Police in Tokyo arrested a driver on Thursday after a vehicle rammed into a barricade near the Israeli Embassy, injuring a police officer.
A man in his 50s who is believed to be a member of a right-wing group was arrested on the spot, local media reported, citing a police source. The police officer suffered a hand injury and was taken to a hospital.
It was not clear what the motive might have been or whether the embassy was being targeted.
Médecins Sans Frontières, also known as Doctors Without Borders, is “extremely worried” for the lives of innocent people who are at Al-Shifa Hospital.
“As Israeli forces enter Al Shifa hospital, we call once again for the protection of medical staff, patients and displaced civilians sheltered inside the hospital,” the organization said in a post on X today.
Two planes carrying more than two dozen Palestinian cancer patients, many of them children, arrived in Turkey for treatment early today.
Patients who had crossed from Gaza into Egypt are carried on a stretchers after arriving at the Esenboga Airport in Ankara.
At least two people were arrested last night after around 250 people gathered in what Vancouver Police Department described as “spontaneous” protest outside where Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was having dinner.