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Major Israeli rights groups brand Gaza campaign ‘genocide'
JERUSALEM: Rights groups B'Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights Israel said on Monday that they had concluded the war in Gaza amounts to 'genocide' against Palestinians, a first for Israeli NGOs. Both organizations are frequent critics of Israeli government policies, but the language in their reports issued on Monday was their most stark yet. 'Nothing prepares you for the realization that you are part of a society committing genocide. This is a deeply painful moment for us,' B'Tselem executive director Yuli Novak told a news conference unveiling the two reports. 'As Israelis and Palestinians who live here and witness the reality every day, we have a duty to speak the truth as clearly as possible,' she said. 'Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinians.' Israel's war in Gaza for the past 21 months began in response to an unprecedented attack by Palestinian militant group Hamas on October 7, 2023. The Israeli assault has left much of the Gaza Strip, home to more than two million Palestinians, in ruins, and according to the Hamas-run territory's health ministry has killed at least 59,821 people, most of them civilians. All Gazans have been driven from their homes at least once since the start of the war, and UN agencies warn that residents face a growing threat of famine and malnutrition. The International Court of Justice, in an interim ruling in early 2024 in a case lodged by South Africa, found it 'plausible' that the Israeli offensive had violated the UN Genocide Convention. The Israeli government, backed by the United States, fiercely denies the charge and says it is fighting to defeat Hamas and to bring back Israeli hostages still held in Gaza. The reports from B'Tselem — one of Israel's best-known rights groups — and Physicians for Human Rights Israel argue that the war's objectives go further. B'Tselem's report cites statements from senior politicians to illustrate that Israel 'is taking coordinated action to intentionally destroy Palestinian society in the Gaza Strip.' Physicians for Human Rights Israel's report documents what the group says is 'the deliberate and systematic destruction of Gaza's health care system.'
Al Arabiya
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- Al Arabiya
Us and china officials meet in stockholm to discuss how to ease trade tensions
Top trade officials from China and the United States arrived for a new round of talks in Stockholm on Monday in a bid to ease tensions over trade between the world's two biggest national economies. US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng were meeting at the offices of Sweden's prime minister for talks that Bessent has said will likely lead to an extension of current tariff levels. Analysts say the two envoys could set the stage for a possible meeting between US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping later this year to cement a recent thaw in trade tensions. The talks are the third this year between He and Bessent–nearly four months after Trump upended global trade with his sweeping tariff proposals including an import tax that shot up to 145 percent on Chinese goods. China quickly retaliated, sending global financial markets into a temporary tailspin. The Stockholm meeting–following similar talks in Geneva and London in recent months–is set to extend a 90-day pause on those tariffs. During the pause, US tariffs were lowered to 30 percent on Chinese goods and China set a 10 percent tariff on US products. The Trump administration, fresh off a deal on tariffs with the European Union, wants to reduce a trade deficit that came in at 904 billion overall last year–including a nearly 300 billion trade deficit with China alone. China's Commerce Ministry, for its part, said last week that Beijing wants more consensus and cooperation and less misperception from the Stockholm talks.
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Trump says he is reducing 50-day deadline for Russia deadline
US President Donald Trump on Monday said he was reducing the 50-day deadline he gave Russia over its war in Ukraine, saying he was disappointed in Russian President Vladimir Putin. 'I'm disappointed in President Putin,' he said, speaking alongside British Prime Minister Keir Starmer ahead of their meeting in Scotland. 'I'm going to reduce that 50 days that I gave him to a lesser number.' He did not give a new deadline.
