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Special reports: Updates February and earlier, 2025-'24: Actual: Nakba survivors see echoes of the past & How is Israel violating the Gaza ceasefire deal? & A Gaza mother’s heartbreak & Netanyahu’s political calculus that sent tanks into Jenin Earlier: Punishing pro-Palestine protests &  Gaza urgently needs a more effective humanitarian approach and More than $50bn needed to rebuild Gaza after Israel’s war on enclave & No, Mr Trump, we will not be “happy” and “safe” elsewhere. & Returning to Gaza, a stranger in my own city & Overview special reports Overview special reports

November 28 - 24 and earler stories, 2024 Is Netanyahu immune from ICC arrest warrant-NO!   TRIBUTES TO MOTHERS AND CHILDREN

Shireen Abu Akleh In commemoration of Shireen Abu Akleh, the 'voice of Al Jazeera' killed while revealing the true face of israel Updated: December 6, 2024: Attacks, arrests, threats, censorship: The high risks of reporting the Israel-Gaza war   Click here for earlier stories/news

February 28 - 25, 2025 Food for thought: Why do I remember j. mengele, the 'medical butcher of nazis WW2? Gino d'Artali ... Read more and decide for yourself

February 25 - 22, 2025 Food for thought: trump has been ellected and the extreme right-wing on the rise in Europe. Question: Is a 'New Order 1.2' the 'final solution?' Read more and decide for yourself February 22 - 18, 2025 just read the actual and fact-finding news February 19 - 16, 2025 Unchilding Palestine’s children... Read more and decide for yourself February 15 - 12, 2025 more fact-finding news

February 13 - 12, 2025 Opinion: Western democracy has lost her tongue. just read the actual and fact-finding news February 11 - 5, 2025 <<Does Israel violate the Gaza ceasefire? Yes! Together with their western allies. just read the actual and fact-finding news February 7 - 1, 2025 Fact: Gaza is not for sale... despite the continues suffering and betrayals on netanyahus' Western allies side. And more fact-finding news January 31 - 28, 2025 In pictures and words: Bittersweet homecoming for Palestinians returning to Gaza City... Read more and decide for yourself  Pre-ceasefire & Post-Ceasefire December 30 - 26, 2024 'Betrayed' and 'abandoned' Sixth baby dies from severe cold

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and: My mother (1931-1997) always said to me <Mi figlio, non esistono notizie <vecchie> perche puoi imparare qualcosa da qualsiasi notizia.> Translated: <My son, there is no such thing as so called 'old' news because you can learn something from any news.>
Gianna d'Artali.


 Al Jazeera - Feb 28, 2025
<<Israel army probe reveals ‘complete failure’ in preventing October 7 attack
Probe says perception that Hamas was not interested in a full-scale conflict resulted in a lack of military preparation. The Israeli army has acknowledged its “complete failure” to prevent the October 7 attack by Hamas, admitting that it had, for years, underestimated the Palestinian group’s capabilities. The summary of an Israeli army investigation, published on Thursday, said it “failed in its mission to protect Israeli civilians”.
“October 7 was a complete failure, the IDF (military) failed in fulfilling its mission to protect Israeli civilians,” a senior Israeli army official told reporters following the publication of the investigation. “Too many civilians died that day asking themselves in their hearts or out loud, where was the IDF?” said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity. The probe said the perception that Hamas was not interested in a full-scale conflict and that Israel would have ample warning in case of an attack went unchallenged for years, resulting in a lack of preparedness and ability to respond to an attack. It also found that Israel had focused its intelligence and military efforts on other fronts, such as Hezbollah in Lebanon, and relied too heavily “on intelligence, barriers, and defensive measures alone”, and was thus caught by surprise. Since the deadly attack that killed an estimated 1,139 people in Israel and triggered the war on Gaza that has killed more than 48,000 Palestinians, questions have been asked of the Netanyahu administration and the army for its handling of the attack. During the attack, more than 200 people were also taken captive. There have been widespread calls for Benjamin Netanyahu to resign. The incident had already resulted in the resignation of Israel’s spy chief Aharon Haliva in 2024. In January, Israel’s top general Herzi Halevi also resigned, citing “terrible” security and intelligence “failures” that led to the attack. The army’s southern command Yaron Finkelman also resigned. “I embrace it, the responsibility is mine, I was the commander of the army on October 7th, I bear my own responsibility, and I also bear the full responsibility for all of you. And I acknowledge in every subordinate of mine who made a mistake, as part of my own [mistake],” Halevi had said. The probe concluded that the Hamas attack happened in three waves and, at its peak, saw more than 5,000 fighters and civilians enter Israel. The report said in the first wave, more than 1,000 Nukhba fighters, the elite force of Hamas, “infiltrated” Israel under the cover of heavy fire. They were said to be responsible for knocking out the Israeli military’s communications system and its command-and-control centres, creating chaos as the army struggled to regain control. The second wave, according to the probe, involved some 2,000 fighters while the third saw hundreds more joining the incursion, along with several thousand civilians. Hamas has maintained that only a few hundred of its fighters carried out the attack. An earlier investigation conducted by Israeli media outlet Haaretz found that Israel’s own military may have fired upon and killed Israeli civilians during the Hamas attack, in a bid to prevent Palestinian fighters from taking captives. Responding to the release of the inquiry, opposition leader Yair Lapid renewed his call for Netanyahu to form an official commission to investigate the attack. “The army is showing courage and integrity, and is investigating itself without any attempt to cover up or evade its responsibility,” Lapid wrote on X. “It is time for the cowardly, failed group called the Israeli government to do the same,” he added.>>
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/28/israel-army-probe-reveals-complete-failure-in-preventing-october-7-attack

Al Jazeera - Feb 28, 2025 - By Bertha Wang
<<In Pictures
Gaza war survivors mark another sombre Ramadan far from home
More than 1,400 Palestinians evacuated to Doha mark Ramadan away from Gaza, longing to reunite with their families.
Doha, Qatar – Haya al-Barai is preparing for another quiet Ramadan in Qatar. She will mark the Muslim holy month with her grandmother far from home.
Israel’s war on Gaza has torn her family apart.
The 16-year-old arrived in Qatar’s capital in December 2023 after her parents were killed in Israeli air attacks. Al-Barai was wounded in the attacks and is now a paraplegic. One of her sisters, who was also wounded, is in Türkiye. Her other two sisters and a brother remain in Gaza. “I don’t want to celebrate Ramadan here. I used to enjoy Ramadan with my family. We would eat and play games together. My family was together at that time,” Haya said. Israel’s war on Gaza since October 2023 has left more than 38,000 Palestinians orphaned. About 1,400 Palestinians have been evacuated to Doha with nearly 500 of them wounded. Most of them are now residing in a compound in Thumama, on the southern outskirts of Qatar’s capital.
For Muslims around the world, Ramadan is a time of fasting, prayer and reflection, and also a time to share with loved ones. For many Palestinian evacuees in Doha, this Ramadan marks another year of separation from their family in Gaza. Hamsa al-Raqp, 12, lost her left eye and broke her right arm in an Israeli air attack. She remembers the happiness of playing games with her cousins during Ramadan in Gaza. Her father, Maher, said the family has not celebrated Ramadan since the war in Gaza began. “Last year, as the killing continued, we did not do anything for Ramadan. I watched television all day and worried about my family still in Gaza. I check on them every day just to make sure they are alive,” Maher said. “This year’s Ramadan makes no difference to me, as my wife and my three children remain in Gaza.”>>
View pictures: https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2025/2/28/gaza-war-survivors-mark-another-sombre-ramadan-far-from-home

Al Jazeera - Feb 28, 2025
<<Talks under way in Egypt for second phase of Israel-Hamas ceasefire in Gaza
Israel says unclear if there is ‘common ground to negotiate’.
Talks have started in Egypt for the second phase of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire in Gaza, the first phase of which ends on Saturday. Officials from Israel joined mediators from Qatar and the United States in Cairo on Thursday for “intensive discussions”, Egypt’s state information service said.
US President Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, may join the talks. Talks over the second phase of the ceasefire are meant to negotiate a complete end to the war, including the return of all remaining living captives in Gaza and the complete withdrawal of Israeli troops from the territory. According to Israel, there are 59 captives remaining in Gaza, 24 of whom are still believed to be alive. Israel’s Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar said the government is uncertain about the prospects of reaching a deal, adding the Israeli team in Cairo would have to “see whether we have common ground to negotiate”. “We said we are ready to extend the framework [of phase one] in return for the release of more hostages,” Sa’ar said at a news conference Thursday. “If it is possible, we’ll do that.” It remains to be seen whether a deal can be reconciled given the declared war objectives of Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who, with US President Donald Trump’s backing, has pledged to eliminate Hamas. “Israel has been telling us for months now, with word and deed, that it doesn’t actually intend to end the war,” Mohamad Elmasry, a political analyst at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, told Al Jazeera. “Barring Hamas leaving Gaza, which is not going to happen, Israel is fully intent I think on going back to war.”
Hamas says Israel ‘planning to escalate again’
The negotiations come after Hamas handed over the remains of four captives overnight on Thursday, in exchange for more than 600 Palestinian prisoners, in the last planned swap of the ceasefire’s first phase. Israel had postponed the release of 46 of these prisoners, all women and children, due to delays in verifying the bodies of four of the captives it received. Further violating the terms of the deal, Israeli officials said they would not withdraw as planned from the Philadelphi Corridor – the long strip of land bordering Egypt. Israel’s military is supposed to begin pulling out of the corridor on Saturday and finish doing so within eight days. Hamas official Basem Naim told Al Jazeera he believes Israel is “planning to escalate again” despite Hamas being “committed to the deal”. “We have already done our duties according to the deal, and we are ready to continue implementing the deal,” said Naim, adding the group should be actively involved in phase two negotiations. The ceasefire, which began on January 19, halted 15 months of war that erupted after Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attack on southern Israel that killed about 1,100 people and took more than 200 captive. Israel’s war in Gaza has since killed more than 48,000 Palestinians, the majority of them women and children, according to Palestinian health officials, while displacing more than 90 percent of the enclave’s population and destroying most of the Gaza Strip.>>
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/28/talks-under-way-in-egypt-for-second-phase-of-israel-hamas-ceasefire-in-gaza

Al Jazeera - Feb 27, 2025 - By Umut Uras and Nils Adler
<<LIVE: Israel, Hamas truce talks resume in Egypt as end of first phase looms
Palestinians shop as they prepare for the upcoming holy fasting month of Ramadan
Negotiations between Israel and Hamas on the next phase of the Gaza ceasefire have begun in Cairo, Egyptian officials say, ahead of Saturday’s expiration of the truce’s first phase. Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said an Israeli delegation has travelled to Egypt to see whether there is enough common ground to negotiate an extension to the deal.>>
Read more: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/2/27/live-gaza-ceasefire-talks-resume-in-cairo-as-end-of-first-phase-looms


Video screenshot footage - Longest held Palestinian prisoner
Al Jazeera - Feb 27, 2025
<<Longest held Palestinian prisoner released by Israel
Nael Barghouti, the longest held Palestinian prisoner who spent 44 years in an Israeli jail, was released and exiled to Egypt as part of the 7th prisoner-captive exchange between Israel and Hamas. This is his message to Gaza.>>
Video: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2025/2/27/longest-held-palestinian-prisoner-released-by-israel


Video screenshot footage - Palestinian prisoner recalls ‘torture’
Al Jazeera - Feb 27, 2025
<<Palestinian prisoner recalls ‘torture’ of leg amputation in Israeli jail
In the last prisoner swap of phase one of the Gaza ceasefire, Israel released hundreds of Palestinians, several with missing limbs. A 21-year-old, previously released detainee recalls having his leg forcibly amputated and enduring ‘torture, medical testing, and mistreatment’ in Israeli prison.>>
Video: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2025/2/27/palestinian-prisoner-recalls-torture-of-leg-amputation-in-israeli-jail

Al Jazeera - Feb 27, 2025
<<Palestinians released by Israel show signs of torture, starvation
Hundreds of Palestinians released by Israeli show signs of emaciation and abuse suffered while in detention. Hundreds of Palestinians held in Israeli jails released in Gaza as part of the ceasefire agreement once again showed signs of emaciation and abuse. More than 600 Palestinians were released on Thursday, shortly after Israel said Hamas handed over coffins containing the bodies of four captives. Israel has delayed the release of two Palestinian women and 44 children. It was the final scheduled swap as part of the first phase of the ceasefire deal between Hamas and Israel. Several Palestinians were transported in ambulances to the European Hospital in Khan Younis in southern Gaza due to the severity of their injuries. Many Palestinians were also sent to Egypt and the occupied West Bank. Alaa al-Bayari, a Palestinian released to Gaza City, told Al Jazeera that he witnessed “torture, beating, humiliation and everything you can imagine” while in Israeli prison. He met his one-year-old daughter for the first time.
“We were kept naked, water was thrown on us and then they used electricity” to torture, he said. Yahya Shrida, a Palestinian prisoner who was released to Ramallah, described Israeli prisons as graveyards. “We have been taken out of suffering. It was as if we have been dug out of our own graves. No prisoner has had the experience of having their own release delayed twice,” he told Reuters news agency. “What we have been through is a situation that the mountains can’t carry. It is very hard to explain; it is very hard to talk about what we have been through.” Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum, reporting from Gaza, said some Palestinians returned had their limbs cut off and others were suffering from severe injuries due to Israeli torture in detention. “Many family members have broken down in tears after seeing their loved ones,” Abu Azzoum said, adding that those released “confirmed they have witnessed some of the worst methods of torture at the hands of the Israeli occupation forces”. Footage shared online by Quds News Network showed family members and released Palestinians weeping after their arrival in Gaza. One clip shows a family member mourning the emaciated condition of his released relative, saying: “Look at the difference, oh my God!” At one reunion in the West Bank city of Jenin, footage showed freed prisoner Louay Saabneh meeting his son Jabal for the first time after several years of incarceration. Earlier, Hamas handed over the bodies of four captives to Israel via the Red Cross. Israel’s President Isaac Herzog said the bodies were identified as Ohad Yahalomi, Tsachi Idan, Itzik Elgarat, and Shlomo Mantzur. In a statement, the Palestinian group renewed its “full commitment” to the ceasefire agreement and its readiness to enter negotiations on the second phase. It also said attempts by the Israeli authorities to obstruct the release of prisoners have “failed”, adding that this means they have “no choice” but to begin negotiations for the second phase of the ceasefire deal. The group also called on other countries to “stop their double standards” in their discourse regarding Israeli captives while not mentioning the abuse that Palestinian prisoners are subjected to.>>
SOURCE and Video: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/27/palestinian-released-by-israel-show-signs-of-torture-starvation

Al Jazeera - Feb 26, 2025
<<Can the Gaza ceasefire hold? And what threats does it face?
Israel-Hamas agreement needed to move to phase two of multi-stage deal.>>
Read more and video: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/inside-story/2025/2/26/can-the-gaza-ceasefire-hold-and-what-threats-does-it-face


Video screenshot footage - Father describes baby daughter’s death
Al Jazeera - Feb 26, 2025
<<Father describes baby daughter’s death from the cold in Gaza
A Palestinian father has described how his 6-week-old baby daughter died from the cold in their tent in northern Gaza. Sila Abdul Qader is the seventh child whose death from cold was confirmed in just 24 hours.>>
Video: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2025/2/26/father-describes-baby-daughters-death-from-the-cold-in-gaza

Al Jazeera - Feb 26, 2025
<<Israel arrests dozens of Palestinians in overnight West Bank raids
The Israeli military has arrested dozens of Palestinians as part of an expansion of its military operations across the occupied West Bank. At least 50 people were arrested in overnight raids, according to the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) and the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs, both cited by a report by the Palestinian news agency Wafa on Wednesday. According to Wafa’s report, the military rounded up people for interrogation in the governorates of Hebron, Tulkarem, Qalqilya, Nablus, Ramallah, Bethlehem, Jericho and Tubas. As part of the campaign, Israeli troops stormed the Majed Abu Sharar School in the city of Dura near Hebron and arrested two students, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Media Office said on Wednesday. The new arrests brought the number of Palestinians detained by the Israeli army in the West Bank since October 2023 to more than 14,500, including those who were released later, according to Palestinian groups. The figure does not include those arrested from the Gaza Strip, whose numbers are estimated to be in the thousands. The mass detentions came amid Israel’s intensified military offensive in the West Bank that began after the Gaza ceasefire was agreed upon a month ago. The offensive has seen at least 62 Palestinians killed and about 40,000 people evacuated from the Jenin, Tulkarem and Nur Shams camps in the West Bank in a month. Philippe Lazzarini, the commissioner general of the United Nations’ agency for Palestinian refugees, on Wednesday said the occupied West Bank was now a ”battlefield” facing an “alarming spillover” of the Gaza war. Meanwhile, the Israeli military issued new evacuation orders for the residents of the Nur Shams camp, located east of the town of Tulkarem, before the planned demolition of 11 residential buildings. Israeli forces gave the residents just three hours to evacuate their homes, according to Wafa. Families were seen leaving their homes carrying the few belongings they were able to take. On Sunday, the Israeli army sent tanks to the Jenin refugee camp, the first such deployment since its crackdown on the second Intifada in 2002, announcing an “extended stay” for the coming year to fight Palestinian armed groups. The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates said the move was a continuation of Israel’s “genocide, displacement and annexation”. Meanwhile, the Palestinian Authority condemned the repeated obstruction of ambulances in the West Bank by Israeli forces, accusing them of violating international humanitarian law. The PA’s governing body signalled more trouble to come ahead of the holy Muslim month of Ramadan, which is expected to start on Saturday, warning that Israeli authorities were preparing to “impose unprecedented repressive policies” to further isolate occupied East Jerusalem and its Palestinian surroundings. It said Israel would place limits on the number of Muslim worshippers at the al-Aqsa Mosque compound. The military has already deployed 3,000 armed personnel at checkpoints surrounding East Jerusalem and has tightened its grip on 82 military checkpoints. At least 924 Palestinians have been killed and more than 7,000 injured by the Israeli army in the occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health. In July 2024, the International Court of Justice declared Israel’s decades-long occupation of Palestinian land illegal and demanded the evacuation of all existing settlements in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem.>>
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/26/israel-detains-dozens-of-palestinians-in-overnight-west-bank-raids

Al Jazeera - Feb 26, 2025
<<Israeli forces fire tear gas canister at cameraman
A journalist covering an Israeli raid in Nablus in the occupied West Bank was filming as a soldier fired a tear gas canister at his camera, next to a group of other reporters.>>
Video: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2025/2/26/israeli-forces-fire-tear-gas-canister-at-cameraman


Video screenshot footage - Children back in school
Al Jazeera - Feb 25, 2025
<<Children in Gaza go back to school
Students in Gaza have gone back to school. Many are learning in classrooms scarred by damage inflicted on their schools during the war.>>
Video: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2025/2/25/children-in-gaza-go-back-to-school

Al Jazeera - Feb 25, 2025
<<Six children die of hypothermia amid freezing conditions in Gaza
The deaths come amid a harsh cold snap in Gaza and Israel’s blocking of shelter from entering the enclave.
At least six Palestinian infants have died from hypothermia during a severe cold spell in the Gaza Strip, medical officials said. Dr Saeed Salah, medical director of the Friends of the Patient Charitable Hospital in Gaza City, said on Tuesday that three newborns – aged between one and two days – died shortly after being admitted. Two more children also succumbed on Tuesday morning, with a sixth death reported in Khan Younis, in southern Gaza. Gaza’s civil defence agency also confirmed recording the deaths of six newborns due to the severe cold wave and lack of heating over the past week. Salah said his hospital’s nursery department had recently received eight cases of severe hypothermia, all requiring intensive care.
“Doctors confirmed that these newborn babies arrived to the hospital not suffering from any particular diseases,” said Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud, reporting from the medical facility. “They were simply born and their family had no way to keep them warm – and this has been the case for the past few days since the cold weather struck the area,” he said. Hamas decried the deaths of the newborns, calling them a result of Israel’s “criminal” policies. In a statement, it also urged mediators and the international community to intervene and ensure the entry of shelter and other essential humanitarian supplies into the Gaza Strip. There was no immediate comment by the Israeli army. The deaths of the children come as Israel continues to block the entry of temporary housing into Gaza, despite agreeing to allow it under the terms of the ceasefire agreement. Thousands of mobile homes remain stranded at the Rafah crossing with Egypt, awaiting Israeli authorisation to enter the besieged Palestinian territory. According to the United Nations, at least eight newborns died of hypothermia in Gaza in December alone, while 74 children perished “amid the brutal conditions of winter”.
Israeli attacks on West Bank healthcare system
The World Health Organization (WHO) has also raised alarm over escalating attacks on healthcare facilities in the occupied West Bank. “We see the current flashpoints of violence, attacks on healthcare … starkly rising in the West Bank,” Dr Rik Peeperkorn, WHO representative in the occupied Palestinian territories, told journalists during a press briefing from Gaza on Tuesday. Between April and December 2024, the WHO documented 694 attacks on healthcare facilities in the West Bank. Israeli military operations in the occupied West Bank have intensified in recent months, particularly in the north. In Tulkarem refugee camp, Israeli forces have maintained a siege for 30 consecutive days, forcibly displacing residents. Faisal Salama, head of the Popular Committee for Tulkarem Camp Services, told Wafa news on Tuesday that Israeli forces had demolished at least 40 residential buildings, including 100 apartments, and set fire to at least 10 homes. In Jenin, where Israel has been conducting a month-long assault, more than 20,000 people have been forcibly displaced. The Jenin municipality reported this week that Israeli forces had completely demolished at least 120 homes in the city’s refugee camp.>>
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/25/six-children-die-of-hypothermia-amid-freezing-conditions-in-gaza

Al Jazeera - Feb 25, 2025
<<US scraps order linking arms sales to international law
Trump revokes Biden-era policy, prompted by Israel’s Gaza war, restricting US arms sales over human rights concerns. The White House has revoked a key policy order linking arms sales to international law on human rights, according to reports. United States President Donald Trump ordered the key policy to be scrapped, The Washington Post reported on Monday quoting unnamed sources. The order, signed by Trump’s predecessor Joe Biden amid concerns over Israel’s actions during its war on Gaza, was aimed at preventing US arms sales from contributing to human rights abuses abroad.
The sources told the daily that National Security Advisor Mike Waltz had issued a memo formalising the decision. National Security Memorandum-20, signed by Biden in February 2024, required assurances that US weapons would not be used in violation of international humanitarian law. The measure was viewed as a response to a growing concern that Israel was committing human rights violations amid its bombardment of Gaza. The memorandum was one of the few remaining Biden policies addressing the conflict. All mention of the memorandum has been scrubbed from the White House website, with searches resulting in a 404 error. A May 2024 report, mandated by the memorandum, stated that while Israel may have violated international humanitarian law, the Biden administration could not verify specific cases of civilian harm because of the ongoing war. Trump’s decision to overturn the memorandum follows moves to unfreeze heavy weapon shipments to Israel and lift sanctions on Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank. On February 7, the Trump administration approved the sale of more than $7.4bn worth of bombs, missiles, and related military equipment to Israel. The latest move effectively removes the last vestige of Biden’s policies on the Gaza war, which has killed at least 48,346 and left more than 111,759 others wounded.
‘Shameful’
Senator Chris Van Hollen, a prominent advocate for the memorandum, condemned the move to scrap it, calling it “shameful” and a blow to global human rights and US national security and its standing around the world. He added that the reversal undermines the ability of taxpayers to ensure their money aligns with US laws and values. “This is another clear example of Trump’s blatant indifference to American values,” he stated. US Senator Jim Risch, a Republican and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, welcomed the move. He criticised the original order as a political manoeuvre “conceived of as a means to embarrass our ally Israel in its time of need”, arguing that the policy had weakened US alliances while benefitting rivals such as Russia and China.>>
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/25/us-scraps-order-linking-arms-sales-to-international-law
 

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