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Hebron: IOF execute two children, detain two others seriously injured

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Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) on Tuesday night have executed two Palestinian children in Hebron, under claims that they tried to stab a soldier in Kiryat Arba illegal settlement.

The children are Bashar Al-Ja’bari (15) and his cousin Hussam Al-Ja’bari (17).

Ynet Israeli newspaper said that the children had approached Bait Al-Salam area near the settlement, and allegedly tried to stab soldiers who immediately shot and killed them.

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Local sources said that in addition to the execution of the two children, IOF are detaining two other Palestinians who are badly injured — from the same family.

 

Settlers have carried numerous violent attacks against the Palestinian family homes in Hebron since Monday night, which included gunfire and stone-hurling.

With the two children, IOF and settlers have killed five Palestinians today. In addition, an Israeli settler was killed in an alleged run-over operative,  after he was seen attacking cars with a stick near the Gush Etzyon settlement south of Bethlehem.

Lonesome Traveler (J Haeske) posted a photo: Jemez Pueblo, New Mexico Jemez Pueblo is one of the…

Lonesome Traveler (J Haeske) posted a photo:

Jemez Pueblo, New Mexico
Jemez Pueblo is one of the 19 Rio Grande Pueblos in New Mexico. Photography in the pueblo itself is not allowed (save from a few occasions throughout the year). The only place you are allowed to take photos is outside of the excellent and informative Walatowa Visitor Center a little bit outside of the actual pueblo limits on Hwy 4. Those red rocks are amazingly beautiful.

Lonesome Traveler (J Haeske) posted a photo: Jemez Pueblo, New Mexico Jemez Pueblo is one of the…

Lonesome Traveler (J Haeske) posted a photo:

Jemez Pueblo, New Mexico
Jemez Pueblo is one of the 19 Rio Grande Pueblos in New Mexico. Photography in the pueblo itself is not allowed (save from a few occasions throughout the year). The only place you are allowed to take photos is outside of the excellent and informative Walatowa Visitor Center a little bit outside of the actual pueblo limits on Hwy 4. Those red rocks are amazingly beautiful.

Non, merci! Why refugees avoid France

201510201411500546t.jpg PARIS, 20 October 2015 (IRIN) – While Germany expects to receive up to one million asylum seekers by the end of 2015, France is preparing for only 65,000, the same number it received last year. Just a few years ago, France had among the highest number of claims in Europe, but its lack of accommodation and support for asylum seekers as well as long wait times for applications to be processed have make it a less attractive option for many refugees.

Arizona struggles to find a credible court witness to defend “abortion reversal” law

Remember that law Arizona passed this year requiring abortion providers to inform lie to their patients that it’s possible to “reverse” a medication abortion? Now, the state’s attempt to defend the law against a court challenge is floundering because it’s having trouble finding anyone to defend the law who qualifies as an expert witness

Attorneys for the State of Arizona asked the court to postpone the trial, in part because its primary expert to defend the law lacked the “publication and research background and experience” to be qualified as an expert witness.

Federal courts are required to determine whether an expert is qualified to testify, including whether the expert’s methodology is sufficiently reliable to support the proposed opinions. The court must further decide whether the expert’s proposed testimony will, through the application of scientific, technical, or specialized expertise, assist the court in understanding the evidence or determining a fact at issue.

Dr. Mary Davenport of El Sobrante, California, is the State of Arizona’s principal witness in support of the measure. A member of the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians & Gynecologists, Davenport bases her claims that a medically induced abortion can be reversed on a single anecdotal study of six patients, four of whom Davenport claims were able to carry pregnancies to term, despite ingesting mifepristone, by taking a dose of progesterone shortly after ingesting mifepristone.

No other scientific data exists to support Davenport’s claim.

While a study of six patients apparently doesn’t meet the court’s standard of evidence based on “reliable methods” that have “widespread acceptance,” it was plenty for the Arizona state lawmakers who passed the law.

As Robin Marty wrote at the time, this law puts the anti-choice movement’s hypocrisy on full display. Most anti-choice restrictions — telemedicine bans, admitting privilege requirements, etc. — are justified under the very flimsy guise of protecting patient safety. “Meanwhile, these same people are suggesting that patients Google a website, call a hotline, be hooked up with a doctor they have never seen and rush straight to a place to be injected with massive amounts of hormones without any FDA approval of that procedure, long-term studies of the effects, or even much of a testing pool of subjects to draw data from.”

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