This morning, the Israeli military announced a "tactical pause" during daylight hours from the Karem Abu Salem crossing to the European Hospital, north of Rafah, purportedly to facilitate aid delivery.

However, confusion arose when Israeli Defense Minister and Prime Minister Netanyahu claimed they were unaware of the pause. The military clarified that the pause only affects a small route, with operations continuing in Rafah, which critics argue does little to enhance humanitarian aid.

The announcement sparked controversy, especially among the Israeli far right, who are key supporters of Netanyahu. Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich criticized the pause, reflecting widespread Israeli sentiment opposing aid to Gaza. Ben-Gvir even instructed police not to interfere with Israeli settlers attacking aid convoys entering Gaza.

Zionism on Wikipedia – update (https://t.me/warfareanalysis/45637)

Naftali Bennett, former Israeli PM said, “We need to ensure that wikipedia remains zionist in nature".

The effort is till ongoing to this day, as this smart TikToker pointed out.


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Update on the “strategic pause”
(https://t.me/warfareanalysis/53549)

Israel in ENGLISH: there’s a pause for humanitarian purposes to allow increased aid entry into Gaza

Israel in HEBREW: There’s no cessation of fighting & no change to entry of goods into Gaza

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Al Jazeera:

The Israeli Supreme Court issues a precautionary order halting the State Comptroller's investigation into the failures of the army and the Shin Bet on October 7.

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Supreme Court Justice Gila Knefe Steinitz

today decided to freeze the State Comptroller's investigative proceedings into the October 7 IDF and Shin Bet fiasco until next month

Steinitz wrote in her decision that she accepted the decision after "giving great importance to the confidential opinions of security leaders."

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About the role of British Petroleum in wars, Declassified UK has an article about its role in Iraq.

Despite UK ministers denying the war was about oil, the flagship British company reaped a bonanza upon its return to Iraq after the 2003 invasion, Declassified has found.

The Iraq Petroleum Company, which had a virtual monopoly on the country’s oil production in the four decades up to the 1960s, was headquartered in Oxford Street in London. BP and Shell together owned 48%, before it was nationalised in 1972 and its concessions expropriated.

But BP returned to Iraq for the first time since the 1970s six years after the British invasion. “We continually seek to access resources and in 2009 this included Iraq,” the company stated at the time.

Key points:

• BP returned to Iraq in 2009 after a 35-year absence and was awarded a significant interest in the country’s largest oil field near British-occupied Basra
• BP has pumped 262m barrels of Iraqi oil since 2011
• Sir John Sawers, the UK’s first special representative to Iraq after invasion, has banked £1.1m since joining BP’s board in 2015
• Other UK oil “supermajor” Shell also won Iraq contract in 2009 as lead operator developing “super-giant” Majnoon oil field

BP has pumped oil worth £15.4bn in Iraq since 2011 when it began production in the country for the first time in nearly four decades, new analysis shows.

One figure who has done well out of BP is Sir John Sawers, the UK’s first special representative to Iraq in 2003, who joined the company’s board in 2015.

Over the following seven years, Sawers has earned £1.1m in fees from the company. His BP shareholding was also worth £135,000 last year, up 180% from when he joined the company.

Sawers joined BP as a non-executive director in May 2015 having apparently been “identified” the previous year as he stepped down as head of MI6, Britain’s external intelligence agency.

The new information comes on the 20-year anniversary of the beginning of the invasion of Iraq, which was judged to be illegal by the UN. However, neither US president George W Bush nor British prime minister Tony Blair, the leaders who prosecuted the war, have been subjects of a criminal investigation.

Context: British Petroleum was given a concession for the Levithan gas field by Israel, a few weeks after the “war” started.

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