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On 26 November 2024, a Chabad synagogue in St Kilda, Melbourne was vandalised with pro-Palestinian and antisemitic graffiti. [7] The targeted synagogue in the December 2024 attack was the Orthodox Adass Israel Synagogue of Melbourne, located in Ripponlea, Victoria. It was built in 1965, designed by Ernest Fooks, [8] and opened on 19 September ...
2024 Mucojo attack: Militants stormed a military position of the Mozambique Defence Armed Forces. [18] Islamic State – Mozambique Province: Insurgency in Cabo Delgado: 16 February Mass shooting 2 (+1) 4 Kiryat Malakhi, Israel 2024 Kiryat Malakhi attack: A Palestinian man shot at people waiting at a bus stop. The attacker was killed by a ...
On 3 January 2024, Turkish authorities arrested 25 suspected members of Islamic State across the country on suspicion of plotting attacks on churches and synagogues. The attack on 28 January was the group's first attack on a religious target in Turkey, having previously been responsible for other attacks such as the Istanbul nightclub shooting in 2017 and the 2015 Ankara bombings.
At least seven people were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a Rafah mosque full of displaced people on 23 February 2024. [8] Five people were killed in a mosque in northern Gaza that was bombed without warning. [9] The al-Riad mosque in Khan Younis was heavily damaged by an Israeli bombing on 9 March 2024. [10]
Many organizations and people condemning the attack including the former president of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, said on a post on X: "I strongly condemn the attack on the Imam Zaman Mosque, I consider this terrorist act against all religious and human standards.", [12] the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, [13] the Iranian ...
On 23 June 2024, coordinated attacks were launched in the cities of Derbent and Makhachkala in the Russian republic of Dagestan in the North Caucasus. [6] [7] Two synagogues, two Eastern Orthodox churches, and a traffic police post were attacked simultaneously [8] [9] with automatic weapons and Molotov cocktails. [10]
On 21 November 2024, gunmen attacked a large convoy of vehicles transporting Shia Muslims in the Kurram District of Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, killing at least 54 people and injuring 86 others. The attack was one of northwestern Pakistan's deadliest incidents of sectarian violence in recent years. [4]
Oman is predominantly Muslim, with most following the Sunni and Ibadi sects, and Shi'ism accounting for about 5% of the country's population. [1]The Islamic State has had a history of anti-Shia sentiment, including considerable violence against Shi'ites during the Syrian Civil War and the 2013–2017 conflict between Iraq and the Islamic State. [2]