Wednesday, June 11, 2025

Six In The Morning Wednesday 11 June 2025

 

LA police enforce curfew as Trump vows to 'liberate' city

Israeli government issuing ‘illegal’ orders that must not be obeyed, say IDF intelligence officers


Carl Nasman, Ana Faguy and Gary O'Donoghue
BBC News, Los Angeles, Washington DC and New York

Los Angeles police say they have made "mass arrests" after a fifth day of protests over US President Donald Trump's immigration raids.

Mayor Karen Bass declared an overnight curfew within a relatively small area of the city's downtown district, saying businesses were being vandalised and looted.

Elsewhere, the immigration raids that triggered protests last Friday have continued, with deployed National Guard troops now protecting border control agents on enforcement operations.



In letter to Netanyahu, 41 signatories say hostages given ‘death sentence’ and Israel waging ‘unnecessary’ war

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Wed 11 Jun 2025 15.52 BST


Israeli government issuing ‘illegal’ orders that must not be obeyed, say IDF intelligence officers

In letter to Netanyahu, 41 signatories say hostages given ‘death sentence’ and Israel waging ‘unnecessary’ war

Israel’s government is issuing “clearly illegal” orders that must not be obeyed, a group of Israeli military intelligence officers have said, announcing they will no longer participate in combat operations in Gaza.

In a letter addressed to Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, the defence minister, Israel Katz, and the head of the military, the group of 41 officers and reservists said the government was waging an “unnecessary, eternal war” in Gaza.


Poland: PM Tusk's pro-EU government wins confidence vote

Tusk's call for a confidence vote came after right-wing nationalist Karol Nawrocki was elected president, narrowly beating the Tusk-backed candidate. The opposition had said the lost election would be Tusk's downfall.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk won a parliamentary vote of confidence in his pro-European government on Wednesday, just days after a stinging presidential election defeat.

Tusk is seeking to reassert his authority after the defeat of his key ally Warsaw
Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski in a recent presidential election to the nationalist historian
Karol Nawrocki.

Iran says it will target US bases if conflict breaks out over nuclear enrichment


Iran said on Wednesday it would target US military bases if conflict breaks out between the two countries over Iran's nuclear enrichment program. Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Washington "cannot have a say" on the issue, as US President Donald Trump threatened that the US could resort to warfare if the nuclear talks between the two countries fail. 


Iran threatened Wednesday to target US military bases in the region if conflict breaks out, while President Donald Trump said he was "less confident" about reaching a nuclear deal.

Tehran and Washington have held five rounds of talks since April to thrash out a new nuclear deal to replace the 2015 accord that Trump abandoned during his first term in 2018.

 Israel kills 120 Palestinians across Gaza in 24 hours


  • At least 120 Palestinians have been killed and 474 injured in Israeli attacks across Gaza in the past 24 hours, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry. Three bodies of those killed previously were also recovered from the rubble.
  • At least 57 aid seekers were killed and more than 363 injured by Israel since this morning, bringing the total number of people killed at aid distribution centres to 224, with 1,858 others injured, the ministry added.
  • The Israeli military has admitted its troops fired “warning shots” in the area of the Netzarim Corridor, where the majority of aid seekers were reported killed overnight, adding that it is “aware of reports regarding individuals injured, the details are under review”.
  • Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 55,104 Palestinians and wounded 127,394, according to the Health Ministry.


Trump is hyping a case to use American troops on domestic soil


Posing as a wartime leader, President Donald Trump is building a political case to use American troops not in a foreign conflict, but at home, to bolster his mass deportation sweeps.

But California Gov. Gavin Newsom, the Democrat who heads the state leading resistance to a president with a taste for unchecked power, says a long-feared moment of peril is at hand for US democracy.

In an emerging campaign with stark constitutional implications, Trump is conjuring a narrative of invasion and insurrection. He’s exaggerating disorder in the relatively contained unrest, looting and protests in Los Angeles. And he’s implying that, to keep the country safe, he’s ready to deploy soldiers across the country.







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