Declassified UK:

Britain’s business secretary wants to strike a new trade deal with Israel amid its brutal onslaught on Gaza.

The UK government, led by business secretary Kemi Badenoch, has been trying to finalise a new trade agreement with Israel throughout its invasion of Gaza.


The latest – and fifth – round of negotiations between officials of the two countries began on 8 April. That was just seven days after three British aid workers were killed by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in Gaza.


The talks on a free trade agreement (FTA) continued even as UN agencies reported over 33,000 Palestinians had been killed by Israel and the Israeli government announced a date had been set for invading Rafah.


These negotiations were hosted by the UK, with a delegation of Israeli officials travelling to London for in-person discussions.

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Otto Ohlendorf, commander of Einsatzgruppe D, said the above at the Nuremberg trial.

Sounds familiar?

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PressTV:

Josep Borrell, the EU foreign policy chief, has called for an investigation into the Israeli attack on a UN-operated school in Gaza, which resulted in the death of at least 40 people, including 14 children and nine women.

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Middle East Eye:

According to Axios, the UAE's foreign minister and a senior adviser to the Palestinian president clashed during a meeting on Israel's war on Gaza on 29 April in Riyadh.

Hussein al-Sheikh, a deputy to President Mahmoud Abbas, said the Palestinian Authority (PA) was taking steps to conduct reforms and create a new government but was not receiving enough support from the US and Arab countries.

Emirati Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan rejected this claim, saying he had seen little reform in the PA, the sources said.

Two sources reported that the foreign minister called the Palestinian leadership "Ali Baba and the 40 thieves" and "useless", adding that "replacing them with one another will only lead to the same result".

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🔻Settler on settler violence

An incident of violence on a bus in Beitar Elit, a bus driver of the Qavim company attacked a passenger according to testimonies "because he accidentally pressed the 'stop' button unnecessarily."

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🔻Leading Cause of Accidents: 70% of Israelis Drive at Excessive Speeds | All the Data
Over 190 road fatalities since the beginning of the year, and alarming data from the National Road Safety Authority indicate that driving at higher-than-permitted speeds is the main factor in worsening accident outcomes.

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🔻Reserve soldiers in the south who left their vehicles near the military camp discovered that their vehicles had been destroyed; IDF spokesman: "A military armored vehicle hit them, they were left in a place not intended for that"

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Israeli media:

There is a military rebellion in the north. The soldiers asked to leave their military positions because of the danger to their lives.

Comment: once upon a long time ago, being a soldier meant being willing to sacrifice your life for your country. But these are diaper soldiers.

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🔻Fatal traffic accident at the Nahora intersection: a settler without a license ran amok on the road, fled from the police, and hit a cyclist who was killed on the spot

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On their TG channel, sources close to AnsarAllah state:

“If the Zionist terrorist aggression against our brothers in Gaza and Palestine does not cease, and the American, British, and Western support for the Zionist terrorist entity continues, then Yemen will not remain silent. Rather, we will be compelled to open multiple fronts in various countries and train, qualify, and arm the resistance entities against this criminal arrogance. We will also support them with manufacturing expertise. Our expertise will not be confined to ourselves but will be present in all arenas.

You must take this message seriously.”


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In the wake of a concerted campaign by Fossil Free Books pressuring asset manager Baillie Gifford, a supposedly “independent global investment” firm since 1908, to divest from fossil fuels and companies profiting from Israeli occupation, apartheid and genocide, the firm has announced that it is ending sponsorship of all UK book festivals.

Baillie Gifford is a large investor in several multinational technology companies, including Amazon, Nvidia and Meta.

You know what to boycott Next.

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The families of the hostages at the Begin Gate protests have written an open letter to Jewish organizations in America asking them to publicly speak out for them and demand a deal, a ceasefire, and the end of the war.

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Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim:

Malaysia is not a great power, but we will use our freedom to support the Palestinian struggle.

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