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October 21st, 2023 | Author: Sandji Buvaev

Australian PM Albanese pushes Aussie exports in China visit as security, military concerns remain

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has arrived in Beijing ahead of talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
He’s there to broaden economic cooperation with China, which is Australia’s top trading ...partner, while taking into account the security concerns of its population and its most important ally, the United States.

Al Jazeera’s Katrina Yu reports from Beijing.

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Christian village in occupied West Bank faces settler attacks as clergy urge urgent global action

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Church leaders and diplomats have condemned Israeli settler attacks on Taybeh, a historic Palestinian Christian town in the occupied West Bank, where settlers twice set fire to the 5th-century Church ...of St George and adjacent cemetery while seizing olive groves for livestock grazing. The community – one of the last entirely Christian villages in the region – faces what clergy describe as systematic targeting, with its 50,000-strong minority doubly vulnerable as both Palestinians and Christians. Representatives from 20 nations and the EU joined local leaders in demanding accountability, warning that unchecked settler violence (extending across the West Bank) threatens to erase the ancient Christian presence through forced displacement. Church officials highlighted how settlers, emboldened by Israeli state impunity, are aggressively expropriating Palestinian lands and homes, undermining decades of efforts to sustain Christian communities. Urgent international intervention is sought to halt what priests term "ethnic unmixing" of the West Bank, as arson attacks on sacred sites and livelihoods intensify. The crisis reflects broader annexation pressures, with settlers operating under military protection while Palestinian Christians, caught between occupation and identity erasure, face existential threats. Amid escalating tensions, Taybeh’s plight symbolises the collision of religious heritage, territorial conquest and fading international protections in the occupied territories.

Al Jazeera’s Nida Ibrahim reports.

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Lapid, Olmert slam Israel’s plans for ‘concentration camps’ in Gaza’s Rafah

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Two prominent Israeli politicians have criticised plans by the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to set up what it calls a “humanitarian city” in southern Gaza, saying the proposal ...would amount to interning Palestinians in a “concentration camp”.
Former Prime Ministers Yair Lapid and Ehud Olmert levelled the criticism on Sunday as Israeli forces continued to bombard Gaza, killing at least 95 Palestinians over the course of the day.
Lapid, the leader of Israel’s biggest opposition party, told Israeli Army Radio that “nothing good” would come out of the plans to establish the “humanitarian city” on the ruins of the city of Rafah.
“It’s a bad idea from every possible perspective – security, political, economic, logistical,” he said.
“I don’t prefer to describe a humanitarian city as a concentration camp, but if exiting it is prohibited, then it is a concentration camp,” he added. Lapid served as Israel’s prime minister for six months in 2022.
Olmert, who served as Israel’s prime minister from 2006 to 2009, also slammed the Israeli plan.
“It is a concentration camp. I am sorry,” he told the United Kingdom’s Guardian newspaper.
“If they [Palestinians] will be deported into the new ‘humanitarian city’, then you can say that this is part of an ethnic cleansing,” he said. “When they build a camp where they [plan to] ‘clean’ more than half of Gaza, then the inevitable understanding of the strategy of this [is that] it is not to save [Palestinians]. It is to deport them, to push them and to throw them away. There is no other understanding that I have at least.”
Dan Perry, Israeli affairs analyst and former Foreign Press Association chair, dismissed the proposed Gaza 'humanitarian city' as an impractical negotiating tactic given war-weariness and US pressure. He noted Netanyahu's minor post-Iran strike popularity boost remains electorally insufficient without ending the Gaza conflict. Perry warned Israel's international standing is eroding under Netanyahu's far-right policies, risking alienation from Western allies.

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