime after he allegedly tore off a postal worker’s hijab and punched her, police say
By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN
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Published 5:04 PM EST, Wed November 8, 2023
Kenneth Pinkney
Broward County Sheriff's Office
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A man has been charged with a hate crime after he allegedly “made his hand into the shape of a firearm and made a shooting gesture” toward a US Postal Service worker near Fort Lauderdale, Florida, then ripped off her hijab and slapped and punched her in the face, according to police and court documents.
The alleged attack on the postal worker comes as incidents inspired by hate against Muslims and Jews escalate in the US following the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack on Israel and the intense Israeli bombardment of Gaza.
In Wilton Manors, Florida, Kenneth Jerome Pinkney, 47, approached the uniformed postal worker, who has not been named publicly, on October 24 while she walked up to a home delivering mail, a probable cause affidavit states. He rode his bike past the victim and made a “shooting gesture” with his hand, then called her derogatory names and told her “to go back to her country,” it states.
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The postal worker tried to laugh the comments off, according to the probable cause statement, but Pinkney approached her and ripped off her hijab – a headscarf worn by many Muslim women for religious or cultural reasons – and began to slap and punch her in the face.
She bled from her mouth and got scratches on her face, the affidavit states.
Then, as the victim tried to get back in her US Postal Service truck, Pinkney tried to grab her leg, the affidavit says. She ripped Pinkney’s shirt as she tried to free herself and told him she was going to call the police – then he said he would do the same, it says.
Pinkney was arrested and charged with battery and “evidencing prejudice while committing an offense” based on his remarks about “the victim’s ancestry, religion, and national origin,” a felony hate crime, according to the probable cause affidavit and court records.
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Police who responded to the scene also found, “Pinkney was unable to provide any details regarding the incident without losing track of his story,” according to the probable cause affidavit.
The court has ordered him to undergo a mental health screening, the docket shows.
“Fort Lauderdale Police Department presented their investigative findings in this case to the Broward State Attorney’s Office,” Paula McMahon, public information officer for Broward State Attorney’s Office, told CNN in a statement Wednesday.
After reviewing all the evidence, facts and circumstances, prosecutors filed formal charges on Tuesday of felony battery/hate crime, a second-degree felony that carries a maximum possible penalty of up to 15 years in state prison, McMahon said.
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Pinkney was held as of Wednesday at the Broward County Sheriff’s North Broward Bureau jail on $20,000 bond, jail records show. CNN has reached out to the Broward County Public Defender’s Office, which court records show is representing him.
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CNN has also reached out to the US Postal Service.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations’ Florida chapter welcomes the hate crime charge against Pinkney, it said. As the conflict in the Middle East has flared over the past month, Muslim and Arab groups across the United States have reported a rise in vandalism, threats and violence, including the stabbing death of a 6-year-old Palestinian American boy near Chicago under investigation as a federal hate crime.
“This alleged violence and hate have absolutely no place in Florida,” CAIR-Florida Media and Outreach Director Wilfredo Amr Ruiz said in a statement. “We will make sure to follow up on this and any other case to ensure they are prosecuted to the fullest extent to deter others from engaging in this criminal anti-social behavior targeting anyone, regardless of their race or religion.”
CAIR-Florida and the American Muslim community stand in solidarity with all those challenging antisemitism, systemic anti-Black racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia, White supremacy and all other forms of bigotry, Ruiz said.
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Palestine Solidarity: Pakistanis boycott US and Israeli brands
Pakistani Influencers and public figures call for a boycott of popular international brands, which are deemed to be supportive of Israel and the United States and thus, by extension, complicit in the genocide in Gaza.
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Palestine Solidarity: Pakistanis boycott US and Israeli brands
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Pakistanis Boycott US and Israel
As Israel intensifies its military operation in Gaza, public sentiment in Pakistan has shifted sharply against companies and brands that are perceived to be pro-Israel or pro-America.
Social media campaigns have been launched calling for a boycott of popular international brands like McDonald's, KFC, Pizza Hut, Coke, Pepsi and many others.
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Organizers of rallies in Pakistan urged Muslim states to rise up for Gaza, instead of being slaves of US.
As a result of this boycott, the sales of pro-Israeli companies in Pakistan have witnessed a record decline in recent weeks.
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In response, these businesses are actively leveraging social media to try to recover their market share and restore their public image.
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No Mr Pesident, it is vital to stop the bombing of innocent civilians.TÜRKİYE, MIDDLE EAST
Turkish President Erdogan criticizes West for silence on massacre in Palestine
It is vital to deliver fuel to places in urgent need, especially hospitals in Gaza, says Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Gozde Bayar |11.11.2023 - Update : 12.11.2023
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday criticized the Western countries for remaining silent on the massacre in Palestine.
Speaking at an emergency joint Arab-Islamic summit in the Saudi capital of Riyadh, Erdogan said, “It is shame that Western countries, which always voice for human rights, and freedoms, remain silent on the massacre in Palestine."
“We are faced with unprecedented barbarism in history, where hospitals, schools, and refugee camps are bombed and civilians are massacred,” he added.
He stressed that it is vital to deliver fuel to places in urgent need, especially hospitals in Gaza.
“We believe that a fund should be established within the Organization of Islamic Cooperation to rebuild Gaza,” the president proposed.
The oil-rich kingdom is hosting a summit of the Arab League and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC).
Representatives of the Islamic world exchange ideas about concrete steps to be taken regarding the recent developments.
Israel has launched relentless air and ground attacks on the Gaza Strip – including hospitals, residences, and houses of worship – since a cross-border attack by the Palestinian resistance group Hamas on Oct. 7.
At least 11,078 Palestinians have been killed, including 4,506 children and 3,027 women. The Israeli death toll, meanwhile, is around 1,200, according to official figures.
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Turkish President Erdogan criticizes West for silence on massacre in Palestine
It is vital to deliver fuel to places in urgent need, especially hospitals in Gaza, says Recep Tayyip Erdogan - Anadolu Ajansı
President Erdogan called out shameful attitude in Western countries and condemns the silence over the death of innocent people of Gaza.
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Israel is small country surrounded by Arabs
The least they can think one would imagine will be cut all ties and do a boycott if they are so afraid military posture or positioning
But nope..you don't see that ..you see efforts for normalization
Which will happen even before the people are buried
I was told by an Arab once that atleast we help them rebuild what do you guys do..
So atleast I hope they will continue to shell out some money just like how America, Israel and Europe money runs mehmood Abbas govt
The least they can think one would imagine will be cut all ties and do a boycott if they are so afraid military posture or positioning
But nope..you don't see that ..you see efforts for normalization
Which will happen even before the people are buried
I was told by an Arab once that atleast we help them rebuild what do you guys do..
So atleast I hope they will continue to shell out some money just like how America, Israel and Europe money runs mehmood Abbas govt
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