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Following a week of chaos and destruction of Jewish-owned businesses, locals regroup and try to move forward

Chairman, Caretaker and Extraordinary Convention Committee of the ruling All Progressives Congress, who is also the governor of Yobe State

From the blog of Diana Lipton at The Times of Israel

The riots that erupted during “Operation Guardian of the Walls” were a serious development, and one that must not be ignored by the Israeli government.

One has to look at the bigger picture, he said. “That day, tens of thousands of rioters flooded the streets of Lod, Akko, Jerusalem, Haifa, Jaffa, Bat Yam and Umm el-Fahm, and even if the police had had hundreds of additional officers, unfortunately, we still would not have been able to be everywhere.” The Israel Police and Border Police, he said, were simply unable to cover such “intense” events over such a wide area. “It was impossible given the existing manpower,” he said. Indeed...

“Things need to be put on the table: There’s a nationalist element here that is very troubling,” says Border Police Commissioner Maj. Gen. Amir Cohen.

Share Not fewer than seven persons including a 2-year-old have been confirmed killed following the outbreak of Cholera in Gombe State. Six others are still receiving treatment in some health facilities in Gombe. The disclosure was made to newsmen on Thursday by the state Commissioner for Health, Dr. Habu Dahiru, who added that 32 other persons who were affected have been treated and discharged to continue management at home under close monitoring by health officials. The commissioner explained ...

AP, Al Jazeera and the mainstream media are tools in Hamass war against Israel   Atia Mohammed/Flash90 Smoke rising from the Al-Jalaa tower in Gaza after an Israeli airstrike on the building, which housed Hamas operatives and several media outlets, including the "Associated Press" and "Al Jazeera," May 15, 2021. (JNS) - Journalists are expressing their outrage that the 12-story Al-Jalaa building housing the Gaza headquarters of Associated Press and Al Jazeera was targeted during retaliato...

The calls came at an unprecedented pace: from a woman afraid for her mother’s safety, from a parent anxious about what to tell her children, from a man who was unnerved by the news but felt unable to turn it off. ERAN, an Israeli nonprofit that provides what it calls “psychological first aid,” received 7,200 hotline calls during the recent flareup of violence in Israel. That was more than twice as many as the hotline typically gets, a testimony to the deep fear and anxiety that gripped Is...

Sadness turns to resolve and optimism after Acre violence Sadness turns to resolve and optimism after Acre violence ‘I don’t have an ounce of anger in me about this, no frustration or bitterness,’ says owner of the destroyed Arabesque Arts and Residency Center. May 27, 2021, 7:00 am Evan Fallenberg (back row, second from left) and Micha Fallenberg (in front of his father) with staff of Arabesque after it was destroyed by a mob. Photo courtesy of Evan Fallenberg