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Oil tanker afire

jeudi 1 février 2024 à 19:49

A Houthi attack set an oil tanker on fire, just south of Yemen.

Russians' doctors visits

jeudi 1 février 2024 à 19:49

Moscow now requires clinics to record the audio of every meeting with a patient.

UNRWA saddled upon

jeudi 1 février 2024 à 19:49

*Famine in Gaza is being made ‘inevitable’ says UN rapporteur. Countries defunding UNRWA, the main aid distributor in Gaza, are accused of collectively punishing more than 2.2 million Palestinians.*

Israel dossier on HAMAS in UNRWA

jeudi 1 février 2024 à 19:49

Israel accused 12 members of the UNRWA staff of fighting for HAMAS or other terrorist groups. This is being used as an excuse to cut off the aid to the Palestinians. Israel kept the information secret for months until a time when it badly needed to distract public opinion from the war crimes court's judgment against Israel.

The UNRWA is a UN humanitarian aid agency, not intended as a police force or peace keepers. It has 13,000 or so staff in Gaza, 99% of whom are Palestinians from Gaza. If 12 of them were fighting for HAMAS, that amounts to 0.1% of the total staff. For a large organization in Gaza to have such a small fraction of HAMAS fighters is doing pretty well at avoiding them.

Ukraine-aid deal

jeudi 1 février 2024 à 19:49

Congress was considering a deal which would trade military aid for Ukraine for restoring the wrecker's border wall and cruel treatment if people crossing the border.

The articles I've seen do not explicitly say, but I think that the aid for Ukraine would be temporary and the border repression would be permanent.

That alone makes it a deal for suckers. Never make a permanent concession in exchange for a temporary one! If you accept that kind of deal, you're inherently at a disadvantage and you will lose ground every year.