(June 27, 2024)
Wie das Statistische Bundesamt (Destatis) weiter mitteilt, gab es im Jahr 2023 rund 1 933 000 Zuzüge und 1 270 000 Fortzüge über die Grenzen Deutschlands (2022: 2 666 000 Zuzüge und 1 204 000 Fortzüge).
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472,000 Refugees Flee Lebanon to Syria Due to Rising Israel-Hezbollah Tensions
Roughly 472,000 people have fled from Lebanon to Syria since September due to the escalating hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah, according to a report published by the UN’s refugee agency.
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Lebanon hosted roughly 1.5 million Syrian refugees as of Sept. 25, the UNHCR said, which, compared to Lebanon’s relatively small population of only 5.3 million, posed a massive humanitarian challenge for the country’s already struggling economy.
Israel strikes main Lebanon-Syria highway after overnight attacks on Beirut and West Bank
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi arrived in Beirut on Friday, the most senior international official to visit Lebanon since Nasrallah‘s killing. He arrived at Beirut’s airport, where overnight an Israeli strike landed nearby.
Mr Araghchi is confirmed to meet Prime Minister Najib Mikati and speaker of parliament Nabih Berri.
Lebanon says Israeli strike cuts off main road to Syria
Lebanon said an Israeli strike on Friday cut off the main international road to Syria, after Israel said Hezbollah was transporting weapons through the tiny Mediterranean country‘s principal land border crossing.
The strike, which Israel has not commented on, comes after 310,000 people, mostly Syrians, have in recent days fled the war pitting Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon for relative safety in neighbouring Syria.
After deadliest-in-decades airstrike in West Bank, Israel pounds Lebanon-Syria border crossing
According to AFP, the recent Israeli strikes were conducted near Lebanon’s Masnaa border crossing with Syria. Lebanon Transport Minister Ali Hamieh said that the Israeli authority struck the Lebanese side of the border, cutting off a road used by Lebanese fleeing to Syria.
Iraq requests urgent Arab League meeting on Lebanon
Qahtan Al-Janabi, Iraq’s permanent representative to the League, told the official Iraqi News Agency (INA) yesterday: “Iraq has requested an urgent meeting at the level of permanent representatives in the Arab League.”
“The meeting will address the situation in Lebanon, particularly concerning the displaced and refugees, and providing assistance to the country.”
Earlier yesterday, the Ministry of Migration announced that 144 Lebanese citizens had entered Iraq via the Al-Qa’im border crossing with Syria, including some wounded.
Operation Northwoods
(March 13, 1962)
c. Commence large scale United States military operations.
3. A „Remember the Maine“ incident could be arranged in several forms:
a. We could blow up a US ship in Guantanamo Bay and blame Cuba.
b. We could blow up a drone (unmanned) vessel anywhere in the Cuban waters. We could arrange to cause such incident in the vicinity of Havana or Santiago as a spectacular result of Cuban attack from the air or sea, or both. The presence of Cuban planes or ships merely investigating the intent of the vessel could be fairly compelling evidence that the ship was taken under attack. The nearness to Havana or Santiago would add credibility especially to those people that might have heard the blast or have seen the fire. The US could follow up with an air/sea rescue operation covered by US fighters to „evacuate“ remaining members of the non-existent crew. Casualty lists in US newspapers would cause a helpful wave of national indignation.
4. We could develop a Communist Cuban terror campaign in the Miami area, in other Florida cities and even in Washington.
The terror campaign could be pointed at refugees seeking haven in the United States. We could sink a boatload of Cubans en route to Florida (real or simulated). We could foster attempts on lives of Cuban refugees in the United States even to the extent of wounding in instances to be widely publicized. Exploding a few plastic bombs in carefully chosen spots, the arrest of Cuban agents and the release of prepared documents substantiating Cuban involvement, also would be helpful in projecting the idea of an irresponsible government.
UNHCR scales up support as people flee Lebanon for Syria
Thousands of Lebanese and Syrian people are fleeing Lebanon for Syria in desperation as Israeli airstrikes continue to devastate civilian lives. UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is scaling up its support to the growing number of displaced people.
Hundreds of vehicles are backed up in queues at the Syrian border. Many people are also arriving on foot, carrying what they can. Large crowds, including women, young children and babies are waiting in line after spending the night outdoors in falling temperatures. Some carry fresh injuries from the recent bombardments.
Libyen-Krieg: Neue Sitzung der Schwachmächte im UNO-Sicherheitsrat
(22. März 2011)
Am 19.März, dem Tag des Angriffs von Frankreich, Großbritannien, Kanada, Italien und den USA auf Libyen, wurde in Moskau eine der erbärmlichsten Erklärungen in der russischen Geschichte veröffentlicht (Angriffskrieg gegen Libyen beginnt: Ticker). Das russische Außenministerium von Sergei Lawrow:
“In Moskau bedauern wir diese bewaffnete Intervention im Rahmen der UN Resolution 1973, die hastig beschlossen wurde.”
Die Weltöffentlichkeit konstatiert: Russlands Staatsführung ist ein Haufen Tölpel, dem – wenn er schon nicht lesen kann und deshalb nicht weiss was vor sich geht – selbst das Wort „Veto“ mit einem einfachen Armhochhalten schon zu viel ist. Das Gleiche gilt für die Atomschwachmacht China, deren leseunkundige kommunistische Staatspartei immerhin 1.3 Milliarden Menschen herumkommandiert. In der Parteizeitung „People´s Daily“ redete man sich heute nun selbst in ein Gewissen, was man nicht hat (1):
„Die blutgetränkten Gewitter, denen Irak seit acht Jahren unterzogen wurde und das unaussprechliche Leiden seines Volkes sind ein Spiegel und eine Warnung. Die militärischen Attacken auf Libyen, folgend den Kriegen in Afghanisten und Irak, sind das das dritte Mal, dass einige Länder bewaffnete Aktionen gegen souveräne Staaten gestartet haben. Es sollte augenscheinlich sein, dass jedes Mal, wenn militärische Mittel benutzt werden um Krisen zu begegnen, dies ein Schlag gegen die Charta der Vereinten Nationen und die Regeln der internationalen Beziehungen sind.“
Die Weltöffentlichkeit versteht: früher hiess es in China „Bombardiert das Hauptquartier“, letzten Freitag hiess es „Bombardiert Libyen“ und heute wieder anders herum. Mal sehen, zu was sich Chinas Staatsführung am Donnerstag entscheidet. Vielleicht der Einfachheit halber zu „Bombardiert irgendwas“.
Security Council Approves ‘No-Fly Zone’ over Libya, Authorizing ‘All Necessary Measures’ to Protect Civilians, by Vote of 10 in Favour with 5 Abstentions
(17 March 2011)
Adopting resolution 1973 (2011) by a vote of 10 in favour to none against, with 5 abstentions (Brazil, China, Germany, India, Russian Federation), the Council authorized Member States, acting nationally or through regional organizations or arrangements, to take all necessary measures to protect civilians under threat of attack in the country, including Benghazi, while excluding a foreign occupation force of any form on any part of Libyan territory — requesting them to immediately inform the Secretary-General of such measures.
‚Egypt is aiding Israel‘: The Palestinians charged a fortune to escape Gaza‘s war
Ali had to pay $15,000, in what is referred to as a “travel coordination fee”, to a travel agency liaising with an Egyptian state-linked company to allow his family to leave Gaza via the Rafah border crossing in northeastern Egypt.
This is curently the only way for Palestinians who do not have another nationality to cross to Egypt.
The Gaza travel company acts as an intermediary between the Palestinians wishing to leave Gaza and an Egyptian company, Hala, which has a de facto monopoly over the exit of Palestinians via the Rafah crossing.
Israel bombs Gaza‘s crowded Rafah city as battlefront nears
Israeli forces stepped up air strikes on Gaza‘s far-southern Rafah on Thursday as fears of ground fighting grew among the more than one million Palestinians crowded into the city.
NRC‘s @YousefHammash in Gaza tells @CNN families are afraid of an expanded Israeli military operation in Rafah as there are no options left for the displaced population in the area to seek safety.
BBC News illustrating how the population of Rafah has grown with over a million displaced Palestinians seeking refuge there. @NRC_Egeland says conditions there are horrific.
This is what it looks like to live in a UN-run school sheltering hundreds of displaced families!
Wilders impresses Europe’s far-right; Draws scorn from others
Far-right politicians across Europe across Europe celebrated Geert Wilders’ election victory in the Netherlands. His PVV stands at 37 seats in parliament – clearly the largest party, according to ANP’s latest projections. Liberal and progressive politicians in the Netherlands and abroad are looking at the future with trepidation.
“The winds of change are here! Congratulations Geert Wilders on winning the Dutch elections!” Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban wrote on X. “The Hungarian model works! Many people in Western Europe would give half their lives if they could have a country without illegal migrants again.”
Israeli tanks have surrounded the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza after artillery fire killed at least 12 Palestinians in the medical complex, according to Gaza‘s health ministry
(17 hours ago)
‘Chaos, darkness and fire’: Fighting erupts around another embattled Gazan hospital.
The precise source of the strike could not be independently verified.
Statement by the Secretary-General – on Gaza
I am deeply shocked that two UNRWA schools were struck in less than 24 hours in Gaza. Dozens of people – many women and children – were killed and injured as they were seeking safety in United Nations premises.
Hundreds of thousands of Palestinian civilians are seeking shelter at United Nations facilities throughout Gaza due to the intensified fighting. I reaffirm that our premises are inviolable.
This war is having a staggering and unacceptable number of civilian casualties, including women and children, every day. This must stop.
I reiterate my call for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire.
I am deeply shocked that 2 @UNRWA schools were struck in less than 24 hours in Gaza. Dozens of people – many women & children – were killed & injured as they were seeking safety in @UN premises. I reaffirm that our premises are inviolable.
Yeah so you remember how civilians are trying to flee to the south? They just bombed them as they’re fleeing south. They bombed civilians trying to escape bombing. A massacre just took place. No where is safe. No where.
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This happened once again on Salah Al Din Rd. Just now.
A video from Salah El din street where Palestinian refugees where bombarded by Israeli air strikes while they were trying to escape to the south.
Around 50 displaced civilians were killed after the bombing of Al Buraq school in Gaza.
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Black September
Black September (Arabic: أيلول الأسود Aylūl al-ʾAswad), also known as the Jordanian Civil War,[9] was an armed conflict between Jordan, led by King Hussein, and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), led by chairman Yasser Arafat. The main phase of the fighting took place between 16 and 27 September 1970, though certain aspects of the conflict continued until 17 July 1971.
After the 1967 Six-Day War, Palestinian fedayeen guerrillas relocated to Jordan and stepped up their attacks on Israel and the occupied territories. They were headquartered at the Jordanian border town of Karameh, which Israel targeted during a battle in 1968, leading to a surge of Arab support for the fedayeen. The PLO‘s strength grew, and by early 1970, groups within the PLO began calling for the overthrow of Jordan‘s Hashemite monarchy, leading to violent clashes in June 1970.
Jordanischer Bürgerkrieg
Nach dem Sechstagekrieg 1967 verschlechterte sich das Verhältnis zwischen den Mitgliederorganisationen der Palästinensischen Befreiungsorganisation und dem jordanischen Königshaus deutlich. Die jordanische Niederlage im Krieg und der Verlust des Westjordanlandes führten zu einem Gesichtsverlust des Staates unter vielen Palästinensern. Die jordanische Regierung sah die mit ihr nicht abgesprochenen Angriffe auf israelisches Territorium als Verletzung ihrer Souveränität. So führte die Schlacht von Karame zu einem Zerwürfnis zwischen beiden Seiten. Die palästinensische Seite hatte rund 100.000 bewaffnete Kämpfer in Jordanien, und ihre Führungsschicht sah in der mehrheitlich palästinensischstämmigen Bevölkerung des Königreichs eine potentielle Machtbasis, den Staat zu kontrollieren. So verdrängten palästinensische Milizen jordanische Sicherheitskräfte aus den Flüchtlingslagern und mehreren Städten.
Israel-Hamas War: Foreigners Leave Gaza As Rafah Border Opens For First Time
Scores of people holding foreign passports left the war-torn Gaza for Egypt after the Rafah border crossing opened for the first time since the beginning of the war on October 7, reported AFP. Scores of people and cars moved through the gates as Gaza suffered „complete interruption of all communications and internet services” for a second time, reported Al Jazeera.
Foreigners left the war-torn Gaza for Egypt after the Rafah border crossing opened for the first time since the beginning of the war
First Foreigners Leave Gaza For Egypt Through Rafah Crossing
Convoys of desperately needed aid have passed between Egypt and Gaza but no people have been allowed to cross.
Readout of President Biden’s Call with Prime Minister Netanyahu of Israel
(October 25, 2023)
President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. spoke this afternoon with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel. The leaders discussed developments in Gaza as well as ongoing efforts to locate and secure the release of hostages to include American citizens we believe are held by Hamas. They also reviewed ongoing discussions to ensure safe passage for foreign nationals wishing to depart Gaza as soon as possible. The President discussed ongoing U.S. support for the continuous flow of humanitarian support to the civilian population in Gaza and welcomed efforts to increase this support over the coming period. The President reiterated that Israel has every right and responsibility to defend its citizens from terrorism and to do so in a manner consistent with international humanitarian law. He also noted the importance of focusing on what comes after this crisis to include a pathway for a permanent peace between Israelis and Palestinians, emphasizing that Hamas does not represent the Palestinian people or their legitimate aspirations.
UNRWA Is Hours Away from Running Out of Fuel as Gaza Hospitals Shut, Sickness Spreads
The U.N. agency serving Palestinians warned it would have to stop its life-saving operations in Gaza by tonight unless it receives more fuel. The humanitarian situation in Gaza has reached catastrophic levels, with hospitals shutting down and others cutting back critical services amid the lack of fuel and supplies. At the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza, staff have resorted to using smartphone lights to see in the darkness, as the hospital was forced to switch off power in all but a few parts of the building.
The nonstop Israeli bombardment of Gaza continues. On Tuesday, a father in Khan Younis carried the body of his young daughter in his arms after she was killed in an Israeli airstrike on their home.
One @UNRWA school in Rafah, sheltering 4,600 people, sustained severe collateral damage from close proximity strike ?If fuel does not enter?#Gaza, @UNRWA will be forced to significantly reduce and in some cases bring humanitarian operations to a halt
Trapped in Gaza
Egyptian president Field Marshall Abdel Fattah el-Sisi announced that “[w]hat is happening now in Gaza is an attempt to force civilian residents to take refuge and migrate to Egypt, which should not be accepted.” King Abdullah II of Jordan (which borders the West Bank, but not Gaza) was even more succinct: “No refugees in Jordan, no refugees in Egypt,” he declared.
President Emmanuel Macron has urged Israel and Egypt to open a humanitarian corridor out of the besieged Gaza Strip via the Rafah crossing for French nationals, his office said Saturday.
(14.10.2023)
I find @RishiSunak visit to Israel pretty worthless, unless he‘s going to tell Netanyahu to open the Rafah border crossing to British passport holders.
What‘s the point of his visit?
Diplomats from the U.S. and Egypt said the Rafah Crossing out of Gaza (only way out besides Israel) would reopen. The U.S. Embassy told all Americans trapped in Gaza (100s) to go there on Monday…
(18.10.2023)
Then, Israel bombed it again (4x now)
Fuck Netanyahu.