Israel at war day 712
- Tonight, Israeli Minister Dermer and US envoy Witkoff are meeting in London in an attempt to restart the negotiations calling the meeting a last-ditch effort to revive hostage-ceasefire talks.
- Dozens of Palestinians were said to have been killed in Israel Defense Force strikes across Gaza on Wednesday, as the military said Palestinians continued to flee Gaza City amid a major offensive in the Strip’s largest urban area.
- UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer plans to formally recognize a Palestinian state after US President Donald Trump completes his state visit to the United Kingdom, The Times reports. Starmer plans to recognize Palestine even before several countries,, will do so at the United Nations summit in New York next week amid concern over the ongoing war in Gaza.
- The European Commission has formally presented its proposal for sanctions on far-right Israeli ministers and a partial suspension of the European Union’s association agreement with Israel, the EU’s executive body announced on Wednesday. The sanctions, if approved, would strip Israeli imports of their preferential access to the EU. Israeli goods would have duties slapped on them at the same level as imports coming from countries with which the EU does not have a free trade agreement.
- Initial indications show that French President Macron has reservations on his planned recognition of a "Palestinian state" next week. In talks he has held with Jewish leaders recently, Macron has left them with the impression that French recognition will not be immediate and automatic but conditional. The conditions will be the release of the Israeli hostages imprisoned in Gaza and the disarmament of Hamas
- US Ambassador Mike Huckabee "What destroyed the negotiations for the hostages was the European nations going and having this push for a unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state... it destroyed negotiations."
-Hamas leader, Razi Hamad, a target during the elimination strike in Qatar, just interviewed on Al-Jazeera. “We are not afraid of Trump's threats to open the gates of hell on us. We do not accept his orders on how to treat enemy prisoners. We treat them according to our way and according to our religion.”
the Zionists can fight till no end but there is no victory
ReplyDeletePM Starmer, who was the first to say he'd recognize "Palestine" at the UN, conditioned that on release of hostages (and bodies) and disbanding of military force.
ReplyDeleteWell, surprisingly, President Macron (whose father is Jewish, not that that that would make a difference) is worried about Hamas committing to these factors, while Starmer is backtracking on those conditions.
I am 2:12 -- backtracking on the conditions but not on the recognition.
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