dizzy: I try to avoid such long videos but found this fascinating and am likely to return to it many times. You will certainly be far better informed after watching this video. It is matter-of-fact reasoned argument from an intelligent, informed man. I warn you that it discusses a very depressing topic – climate change and the absolute absence of any action to address it – so maybe not for those who would prefer blissful ignorance.
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Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir said Sunday that he is “pleased” with the harsh treatment of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, adding that he is directly responsible for the prison conditions, Anadolu reports.
His remarks came in a video released on the US social media company X during which he was talking to Palestinian female prisoners.
“The conditions here are very bad, and we women are not afforded any special rights, such as access to personal necessities,” a Palestinian prisoner said in the video.
“This is our third day without showers. We are not receiving medical treatment, and our clothes are not clean,” she added.
“The good conditions that used to exist in the prisons are over,” Ben-Gvir responded through an interpreter.
“The ‘whining’ of the terrorists about the conditions in the prisons doesn’t work on me,” he also wrote in a post accompanying the video.
When the female prisoner asked for the prison conditions to be improved, Ben-Gvir rejected her request.
This is not the first time Ben-Gvir has entered the cells of Palestinian detainees to mock them.
Earlier in August, he mocked a female prisoner who complained about the poor conditions of her detention and the lack of basic necessities, telling her that “prison is not a hotel.”
Since taking office in late 2022, Ben-Gvir has moved to tighten the conditions of detention for Palestinian prisoners, including through policies of starvation and medical neglect, as well as torture and solitary confinement.
Around 9,500 Palestinian prisoners are held in Israeli jails, including 94 women and more than 350 children, who suffer from starvation, torture and medical neglect, according to Palestinian and Israeli human rights reports.
RAD: Masked Israeli occupiers attack Palestinian woman, NBC News crew in occupied West Bank
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Masked Israeli occupiers attacked and injured a Palestinian woman and three members of an NBC News team in the occupied West Bank on Saturday, the US broadcaster reported, Anadolu reports.
The journalists were interviewing Aida Ahmed Abdullah, 51, and her family in the Palestinian town of Jalud, near Nablus, when the attack occurred.
Abdullah told the team that Israeli occupiers had forced her family from their home. She and the journalists were walking down a hill toward the house when a vehicle with Israeli license plates reversed toward them, according to video footage of the incident.
At least four masked men then got out of the vehicle and attacked Abdullah and the journalists with sticks and rocks, NBC News reported.
International correspondent Matt Bradley said he was struck twice in the arm and later treated at a nearby clinic.
“They jumped out, beat us, then jumped back in the car,” Bradley said.
A cameraman and producer working with Bradley were also injured and received treatment following the attack.
Abdullah was taken for medical treatment by the Palestinian Red Crescent. Her injuries were not life-threatening, according to a joint statement from the Israeli army and Israel Border Police cited by NBC News.
Her husband, Mahmoud Toubasi, said her condition had improved, but she remained hospitalized Saturday night.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned the violence, describing those responsible as “a handful of rioters,” according to NBC News.
The occupied West Bank has seen an escalation in Israeli army raids and attacks by Israeli occupiers against Palestinians since the outbreak of the war in the Gaza Strip in October 2023.
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Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei said on Sunday that rulers of Muslim countries should recognise what he called “the true enemy,” accusing the US and Israel of being “sworn enemies” of Islamic unity, Anadolu reports.
“My emphatic and repeated recommendation to the rulers of Islamic countries, particularly those in West Asia and along the Gulf, is to identify your true enemy, understand its plan and confront it,” Khamenei said in a message marking “Islamic Unity Week,” according to Iran’s state-run broadcaster IRIB.
Unity among Muslims is essential “for achieving the beloved and dominant Islamic civilisation,” he stated.
The US and Israel are “the sworn enemies of this unity and friendship,” Khamenei claimed, saying that Washington and Tel Aviv are not only “enemies” of Iran but also of the “entire” Islamic world.
Tensions in the Middle East have heightened since the US and Israel launched joint strikes on Iran in late February, prompting Tehran to launch retaliatory strikes on regional countries hosting US assets.
Iran and the US agreed to a ceasefire in April and subsequently signed a memorandum of understanding in June aimed at ending their military conflict and reaching a lasting peace agreement.
The deal, however, collapsed last month, with Tehran and Washington exchanging attacks for nearly two weeks before US President Donald Trump abruptly halted the bombardment amid reports of talks to resolve the conflict.
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