NEW DELHI: Police say they have killed at least 10 Maoist rebels during an attack on their training camp in a forested area in central India.
Police officer Mohit Garg says an exchange of gunfire with the insurgents on Thursday lasted nearly 2 ½ hours in Bijapur district in Chhattisgarh state, a rebel stronghold.
Police found 12 rifles from those killed. Garg says security forces did not suffer any casualties.
The Maoist rebels, inspired by Chinese revolutionary leader Mao Zedong, have been fighting the Indian government for more than four decades, demanding land and jobs for tenant farmers, the poor and indigenous communities.
The government has called the rebels India's biggest internal security threat. With thousands of fighters, the rebels control vast swathes of territory.
Indian forces kill 10 Maoist rebels in raid on training camp
Indian forces kill 10 Maoist rebels in raid on training camp
- The Maoist rebels have been fighting the Indian government for more than four decades
- With thousands of fighters, the rebels control vast swathes of territory
French-Israeli activists hit out at ‘complicity in genocide’ case
- Israel’s retaliation flattened much of Gaza and left more than 71,800 people dead, according to the health ministry, whose figures are considered reliable by the United Nations
NETANUA, Israel: Two French-Israeli activists facing legal summons in France for “complicity in genocide” denounced on Sunday what they described as a political trial.
The summons were issued in July last year for lawyer Nili Kupfer-Naouri of the Israel is Forever group and Rachel Touitou of the Tsav 9 group over protests in 2024 and 2025 in which trucks carrying humanitarian aid for Gaza were blocked at checkpoints.
The summons call for the two to appear before an investigating magistrate but not for their detention.
Speaking at an event in Netanya in central Israel, Kupfer-Naouri asserted that “this is not an individual case, this is a state matter... this is a political trial.”
Touitou told AFP that she had “protested peacefully, my only ‘weapon’ was an Israeli flag,” adding she had been motivated by accusations of Hamas looting aid while hostages were “rotting” in militants’ hands.
“International law cannot be hijacked and instrumentalized for political ends,” she added.
Kupfer-Naouri, who has filed a slander complaint in France against organizations involved in the case, said: “You cannot be accused of complicity in genocide when no court, either French or international, has ruled that there is a genocide in Gaza.”
The Gaza war was sparked by Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attack on Israel, which resulted in the deaths of 1,221 people, according to an AFP tally based on official Israeli figures.
Israel’s retaliation flattened much of Gaza and left more than 71,800 people dead, according to the health ministry, whose figures are considered reliable by the United Nations.
A ceasefire has been in place since October 10, though both sides have repeatedly accused each other of violations.
