Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu supports a move to build 3,000 homes in the “highly controversial E1 settlement project between Jerusalem and Ma’ale Adumim in the West Bank” that will essentially kill any chance of a Palestinian state, Bezalel Smotrich, the finance minister, said, according to The Times of Israel.
Israeli land robbers that the media and politicians call “settlers”, emboldened by supportive governments in Tel Aviv and Washington, have ramped up their violence, intimidation campaign, and land theft in the West Bank at a rate not seen since the 1967 war as the world’s attention is largely focused on the daily atrocities being carried out in Gaza by the IDF.
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said there has been a “slight improvement” in humanitarian aid shipments entering Gaza but “it hasn’t been sufficient to change the overall outcome” of the conditions on the ground inside the battered enclave.
A German company that provides the IDF with a key component for its armored vehicles that the military is using in Gaza during its genocide is considering how to make sure it doesn’t lose its contract with Israel after Friedrich Merz, the chancellor, announced a partial weapons sale ban.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is drunk on hubris given that he owns the U.S. government, has grown bolder in his rhetoric since Donald Trump was elected president and said in an interview last week that he feels a “connection” to the idea of a “Greater Israel” forming in the Middle East that would mean stealing significantly more land from neighbors.
Over one million Israelis protested across Israel on Sunday, calling on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to end the war so the 50 or so hostages still in Hamas captivity can be returned.