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Fire kills 4 refugee children in Iraq's Kirkuk

BAGHDAD , 05 Feb 2019 [Fik/News Sources]:  Four refugee children died on Tuesday when their tent caught fire in Iraq's northern Kirkuk province, according to a local police officer.  "Four children from the same family lost their lives when their tent caught fire in Nazrawa camp," Police Captain Hamed al-Obaidi told Anadolu Agency.  He said the parents of the dead children sustained burns and were transferred to hospital for treatment.  Local media outlets said a heater had exploded and caused the blaze.  In the summer of 2014, the Daesh terrorist group seized one third of Iraq's territory and left around 5.8 million people internally displaced.  After a three-year war, the Iraqi government declared late in 2017 that Daesh's military presence in Iraq had been all but

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Israeli navy arrests 3 fishermen off Gaza coast

GAZA, 12 May 2019 [Fik/News Sources]: Israeli naval forces on Saturday detained three Palestinian fishermen off the coast of the blockaded Gaza Strip, according to a local official. Israeli gunboats opened fire on Palestinian fishing boats west of Gaza City and arrested three fishermen, Nizar Ayyash, head of Gaza’s fishermen union, told Anadolu Agency. The cause of the arrest remains unclear and the Israeli military has yet to issue an official statement. According to Palestinian figures, roughly 50,000 inhabitants of Gaza earn their living through fishing. On Friday, the Israeli authorities allowed Gaza fishermen to resume fishing after a week-long hiatus in the wake of military escalation between Israel and Gaza-based resistance factions. After Israel's 2014 onslaught against the Hamas-run Gaza Strip (in which

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Israeli PM rejects Knesset vote for early elections

JERUSALEM, 28 May 2019 [Fik/News Sources]: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday night vowed to do everything possible to build a right-wing block coalition and avoid going to an early election, Israeli daily Jerusalem post reported. According to the newspaper, Netanyahu criticized right-wing Yisrael Beytenu party leader Avigdor Liberman, whose long-awaited meeting with the prime minister on Monday evening ended in 22 minutes. “There is no reason to paralyze the country for another half year and waste billions when there is a solution,” Benjamin Netanyahu said in a speech at the Knesset (Israel’s parliament). Netanyahu added: "For semantics, you don't go to elections. It can be solved in two minutes."  Liberman, meanwhile, promised his party will support the vote to disperse

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