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Israeli police planned to teach children how to shoot at Palestinians as part of a training exercise in a school. The incident in the Menashe Regional Council, near Haifa in northern present-day Israel, was brought to light in recent days when Palestinian citizens of Israel took photos of what was happening. Jamal Zahalka, a member of the Israeli parliament from the Joint Arab List, is demanding an investigation into the training sponsored by the Israeli police and the education ministry, which he said “prepares students psychologically to kill Arabs.” One photo shows a person – most of their body blurred with a black marker – using a paintball gun to fire at cutouts of men and women wearing checkered kuffiyeh headscarves that are associated with Palestinians. Zahalka made his demand in a letter to public security minister Gilad Erdan, according to the publication Arab48. The activity in Menashe Regional Council is part of widespread training of children by pol...

DAMASCUS: Syria accused Israel on Monday of carrying out deadly bombing raids on a military airbase in the country’s centre, state news agency SANA reported. “The Israeli attack on the T-4 airport was carried out with F-15 aircraft that fired several missiles from above Lebanese territory,” SANA said, citing a military source. It had reported just before dawn that “several missiles” had hit T-4, which lies in central Syria and is also known as the Tiyas air base. A military spokeswoman for Israel declined to comment on Monday. SANA had initially reported the strike as a “suspected US attack” but later withdrew all references to the United States. It said the attack had left dead and wounded but did not give casualty figures. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors the country’s conflict, said 14 fighters had been killed, including at least three Syrian officers and Iranian forces. Forces from regime backers Russia and Iran, as well as fighters from the Leba...

JERUSALEM: Veteran army Radio anchor Kobi Meidan received harsh criticism after he shares his feeling of being ‘ashamed to be Israeli’ in light of military’s actions over the killing of 18 Palestinians along the Gaza Strip border. “Today, I’m ashamed to be Israeli,” Kobi, the television presenter posted on his Facebook page, reported the Israeli daily Haaretz on Monday. Angry with Kobi’s post, radio commander Shimon Elkabetz dismissed the prominent host’s and his programme from broadcasting. Later on, Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman (Yisrael Beytenu), said, “If [Meidan] is ashamed , he should draw the conclusions himself and quit the station. I think it’s shameful that this is a presenter on an army radio station, but this is also part of our reality.” At least 18 Palestinians were killed and over 1,500 were have also been injured after In addition to the 18 Palestinians killed, more than 1,500 were have also been injured Israeli troops opened fir...