Israel says petrol bomb thrown at its Bucharest embassy, no damage
A petrol bomb has been thrown at the Israeli embassy in Bucharest, causing no damage or casualties, Israel’s Foreign Ministry said.
It said Romanian authorities had arrested a suspect, “apparently of Syrian origin”. He had pulled out, lit and thrown the petrol bomb while undergoing a security inspection, it said.
Expect Israel to bomb Syria again
Israel to approve violent ‘Jerusalem Day’ parade through Old City’s Muslim Quarter
Against the backdrop of the ongoing war on Gaza, Israeli authorities are preparing to mark June 5 as Jerusalem Day, which commemorates what they refer to as the “liberation” of East Jerusalem and “reunification” of the city.
East Jerusalem remains occupied, according to almost all the international community, and international law identifies it as such.
“Permitting such a parade to pass through Damascus Gate and the Muslim Quarter while the war is raging on and Israel under increasing international pressure is inconceivable. It is liable to only inflame tensions and escalate hostilities,” the non-profit Israeli rights group Ir Amim said in a statement.
The flag parade is an extreme right-wing nationalist march that has increasingly become a hostile display of Jewish supremacy, triumphalism, and incitement against Palestinians, said Ir Amim.
The parade attracts thousands of national-religious Jews, many of them young men, who aggressively march with Israeli flags through the Muslim Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem and engage in acts of provocation, violence, and destruction of Palestinian property with little to no police intervention.
Israelis attack Palestinian youth in Jerusalem’s Old City as they mark Jerusalem Day, an Israeli holiday celebrating the capture of the Old City in 1967
Gaza war boosts to popularity of Hamas: Poll
A public opinion poll conducted by the Jerusalem Media and Communication Centre, in cooperation with German NGO Friedrich Ebert-Stiftung, in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, showed that Israel’s war in the Gaza Strip has improved Hamas’ political status, while leading to a setback in the popularity of Fatah, the Palestinian Authority and its key leaders.
The poll, which excluded the Gaza Strip for security reasons, shows a clear division among Palestinians over the nature of a final solution – a two-state or one-state solution. There was also a split in opinion over the best method of Palestinian resistance to achieve national goals, between armed, military resistance or diplomatic peaceful resistance.
Some of poll’s findings:
- Almost 40 percent of respondents believe the October 7 attack on Israel, and the war that followed, serves Palestinian national interests.
- More than 41 percent of those polled say they expect that the current war to end in favour of Hamas.
- About 38.5 percent say the war will end with the advancement of normalisation projects between Israel and some Arab states.
- At least 44.5 percent of respondents say peaceful, diplomatic political action is the best method to achieve national goals, while 40.8 percent say they support violent military resistance.
Makes sense, Fatah is doing nothing for the West Bank. People are fed up with the endless occupation and apartheid. It's actually surprising still so many people believe in peaceful, diplomatic political action after 76 years of diplomacy failing.
Gives me some hope a political solution can actually still work, yet it all depends on Israel and the USA to finally adhere to the decades of UN resolutions.
‘Palestine is a European issue’: European Parliament candidate Rima Hassan
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/6/3/palestine-is-a-european-issue-european-parliament-candidate-rima-hassan
French-Palestinian activist and jurist Rima Hassan, a leftist candidate in the upcoming European Parliament elections, has been the subject of political and media scrutiny in France as Israel’s war on Gaza continues to rage.
Al Jazeera interviewed Hassan about France and the wider European community’s response to the war in Gaza, her personal experience as a Palestinian politician in France, and the upcoming European Parliament elections.
Rima Hassan, 32, hopes to win at this week’s European Parliament elections
Germany suspends UN climate conference after pro-Palestine protest
A session of UN climate negotiations in the German city of Bonn has been shut down after climate activists took to the conference stage and demonstrated against Israel’s war on Gaza, according to the country’s police.
Climate Action Network activists raised a Palestinian flag on the conference stage and a banner reading: “No business as usual during a genocide”, before they were escorted out by the UN security service, a video of the protest showed.
It's relevant though, but Germany.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/15032024/todays-climate-gaza-israel-sewage-environment-debris-pollution/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/09/emissions-gaza-israel-hamas-war-climate-change
First months of conflict produced more planet-warming gases than 20 climate-vulnerable nations do in a year, study shows
The climate costs of war and militaries can no longer be ignored
