The Times of Israel publishes Wednesday’s progress as they unfold.
The hamas army wing, Izz al-Din al-Qassam, mourns the death of a member of the coronavirus and calls him the organization’s “fair knight.”
“Rabah Hassan Shaaban Lebed, 61, of the Ribat Mosque in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip … died today … after being inflamed with the coronavirus, to pass to his Lord after a full blessed of gifts, jihad, sacrifice and defense of al-Aqsa, all by God, ” said the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades in a statement.
– Aaron Boxerman
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo held closed-door meetings with Bahrain’s royal circle of relatives on Wednesday and plans more with senior U.S. officials amid the Trump administration’s tension in recognizing Israel from Arab countries.
Pompeo has already visited Israel and Sudan about this throughout the Middle East, including him providing a message recorded in Jerusalem supporting President Donald Trump’s re-election crusade for the Republican National Convention. The speech highlighted its own recommendation to American diplomats to be apolitical and to crush a long culture of imcomponence in the former secretaries of state component.
In Manama, Pompeo tweeted that he met king Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa and his son, Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, on Wednesday morning.
“We discussed the importance of peacebuilding and regional stability, the importance of Gulf unity, and the fight opposed to Iran’s pernicious influence in the region,” Pompeo writes.
Pompeo also said he had discussed efforts to “promote greater unity among Gulf countries.” It was then that their plane flew over Qatar towards the United Arab Emirates, one of the 4 Arab countries with Bahrain that are now boycotting Doha after a political conflict of years. As a general rule, Bahrain and Emirati aircraft avoid Qatar’s airspace because they have closed their own airspace to Qatar Airways.
– Secretary Pompeo (@SecPompeo) 26 August 2020
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Health in Gaza reports the first coVID-19 death since the government detected coronavirus transmission on the network this week.
Gaza’s ministry of fitness said the deceased was a 61-year-old man who had received respiratory assistance and died while being transferred to a special isolation center.
The Hebrew media knew him as a member of the army wing of the terrorist group Hamas.
The ministry says nine new local bodies were detected Wednesday, bringing the total to 15. Authorities reported more than a hundred instances and one death since March, but during this week they were all connected to quarantine centres for returning travellers.
– with agencies
Israeli police said the alleged culprit of the open-air attack, Petah Tikva, is a Palestinian who entered Israel illegally.
“The suspect has been investigated and the motives [of the attack] are under investigation,” police said.
The victim, a 35-year-old Israeli, was seriously injured in the stabbing. He was taken to Beilinson Medical Center in Petah Tikva.
The hospital says he’s being treated in his trauma room.
– Judah Ari Gross
Hurricane Laura is expected to temporarily turn into a category four “catastrophic” hurricane, even more powerful than expected, as it heads toward Texas and Louisiana, accumulating wind and swirling water in much of the Gulf of Mexico.
Satellite photographs show that Laura has a “tremendous hurricane” in recent hours, which threatens to destroy homes and sink entire communities. It has experienced a remarkable intensification, “and there is no sign that it will prevent soon,” the National Hurricane Center said in a briefing.
Laura’s maximum sustained winds exceed 175 km/h with high gusts, according to meteorologists.
“We expect widespread power cuts, fallen trees. Homes and businesses will be damaged,” said Donald Jones, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Lake Charles, Louisiana, near the goal of Laura’s forecasting trajectory.
“I tell you this is going to be a very situation, ” said Jones.
A category four will cause catastrophic damage: “Power outages will last for weeks or even months. Most of the domain will be uninhabitable for weeks or months,” the weather service said.
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Britain will conduct an independent investigation into the alleged poisoning of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said.
“We want a complete and transparent investigation into what happened. The perpetrators will have to be held accountable and the UK will join foreign efforts to do justice,” he said.
– AFP
A man is discovered in critical condition after being stabbed at the Segula crossing outside petah Tikva’s gates, according to doctors.
Police say a suspect has been arrested and is investigating cases of the attack to determine if it was a terrorist attack.
According to the Magen David Adom Ambulance Service, he is about 35 years old.
Doctors practice CPR on the man while taking him to Beilinson Medical Center in Petah Tikva, the MDA said.
– Judah Ari Gross
The hamas army wing, Izz al-Din al-Qassam, mourns the death of a member of the coronavirus and calls him the organization’s “fair knight.”
“Rabah Hassan Shaaban Lebed, 61, of the Ribat Mosque in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip … died today … after being inflamed with the coronavirus, to pass to his Lord after a full blessed of gifts, jihad, sacrifice and defense of al-Aqsa, all by God, ” said the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades in a statement.
– Aaron Boxerman