Israel’s FM ‘cut short’ UK visit due to arrest warrant
Global Legal Action Network (GLAN) says Israel’s Foreign Minister Gideon Saar had cut short his visit to the UK, a day after rights groups formally submitted a request to apply for his arrest warrant.
“He is a suspect in a live investigation of serious crimes. If seen contact the London Met Police immediately,” the group said on X.
The UK-based GLAN as well as the Hind Rajab Foundation had reportedly submitted a request for an arrest warrant for Saar.
https://x.com/GLAN_LAW/status/1912621979359657993
Israeli defence minister confirms ‘annexation’ plan for Gaza
The Israeli minister of defence basically affirmed that annexation was part of Israel’s military strategy and he said it’s not just in Gaza. It’s in Lebanon. It’s in Syria. Israeli troops will stay indefinitely in so-called security zones, or buffer zones that are created on someone else’s land.
One could also make the argument that the same it being done in Tulkarem and Jenin in the occupied West Bank, where the troops have also been ordered to stay indefinitely after destroying the refugee camps there.
Another thing that the Israeli defence minister said is that the Israeli policy of starvation is official and it will continue. Israel will not allow humanitarian assistance to come into Gaza. It will not allow UN humanitarian organisations to distribute food, despite warnings that full-fledged famine is about to set in.
And Israel also said that it wants to institute, at some point, some sort of different mechanism where it can decide who would receive humanitarian aid. Already we have heard from the United Nations that this is something that cannot be acceptable.
I’ve talked to some of my sources in UN agencies who say Israel wants to vet the beneficiaries, people who would be receiving that aid and to decide ahead of time if they can receive it or not. They said they simply cannot take part in that.
But that is basically where we are at. This is the official Israeli policy: no food, no water, no aid for Gaza, while Israel takes more and more of the territory’s land.
Only enough food in Gaza to last another month: Report
We have been reporting on Wednesday’s comments by Defence Minister Israel Katz, who said the Israeli military will continue to block humanitarian aid from entering Gaza in order to pressure Hamas to surrender.
Israel’s Kan public broadcaster, citing unnamed defence establishment figures, now reports that Gaza only has enough food to last a month.
