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Iran announces sanctions on US, UK individuals and entities over support for Israel

Iran's foreign ministry announced on Thursday that it is imposing sanctions on over two dozen American and British individuals and entities for "supporting and complicity in the Israeli regime’s heinous acts against the Palestinians especially in the Gaza Strip," Iran's IRNA news agency reported.

The foreign ministry's statement said the move was in accordance with Iran's "Law on Countering the Violation of Human Rights and Adventurous and Terrorist Activities of the United States in the Region".

The American individuals and entities will be sanctioned "in connection with their support and financing of the Zionist regime of Israel’s terrorist acts, glorification and supporting terrorism and gross violations of human rights against the Palestinian people, and in particular, the people of the Gaza strip," the statement read.

Companies include the Lockheed Martin Corporation due to its "involvement in supplying weaponry to Israeli regime", Kharon Company for its role in sanctioning Hamas, General Dynamics, Skydio Engineering Company and Chevron Corporation for their supply of weaponry and resources to Israel.

Individuals include Jason Greenblatt, former US President Donald Trump's adviser on Israel, Jason Brodsky from United against Nuclear Iran, Clifford D. May, founder and president of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, amongst others.

In accordance with another law on countering "hostile" Israeli activities in the region, the foreign ministry also said it will sanction British individuals and entities including the Royal Air Force Akrotiri in Cyprus, Elbit Systems, the UK Royal Navy in Red Sea HMC Diamond, Secretary of State for Defence Grant Shapps, and several others.
 
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Constant bombardment’ in central Gaza where battles rage

Overnight strikes and artillery bombardment were extremely heavy in Gaza.

The focus of the Israeli attacks was on the middle area. There have been more attacks in the last couple of hours on the Nuseirat refugee camp. They [the Israeli forces] have attacked a mosque in the camp.

Witnesses have also reported constant bombardment in al-Mughraqa area, where battles are still raging between Hamas fighters and Israeli soldiers.

At the same time, Palestinian armed groups have been attacking Israeli troops who are stationed at a main junction in the middle area, where citizens have reported mass confrontations and extensive fire exchange.

Artillery bombardment continues in the north of the territory, specifically in Sheikh Ijlin neighbourhood. No casualties have
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Israel tells US it will punish PA if ICC issues arrest warrants: Report

Citing two Israeli and US officials, Axios reports that the Israeli government has warned the Biden administration that if the International Criminal Court (ICC) issues arrest warrants against Israeli leaders, it will initiate a response against the Palestinian Authority that will lead to its collapse.
Reports have emerged over recent days in Israeli media that the ICC is preparing to issue arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the military’s chief of staff Herzi Halevi and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant.
Netanyahu has said that if the arrest warrants were issued, it would be “a scandal on a historic scale”.
Axios reports that one possible action taken could be bankrupting the PA, which governs the occupied West Bank, by freezing the transfer of tax revenues.
Israel collects tax on behalf of the Palestinians and makes monthly transfers to the PA under the Oslo Accords in 1994.

Smotrich congratulates Trump for retracting support for two-state solution

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has congratulated former US President Donald Trump for “withdrawing his support for the establishment of a Palestinian state”, Israeli Channel 7 news website has reported.

Responding to the question of whether a two-state solution should be an outcome of the war, Trump said in an interview for Time magazine published this week: “There was a time when I thought two states could work. Now I think two states is going to be very, very tough. I think it’s going to be much tougher to get. I also think you have fewer people that liked the idea.”

Smotrich, head of the Religious Zionist party said he hopes other world leaders will show Trump’s courage, stop “turning their backs” on Israel and join the fight “against radical Islam that threatens the peace of the entire world”.

“A Palestinian state would be a terrorist state that would endanger the existence of Israel and the international pressure to establish it is an injustice on a historical scale by the Western countries,” Channel 7 quoted Smotrich as saying.
 
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Israel-US Gaza Plan Stares Us in the Face

The media is pretending the West's efforts to secure a ceasefire are serious. But a different script has clearly been written in advance. By Jonathan Cook Jonathan-Cook.net One does not need to be a fortune-teller to understand that the Israel-U.S. game plan for Gaza runs something like
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UN estimates rebuilding Gaza will cost $30bn to $40bn
A UN agency said on Thursday that rebuilding Gaza will cost an estimated $30bn to $40bn and require an effort on a scale unseen since the second world war, reports Agence France-Presse (AFP).

“The United Nations Development Programme’s initial estimates for the reconstruction of … the Gaza Strip surpass $30bn and could reach up to $40bn,” said UN assistant secretary general Abdallah al-Dardari.

“The scale of the destruction is huge and unprecedented … This is a mission that the global community has not dealt with since the second world war,” Dardari told a press conference in the Jordanian capital Amman.

According to the UN, 72% of all residential buildings in Gaza have been completely or partially destroyed.
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According to the UN, 72% of all residential buildings in Gaza have been completely or partially destroyed. Photograph: Mohammed Saber/EPA
According to AFP, he added that if Gaza’s reconstruction were to be carried out through the normal process, “it could take decades, and the Palestinian people do not have the luxury of waiting for decades”.

He told the press conference:

It is therefore important that we act quickly to re-house people in decent housing and restore their lives to normal – economically, socially, in terms of health and education.
This is our top priority, and it must be achieved within the first three years following the cessation of hostilities.”
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He estimated the total rubble from bombardment and explosions at 37m tonnes.

“We are talking about a colossal figure, and this figure is increasing every day,” he said. “The latest data indicates that it is already approaching 40m tonnes.”

The UN official also said “72% of all residential buildings have been completely or partially destroyed”.

“Reconstruction must be planned carefully, efficiently and with extreme flexibility because we do not know how the war will end” and what type of postwar governance will be established in the Gaza Strip, he added.
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The risk of exposure to unexploded ordnance in Gaza is at its “most dangerous stage”, the United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) has warned.

Highlighting the warning in its flash update, the UN humanitarian agency (OCHA), reported that a 14-year-old boy was seriously injured and had to undergo limb amputations after opening a booby-trapped can of food.

Citing information shared by the Government Media Office (GMO) on 29 April, OCHA said that the can was found while the boy looked for belongings in his house in Khan Younis after it had been shelled by Israeli forces.

The risk of exposure to unexploded ordnance in Gaza is at its “most dangerous stage”, the United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) has warned.

Highlighting the warning in its flash update, the UN humanitarian agency (OCHA), reported that a 14-year-old boy was seriously injured and had to undergo limb amputations after opening a booby-trapped can of food.

Citing information shared by the Government Media Office (GMO) on 29 April, OCHA said that the can was found while the boy looked for belongings in his house in Khan Younis after it had been shelled by Israeli forces.


The OCHA writes:

The GMO indicated that many people have been recently injured due to the explosion of booby-trapped canned goods, urging the population to exercise maximum care.
Based on UN estimates of unexploded munitions, the GMO assessed that around 7,500 tons of unexploded ordnance (UXO) might be scattered throughout Gaza, appealing for assistance by the international community to remove explosive remnants of war (ERW) and mitigate the risk for civilians.
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World Press Freedom Day - EN | United Nations

the purpose of the day is to celebrate the fundamental principles of press freedom, assess the state of press freedom throughout the world, defend the media from attacks on their independence and pay tribute to journalists who have lost their lives in the line of duty.
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World Press Freedom Day: Gaza conflict deadliest for journalists

As the war in Gaza becomes the deadliest conflict for journalists, Al Jazeera looks at press freedom in the past year.
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