Politics

Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef has urged Israeli soldiers to fulfill their religious duties by ignoring laws and orders and to kill any armed Palestinian. It is not only permissible to kill them, but also a religious imperative. The Rabbi’s comments came after the Israeli Army Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Gadi Eisenkot expressed his opposition to needless killings. “I don’t want a soldier to empty a magazine on a girl with scissors,” he said last month.

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Canada has announced that it will provide 7,500 refurbished computers through resettlement organisations to Syrian refugees to help them with schooling, jobs and skills. Israel National News reports: The computers are to be distributed by resettlement organizations through an existing Computers for Schools program that makes computer equipment available “at little or no cost to those who may not otherwise have access to technology and opportunities to learn digital skills,” said a statement. The government also said it would pick up the Can$1.25 million tab ($940,000 US).

The UN have demanded that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un be prosecuted for ‘crimes against humanity’ due to his ongoing pursual of nuclear weapons.  Marzuki Darusman has urged the United Nations to hold Kim and other senior North Korean officials accountable for their ongoing development of weapons of mass destruction whilst ignoring the fact that many of its citizens lack access to sufficient food. Channelnewsasia.com reports: He was addressing the U.N. Human Rights Council at a session boycotted by the delegation of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK).

Turkey have launched an attack on Kurds living in Iraq following a suicide car bombing on Sunday, that killed 37 in the Turkish capital.  Ankara have launched airstrikes on Kurdish militants on Monday, despite no evidence that they were responsible for Sunday’s blast. Washingtonpost.com reports: There was no assertion of responsibility for the attack, but Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said “very serious and almost certain” findings point to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, Turkey’s main militant faction.