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If the first casualty of war is truth, distraction is a second danger. The war between Israel and Iran has distracted attention from the continuing Israeli slaughter of civilians in Gaza. The health ministry there says the confirmed total death toll since the appalling Hamas attacks on Israel in October 2023 has now risen to more than 56,500, with over 133,000 people wounded. Yesterday the Israeli air force launched further air strikes in Gaza, where dozens were reported dead and injured. Israel had ordered civilians to leave areas, but in Gaza’s rubble-strewn wasteland they had nowhere safe to go. Only the West can stop the genocide in Gaza - The Irish News view

She had to go after what she said. Craven kowtowing to Uncle Hun Sen and bad-mouthing her own General to him. Another victim of Thaksin's ceaseless lust for power along with her aunt.

Thaksin and his party blatantly lied to the Thai public regarding the pro junta parties. As you say, Pheu Thai slept with the enemy to get Thaksin back. Pheu Thai could have joined with Move Forward to form a government, when the senators rejected Pita, then one of Pheu Thai's three candidates could have been proposed as PM. But no, anything to get Thaksin back, stuff the electorate, PT join the enemy.

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Reuters) -The Israeli military acknowledged on Monday that Palestinian civilians were harmed at aid distribution centres in the Gaza Strip, saying that new instructions had been issued to Israeli forces following "lessons learned". Since Israel lifted an 11-week aid blockade on Gaza on May 19, allowing limited U.N. deliveries to resume, the United Nations says more than 400 Palestinians have been killed while seeking handouts of aid. "Following incidents in which harm to civilians who arrived at distribution facilities was reported, thorough examinations were conducted in the Southern Command and instructions were issued to forces in the field following lessons learned," the Israeli military said in a statement. Israel acknowledges Palestinian civilians harmed at Gaza aid sites, says 'lessons learned'

The current Thai government consists of Pheu Thai, United Thai Nation Party ( pro military), Democrat Party ( pro military), Chart Thai Pattana ( Conservative), Kla Tham ( has some military supporting MPs) , There are a few other small parties. Thaksin's got a long way to go if he's going to purge all the military support in his government

Israel unleashed one of its largest bombardments in weeks, killing at least 58 people, including a cafe filled with 20 people. Women, children and one journalist were killed while in a beachfront cafe in Gaza City, according to medics on the ground. The journalist killed has been named as Ismail Abu Hatab, a photographer who was previously wounded in 2023 while covering the war. Israel airstrike on Gaza café kills women and children

The trouble is Pheu Thai lied big time to the voters. They promised, and this included Pantongtaen, they would never join with the junta parties after the election And then they did to bring Daddy home. Now, PT supporters will say, oh, every party breaks election promises, but this was a massive lie. How many red shirts voted for Pheu Thai because they believed they wouldn't join with the junta parties? Really, there should have been another election, costs all paid for by the treacherous Pheu Thai

The German government on Monday expressed concern about the high death toll of Palestinian civilians around food distribution points in the Gaza Strip. Spokesman Stefan Kornelius said Berlin is "very concerned about these reports, which are coming in almost daily, about incidents and violence in connection with the distribution of food." Asked about the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), which has recently been organizing aid outside UN channels, Kornelius added, "There are always deaths and injuries there, and the German government is monitoring this very critically." Germany 'concerned' at mounting death toll in Gaza distribution sites

Israeli forces killed at least 22 people and wounded 20 others, many of whom were attempting to get desperately needed food aid in southern Gaza, according to witnesses, hospitals and Gaza’s Health Ministry. Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis said it received the bodies of 11 people who were shot while returning from an aid site associated with Israeli and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Fund in southern Gaza on Monday, part of a deadly pattern that has killed more than 500 Palestinians in the chaotic and controversial aid distribution programme over the past month. “Without a warning, all of a sudden, a warplane hit the place, shaking it like an earthquake,” he said. At least 22 killed in Gaza as Israeli forces ‘fire on crowds at food aid sites’

Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz has called an emergency meeting for Monday due to violence by radical settlers in the West Bank against their own security forces. According to Katz's office, representatives of all security organizations were to take part. During the night, dozens of Jewish extremists attacked and set fire to an Israeli military facility in the occupied West Bank. Settler violence against soldiers prompts emergency security meeting

Israel has carried out a wave of air strikes across the Gaza Strip, triggering the mass displacement of hundreds of Palestinian families, witnesses say. Rescue teams recovered the bodies of five people, while dozens of injured civilians were evacuated to Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City, according to local reports. The bombardment follows one of the largest evacuation orders issued since the war resumed in March. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62884y1pl5o

Illegal dirt bikes and other off-road vehicles seized by police as part of a crackdown on anti-social behaviour should be sent to Ukraine, an MP has suggested. David Taylor, the Labour MP for Hemel Hempstead, said the vehicles could potentially be used on the front line to deliver supplies to troops and evacuate wounded soldiers. The Government has promised to make it easier to confiscate off-road vehicles that are being driven illegally and can make life more difficult for local residents who are terrorised by low-level criminality. Send UK’s seized illegal dirt bikes to Ukraine to help beat Russia, MP urges An excellent idea!

A recent European Union report, issued by the EU’s diplomatic service, finds that Israel may be violating its human rights obligations under Article 2 of the EU-Israel Association Agreement. The findings cite Israel’s humanitarian blockade of Gaza, attacks on civilian infrastructure and forced displacement and settler violence in the West Bank. As countries like Spain, Ireland, and the Netherlands are urging tougher action, FRANCE 24's Eve Irvine welcomes Lynn Boylan, Irish MEP, Chair of the EU Delegation for Relations with Palestine. Irish MEP urges EU to 'hold Israel to the same standards as other nations' | Watch

London MPs are leading calls for the Government to set up a Ukraine-style visa scheme for Gazans with family in the UK to come to Britain. They have signed a letter to Home Secretary Yvette Cooper urging her to “urgently” establish such a visa route for Palestinians in the besieged strip. They are calling for a “Gaza Family Scheme” to “reunite (Palestinians) with their loved ones in the UK until it is safe to return,” Sky News reported. London MPs lead calls for Ukraine-style visa scheme for Gazans with family in the UK to come to Britain

Ukraine used long range drones to fly more than 200 miles to inflict the latest £148 million blow to Putin’s aerial firepower. Ukraine’s SBU security service said: ‘The Ukrainian Special Operations Forces and the SBU used long-range drones to attack Russian fighter jets. ‘The attack also caused a fire in the technical and operational part of the enemy airfield, which is a critical infrastructure for a military facility. Humiliated Putin loses warplanes worth £148,000,000

Fresh audio intercepts published by Ukraine’s military intelligence suggest Russian commanders are reviving a brutal wartime tactic: using troops to block retreats. Known as “barrage units,” these forces reportedly fire on their own soldiers to stop them from fleeing. The method evokes chilling echoes of Stalin’s infamous Order 227. The tactic is steeped in Soviet history. Stalin’s Order 227 in 1942 declared “Not a step back,” authorising executions of retreating troops. Putin’s Army Turns Guns on Its Own: No Retreat, No Mercy

At least 66 children in Gaza have died from malnutrition since Israel launched a war and blockade on the territory over 20 months ago, local authorities say. Doctors describe newborns wasting away for lack of formula and medical nutrition while families scavenge for any type of milk – none of it suitable for infants. At the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, Dr Ahmad al-Fara, neonatal department head, moves between incubators trying to keep babies alive with dwindling supplies. Starvation crisis caused by Israeli war and aid blockade kills at least 66 children in Gaza

For the beleaguered staff of Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, one new casualty brought into the emergency department last week posed a particular challenge. He had been wounded moments earlier in the southern Gaza city while fighting in a battle between rival armed gangs over hundreds of valuable sacks of flours stripped from aid convoys and, within an hour of his arrival, men with assault rifles had invaded the hospital. They roughed up medical staff, smashed equipment and set fire to vehicles. ‘Post-apocalyptic’: medical staff struggle as gangs fight over aid supplies in Gaza Please read the whole article to get a sense of the apocalypse Gaza has become.

Health Secretary Wes Streeting has said Israel needs to “get your own house in order” and take violence against Palestinians “more seriously”. He said that chants calling for “death” to the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) at Glastonbury were “appalling”. But Mr Streeting also urged Israel to look at the conduct of its own citizens and settlers in the West Bank. Streeting tells Israel to get its own ‘house in order’ over West Bank violence

Israel's military has ordered Palestinians to evacuate from parts of northern Gaza, warning of intense and imminent action there. Posting on X, a spokesman for the IDF told people to head south, where dozens of people have been killed in weekend airstrikes. Shaina Low, of the Norwegian Refugee Council, told DW that people can't travel the route ordered by the Israeli army. Israel orders Palestinians to leave northern Gaza | Watch

In the wake of Donald Trump’s extraordinary outburst of profanity outside the White House, a fragile US-brokered truce between Israel and Iran appears to be tentatively holding. In recent days, this has been accompanied by a flurry of messaging from Israel that this cessation of hostilities is just the start. Benjamin Netanyahu, in a brief but emphatic video on Thursday, insisted that after Israel achieved “a great victory” over its staunchest foe, a new opportunity had opened up for a “dramatic expansion of peace agreements”. What next for Gaza as Israel’s shaky truce with Iran holds? MOD EDIT: @bannork your spun text quotes misrepresented the article in a highly dishonest and misleading manner. This needs to stop now. Original article quotes have now been placed,

At least 81 Palestinians have been killed and more than 400 injured in Israeli strikes across Gaza in the 24 hours until midday on Saturday, the Hamas-run health ministry said. In one incident, at least 11 people, including children, were killed after a strike near a stadium in Gaza City, Al-Shifa hospital staff and witnesses told news agencies. The stadium was being used to house displaced people, living in tents. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czry8g5n80zo

The Israeli military prosecutor's office is investigating whether war crimes may have been committed in connection with shots fired at Palestinians near aid centres in the Gaza Strip, Israeli media reported on Friday. Soldiers fire on people to keep them away from the centres before they open, the report said. "It's a killing field," said a member of the army who had been there himself. "They're treated like a hostile force – no crowd-control measures, no tear gas – just live fire with everything imaginable: heavy machine guns, grenade launchers, mortars." Report: Israel probes for war crimes over Gaza aid centre shootings

UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Friday called for an immediate ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist Hamas militia, as the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strp reaches "horrific proportions." "The search for food must never be a death sentence," he said, indirectly referring to the humanitarian aid distribution centres operated by the controversial Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) in Gaza. According to UN figures, at least 410 Palestinians have been killed near GHF food distribution points since the end of May. Operations that direct civilians into zones controlled by the military are unsafe. UN's Guterres calls for immediate Gaza ceasefire