🇮🇱❌🇵🇸 "You will die, your children will die, your grandchildren will die.”

Right-wing members of Israel’s Knesset called for killing Palestinians and taking their land during a vote to reject international calls for Palestinian statehood.

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🇺🇸🎙 Interviewer: What do you think of Putin saying that justification for continuing the war is denazification?

Tucker Carlson: I thought it was one of the dumbest things I've ever heard.

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🇮🇱🇮🇱 Now: Israeli right wing settlers enter Eretz crossing an try to build a structure near the border wall with Gaza. They are calling the government to allow them to settle in Gaza

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🇮🇱❌🇱🇧🇱🇧 Gallant warns Austin about Hezbollah, US fears IDF summer attack on Lebanon

Last week, White House National Security Communications Advisor John Kirby told reporters in Washington that the US doesn’t want "a second front” on Israel’s northern border.

Israel won’t tolerate continued Hezbollah attacks, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant told US Secretary of State Lloyd Austin amid the Biden admiration fears that Israel would launch a summer campaign against the Iranian proxy group.

“The State of Israel will not tolerate threats against its citizens and violations of its sovereignty and will take the measures required to ensure their security,” Gallant said late Wednesday night.

Gallant detailed for Austin the “ongoing attacks conducted by Hezbollah on Israel’s northern communities,” according to the Defense Ministry.

The conversation took place as an anonymous Biden administration official told CNN, “We are operating in the assumption that an Israeli military operation is in the coming months.” The official added that such an attack would not happen "imminently in the next few weeks but perhaps later this spring. An Israeli military operation is a distinct possibility.”

🔗 https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-789565

🇮🇷🇱🇧🇸🇾❌🇮🇱 If regional war erupts, Hezbollah & Iranian militias in Syria/Iraq will aim to disrupt Israeli maritime traffic in eastern Mediterranean, warns Jerusalem Institute for Strategy & Security

Iran’s proxies will copy Houthi strategy, deploy UAVs & missiles to target vessels, report says.

🔗 https://jiss.org.il/en/rubin-missiles-and-uavs-in-the-battle-for-freedom-of-navigation-in-the-red-sea/

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🇮🇱❌🇵🇸 "Israeli troops fired on a crowd of Palestinians waiting for aid in Gaza City on Thursday, witnesses said. More than 100 people were killed...witnesses later said Israeli troops opened fire as people pulled flour and canned goods off of trucks."

"Kamel Abu Nahel...treated for a gunshot wound at Shifa Hospital, said he and others went to the distribution point in the middle of the night because they heard there would be a delivery of food. “We’ve been eating animal feed for two months,”

"Israeli officials acknowledged that troops opened fire, saying they did so after the crowd approached in a threatening way. The officials insisted on anonymity to give details about what happened"

"Alaa Abu Daiya, another witness, said Israeli troops open fire and also that a tank fired a shell."

IDF "said most of the casualties were caused by a stampede and being run over by the supply vehicles. Gunmen also opened fire in the area as they looted the supplies. The army said it did not fire at the crowd rushing the main aid convoy."

"The army ...acknowledged that troops opened fire on several Gazans who later rushed the last truck in the convoy further north, and who moved toward soldiers and a tank at an IDF checkpoint, endangering soldiers."

"An officer stationed in the area ordered soldiers to fire warning shots in the air as the Palestinians were within a few dozen meters, as well as gunfire at the legs of those who continued to move...The IDF said that fewer than 10 of the casualties were a result of Israeli fire"

'Al Za'anoun, who was at the scene and witnessed the incident, told CNN that, though there were large crowds waiting for food to be distributed from aid trucks, the chaos and confusion that led to trampling only started once Israeli soldiers opened fire'

🧵 https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1763208479555117472.html

🇨🇳🧪🇦🇶 China’s fifth research station in Antarctica sparks concerns about its ambitions

The launch of Qinling station on Feb 7, however, has sparked concerns about China’s ambitions on the continent, which has no permanent inhabitants, unlike the Arctic.

The expansion seeks to position China as a major scientific player in Antarctica, in line with its emerging great-power status, said Professor Marc Lanteigne, who teaches political science at the University of Tromso: The Arctic University of Norway.

“At the same time, it (could) potentially lay the groundwork for increased economic activities should the legal situation in the region change in the coming decades,” Prof Lanteigne told The Straits Times.

Mining is currently banned in Antarctica under the Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty, also known as the Madrid Protocol, which came into force in 1998. A concern is that China may press for a rethinking of the mining opportunities on the continent when this treaty is up for review in 2048, said Prof Lanteigne.

He noted that while China has research and economic interests on both poles, it faces less competition in Antarctica, given that the continent has no permanent inhabitants.

Assistant Professor Benjamin Ho said in the Arctic, countries such as Russia and the United States have staked claims, so China could see this as an opportunity to venture within Antarctica. “You can’t call yourself a global great power if you don’t have a presence around the globe,” said Prof Ho, who specialises in Chinese foreign policy at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies.

🔗 https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-s-fifth-research-station-in-antarctica-sparks-concerns-about-its-ambitions?s=09

🇩🇰🚫🔎❓💥🇷🇺⛽️ — 🇺🇸 Oil Price | Denmark Drops Probe Into Nord Stream Gas Pipeline Sabotage | February 26, 2024:

"Denmark is dropping the investigation over what it described as a “deliberate sabotage” of the Nord Stream gas pipelines in 2022, due to insufficient grounds to pursue a criminal case, the Copenhagen police said on Monday.

Gas leaks in each of the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines were discovered at the end of September 2022 from the infrastructure just outside Swedish and Danish territorial waters in the Baltic Sea.

Nord Stream 2 was never put into operation after Germany axed the certification process following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Russia, for its part, shut down Nord Stream 1 indefinitely in early September of 2022, claiming an inability to repair gas turbines because of the Western sanctions."

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