Israel's conflict with its neighbours

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While the world watches Gaza, here is what’s happening in the West Bank

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/wh ... r-AA1DzZ08

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Drone strike hits 'Freedom Flotilla' Gaza aid ship off Malta, organisers blame Israel

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/dr ... r-AA1E3PPi

IMO Israel did it. They've a track record of this kind of thing, and they're the only party with the capability to do this.

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Israel plans to capture all of Gaza under new plan, officials say


Updated 7:26 AM EDT, May 5, 2025

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel approved plans Monday to capture the entire Gaza Strip and remain in the Palestinian territory for an unspecified amount of time, two Israeli officials said, a move that, if implemented, would vastly expand Israel’s operations in Gaza and likely bring fierce international opposition. Israeli Cabinet ministers approved the plan in an early morning vote, hours after the Israeli military chief said the army was calling up tens of thousands of reserve soldiers.

The new plan, which the officials said was meant to help Israel achieve its war aims of defeating Hamas and freeing hostages held in Gaza, also calls for hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to move to Gaza’s south — which would likely lead to their forcible displacement and exacerbate an already dire humanitarian crisis.

One of the officials said the plan would be implemented gradually in an attempt to give efforts for a ceasefire and hostage release deal a chance to move ahead. Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were discussing military plans.

Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005 after a decades-long occupation and then imposed a blockade on the territory along with Egypt. Capturing and potentially occupying the territory again for an indefinite period would not only further dash hopes for Palestinian statehood, it would embed Israel inside a population that is deeply hostile to it and raise questions about how Israel plans to govern the territory, especially at a time when it is considering how to implement U.S. President Donald Trump’s vision to take over Gaza.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/israel-pales ... 649e6438ba

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Gaza will be entirely destroyed, Israeli minister says

Source: The Guardian

An Israeli government minister has vowed that “Gaza will be entirely destroyed” as a result of an Israeli military victory, and that its Palestinian population will “leave in great numbers to third countries”, raising fears of ethnic cleansing in the occupied territory.

The declaration on Tuesday by the finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, came a day after Israel’s security cabinet approved a plan for Operation Gideon’s Chariots, which an Israeli official said would entail “the conquest of the Gaza Strip and the holding of the territories”.

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Effie Defrin, Israel’s chief military spokesperson, said the planned offensive would include “moving most of the population of the Gaza Strip … to protect them”. Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, said the “population will be moved, for its own protection” in a video posted on social media, but gave no further details.

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“Gaza will be entirely destroyed, civilians will be sent to ... the south to a humanitarian zone without Hamas or terrorism, and from there they will start to leave in great numbers to third countries,” the minister said.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/ ... ar-in-gaza

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Trump administration working on plan to move 1 million Palestinians to Libya

Source: NBC

The Trump administration is working on a plan to permanently relocate up to 1 million Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to Libya, five people with knowledge of the effort told NBC News.

The plan is under serious enough consideration that the administration has discussed it with Libya’s leadership, two people with direct knowledge of the plans and a former U.S. official said.

In exchange for the resettling of Palestinians, the administration would potentially release to Libya billions of dollars of funds that the U.S. froze more than a decade ago, those three people said.

No final agreement has been reached, and Israel has been kept informed of the administration’s discussions, the same three sources said.

The State Department and the National Security Council did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

Basem Naim, a senior Hamas official, said that Hamas, the U.S.-designated terrorist group that has run Gaza, was not aware of any discussions about moving Palestinians to Libya.

“Palestinians are very rooted in their homeland, very strongly committed to the homeland and they are ready to fight up to the end and to sacrifice anything to defend their land, their homeland, their families, and the future of their children,” Naim said in response to questions from NBC News. “[Palestinians] are exclusively the only party who have the right to decide for the Palestinians, including Gaza and Gazans, what to do and what not to do.”

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/nation ... rcna207224

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Israel launches major offensive in Gaza after airstrikes that killed more than 100

Source: The Guardian

Israel has announced a major new offensive in Gaza after launching a wave of airstrikes on the territory that killed more than 100 people, in what it said was a fresh effort to force Hamas to release hostages.

In a statement late on Friday, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said they had “launched extensive attacks and mobilized forces to seize strategic areas in the Gaza Strip, as part of the opening moves of Operation Gideon’s Chariots and the expansion of the campaign in Gaza, to achieve all the goals of the war in Gaza”.
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Instead, the raids and bombardment over the past 72 hours have raised the levels of violence higher than for several weeks, with the death toll coming close to that seen in the first days of Israel’s renewed offensive in Gaza after a fragile ceasefire collapsed in March.

Gaza’s civil defence agency said strikes on Friday killed 108 people, mostly women and children, and some officials in the Palestinian territory put the number killed by Israeli attacks in recent days as high as 250 or 300.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/ ... e-than-100

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Israel draws outcry from Europe as soldiers fire near diplomats on West Bank visit

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/is ... 025-05-21/

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World leaders condemn killing of 2 Israeli Embassy staff in D.C. shooting attack

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/livestory ... -9.6768751

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Suspect charged with murder of two Israeli embassy employees in Washington

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/su ... r-AA1FkOyb

tfw you murder people trying to help gazans

peak stupid

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US envoy says Gaza ceasefire deal is on the table, urges Hamas to accept

US special envoy Steve Witkoff has told CNN that a ceasefire-hostage deal for Gaza is currently on the table with a pathway to end the war, and urged Hamas to accept it.

The proposal would see the release of half of the living hostages and half of those who have died in exchange for a temporary ceasefire before negotiations begin for a comprehensive agreement to end the war.

He declined to specify how long that temporary truce would last, which has been a key issue in the negotiations.

"Israel will agree to a temporary ceasefire/hostage deal that would see half of the living and half of the deceased return and lead to substantive negotiations to find a path to a permanent ceasefire, which I have agreed to preside over,” Witkoff told CNN on Monday. “That deal is on the table. Hamas should take it.”

https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/26/middleea ... -deal-intl

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Israel’s actions in Gaza ‘can no longer be justified’, says Germany’s Merz

https://www.ft.com/content/d9bc5232-f7c ... 9b310c345b

Pretty surprising change of stance from this guy.

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Israel orders Palestinians to evacuate most areas in southern Gaza

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/is ... r-AA1FvD2t

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no

https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-855946