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In Redwood City and Walnut Creek, Israel supporters came together to condemn rocket attacks from Hamas into civilian areas and to mourn the loss of the seven people in Israel who had died so far, according to Haaretz reports. At least 83 Palestinians were killed in the Gaza Strip from Israeli counterattacks, including 14 children, according to Save the Children, an aid nonprofit with a Gaza office.
The Israel Defense Forces said dozens of those killed were terrorists, and that some Palestinian fatalities were caused by misfired rockets from Gaza, the Times of Israel reported.
In a conversation with reporters on Wednesday, President Joe Biden said he hoped the violence would come to an end “sooner rather than later.” He also maintained the position that the State of Israel had the “right to defend itself.” The Biden administration opposed a public discussion by members of the United Nations Security Council on Friday, but then said it would agree to hold a session on Sunday.
IsraelGazaIsrael-generalSan-franciscoCaliforniaUnited-statesJerusalemRedwood-cityTel-avivWalnut-creekGaza-stripState-of-israelApproximately 60 people gathered Sunday in front of San Francisco’s City Hall to protest a French court’s decision in the killing of Sarah Halimi, a 65-year-old Jewish French woman who was the victim of an antisemitic attack in her Paris apartment building in 2017.
The retired doctor and schoolteacher was beaten to death by Kobili Traoré, who reportedly was yelling “Allah Akbar” and also said “I killed the shaitan” before throwing Halimi out of her apartment window. In Islamic belief, a shaitan is an evil spirit that incites humans to sin.
Three weeks ago, France’s highest court ruled that Traoré, a devout Muslim, was unfit to be put on trial because the marijuana he had smoked before the killing made him psychotic. He’s currently in a psychiatric hospital.
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