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• Palestinians flee Israel’s ongoing raid on West Bank refugee camp as several injured in Tel Aviv car attack 

Thousands of Palestinian residents fled the Jenin refugee camp in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Tuesday as Palestinian health officials said the death toll from Israel’s biggest foray into the countryside in nearly two decades had risen to 10. Meanwhile, at least eight people were injured in a car attack on a crowded bus stop in the city of Tel Aviv, which the militant group Hamas said was a response to the ongoing raid on Jenin. 

As Israel’s operation inside the Jenin camp, which is located inside the West Bank city of the same name, continued for a second day, the Israeli army said it was seizing weapons and destroying command posts and tunnels belonging to Palestinian militant groups. Streets were vandalized inside the camp and shots and explosions were heard sporadically throughout the day as Israeli troops and Palestinian militants clashed, though the fighting was reported to have been less intense than on Monday.

  Israeli forces intervene with Palestinians gathered to protest an ongoing Israeli raid on the Jenin refugee camp, in Jenin, West Bank, on July 4, 2023. Jenin Mayor Nidal Al-Obeidi said about 4,000 people had fled the refugee camp to seek refuge elsewhere, and Palestinians in the West Bank observed a general strike to protest the raid, according to The Associated Press.

“We are alarmed by the scale of the air and ground operations taking place in Jenin and continuing today in the West Bank, and especially by the airstrikes hitting the densely populated refugee camp,” said Vanessa Hugenin, a spokeswoman for the office. UN humanitarian. . She said that she had heard reports that three children were among the dead. Palestinian officials said those killed were between the ages of 16 and 23, NEWSING. XYZ‘ partner network BBC News reported. The charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said roads in the Jenin camp had been blocked or destroyed and paramedics were forced to travel on foot amid gunfire and drone attacks. to reach the wounded.

• Women’s 4th of July Hot Dog Eating Contest Won by Miki Sudo with 39.5 Hot Dogs and Buns

Competitors Ready for Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest

Miki Sudo scored 39.5 hot dogs and buns in 10 minutes to win Nathan’s Famous 4th of July Women’s Competition hot dog eating contest for the ninth time on Tuesday. Sudo failed to break his own record of 48.5 hot dogs and buns, which he set at the Independence Day event in 2020.

Fifteen women tried to gobble down as many hot dogs and buns as they could Tuesday morning at an outdoor stage set up on Coney Island, New York, near the area’s amusement park and boardwalk.

Last year I sweat polished 40 hot dogs and buns to win the contest.

The men’s competition is scheduled for Tuesday afternoon.

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• Pence Says ‘I Don’t Remember Any Pressure’ From Trump On State Governors After 2020 Election

Former Vice President Mike Pence told “Face the Nation” that while he called Arizona Governor Doug Ducey after the 2020 election, he did so to “check in, not just with Governor Ducey, but also with other governors and states that were going through the legal process of reviewing their electoral results”.

• Russian investigative reporter Elena Milashina ‘savagely’ beaten in Chechnya, rights groups say

Moscow — An award-winning Russian investigative journalist is in hospital after being severely beaten by armed assailants during a trip to Chechnya, the Memorial human rights group said Tuesday.

“Elena Milashina’s fingers have been broken and she sometimes loses consciousness. She has bruises all over her body,” the group said on social media.

The incident occurred early Tuesday morning as Milashina and Alexander Nemov, a lawyer, were traveling from the airport.

Then-First Lady Michelle Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry pose for a photo with Elena Milashina (C) of Russia after presenting her with the Secretary of State’s International Award for Women of Courage inside the US Department of State’s Dean Acheson Auditorium In a March 8, 2013 file photo in Washington.

“They were savagely kicked, including in the face, received death threats and were threatened with a gun to their head. Their equipment was taken away and vandalized,” Memorial said.

The Committee Against Torture, a human rights group, published photos of Milashina in hospital with her head shaved and covered with a green dye used on cuts and her hands bandaged.

The Reporters Without Borders media rights group said it was “appalled by the savage attack” on Milashina.

Milashina’s newspaper, Novaya Gazeta, Russia’s leading independent publication, confirmed the incident. She said that she and Nemov were currently in hospital in the Chechen capital Grozny.

Novaya Gazeta said he was in Grozny to attend the sentencing of Zarema Musayeva, the mother of three exiles critical of Chechen strongman Ramzan Kadyrov.

Musayeva was detained by Chechen forces in January last year in Nizhny Novgorod, a city 1,120 miles north of Chechnya.

Novaya Gazeta in February last year said that Milashina had to leave Russia temporarily after receiving death threats from Chechen leaders. Chechnya is a Russian republic led by Ramzan Kadyrov, a military officer and former warlord closely allied with the Kremlin. He recently sent forces to support Vladimir Putin’s army as Russian Wagner mercenary group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin staged a brief rebellion.

Milashina has covered rights abuses in Chechnya for Novaya Gazeta for years.

Novaya Gazeta, whose editor-in-chief Dmitry Muratov won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2021, has seen six journalists and collaborators die since 2000. including investigative reporter Anna Politkovskaya.

By focusing on rights abuses in Chechnya, Milashina has followed in the footsteps of Politkovskaya, a fierce critic of Kremlin policies in Chechnya who was shot dead in 2006.

Russia’s human rights commissioner, Tatyana Moskalkova, was quoted by Russian news agencies as saying the incident “must be carefully investigated and the perpetrators brought to justice.”

Moskalkova said Milashina was being taken to another hospital in a nearby region.

“The journalist’s safety will be fully guaranteed,” Moskalkova said.