New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has deployed National Guard troops to secure state-run prisons amid a wildcat strike by corrections workers. Picketing and striking by corrections officers took place at around 30 state prisons as of Wednesday morning, union officials said. Hochul says National Guard troops are being deployed Wednesday, but she did not immediately specify where. "They've already been deployed and are ready to stabilize the situation," Hochul said of the National Guard soldiers, in a video address released Wednesday. "I am directing everyone involved in these unlawful strikes to stop these actions immediately. Legal action has already commenced to ensure compliance." National Guard soldiers in Humvees entered the grounds of Attica Correctional Facility, Spectrum News reported.
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One of four bodies returned from Gaza to Israel on Thursday is not hostage Shiri Bibas, as claimed by Hamas, the Israeli military said. The news that Shiri Bibas, 33, and her two sons, Ariel and Kfir, who would now be aged five and two, were dead triggered an outpouring of grief in Israel. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has informed the Bibas family that the bodies of her sons have been identified after their remains were given to Israel by Hamas on Thursday. But the third body was not that of their mother, the IDF says. Hamas has not yet commented on Israel's claim. "During the identification process, it was determined that the additional body received is not that of Shiri Bibas, and no match was found for any other hostage. This is an anonymous, unidentified body," the IDF posted on X.
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Three buses exploded near Tel Aviv on Thursday in what Israeli police are calling a suspected, coordinated terror attack, according to the country's Police Spokesperson's Unit. The buses where the bombs exploded were empty and in separate parking lots about 500 meters apart from each other, the mayor of Bat Yam, where the incident occurred, said. Bat Yam is on Israel's southern coast and is just south of Tel Aviv. There are no injuries from the explosions, police said. Two bombs were also found on separate buses, according to the police spokesman. The explosive devices resembled bombs Israeli police have seen in the West Bank, the spokesman added.
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