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Good afternoon. It's 1PM, Wednesday, 13th August. The headlines: Allies of #Ukraine are poised to consider a possible meeting between #Trump and #Putin. British MP Tulip Siddiq is to stand trial in Bangladesh on corruption charges. #UK police can now reveal suspects' ethnicities. Wildfires blaze across southern Europe, while #Israel, following Netanyahu's orders, will allow Palestinians to leave #Gaza. #BBC #News

1.500 von 32.000 EU-Beamten warnen in einem offenen Brief: Es sei unmöglich, ihre Arbeit zu erledigen, ohne dabei EU- und Völkerrecht zu verletzen.

Denn die von den Mitgliedsstaaten beschlossene Außenpolitik gegenüber Israel widerspräche den eigenen EU-Verträgen und zwänge die Beamten zu rechtswidrigem Handeln.

nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1193272.

nd-aktuell.deGaza-Krieg sorgt für Aufruhr im Brüsseler ApparatNach Recherchen von »Politico« spitzt sich der interne Streit um die Israel-Politik der EU zu: 1500 Beamte warnen vor Hungertoten in Gaza und kritisieren ihre Führung – manche sprechen sogar von Streik.

How Israel restricts reporting on its war in Gaza

International news outlets depend on Gaza journalists to learn what is happening inside the enclave. Now, the Israeli army has killed prominent Al Jazeera correspondent Anas al-Sharif.

dw.com/en/how-israel-restricts

Anas Al-Sharif is seen standing in front of a pile of rubble inside Gaza
Deutsche Welle · How Israel restricts reporting on its war in GazaBy David Ehl

Israel, South Sudan in talks over forced transfer of Palestinians

Israel is in discussions with South Sudan about forcibly relocating Palestinians from Gaza to the East African country.

The proposal is part of an Israeli effort to displace Palestinians from Gaza.

aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/13/i

@palestine
#Gaza
#Israel
#SouthSudan
#news

Al Jazeera · Israel, South Sudan in talks over forced transfer of Palestinians: ReportBy Al Jazeera

“The Brainrot of a Nazified Society”

by BettBeat Media in BettBeat’s Newsletter on Substack

@palestine @israel

“What we are witnessing in Israel today is the logical endpoint of a process that Hannah Arendt warned us about decades ago: the transformation of ordinary people into willing participants in systematic brutality through the machinery of a fascist state”

open.substack.com/pub/bettbeat

BettBeat’s Newsletter · The Brainrot of a Nazified SocietyBy BettBeat Media
#Press#Israel#Gaza

In case you're wondering why #civilians in #Gaza keep asking for donations, and why fundraisers seem to collect "impressive" amounts of money that still don't seem to be enough:

The financial system works by giving #merchants an incredible amount of power and money. A system to which civilians are exposed without defenses, because the existing system of aid distribution was deliberately destroyed, and civil order has broken down.

It works like this:

  • Merchants make an obscene amount of money, which they hold in cash.

  • People can't withdraw any donations received using ATMs (I've seen people assuming there were functional ATMs…). They need to have their donations transferred to the accounts of merchants, which will pass on cash in return, subtracting a "fee" of 40% and more of the total amount.

  • Merchants are paying "mercenaries" which are collecting food at life-threatening aid distribution sites. Civilians and their families need to risk the life of one of their own, whenever they try to obtain something to eat. They're competing with the mercenaries.

  • If families don't want to starve, they're forced to buy their food at obscene prices from the same merchants that already extorted them with their money withdrawal scheme. Money that goes back to the merchants, fueling the cycle.

This system is enabled by the war, the deliberate engineering of a dysfunctional system of aid distribution by #Israel, and Israel's deputizing and tolerance of criminal gangs.

It is sustained as a "helpful" part of the ongoing forced #displacement and #genocide.

It is accompanied by Israeli PR campaigns delighting in pointing at the "failure" of attempts at re-establishing at least fragments of the former aid distribution system. A "failure" that is carefully engineered and implemented by Israel:

Haaretz

Haaretz via archive.ph