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A year since Oct. 7]

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October 8, 20247:28 AM ET
By Ayman Oghanna

Oct 11 (Reuters) - Nicaragua is breaking off diplomatic relations with Israel, the Central American nation said on Friday, calling the Israeli government "fascist" and "genocidal."

İsmail Beheşti was on his way to check on his ship, the Conscience, at the Port of Istanbul. It was the end of August, and he hoped the 220-foot passenger yacht would soon be loaded with aid and volunteers, sailing for Gaza to break Israel’s illegal blockade. But as he entered the port, where the ship had been moored for months, he was physically stopped.

“The security forces did not allow me to enter the port. They kicked me out by force,” recalled Beheşti. To his great surprise, he said, the security officers told him “‘No, you are on the blacklist. We will not let you go and see your ship.’”

It was the latest roadblock for Beheşti and his fellow activists from an international coalition that has been trying since April to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza. They had already struggled to find countries that would lend their flags to the ships in the flotilla, as such a move could be seen as antagonistic to Israel. Once they did obtain flags, the flotilla planned to depart from Turkey, which famously supported a 2010 effort to break Israel’s siege of Gaza. But now, even though the Conscience has secured a flag and the support of U.N. rapporteurs, Turkish authorities are continually blocking its departure.

Julia Conley
Oct 11, 2024

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society on Friday said that all its ambulances in northern Gaza were forced to stop over the lack of fuel due to the Israeli army’s incursion and siege for the sixth consecutive day.

“Six ambulances are completely put out of service due to lack of fuel, as the Israeli occupation prevents the entry of fuel into northern Gaza,” Raed Al-Nems, Red Crescent Society’s spokesman in Gaza, told Anadolu.

He added that the halt of the ambulances paralyzed providing the ambulance service to patients and wounded people in northern Gaza.

Commenting on the situation in northern Gaza, Al-Nems said the humanitarian situation is “quickly deteriorating with the continuation of the Israeli siege. The siege is preventing the arrival of basic humanitarian, medical and relief supplies to northern Gaza,” he added.

Malak A Tantesh in Gaza, Emma Graham-Harrison and Jason Burke
Thu 10 Oct 2024 14.35 EDT

Germany will send more weapons to Israel soon, Scholz says
(Reuters, 2024-10-10)

https://www.reuters.com/world/germany-will-send-more-weapons-israel-soon-scholz-says-2024-10-10/
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"'We have not decided not to supply weapons. We have supplied weapons and we will supply weapons,' Scholz told parliament at an event to commemorate the victims of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack, countering an accusation from opposition leader Friedrich Merz*."

"Commenting on the fall in exports, the German government has said there is no arms export boycott on Israel, and export permits are issued case-by-case after careful review, taking into account international law, foreign policy and security considerations."

*) Friedrich Merz: present CDU chief and wannabe Chancellor, former member of the board of BlackRock Germany and chairman of the Atlantik-Brücke association (promoting German-American understanding and Atlanticism)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantik-Br%C3%BCcke

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Paris Marx is joined by Spencer Ackerman to discuss the past year of Israel's actions in Palestine and the innovations in war technology being used to carry out what the ICJ has deemed a "plausible" genocide in Gaza.

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A year since Oct. 7

By Daniel Wood
October 10, 20245:00 AM ET

By Mohammed al-Hajjar and Ahmed Dremly in Gaza, occupied Palestine and Katherine Hearst in London. Published date: 10 October 2024 16:02 BST