Yesterday, two Japanese ministers visited Yasukuni Shrine, considered a national monument by nationalists and considered by several Asian countries as a symbol of Japan’s military past as the country celebrates its surrender in World War II. The Yasukuni in Tokyo commemorates the 2.5 million soldiers and people who served in the Japanese army and died for the Empire of Japan from the beginning of the Meiji era (1869) to the end of World War II. But since 1978, the names of Japanese military and political leaders convicted as war criminals by the Allies after World War II have been included in his dossier, much to the chagrin of South Korea and China, which suffered from the atrocities committed by Japanese forces during their colonization. the Korean Peninsula (1910-1945) and the partial occupation of China (1931-1945), they consider a shrine in honor of Japanese militarism. Economic Security Minister Sanae Takaishi and Tohoku Reconstruction Minister after the 2011 Fukushima disaster visited Akiba, a monument to Yasukuni in Kenya on Monday. Sanae Takaishi, known for her hardline nationalist stance, regularly visits the site: “There is a war going on in Ukraine this year,” she told reporters. I prayed that no more people died in the war,” adding that she expressed “gratitude” to those who died in the war, whom the monument honors.
AFP – Tunisia
Tunisian security forces announced yesterday that they foiled 12 illegal immigration attempts by sea over the weekend and rescued and arrested 213 people, including dozens of Tunisians and Egyptians.
And the National Guard said in a statement on Monday that its units, operating across the country’s coasts, succeeded on Sunday night “preventing 10 covert maritime border crossings and rescuing and rescuing 156 bystanders.” National Guard spokesman Hossam El-Din El-Jabali said in a statement that 102 immigrants are from sub-Saharan Africa and 54 are from Tunisia.
For its part, Mohamed Zekri, a spokesman for the Department of National Defense, told AFP that a naval unit on Sunday “evacuated 42 Egyptians” who had climbed aboard a marine tractor intended to support an oil platform near the Kerkennah archipelago in the central-eastern United States. country. Zakri added that Egyptian migrants reported that they sailed from the Libyan coast on the night of Friday, Saturday.
And the local Mosaic radio reported that on Friday night, the security forces stopped an attempt to emigrate from the coast of Hammamet, in the north-east of the country.
The radio quoted unnamed security sources as saying that 15 participants in the operation were arrested, they are related and come from the central province of Kairouan, and among the participants are five women and four children.
With the improvement of weather conditions, the pace of attempts of illegal migration from the coast of Tunisia and Libya to the coast of Italy, located about 200 km, is increasing. AFP – Beijing
China held new military exercises yesterday around Taiwan, denouncing a new visit by members of the US Congress to the island days after a similar visit by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, which provoked an angry backlash from Beijing.
The previously unannounced two-day visit prompted China to reiterate that it would “prepare for war” for a democratically self-governing Taiwan, while Chinese leaders demanded it and promised to rebuild it, albeit by force. A five-member congressional delegation led by Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey met with Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen yesterday, according to the institute, which is effectively Washington’s embassy in Taipei. “The delegation had the opportunity to exchange views with Taiwanese colleagues on a wide range of issues important to both the US and Taiwan,” he said.
Tsai told delegates that she wanted to “keep the stability of the status quo across the Taiwan Strait” and “keep the Indo-Pacific prosperous and stable.”
She noted that the Russian invasion of Ukraine reveals “the threat that authoritarian states pose to the world order,” according to her office, while thanking Washington for its support in the face of Chinese military threats.
AFP – Occupied Jerusalem
Yesterday, a Palestinian youth was shot dead by Israeli forces during a raid on his home in the city of Kafr Aqab, north of Jerusalem, after he attempted to stab an Israeli policeman during the raid, a police statement confirmed.
“Border Police officers neutralized a suspect who attempted to stab our members while searching for weapons,” the Israeli police said in a statement. She confirmed that he “died after being treated in a military hospital.” The young man is Muhammad Al-Shaham (21 years old) from the city of Kafr Akab. But his father, Ibrahim al-Shaham, confirmed that Muhammad was “murdered in cold blood at home.” The father added: “At half past two in the morning we heard a knock on the door… Mohammed was the first to come to the door before they started shooting and the first bullet hit Mohammed in the head.”
The father confirmed that his son’s body was kept in the house for forty minutes, noting that one of the officers told him that they “arrived at our house by mistake.” In their statement, the Israeli police did not say whether the weapon was found during a search of a house in Kafr Aqaba.
In response to an AFP inquiry, she confirmed that “no weapons were found.” “Our destination was correct and this is the suspect,” she added. For his part, through his Twitter account, Palestine Liberation Organization executive committee member Hussein al-Sheikh called the incident “a crime that deserves an immediate and urgent international investigation.”
The Palestinian Foreign Ministry on its website condemned the “terrible crime of execution”. He considered it “the method of the mafia and organized gangs in committing premeditated and premeditated killings and beyond any arrest or trial.” In a statement, the ministry held “the Israeli government fully and directly responsible for this crime.”