YEMEN Press Agency

Video: at least 45 Israeli dead in stampede during religious festival in town of Meron

SANAA, April 30 (YPA) – At least 45 Zionist  settlers were killed and scores of others injured, many in critical condition, in a stampede during a Jewish bonfire festival held in the north of the occupied Palestinian territories.

According to the reports, Magen David Adom of the Zionist regime’s emergency services, said that 24 of those injured were in critical condition.

Zionist Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described the incident as a “heavy disaster.”

Tens of thousands were attending the annual Lag B’Omer festival at what has been identified as the tomb of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai in the town of Meron in the occupied territories.

 

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