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Norway FM Snubs Netanyahu, Says Palestine is Homeland of Palestinian People

CrossFireArabia
February 8, 2025

Norway on Friday rejected Israel’s argument that countries opposed to its actions in Gaza should take in displaced Palestinians, stressing that the forced transfer of civilians is prohibited under international law.

In response to an Anadolu email, Norway’s Deputy Foreign Minister Andreas Kravik noted that Palestine is the homeland of the Palestinian people.

“The Palestinian people have a fundamental, independent right to self-determination and their own state,” he said, adding that this was the basis for the UN Partition Plan in 1947, after which Israel was recognized by Norway and a number of other countries in 1949.

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Israel is an occupying power, and the occupation of Palestinian territories must end. pic.twitter.com/R1bd5HlMwn
— Globe Eye News (@GlobeEyeNews) December 28, 2024

Kravik added that this stance on Palestinian self-affirmation is confirmed in several UN resolutions as well as the International Court of Justice (ICJ).

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz on Thursday said nations such as Spain, Ireland, Norway, and others, which he alleged have made “false accusations and claims against Israel for their actions in Gaza,” are legally obliged to allow Gazans to enter their territory. The three countries recognized the state of Palestine last May, and have criticized Israel’s war on the enclave.

But Kravik rejoined: “The forced transfer of civilians from occupied territories to other countries is prohibited under international law.”

Spain and Ireland also criticized Katz’s controversial comment, stressing that the objective must be the safe return of the people of Palestine to their homes.

The controversy follows US President Donald Trump’s widely condemned remarks that the “US will take over the Gaza Strip” advocating a permanent resettlement of Palestinians outside Gaza.

“The US will take over the Gaza Strip, and we will do a job with it too,” he told a news conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Forcibly displacing a population without justification under international law constitutes a war crime under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.

A Gaza ceasefire and prisoner exchange agreement took effect on Jan. 19, suspending Israel’s genocidal war on the enclave that has killed over 47,000 Palestinians – mostly women and children – and injured over 111,000 since Oct. 7, 2023.

Israel’s war on Gaza has left the besieged enclave in ruins, with half of its housing damaged or destroyed and nearly 2 million people displaced amid severe shortages of sanitation, medical supplies, food, and clean water.

In November, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, citing war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza. Separately, Israel faces a genocide case at the International Court of Justice.

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Katz Wants to Occupy Jenin For Good

CrossFireArabia
January 29, 2025

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz declared that the Israeli occupation army would remain in Jenin refugee camp even after its military operation ends.

Katz claimed, during a visit to the camp, that this step to “ensure terrorism (Palestinian resistance) doesn’t return”, according to Israeli newspaper of Haaretz.

“Jenin refugee camp will not return to what it was after the operation is completed, the Israeli defense forces will remain in the camp to ensure that terrorism does not return,” Katz stated

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Katz: ‘We Killed Haniyeh’

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December 24, 2024

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz admitted, Monday, for the first time, it was Israel that was responsible for the assassination of former Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, and it is Israel that participated in the overthrow of the former Syrian regime of Bashar Al Assad.

Katz’s remarks came during a ceremony held by his army after the Yemeni escalation against the Iraeli occupation.

Katz addressed Sanaa, saying: “We overthrew the Assad regime in Syria, we struck the axis, and we will strike Sanaa.”

He continued his threats, saying: “We will damage their strategic infrastructure and kill their leaders, just as we did to Haniyeh, Sinwar, and Nasrallah in Tehran, Gaza, and Lebanon.”

The Iranian Revolutionary Guard announced the martyrdom of the head of the political bureau of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, in an assassination operation in Tehran, about five months ago, at dawn on 31 July, 2024.

The Israeli Maariv newspaper confirmed that the security and military establishments acknowledged their concern due to the escalation of the Yemeni threats. It described the Yemeni scene and structure as “very complex”, and that Yemen is not an “ordinary enemy,” according to JO24.

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350 Israeli Warplanes Hit Syrian Targets

CrossFireArabia
December 11, 2024

The Israeli occupation army announced, Tuesday, it destroyed about 70%-80% of the capabilities of the Syrian army.

Its stated that about 350 Israeli Air Force fighter jets participated in the aggression, attacking around 320 targets throughout Syria.

It added that “…warplanes and helicopters, radars, surface-to-air missile batteries, ships, surface-to-surface missiles, rocket shells, weapons production sites, weapons warehouses, Scud missiles, cruise missiles, sea-to-sea missiles, drones, and others were destroyed.”

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🇮🇱🇸🇾 Syria no longer has an Air Force or an Air Defense network, virtually all planes, helicopters and AD systems have been destroyed by over 300 Israeli strikes in the past 48 hours pic.twitter.com/vqPB6HxmYh
— Megatron (@Megatron_ron) December 10, 2024

In parallel, the aggression continues on land, through operations carried out by the ground forces in the “buffer zone” in the occupied Syrian Golan, so that the Israeli army is working to “establish a presence in the area and destroy weapons.”

On the political level, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said that “Israel will respond forcefully if the new regime in Syria allows Iran to return, or allows weapons to pass to Hezbollah, and will exact a heavy price from it,” but adding it “wants to establish relations with this new regime.”

However, he stressed “what happened to the previous regime in Syria will happen to this regime as well, if it allows weapons to pass to Hezbollah.”

Earlier, the Israeli army radio described the latest aggression on Syria, following the fall of the President Bashar al-Assad regime, as “one of the largest attacks since the establishment of Israel.”

Israeli Defense Minister Yisrael Katz confirmed the occupation’s decision to continue controlling strategic points in Syria, establish a security buffer zone, and target strategic weapons and air defense systems, and any attempts to transfer weapons to Lebanon.

The Israeli Channel 12 confirmed that the air force is operating on a very large scale throughout Syria with the aim of destroying what remains of the Syrian army and all its equipment, “from tanks to missiles,” according to the Kan official channel.

More than 350 Israeli airstrikes targeting Syrian territory in the past hours, and an Israeli occupation of Syrian territory equivalent to twice the size of the Gaza Strip, and their army is less than 40 km away from the capital Damascus. pic.twitter.com/OAoQ7h0OhV
— tim anderson (@timand2037) December 9, 2024

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Divest

CrossFireArabia
December 2, 2024

The Canadian Association of Professional Employees (CAPE) has voted to divest from Israeli-owned and pro-Isreal business.

During the past month, members of the association, who represents 25,000 employees in the federal government, voted to adopt a resolution calling to withdraw “investments from Israeli-owned companies and from all international companies that provide financial support to sustain the illegal occupation of Palestinian land.”

“CAPE stands firmly with Palestinians in their struggle for freedom and equality. We uplift their call for an end to the ongoing genocide in Gaza and for an end to over 75 years of illegal occupation,” the association said on X.