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American Airlines jet found upside down and in three pieces after mid-air collision in Washington DC |
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An American Airlines plane was found upside down and in three sections after colliding mid-air with a military helicopter over a major river in Washington DC. A total of 28 bodies – 27 from the passenger plane and one from the helicopter – have been recovered from the Potomac River after the two aircraft fell into the icy waters around 9pm local time (2am UK time) on Wednesday night. American Airlines flight 5342, which had 60 passengers and four crew on board, was flying into the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport from Wichita in Kansas when the collision took place The US army Black Hawk helicopter, which had three soldiers on board, was on a training flight at the time. An initial search and rescue mission to look for survivors became a recovery operation on Thursday morning, Washington DC fire chief John Donnelly said in an update at around 7.30am local time. “We don’t believe there are any survivors,” he said. US President Donald Trump thanked first responders for their “incredible work”, and said he was “monitoring the situation and will provide more details as they arise”, in a statement late on Wednesday. Sir Keir Starmer and Foreign Secretary David Lammy also sent their condolences to the families of those on board and the emergency responders. |
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Israel cuts ties with UNRWA over links with terror groups, as ban comes into effect |
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An Israeli ban on the United Nation’s agency for Palestinians because of its ties to terror organizations, including Hamas, came into effect on Thursday, a day after the Supreme Court rejected a petition from a rights group contesting the move. UNRWA, formally titled the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, is now banned from operating on Israeli soil, and contact between it and Israeli officials is also forbidden. The ban was passed by the Knesset in November with a wide majority, with the support of opposition parties, amid a series of revelations about employees of the agency who were actively involved in terror groups in the Gaza Strip, participation of some of its staff in the October 7, 2023, Hamas invasion and slaughter, and repeated use of UNRWA infrastructure for terror activities. Israel has also provided evidence that the agency’s schools incited hatred of Israel and glorification of attacks against Israelis. |
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After Keeping Shabbos In Captivity: Agam’s Message To Am Yisrael: “בדרך אמונה בחרתי – ובדרך אמונה שבתי” |
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In her short flight over the skies of Israel from the Gaza Strip to Beilinson Hospital, Agam Berger conveyed a message of strength and deep emunah to Am Yisrael. “In the way of faith I chose, in the way of faith I returned,” her sign from the helicopter stated. “Thank you to all of Am Yisrael and the heroic soldiers of the IDF. There is none like you in the world!” Agam Berger and her family have been models of emunah. Her mother asked the general public before last Shabbos, when there was an expectation that she would be released in the previous wave with her friends, not to to be mechallel Shabbos by watching or photographing her release. According to reports, Agam was Shomer Shabbos during her captivity and also refrained from eating meat. Additionally, Ynet reported on Thursday evening that all the female IDF soldiers refrained from eating chometz on Pesach and tried to fast on Yom Kippur. |
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Arbel Yehoud, Gadi Mozes, 5 Thais, freed amid mayhem in Khan Younis; Agam Berger released |
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Eight hostages abducted during the October 7, 2023, attack on Israel were released by Palestinian terror groups on Thursday under an ongoing ceasefire deal with Hamas, returning to Israel after 482 days in captivity in Gaza. Seven of them were freed in a long, chaotic process in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis that prompted fury in Israel. The three Israelis are IDF surveillance soldier Agam Berger, 20, and civilians Arbel Yehoud, 29, and Gadi Mozes, 80. The Thai nationals are Thenna Pongsak, Sathian Suwannakham, Sriaoun Watchara, Seathao Bannawat, and Rumnao Surasak. Yehoud, Mozes and the five Thais were released in an uncontrolled and dangerous handover early Thursday afternoon, outside the destroyed home of slain Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, surrounded by hundreds of masked gunmen and large, seething crowds. The two Israeli civilians were forced to walk through the crowds, with gunmen at their side, from the vehicles that delivered them and, later, to the Red Cross vehicles, in chaotic scenes that lasted for well over an hour. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the chaotic handover was unacceptable, in a statement immediately after the release. “I view with great severity the shocking scenes during the release of our hostages,” said Netanyahu. “This is further proof of the unimaginable cruelty of the Hamas terrorist organization.” Israel delayed the slated release of Palestinian prisoners in protest of the chaotic handover, with Netanyahu’s office saying it would not proceed “until the safe passage of our hostages can be guaranteed in the next releases.” It later said it had received a guarantee from mediators that the scenes of chaos would not be repeated, and reports indicated that the Palestinian prisoner release would proceed in late afternoon. Berger and the Thai hostages were held by the Hamas terror group, while Yehoud and Mozes were held by Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Berger, an Israel Defense Forces surveillance soldier, was abducted from the military’s Nahal Oz base, while Yehoud and Mozes were both taken from their homes in Kibbutz Nir Oz. Mozes is the first male Israeli hostage to be freed in the current deal, which provides for 33 hostages to be released in exchange for up to 2,000 Palestinian prisoners. Living hostages are being released first. Eight of the 33 are understood by Israel to be dead. The Thai hostages were among 31 foreign nationals kidnapped in the Hamas attack who were working in Israel, many of them as farmhands in Israel’s agricultural heartland near the Gaza border, reportedly including some on Nir Oz. |
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