First Thing: ‘Humanitarian city’ would be concentration camp for Palestinians, says former Israeli PM | US news

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The “humanitarian city”, the Israeli Defense Minister, proposed to build on the ruins of Rafah would be a concentration camp, and forcing the Palestinians in the interior would be ethnic cleaning, said former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told the tutor.

Israel was already committing war crimes in Gaza and in the West Bank, said Olmert, and the construction of the camp would mark a climb.

“It’s a concentration camp. I’m sorry,” he said, when he asked him about the plans set out by Israel Katz last week. Once inside, the Palestinians would not be allowed to leave, except to go to other countries, said Katz.

• That Olmert said on the rise of anti-Israel feeling? “In the United States, there are more and more expanding expressions of hatred towards Israel. We make a discount for ourselves saying: “These are anti-Semites”. I do not think that these are only anti-Semites, I think that many of them are anti-Israelis because of what they watch on television, what they watch on social networks.

Troops, terror and tears in Los Angeles while ice raids show no signs of slowdown

It has been almost a month since the immigration raids in Los Angeles and the surrounding region sparked massive demonstrations. But as the weeks appear and the demonstrations decrease, the operations to apply the law of the Trump administration do not show any signs of slowdown.

Lawyers and defenders claim that those arrested, including some American citizens, have been targeted for random arrest – and probably because of their appearance.

In a legal complaint, the legal aid and immigrant rights groups accused the Ministry of Internal Security of committing “in an extraordinary campaign of targeting people according to anything more than the color of their skin, and in some cases, where they live or work”.

• Were there legal developments to disrupt raids? Yes. On Friday, a federal judge granted a temporary ban order against aggressive government’s immigration sweeping, with the exception of federal agents to prevent people from the district, unless there are “reasonable suspicions” that a person violated immigration law.

The EU rushes to respond to the American tariff threat while Trump promises a “major declaration” on Russia

EU ministers meet on Monday for urgent talks after the American president Donald Trump threatened to impose prices of 30% on the block – despite what they thought they were promising talks with the American administration on the way of avoiding them.

French President Emmanuel Macron called on the EU to “resolutely defend European interests”. He came then that the EU moved to defuse tensions after the unhappy move by Trump on Saturday.

Meanwhile, Trump said that he would make Russia on Monday on Monday, indicating that the United States would announce a plan to sell Patriot air defense and other weapons to Ukraine, in the midst of an increasing exasperation from the White House with Russia’s refusal to accept a cease-fire.

• If not, why is Trump in the news? He attended the final of the FIFA club World Cup in a closed counters stadium puts on Sunday in East Rutherford, New Jersey, but was greeted by generalized hoots.

In other news …

• Rosie O’Donnell raised the shoulders of Donald Trump’s threat to dismiss his American citizenship on the grounds that she is “a threat to humanity”. New York’s original actress said she was the last of a long list of artists, activists and celebrities to be threatened by the American president.

• The historic lodge of the Grand Canyon on the north edge of the monument was destroyed by a fast forest fire, the park said yesterday. The fire forced officials to get closer to this area for the season.

• A century after the Irish nuns began to bury hundreds of infants in what was going to become a mass and a marked graveArchaeologists and other specialists will start to search the site in Tuam, in the county of Galway.

Stat of the day: average age of American buyers for the first time Record 38

Economic instability maintains the housing market when stopped, with the number of new owners at its lowest point in three decades. Last year, the average age of a buyer for the first time was 38 years old, a record; In the 80s, the average was at the end of the 1920s. How did we get here?

Do not miss this: some people ruin the internet for the rest of us?

Researchers have found in -depth evidence that social media amplifies the strongest and most extreme voices while triggering nuanced and reasonable. And a large part of this distortion, it turns out that can be retraced to a handful of hyperactive online voice: only 10% of users produce around 97% of political tweets. But there is a way out, say the researchers.

Climate verification: why is the most subject to disasters so allergic to the preparation of disasters?

The devastating floods of July 4 in Texas struck the climate crisis, and while the Trump administration struck federal agencies left critical services under strong pressure. However, despite the extent of devastation, there have been few public calculations on the breakdown of the climate or the erosion of essential public services. Why is the most subject American state to disasters so allergic to the preparation of disasters?

Last thing: scientists detect the largest fusion of two massive black holes

Scientists have detected undulations in the space-time of the violent collision of two massive black holes at around 10 billion light years from the earth. The black holes, each more than 100 times the mass of the sun, began to turn a long time ago and finally slammed together.

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