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The “humanitarian metropolis” Israel’s defence minister has proposed constructing on the ruins of Rafah can be a focus camp, and forcing Palestinians inside can be ethnic cleaning, Israel’s former prime minister Ehud Olmert has informed the Guardian.
Israel was already committing warfare crimes in Gaza and the West Financial institution, Olmert mentioned, and development of the camp would mark an escalation.
“It’s a focus camp. I’m sorry,” he mentioned, when requested concerning the plans laid out by Israel Katz final week. As soon as inside, Palestinians wouldn’t be allowed to depart, besides to go to different international locations, Katz mentioned.
What did Olmert say concerning the rise of anti-Israel sentiment? “In america there’s increasingly more and extra increasing expressions of hatred to Israel. We make a reduction to ourselves saying: ‘They’re antisemites.’ I don’t assume that they’re solely antisemites, I believe a lot of them are anti-Israel due to what they watch on tv, what they watch on social networks. This can be a painful however regular response of people that say: ‘Hey, you guys have crossed each potential line’.”
Troops, terror and tears in Los Angeles as Ice raids present no signal of slowing
Raids have left residents of LA’s MacArthur Park scared to go to trusted native companies – and outdoors normally. {Photograph}: Chelsea Lauren/Shutterstock
It’s been practically a month since immigration raids in LA and the encompassing area sparked huge protests. However because the weeks put on on and the demonstrations die down, the Trump administration’s enforcement operations present no signal of slowing.
Attorneys and advocates say that these arrested, together with some US residents, have been focused for arrest at random – and certain due to how they give the impression of being.
In a authorized grievance, authorized help and immigrant rights teams have accused the Division of Homeland Safety of participating “in a unprecedented marketing campaign of focusing on folks based mostly on nothing greater than the colour of their pores and skin, and in some circumstances, the place they reside or work”.
Have there been any authorized developments to disrupt the raids? Sure. On Friday, a federal choose granted a short lived restraining order towards the federal government’s aggressive immigration sweeps, barring federal brokers from stopping folks within the district until there was “cheap suspicion” that an individual was violating immigration legislation.
EU scrambles to answer US tariff risk as Trump guarantees ‘main assertion’ on Russia
Macron and Trump greet each other on the White Home in February. {Photograph}: Ludovic Marin/AP
EU ministers are assembly on Monday for pressing talks after the US president, Donald Trump, threatened to impose 30% tariffs on the bloc – regardless of what they believed have been promising talks with the US administration on the way to keep away from them.
The French president, Emmanuel Macron, has known as on the EU to “defend European pursuits resolutely”. It got here because the EU moved to de-escalate tensions after the blunt transfer by Trump on Saturday.
In the meantime, Trump mentioned he can be making “a serious assertion” on Russia on Monday, indicating the US would announce a plan to promote Patriot air defence techniques and different weapons to Ukraine, amid rising White Home exasperation with Russia’s refusal to comply with a ceasefire.
Why else is Trump within the information? He attended the Fifa Membership World Cup ultimate at a sold-out MetLife Stadium on Sunday in East Rutherford, New Jersey however was greeted by widespread boos.
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Rosie O’Donnell moved to Eire earlier this yr after Trump received a second White Home time period however they’ve continued to commerce barbs. {Photograph}: Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP
Rosie O’Donnell has shrugged off a risk from Donald Trump to revoke her US citizenship on the grounds that she is “a risk to humanity”. The New York-born comic mentioned she was the newest in a protracted record of artists, activists and celebrities to be threatened by the US president.
The historic Grand Canyon Lodge on the monument’s North Rim has been destroyed by a fast-moving wildfire, the park mentioned yesterday. The blaze has pressured officers to shut entry to that space for the season.
A century after Irish nuns first started to bury tons of of infants in what would turn out to be a mass, unmarked grave, archaeologists and different specialists will begin excavating the positioning in Tuam, County Galway.
Stat of the day: Common age of first-time US homebuyers hits report 38
Why is the variety of first-time US homebuyers at a generational low? Composite: Stephen Swintek/Getty Pictures
Financial instability is retaining the housing market at a standstill, with the variety of new owners at its lowest level in three a long time. Final yr, the common age of a first-time homebuyer was 38 years outdated, a report excessive; within the Eighties the common was within the late 20s. How did we get right here?
Don’t miss this: Are just a few folks ruining the web for the remainder of us?
Why does the web world appear so poisonous in contrast with regular life? Illustration: Elia Barbieri/The Guardian
Researchers have discovered in depth proof that social media amplifies the loudest and most excessive voices whereas muting the nuanced and the boringly cheap. And far of that distortion, it seems, will be traced again to a handful of hyperactive on-line voices: simply 10% of customers produce roughly 97% of political tweets. However there’s a means out, say researchers.
Local weather examine: Why is probably the most disaster-prone US state so allergic to getting ready for disasters?
An individual pays their respects at a memorial honoring the lives misplaced within the flash floods that claimed greater than 120 lives in Texas. {Photograph}: Brandon Bell/Getty Pictures
The devastating 4 July floods in Texas struck because the local weather disaster worsens, and because the Trump administration’s hollowing out of federal businesses has left vital companies underneath extreme pressure. But, regardless of the dimensions of devastation, there was little public reckoning over local weather breakdown or the erosion of important public companies. Why is probably the most disaster-prone US state is so allergic to getting ready for disasters?
Final Factor: Scientists detect biggest-ever merger of two huge black holes
A pc simulation of the collision of two black holes launched after the occasion was detected for the primary time by Ligo in 2016. {Photograph}: LIGO Laboratory/Reuters
Scientists have detected ripples in space-time from the violent collision of two huge black holes about 10bn gentle years from Earth. The black holes, every greater than 100 instances the mass of the solar, started circling one another way back and at last slammed collectively.
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