Israeli military to remain in Gaza for years, food minister says
Avi Dichter, of Israel’s security cabinet, made the comments as reports of the scale of Israel’s military infrastructure in the territory emerge
Fri 29 Nov 2024 08.21 GMT
The Israeli military will remain in Gaza for many years, fighting against fresh Hamas recruits in the territory and could be responsible for delivery of humanitarian aid there, a senior Israeli minister has said.
The comments by Avi Dichter, Israel’s minister for food security and a member of the Israeli security cabinet, confirm an emerging picture of a long-term deployment of Israeli troops inside Gaza, with no immediate Israeli plan for any other administration to govern the territory’s 2.3 million people and begin reconstruction there.
“I think that we are going to stay in Gaza for a long time. I think most people understand that [Israel] will be years in some kind of West Bank situation where you go in and out and maybe you remain along Netzarim [corridor],” Dichter said.
Georgia: Pro-EU protests sees dozens arrested
The halting of EU accession talks has reignited protests in Tbilisi, prompting the police to crack down. More than 100 serving Georgian diplomats have signed a letter criticizing the government's move away from Brussels.
Police in Georgia arrested dozens of protesters overnight and early Friday morning in a crackdown on unrest over the new government's decision to delay European Union accession talks.
The protests and heavy crackdown comes as more than 100 serving Georgian diplomats have signed an open letter criticizing the government's decision to halt its trajectory toward EU membership.
Insurgents breach Syria’s second-largest city Aleppo, fighters and a war monitor say
Insurgents breached Syria’s second-largest city Aleppo after blowing up two car bombs on Friday and were clashing with government forces on the city’s western edge, according to a Syria war monitor and fighters.
It was the first time the city has been attacked by opposition forces since 2016, when they were ousted from Aleppo’s eastern neighborhoods following a grueling military campaign in which Syrian government forces were backed by Russia, Iran and its allied groups.
Witnesses in Aleppo city said residents have been fleeing neighborhoods on the western edge of the city because of missiles and exchanges of fire. The government did not comment on insurgents breaching city limits.
Chinese journalist, who met with Japanese diplomat, gets 7 years for spying
By Laurie Chen and James Pomfret
A Beijing court sentenced veteran Chinese state media journalist Dong Yuyu on Friday to seven years in prison for espionage, his family said in a statement, calling the verdict a grave injustice.
Police in the Chinese capital detained the 62-year-old former Guangming Daily editor and journalist in February 2022 while he was lunching with a Japanese diplomat, the U.S. National Press Club said in a statement. He was later charged with espionage.
"Sentencing Yuyu to seven years in prison on no evidence declares to the world the bankruptcy of the justice system in China," Dong's family said in a statement provided to Reuters.
‘Most dangerous stage’: The view from Russia as Ukraine war escalates
Officials rage at the West for allowing Ukraine to attack deep within Russia as fears simmer on the streets.
Last week, a defence industry site in the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro was struck by a Russian medium-range ballistic missile, which President Vladimir Putin described as a response to “NATO’s aggressive actions against Russia”.
Early reports that Dnipro was hit by an intercontinental ballistic missile proved inaccurate.
Moscow’s deployment of the new weapon, named Oreshnik, followed a series of Ukrainian rocket strikes into western Russian territory using United States-supplied ATACMS long-range missiles, targeting military facilities in the regions of Bryansk and Kursk.
How a dissident Iranian director made a film in secret and then fled the country
Mohammad Rasoulof risked his life to make “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” in Iran. Then came the hard part.
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Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof learned he had been sentenced to eight years in prison while he was completing his latest film, the tense political thriller “The Seed of the Sacred Fig.” Rasoulof, a fierce critic of Iran’s theocratic regime, faced a stark choice: try to flee the country or face severe punishment.
“I would not only lose this very active, fertile period for filmmaking. I would also be transformed into somebody who has to play the role of the sacrificed artist, the victim of censorship,” Rasoulof said through an interpreter in a Zoom interview from New York.
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