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SvennoJ 2 hours ago

Indonesia says it could send 8,000 soldiers to Gaza

A proposed multinational peacekeeping force for Gaza could total about 20,000 troops, with Indonesia estimating it could contribute up to 8,000, according to President Prabowo Subianto’s spokesman.

The spokesman added that no deployment terms or areas of operation had been agreed.  Prabowo has been invited to Washington later this month for the first meeting of Trump’s Board of Peace.

Last year, Indonesia committed to readying 20,000 soldiers for deployment for a Gaza peacekeeping force, but it has said it is awaiting more details on the force’s mandate before confirming deployment.

“We are just preparing ourselves in case an agreement is reached and we have to send peacekeeping forces,” presidential spokesman Prasetyo Hadi told journalists.

He added that there would be negotiations before Indonesia paid the $1bn being asked for permanent membership of the board.



UNIFIL to withdraw most troops from Lebanon by mid-2027

The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon plans to withdraw most of its troops by mid-2027, its spokesperson has told the AFP news agency.

UNIFIL has acted as a buffer between Israel and Lebanon for decades and has been assisting the Lebanese army as it dismantles Hezbollah infrastructure near the Israeli border, after a recent war between Israel and the Lebanese group.

Under pressure from the US and Israel, the UN Security Council voted last year to end the force’s mandate on December 31, 2026, with an “orderly and safe drawdown and withdrawal” within one year.

Spokesperson Kandice Ardiel said “UNIFIL is planning to draw down and withdraw all, or substantially all, uniformed personnel by midyear 2027”, completing the pullout by year-end.

After UNIFIL operations cease on December 31 this year, she said, “we begin the process of sending UNIFIL personnel and equipment home and transferring our UN positions to the Lebanese authorities.”



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SvennoJ 2 hours ago

What’s happening in the occupied West Bank?

  • Israeli forces have raided several homes in Bethlehem.
  • They also stormed the town of Sa’ir, northeast of Hebron, where fighting was reported with Palestinian youth. During the raid, forces fired live ammunition, stun grenades and tear gas.
  • Israeli forces also stormed the city of Dura, south of Hebron, detaining and assaulting a Palestinian woman and vandalising a vehicle.
  • Settlers stormed Palestinian homes in the village of Fasayil, north of Jericho city.
  • Settlers also attacked Palestinian vehicles with stones near the Shilo settlement on the main road between Ramallah and Nablus.
  • A young Palestinian was arrested during an Israeli raid on the American University housing area south of Jenin last night.
  • Settlers sabotaged the electricity line feeding the Shakara community and attempted to cut off power from Palestinians near the town of Duma, southeast of Nablus.


New occupied West Bank law ‘major step’ in burying Palestinian state

The Israeli cabinet announced unprecedented decisions which allow Israeli settlers to own land in the occupied West Bank and diminish the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) already limited control.

Under the Oslo Accords – signed in 1993 with the Palestine Liberation Organization – Israel has control over 60 percent of the occupied West Bank, known as Area C, where the Israeli government lets settlers flourish. The remaining 40 percent range between full and partial Palestinian control and include city centres.

The new measures strip the PA’s authority over these areas. The laws also mean control of the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron would be transferred from Palestinian to Israeli authorities. The same with Rachel’s Tomb, a religious site in Bethlehem.

Bezalel Smotrich has campaigned against Palestinians throughout his career. He has already accelerated the process of building new illegal Israeli settlement units in the past few years.

Israel has been choking any prospect of a Palestinian state. This is a major step towards burying it altogether.

All of the West bank was supposed to be under PA control by May 1999...


Hebron shows how Israeli settlers plant themselves in occupied West Bank

Yesterday’s decision was a rubber stamp on a practice that Israel has been carrying out for decades.

The fear is that Israeli settlers are going to be taking up spaces inside city centres, not the way they were before, and in more remote areas across the occupied West Bank.

Hebron, where I am right now, is the exact example of how, since the 1960s, Israeli settlers planted themselves inside the city and kept expanding at the expense of Palestinians.

There is a special arrangement for Hebron, under which the presence of Israeli settlers is entrenched in an area known as H-2. Israeli settlers in H-2 live inside the city, with hundreds of Israeli soldiers there to protect them.

In certain areas in Hebron, Palestinians are not even allowed to use the roads.



SvennoJ 2 hours ago

Israeli forces to remove electricity network in occupied West Bank town west of Hebron

Israeli forces have notified residents of Idhna town in the West Bank’s Hebron governorate of a plan to remove the electricity network, according to the Wafa news agency.

Idhna Mayor Jaber Tmaizi told the outlet that this was part of Israel’s ongoing efforts to displace Palestinian residents from the area.

Israeli authorities had previously confiscated land in the eastern part of the town for illegal settlement expansion, with the aim of creating a contiguous settlement bloc south of Hebron.

At least 30 Palestinians arrested in Israeli army raids across West Bank

At least 30 Palestinians, including children, have been arrested across the occupied West Bank in raids by Israeli forces today, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society has told Al Jazeera.


Palestinian child with cancer in West Bank barred from entering Israel for treatment

The Jerusalem District Court has dismissed a petition for a five-year-old Palestinian cancer patient to enter Israel for treatment.

A statement by Gisha Legal Center for Freedom of Movement released on Monday said the petition was filed by the organisation, and the boy currently resides in the occupied West Bank but is registered as a resident of Gaza. “The petition sought to facilitate the boy’s entry into Israel in order to receive life-saving medical treatment at Tel Hashomer Hospital,” it said.

“The decision was made despite the severity of the boy’s condition and an expert opinion by an Israeli physician recommending treatment available to him nearby and warning of the risks in transferring him abroad for treatment.”

Gisha, which has been representing him since November 2025, said the child moved from Gaza to the West Bank in 2022 to receive medical care not available in the Strip. According to the statement, after treatment options in the West Bank were exhausted, his doctors determined that he urgently requires antibody immunotherapy, followed by a bone marrow transplant – available in Israel.


Palestinian citizens of Israel demand government do more to stop crime

Palestinian citizens of Israel make up approximately 21 percent of Israel’s overall population. They are the descendants of Palestinians who were not forced out in the Nakba of 1948, when 750,000 people fled following the establishment of the State of Israel.

The Palestinians who remain in Israel largely live separate lives from the rest of the population in isolated towns and villages, suffering from a lack of government funding and living as de facto second-class citizens.

To many that live in those communities, it is not that the state is actively working against them, rather it is entirely absent.



SvennoJ 2 hours ago

US judge blocks efforts to deport pro-Palestinian student Ozturk from US

A judge in the US has blocked the deportation of Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish Tufts University student arrested last year as part of a crackdown on pro-Palestinian activists, according to her lawyers.

Ozturk’s lawyers detailed the decision in a letter filed at the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday.

Ozturk, a PhD student studying children’s relationship to social media, was arrested last March while walking down a street as the Trump administration began targeting foreign-born students and activists involved in pro-Palestine advocacy.

Trump administration slams court ruling rejecting bid to deport pro-Palestinian student

As we’ve reported, a judge in the US has rejected the Trump administration’s efforts to deport Tufts University doctoral student Rumeysa Ozturk, who was arrested last year as part of a crackdown on pro-Palestinian campus activists.

A spokesperson for the US Department of Homeland Security, which oversees US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, has criticised the decision, arguing that it reflects “judicial activism”.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem “has made it clear that anyone who thinks they can come to America and hide behind the First Amendment to advocate for anti-American and anti-Semitic violence and terrorism – think again”, the spokesperson said.

The administration could challenge the immigration judge’s ruling, which was not made public, before the Board of Immigration Appeals, which is part of the US Department of Justice.



SvennoJ 2 hours ago

Iran warns of ‘destructive’ influence on diplomacy before Netanyahu’s US trip

Iran has warned of “destructive” influence on diplomacy before PM Netanyahu’s visit to Washington for talks expected to focus on US negotiations with Tehran.

“Our negotiating party is America. It is up to America to decide to act independently of the pressures and destructive influences that are detrimental to the region,” Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said.

“The Zionist regime has repeatedly, as a saboteur, shown that it opposes any diplomatic process in our region that leads to peace.”



Netanyahu leaves for the US for Trump meeting

PM Netanyahu has departed for the US, saying he would discuss Gaza, Iran and other regional issues when he meets President Trump in Washington this week.

“On this trip we will discuss a range of issues: Gaza, the region, but of course first and foremost the negotiations with Iran. I will present to the president our views regarding the principles for the negotiations,” Netanyahu said.

“This is my seventh visit to meet with US President Trump since he took office, and I believe this reflects the depth of the relationship between Israel and the United States.”

Their meeting comes days after Iran and the US held talks in Oman last week, after which Trump said another round of negotiations would follow.

Wanted war criminal since November 2024, still freely flying around...


Zionist Joseph Gordon-Levitt Trying To END Internet Free Speech


Joseph Gordon-Levitt decided that he needed to stand against free speech on the internet, showcasing his Zionist background and alignment with Israel with censorship, as Peter Hager explains.



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SvennoJ 2 hours ago

THIS is why Ghislaine Maxwell refused to testify


AIPAC's HILARIOUS Mistake


AIPAC's efforts to to sink New Jersey Rep. Tom Malinowski backfired spectacularly.