Smotrich vows to retaliate by waging ‘war’ on Palestinian Authority and orders evacuation of a West Bank village Israel’s far-right finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, has said the international criminal court (ICC) prosecutor has sought a confidential arrest warrant against him, and promised to retaliate by waging a “war” on the Palestinian Authority. He said he had ordered the evacuation of the Palestinian Bedouin village of Khan al-Ahmar in the Israeli-occupied West Bank as part of measures against the authority, which exercises limited self-rule in parts of the West Bank under agreements with Israel. “The Palestinian Authority has started a war, and it will get a war,” Smotrich said, reflecting Israeli government anger at what it sees as Palestinian backing for international legal action over the conflict in Gaza. Smotrich said he had ordered the evacuation of Khan al-Ahmar, using his authority as finance minister and as a minister in the defence ministry, to harm the authority. A senior Palestinian official, Wasel abu Youssef, said the forced evacuation of Khan al-Ahmar was “very dangerous” and called for a firm international response to stop what he called further crimes. The
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Organisation cites abuse, including rape of male detainees, by security forces of governments which have blocked UN investigators The UN has added Israel and Russia to a blacklist for sexual violence in conflict, citing…
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Read original at The Guardian →Smotrich vows to retaliate by waging ‘war’ on Palestinian Authority and orders evacuation of a West Bank village Israel’s far-right finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, has said the international criminal court (ICC)…
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Organisation cites abuse, including rape of male detainees, by security forces of governments which have blocked UN investigators The UN has added Israel and Russia to a blacklist for sexual violence in conflict, citing abuse by security…
View source →Residents live in fear of nightly raids and daytime bombings from the Israeli military occupying their land For hours, Hussein Abdel al-El and his wife, Um Alaa, did not move. They sat in the bathroom in the dark, not daring to touch their…
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