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Today’s news briefs include 4-year-old destroys ancient jar in Israeli museum; Red Lobster bankruptcy; Terrorists killed in Samaria; and Haitian rebuilds army.
Red Lobster closes more locations in bankruptcy
4-year-old accidentally shatters Bronze Age jar at museum
A 4-year-old boy shattered a Bronze Age artifact that was on display at an archeological museum in Haifa, Israel. The object, say experts, was 3,500 to 4,000 years old, dating approximately to a time before Abraham was born to when his descendants were returning from Egyptian slavery. Speaking to the BBC, the child’s father said his son had “pulled the jar slightly” on a visit to the museum last Friday because he was “curious about what was inside.” The man added that he was shocked to see his son beside the broken artifact and had initially thought, “It wasn’t my child that did it.”
Nine Islamist terrorists killed in Samaria
Israel on Wednesday launched a military operation in Samaria killing nine known Islamist terrorists. The operation focused on the city of Jenin, near the ancient site of Joshua’s Altar. Israel has been working since the Hamas attack on Oct. 7 to eliminate Hamas and other terrorist groups operating in the biblical heartland of Samaria and Judea, which the media refers to as the “occupied West Bank.” Lt. Col. Nadav Shoshani, an Israeli military spokesman, said all nine were terrorists and that the operation included two other cities. It is the first stage of an even larger operation aimed at preventing attacks on Israelis, reports the AP.
Haitian army recruits young men exhausted by poverty, violence
Haiti is taking recruits to build an army to tackle rampant gang violence. The AP reports the announcement is giving young men seeking to escape the worst poverty in the Western Hemisphere. “About 60% of Haiti’s population of nearly 12 million people earn less than $2 a day, with inflation soaring to double digits in recent years,” according to the news outlet. After the 1991 coup, the army had been disbanded. Its police force just about 2,000 today. “The decision to demobilize the army … proved to be one of the most catastrophic decisions in the country’s history,” said Michael Deibert, the author of two books about Haiti. That allowed gangs to grow and become defacto rulers of vasts swaths of the country with gang violence leaving more than half a million people homeless in recent years, according to the U.N.
