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Israel’s war live: +++ 04:05 Netanyahu: There were civilian casualties in the war against the Nazis as well +++
October 31, 2023
Israel’s war live
+++ 04:05 Netanyahu: There are civilian casualties in the war against the Nazis +++
After criticizing the large number of civilian casualties in the Gaza Strip, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu likened the war against Hamas to the Allied battle against the Nazis. Despite civilian casualties, the Allies in World War II were not told not to “eliminate National Socialism,” as Netanyahu says. A journalist had asked him earlier whether Israel was punishing the residents of the Gaza Strip collectively due to Hamas terrorism through air strikes. The Allies fought the war to the end despite the tragic consequences. Netanyahu said they knew that the future of civilization was at stake. „Well, I’m telling you now that the future of our civilization is at stake.”
+++ 02:58 Palestinians report arson by settlers +++
Palestinian sources reported that settlers last night set fire to a house in one of the West Bank villages in the Masafer Yatta area. One of the villagers told Haaretz that a group of people – believed to be settlers – entered the village south of Hebron, set fire to the house and then walked away. In another incident in the same area in the West Bank, settlers reportedly threw stones at residents of the village of Tuba.
+++ 02:04 Israel carries out air strikes on Hezbollah positions +++
Confrontations renewed on the border between Israel and Lebanon. The Israeli military said on the Telegram app that Israeli military fighter jets attacked the “terrorist infrastructure” of the Shiite Hezbollah militia in Lebanon. These included weapons and Hezbollah sites. According to the army, rockets were fired from Lebanon at Israel in the previous days.
+++ 01:20 American Republicans want to fund aid to Israel through cuts in the IRS +++
Republicans in the US House of Representatives want to separate aid to Israel from aid to Ukraine. Therefore, Republicans are presenting a separate additional spending bill for Israel only, worth $14.3 billion. The proposal says funding would come from cuts at the IRS. US President Joe Biden had called for a $106 billion package that includes aid to Israel, Ukraine, and border security. Democrats accuse Republicans of exploiting the partisan bill to obstruct Congress’ ability to aid Israel. “House Republicans are setting a dangerous precedent by proposing to make national security protections or natural disaster response conditional on cuts to other programs,” Representative Rosa DeLauro said.
+++ 00:40 UNRWA: Gaza residents “are being stripped of their humanity” +++
The Director-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) called for expanding humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip. UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini said at an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council that a handful of convoys as before are not enough for more than two million people in need. People in the Gaza Strip feel that they are „not treated like other civilians.” Most of them felt trapped in a war they had nothing to do with. “They have a feeling that the world is passionately equal to them all,” Lazzarini said. “This is dangerous. We know this well from previous conflicts and crises. An entire people is being stripped of their humanity.”
+++ 23:52 Israel suspends payments to the Palestinian Authority +++
Israel decided to temporarily freeze payments worth millions of dollars to the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank. “Because of the PA’s support for Hamas massacres,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was asked to consider continuing the payments in the Cabinet on short notice, says far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich X on Twitter. “Until a decision is made, we will stop paying,” he wrote. In his blog post, he refers to the statements of representatives of the Fatah movement led by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. He describes the terrorist attack as part of “armed resistance” against the Israeli occupation. Israel collects taxes and customs duties on behalf of the Palestinian Authority.
+++ 23:09 USA: “Does not support a ceasefire at the present time” +++
The United States deliberately does not want to join calls for a ceasefire in the war between Israel and Hamas. “We do not believe that a ceasefire is the right solution at this time,” said John Kirby, spokesman for the White House National Security Council. “We do not support a ceasefire at this time,” Kirby said. Instead, “pause periods” should be considered for providing aid to the civilian population in the Gaza Strip. Kirby is convinced that “in the coming days” it will be possible to bring “a hundred trucks a day” loaded with relief supplies to the Gaza Strip.
+++ 22:14 UNICEF: Water facilities in Gaza are out of service due to fuel shortages +++
According to the United Nations, the severe fuel shortage in the Gaza Strip is already affecting the population’s water supply. „There is only one desalination plant operating at only five percent capacity, while all six water treatment plants in the Gaza Strip are currently out of service due to a lack of fuel or electricity,” said Catherine Russell, Director of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). During an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council. Russell added that she called on the Security Council to immediately adopt a resolution reminding the parties of their obligations under international law. This also includes a ceasefire and unimpeded humanitarian access. So far, all attempts by the UN’s most powerful body to pass a humanitarian-focused resolution have failed.
+++ 21:48 From the inside: Hezbollah is trying to reduce its losses in the fighting with Israel +++
According to informed sources, the extremist Islamic militia Hezbollah is trying to contain its relatively large losses in the recent fighting with Israel on the border with Lebanon. One of three people familiar with the militia’s view told Reuters news agency: „Necessary precautions have been taken to reduce the number of martyrs.” The Iran-backed group said it shot down an Israeli drone using anti-aircraft missiles. They are responsible for most of the deaths of their fighters.
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The head of Polish intelligence warns: Russia is preparing military operations against the eastern flank of NATO. Putin denies the attack plans.
WARSAW – Fears are growing of a Russian attack on NATO’s eastern flank. After the Baltic countries sounded the alarm for some time and feared for their security, Poland is now also drawing up the terrifying scenario of a Russian attack on NATO territory. Although a significant portion of the Russian armed forces usually stationed on NATO’s borders have currently been transferred to Ukraine, Russia intends to renew its army in order to… NATOThreatening borders while maintaining and expanding covert and hybrid operations.
Vladimir Putin Jaroslaw Strusek, head of Poland’s military counterintelligence service, told the Polish daily that troops were already preparing for a small operation against one of the Baltic states. Gazeta Pravna. He added that the Russian president is ready „to invade the famous border town of Narva on the Estonian-Russian border or to land on one of the Swedish islands.”
Putin: The attack on NATO territory is „complete nonsense”
Last March, Putin said… BBC Aggression on NATO territory was excluded. He added that the idea that his country, which has one of the largest nuclear arsenals in the world, Poland, would attack the Baltic states, all of which, unlike Ukraine, are members of NATO, is “complete nonsense.” But he warned that if Ukraine deployed Western F-16 fighter jets from airfields in other countries, they would become „legitimate targets wherever they are.”
NATO countries are currently scrambling to restore full defense capability after the Western military alliance looked back on a decade-long phase of low-intensity conflict. Kiev’s Western partners could not keep up with the demands of a modern all-out war, especially due to the lack of sufficient artillery and air defense resources.
The largest NATO exercise since the Cold War on the sidelines of the Ukrainian war
Strusek believes that the Kremlin’s imperial goals have already slowed somewhat. “What the West is doing together to support Ukraine shows that in the event of an attack on NATO, the Western reaction will be greater,” the intelligence chief said. The German federal government is also currently trying to send strong signals about the defense capacity of NATO and Europe.
“In an emergency, Germany will defend every centimeter of NATO territory,” Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) said during a visit to Lithuania on Monday, May 6, as reported by Das newspaper. RND. The German Army participated in the largest NATO exercise since the end of the Cold War: Steadfast Defender. Germany wants to establish a brigade in Lithuania outside its territory for the first time by 2027. “An attack on you would be an attack on all of us,” Schulz told his fellow Lithuanians.
“War has returned to Europe” – SPD committed to a strong NATO
Defense Minister Boris Pistoros (SPD) also expressed his strong commitment to the Western Defense Alliance during his visit to the United States. “NATO is essential to our security and we do not take it for granted,” he said loudly. dpa. “We realize that times have changed again. War is back in Europe and the time for peace dividends is over. That’s why we’re doing our part. Germany will spend more money on defense this year than ever before in the history of the Bundeswehr.”
He pointed out that the 2% goal set by NATO will be achieved, „and we cannot stop there.” Within NATO, a growing number of members are calling for increased investments. For example, British Foreign Secretary David Cameron is vocal about NATO countries France Press agency Increase military spending to 2.5% of GDP. At the next NATO summit in July, it should be clear that all allies will soon meet the 2% target, according to previously published excerpts of Cameron’s speech scheduled for Thursday, May 9, at the National Cyber Security Center in London. He continues: „Then we have to quickly introduce 2.5% as a target.” (Lahema)
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UN Secretary-General Guterres warns Israel against launching a ground attack in Rafah. Hamas publishes a video of the hostage. More information in the news blog.
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Khamenei’s advisor: Iran is open to talks with America
10:23 PM: Iran has shown itself open to direct talks with the United States, and appears ready to change its policy toward its arch enemy. The ISNA news agency quoted Kamal Sharasi, foreign policy advisor to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as saying, “The Americans consider diplomacy the best option (…). We share the same opinion and are also ready to return to negotiations.”
According to Sharasi, Iran must also be prepared to resume nuclear negotiations that were suspended by the United States. “Then we can also talk about a nuclear-free zone (in the Middle East),” the senior advisor and former foreign minister said.
Biden Advisor Sullivan: We will not abandon Israel
9:21 pm: The US government has assured Israel that it will stand behind its ally despite withholding the ammunition shipment. Biden’s security advisor, Jake Sullivan, said in an interview with ABC News that US President Joe Biden does not want to use American weapons in a major military operation in the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. He added, „This does not mean that he abandons Israel or deprives it of weapons.”
Biden is concerned about a “specific operation” that he does not believe is capable of defeating the Islamist Hamas movement. “No one has been more supportive of Israel than Joe Biden,” Sullivan said. Biden made clear that he would continue to ensure that Israel has what it needs to defend itself.
Blinken: The attack on Rafah will not destroy Hamas
7:28 pm: According to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, even a major Israeli attack on the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip will not completely destroy the Palestinian Islamic extremist organization Hamas. Blinken told NBC on Sunday that Israel would likely inherit „an insurgency that includes many armed Hamas fighters” or leave a „vacuum” in the event of a withdrawal. Perhaps this void will be filled with “chaos” and “chaos” – and perhaps with enthusiasm.
Israel opens a new crossing into Gaza for humanitarian aid
6:35 pm: The Israeli army announced that it opened a new border crossing to bring humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip in coordination with the United States. The army says that the „West Iris” crossing is located in the northern Gaza Strip. He added that this aims to increase the number of aid transfers to the Gaza Strip, especially to the northern region. On Sunday, dozens of trucks carrying flour from the port of Ashdod passed through the crossing.
Israel: A leading member of Hamas was killed
6:23 pm: The Israeli military announced that a leading member of the Hamas terror group was killed in an airstrike in Gaza on Friday. The man belonged to one of the Hamas combat forces and was one of the Hamas fighters responsible for guarding the kidnapped Israeli soldier Noa Marciano. Marciano was kidnapped in the Gaza Strip after the terrorist attack on October 7, and was later killed there. The Israeli army recovered the body of the 19-year-old in November and returned it to Israel.
Hamas corrects the death toll figures back and forth
3:27 pm: The only figures for casualties in Gaza come from the Hamas-controlled health authority. There has been criticism of them for a long time. Now the authority itself is causing confusion. Here you can read more about it.
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The number of people from West Africa heading to Europe has increased significantly. Not only do they want to escape poverty, they also want to feel a lack of prospects.
Sheikh Ndaw, 24, just wants to leave. Although the young mechanic has a job, nothing can stop him in Senegal: “I have my job, I work every day, but nothing works.” “Nothing works in this country.” His declared goal is Europe. And he already knows how to get there: by boat. From the point of view of the young Senegalese man, there is no other way out: “The only option is to go there illegally. Because I cannot afford the legal way, the plane.”
This makes the young man a very typical case for his generation. At least this is what migration researcher Professor Ali Tandian of Gaston Berger University in Saint Louis in northern Senegal sees. It is naive to think that most people leave their country in search of work, says Tandiyan.
Poverty is by no means the only reason
It’s more complicated, and the reasons are more complex: „Research shows us that those who migrate are not as poor as you think,” Tandiyan explains. “They are people who work. But they work for others so that the profits do not come back to them. Or they are people who are forced to do multiple jobs.”
Tandiyan talks about the so-called “working poor.” Indeed, statistics indicate that the poorest of the poor in Africa do not have the strength or means to undertake the long, often life-threatening journey – let alone pay the smugglers.
So it’s the people with the least limited resources who get going. The data also shows that the number of migrants leaving their homes within Africa is several times higher than the number heading to Europe in often small wooden fishing boats.
The number of immigrants is increasing rapidly
However, 13,000 people arrived in the Canary Islands via the so-called North Atlantic Route in the first three months of this year, five times the number of people the previous year. Many of them are from Senegal.
Most are driven by desperation — or by dreaming of a better future in their heads, says migration expert Tandiyan. “With all the illusions, the heroism of immigration and the glorification of travel for immigrants, people think it’s possible to find their way around once you’re gone.”
When Tandean talks about “delusions” and “glorification,” he is referring to a social media phenomenon that has been giving Europeans headaches for years: young immigrants and influencers in North Africa have repeatedly filmed themselves in TikTok photos and videos, smiling and smiling completely. On their perilous journeys in small boats across the Mediterranean.
They stood relaxed in front of their smartphone cameras and acted as if it was a harmless fun ride with a glorious future waiting beyond the horizon. And not about a flight that kills thousands every year.
Many films that appeared years ago have now been deleted. But this does not solve the problem. In West Africa too, these posts, often shared hundreds of thousands of times, may still haunt the minds of many young people.
Will the new government change anything?
Regarding Senegal’s youth, aspirants took power at the beginning of April: “I often tell young people: the solution is not to ride boats.” Politician Ousmane Sonko addressed his young countrymen with these words in 2019. Sonko is well respected, especially among young Senegalese, and served as prime minister for a few weeks after his party colleague Diomai Fay won the presidential election in a landslide.
You now have the opportunity to make a difference. The main tasks they set for themselves are: job creation; Improving the conditions of rural residents and fishermen; Curb inflation.
„Immigration is not yet on our politicians’ agenda,” criticizes Tandiyan. Senegal’s newly elected government, celebrated by many young people, now has the opportunity to change that. The big question is whether she will.
Sheikh Ndaw, 24, doesn’t want to wait for an answer. He is ready to risk his life and leave Senegal by boat to Europe.
Kai Kostner, Rabat Land, Tagesschau, April 17, 2024, 8:01 p.m.
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