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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