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Israeli National Security Minister Storms into Jerusalem Holy Site

TOPSHOT - A cat walks near of the Dome of the Rock mosque inside the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem, on July 15, 2024. (Photo by RONALDO SCHEMIDT / AFP)
TOPSHOT - A cat walks near of the Dome of the Rock mosque inside the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem, on July 15, 2024. (Photo by RONALDO SCHEMIDT / AFP)
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Israeli National Security Minister Storms into Jerusalem Holy Site

TOPSHOT - A cat walks near of the Dome of the Rock mosque inside the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem, on July 15, 2024. (Photo by RONALDO SCHEMIDT / AFP)
TOPSHOT - A cat walks near of the Dome of the Rock mosque inside the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem, on July 15, 2024. (Photo by RONALDO SCHEMIDT / AFP)

Israel’s far-right national security minister stormed into Jerusalem’s most sensitive holy site on Thursday morning, threatening to disrupt Gaza cease fire talks.
The Palestinian WAFA news agency quoted witnesses as saying that Israeli minister Itamar Ben-Gvir stormed into the Jerusalem hilltop compound of al Aqsa Mosque accompanied by Israeli police.
It’s a third time for Ben-Gvir to storm into Al Aqsa after two similar encounters on July 27 2023, and May 22 2023.
The move by Itamar Ben-Gvir threatens to disrupt sensitive talks aimed at reaching a cease fire in the 9-month-old Israel-Hamas war.

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Passenger Train Derails in India, Killing at Least 2 and Injuring 20 Others

Police and rescuers arrive at the site of a passenger train accident near Gonda, 200 kilometers from Lucknow, India, Thursday, July 18, 2024. (AP Photo)
Police and rescuers arrive at the site of a passenger train accident near Gonda, 200 kilometers from Lucknow, India, Thursday, July 18, 2024. (AP Photo)
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Passenger Train Derails in India, Killing at Least 2 and Injuring 20 Others

Police and rescuers arrive at the site of a passenger train accident near Gonda, 200 kilometers from Lucknow, India, Thursday, July 18, 2024. (AP Photo)
Police and rescuers arrive at the site of a passenger train accident near Gonda, 200 kilometers from Lucknow, India, Thursday, July 18, 2024. (AP Photo)

A passenger train derailed on Thursday in northern India, killing at least two passengers and injuring 20 others, a railroad official said. The cause of the accident is being investigated.
Naveen Kumar, a state relief commissioner, said dozens of rescuers, a 40-member team of doctors and paramedics, and 15 ambulances have reached the site of the accident. The injured have been moved to hospitals and government health centers in the area, he said.
The train was on its way to Dibrugarh, a town in northeastern Assam state, from the northern city of Chandigarh when it derailed near the town of Gonda, causing six coaches to derail and two to overturn, Kumar said. Gonda is about 120 kilometers northeast of Lucknow, the state capital.
Television images showed scores of passengers standing next to derailed coaches waiting for rescuers.

"Our first priority is to complete relief and rescue work there as quickly as possible," railways spokesman Pankaj Singh told the ANI news agency.
In June, a cargo train rammed into a passenger train in the eastern state of West Bengal, killing nine people and injuring dozens of others. Investigators said the driver of the cargo train, who was among the dead, disregarded a signal and caused the collision.
Last year, a train crash in eastern India killed over 280 people in one of the country’s deadliest accidents in decades.