📢 ⚪️ 🇮🇱 Twelve countries issued a joint statement announcing national bans on trade in goods from illegal Israeli settlements:

🇫🇷 France
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
🇨🇦 Canada
🇩🇰 Denmark
🇪🇸 Spain
🇫🇮 Finland
🇮🇪 Ireland
🇮🇸 Iceland
🇳🇴 Norway
🇵🇱 Poland
🇵🇹 Portugal
🇸🇪 Sweden

Macron, UK PM Burnham, and Canadian PM Carney agreed the situation is deteriorating with "unprecedented" settler violence and settlement expansion, specifically calling the E1 project "inadmissible."

They salute measures already taken by Ireland, Spain, Netherlands, Norway, and Belgium.

The statement demands Israel immediately stop settlement expansion, hold violent settlers accountable, and investigate allegations against Israeli forces.

They "firmly oppose any action resulting in the annexation of Palestinian lands or forced displacement."

Countries that blocked an EU-wide ban on trade in goods from illegal Israeli settlements::

🇩🇪 Germany — "special relationship" with Israel.
🇮🇹 Italy — called it a "political choice" requiring unanimity.
🇭🇺 Hungary
🇨🇿 Czech Republic
🇦🇹 Austria

Opposing the bans:

🇺🇸 US — Ambassador Huckabee called it "irrational" and "discrimination against the Jewish people," warned of retaliation.

🇮🇱 Israel — Finance Minister Smotrich called for the British ambassador to be expelled; President Herzog accused the UK of election interference.

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 BREAKING: The IRGC Navy announces it monitored, ambushed, and captured the most advanced and classified American UUV (Unmanned Underwater Vessel) in the Strait of Hormuz

The unmanned submarine contains the most advanced and new technology, and was only delivered to the U.S. Navy a year ago, in 2025.

It has been captured in a complete state, and will be showcased on state TV in the coming hours.

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 BREAKING: As part of Operation Economic Outcast, the U.S. Department of Treasury has sanctioned every civilian Iranian airline

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—❗️🇸🇦/🇾🇪 BREAKING: Yemen’s Ansarallah (the Houthis) have captured the critically important Al-Mufraq junction, cutting off the road between Taizz and Mukha

The offensive is still ongoing, despite heavy Saudi airstrikes in the area.

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The strategic junction captured by Ansarallah, which completely cuts off the Taizz-Mukha road.

🇾🇪⚡- PLC forces have recaptured al-Mukazima, western Ta'izz direction, southwest Yemen.

The town was held by Ansarullah for 3 days.

🇬🇧 🇮🇱 🇵🇸 UK Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband:

The British government agrees that there is ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in areas of the West Bank perpetrated by settler terrorists.

And all too often, the Israeli government has turned a blind eye to this, and worse, members of it have made statements and taken actions to support the forced displacement of Palestinians.

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Women vs. Diversity, Episode 147

>Eiffel Tower hides all female staff in preparation for a visit by delegates of the Hindu community celebrating a new temple in Paris.

>Eiffel Tower workers go on strike.

>EU leaders pretend Indian immigration is fine.

🔗 Read (some of the very little) news coverage
🔗 The atrocity of the India-EU trade deal
🔗 A "Feminist?" Immigration Policy

🇮🇷🇯🇴 - Clear use of cluster warheads against Jordan in the latest attack by Iran.