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Protesters call for Netanyahu to be brought to justice over corruption trial
Protesters have gathered in front of Netanyahu’s residence in Jerusalem following his request to be pardoned from his corruption trial.
Demonstrators called for the PM to be brought to justice because “Israel is a state of law,” and added that the country was not “a Trump protectorate and not a banana republic”, referring to Trump’s formal request last month for Netanyahu to be fully pardoned.
On Monday, Israel’s President Herzog said Netanyahu’s request to be pardoned “unsettles many people in this country”. He added that the request “will be handled in the most proper and precise way… I will consider only the good of the country and Israeli society.”
Netanyahu is currently charged with one count of bribery and three counts each of fraud and breach of trust.
Palestine condemns Israel’s shutdown of agricultural union
The Palestinian Foreign Ministry has condemned the closure by the Israeli army of the Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC) in el-Bireh following a raid on Monday.
The ministry said the move was “part of a systematic policy aimed at undermining civil and developmental work” in the occupied Palestinian territory, in contravention of international law protecting local institutions and those working in the humanitarian field.
It added that Israel has “no sovereignty over our land” and cited an advisory opinion issued by the ICJ last year, which states that Israel’s continued presence in the occupied Palestinian territory is unlawful and should come to an end “as rapidly as possible”.
Israeli drone attack hit home in Lebanon’s south
An Israeli quadcopter drone has dropped explosives on a home in the southern Lebanese town of Aitaroun, Lebanon’s National News Agency has reported. The drone was launched from a newly established Israeli post in Jabal al-Bat shortly after midnight, according to the state-owned news agency.
Nearly 10,000 Israeli violations have been recorded in Lebanon in the year since the Hezbollah-Israel ceasefire, and more than 127 civilians have been killed.
