I was born in Poonch (Kashmir) and now I live in Norway. I oppose war and violence and am a firm believer in the peaceful co-existence of all nations and peoples. In my academic work I have tried to espouse the cause of the weak and the oppressed in a world dominated by power politics, misleading propaganda and violations of basic human rights. I also believe that all conscious members of society have a moral duty to stand for and further the cause of peace and human rights throughout the world.
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) lost his bid for re-election to primary opponent Ed Gallrein 54% to 45% with nearly all votes counted on Tuesday night.
Massie’s defeat will no doubt be seen as a
triumph of both the continued durability of pro-Israel forces in the
party, as well as the president’s own ability to dictate outcomes in
intra-party races. Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), who voted to impeach
Donald Trump during his first term, lost his primary election over the weekend against a Trump-endorsed candidate.
Massie, who had served seven terms
representing his state, is a fiscal conservative and libertarian. He had
emerged during Trump’s first term as a rare Republican who stood up to
the president, notably opposing Trump on his massive $2.2 trillion COVID
spending bill. More recently he proposed and helped to pass a law in
November opening the Epstein files, and then supported a series of war powers votes as a major critic of Trump’s war on Iran. Massie has also opposed bills that would provide aid to Israel for its own wars.
This drew Trump’s ire. The president called the Kentucky incumbent “Worst Congressman in the History of our Country,” in a series of social media posts hours before the primary. Trump has also called him a “moron,” “bum,” “obstructionist,” and a “fool.”
The race also attracted the attention of
the Republican Jewish Coalition and the pro-Israel lobbying group the
American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). PACs associated with
both, with multi-million dollar contributions from powerful pro-Israel
GOP donors Miriam Adelson, Paul Singer, and John Paulson, helped it to
become the most expensive primary election in the U.S. history. The two other
most expensive primaries (in 2024) also featured AIPAC-backed
candidates defeating incumbents (both Democrats) who were deemed to be
too anti-Israel.
Israeli Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir on Wednesday sparked global outrage by posting a video
showing the mockery and abuse of activists who were abducted by Israeli
forces while attempting to bring aid to the besieged Gaza Strip via
boat as part of the Global Sumud Flotilla.
The video, posted on X, shows Ben Gvir taunting the activists as
they’re detained with their hands tied behind their backs and on their
knees facing the floor. At one point in the video, the Israeli national
anthem can be heard playing while activists are detained face down on
what appears to be an Israeli vessel.
Several nations responded by summoning Israeli ambassadors to their
capitals, including Italy, France, the Netherlands, and Canada, Al Jazeera reported.
“The images of the Israeli minister Ben Gvir are unacceptable. It is
inadmissible that these demonstrators, including many Italian citizens,
are subjected to this treatment that violates human dignity,” Italian
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said in a post on X.
“The Italian Government is immediately taking, at the highest
institutional levels, all necessary steps to secure the immediate
release of the Italian citizens involved,” Meloni wrote, adding that
Rome demanded an apology from Israel and would summon the Israeli
ambassador to Italy.
Jean-Noel Barrot, the foreign minister of France, said on X
that the French government didn’t support the flotilla but that the
French activists involved “must be treated with respect and released as
quickly as possible” and that Paris was summoning the Israeli ambassador
to “express our indignation and obtain explanations.”
Ben Gvir’s video went too far even for some members of the Israeli government, including Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar, who said that Ben Gvir “knowingly caused harm to our State in this disgraceful display.”
According to the Global Sumud Flotilla, 50 boats have been recently
intercepted by Israeli forces, and 428 activists from all over the world
have been taken captive in Israel.
Ahead of Wednesday’s incident, the US sanctioned four activists
involved in the Global Sumud Flotilla. The US has not taken any action
or imposed any consequences on Israel for continuing attacks on Gaza, maintaining restrictions on aid, and taking additional territory in the Strip, all violations of the President Trump-backed ceasefire deal signed in October 2025.
From
left, President of the Eurogroup Kyriakos Pierrakakis, German
Vice-Chancellor and Federal Minister of Finance Lars Klingbeil, U.S.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, French Finance Minister Roland
Lescure, Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves, Canada’s
Finance and National Revenue Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne,
Japan’s Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama, Italian Finance Minister
Giancarlo Giorgetti, European Commissioner for Economy and Productivity,
Implementation and Simplification Valdis Dombrovskis pose for a family
photo at the G7 finance meeting in Paris, Monday, May 18, 2026. [AP
Photo/Thibault Camus]
US President Donald Trump menaced Iran
with another military onslaught on Tuesday, declaring, “We may have to
hit them one more time.” Just hours after claiming to have “paused” an
imminent resumption of the bombardment of Iran, Trump asserted that the
US military was “locked and loaded,” and that he could make a decision
on whether to attack by early next week.
Trump’s gangster-like threats are the
authentic voice of world imperialism, which is determined to impose
colonial chains on Iran and the entire region as part of the new
redivision of the world among the major powers that is already well
underway. The communique released by the G7 finance ministers yesterday
after two days of consultations in Paris underscored this fact, with all
members signing on to a statement that blamed the victim of the
criminal US/Israeli war of aggression for the economic disaster it has
produced.
The finance ministers and central bankers
from Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the US insisted
that “a swift return to free and safe transit through the Strait of
Hormuz and a lasting resolution to the conflict are imperative.” While
not uttering a word about the unprovoked onslaught on Iran launched as
negotiations were still ongoing on 28 February or the thousands of
Iranian civilians slaughtered by indiscriminate American and Israeli
bombing, the G7 finance ministers, displaying typical imperialist
double-standards, hypocritically began their main communique with the
statement, “We are united in our condemnation of Russia’s continued
brutal war against Ukraine and escalatory actions aimed at undermining
collective efforts to broker peace.”
The glaring inconsistency of the
imperialists’ moral outrage manages to consistently coincide with the
global predatory interests they are pursuing. American imperialism is
determined to regain the domination over Iran it lost following the 1979
revolution as part of a drive to consolidate its hegemony over the
energy-rich Middle East by sidelining its rivals, above all China. The
European imperialists have endorsed the war because they hope to secure
their own share of the spoils with a revival of the barbaric methods
associated with colonialism and because they require continued US
support for their war against Russia.
The governments supposedly engaged in
“collective efforts” to “broker peace” are in fact the chief
protagonists in a rapidly escalating third world war. Trump travelled to
Beijing last week to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping in what was
billed as a summit to stabilise relations between the world’s two
largest economies. But behind the diplomatic niceties, the American
financial oligarchy for which Trump speaks has no intention of
permitting China’s steady economic rise at the expense of the US and is
openly preparing for war with China.
Trump’s failure to reach any substantive
agreement in Beijing is now being followed just days later with another
round of threats on the part of Trump to exterminate Iran, which not
coincidentally is one of China’s most important oil suppliers.
The erratic outbursts by Trump and
frequent explosions of militarist violence are indications of US
imperialism’s weakness, not its strength. For the past 35 years,
Washington has sought under successive administrations to offset its
precipitous economic decline by deploying brutal military force. This
uninterrupted series of wars has only deepened American imperialism’s
crisis, both by aggravating social tensions to the breaking point and
exacerbating the rivalries between the imperialist powers as they
compete to secure markets, raw materials, cheap labour and strategic
influence under conditions of a worsening world capitalist breakdown.
Imperialism—whether of the American or
European variety—can offer no way out of this crisis other than by
further escalating wars.
Trump’s threats to resume the war on Iran
have been punctuated with discussions on whether he will order an
invasion of Cuba, which the White House is now absurdly accusing of
playing host to Iranian military advisers and possessing 300 drones
supplied by Russia and Iran. Military operations on the Caribbean island
aimed at toppling the Castroite regime would mark the second US-led
“regime change” operation in Latin America in less than six months,
following January’s invasion of Venezuela to abduct President Nicolas
Maduro and try him as a common criminal in a New York courtroom. Trump
may be plotting a parallel scenario to seize the 94-year-old Raul
Castro, who will reportedly soon be indicted in a US court.
In Europe, the continent’s imperialist
powers are fuelling the war on Russia—a nuclear-armed power—with
reckless abandon. Germany in particular has taken the lead in assisting
Ukraine to develop drone technology and supplying it with long-range
weaponry capable of hitting targets deep inside Russia. Kiev has felt
emboldened over recent weeks to strike high-rise residential buildings
in Moscow and energy infrastructure. These provocative acts of
aggression, which have only increased after the Kremlin’s threat earlier
this year to bomb manufacturing facilities in NATO countries, are
designed to produce a retaliatory strike by Russia that can be exploited
as justification to expand the war.
The European imperialist powers are
subordinating all of society’s resources to waging war, with Germany
approving €1 trillion for war spending and all NATO members committing
to allocating 5 percent of their GDP for the military. The destruction
of public services and worker rights needed to fund this mad rearmament
drive is being justified with hysterical anti-Russian propaganda.
Carsten Breuer, the top commander of the German Armed Forces, declared in a joint interview with his British counterpart in the Süddeutsche Zeitung
that Russia—which has proven incapable after four years of war to
conquer even half of Ukraine’s territory—could attack a NATO country by
2029. Europe’s rearmament drive is not only aimed at Russia, but is
motivated at the most fundamental level by the ruling class’ recognition
that US imperialism—long an ally—is now a rival in the struggle to
carve up the world among the major powers.
The sharpening of inter-imperialist
antagonisms and acceleration of a third world war confirm that the same
basic features of capitalism identified by Lenin in his analysis of
imperialism apply today with full force. Lenin wrote at the height of
the bloody slaughter of World War I, “Monopolies, oligarchy, the
striving for domination and not for freedom, the exploitation of an
increasing number of small or weak nations by a handful of the richest
or most powerful nations—all these have given birth to those distinctive
characteristics of imperialism which compel us to define it as
parasitic or decaying capitalism.”
This understanding was central to Lenin’s
conception of the epoch as one of wars and revolutions, i.e., not only a
period of imperialist reaction, but one in which crisis-ridden
capitalism had created the objective conditions for the working class to
offer a socialist road out of the impasse.
The same capitalist contradictions
propelling all of the imperialist powers to engage in world war are
driving the only social force that can stop this catastrophe into
struggle: the international working class. The US-instigated war on Iran
has already, within less than three months, triggered sharp spikes in
energy, fuel and food prices. Strikes and protests have involved workers
across continents, from the ongoing national strikes against price
rises in Kenya and Bolivia, to Monday’s one-day national strike that hit
wide swathes of the Italian economy against war and the Gaza genocide.
The intensification of the class struggle
demonstrates the urgency of the fight to build an international anti-war
movement on the basis of a revolutionary socialist programme. The
initial anger among workers expressed in the strikes must be developed
into conscious opposition to imperialist war, linking the fight to
defend jobs and living standards with the struggle against imperialist
barbarism and the capitalist system that is its root cause. This
movement must end the domination of society by the financial oligarchy
and its relentless quest for profit and plunder by setting as its goals
the conquest of political power by the working class and the socialist
transformation of society.
For years, the US denied playing a
role in the coup against Khan, which came after he refused to allow the
CIA to establish a drone base on Pakistani territory
A secret Pakistani diplomatic cable,
published for the first time on 18 May, confirms that a senior US
diplomat insisted on the removal from office of former prime minister
Imran Khan in 2022.
According to the cable, revealed by Drop Site News,
Donald Lu, then US assistant secretary of state for South and Central
Asian affairs, told Pakistan’s ambassador in Washington, Asad Majeed
Khan, that “all will be forgiven” if the former PM was removed through a
no-confidence vote in parliament.
The cable was sent after Khan traveled to
Moscow to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin on 24 February 2022, the
same day Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine.
Lu stated that Khan’s meeting with Putin
in Moscow raised “serious concern” in Washington, as noted in the cable
dated 7 March 2022 and classified as “Secret / No Circulation.”
Islamabad said Khan’s Moscow trip had been
planned months earlier and was unrelated to the Russian invasion, and
stressed that it was pursuing a “neutral” policy toward the war.
The cable included Asad Majeed Khan’s
assessment that Lu had received approval from the White House to send
that message. The ambassador also stated that Lu’s remarks constituted
interference in Pakistan’s internal political affairs.
The document was forwarded to various
Pakistani officials, including the prime minister’s office secretary,
the foreign minister, the army chief, the Inter-Services Intelligence
(ISI) chief, and the Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) division
director.
Khan was ousted as prime minister in a
legislative coup six weeks later, on 9 April 2022. He revealed the
existence of the cable at that time, claiming his removal was part of a
“US-backed regime-change operation.”
Pakistan’s government grew closer to Washington in the wake of Khan’s removal via a no-confidence vote.
Before his ouster, Khan had rejected a
request to allow the CIA to establish drone bases on Pakistani territory
that would be used to carry out attacks and assassinations.
However, after Khan’s removal, Pakistan
began supplying weapons to Ukraine through US defense contractors and
third-country intermediaries, Drop Site News reported.
US support for Pakistan’s IMF loan was tied to weapons shipments, with the IMF approving a $3 billion standby in July 2023.
Khan faces 150 legal cases. He was
arrested inside the Islamabad High Court building in May 2023 and
convicted just days before crucial elections in January 2024, which saw
his political party, the “Movement for Justice (PTI),” banned from using
its signature symbol.
Authorities also ordered journalists and television news channels not to mention Khan’s party in their election coverage.
In December of last year, UN Special Rapporteur on torture Alice Jill Edwards warned that Khan was being held in prison in conditions that could amount to torture and other inhuman or degrading treatment.
Edwards stated that Khan is subjected to
lengthy periods of solitary confinement in a small cell without natural
light or proper ventilation. The inadequate air flow causes unpleasant
odors and insect problems, resulting in Khan experiencing nausea,
vomiting, and significant weight loss.
Imran Khan, a 72-year-old ex-professional
cricket player, has faced major health challenges, such as a severe
spinal injury from a 2013 accident and gunshot wounds sustained during a
2022 assassination attempt.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has admitted
at a cabinet meeting that Israel has taken more territory in Gaza since
the ceasefire was supposed to go into effect in October 2025, an
acknowledgment of an Israeli violation of the truce deal.
When the deal was signed in October 2025,
Israeli troops pulled back to an agreed-upon line, known as the “yellow
line,” which left about 53% of Gaza under IDF occupation, but that area
of control has expanded. “In Gaza now, we already control not 50%, but
60%,” he said, according to The Times of Israel, confirming reports that said Israel now controls 60% of the Palestinian territory.
Palestinians
live in difficult conditions near the so-called yellow line east of
Khan Younis, southern Gaza, on April 27, 2026 (IMAGO/APAimages via
Reuters Connect)
The ceasefire deal that Israel and Hamas signed in October 2025
said that the “IDF will not return to areas that have been withdrawn
from, as long as Hamas fully implements the agreement,” and Hamas had
fulfilled its side of the deal by releasing all living Israeli hostages
and bodies that it had and working to recover other Israeli remains.
Israeli officials have claimed Hamas is
violating the deal by not disarming, but the agreement didn’t commit
Hamas to giving up its weapons. The two sides agreed to a US proposal
that called for the “demilitarization” of Gaza as a framework for
negotiations, but the issue of disarmament was meant to be worked out in
follow-up negotiations.
For its part, Hamas has maintained that
disarmament must be linked to a path toward a Palestinian state and has
also stated that it won’t discuss the issue until the first phase of the
ceasefire is actually implemented. Israel has constantly violated the
agreement by launching daily attacks in Gaza, killing more than 870 Palestinians
since it was supposed to go into effect, and it has also not
consistently allowed the agreed-upon number of aid trucks to enter the
besieged territory.
Despite the constant Israeli violations,
the so-called “Board of Peace,” a US-led body meant to oversee the
implementation of the agreement, has put the blame on Hamas’s unwillingness to disarm for the lack of progress in implementing President Trump’s plan for the Palestinian territroy.
This
image provided by U.S. Central Command shows a F/A-18E Super Hornet
launching at left, as an F/A-18E Super at right, prepares to launch from
the flight deck of Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln
(CVN 72) in support of Operation Epic Fury, on Saturday, Feb. 28, 2026.
[AP Photo/U.S. Navy]
Just two days after US President Donald
Trump’s return from Beijing, the White House is making active
preparations for a renewed onslaught against Iran.
The New York Times reported
Friday that the United States and Israel are “engaged in intense
preparations — the largest since the cease-fire took effect — for the
possible resumption of attacks against Iran as early as next week.”
Trump’s state visit to Beijing, the first
by an American president to China in nearly a decade, was dominated by
the crisis triggered by the war on Iran. Despite a public show of
goodwill between Trump and Chinese Chairman Xi Jinping, no public
agreement was reached on the resolution of the Iran crisis, and no
official communique was issued.
Despite the massacre of more than 3,000
Iranians and the destruction of 81,000 civilian structures, the United
States has achieved none of its goals. It has neither overthrown the
Iranian government, nor broken Iran’s military, nor gained control over
the Strait of Hormuz.
On Sunday, Axios reported that Trump is
expected to convene his top national security team in the Situation Room
on Tuesday to discuss restarting combat operations. The meeting follows
a Saturday session at Trump’s Virginia golf club attended by Vice
President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, CIA Director John
Ratcliffe and Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff.
Sunday evening, after a phone call with
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump posted on Truth Social:
“For Iran, the Clock is Ticking, and they better get moving, FAST, or
there won’t be anything left of them.”
He followed with an AI-generated image of a
map of the Middle East overlaid with the American flag, with red arrows
pointing at Iran from every direction—hinting at a US ground invasion
of Iran.
Trump had earlier posted an image of
himself pressing a red button on a command console, with mushroom-cloud
explosions shown on an overhead screen—in the latest signal that he is
considering the use of nuclear weapons in Iran.
According to the Times account,
the Pentagon options under consideration include the deployment of US
troops inside Iran, which “would come with big risks of casualties.”
In escalating the Iran war, Trump speaks
not only for himself but for the entire financial oligarchy. Having
launched the war, Trump has staked the prestige of American imperialism
on subjugating Iran. Failure to achieve that aim is seen by the ruling
class as a catastrophe that would accelerate the collapse of the
dollar-denominated financial order on which American capitalism’s
solvency depends.
Dominant sections of the US media are openly agitating for a US ground invasion of Iran. In a Sunday op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal,
titled “How to Finish the Job in Iran,” Seth Cropsey—a former deputy
undersecretary of the Navy in the Reagan and George H.W. Bush
administrations—wrote that Trump must “follow through on the threat of
catastrophic force. That means preparing for a multistage operation,
including boots on the ground, that forcibly reopens the Strait of
Hormuz to accelerate the collapse of the Iranian state.”
Cropsey pointed to the desperate crisis
facing US imperialism: “If oil remains around $150 a barrel for the rest
of the year, inflation will accelerate, while key industries see their
supply chains derailed. Mr. Trump has a narrow window in which to end
this crisis favorably, reopen the Strait of Hormuz, and ensure an
economic rebound while securing American interests and prestige. But
that requires deploying the full spectrum of American power.”
The push for renewed strikes continued on
the Sunday talk shows. Republican Senator Lindsey Graham of South
Carolina, Trump’s most prominent foreign-policy ally, in an appearance
on Meet the Press, called for the United States to resume bombing Iran’s
energy infrastructure. “What President Trump has done has been amazing
militarily,” Graham said. “But there’s still more targets to be had. And
there’s things we can do to hurt. The energy infrastructure is their
soft underbelly. If you go back to the fight, I’d put energy on top of
the list.”
The Democratic Party offered no opposition
to the planned escalation. Instead, the Democrats who appeared on the
Sunday talk shows largely devoted their foreign-policy remarks to
condemning what they considered an insufficiently belligerent posture by
Trump toward China at the Beijing summit.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer
declared: “For the sake of democracy and the stability of the global
economy, Trump must not sell out Taiwan.” The Democrats’ complaint is
that the war Trump launched against Iran has distracted the United
States from the conflict with China.
The war against Iran is at the same time a
war against the American working class. The inflationary crisis
triggered by the war has produced a massive surge in the cost of energy
and food. NBC News reported that fresh vegetable prices have risen more
than 44 percent on an annualized basis over the past three months. Gas
is at a national average of $4.51 a gallon, and Brent crude has jumped
roughly 50 percent since the start of the war.
Responding to the disastrous increase in
the cost of living, Trump told reporters at the White House this month:
“I don’t think about Americans’ financial situation.”
The administration has made the connection
between war abroad and the assault on social programs at home explicit.
At a White House Easter luncheon on April 1, Trump declared: “It’s not
possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these
individual things. We have to take care of one thing: military
protection.” “We’re fighting wars,” he said.
The costs of the war are mounting on the
Treasury as well. Pentagon Comptroller Jay Hurst conceded at
congressional testimony last week that the war has cost $29 billion, a
figure that excludes damage to American bases. Harvard public-policy
economist Linda Bilmes told Fortune in April that she was “certain we
will spend $1 trillion for the Iran war.”
The escalation of the war on Iran comes
amid a major upsurge of the class struggle. Some 3,500 Long Island Rail
Road workers walked off the job at midnight Friday, shutting down the
busiest commuter line in the United States in the first LIRR strike
since 1994.
The 1,300 United Auto Workers members at
Nexteer Automotive in Saginaw, Michigan, have twice rejected
concessionary contracts in the past six weeks and are pressing the union
for an immediate strike. The 1,000 UAW members at American Axle’s Three
Rivers, Michigan plant voted by 98 percent on May 12 to authorize a
strike when their contract expires on May 31.
The immediate trigger of these struggles
is the cost-of-living crisis created by the war. The defense of workers’
living standards cannot be separated from the fight against the war.
Trump’s threats to annihilate Iranian
society must be treated with the utmost seriousness. The administration
is a criminal, gangster regime that will stop at nothing—including the
use of nuclear weapons—to advance the interests of the American ruling
class.
The struggles in transit and the auto
industry show the way forward in the fight against Trump’s schemes for
war and dictatorship. The murderous Trump regime, and its enablers in
the Democratic Party, must be opposed through the method of the class
struggle and the program of socialism.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has
issued secret arrest warrants for three Israeli politicians and two
military officials, Haaretz reported on 17 May, citing diplomatic sources.
The timing of their issuance is unknown.
The ICC has often issued arrest warrants in secret, publicly announcing
them only later to enable a possible arrest of the suspect.
Israel’s Foreign Affairs Ministry and State Attorney’s Office do not respond immediately to requests for comment.
The Hague-based court issued arrest
warrants against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former War
Minister Yoav Gallant in November 2024.
ICC prosecutor Karim Khan requested that
ICC judges issue the arrest warrants in May 2024, alleging that
Netanyahu and Gallant were responsible for war crimes committed by the
Israeli military in Gaza.
Netanyahu and Gallant bear criminal
responsibility for the war crime of starvation as a method of warfare
and the crimes against humanity of murder, persecution, and other
inhumane acts, according to the ICC prosecutor.
In response to the issuance of the arrest
warrants, the US and Israel carried out a campaign to pressure the ICC
to prevent and cancel the arrest warrants issued against the Israeli
leaders, Le Mondereported in August 2025.
The campaign, which targeted the ICC chief
prosecutor Khan, began in March 2024 after he announced his intention
to seek the indictment of Netanyahu and Gallant.
In response, the Israeli prime minister
launched a campaign to use “all means” to stop the prosecutor with the
help of his allies in London, Washington, and Berlin.
At the end of April 2024, a staff member at the ICC accused Khan of sexual assault.
A source speaking to Le Monde said the allegations were part of an effort to “get rid of the prosecutor” and “hijack the process” of arrest warrants.
In October 2024, while the judges were
still determining whether to issue the arrest warrants, a mysterious
account named “ICC Leaks” appeared on the social network site X.
The account publicized the allegations of sexual assault made against Karim Khan internally at the ICC the previous May.
The ICC finally issued arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant on 21 November 2024.
In February 2025, Chief Prosecutor Khan was placed under sanctions by the US.
Netanyahu applauded the move, calling the court “anti-Semitic and corrupt.”
Khan continued to work on two other
indictments against Israeli Minister of National Security Itamar Ben
Gvir and Israeli Minister of Finance Bezalel Smotrich.
However, Khan has been on temporary leave
since 16 May 2025, pending the outcome of the investigation into the
sexual misconduct allegations, which he strenuously denies.
During its genocide in Gaza, Israel has
killed more than 72,000 Palestinians, the majority women and children,
while destroying most of the strip.
Jewish settlers insist they will colonize Gaza, as they are colonizing the occupied West Bank.
“We are here on the way to new Jewish communities in Gaza,” settler leader Daniella Weiss stated in an interview at the border of the strip in late April.
“The 2 million or whatever number of
Arabs, Gazans, who live here will not live in Gaza,” Weiss added. “It
can take a week, it can take maybe a few months. They will not live
here.”
(Photo credit: Mohsin Raza/Reuters)
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