(November 16, 2024)
“Secretary Blinken has continued to lie to Congress and should resign,” she said. “U.S. law is very clear. No nation blocking U.S. humanitarian assistance can receive U.S. weapons. The Biden administration cannot pick and choose when they comply with our own laws.”
“Children are forced to eat pet food and bug infested flour,” she went on. “But Blinken says there is no need to change our own policy. Shameful.”
(November 16, 2024)
„Cutting off dialogue with Israel does not benefit the people suffering in the Gaza Strip, the hostages of Hamas, nor the people in Israel who are ready for dialogue,“ said a statement from the German Foreign Ministry in Berlin.
It was reported from Berlin that the EU-Israel Association Council is creating an „appropriate framework“ to discuss with the Israeli government the respect of the principles of international humanitarian law, they write.
“We know that there are tragic events in Gaza, huge civilian casualties, but we do not forget who started the current cycle of violence,” Sikorski said in Brussels. “And I can tell you that there was no agreement on the idea of suspending negotiations with Israel.”
Diplomats said the politicians who did not support Borrell‘s initiative at the meeting included foreign ministers from Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic, Hungary and the Netherlands.
(November 16, 2024)
What we see of the tragedy of Gaza is however only the tip of the iceberg since the strip has been sealed. There are hardly any journalists or international observers entering Gaza since more than one year. It is the longest information blackout ever imposed by a democratic state. In addition, there are reasons to believe that journalists have been targeted by Israeli Defence Forces. To this day more than 130 have been killed.
This pattern at play for too long in Gaza, is now being replicated elsewhere. In South Lebanon, some 30 villages have been obliterated – not as a result of heavy combat, but in a controlled way, posted on social media. In the West Bank, extremist settlers‘ violence is forcing many Palestinian farmers and herders off their land. Uprooted olive trees, killed or stolen livestock and torched vehicles, have become part of daily reality in many rural communities. Israeli airstrikes in Jenin and Tulkarem, the first in more than two decades, have added to the destruction of civilian infrastructure left behind by bulldozers earlier this year.
The death toll in Lebanon from Israeli attacks has reached 3,516, with 14,929 wounded since October 2023, the Lebanese health ministry reported.
On Sunday, ten people were killed in Israeli air strikes targeting central Beirut.
At least two Lebanese soldiers were killed and two others wounded in Israeli artillery shelling targeting a Lebanese army post in al-Mari, a responsible source in the Lebanese army intelligence told Xinhua.
The Gaza Health Ministry said the death toll in the Strip has now reached 43,922.
It added that at least 103,898 are injured in Israeli attacks on Gaza since 7 October attacks.ztrze7i567uetzjha
Palestinian Territory –Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor documented dozens of deliberate killings and new field executions carried out by Israeli occupation forces against numerous civilians in northern Gaza.
These actions are part of the ongoing escalation and the broader framework of genocide perpetrated against Palestinians for over 13 months.
The Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip reported on Monday that Israeli occupation forces committed four massacres over the past 24 hours, resulting in 76 deaths and 158 injuries.
The casualties have been brought to hospitals, though many victims remain trapped under rubble or on roads, with ambulance and civil defense teams unable to reach them due to the ongoing aggression.
Why DNSSEC?
Many internet protocol hinge on DNS, but the data in DNS caches has become so vulnerable to attack that it cannot be relied upon anymore. The added authenticity in DNSSEC makes sure that such attacks have no effect.
That is, if
– Zones are verified. Easy-to-deploy software for DNSSEC-aware name resolving (and caching) exists, for example Unbound or properly configured Bind9.
– Zones are secured. Easy-to-deploy solutions for DNSSEC did not yet exist, at least not in open source. Hence the OpenDNSSEC project.
More on the problems with DNS and about deploying DNSSEC can be found in this white paper.