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SvennoJ on 15 May 2024
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US moving ahead with more than $1bn in weapons for Israel: Reports

The State Department is moving ahead with a more than $1bn package of weapons aid to Israel – including tank rounds, mortars and armoured tactical vehicles – US officials told domestic media.

The package, which is yet to be approved, includes the potential transfer of $700m in tank ammunition, $500m in tactical vehicles and $60m in mortar rounds.

Two anonymous US officials confirmed separately to the Reuters news agency that the weapons aid package had been moved into the congressional review process. Members of the Senate Foreign Relations and House Foreign Affairs committees review major foreign weapons deals in the US.

The new weapons package comes after President Joe Biden said last week that the US had delayed a single shipment of 1,800 2,000-pound (907kg) bombs and 1,700 500-pound (227kg) bombs to Israel over concerns they may be used against civilians in Israel’s invasion of Rafah.

 

Israeli lawyer’s tearful plea decrying Gaza war and aid attacks

Israeli human rights lawyer Sapir Sluzker Amran interjected at the end of her interview with Al Jazeera to provide a tearful plea condemning Israel’s war on Gaza.

“We condemn it, and we have to stop it. This is our moral obligation to fight, with our own people, with our own blood, in order to tell them what you’re doing is wrong,” she said.

Amran added that she was hurt trying to stop Israelis from attacking aid trucks and destroying supplies destined for Gaza.


Australia state parliament bans MPs from wearing Palestinian keffiyeh

The parliament in Australia’s state of Victoria has voted to ban members from wearing the traditional Palestinian keffiyeh and other symbols representing Palestine in the legislative chamber, members of the Australian Greens Party said.

Greens MPs took to social media to protest the ruling, which one MP said was designed to “silence us”.

Greens party leader in Victoria Ellen Sandell said the ban “makes us one of the only parliaments in the world to ban the keffiyeh – on Nakba day, a day that marks the displacement of Palestinian people”.

“Victorians have watched in horror at the atrocities unfolding in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli military. Yet Labor [Victoria and the country’s governing party] has signed a secretive MoU with Israeli Ministry of Defence & given $ to Israeli weapons companies,” Sandell said on social media.

Sandell said the Greens will move in parliament to make the memorandum of understanding with the Israeli military public.



It's banned here as well in our 'progressive' Canada
https://www.cp24.com/news/ontario-mpp-asked-again-to-leave-ontario-legislature-over-keffiyeh-speaker-loosens-ban-1.6875240