Meanwhile, polls broadcast Sunday on Israeli channels 12 and 13 show that Yesh Atid and Kahol Lavan have both gained strength. Mano Geva’s poll on Channel 12 News showed Lapid with 21 seats and Gantz with 10, as opposed to the 17 and eight seats they received during the previous election respectively. Sa’ar retains his six seats, while Bennett drops to five seats from seven.
Daily Archives: 24. Mai 2021
Iran stimmt Verlängerung von Atominspektionen zu
Seit Februar darf die IAEA nicht mehr auf Daten ihrer Überwachungsgeräte in dem Land zugreifen, sondern muss sich auf andere Inspektionsmethoden beschränken. Allerdings sollen die Daten freigegeben werden, wenn der Iran sich mit den USA auf die Wiederherstellung des Atomabkommens einigt. Ohne die nunmehrige Verlängerung dieser Regelung wären die Daten der vergangenen drei Monate gelöscht worden, sagte Grossi.
China‘s Tianwen-1 probe sends back Mars landing visuals
Two photos and two videos captured by China‘s Mars probe Tianwen-1 during and after the country‘s first landing on the red planet were released on Wednesday.
Zhurong Rover is driving on Mars sending back new images (Chinese Tianwen-1 mission)
On May 21, 2021 CNSA published images of Mars Rover Zhurong driving on Red Planet around general station. The rover‘s mission planned tasks are to: Study the topography and geology of the local area; examine the soil and any ice content; survey the elements, minerals and rocks; atmospheric sampling.
Virgin Galactic Completes First-Ever Spaceflight from New Mexico
On May 22, 2021, Virgin Galactic‘s VSS Unity spaceship completed the first-ever human spaceflight from Spaceport America, New Mexico, with two pilots reaching apogee at 55.45 miles above ground. The flight is a meaningful step toward the opening of commercial space travel.
Wuhan lab director says US intelligence report is „a complete lie“
The director of the Wuhan National Biosafety Lab told Chinese state media Monday the claim in a new United States intelligence report that several researchers at the lab were hospitalized in November 2019, was „a complete lie.“
„Those claims are groundless,“ lab director Yuan Zhiming told nationalist tabloid Global Times. „The lab has not been aware of this situation, and I don‘t even know where such information came from.“
Erzwungene Notlandung in Minsk – Belarus nimmt Exil-Oppositionellen fest
Nach der Notlandung in Minsk sei bei einer Überprüfung des Flugzeugs keine Bombe gefunden worden, berichtete der Oppositionskanal Nexta. Daraufhin seien „alle Passagiere zu einer weiteren Sicherheitskontrolle geschickt“ worden – unter ihnen auch Protassewitsch. „Er wurde festgenommen.“
Protassewitsch sei schon in Athen vor dem Einstieg ins Flugzeug verfolgt worden, hieß es. Lukaschenko habe mit einem Verstoß gegen alle Gesetze ein Flugzeug „gekapert“, kritisierte der Kanal.
Blinken condemns ‚shocking act‘ of Belarus forcing plane carrying opposition journalist to land
Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday condemned the forced landing of a Ryanair flight by Belarus and the arrest of an opposition journalist on board, calling it a „shocking act“ that endangered the lives of U.S. citizens and everyone else on board.
In a statement, Blinked vowed that the U.S. would respond with its allies in the region, and called for the „immediate release“ of journalist Raman Protasevich, who according to reports, was detained by Belarusian security forces after the flight landed.
‚Black Panther of Oxford‘ activist Sasha Johnson, 27, is fighting for her life after being shot in the head in 3am attack in London after numerous death threats but police say there is ‚no indication at this stage it is a targeted shooting‘
Ms Johnson, a mother-of-three Oxford Brookes graduate who rose to prominence after organising BLM protests last summer, is said to be currently in intensive care and in a critical condition following the attack.
Police said the Peckham shooting occurred in the vicinity of a house where a party was taking place and that a number of people may have been in the area. Officers said there is ‚nothing to suggest‘ that the woman shot there was the subject of a targeted attack.
Progressives ramp up scrutiny of US funding for Israel
The first test in progressives’ push to reexamine U.S. military aid to Israel could be a $735 million precision-guided munitions sale. The Biden administration notified Congress it approved the sale before the Gaza conflict started, but it became a flashpoint over the past week after news reports publicly revealed the sale.
A group of progressives led by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) introduced a resolution in the House to block the sale, while Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) introduced the Senate version.
Genfer Abkommen über den Schutz von Zivilpersonen in Kriegszeiten
(12. August 1949)
Art. 49
Zwangsweise Einzel- oder Massenumsiedlungen sowie Deportationen von geschützten Personen aus besetztem Gebiet nach dem Gebiet der Besetzungsmacht oder dem irgendeines anderen besetzten oder unbesetzten Staates sind ohne Rücksicht auf ihren Beweggrund verboten.
Immerhin kann die Besetzungsmacht eine vollständige oder teilweise Evakuierung eines bestimmten besetzten Gebietes durchführen, wenn die Sicherheit der Bevölkerung oder zwingende militärische Gründe dies erfordern. Solche Evakuierungen dürfen nicht die Umsiedlungen von geschützten Personen in Gebiete ausserhalb der Grenzen des besetzten Gebietes zur Folge haben, es sei denn, eine solche Umsiedlung liesse sich aus materiellen Gründen nicht vermeiden. Unmittelbar nach Beendigung der Feindseligkeiten in dem in Frage stehenden Gebiet soll die so evakuierte Bevölkerung in ihre Heimstätten zurückgeführt werden.
Die Besetzungsmacht hat bei der Durchführung derartiger Umsiedlungen oder Evakuierungen im Rahmen des Möglichen dafür zu sorgen, dass angemessene Unterkunft für die Aufnahme der geschützten Personen vorgesehen wird, dass die Umsiedlung in bezug auf Sauberkeit, Hygiene, Sicherheit und Verpflegung unter befriedigenden Bedingungen durchgeführt wird und Mitglieder derselben Familie nicht voneinander getrennt werden.
Die Schutzmacht soll von allen Umsiedlungen und Evakuierungen verständigt werden, sobald sie stattgefunden haben.
Die Besetzungsmacht darf geschützte Personen nicht einer in besonders den Kriegsgefahren ausgesetzten Gegend zurückhalten, sofern nicht die Sicherheit der Bevölkerung oder zwingende militärische Gründe dies erfordern.
Die Besetzungsmacht darf nicht Teile ihrer eigenen Zivilbevölkerung in das von ihr besetzte Gebiet deportieren oder umsiedeln.
Convention (IV) relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War. Geneva, 12 August 1949.
Art. 49. Individual or mass forcible transfers, as well as deportations of protected persons from occupied territory to the territory of the Occupying Power or to that of any other country, occupied or not, are prohibited, regardless of their motive.
Nevertheless, the Occupying Power may undertake total or partial evacuation of a given area if the security of the population or imperative military reasons so demand. Such evacuations may not involve the displacement of protected persons outside the bounds of the occupied territory except when for material reasons it is impossible to avoid such displacement. Persons thus evacuated shall be transferred back to their homes as soon as hostilities in the area in question have ceased.
The Occupying Power undertaking such transfers or evacuations shall ensure, to the greatest practicable extent, that proper accommodation is provided to receive the protected persons, that the removals are effected in satisfactory conditions of hygiene, health, safety and nutrition, and that members of the same family are not separated.
The Protecting Power shall be informed of any transfers and evacuations as soon as they have taken place.
The Occupying Power shall not detain protected persons in an area particularly exposed to the dangers of war unless the security of the population or imperative military reasons so demand.
The Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies.
French FM warns Israel of ‚risk of apartheid‘
The official‘s rhetoric echoes recent reports by the Israeli B‘Tselem rights group, as well as by the Human Rights Watch (HRW) organization, both of which accused Israel of subjecting Palestinians to a multi-tiered regime of discrimination not unlike the racist system of governance that held sway in South Africa between 1948 and 1991.
Bernie Sanders calls Hamas a ‚terrorist group‘ but says Israeli government has ‚overt racists‘
Pressed on how the U.S. can take an „evenhanded“ approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict when the Hamas terrorist group does not recognize Israel‘s right to exist, Sanders slammed the Netanyahu government, saying it is not innocent in the hostilities.
„What you have got to do is also understand that over the years the Netanyahu government has become extremely right-wing. And that there are people in the Israeli government now who are overt racists,“ Sanders told the CBS program. „You have in West Jerusalem people being evicted from their homes. Tremendous pressure on people within Israel, the Arab community, as well as Gaza.“