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Israel admits airstrike that killed 86 people at Gaza refugee camp was 'regrettable mistake' - Sky News

An airstrike that killed 86 people at a Gaza refugee camp was a "regrettable mistake", an Israeli government spokesperson has admitted.

Eylon Levy told Sky News the incident at the Maghazi site on Christmas Eve was down to the use of an "incorrect munition" and "should not have happened".

But he refused to apologise for the loss of life, despite being pressed several times by presenter Niall Paterson.

"We will not apologise for waging this campaign to bring the Hamas terror regime to justice," he said.

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Mr Levy was confirming Israeli media reports that the Israel Defence Forces had admitted using the wrong munition, but said he did not know what type was used.

He said "any civilian deaths are regrettable", but stressed that in war it is "inevitable that mistakes will be made".

Mr Levy reiterated that Israel's war against Hamas would continue until the regime surrenders and releases the remaining hostages its militants took during its attack on 7 October.

Should Hamas surrender, the war could "end tomorrow".

IDF to 'learn lessons' from one of war's bloodiest strikes

The strike on the Maghazi camp was one of the bloodiest of the conflict so far.

Footage taken by a Sky News team of the aftermath showed massive destruction, bodies dragged from beneath the rubble and the shrapnel-scarred faces of children in hospital.

Many of the dead included women and children.

The total number of people killed was reported by the UN, which Mr Levy has accused of "funnelling" civilians into "Hamas strongholds" rather than areas Israel has designated as safe.

Israel has accused Hamas of using schools and hospitals to hide behind civilians - putting them in harm's way.

But the Maghazi strike, which the IDF has pledged to "learn lessons" from, has added to criticism of Israel's conduct.

The UN and human rights groups have said civilians are not being adequately protected, with Hamas health officials claiming more than 21,100 people have been killed in Gaza since the war began.

Even in areas where Israel has told Gazans to move to for safety, attacks are taking place.

Mr Levy insisted the Maghazi strike was an "exception" to the rule Israel does everything possible to protect civilians.

"We want civilians to go to areas where they can be protected, we do not want them inside Hamas strongholds" he added.

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Prague gunman reportedly confessed to murdering a father and baby in suicide note - Sky News

The gunman who killed 14 people at a university in Prague before killing himself, reportedly left a suicide note confessing to the murder of a father and his baby six days earlier, Czech media have reported.

A note found at the home of David Kozak, 24, was said to have contained the admission he shot and killed a 32-year-old man and two-month-old girl on 15 December in the Klanovice woods, close to Czech capital, according to Denik N.

The paper quoted a police spokesperson, who said: "I can confirm that we secured a letter in Hostoun where the perpetrator wrote that he committed the attack.

"The contents of the document cannot be made public at this time due to the ongoing investigation into the entire incident."

Police had previously believed Kozak was linked to the killing of the pair, adding they regretted not being able to get him earlier.

He is also accused of killing his own father just hours before carrying out the mass shooting at Charles University.

Kozak murdered 14 people in his attack on 21 December.

A further 25 were injured, including three foreign nationals - two from Saudi Arabia and one from the Netherlands.

Building evacuated as police searched for student

Following the discovery of the father's body, police ordered the evacuation of one of the university buildings, where the gunman was due to have a lecture at 2pm on Thursday.

According to Mr Vondrasek, the evacuation was completed at 2.22pm, and after this, police continued to search for the student.

However, at 2.59pm, gunshots were reported in another university building, the Charles University Faculty of Arts near Jan Palach Square.

At one point the gunman shot and injured three people outside the building with a long-range weapon and police fired back.

As officers approached his location, he was armed with a shotgun and killed himself, authorities said.

Police found his body while searching the building.

"Piles of ammunition - unbelievable quantities" were found at the scene, an official said.

They added it appears he was inspired by a terrorist attack in Russia.

A day of mourning was declared on Saturday 23 December, as a result of the country's worst mass shooting in history.

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Czech mass shooting: Gunman confessed to shooting baby in woods - BBC

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The gunman who killed 14 people at a university in Prague confessed to an earlier double murder in his suicide note, Czech police have said.

The note found in David Kozak's home contained a confession he had shot dead a man and his baby daughter in woods near the city on 15 December, six days before the Charles University attack.

Police said he had been on a list of 4,000 suspects for their murders.

Kozak also killed his father, bringing the total number of his victims to 17.

The attack at the university on 21 December is the worst mass shooting in Czech history.

Kozak, a 24-year-old masters history student at the university, killed himself after being surrounded by armed police.

As first reported in the newspaper Denik N, the note was discovered by police in Kozak's home on 21 December - the same day as the attack.

It contained a confession he had shot dead the pair in Klanovice woods on the eastern outskirts of the capital a week previously.

The victims are reported to be a 32-year-old man and a two-month-old girl, according to Czech media.

Detectives had said it was "highly probable" that the gunman had also carried out the Klanovice killings. This was later confirmed by ballistics.

They said Kozak had been on a long list of potential suspects whom they wanted to interview and expressed regret they had been unable to get to him earlier.

A woman mourns outside the building of Philosophical Faculty of Charles University following a mass shooting earlier this week, on December 23, 2023 in Prague, Czech Republic.

Last week's attack at the university centred on the Faculty of Arts building on Jan Palach Square, where Kozak was seen opening fire with a rifle from the rooftop.

University staff and students were told to barricade themselves in during the attack.

Thirteen people died at the university, while a fourteenth victim died from their injuries in hospital. A further 25 people were wounded, police said.

Police have not released the possible motive for the killings, saying the investigation is ongoing.

Czech Interior Minister Vit Rakusan has called on the mayors of all towns and villages to cancel New Year's fireworks displays in light of the massacre.

On social media, he called on all Czechs to mark the event in a peaceful fashion, saying it was the least the nation could do for those traumatised by the killings.

The attack at the university had one of the largest death tolls of any mass shooting by a lone gunman in Europe this century:

Norway, July 2011 Anders Behring Breivik killed 77 people by planting a car bomb that killed eight at an Oslo government building and then shooting dead 69 more, most of them teenagers, at an island summer camp run by the ruling Labour Party's youth wing
Germany, April 2002 Robert Steinhauser, 19, killed 16 people - 13 teachers, two pupils, and a policemen - at the Gutenberg Gymnasium secondary school in the city of Erfurt. He had been expelled from the school the previous autumn
Germany, March 2009 Tim Kretschmer, 17, killed 15 people in a shooting that began at his former school in the town of Winnenden, near Stuttgart. He shot dead nine students and three teachers at the school before going on to the nearby town of Wendlingen, where he shot another three passers-by.
Switzerland, September 2001 Friedrich Leibacher entered the regional parliament building in the city of Zug dressed in a police uniform and shot dead 14 people and injured another 10
Serbia, April 2013 Ljubisa Bogdanovic shot dead thirteen people, including a two-year-old boy, and injured his wife in a village outside Belgrade. Bogdanovic was a military veteran who had fought with Serb forces in the Croatian War of Independence in the early 1990s.

Founded in 1347, Charles University is the oldest and largest university in the Czech Republic, and one of the oldest such institutions in Europe.

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Kenyan police investigate four suspected killings on Del Monte farm - The Guardian

Kenyan police are investigating four suspected killings on a Del Monte pineapple farm after bodies were retrieved from a river on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

It follows a joint investigation by the Guardian and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism into allegations of brutal assaults and killings by security guards at the farm in Thika, which is the single largest exporter of Kenyan produce to the world.

This month the Guardian revealed that human rights groups were investigating another death at the farm after a man’s body was found in its dam in November.

Friends and relatives of the four men found dead on 24 and 25 December urged the government to intervene to explain how they ended up in the river.

The Muranga county police commander, David Kainga Mathiu, said: “Kenyan police have launched investigations into the killings of people inside the Del Monte pineapple farm.” He told Reuters that no suspects had yet been arrested.

On Wednesday, Del Monte said it was “cooperating with Kenyan authorities as they continue to investigate the circumstances surrounding the four bodies retrieved from the Thika River last week. The postmortems are still under way. Our security footage from when the men attempted to steal pineapple shows no foul play on Del Monte’s part and instead shows them running away towards the river, after dropping bags of stolen pineapple, as they tried to run away from security guards.”

It added: “Organised crime, particularly around pineapple theft, is becoming increasingly rampant in the area. We are actively seeking additional ways to help tackle organised crime as safely and effectively as possible.”

The company, which employs 6,000 people in Kenya, said it was working closely with local authorities and “takes our social responsibility very seriously there, as we do everywhere else where we operate”.

A search had been going on for the missing men for several days when two bodies were found in the river on Sunday, and another two were found on Monday, the independent broadcaster Citizen TV reported.

“When we found the first body, we started screaming,” Rhoda Wayua told Citizen TV. “After a while, the second body washed up. It was that of my son.”

Another relative, Peter Kamanzi, claimed that at least one of the victims had injuries that may have contributed to his death. “It’s quite visible that this boy was seriously beaten up,” Kamanzi said.

The body of Peter Mutuku Mutisya, 25, was found on 17 November, four days after friends said he had gone there to steal pineapples. A spokesperson for Del Monte said it had “fully cooperated with Kenyan authorities throughout its investigation last month” and offered its “heartfelt condolences to the family”.

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'Settlers armed with long rifles, guns, knives and machetes came': West Bank Palestinian family driven from their home - Sky News

Subhi Shaledeh and his extended family had around 500 acres of prime grazing land in the Occupied West Bank, in the village of Janoub.

They owned olive trees and hundreds of sheep. The land had been in the family for decades.

But overnight they lost their livelihood and their and land.

Subhi says on 9 October, two days after the 7 October attack by Hamas, settlers from an Israeli outpost, which is classed as illegal under both Israeli and international law, stormed their land and destroyed their homes.

"Over 50 settlers armed with long rifles, guns, knives and machetes came," he says. "They entered out homes, set our houses ablaze and took away our livestock."

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The family of nine, including seven children, along with around 70 members of the extended Shaledeh clan, were suddenly homeless.

"The settlers took advantage of the war in Gaza. They expelled us from our land and told us to leave, 'this is an open war', they said."

With nothing to defend themselves with and no one to call on, the family was forced to immediately flee.

They haven't been able to return, the military has closed the roads, an Israeli checkpoint blocks the way, and the Shaledeh family say outpost settlers have taken over their land.

The Palestinian family is now renting one room for their large family, in a nearby village. They can't harvest their olives or sell their sheep. Everything is gone.

"We informed the Red Cross, Palestinian and Israeli authorities and we filed complaints," Subhi says. "We don't know what will happen."

It's been the deadliest year on record for Palestinians in the Occupied West Bank. Around 500 have been killed in settler violence and raids by the Israeli military. Around 30 Israelis have also been killed in Israeli-Palestinian violence.

Israel argues that extreme settler violence is carried out by a small minority and the Israeli military raids target Palestinian militant groups.

Subhi Shaledeh is a broken man. With a large family to support this proud Palestinian landowner has been forced into poverty, his land and his freedom all taken away.

He hopes and prays to get his land back one day, but with international human rights organisations like the UN saying settlers act with growing impunity in the occupied West Bank, Subhi's hopes are fading fast.

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