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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 431

Sri Lanka Easter bombings

Signs of support and flowers adorn a post in front of the Chabad of Poway synagogue, April 29, 2019, in Poway, California. (AP/Gregory Bull)
December 15, 2019, 4:56 am
2019 saw attacks on houses of worship with alarming frequency worldwide
From Christchurch to Colombo to Poway and beyond, worshipers were the targets of some of the most deadly violence seen in years
By David Crary
Illustrative: Lebanese security forces stand guard during a raid in Beirut, Lebanon, on March 8, 2017. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
June 17, 2019, 6:06 pm
Lebanon arrests Syrian IS suspect accused of planning attacks
Security service says 20-year-old was spreading jihadist propaganda and plotting to bomb local Christian, Shiite sites
By AFP
In this May 10, 2019, photo, lounge chairs lie on a deserted beach in Hikkaduwa, Sri Lanka (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)
May 16, 2019, 4:18 pm
With Sri Lanka’s hotels empty, ‘resilient’ Israelis urged to visit
Resort manager says government should try to attract tourists from Israel, Russia, and India as they are ‘resilient to these kind of attacks and situations’
By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI
A soldier stands guard during a Catholic Mass outside St. Joseph's church in Thannamunai, Sri Lanka, April 30, 2019. (AP/Gemunu Amarasinghe)
May 2, 2019, 6:23 pm
Sri Lanka Mass canceled over fresh attack fears
Muslim clerics refuse burial rites for 10 Islamic radicals killed during confrontation with security forces last week.
By Amal JAYASINGHE
President Donald Trump speaks during a National Day of Prayer dinner gathering of faith leaders from the interfaith community in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, May 1, 2019. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
May 2, 2019, 3:29 am
Trump says violence against people of all faiths must end
In wake of multiple attacks on places of worship worldwide, US president says ‘all civilized nations must join together in this effort’
By Agencies
Islamic State group leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, appearing for the first time in five years, in a propaganda video released April 29, 2019. (YouTube screenshot)
May 1, 2019, 8:34 pm
Post-caliphate, Islamic State leader turns to war of ‘attrition’ against enemies
Easter church and hotel terror attacks in Sri Lanka a week before his video appearance underscored in blood Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s new message
By Agencies
A salesman covers the face of a mannequin with a niqab cafe veil at a women's clothing shop in Kattankudy, Sri Lanka, April 29, 2019. (AP/Gemunu Amarasinghe)
April 29, 2019, 8:49 pm
After attack, Sri Lanka uses emergency law to ban Muslim face coverings
Niqabs, long unheard of in island nation, have become more popular in recent years, but unclear how measure would have thwarted bombings
By Jon Gambrell and GEMUNU AMARSINGHE
Sri Lanka police chief Pujith Jayasundara looks on after launching the first on-line service delivery of the Sri Lankan police at the headquarters in Colombo on March 7, 2017 (Ishara S. KODIKARA / AFP)
April 29, 2019, 11:13 am
Sri Lanka police chief refuses to quit over Easter terror attacks
President has named his successor, but Pujith Jayasundara won’t step down despite intelligence failings ahead of the bombings that killed 253 people
By AFP
Relatives pay their respects in front of the graves of the victims of recent bomb blasts at St. Sebastian's Church in Negombo, Sri Lanka, on April 28, 2019, a week after a series of jihadist bomb blasts targeted churches and luxury hotels on Easter Sunday. (Ishara S. Kodikara/AFP)
April 28, 2019, 1:28 pm
With churches shut after bombs, Sri Lankans hear Mass on TV
‘Our hearts are tested by the great destruction,’ says Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, archbishop of Colombo, as country’s churches shuttered amid fears of further jihadist attacks
By Jon Gambrell and KRISHAN FRANCIS
In this picture taken on April 26, 2019, security personnel display seized items after they raid what believed to be an Islamist safe house in the eastern town of Kalmunai (STRINGER / AFP)
April 28, 2019, 6:31 am
Islamic State claims deadly clashes with Sri Lankan police
Terror group says its men fought security forces, detonated explosives belts during battle that left 15 dead amid fallout from Easter bombings
By Agencies
Footage of the explosion at the Kingsbury Hotel in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on April 21, 2019 (YouTube screenshot)
April 27, 2019, 11:45 pm
Sri Lanka security cam footage shows moments of deadly hotel bombing
Newly released video also shows bombers in several other locations shortly before the Easter attacks that killed at least 250 people
By ToI Staff and AFP
Zahran Hashim delivers a sermon in an undated online video. Hashim allegedly headed the extremist Muslim group blamed for Easter Sunday terror attacks in Sri Lanka. (screen capture: YouTube)
April 27, 2019, 6:56 pm
Local Muslims say they reported mastermind of Sri Lanka terror attacks years ago
Community leaders sounded the alarm about Zahran Hashim after seminary expelled him for ‘hardline’ views; Hashim had dozens of hate-filled sermons uploaded to YouTube
By Agencies and ToI Staff
In this April 25, 2019 photo, a Sri Lankan policewoman looks at the damage inside St. Sebastian's Church, one of the sites of Easter Sunday's bombings, in Negombo, north of Colombo, Sri Lanka (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
April 27, 2019, 2:06 pm
Amid horror, Sri Lanka church still shows beauty
It’s thought nearly half of the roughly 250 people killed in the Easter bombings died at the Negombo church
By Manish Swarup
Daniel and Amelie Linsey (R-L) , two Jewish victims of the Easter Sunday terror attacks in Sri Lanka, on April 21, 2019. (Courtesy via Jewish News)
April 27, 2019, 10:51 am
Family of Jewish teens killed in Sri Lanka talk of loss, plans to set up charity
Brother, mother of Amelie, 15, and Daniel Linsey, 19, who died in Easter bombings, say they’ll start a foundation to support the Colombo hospital where the teens’ bodies were taken
By ToI Staff
Soldiers evacuate an injured child after they raid what believed to be an Islamist safe house in the eastern town of Kalmunai on April 27, 2019 (STRINGER / AFP)
April 27, 2019, 8:53 am
Children among 15 dead as Sri Lanka forces raid jihadist hideout
Three cornered suicide bombers set off explosives in safe house during firefight with security forces near the eastern town of Kalmunai
By Amal JAYASINGHE and Ammu Kannampilly
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