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Israel to close border crossing between West Bank and Jordan, officials say
The Allenby Crossing is the sole entry and exit point for Palestinians from the West Bank travelling abroad by land.
Israel will close the Allenby border crossing between the West Bank and Jordan on Wednesday, the Palestinian General Authority for Borders and Crossings said in a statement on Tuesday.It was not immediately clear why Israel was closing the only checkpoint between the two, but it is reportedly to remain shut until further notice.
A spokesperson for the Israeli authority overseeing the crossing confirmed it would be closed in both directions from Wednesday morning "at the direction of the political leadership" but gave no reason for the closure.
The Israel Airports Authority, which manages the crossing, said on Monday that it had reopened for passenger traffic days after a truck driver from Jordan killed two Israeli soldiers in a gun and knife attack.
Jordan's Public Security Directorate said the crossing, known in Jordan as the King Hussein Bridge, was closed to passenger and freight traffic coming from the Israeli-occupied West Bank until further notice.
The Allenby Crossing is the primary route for transporting commercial goods between Jordan and the West Bank, serving as the sole entry and exit point for Palestinians from the West Bank travelling by land.
Israel to close West Bank-Jordan border crossing, officials say
The Allenby Crossing is the sole entry and exit point for Palestinians from the West Bank travelling abroad by land.
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- Larping. I dont get why the consevatives here suport the New Wave nazis.
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6 settlers terror attacks in just one week only in Eastern Ramallah, including the he agression if a young man with special needs, burn houses, and night attacks
Edit: since the link is broken the account name is herd.of.justice
Edit: since the link is broken the account name is herd.of.justice
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Former DRC president Joseph Kabila sentenced to death in absentia
Military court convicts Kabila of war crimes, treason and other offences in verdict that could fuel enduring tensionsA military court in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has sentenced the country’s former president Joseph Kabila to death in absentia after convicting him of war crimes, treason and crimes against humanity.
The case stems from his alleged role in backing the advance of M23 rebels supported by Rwanda in DRC’s volatile eastern provinces. Kabila, who led the country from 2001 to 2019, has denied wrongdoing and said the judiciary had been politicised.
Lt Gen Joseph Mutombo Katalayi, presiding over the tribunal in Kinshasa, said Kabila had been found guilty of charges that included murder, sexual assault, torture and insurrection.
Kabila did not attend the trial and was not represented by legal counsel. Neither he nor his representatives were immediately available for comment. His whereabouts were not immediately known.
“In applying article 7 of the military penal code,[the court] imposes a single sentence, namely the most severe one, which is the death penalty,” Katalayi said while delivering the verdict.
Kabila was also ordered to pay about $50bn (£36bn) in damages to the state and victims.
The verdict could fuel further divisions in the vast mineral-rich central African country, which has endured decades of conflict.
Kabila spent almost 20 years in power and stepped down only after deadly protests against him. He has been living mostly in South Africa since 2023, but appeared in the rebel-held city of Goma in eastern DRC in May.
He entered in to an awkward power-sharing deal with his successor, Felix Tshisekedi, but their relationship soon soured.
As M23 rebels marched on eastern DRC’s second-largest city of Bukavu in February, Tshisekedi told the Munich security conference that Kabila had sponsored the insurgency.
M23 now controls much of North Kivu and South Kivu provinces. The fighting has killed thousands of people and displaced hundreds of thousands more this year. The two sides signed a US-brokered peace agreement in June, but they are both reinforcing their positions and blaming one another for flouting the accord, sources have said.
Rwanda, which has long denied helping M23, says its forces act in self-defence against DRC’s army and ethnic Hutu militia members linked to the 1994 genocide.
Tshisekedi’s government has moved to suspend Kabila’s political party and seize its leaders’ assets.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...-joseph-kabila-sentenced-to-death-in-absentia
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Israel intercepts the last boat from the Gaza flotilla as Israeli minister mocks the activists
BY IBRAHIM HAZBOUN AND RENATA BRITO
Updated 11:49 AM BRT, October 3, 2025
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli forces on Friday intercepted the last boat from an international flotilla trying to break Israel’s sea blockade of war-ravaged Gaza as cities around the world erupted into more protests against Israeli actions in Gaza and the arrests of some 450 activists who were on the boats.
A far-right Israeli minister confronted the detained flotilla activists, mocking their aid initiative and accusing them of supporting “terrorism” in a video that was circulating on Friday.
In Italy, workers and students took to the streets after the country’s largest unions called for a one-day general strike in solidarity with the Palestinians and the flotilla. Hundreds of trains were canceled or delayed, as were several domestic flights, and many private and public schools were closed.
The last boat
The last boat in the Global Sumud Flotilla, the Marinette, had been trailing behind the rest of the vessels and was still sailing on to the Palestinian territory in the early hours of Friday, a day after the Israeli navy stormed 41 other boats and detained the activists, saying they would be deported.A livestream from the Marinette showed the moment Israeli troops boarded the vessel.
The flotilla, which was carrying a symbolic amount of humanitarian aid to Gaza, was the largest attempt so far to try and break Israel’s blockade of the Palestinian territory.
Israel’s interceptions started on Wednesday night and continued through Thursday as boat by boat was stopped off Gaza’s shore and the activists — including Greta Thunberg, Nelson Mandela’s grandson Mandla Mandela and several European lawmakers — were detained.
Israeli authorities had warned the Marinette would be stopped too if it continued on its journey.
Among the activists detained were four Italian parliamentarians who were swiftly deported back to Rome on Friday. They were among the first known to have been flown out of Israel.
“We had a very difficult night, now we must bring everyone home,” Marco Croatti, an Italian opposition lawmaker, told journalists after landing in Rome from Tel Aviv.
Worldwide protests
The interceptions of the flotilla boats and the arrest of the activists sparked demonstrations across continents, from Latin America to Asia.Tens of thousands of people took to the streets again late Thursday and on Friday in Italy, Spain, France, Switzerland and other countries to protest the arrest of the activists and to demand an end to the war in Gaza.
Protesters waved Palestinian flags and chanted “Free Palestine!” In several places, the protesters stormed railway stations, blocked roads and clashed with police.
A far-right minister confronts the activists
In Israel’s southern port of Ashdod, the country’s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir was filmed visiting the site where activists were being processed ahead of their deportations.He accused the flotilla participants — who come from more than 40 countries — of supporting “terrorism,” and aboard one of the seized boats, mocked the activists’ aid initiative.
In the footage, the activists are seen sitting cross-legged on the floor while Ben-Kvir stands and delivers his accusations. One person is heard shouting back “Free Palestine” but it was not immediately clear from the footage who that was.
By Friday afternoon, at least four Italian citizens were deported, Israel’s Foreign Ministry posted on X. “Israel is keen to end this procedure as quickly as possible,” the ministry said.
Hundreds of police officers were deployed to Ashdod as Israel on Thursday marked Yom Kippur, one of the holiest days of the Jewish calendar, to handle the detentions of the activists. Israel had repeatedly criticized the flotilla and accused some members of links to Hamas, while providing little evidence. Activists have strongly rejected the accusations.
Activists vow to try again
One of the flotilla boats that had been sailing at the back of the convoy — and turned back to avoid an Israeli interception — returned to Cyprus’ Larnaca port on Thursday evening with 21 people aboard.The captain of the Summertime Jong, Palestinian Osama Qashoo, 43, said he turned back as his boat’s mission was to just to support the rest of the flotilla.
The activists are “on the right side of history by being on the side of the oppressed people,” he told The Associated Press.
Malaysian activist Nadi Al-Nuri, who was also aboard the Summertime Jong and is on the flotilla’s steering committee, said that while the boats didn’t make it to Gaza and none of their humanitarian aid reached Palestinians, they won’t give up.
“We will do this again and again and until we reach our end,” Al-Nuri said. “And that is to stop the genocide and to liberate Palestine.”
Already, another flotilla of boats with dozens of activists set sail last week from Italy across the Mediterranean Sea. The nine-vessel group made up of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition and the Thousand Madleens to Gaza was still days away from the Palestinian territory, according to the boats’ tracker.
https://apnews.com/article/gaza-flotilla-israel-activists-thunberg-c18defe3a6317ce4ace7a12c1b4e4b2e
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Another example of how israeli forces segregate and force Palestinians to leave their village by making their conditions dire.
Here in the village of Sinjil, which is already separated in itself between area A, B and C, the israeli government is building a fence around the village to further segregate it. Article and video below.
'Ghost town': Israel’s new fence turns Palestinian town into open-air prison
The barrier —1,500 metres long and six metres high — Palestinians say, is turning their hometown, home to nearly 6,000 people, into a walled prison controlled by a single Israeli soldier stationed at a locked gate.
TRT World - 'Ghost town': Israel’s new fence turns Palestinian town into open-air prison
The barrier —1,500 metres long and six metres high — Palestinians say, is turning their hometown, home to nearly 6,000 people, into a walled prison controlled by a single Israeli soldier stationed at a locked gate.trt.global
Thank goodness fences don't work. I was told by Democrats that wall and fences are useless. :;
