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Russia and Belarus extend military exercises, and Biden cancels Delaware trip
Moscow – Reuters
The Belarusian Ministry of Defense said Belarus would extend military exercises scheduled to end on Sunday, while US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said he was more concerned about the immediate Russian invasion of Ukraine, while President Joe Biden canceled his visit to Delaware.
Belarus Ministry of Defense said the decision to extend the extension was due to military action near the borders of the two countries and the situation in the Donbass region in eastern Ukraine.
NATO says Russia has 30,000 troops in Belarus in northern Ukraine. Belarusian Defense Minister Viktor Grinin said the main purpose of the extended exercises was to “ensure adequate response and weaken the military products of those who inflict harm near our common border.”
NATO says these forces could be used to attack Ukraine. Moscow denies any such intention.
Flinken said there were signs of a Russian invasion, but Russia has repeatedly denied this.
The White House has announced that President Biden Wilmington will not travel to Delaware and will stay in Washington, DC, as tensions over Ukraine escalate. On Sunday, he postponed his scheduled trip to France due to tension and will return to Canada immediately.
For his part, Blinken said his plans to meet with his Russian envoy, Sergei Lavrov, would be this week, unless Moscow continues to invade.
An adviser to President Emmanuel Macron confirmed on Monday that France and Russia had agreed to hold a meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe with representatives of Ukraine and Russia. Czech Prime Minister Peter Viola said in a televised interview: “It is no exaggeration to say that Europe is one step away from war.” It’s hard to imagine a long time ago.
Mikhail Bodolyak, an adviser to the Ukrainian president, said the extension of training in Belarus confirms that Moscow’s official promises are not being kept.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Western warnings of a Russian invasion of Ukraine could have provocative and serious consequences. Russia says Western nations are raising tensions by sending NATO reinforcements to Eastern Europe during the crisis.
Western nations are preparing sanctions that could have a significant impact on Russian companies and citizens during the invasion.
Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba said the West should impose some sanctions without waiting for an invasion.
“Russia must be stopped now,” he added. We see how events unfold.
The focus of tensions has shifted in recent days to part of eastern Ukraine, which was captured by Moscow-backed rebels in 2014, the same year Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine. More than 14,000 people have been killed in clashes in eastern Ukraine.
The West is worried that Russia will use the expansion as an excuse for a wider conflict. Explosions were heard in the center of the town of Donetsk in the separatist-controlled Donbass region, as well as heavy shelling in other areas the previous day.
Donetsk residents received text messages inviting men to apply for military service.
More than 30,000 people from neighboring Donetsk and Luhansk have crossed the Russian border in the past 24 hours, according to Russia’s Rostov regional authorities, according to the TASS news agency. Separatists began evicting residents on Friday, claiming that Ukraine was planning an attack.
Local forces in separatist Luhansk said two civilians were killed and buildings damaged in a Ukrainian military shelling on Sunday.
Two Ukrainian soldiers were killed and four others were injured in what became known as the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on Saturday.
Older men and women, some of whom are past retirement age, are preparing to fight on both sides of the separatist conflict in Ukraine, and the renewed fighting comes as Russian forces have concentrated for weeks in the north, east and south of the country. . Western nations estimate there are 150,000 or more Russian troops near Ukraine’s borders.
In London, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Putin’s promise to his French counterpart, Macron, was a welcome sign that Putin was ready for a diplomatic settlement.
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Jerusalem / Abdel Raoub Arnaud / Anatolia
Hebrew newspaper Maariv said on Friday that Israeli army chief Herzey Halevy informed US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken on Thursday that the war in Gaza would take more than a few weeks.
Halevy’s words came in response to Blinken’s question on the matter, the newspaper quoted two Israeli sources familiar with Thursday’s meeting with the Israeli military cabinet in West Jerusalem.
He said: “Blinken raised the issue on his own initiative, and how long the Israeli army’s operation in Gaza is expected to continue in its current scope, which includes very large ground forces.”
According to the newspaper: “Blinken explained that (US President Joe) Biden’s administration is concerned that continued Israeli military action in Gaza, especially with the scale and intensity it is currently taking, will significantly increase international pressure. On Israel and America.”
He continued: “According to the sources, Blinken asked Israel to take additional measures to ensure that the operation in the southern Gaza Strip does not cause serious harm to civilians.”
It reported that Halevy responded that “the IDF’s operation in Gaza, including in the southern region, is expected to continue for more than a few weeks.”
Maariv pointed out that the Biden administration “has yet to call for a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip, or demand that Israel cease military action.”
He added: “But there is deep concern in Washington about the resumption of military action in the Gaza Strip after the (temporary) ceasefire that ended on Friday morning, especially about the (anticipated) Israeli military action in the south of the Gaza Strip, home to two million Palestinians.
He added: “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and Levy told Blinken that ground operations in southern Gaza would be less harmful to civilians than airstrikes.”
On Friday morning, a temporary cease-fire in the Gaza Strip ended on November 24 with Qatari-Egyptian mediation and lasted for 7 days, during which prisoners were exchanged and humanitarian aid brought into the enclave of about 2.3 million people. Palestinians.
During the pre-ceasefire round, the Israeli military repeated its messages, which asked residents of the northern Gaza Strip to move to the southern Gaza Strip, but targeted the displaced in areas and roads it said were “safe”. It committed documented massacres, which met with international and international condemnation.
Since last October 7, Israel has been waging a devastating war in the Gaza Strip that has caused massive infrastructural destruction and tens of thousands of civilian casualties, most of them children and women, in addition to an unprecedented humanitarian disaster, according to an official Palestinian official. and UN
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12/1/2023–|Last Updated: 12/1/202308:56 AM (Makkah Time)
4 Palestinians were killed and several others injured in attacks by the Israeli occupation army in different areas of Gaza.Clashes erupted on multiple axes in the area minutes after the end of a week-long humanitarian ceasefire. And its extension has not been announced.
Al Jazeera’s correspondent in Gaza reported martyrs and wounded as a result of an Israeli attack targeting a house in central Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.
The 4-day ceasefire that started last Friday was extended twice and ended today at 7 am local time.
The Israeli military said it had resumed operations against the Palestinian Islamist movement (Hamas) in Gaza, accusing the movement of violating ceasefire terms and firing into Israel. Gaza
The Israeli military confirmed that its warplanes were bombing all areas of the Gaza Strip, and military radio quoted a senior political source as saying, “We are back to fighting with full force and no negotiations have been held to release the abductees.”
Al Jazeera’s correspondent monitored the Israeli offensive in the northwest of the Gaza Strip and artillery attacks targeting various parts of Gaza City. He confirmed that clashes broke out between the opposition and occupation forces in more than one area in Gaza City and the northern Gaza Strip. He said the Israeli strike targeted a site near Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip.
The reporter confirmed that casualties were reported as a result of Israeli strikes and artillery fire in various parts of Gaza.
The government media office in Gaza announced a series of raids targeting the south of the Strip, while Gaza’s Interior Ministry confirmed that Israeli aircraft had targeted the town of Abasan east of Khan Yunis and a house in the Abu Iskandar area in the northwest. of Gaza City.
The seven-day ceasefire allowed for the exchange of prisoners from occupied prisons to Palestinian prisoners in Gaza, and facilitated the entry of humanitarian aid into the Strip.
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Hack – AFP
The International Criminal Court announced Thursday that public prosecutor Karim Khan traveled to Israel “at the request and invitation” of survivors and families of victims of the October 7 Hamas attack.
The court explained through the “X” site that the visit was “not investigative in nature” but it “represented an important opportunity to express sympathy and initiate dialogue for all the victims.”
Khan is scheduled to travel to Ramallah in the West Bank, where he will meet with senior Palestinian officials, the court said.
Since October 7, Israel has launched a military campaign in the Gaza Strip, killing more than 15,000 people, including more than 6,000 children.
The International Criminal Court, established in 2002 to prosecute the world’s worst atrocities, began investigating possible war crimes in the Palestinian territories in 2021, including possible crimes committed by Israeli forces, Hamas and other armed Palestinian factions.
Khan announced that his mandate would include crimes committed during the current war. But the tribunal’s teams could not enter Gaza and were not allowed to conduct trials in Israel, which is not a member of the tribunal.
The five signatories to the International Criminal Court’s founding treaty requested an inquiry into the “situation of the State of Palestine,” Khan announced, explaining that he had gathered “a large amount of information.” Both sides could face war crimes charges, legal experts said.
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