UN Human Rights Chief Volker Turk declares pager attack a war crime, violating prohibition on boobytraps and an act designed to “spread terror.”

He also called for an independent investigation, pointing out that those responsible for this attack must be held to account.

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Yossi gets it.

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The US Ambassador in Bogota attacked President Gustavo Petro for “anti-semitism” on Twitter:

Colombian President Gustavo Petro’s continued rhetoric normalizes anti-Semitism. We cannot accept this. We cannot tolerate this. We must condemn these harmful narratives

Petro replied as follows:

I am not anti-Semitic, do not confuse and respect. I am not anti-Jewish, I believe in freedom of religion and if I had been born in that era I would have given my life in armed resistance against the Nazis. But I believe in the freedom that international law generates, the one that was built after the defeat of Hitler by the Americans and Soviets and by all the peoples of the world: humanity.

Gotta stand up to those bullies. Good on you, Gustavo.

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Anadolu reports that at least 51 workers were killed in a coal mine explosion in North Eastern Iran.

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Times of “Israel”:

FM Katz discusses with Ukrainian counterpart combating Russian-Iranian partnership.

It would be easy to do some irony on the FM’s surname and what it means in my native language – but I won’t (as it might be too crude).

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The anniversary of the martyrdom of Hadeel Al-Hashlamoun, 18 years old, who was executed by the occupation soldiers with 11 bullets in Hebron,

because she refused to remove her niqab in response to the occupation soldiers’ request to search the checkpoint..

September 22, 2015

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UK Foreign Minister David Lammy:

I don’t think it would be quite right to suspend licences, for example, that the Israelis could use in relation to the Houthis, that Israel may need to use in relation to the challenges it has with other proxies in the area. I think that would be a mistake. It would lead to a wider war and an escalation that we here in the UK are committed to stopping, so I’m afraid I disagree with that position.

I guess he is called Foreign Minister because international law is foreign to him.

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Hebrew channels claim that the IOF is preparing a plan regarding the North of the Gaza Strip, involving military control and humanitarian aid.

The “humanitarian aid” will probably poisoned and the packaging bugged with spying devices.

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