United States (US) airstrikes hit a Medecins Sans Frontieres hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, raising grave concerns about whether US forces took sufficient precautions to identify and avoid striking the facility.
The hospital was hit several times in the early morning hours last Saturday, during sustained bombing that was apparently aimed at insurgent forces in the vicinity. At least 12 medical staff and 10 patients – three of them children – were killed. The hospital was treating 105 patients at the time of the attack.
It’s a positive sign that the subject of hate crimes was given such prominence by the European Commission at a recent human rights symposium. But we don’t need a conference to know the failures in Europe’s response to hate crimes against Jews, Muslims, and other minorities. Beyond words, how can the cancer of hate crimes be tackled?
Unidentified assailants shot Eitam and Naama Henkin to death as they drove along a road frequented by Israeli settlers near the northern West Bank city of Nablus. The shooting was the fourth fatal attack against Israeli civilians in the West Bank in the last five months.
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