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It's Netanyahu that wants a wider war to stay in power. He's doing everything to survive politically. He knows as soon as the war is done, he will be ousted and facing prosecution for his prior corruption charges, as well as an investigation in his failures on Oct 7, as well as the charges of many war crimes and genocide.
Israel obstructing access to Hamas attack victims: UN
Israel is preventing UN investigators from speaking to witnesses and victims of the October 7 Hamas attack.
“So far as the government of Israel is concerned, we have faced not merely a lack of cooperation but active obstruction of our efforts to receive evidence from Israeli witnesses and victims to the events that occurred in southern Israel,” said Chris Sidoti, one of the three members of the inquiry.
Sidoti, speaking via videolink, said the investigation found it difficult to collect evidence from large numbers of witnesses. “I use this opportunity to appeal again both to the government of Israel to cooperate, and to victims and witnesses to the events in southern Israel to contact the commission of inquiry so that we can hear what they have experienced.”
Sidoti also said investigators began collecting digital evidence early on October 7, some of which has since “disappeared from the internet”. “If it had not been collected on that day, it would not have been able to be collected,” the former human rights commissioner of Australia said.
US gets what they wanted out of the counter attack
US House speaker announces bill with more Iran sanctions
Congress will release several spending bills today, including one that includes more sanctions on Russia and Iran, House Speaker Mike Johnson said in an interview with Fox News.
The bills, which could be voted on by the end of the week, will also allocate more funding for US allies Israel and Ukraine, but the amount of spending “is still being decided”, Johnson said.
While the real atrocities are in plain view
Unexploded 1,000-pound bombs found in Gaza schools
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees says it found the massive explosives inside schools after Israeli forces withdrew from Gaza’s city of Khan Younis. UNWRA found “significant challenges in operating safely due to the presence of unexploded ordnance [UXOs], including 1,000-pound [450kg] bombs inside schools and on roads”.
Earlier this month, the UN said it would take “millions of dollars” and “many years” to decontaminate Gaza from unexploded munitions.
Netanyahu seeks to ‘draw attention away from Gaza’
Jordan’s Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi says the international community should stop Netanyahu from “stealing” attention away from Gaza by escalating his confrontation with Iran.
In remarks during a news conference with his German counterpart in Berlin, Safadi said Iran had responded to the attack against its consulate and had announced that it “did not want to escalate further”.
“We are against escalating. Netanyahu wants to draw attention away from Gaza and focus on his confrontation with Iran,” Safadi added.
