Mains electricity has gone out in Gaza after its sole power station ran out of fuel.
Since Hamas’s attack at the weekend, Israel has imposed a siege of Gaza, cutting its supplies of electricity, fuel, food, goods and water.
It means people in Gaza will rely on generators for electricity - if they have the fuel to run them.
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No, BBC, Israel withheld the fuel, it was deliberately stopped.
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Emergency Israeli government agreed
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and opposition leader Benny Gantz have agreed to form an emergency government.A “war cabinet” will also be set up - with Netanyahu, Gantz and the country’s defence minister.
It means that during the war period, “no bills or government decisions will be promoted that do not concern the conduct of the war” and all senior appointments will be automatically extended during the war period.
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Odd juxtaposition of JPost thumbnails:
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Cool. How does everyone else get out?
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Wondering about the logistics of that. Will he go into Syria and catch a Russian transport? 
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That’s a big fucking NO from me on that score, but he obviously has different worries right now.
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Palestinian Authority frequently travel from Jordan IIRC. They can also fly out of Jerusalem. Who gets the travel permits and when is of course a source of control.
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Abbas from a month or so ago:
Most media will ignore his comments, which were translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute. They don’t fit the liberal narrative that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a clash of two nationalisms that can be resolved in a “peace process” if Israelis make more concessions. The comments also don’t fit the narrative, gaining ground among Democrats, that the Israelis are extreme and the Palestinians progressive.
“The truth that we should clarify to the world,” Mr. Abbas began, “is that European Jews are not Semites. They have nothing to do with Semitism.” He cited the Khazar hypothesis, which speculates that Ashkenazi Jews aren’t descended from the Holy Land, hailing instead from the medieval Tatar kingdom.
This has been discredited by a century of scholarship; today, it’s a theory one expects to find only in online fever swamps. But its usefulness in denying the Jewish connection to the land of Israel has made it a mainstream claim among Palestinians.
He goes on with repulsive antisemitic language from there. He’s not running to Putin for peace.
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As shared on the coolguides subreddit (link to original post). Click on the image to see it larger
So basically cheap commercial drones, explosives, paragliders, bulldozers and maybe a few folks with Flipper Zeros who somehow got close enough without being detected first?
Also this commenter there brought something interesting up too
Mexican here, the wall red Americans want completely ridiculous, since our border spans 2000 miles or 3150 km
This wall in exchange is 40km, as someone who couldn’t give a damn about Israel Palestine before last week, the thing that surprises me the most is how SMALL Gaza is, that shit is 40km in perimeter!?
Thats most definitely doable, a block of 0.5m by 1m by 1m of solid concrete weighs around 1ton, you would need 40,000 of them to make one level of the wall, let’s say you want it 3 meters high, that’s 120,000 blocks of concrete, 120,000 tons.
Israel depending who you ask produces 50 million tons of concrete a year, so the resources are there. It costs around 130 usd a ton, so 16 million usd in resources, which is negligible for a country…
Hell, Gaza has the perimeter of 10 central parks, 133 football fields, or 12 Vatican cities. It’s absolutely tiny!!
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“Wall’s don’t work.” -Ancient Chinese saying. (probably)
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I went in a shop on my way home. The Express and The Times newspapers are repeating that unverified story, though one emphasises cut throats rather than headless babies.
Then there’s this weaksauce “objectivity.”
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He listed specific acts carried out by Hamas recently, but only alluded to the actions of Israel over a period of decades.
How is that not biased?
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I think one of the Guardian articles noted that over 250 Palestinians have been killed by either the IDF, police, or Settlers this year alone in the West Bank…
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