<article data-history-node-id="431623" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/six-uk-activists-go-trial-over-attack-israels-elbit-factory" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/six-uk-activists-go-trial-over-attack-israels-elbit-factory" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Six UK activists go on trial over attack on Israel's Elbit factory</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Six British pro-Palestine activists accused of attacking a factory operated by&nbsp;Israeli defence firm Elbit&nbsp;went on trial on Tuesday.</p> <p>Prosecutors said the six defendants were part of the now proscribed protest group Palestine Action, which carried out the assault on the Elbit Systems UK facility in Bristol, southwest England, in August last year.</p> <p>The activists are accused of aiming to cause as much damage as possible,&nbsp;with one also charged with striking a police officer with a sledgehammer.</p> <p>They intended to "cause serious damage to property and to use or threaten unlawful violence against anyone who stood in their way, if necessary with the use of weapons including sledgehammers", prosecutor Deanna Heer said.</p> <p>Charlotte Head, 29, Samuel Corner, 23, Leona Kamio, 20, Fatema Zainab Rajwani, 21, Zoe Rogers, 22, and Jordan Devlin, 31, deny charges of aggravated burglary, violent disorder and criminal damage.</p> <p><em>Reporting by Reuters.</em></p> </div> </div> </article>

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<article data-history-node-id="431503" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/lebanon-wall-built-israeli-military-crosses-blue-line-united-nations" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/lebanon-wall-built-israeli-military-crosses-blue-line-united-nations" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Lebanon wall built by the Israeli military crosses the Blue Line, United Nations says</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>A survey conducted by the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (Unifil) last month found that a wall built by the Israeli military crosses the Blue Line, the de facto border, a UN spokesperson said on Friday.</p> <p>The Blue Line is a UN-mapped line separating Lebanon from Israel and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.</p> <p>Stephane Dujarric, the spokesperson for the UN secretary-general, said the concrete T-wall erected by the IDF has made more than 4,000 square meters (nearly an acre) of Lebanese territory inaccessible to the local population.</p> <p>A section of an additional wall, which has also crossed the Blue Line, is being erected southeast of Yaroun, he said, citing the peacekeepers.</p> <p>Dujarric said Unifil informed the Israeli military of its findings and requested that the wall be removed.</p> <p>- <em>Reporting by Reuters</em></p> </div> </div> </article>

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<article data-history-node-id="431271" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-forces-arrest-442-palestinians-including-33-children-october" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-forces-arrest-442-palestinians-including-33-children-october" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israeli forces arrest 442 Palestinians, including 33 children, in October</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Israeli forces arrested 442 Palestinians, including 33 children, in October, according to a joint statement by the four rights groups.</p> <p>The groups, the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society and the Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association accused Israel of frequently making arbitrary detentions of Palestinians.</p> <p>The statement said Israel is keeping Palestinians in prison for years in many cases without trials or charges.</p> </div> </div> </article>

<article data-history-node-id="431274" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/world-bank-letter-us-backs-draft-un-resolution-gaza" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/world-bank-letter-us-backs-draft-un-resolution-gaza" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">World Bank, in letter to US, backs draft UN resolution on Gaza </span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>The World Bank backs language in a US-drafted United Nations Security Council resolution on Gaza that&nbsp;would authorise a two-year mandate for a transitional governance body, according to a letter to the United States seen by Reuters.</p> <p>The 15-member UN Security Council began negotiations on Thursday on the text that would mandate a so-called Board of Peace transitional governance administration, giving it the authority to establish operational entities to address issues, including the reconstruction of Gaza and economic recovery programs.</p> <p>The World Bank, the UN and the European Union had estimated in February it would cost more than $50 billion to rebuild&nbsp;Gaza, and are finalising a new interim estimate of $70 billion.</p> <p>"Our engagement in&nbsp;Gaza&nbsp;will require the ability to work with international partners who enjoy the full support of the international community and full authorisation to undertake their efforts," World Bank President Ajay Banga wrote to US Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz.</p> <p>"The proposal to establish an authority, in the current draft the Board of Peace, by the UN Security Council with the authorisations set out in the resolution would provide the needed framework for engagement by the Bank," he said in the letter dated Saturday.</p> </div> </div> </article>

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<article data-history-node-id="430607" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/court-summons-sought-british-citizen-accused-serving-israeli-military" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/court-summons-sought-british-citizen-accused-serving-israeli-military" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Court summons sought for British citizen accused of serving in Israeli military</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>A legal group has applied for a court summons to prosecute a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/uk" target="_blank">British</a>-<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/israel" target="_blank">Israeli</a>&nbsp;who allegedly served in the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/israel" target="_blank">Israeli</a>&nbsp;military, with an initial hearing expected in the coming weeks.</p> <p>The case is the first such application since Britain recognised the state of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/palestine" target="_blank">Palestine</a>&nbsp;in September, which makes Palestine a "friendly state" in legal terms.</p> <p>Court documents submitted&nbsp;on Monday by the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.icjpalestine.com/" target="_blank">International Centre of Justice for Palestinians (ICJP)</a>, seen by Middle East Eye, detail alleged violations of the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/33-34/90" target="_blank">Foreign Enlistment Act (FEA)</a>.</p> <p>According to the act, it is a crime for a UK national to serve in the military of a foreign state at war with a friendly state.</p> <p>The British-Israeli dual national allegedly served in the Israeli military's Lebanese border unit and in the occupied West Bank.</p> <p>You can read more <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/arrest-warrant-sought-british-citizen-accused-serving-israeli-military">here</a>.</p> </div> </div> </article>

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