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Milestone school Dhaka mourned by Air Crushes: At least 22 dead including children, pilot dead; more then 171 hospitalized<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Anup Roy:<\/strong> At least 22 people, including children, were dead and more than 170 people were injured after a Bangladesh Air Force (BAF) training aircraft burst into flames after crashing into the primary school building inside the Milestone College campus at Diabari in the capital’s Uttara this afternoon in 21st July. According to the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the F-7 BGI training aircraft crashed after it took off from BAF Base Bir Uttom AK Khandker at 1:06pm. Soon after, the fighter jet faced a technical malfunction and went down. Soon after, personnel from the Bangladesh Army, Fire Service and Civil Defence, police, and Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) rushed to the scene and started working jointly to rescue the victims and douse the flames. Firefighters reached the scene at around 1:22pm — four to five minutes after the plane crashed between 1:10pm and 1:15pm. Dozens of injured people were rushed to different nearby hospitals and to Combined Military Hospital (CMH), Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH), and the National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery (NIBPS), where they are receiving treatment. Those admitted to NIBPS include victims with burn injuries ranging from 5% to 100%. Eight of them are in critical condition. 7 bodies unidentified, DNA test to confirm identities . At a media briefing around 8pm, Sayedur Rahman, special assistant to the chief adviser, said seven bodies remain unidentified, and DNA samples will be collected to confirm their identities. “Three burn victims have died at the burn institute, and the confirmed death toll currently stands at 17 but the number may vary,” he said. However, he mentioned that there are slight inconsistencies in the reported number of deaths. Sayedur said 88 people have been admitted to seven hospitals following the devastating plane crash. Of them, he said 25 are in critical condition, primarily being treated at the National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery and the Combined Military Hospital (CMH). He stated that nine patients are in intensive care units (ICUs), and starting tomorrow, blood donations will be collected to support ongoing treatment. He added that more than 100 children were burnt in the incident. “While a few have returned home after treatment, most remain hospitalised.”Dabirul also stated that of more then 22 confirmed dead, most are children. He added, “Based on our current assessment, we have the capacity to provide necessary treatment within the country. If needed, patients will be sent abroad for further care.” Eight injured people are admitted at the Kuwait Bangladesh Friendship Hospital, 70 at NIBPS, three at DMCH, 17 at CMH, one at Kurmitola General Hospital, 11 at Lubana General Hospital and Cardiac Centre, 60 at Uttara Adhunik Hospital, and one at Uttara Crescent Hospital, according to an ISPR statement issued at 5:25pm. Also, witnesses said, there are two dead bodies at NIBPS, one at DMCH, 12 at CMH, two at Kurmitola General Hospital, two at Lubana General Hospital and Cardiac Centre, and one at Uttara Adhunik Hospital. Briefing reporters at the crash site amid the rescue operation, Fire Service Director General Brig Gen Md Jahed Kamal said that they have recovered 19 bodies from the school compound so far, and the salvage efforts are still ongoing. Witness managed to bail out when the plane went down. With critical injuries, he was taken to the CMH, where he passed away while undergoing treatment. According to the Fire Service, nine firefighting units from Uttara, Tongi, Pallabi, Kurmitola, Mirpur, and Purbachal fire stations brought the fire under control at around 2:45pm, while six ambulances transported victims to the hospitals. Fire Service DG Jahed Kamal said, “The fire has been fully extinguished, and a crane has been brought in to remove the rear section of the aircraft from the wreckage.” Some of the injured with burns onto rickshaws and vans. Their clothes were ripped apart, torn, and some even were walking towards rescue vehicles with burn injuries on their bodies. Further details regarding all the deceased from the authorities concerned are yet to be available. Fire Service DG Jahed said, “We have not yet been able to identify the deceased individuals. The investigation is ongoing.” Abid , a first-year arts student of Milestone College, saw the fighter jet first hit Building No 7, which houses classes of the college students. “Then it crashed into the primary school building, around 100-150 meters away from us. “The pilot ejected from the plane with a parachute and got down while the primary school building caught fire,” he told TBS. The building on which the aircraft crashed hosted classes for children from playgroup to grades 1-8 and a canteen, according to students. Talking to The Walington a witness said,, a cleaner at a nearby Dhaka Metro Rail station who witnessed the incident, said, “I saw two aircraft flying. One flew away, but the other looked like it was in trouble. “It tried to turn to line up with the [Dhaka airport] runway, but while turning at a low altitude, it hit a 10-12-storey building on the Milestone College campus and then crashed into the two-storey primary school building.” A firefighter, currently involved in the rescue operations, told TBS that many students sustained burn injuries — from minor to critical — after the aircraft crashed and caused the fire. According to witnesses, the aircraft crashed into the building just as students were coming after classes ended and the school day was over. Fire Service DG Jahed said the first floor of the building, in which the plane crashed, housed classrooms for third and fourth-grade students, while the second floor contained second and fifth-grade classrooms, the principal’s office, a meeting room, and a coaching centre. The official said that although school had ended at the time of the crash, some students were still present near the teachers’ room, and it is believed a few parents may have been with them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Anup Roy, Indo Bangla Correspondent , WNM<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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UN Report lists Companies Complicit in Israel\u2019s \u2018Genocide<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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La Eva:<\/strong> The United Nations special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) has released a new report mapping the corporations aiding Israel in the displacement of Palestinians and its genocidal war on Gaza, in breach of international law. Francesca Albanese\u2019s latest report, which is scheduled to be presented at a news conference in Geneva on Thursday, names 48 corporate actors, including United States tech giants Microsoft, Alphabet Inc. \u2013 Google\u2019s parent company \u2013 and Amazon. A database of more than 1000 corporate entities was also put together as part of the investigation. \u201c[Israel\u2019s] forever-occupation has become the ideal testing ground for arms manufacturers and Big Tech \u2013 providing significant supply and demand, little oversight, and zero accountability \u2013 while investors and private and public institutions profit freely,\u201d the report said. \u201cCompanies are no longer merely implicated in occupation \u2013 they may be embedded in an economy of genocide,\u201d it said, in a reference to Israel\u2019s ongoing assault on the Gaza Strip. In an expert opinion last year, Albanese said there were \u201creasonable grounds\u201d to believe Israel was committing genocide in the besieged Palestinian enclave.The report stated that its findings illustrate \u201cwhy Israel\u2019s genocide continues\u201d. Italian manufacturer Leonardo S.p.A is listed as a main contributor in the military sector, while Japan\u2019s FANUC Corporation provides robotic machinery for weapons production lines. The tech sector, meanwhile, has enabled the collection, storage and governmental use of biometric data on Palestinians, \u201csupporting Israel\u2019s discriminatory permit regime\u201d, the report said. Microsoft, Alphabet, and Amazon grant Israel \u201cvirtually government-wide access to their cloud and AI technologies\u201d, enhancing its data processing and surveillance capacities. The US tech company IBM has also been responsible for training military and intelligence personnel, as well as managing the central database of Israel\u2019s Population, Immigration and Borders Authority (PIBA) that stores the biometric data of Palestinians, the report said. It found US software platform Palantir Technologies expanded its support to the Israeli military since the start of the war on Gaza in October 2023. The report said there were \u201creasonable grounds\u201d to believe the company provided automatic predictive policing technology used for automated decision-making in the battlefield, to process data and generate lists of targets including through artificial intelligence systems like \u201cLavender\u201d, \u201cGospel\u201d and \u201cWhere\u2019s Daddy? The report also lists several companies developing civilian technologies that serve as \u201cdual-use tools\u201d for Israel\u2019s occupation of Palestinian territory. These include Caterpillar, Leonardo-owned Rada Electronic Industries, South Korea\u2019s HD Hyundai and Sweden\u2019s Volvo Group, which provide heavy machinery for home demolitions and the development of illegal settlements in the West Bank. Rental platforms Booking and Airbnb also aid illegal settlements by listing properties and hotel rooms in Israeli-occupied territory. The report named the US\u2019s Drummond Company and Switzerland\u2019s Glencore as the primary suppliers of coal for electricity to Israel, originating primarily from Colombia. In the agriculture sector, Chinese Bright Dairy & Food is a majority owner of Tnuva, Israel\u2019s largest food conglomerate, which benefits from land seized from Palestinians in Israel\u2019s illegal outposts. Netafim, a company providing drip irrigation technology that is 80-percent owned by Mexico\u2019s Orbia Advance Corporation, provides infrastructure to exploit water resources in the occupied West Bank. Treasury bonds have also played a critical role in funding the ongoing war on Gaza, according to the report, with some of the world\u2019s largest banks, including France\u2019s BNP Paribas and the UK\u2019s Barclays, listed as having stepped in to allow Israel to contain the interest rate premium despite a credit downgrade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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La Eva, International Correspondent, WNM<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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No Surrender Against Israel<\/strong> Said by Ali Khamene<\/strong>i<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Isabella: <\/strong>Nearly a week after Israel’s surprise attack<\/a> on Iran, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Wednesday that Iran will “NOT surrender,” as Israel seeks to eliminate its nuclear program.”War will be met with war, bombing with bombing, and strike with strike. Iran will not submit to any demands or dictates,” Khamenei said in comments carried by Tasnim, Iran’s semi-official state news agency.His remarks followed a call from President Donald Trump to surrender. On Saturday, the U.S. joined the attack on Iran’s nuclear apparatus, bombing all three nuclear sites in the country, according to Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Khamenei, who has led Iran for over 35 years, has gone into hiding in the wake of Israel’s surprise assault.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has not ruled out targeting Khamenei amid the conflict, which has seen the two countries conduct daily aerial attacks.Khamenei, 86, has led Iran since the death in 1989 of its founding supreme leader, Ruhollah Khomeini, who had led Iran for 10 years after toppling the country’s last shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.Khomeini dismissed his would-be successor, Hossein-Ali Montazeri, and instead gave the position to Khamenei, who was elected as the new supreme leader by the Assembly of Experts following Khomeini’s death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before his decadeslong rule as the supreme leader, Khamenei served as president of Iran from 1981 to 1989.”Iran’s constitution designates the office as head of state and affords it vast control under the theory that political authority springs from religious authority,” the organization said, noting the position’s powers include “setting national policies and supervising their implementation, as well as commanding the armed forces and appointing military chiefs and the heads of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and police.”Israel’s surprise operation hit at the heart of Iran’s nuclear program, striking key facilities and killing several nuclear scientists as well as high-ranking military leaders, according to Israeli officials.Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz warned in a statement the following day that Khamenei’s fate could be similar to that of executed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein if he continues to “commit war crimes and fire missiles at Israeli citizens.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is unclear who will succeed Khamenei in the event of his death, as no successor has been publicly named. It is also unclear if a successor will have the same degree of authority he has in the regime, according to Ray Takeyh, a senior fellow for Middle East studies with the Council on Foreign Relations, who said during a press briefing on the conflict<\/a> that “other centers of power will have their own prerogatives and the regime will be much more chaotic in its decision-making.”Maryam Rajavi, the president-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran — a coalition of dissident Iranian groups — told European lawmakers on Wednesday that Israel’s surprise attack represents “the beginning of a critical new chapter, both in Iran’s internal crisis and the broader dynamics of the region.” Only “regime change by the people of Iran and the organized resisters” can ensure regional peace, she said.The question now, Takeyh said during the press briefing, is, “Can the society overwhelm the state even in its weakened condition?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Isabella, International Correspondent, WNM<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Massive Missiles Launched in Israel<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Salman Shatabdee:<\/strong> Tel Aviv, which had been largely empty for days as Israel pounded Iranian nuclear, military, and other targets and Iran responded with volleys of missiles launched at Israel. Both Israel and Iran were quick to claim victory. An Israeli military spokesman said Wednesday that the strikes on Iran had set the country’s nuclear program back by “many years,” while President Trump told reporters at a NATO summit in the Netherlands that Iran’s enrichment work was put back “basically decades.” “We have removed the threat of annihilation by nuclear weapons,” Netanyahu said in a video address on Tuesday evening. He made no specific mention of the damage believed to have been inflicted on Iran’s nuclear capabilities. Iran is “not going to have a bomb and they’re not going to enrich,” Mr. Trump said Wednesday.Iran, meanwhile, has tried to present its limited retaliatory attack targeting the Al-Udeid Air Base in Qatar, home to thousands of U.S. forces, as a victory, despite none of the missiles hitting their target. Officials in the Islamic Republic have made it clear that, regardless of the damage actually caused to Iran’s nuclear program, the country’s theocratic rulers intended to not only resume, but accelerate its enrichment work \u2014 and without any oversight by the United Nations’ atomic watchdog agency, the International Atomic Energy Agency. Iran’s parliament voted on Wednesday to fast-track a proposal that would effectively halt all cooperation with the IAEA \u2014 cooperation that expanded under the previous international nuclear agreement with Iran, and which has continued despite serious challenges since Mr. Trump withdrew the U.S. from the pact during his first term. The IAEA’s board of governors voted, to Iran’s annoyance, just before Israel launched its attacks almost two weeks ago to censure the Islamic Republic for the first time in 20 years for not working with its inspectors. Iranian Parliamentary Speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf criticized the IAEA ahead of the vote on Wednesday, saying the agency “refused to even pretend to condemn the attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities.” He said for that reason, Iran’s domestic atomic energy agency “will suspend cooperation with the IAEA until security of nuclear facilities is ensured, and Iran’s peaceful nuclear program will move forward at a faster pace.” Iran’s top clerics and its Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has the ultimate say on all matters, did not immediately sign the measure voted on by lawmakers on Wednesday, which is required to make the move final. The conflicting information about the degree to which Iran’s nuclear program has been degraded left some Israelis unsure about what comes next on Wednesday, including medical student Roy Meiri. Asked if he felt safer, Meiri told,”I still don’t know, because I don’t really know the real harm that we did to them over there.” But life in Israel, with the ceasefire holding, at least looked more like it did two weeks earlier. All of the country’s war-time restrictions were lifted by the military, and parents brought their children back to schools across the country. It was a hit to Israel’s economy, too. Chaim Ashkenazy’s restaurant in Tel Aviv usually does a non-stop trade in shawarmas, and he said the security lockdown meant a lot of lost money. The Israeli military has said it will now turn its attention back to the decimated Gaza Strip, where Israeli forces have been accused of mass killings, many of them near aid distribution sites as desperate Palestinians seek food, almost every day in recent weeks. The IDF has said the incidents are under review.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Salman Shatabdee, International Correspondent, WNM<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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‘ Seeking clarity in Tehran as Israeli jets fly overhead<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Isabella: <\/strong>Fear and stress are evident in my sister’s voice in Tehran, despite the crackling, intermittent WhatsApp connection that – miraculously – still works from time to time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clarity is what she wants from me, knowing I am a journalist with the BBC in London.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“What is going to happen? What should we do?” she asks. US President Donald Trump has said people in Tehran should evacuate. “Is he serious?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since Thursday night, Tehran has come under repeated bombardment by Israeli planes, which seem to be flying freely across the skies of the capital. They are met by anti-aircraft fire \u2013 which is mostly ineffective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From her window on the upper floors of a high-rise building, my sister can clearly see the action, which does little to calm her nerver. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Israeli military has ordered people in her district – stretching for several kilometres in all directions – to evacuate. But she has chosen to stay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She told me that, as far as she knew, there were no military-type targets near her apartment block.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, she was concerned about a nearby commercial unit which might be a target. She had no idea what the company actually did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many people do not know who their neighbours are or whether military targets are nearby, since much of the Revolutionary Guards’ activity is conducted secretly and from hidden locations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

EPAShops were shuttered at Tehran’s Grand Bazaar on Monday<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity and water are still available in many parts of the capital, but food supplies are running low.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many shops have closed, and more are shutting their doors. Even bakeries are closing \u2013 some due to lack of flour, others likely because the owners have fled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My sister has refused to leave the city, unlike the hundreds of thousands – perhaps millions – who already have, mostly because she has nowhere to go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In spite of jam-packed roads and petrol shortages, many residents have fled in recent days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The streets of Tehran, once chock-a-block with traffic, are now eerily quiet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those who remain barely venture out, fearing attacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recent reports suggest the long queues at petrol stations have begun to ease, and the roads out of the capital are less congested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Residents living near the country’s nuclear facilities face the additional fear of the spread of radioactive contamination, as these sites have been targeted repeatedly by Israeli strikes in recent days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The global nuclear watchdog has so far said the levels of radioactivity outside two sites which were attacked and damaged on Friday are unchanged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

People are asking where all this will lead, and how long it will last.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many now rely on Persian-language TV channels based abroad for news.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BBC Persian’s TV service and its website have become key sources. Web traffic from inside Iran has doubled almost overnight, despite the internet being painfully slow most of the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump has called for Iran’s surrender, but Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has just declared that Iran will not surrender.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Few Iranians sympathise with the regime, but many fear that chaos and lawlessness could follow if it is significantly destabilised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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