The town of Beit Lahiya is currently experiencing a full-fledged Israeli ethnic cleansing campaign aimed at forcibly evicting the remaining Palestinian population. This campaign is part of the hard-right Israeli government’s goal to clear the land in preparation for the arrival of Jewish settlers. Here’s a summary of the situation on the ground.

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Norway Pulls Out of Israel

Norway’s sovereign wealth fund, the world’s largest, has sold all its shares in Israel’s Bezeq (BEZQ.TA), which provides telecoms services to the Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, it said late on Tuesday. The decision to divest comes after the fund’s ethics watchdog, the Council on Ethics, adopted a new, tougher interpretation of ethics standards for businesses that aid Israel’s operations in the occupied Palestinian territories.

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Can He Get Out of This One?

While December 2 was initially set as Netanyahu’s testimony date, it was subsequently postponed to December 10 at his request. The testimony schedule currently requires Netanyahu to appear three days per week, from morning through afternoon, following the same format as previous trial testimonies. However, Haaretz stated that Netanyahu is likely to request a more dispersed schedule, arguing that the current security situation prevents him from maintaining such lengthy court appearances three times weekly. Netanyahu, supported by the U.S., had also rejected ICC arrest warrants against him, describing it as absurd despite that the court has approved that he and Gallant has committed four war crimes in Gaza, including war crimes, and crimes against humanity, and crimes of persecution.

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Shame on you!

British Foreign Secretary David Lammy posed for a picture with the Israeli ambassador to the UK, Tzipi Hotovely, after attending a Labour Friends of Israel event yesterday. Hotovely has previously said in an interview that Israel has zero interest in killing civilians in Gaza and Lebanon.

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