The Israeli Army (IDF) claims that Hamas militants beheaded infants during an attack on the Be'eri settlement on October 7. this . said IDF spokesman Jonathan Conricus “We have received very disturbing reports from the field that babies have been beheaded. And I admit that it took us some time to really understand and verify these messages. It was hard to believe that even Hamas could commit such a barbaric act.

Who is to blame for this? On October 7, militants of the Hamas terrorist group, controlling the gas sector, attacked Israel and broke through the border. They managed to capture dozens of soldiers and civilians. The country's authorities admitted that they were not ready to attack. At the same time, the Mossad (department of intelligence and special tasks of Israel) is considered one of the most effective special services in the world.

Egypt has refused to open humanitarian corridors for refugees from Gaza. this Reuters reports , citing sources in the Egyptian security service. Negotiations between the Egyptian authorities, the United States and representatives of other countries on the delivery of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip took place the day before.

The presidential decree obliging Russian exporters to sell their foreign currency earnings will not be published. this to the Faridaily telegram channel . reported Vladimir Putin’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov “No, it [the decree] will not be published. It is chipboard [for official use]. For obvious reasons, the list of these companies will not be published,” Peskov said.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) suspended the Russian Olympic Committee from participation in its work. This is reported on the IOC website.

Ramzan Kadyrov published a video of his meeting with Nikita Zhuravel, accused of burning the Koran. The head of Chechnya doubted that he wanted to convert to Islam, calling him “shaitan” and a “vile defiler.” In the 15-second video, Zhuravel, who has a shaved head and lowers his head, says that he wants to study Islam or “at least try.” After this, Kadyrov himself appears in the frame, clarifying whether he wants to convert to Islam. “Yes,” says Zhuravel, without looking up.

In Kazakhstan, Yakut anti-war activist and leader of the punk band Crispy Newspaper Aikhal Ammosov (Igor Ivanov) was sent to a pre-trial detention center. this . reported Journalist Evgenia Baltatarova “In Aikhal’s case, the most important thing is to find out under what article he was placed in a pre-trial detention center. If the old one is about discrediting, then it is not deportation, but in Russia they could sew a new one on him, for example, extremism,” wrote Baltatarova.

At the Patriarchal and Synodal Residence in the Danilov Monastery in Moscow, a portrait of Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus' is presented among angels against the background of Andrei Rublev’s “Holy Trinity” icon. A photograph of the painting was published by theologian Andrei Kuraev. “This one’s already gone crazy. It is clear that the original of Rublev’s “Trinity” is outdated and unnecessary. And it's also G-R.

The bodies of all 59 killed on October 5 during a missile attack on the village of Groza in the Kharkov region have been identified. This was announced by the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Igor Klimenko. “Pensioners, doctors, farmers, teachers, entrepreneurs. All are civilians. In some families, several generations died at once,” he wrote in his Telegram channel.

Near Belgorod, three people died due to a drone attack, including a child. Two more were injured, said the governor of the Belgorod region, Vyacheslav Gladkov. “At night, previously as a result of the fall of an unmanned aerial vehicle, on the outskirts of Belgorod, two residential buildings were actually destroyed and several residential buildings and cars were damaged as a result of the explosion, but most importantly, three people were killed, one of them a small child.

Chechen Sara Bibulatova, who fled domestic violence, managed to leave Russia three days before the police came for her to the shelter where she was hiding from her relatives. This was reported by the SK SOS Crisis Group, whose employees helped the girl escape from home and leave Russia. For the first 19 years of her life, Bibulatova lived with her family in Baku, where she regularly faced violence from relatives. There the girl turned to UN staff and moved to live in a shelter.

Military man Ruslan Kachlavov, who fought in Ukraine, was accused of looting on an especially large scale (clause b, part 4, article 356.1 of the Criminal Code). this reports Mediazona . He was sent under house arrest, Yulia Yakovleva, press secretary of the Rostov-on-Don military court, told reporters. The publication notes that this is the first known case in which a Russian serviceman will be tried for looting.

The taxi ordering app Yango, owned by Yandex, is being checked in the Netherlands due to suspicions that Russian intelligence services are using it to collect data on European users. about this . writes Bloomberg “We can confirm that we have opened an investigation into Yango,” a spokesman for the Dutch Personal Data Protection Authority told the agency, but declined to provide details.

The Linköping District Court in central Sweden has, for the first time in the country's history, convicted a man who filmed a video of the burning of a Koran. This is stated in a message on the court's website. It clarifies that the 27-year-old man was found guilty of inciting ethnic hatred and sentenced to a suspended sentence. The reason for the criminal prosecution was the video recording that he published on Twitter and YouTube on September 11, 2020.

Israeli airline El Al announced that it will operate flights on the Jewish Sabbath, Saturday, for the first time since 1982, the Times of Israel reports . The airline clarified that we are talking about two free flights from New York and Bangkok, on which Israeli reservists will be able to return to their homeland. El Al said the airline itself will pay for the flights together with major US financial institutions.