Khaled Zayed, the head of the Egyptian Red Crescent Society in North Sinai, has told Reuters that 200 aid trucks are expected to enter Gaza via the Karem Abu Salem (Kerem Shalom) crossing today.

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The Muslim Vote (UK):

July 4th marks the beginning of a new era of:
Voters over Donors
Peace over Profits
People over Power

An era where The Muslim vote is earned, not taken for granted. Time is of the essence.

If you are a UK citizen and can’t go to the polls because of illness or travel, registration for the postal vote closes on June 18th.

Every vote counts!

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🔻Yedioth Ahronoth’s Hebrew correspondent:

The Givati ​​Brigade withdrew from Rafah this morning.

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The Times:


In the first interview since requesting the arrest warrants, Karim Khan said that, as chief prosecutor of the ICC and as someone from a persecuted minority whose own parents were once attacked in the UK, he had no choice but to issue those requests and he doesn’t understand why so many are shocked about it.



Key quotes:


- What this comes down to is, ‘Do we want to live in a world where law is applied equally or one where we close our eyes and turn away because of our allegiances?’


- If states don’t step up, it has massive implications. The ICC is their child — I am just the nanny or hired help. They have a choice to look after this child or be responsible for its abandonment.


- Are powerful states sincere when they say there’s a body of law or is this rules-based system all a nonsense, simply a tool of Nato and a post-colonial world, with no real intention of applying law equally?


- Law must have some purpose, that’s what separates states that respect the law from criminal groups and terrorists. And that’s all I have been trying to do, apply law based on facts, and that’s what we must do whatever condemnation we get.


- I’ve been saying continuously since October 7, ‘Comply now, don’t complain later.’


- The fact that water was turned off, water purification tablets not allowed in, desalination plants not allowed membranes, wells targeted, the fact that people queuing for food [were] targeted, that people from aid agencies have been killed. It’s the whole pattern that’s indicative. We’ve analysed it objectively and rationally.


- You can’t have as a common plan collective punishment.


- Even if we don’t trust Palestinian doctors, we have American and British doctors speaking of conducting amputations without anaesthetics, of babies dying in incubators because the power is turned off, of people dying because there is no insulin. This is not how war is supposed to be waged.


- If this is what compliance with international humanitarian law looks like, then the Geneva Conventions serve no purpose.


- He particularly spoke about including Wilmshurst in the expert panel, who resigned over the war in Iraq, and was the British lead in Rome drafting the Rome statute that created the ICC, as well as Meron — “a giant of intellect, an Israeli Jew who was legal adviser to Israel and a Holocaust survivor — are they going to call him antisemitic? The fact they have been unanimous that evidence is there is very important.”


- It’s a precarious moment internationally and if we don’t hold on to the law, we have nothing to cling onto

Interestingly, he disclosed that, when he stood for the position of chief prosecutor in 2021, the UK initially declined to back him. On the wall of his office in The Hague is a framed letter from then justice secretary Dominic Raab refusing his request for support. The UK government changed its mind once it was clear he had unanimous backing.

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Hebrew media:

The issue of snipers greatly disturbs the army leadership because Hamas has intensified its use of them, specifically in areas where “the forces operate as an administration,” where they are less vigilant than on the battlefront.

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🔻Within two hours, 2 settlers died from motorcyclist traffic accidents

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🔺"May their village burn"

An Israeli occupation soldier poses with Ramallah city in the background, captioning the picture with calls for the burning of Palestinian villages.

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Hebrew media:

The Israeli “Army” reduces its forces in the operation east of Rafah, and the “Givati” Brigade left the city this morning.

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🔺Two settlers of Lod were arrested on suspicion of serious assault and sodomy on a 3-year-old toddler  

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Poll: Half of Israeli settlers do not believe in the police.

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The settlers are fuming because of the celebrations on the news that a few Sheyatet 13 elite commandos were kidnapped by the steadfast Qassam brigades.

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Bloomberg reports that US fast food brands are facing a 'challenging operating environment in Asia, the Middle East and some parts of Europe' due to boycotts because of the Israeli Genocide and the USA's support for it.

Burger King has already announced that it is reducing the price of breakfast.

This will spill over to other companies in the future as well. People in the world will more and more consciously turn to competition. Many other countries can take advantage of this vacuum.

The support of the US in the Israeli massacre of children reflects very negatively on private companies as well.

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Shlomo under attack once again.

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Little Palestinian girls in Gaza find moments of innocent joy, playfully swinging on the remnants of what was once their beloved family home.

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A bus stop in the shape of a watermelon was spotted in Denmark.

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